Report suggests that Trump’s Mideast team seeks an end to Palestinian ‘refugee’ status
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East policy team’s effort to shutter the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) may include efforts to clarify that millions of Palestinians are not refugees, according to a...
IRGC commander: ‘We can strike the Americans anywhere’
During a show on Channel 1 TV (Iran), the co’s Aerospace Force commander General Amir Ali Hajizadeh reviewed maps of different U.S. airbases in the region, including Al-Udeid in Qatar, Al-Dhafra in the United...
Palestinian leader Abbas cracks down on critics
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has been increasingly intolerant to critics of both him and the security organization he heads, according to Palestinian human-rights advocates, lawyers and political activists.
“The continuing crackdown on public freedoms...
UAE textbooks teach tolerance as PA curriculum calls for violence, anti-Jewish incitement
The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) has uncovered thousands of pages of new teaching material produced by the Palestinian Authority that directly calls for violence and promotes anti-Semitism, even...
Hundreds of Jordanians protest gas deal with Israel
Hundreds of Jordanians protested in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Friday demanding that the government cancel a natural-gas deal with Israel.
Jordanian security forces stopped the protesters from reaching the Al-Nakheel Square, where the...
Report raises questions about Qatar’s knowledge of Oct. 7 attack
Western intelligence officials interviewed by Politico in recent weeks say that Qatar, a longtime patron of Hamas in Gaza, may have had prior knowledge of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
“We’re still looking into it,” a...
Iran-backed Shi’ite militia holds Israeli citizen hostage in Iraq
The Iran-backed Shi’ite militia Kata'ib Hezbollah, which the U.S. State Department designates as a Foreign Terror Organization, is holding a dual Israeli-Russian citizen hostage in Iraq, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office revealed on Wednesday.
Elizabeth Tsurkov,...
Arab press blasts reported US plan to remove IRGC from terror list
In response to reports that the Biden administration is considering removing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations as part of its efforts to renew the 2015 nuclear...
Morocco agrees to normalize ties with Israel
Morocco has agreed to normalize relations with Israel, announced U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday.
“Another HISTORIC breakthrough today! Our two GREAT friends Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco have agreed to full diplomatic relations—a...
Turkey requests US missile-defense batteries on southern border to deter Syrian troops
Turkey has requested that the United States to send two Patriot missile-defense batteries on its southern border to deter any future attacks by Syrian troops, reported Bloomberg on Thursday, citing a senior Turkish official.
The request was made...