March 13, 2013
3:08 pm

The Netherlands raises terror threat

Government points to traumatized jihadi fighters returning from Syria who may want to harm Dutch interests

 

March 13, 2013
2:32 pm

EU representative killed in Syrian rocket attack

UK, Russian foreign ministers meet as fighting rages in Damascus suburbs

 

March 13, 2013
2:08 pm

Brahimi: ‘Syria may become worse than Somalia’

World leaders urge peace talks as Syrian opposition faces collapse; Egyptian city sees private militia take control of streets

By Michael Bassin  

March 13, 2013
1:17 pm

Saudi Arabia beheads 7 men after appeals rejected

Septet, who were juveniles when arrested, complained of torture and not having access to lawyers

 

March 13, 2013
12:56 pm

Cobra down

Papers remember the two pilots killed in Tuesday’s chopper crash

By Joshua Davidovich  

March 13, 2013
12:21 pm

US ambassador: Rumors that Obama dislikes Netanyahu ‘incorrect’

Dan Shapiro also lowers expectations on possible release of Jonathan Pollard

By Gabe Fisher  

March 13, 2013
10:46 am

MK attacks Obama for excluding Ariel students

Jewish Home claims US president’s decision not to invite students from West Bank university to his speech is political

By Michal Shmulovich  

March 13, 2013
9:12 am

New swarm of locusts plagues southern Israel

Agriculture Ministry takes preemptive action, fears warm weather may see millions more pests cross the border from Egypt

By Times of Israel staff  

March 13, 2013
6:11 am

Syria crisis: Children ‘recruited’ by armed groups

From the web BBC: Save the Children reports that minors are used by both sides in civil war as informers, fighters and human shields

 

March 13, 2013
5:33 am

Syria military shows strain in a war it wasn’t built to fight

From the web New York Times: Assad has lost grip on country because army was designed to confront Israel, not fight an armed insurgency

 

March 13, 2013
3:01 am

Taking refugees off the table

A new effort is underway, backed by Israel, to tackle ‘the major hurdle to peace:’ how the UN defines a Palestinian refugee

By Haviv Rettig Gur  

March 13, 2013
2:45 am

79 die in Libya from tainted moonshine

Bad batch of homemade liquor kills scores in North African Muslim country where sale and consumption are illegal

 

March 13, 2013
12:03 am

Egypt stops film about local Jewish community

Day before movie about once thriving society was due to hit the screens, authorities block it from reaching cinemas

 

March 12, 2013
11:28 pm

Palestinian reported killed by IDF fire in Hebron

Clashes erupt when army enters refugee camp after Molotov cocktail thrown at Israeli vehicle; two others injured

By Stuart Winer  

March 12, 2013
11:20 pm

Erdogan catches cold, cancels parliament meeting

Turkish prime minister undrgoes checkup at Ankara hospital, will rest at home for a couple of days

By Adiv Sterman