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Two terrorists with ties to the Islamic State killed a priest in his mid-80s in an attack on a church in northern France on Tuesday. The two men, who The Wall Street Journal reported had pledged allegiance to ISIS, used knives to take five hostages during morning mass, including Father Jacques Hamel, an auxiliary...

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The international community must use diplomatic and economic efforts to confront Hezbollah before it instigates another conflict with Israel, one that is likely to be much worse than the 2006 Lebanon War, a retired Israeli general said Monday. “Nowadays, with effective diplomatic and economic means, you can reach a point...

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It’s the stuff of science fiction: technology that can print a human organ. But the first step towards turning big-screen fantasy into everyday reality has been taken by an Israeli 3D printing company, Nano Dimension. Through a collaboration with another Israeli company, biotechnology firm Accellta of Haifa, Nano Dimension has been...

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Israel has defeated the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed at a Knesset hearing on Monday. Under questioning from opposition Knesset members, Netanyahu defended his government’s handling of foreign relations despite serving as his own foreign minister since his reelection in March 2015. Netanyahu presented a color-coded...

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Just a week after Iran’s foreign minister boasted of a previously secret document detailing Iran’s plan to restore its full uranium enrichment capacity on year 10 of the nuclear deal, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said that his country would officially protest the leak to the International Atomic...

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Hezbollah has embedded its rocket arsenal in villages across Lebanon, ensuring that any Israeli strike on the Iran-backed terrorist group’s military assets will lead to mass civilian casualties, a former Treasury official said on Monday. Hezbollah has “turned the Shiite villages … into essentially missile silos,” Jonathan Schanzer, now the vice...

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A recently announced proposal by Secretary of State John Kerry to closely coordinate American military activity in Syria with Russia is coming under growing criticism from U.S. officials, European allies, and moderate rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reported on Sunday. The deal involves sharing intelligence with Russia to help target the...

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Israeli officials believe that a future war with Hezbollah, with its advanced Iranian-supplied rocket arsenal, could lead to “thousands of civilian deaths,” a white paper published by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies revealed. The paper, authored by Jonathan Schanzer, Tony Badran, and David Daoud, explores the history of Hezbollah’s...

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A retired Saudi general visited Israel this week for a series of meetings, in what is the latest sign of increasing dialogue, public appearances, and quiet cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Anwar Eshki, who previously served in senior positions in the Saudi military and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led...

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Authorities in Bahrain have announced that they have broken up an Iran-backed terror cell, Reuters reported on Friday. Bahrain is an important American ally in the Persian Gulf and hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet. It is ruled by the Sunni al-Khalifa royal family, but has a majority Shiite population. According to authorities, five men,...

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