Israel & The Region

Diplomacy, defense, politics, Middle East affairs

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June 11, 2013
7:12 am

Civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack at al-Ameen neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 8, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Bombings rock Iraq, killing dozens

Violence continues in the wake of Sunni protests against Baghdad, following deadliest month since 2008

By Adam Schreck

June 11, 2013
5:00 am

An Israeli soldier directs a tank near the Quneitra crossing with Syria on Thursday.(photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Golan heating up, but Israel hoping to sit out Syria conflict

Border battles and the crumbling of the UN peacekeeping force bring the civil war closer, though most Israelis would prefer to stay out

By Ben Sales

June 11, 2013
3:55 am

Israelis and tourists look at a fire, caused by fighting in Syria, from an observation point on Mt. Bental in the Golan Heights, near the border between the Golan Heights and Syria, Friday, June 7. (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

US Embassy warns Americans to stay out of Golan

Email sent to citizens in Israel after heavy fighting between Syrian troops and rebels along border last week

By JTA and Times of Israel staff

June 11, 2013
3:01 am

Egyptians fishing in the Nile last week. (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Cairo warns of bloodshed if Ethiopia advances Nile dam

Morsi says he is not calling for war, though, as Egypt ramps up rhetoric against dam that could leave country parched

June 11, 2013
1:40 am

Graves of victims of Halabja gas attack in Kurdistan region of Iraq (photo credit: Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

25 years on, Saddam’s Kurdish victims seek justice

Survivors of 1988 Halabja attack demand an investigation of the French company that supplied poison gas to Iraqi government

By Lazar Berman and AP

June 11, 2013
1:25 am

Leon Wieseltier, an intellectual and philosopher who has been the literary editor of The New Republic for more than three decades, poses for a photograph in Tel Aviv on Sunday. (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

Saying Kaddish for the Jewish state?

Literary giant Leon Wieseltier says without a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the days are numbered for Israel’s existence as a Jewish homeland

By Diaa Hadid

June 11, 2013
12:32 am

Benjamin Netanyahu at a Knesset meeting (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu says he will never accept preconditions for talks

Prime minister says Palestinian calls for a building freeze before negotiations constitute an ‘impassable obstacle’

By Lazar Berman

June 10, 2013
11:49 pm

Edward Snowden, a former contract employee at the National Security Agency (photo credit: AP/The Guardian/File)

NSA whistleblower reopens post-September 11 debate

As intelligence agencies scramble to assess damage caused by leak of comprehensive surveillance program, Edward Snowden explains his motives

June 10, 2013
11:20 pm

Border police (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Unprovoked, border policeman pepper-sprays Arab boy

Officer suspended after attacking 10-year-old from the window of a police car in East Jerusalem

By Asher Zeiger

June 10, 2013
11:08 pm

The reactor building of the nuclear power plant just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran (photo credit: AP/Mehr News Agency/Majid Asgaripour/File)

Iranian nuclear plant has generator malfunction

Russian and Iranian experts working to fix the problem, which government asserts wasn’t caused by recent earthquakes

June 10, 2013
10:32 pm

Secretary John Kerry with President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the World Economic Forum in Jordan in late May 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Kerry postpones Israel visit

US secretary of state currently attending strategy sessions on Syria, puts fifth Middle East visit on back burner

June 10, 2013
10:11 pm

Tunnel workers taking time off to pray on the Gaza side of Rafah. (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

With ties to Iran in shambles, Hamas finds new ways to rearm

Gaza has been quiet since Operation Pillar of Defense, but under the surface, a senior IDF officer explains, smuggling of higher-quality weaponry is in full swing

By Mitch Ginsburg

June 10, 2013
10:10 pm

A man checks his destroyed house, damaged by a Syrian forces airstrike in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (AP/Qusair Lens)

US mulls arming Syrian rebels

Aides from CIA, State and Defense departments meet to discuss responses to advance of Hezbollah-backed regime forces

By Bradley Klapper

June 10, 2013
9:44 pm

Five of the suspects of a UK terror plot were caught on CCTV in Dewsbury two hours after the EDL rally they planned to attack had finished, June 30,2012 (photo credit: Courtesy West Midlands Police)

6 jailed in UK for Islamist plot to bomb far-right rally

Attackers arrived too late to carry out their plot, were later caught with arms when busted for driving without insurance

June 10, 2013
8:59 pm

Minister of Justice and Hatnua party leader Tzipi Livni, April 29, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Livni calls on prime minister to reject ‘Danonism’

Justice minister joins chorus of voices slamming deputy defense minister for hawkish remarks, urges Lapid’s Yesh Atid to push for peace talks