August 19, 2014
3:11 pm

Political activist and Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein (screen capture: YouTube/Missouri History Museum)

Anti-Israel Holocaust survivor arrested in Missouri protests

Hedy Epstein briefly held after blocking entrance to St. Louis government building in peaceful demonstration

By Times of Israel staff and AP

August 19, 2014
2:47 pm

Azzam al-Ahmad, aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, gives a press conference at a hotel in Cairo, August 13, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Talks resume in Cairo as clock winds down again on truce

Israel says no deal yet, Palestinian delegation signals no progress, and Hamas insists no more short-term truces

By AP and Times of Israel staff

August 19, 2014
9:12 am

Screen capture from a video allegedly showing a Syrian rebel with an SA-7 anti-aircraft missile. (screen capture: YouTube/gresh775

US bans flights over Syria after report on missile threat

Research group says hundreds of anti-aircraft missiles could wind up in hands of extremists

By AP

August 19, 2014
3:35 am

A handout picture released by the Palestinian Authority president's office shows Mahmoud Abbas (right) in a meeting with the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, in Doha, on July 20, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/PPO/Thaer Ghanem)

Abbas orders probe into Hamas coup plot revealed by Israel

PA president calls scheme a ‘grave threat’ to Palestinian unity, region; 93 arrests made, Shin Bet says, thwarting Hamas preparations for 3rd intifada

By Mitch Ginsburg and AP

August 19, 2014
1:38 am

US President Barack Obama speaks on the situation in Iraq at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on August 14, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Nicholas KAMM)

Obama hails elimination of Syrian chemical weapons

US president warns Assad must follow through on committment to destroy remaining facilities

By AFP and AP

August 18, 2014
7:14 pm

Palestinian masked supporters of the Islamist Hamas movement take part in a demonstration in Rafah in southern Gaza Strip in August 2014. (photo credit: AFP/SAID KHATIB)

Israel says it foiled Hamas plan for massive attacks on Israel, coup against PA

93 arrests made, Shin Bet says, thwarting Hamas preparations for third intifada; Abbas says revelation a threat to Palestinian unity

By Mitch Ginsburg and AP

August 18, 2014
7:00 pm

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

UN envoy: Gaza needs houses and schools, not rockets and tunnels

In testimony before the Security Council, Robert Serry calls for end of blockade, says ceasefire must ensure Israel’s security

By Lazar Berman and AP

August 18, 2014
12:13 pm

Former Pittsburgh Mayor Sophie Masloff is kissed by Maggie, a sea lion at the Ptitsburgh Zoo & Aquarium, in Pittsburgh. Masloff, who rose from a tax clerk to become Pittsburgh's first female mayor, died Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. She was 96. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Sophie Masloff, 1st female Pittsburgh mayor, dies

The Yiddish-speaker served from 1988-1994 and led two city wage tax reductions and overhaul of police disciplinary system

By AP

August 17, 2014
10:32 am

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano answers questions at the IAEA headquaters in Vienna, on January 30, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/File Dieter Nagl)

UN nuclear watchdog chief arrives in Iran for talks

Yukiya Amano reportedly meets with Foreign Minister Zarif, will later speak with President Rouhani

By AP

August 16, 2014
8:35 pm

This undated file photo posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from extremist Islamic State group during a parade in Raqqa, Syria (photo credit: AP/Raqqa Media Center, File)

Jihadists closing in on Syrian rebel stronghold

Islamic State fighters capture three villages in north of country, making serious advances in Aleppo province

By AP

August 16, 2014
8:26 pm

Demonstrators in Hannover, Germany, march with flags and banners, August 16, 2014. (photo credit: AP/dpa, Swen Pfoertner)

Germany: Thousands protest Yazidi persecution in Iraq

Demonstrators demand international intervention to help save ethnic minority from hands of Islamic State

By AP

August 16, 2014
12:00 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry at a press conference in Cairo with United Nations Chief Ban Ki-moon, on July 25, 2014 (Photo credit: AFP/Pool)

Report: German intel spied on Kerry, Clinton

Der Spiegel says tapping of phone conversations done by accident

By AP

August 16, 2014
9:49 am

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take position on the front line in Makhmur, some 50 kilometers south of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq where clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants are ongoing, on August 9, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/SAFIN HAMED)

Canada to send arms to Kurds in Iraq

PM Harper says Ottawa will not stand by while Islamic State forces continue to murder innocent civilians, minorities

By AP

August 16, 2014
5:30 am

An image made available by the jihadist Twitter account Al-Baraka News on June 13, 2014, allegedly shows Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants clashing with Iraqi soldiers at an undisclosed location close to the Iraqi-Syrian border, in the district of Sinjar, northwest Iraq. (photo credit: AFP/HO/Al-Baraka News)

US airstrikes hit Islamic State vehicles in Iraq

Drone attacks destroy 2 armed cars south of town of Sinjar after Kurds report attack on village

By AP

August 16, 2014
12:57 am

A picture of Associated Press video journalist Simone Camilli lies on his coffin during the funeral service at the Pitigliano Cathedral, Italy, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, Pool)

Hundreds mourn AP video journalist killed in Gaza

‘You might think he was a thrill-seeker. Simone wasn’t one of those,’ says friend and colleague

By AP

Writer: AP

Anti-Israel Holocaust survivor arrested in Missouri protests

Hedy Epstein briefly held after blocking entrance to St. Louis government building in peaceful demonstration

Talks resume in Cairo as clock winds down again on truce

Israel says no deal yet, Palestinian delegation signals no progress, and Hamas insists no more short-term truces

US bans flights over Syria after report on missile threat

Research group says hundreds of anti-aircraft missiles could wind up in hands of extremists

Abbas orders probe into Hamas coup plot revealed by Israel

PA president calls scheme a ‘grave threat’ to Palestinian unity, region; 93 arrests made, Shin Bet says, thwarting Hamas preparations for 3rd intifada

Obama hails elimination of Syrian chemical weapons

US president warns Assad must follow through on committment to destroy remaining facilities

Israel says it foiled Hamas plan for massive attacks on Israel, coup against PA

93 arrests made, Shin Bet says, thwarting Hamas preparations for third intifada; Abbas says revelation a threat to Palestinian unity

UN envoy: Gaza needs houses and schools, not rockets and tunnels

In testimony before the Security Council, Robert Serry calls for end of blockade, says ceasefire must ensure Israel’s security

Sophie Masloff, 1st female Pittsburgh mayor, dies

The Yiddish-speaker served from 1988-1994 and led two city wage tax reductions and overhaul of police disciplinary system

UN nuclear watchdog chief arrives in Iran for talks

Yukiya Amano reportedly meets with Foreign Minister Zarif, will later speak with President Rouhani

Jihadists closing in on Syrian rebel stronghold

Islamic State fighters capture three villages in north of country, making serious advances in Aleppo province

Germany: Thousands protest Yazidi persecution in Iraq

Demonstrators demand international intervention to help save ethnic minority from hands of Islamic State

Report: German intel spied on Kerry, Clinton

Der Spiegel says tapping of phone conversations done by accident

Canada to send arms to Kurds in Iraq

PM Harper says Ottawa will not stand by while Islamic State forces continue to murder innocent civilians, minorities

US airstrikes hit Islamic State vehicles in Iraq

Drone attacks destroy 2 armed cars south of town of Sinjar after Kurds report attack on village

Hundreds mourn AP video journalist killed in Gaza

‘You might think he was a thrill-seeker. Simone wasn’t one of those,’ says friend and colleague

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