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Iran

In the wake of the recent International Atomic Energy Agency’s report confirming that Iran was covertly working to develop a nuclear bomb as late as 2009, the U.S. and its partners in the nuclear deal must keep sanctions in place until the regime “[fills] in the remaining blanks on its weapons...

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A new report by an multinational group of distinguished military officers has lauded Israel for carrying out an “exemplary campaign” that fully adhered to the norms of international law during the 2014 war in Gaza. The High Level Military Group (HLMG), which authored the report, was established earlier this year...

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Human Rights

Iran has been bolstering the beleaguered regime of its ally, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, by recruiting Pakistani Shiites to fight against anti-Assad insurgents, Reuters reported Friday. Two men from the Zeinabiyoun, a unit of Pakistani Shiite fighters, were killed fighting in Syria last month. A Twitter account associated with the group has posted pictures of...

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Israel

Arab-Israeli member of Knesset Ayman Odeh refused to meet with an umbrella group of major Jewish-American organizations because it shares office space with the Jewish Agency, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported on Thursday. Odeh was set to address the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations during his week-long visit to the U.S., which...

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MidEast

A senior U.S. treasury official revealed that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has been the biggest buyer of oil from ISIS, with the terror group making over $500 million from oil sales to his regime and others, Reuters reported on Thursday. “[ISIS] is selling a great deal of oil to the Assad regime,” Adam Szubin, the acting...

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MidEast

Talkitt, an Israeli-made technology from VoiceITT that translates unintelligible pronunciation from any language into understandable speech, won first prize in the fourth annual international Medica medical app competition in Dusseldorf on November 17, 2015. Medica is the world’s largest medical trade fair, attracting nearly 5,000 exhibitors from 70 nations. The grand prize...

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MidEast

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the couple who killed 14 people last week at a San Bernardino social services center, communicated with each other using encrypted devices, ABC News reported Wednesday. The senior officials who talked to ABC about the San Bernardino attack said that Farook and Malik both had...

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Global Affairs

Saying that Jews and Christians share a common bond, Pope Francis issued a theological report calling on Catholics to fight anti-Semitism, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. “A Christian can never be an anti-Semite, especially because of the Jewish roots of Christianity,” the document said, quoting Pope Francis. It further...

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Iran

Less than a week after the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that Iran covertly operated an illicit nuclear weapons program as late as 2009, a senior Iranian official warned that reopening the investigation into the regime’s past nuclear activities would be equivalent to “welshing” on the nuclear deal, Iran’s Mehr...

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As the clock struck midnight in Buenos Aires last night, street celebrations broke out in various parts of the city. Residents banged pots and pans, waved the Argentine flag, set off fireworks, and sang the national anthem. Similar scenes were recorded in many other cities throughout the country. The reason...

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