Israel & The Region

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December 7, 2015
1:54 pm

File: Israeli security forces gather at the site where a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, on December 7, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Decision made on Mossad chief after exhaustive process, official says

Source denies ‘last-minute pressure’ caused delay in live announcement, says PM conducted intensive talks with nominees

By Joshua Davidovich

December 7, 2015
1:24 pm

Illustrative photo of demonstrators chanting pro-Islamic State slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, June 16, 2014. (AP, File)

What threats may come

IS in Israel, IS in Ramallah, IS in your menorah — the qualms come hot and heavy as Washington holds on to a ‘lie’ of a hope that a two-state solution is possible

By Joshua Davidovich

December 7, 2015
11:54 am

Illustrative photo of Islamic State militants, with an IS fighter waving the group flag in Fallujah, Iraq, west of Baghdad, June 28, 2015. (Militant website of IS, via AP)

IS attack on Israel a matter of time, official says

Airstrikes in Syria prompting jihadist group to carry out attacks outside of its ‘caliphate,’ defense official warns

By Times of Israel staff

December 7, 2015
11:53 am

California shooter attended Pakistani female madrassa

Former university classmates of Tashfeen Malik say she ‘drastically changed’ after lessons at seminary

By Khurram SHAHZAD

December 7, 2015
11:46 am

Smoke billows from buildings following a reported air strike in Damascus' rebel-held suburb of Zamalka on December 6, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / AMER ALMOHIBANY)

Coalition airstrike said to kill 4 Syrian regime soldiers

US-led forces deny they targeted army; Assad government confirms raids, calls them an ‘act of aggression’

By AFP and Times of Israel staff

December 7, 2015
10:26 am

F140623IDF92Israeli soldiers seen during searches in the West Bank city of Jenin, June 19, 2014. (IDF /Spokesperson/Flash90)

IDF arrests suspected Hamas terrorists in Jenin sweep

Military engineers prepare to demolish the West Bank homes of three alleged Palestinian attackers

By Stuart Winer

December 7, 2015
8:37 am

(From L to R) MUD representative Miguel Pizarro, the wife of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, Lilian Tintori, Freddy Guevara, of the Voluntad Popular party and Jesus Torrealba, head of the Democratic Unity Movement (MUD) party celebrate after knowing the first results of the legislative election, at the MUD headquarters in Caracas, on the early morning December 7, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/JUAN BARRETO)

Venezuelan opposition wins legislative voting in landslide

In a major setback to the long-ruling socialist party, opposition lawmakers now hold 99 out of the 167-seat legislature

By Hannah Dreier and Joshua Goodman

December 7, 2015
6:32 am

Migrants waiting to be processed at the increasingly overwhelmed Moria camp on the island of Lesbos in Greece, October 21, 2015. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/via JTA)

After Paris attacks, Greek migrant tests remain cursory

Budget-strapped Athens asks EU for police, supplies and intelligence sharing to help screen flood of refugees

By Marina RAFENBERG

December 7, 2015
6:24 am

Illustrative photo of migrants walking from the main station in Dortmund, Germany, to a hall where they get first attendance, September 6, 2015. (AP/Martin Meissner)

Germany refugee influx sparks surge in racist hate crimes

Daily attacks reported against foreigners; few are convicted while far-right anti-migrant politicians rise in polls

By Yannick Pasquet

December 7, 2015
4:46 am

Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallstrom gives a statement to the media in Stockholm, Sweden, on the Paris terrorist attacks, on November 14, 2015. (AFP/TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery)

Netanyahu phones Swedish PM over ‘executions’ comment

Israeli leader slams remarks by FM Margot Wallstrom that suggested Palestinian terrorists face ‘extrajudicial executions’

By Times of Israel staff

December 7, 2015
4:17 am

A police officer stands guard outside Leytonstone station in north London on December 6, 2015, a day after three people were stabbed in what police are treating as a 'terrorist incident.' (AFP/Leon Neal)

Police charge suspect in London Tube stabbing

29-year-old Muhaydin Mire allegedly shouted ‘This is for Syria’ as he stabbed, seriously wounded 56-year-old passer-by

By Robin MILLARD

December 7, 2015
3:59 am

Illustrative: Smoke and fire following a reported airstrike by Syrian government forces in the Islamic State-controlled Syrian city of Raqqa, on November 25, 2014. (AFP Photo/RMC/STR)

Airstrikes target IS de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria

32 Islamic State fighters said killed as air campaign against jihadist group continues to escalate

By Bassem Mroue and Albert Aji

December 7, 2015
3:53 am

A Syrian Kurdish sniper looks at the rubble in the Syrian city of Ain al-Arab, also known as Kobani, Jan. 30, 2015. (AP, File)

Australian who joined Kurdish forces in Syria sent home

Ashley Dyball spends four hours with Australian Federal Police after being deported from Germany

By AP

December 7, 2015
3:43 am

President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Sunday night, Dec. 6, 2016. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

Obama: Terror threat against US has entered ‘new phase’

WATCH: In rare Oval Office address, US president defends current anti-terror strategy, urges tolerance toward Muslims and that Muslims confront terror ‘without excuse’

By Julie Pace

December 7, 2015
3:35 am

Bono, left, and Adam Clayton of U2 perform on stage during a concert, in Paris, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015. U2’s performance in Paris on Sunday night wasn’t just about music _ it had a mournful tinge, too. Frontman Bono paid respects to 130 people killed by terrorists in Paris on Nov. 13, and 14 people killed in a mass shooting last week in California. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

U2’s Bono honors victims in Paris, San Bernardino

‘There are few words to speak to the loss you are feeling in this city tonight,’ rocker tells fans in Paris concert

By Greg Keller

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