A 90-year-old Dutch Holocaust survivor who recently moved to a West Bank settlement near Modi’in to be near her son had her pension check cut by more than a third by the Dutch government, The Times of Israel reported Friday. The woman, a 90-year-old Dutch Holocaust survivor identified in the report...

Protests against Iranian authorities that began in the Kurdish-majority city of Mahabad have spread to other Kurdish areas, Lebanon’s NOW Media reported today. ARA News, a Syrian outlet close to the country’s Kurds, reported that at least six people have been killed in the ongoing demonstrations, while hundreds of others have...

A top security official of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been placed under house arrest on suspicion of plotting a coup, The Telegraph reported today. Ali Mamlouk, the head of the country’s National Security Bureau, and one of the few officials still to have access to President...

Israel purchased four corvette class warships from Germany with an eye towards upgrading its navy and its ability to protect its natural gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea, the Associated Press reported today. The purchase of the ships was announced Monday in Tel Aviv, as the countries were marking 50 years...

President Barack Obama’s efforts to gain support for the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran suffered a blow when it was confirmed Sunday that King Salman, the newly-crowned ruler of Saudi Arabia, would not be attending this week’s planned summit between the president and the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC),...

Four buses in were torched and a fifth one vandalized in an apparent anti-Israel attack in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, The Times of Israel reported Friday. Investigator Jens Moeller Jensen said police suspect arson and are investigating possible links to a decision last week by city transit officials to remove...

A report issued by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has shown that religious minorities in Iran continue to suffer persecution under President Hassan Rouhani. Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported Friday for Fox News. The bipartisan commission’s 2015 report on the Islamic Republic of...

The American defense contractor Lockheed Martin was so impressed with the protection system of the Israeli company Cybereason that Lockheed not only recommended Cybereason’s software to its customers, but also invested $25 million in the company, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Several months ago, Lockheed checked out Cybereason’s protection system,...

The death of a young woman sparked rioting in Mahabad, an Kurdish city in northwestern Iran, The New York Times reported today. Furious over the unexplained death of a chambermaid, ethnic Kurds in an Iranian provincial capital rioted on Thursday, apparently setting the fire that roared through the hotel where...

Inspectors from the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) found traces of the deadly nerve agents sarin and VX at a research facility in Syria that had not been publicly declared, Reuters reported today. Samples taken by experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in December and...