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Iran

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that it had test-launched several ballistic missiles at sites across the country on Tuesday, the third time that it has violated UN Security Council bans on such tests in five months. “Our main enemies are imposing new sanctions on Iran to weaken our missile capabilities…but they...

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Yesterday, I was asked by an editor if I wanted to write about my experience as a woman in the field that I work in for International Women’s Day. I currently act as the executive director of the Human Security Centre, an independent, not-for-profit, foreign policy think tank based in...

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At least one person was killed and 13 others injured in a series of terror attacks across Israel on Tuesday. One person was killed and 10 others were wounded in Jaffa when a knife-wielding man, reported to be a 22-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank city of Qalqilya, started stabbing pedestrians. He also...

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Iran

The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah warned that fighting during a future war with Israel “will reach the Galilee,” Israel Hayom reported on Sunday, citing Foreign Policy. “In the next war, Hezbollah won’t stay on the borders, and the Israeli settlements in the north will not be protected from this,” said a...

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Leaders of Israeli towns on the border of the Gaza Strip wrote an open letter inviting Vice President Joe Biden, who is beginning a two-day trip to Israel Tuesday, to visit their communities. The heads of the Sha’ar Hanegev, Eshkol, Hof Ashkelon and Sdot Negev regional councils pointed out that their proximity to Gaza,...

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Iran

On Wednesday, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency stated that the nuclear deal with Iran has limited the types of Iranian nuclear activities on which the IAEA is required to publicly report. When asked, at 16:07 in the video linked to, why the IAEA is “not giving enough...

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Hamas is boasting of concerns that its tunnels may reach Israeli homes near the Gaza Strip, even as fear and dissent continue to grow in the terror group’s ranks following a spate of recent tunnel collapses, Israel Hayom reported on Friday. “Zionists are worried there are tunnels underneath their communities...

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An Australian frigate intercepted a Somalia-bound fishing dhow carrying thousands of arms that authorities believe came from Iran, NBC News reported Monday. The HMAS Darwin intercepted the small vessel, which hid the weapons under fishing nets, nearly 200 miles off the coast of Oman. The Darwin is part of an...

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Israel

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is donating a water purification vehicle to drought-stricken Papua New Guinea, an independent island nation north of Australia in which about 85 percent of the six million citizens lack access to electricity and tap water. The Foreign Ministry has teamed up with the Caesarea-based G.A.L. Water...

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An anonymous e-mail sent to a large number of Oberlin College students on Sunday accused Israel and “Zionist Jews” of responsibility for the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. The emails came amid mounting controversy over the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of Joy Karega, an Oberlin professor whose Facebook posts were first exposed by The Tower two weeks...

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