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A Spanish U.N. peacekeeper looks to the U.N-demarcated "Blue Line" border between Lebanon and Israel, during a foot patrol in the occupied Shebaa Farms area of southeast Lebanon, Tuesday Feb. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) BEIRUT: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has hinted that Israel...

Suspected Israeli nationalists set fire to a Christian seminary in Jerusalem and vandalized an elementary school in Nablus on Thursday, officials said. The attacks, which came a day after a similar group burned a mosque near Bethlehem, have been characterized as hate crimes by Israeli officials...

A Palestinian mosque in the West Bank was attacked overnight Tuesday in what appears to be yet another possible 'price tag' hate crime attack by extremists settlers. Palestinian residents say that a mosque in Jab'a, near Bethlehem, was set on fire Tuesday night and sprayed with Hebrew-language...

Binyamin Netanyahu’s dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012 that Iran was about a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted by his own secret service, according to a top-secret Mossad document. It is part of a cache of hundreds of dossiers, files and cables from the world’s...

Homes, schools, supermarkets and mosques were destroyed in Operation Protective Edge [Creede Newton/Al Jazeera] Khuzaa, Gaza - Upon entering Khuzaa, a Palestinian town in the southern Gaza Strip, visitors are confronted by ubiquitous destruction. Homes, schools, supermarkets and mosques were...

Gaza has suffered from flooding caused by storms this winter causing misery to families displaced by the 2014 conflict [AFP] At least 80 Palestinian homes have been flooded after water levels in the Gaza Valley (Wadi Gaza) rose to almost three meters, forcing families to evacuate after Israeli...

A man stands next to a tent flying the Palestinian flag in the Shujaiyya neighborhood of Gaza City. (AFP/File) GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- As a severe winter storm buffeted Palestine this week leaving the hilltops of the West Bank covered in snow, tens of thousands of families in Gaza left homeless...

UMass has reversed its decision. UMass Amherst Will Accept Iranian Students into Science and Engineering Programs, Revising Approach to Admissions | Office of News & Media Relations | UMass Amherst

Children injured in an Israeli airstrike receive treatment at a hospital in Gaza City, 23 August 2014. (Mohammed Asad / APA images) The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) has submitted a report to the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor debunking Israeli claims that last summer’s attack on...

A man was questioned this Monday, 9 February, in flagrante delicto in Paris, while he painted the word "Jew" on vehicles parked on a public venue, in the 16th district of the capital. According to the Metronews daily, he tagged about twenty cars... to change apartments. The cops placed the...

This announcement was recently posted on the website of the graduate school of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: The University has determined that recent governmental sanctions pose a significant challenge to its ability to provide a full program of education and research for Iranian...

A Jewish Israeli extremist who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2002 for constructing and placing a bomb to kill Palestinian children will be released this month, two years ahead of schedule, according to Israeli sources. Ofer Gamliel (on left) with his co-defendants (archive photo from...

Your lowly kind will stoop to nothing in order to celebrate this woman's death even as you pretend not to do so. You must know a lot about her to imply you know what was the motive behind her activist work. And since her activism was on behalf of people you cannot be bothered to give a rat's...

Kayla Jean Mueller was taken hostage in August 2013, while working as an aid worker in Aleppo (AFP Photo) On Tuesday, the radical Islamic group the Islamic State announced that 26-year-old hostage Kayla Mueller was dead, reportedly in a Jordanian bombing raid. As Talking Points Memo reported...

Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, the Egyptian president. Photograph: Reuters Egypt’s prime minister has dismissed the credibility of recordings that allegedly show the president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, demanding that Cairo’s Gulf benefactors pay their aid straight into the Egyptian army’s coffers. In...

The U.S. Government often warns of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks from adversaries, but it may have actually contributed to those capabilities in the case of Iran. A top secret National Security Agency document from April 2013 reveals that the U.S. intelligence community is worried...

In contrast with what my headline implies, there's no information about how she was killed. No idea where I took the "beheaded" part from. Apologies. Can a moderator fix the headline, please?

Kayla Jean Mueller (International Solidarity Movement) US President Barack Obama today paid tribute to Kayla Mueller, the American woman who was killed while a captive of Islamic State, which the US government refers to by the initials ISIL. Obama’s statement came after Mueller’s family said...

You're insane. If an Arab as much as step on a toe of a Jew, anywhere in the world, it'd be headlines world wide. It doesn't happen everyday, and whenever it happens under Israeli jurisdiction, a nationalist motive is quickly assigned and the man faces stiff penalty in jail. Jews, by contrast...

Druze IDF soldier Razzi Houseysa from Daliyat al-Carmel was beaten Friday, February 6, 2015, apparently after he was heard speaking Arabic in a nightclub in northern Israel. (Photo credit: Courtesy) A Druze IDF soldier was beaten over the weekend in a nightclub in northern Israel, apparently...