Middle East / Levant

Assad said he would launch Scud missiles at Ben Gurion International Airport if Israel bombed Damascus again.

The king warned that Trump will not give an early warning, but will simply impose a "huge deal" and the Arab countries and the Palestinian Authority will simply be told to put up or shut up, this is the plan and you have to implement it.

“The coalition forces that are in that area have an inherent right to defend themselves and will do so if necessary.”

“We are releasing this classified information because it is vital for the world to understand that if we turn a blind eye in Syria, the Iranian threat will only grow.”

"The Europeans will hold discussions among themselves, and with the US, but she understands that this touches ... the things that could threaten our very existence."

"We are sending a signal to our European allies that the time has come for changes in the Iran nuclear deal," ensuring the sunset provisions are completely eliminated.

The release of the latest Al Qaeda video threat coincided with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s speech to Israeli lawmakers at the Knesset in Jerusalem.

"It is unacceptable to allow this violence-inciting group to remain in the holy place even for another day."

The Israeli forces lay in ambush until dozens of smugglers arrived at the border fence, placed ladders against the fence and began to dump to the Israeli side bags that contained very large quantities of drugs.

“On security, I have a message for the countries of Europe. I suggest that they take President Trump's words seriously."

“The United States of America remains committed – if the parties agree – to a two-state solution,” Pence told Jordan's King Abdullah II.

“The Islamic Resistance backs the Lebanese government and army, and the Zionists must take Lebanon’s warning seriously,” Nasrallah said.

Jordan has demanded the guard stand trial.

Last week, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared that Turkish forces would enter Syria, with Russia's consent, to "vanquish" the Kurdish militia that control Afrin, along the Turkish border.

Egypt's El-Sisi continues to insist the only solution to the Israel-Palestinian Authority conflict is the "two-state solution."

The deal that allows Israel to return to its embassy in Amman is very similar to that with Ankara after the Mavi Marmara conflict.

“We stand shoulder to shoulder with you in Egypt in the fight against terrorism,” Pence said.

All three Jewish institutions were presumably being studied as potential targets for retaliatory strikes by Iran.

“Israel attaches great importance to its strategic relations with Jordan, and the two countries will act to advance their cooperation."

“Jerusalem would be a gate for peace, only when it’s the capital of Palestine. But it is also a gate for war, insecurity and instability if it isn’t. Trump has to choose."

DM Moshe Arens said, “I told Bush, ‘Look, you guys aren’t succeeding, you didn’t intercept a single missile, and the next one could be chemical.”

The oil-rich Arab countries of the Middle East have other priorities, or they would have offered to fill UNRWA's budget gap.

“They will be tried in absentia for a terrorist attack and manslaughter of several people as well as for a range of other crimes."

According to the reports, the attack hit weapons warehouses belonging to Hezbollah. The targeted structures were damaged.

After Trump signed the waiver Friday, Iran deal critics in both the Senate and the House called for language that applies to all missiles.

The ten individuals are believed to be spying on Israelis in Germany, on German Jewish institutions, an on Iranian dissidents.

UNRWA's labor union rejected the agency's diminishing its role "in preserving the identity of the Palestinian refugee and his right to return to his homeland."

Mohammed Hamdan, brother of Osama Hamdan, the head of the Hamas' international relations and member of the politburo, was wounded in a car bomb...

All of the people he had approached flat-out refused his invitations to become martyrs and stopped associating with him socially.

A storm of protests and hysteria over Gadot’s appearance on Saab’s Instagram page wearing his creation led to the removal of the image.