Iraq’s prime minister officially incorporated the Iran-backed, terrorist-led Popular Mobilization Front (PMF) into his nation’s armed forces, cementing Tehran’s influence in the country, the Long War Journal reported on Thursday. Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi decided to incorporate the PMF as an “independent military formation” within the Iraqi army in February, according...

A video emerged on Friday showing a Palestinian man urging Israeli soldiers to kill his toddler son so he could capture the shooting on camera. The father is seen shoving the young boy toward an armed soldier, who responds by giving the child a high-five. The father continued egging the boy...

The mayor of the largest Druze village located on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights dismissed a recent United Nations report criticizing Israel’s control over the territory as “a total joke,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Friday. Dulan abu-Saleh, the mayor of Majdal Shams, objected to a report issued by the UN Economic and...

The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has developed a potential nanomedicine treatment for stomach cancer, using a combination of anti-cancer drugs and a chemo-resistance reversal agent that eliminates gastric tumors’ resistance to chemotherapy drugs. The treatment could be self-administered at home by the patient—eliminating the need for hospitalization, which is dangerous for...

Iranian crude oil exports to four major Asian buyers increased by nearly 50 percent from this time last year, Reuters reported on Friday. Iranian oil sales reached the highest point in over four years in June, six months after the U.S. and European Union lifted nuclear-related sanctions against Tehran under the framework of...

A number of Israeli startups announced multi-million dollar funding successes in the last half of July, especially in the field of cybersecurity. GuardiCore, the startup known for its internal data center security and breach detection, announced a $20 million Series B financing round led by existing investors. The Tel Aviv and...

It’s been a long time since I saw a gesture this desperate. At the recent Arab Summit in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, the Palestinian Authority (PA) foreign minister, Riyad al-Maliki, announced that his boss, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, had asked the Arab states prepare a legal case against Britain...

An Iranian general threatened to close the strategic Straits of Hormuz if the United States “makes a small mistake,” echoing a threat made two months ago by the deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iranian media reported on Tuesday. “If the enemy makes a small mistake, we...

The recent arrest of an Iranian cleric by authorities in Kosovo shed light on Tehran’s efforts to gain influence in the central European Muslim-majority nation, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported Thursday. Hasan Azari Bejandi was arrested earlier this week on charges of financing terrorism and money laundering through an organization...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to attend a summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Nigeria later this year, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The prime minister met Thursday in his office with ECOWAS’ president, Marcel Alain de Souza, where the two signed a...