Israel & The Region

Diplomacy, defense, politics, Middle East affairs

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September 16, 2013
1:42 pm

Anthony Bourdain in Israel (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

TV chef Bourdain reveals Jewish heritage during show in Israel

Host of CNN’s ‘Parts Unknown,’ who was trapped in Lebanon during 2006 war, chews over the conflict on debut trip to Israel, West Bank and Gaza

By Jordana Horn

September 16, 2013
1:28 pm

A Persian cat in a bag. (photo credit: CC BY akk_rus, Flickr)

Iran may send cat blasting into space

After reportedly launching a monkey, Tehran plans to advance space program with a feline astronaut

By AP

September 16, 2013
12:07 pm

Iranian President Hasan Rouhani delivers a speech during his campaign for the presidential election in Tehran, Iran, May 2, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Rouhani: Iran will accept any elected Syria leader

Remarks by Iranian president mark slight shift away from steadfast support of Bashar Assad

By AP

September 16, 2013
11:45 am

John Kerry, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in Jerusalem In September 2013. (photo credit: US State Department)

‘Netanyahu backed Russian chemical arms deal in call to Kerry’

Israel denies report PM told US secretary of state he believed Moscow was serious about removing Syrian chemical weapons

By AP and Times of Israel staff

September 16, 2013
10:59 am

Egyptian army soldiers seen in a watchtower on the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip, July 2013. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Roadside bomb hits police bus in Egypt’s Sinai

Nine passengers wounded and one conscript shot in the head after jumping out of the moving vehicle

By Ashraf Sweilam

September 16, 2013
7:57 am

UN inspectors are escorted by Syrian rebels in Damascus in August, 2013 (photo credit: AP/United media office of Arbeen)

UN report on Syria chemical attack to be released Monday

Findings expected to confirm sarin or other chemical used in August 21 strike near Damascus and may also blame Assad regime

By AP and Times of Israel staff

September 16, 2013
4:55 am

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, deliver statements on the situation in Syria, from Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 14, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Keystone/Martial Trezzini)

Israel worried it may be pushed to join chemical weapons ban

With deal to disarm Syria of WMDs underway, some policymakers concerned US, Russia may pressure Jerusalem to ratify arms treaty

By Times of Israel staff and AP

September 16, 2013
2:25 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (photo credit: AP/Osama Faisal)

Chemical weapons inspectors submit report on Syria

Secretary general to brief Security Council in closed session on Monday, then General Assembly later in the day

By AP

September 16, 2013
1:21 am

Then-presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani waves from a campaign bus in the western city of Sanandaj, Iran, earlier this year (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Obama may meet Rouhani at UN this month

Two presidents have exchanged letters; Oman said to be brokering contacts between Washington and Tehran

By Times of Israel staff and Asher Zeiger

September 15, 2013
11:51 pm

French President Francois Hollande walks out of the lobby of the Elysee Palace, on Syria, Paris, on Friday, September 13, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Michel Euler)

France doesn’t rule out ‘military option’ in Syria

French president says that without a credible threat of force, ‘there will be no pressure’

By AP

September 15, 2013
11:13 pm

Senator Lindsey Graham, right, accompanied by Senator John McCain, speaks with reporters outside the White House in Washington, D.C., in September 2013. (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

In US, critique of Syria deal falls along party lines

Democrats say use of force still an option if agreement falls through, but Republicans say Moscow given too much say

By Libby Quaid

September 15, 2013
9:30 pm

Agriculture Ministry workers armed with pesticides have distributed both aerial and ground sprays in areas where millions of locusts descended upon southern Israel, beginning March 6, 2013. (photo credit: Dror Garti/Flash90)

Israeli, Palestinian farmers to resume cooperation

Joint agricultural committees pick up again after 13 years, Agriculture Ministry officials to run workshops for Palestinians

By Naama Barak

September 15, 2013
9:20 pm

A photomicrograph of Bacillus anthracis bacteria using Gram-stain technique. Anthrax is diagnosed by isolating B. anthracis from the blood, skin lesions, or respiratory secretions, or by measuring specific antibodies in the blood of persons with suspected cases. (photo credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services/Wikipedia Commons)

Assad’s biological weapons absent from US-Russia deal

Syrian regime has two bases producing anthrax and other devastating agents, Israel’s Channel 10 reports

By Times of Israel staff

September 15, 2013
9:13 pm

Officers of Police Quick Reaction Force inspect the site of a car bomb attack in front of their headquarters in the town of Suwayrah, 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, September 15, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Hadi Mizban)

Bombings kill 53 in south and central Iraq

More than 4,000 have died since April in worst spate of violence since sectarian tensions erupted in 2008

By Sinan Salaheddin

September 15, 2013
8:40 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, last September (photo credit: AP/Keystone/Martial Trezzini)

US-Russia deal a ‘victory,’ says Syrian minister

In Assad regime’s first reaction to Saturday’s agreement, Damascus credits Moscow with averting an attack

By Naama Barak

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