Middle East / Levant

"Israeli tourists by now have figured that every place is dangerous, which is why economic considerations overcome security concerns."

The most devastating point was made by Secretary Clinton when she said the Obama Administration had no choice but to pull out of Iraq.

Israel's Leviathan consortium signs a groundbreaking $10 billion gas deal with Jordan for a 15-year period.

At least 100,000 children have had no safe drinking water for 3 days in Aleppo.

A Jordanian Christian anti-Islamist activist is shot dead before facing trial for sharing "offensive" cartoon on Facebook.

The Prime Minister's office released a laconic statement saying, "Netanyahu presented to Trump Israel's positions on regional issues related to its security and discussed with him Israel's efforts to achieve peace and stability in our region."

The Syrian war has worsened, with another massacre taking place in Aleppo after another US-Russian ceasefire falls apart.

A group named 9/11 Families & Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism released a statement Friday arguing the president's reasoning for the veto is "unconvincing and unsupportable."

See the full text and video of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the UN General Assembly.

PM Netanyahu invited PA leader Mahmoud Abbas to address the Knesset in Jerusalem, and offered to address the PA parliament in Ramallah.

The takeaway from King Abdullah II's speech is not about his faint call on Israel to be more peaceful with its terrorist neighbors, but a cry for help in managing the Arab hordes on either side of his gates.

Iran is again threatening Israel, saying it will "turn Tel Aviv and Haifa to dust" pending mistakes by the "Zionist regime."

New Zealand PM John Key chaired the UN Security Council session in his final month of a 2-year rotation as president.

The area outside the embassy was cordoned off and Police examined the bag the attacker was carrying and it either did not contain explosives, or the explosives were not activated.

"If we are helping to radicalize Yemenis against us ... how can that be in our security interest?" Senator Murphy asked.

Israel presented to the Jordanian foreign office a video showing Amro waving two knives and threatening passers by.

Rare footage of Israeli spy Eli Cohen's execution in Damascus was handed to Israel by Syrian rebel forces.

Local war monitors are blaming either the Syrians or the Russians for the strike against the aid convoy near Aleppo on Monday, which came after the Syrians had declared an end to the week-long ceasefire.

As of March 31, 2016, Lebanon is hosting 1,048,275 registered refugees from Syria, 53% of whom are children, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

The elected lower house of Jordan's parliament is constrained by an upper house of equal legislative responsibility whose members are chosen by the King.

French President Francois Hollande tells a gathering that France doesn't have enough resources to prevent, let alone fight, the terror in its midst.

Ishak Alaton was one of the founders of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) and the Open Society Foundation.

The Jordanian terrorist traveled to Israel to murder Jews in Jerusalem.

The Pentagon confirms the death of the chief propaganda master who produced torture videos for ISIS.

It's not clear who killed 80 Syrian soldiers but the US-Russian ceasefire is crumbling. Israel's deployed the Iron Dome.

The IDF deployed the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system in the Golan Heights after days of shelling from across the Syrian border.

"This district is literally Ground Zero and our representative supported the Iran Deal? Is no one paying attention," Rosenthal queries.

He joined an estimated 100 thousand Brits who have embraced the religion of Mohammad, including, possibly, the late Sir Winston Churchill.

Eighty thousand Aleppo residents starve as their fate is determined by which side blinks first in a game of chicken played in a ceasefire.

It's that time of year again, when pro-Gaza groups get antsy and they just have to launch a flotilla. This time, it's the women.