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This image posted online by the Shaam News Network, a loosely organized group opposed to Bashar Assad, on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows the bodies of people killed in Syrian government airstrikes in Douma, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. The United Nations humanitarian chief said he is "horrified" by the attacks on civilians taking place in Syria, singling out in particular government airstrikes the previous day that killed nearly 100 people in a Damascus suburb. (Shaam News Network via AP video)

January 13, 2019, 2:41 pm

Arab nations inch toward rehabilitating Syria’s Assad

Gulf Arabs once backed rebels, now reopening embassies in Damascus to counter Iranian, Turkish influence and bid on lucrative post-war reconstructive projects

By Zeina Karam

Kuwaiti TV personality Fajr Al-Saeed in a video interview on Israel's Kan Channel 11 TV news following her new year's tweet calling on Arabs to normalize ties with Israel, January 8, 2019 (Screenshot, Kan)

January 9, 2019, 1:01 pm

In Israel TV interview, Kuwaiti TV host calls for ties, shrugs off death threats

Fajr al-Saeed who was castigated for posting New Year’s tweets in Hebrew and Arabic hoping for normalized relations with Israel, tells Israeli TV: ‘I’m only afraid of Allah’

By TOI staff

Iraqi Parliament First Deputy Speaker Hassan Karim al-Kaabi. (Iraq Parliament website)

January 7, 2019, 9:51 pm

Iraqi lawmaker demands probe into officials’ visits to Israel

Deputy parliament speaker in Baghdad fumes after Israel reveals 15 dignitaries have made groundbreaking trips to Jewish state

By AFP and TOI staff

A screenshot from video on social media purporting to show a Syrian surface-to-air missile being fired near Damascus on December 25, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

December 26, 2018, 1:53 pm

Syria protests Israeli strike in messages to United Nations

Damascus says attacks wouldn’t have been launched if not for ‘unlimited’ support for Israel from Washington

By TOI staff

US forces armored vehicles drive near the village of Yalanli, on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Manbij, on March 5, 2017. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

December 19, 2018, 5:44 pm

US ‘quickly’ pulling out troops from Syria as Trump says IS ‘defeated’

In surprise move, White House confirms soldiers have begun leaving country; president declares destroying Islamic State was only reason for being there

By AFP and TOI staff

Martin Fletcher, former NBC correspondent in Israel and author of 'Promised Land.' (Courtesy)

November 24, 2018, 1:33 am

Former NBC correspondent’s new novel is a love letter to the Jewish homeland

Martin Fletcher spent decades as an objective journalist in Israel. Now he just wants readers to think, ‘This is a great place worth supporting, with all its faults’

By Cathryn J. Prince

November 5, 2018, 10:00 am

In Gaza, bodybuilding competition provides escape

Dozens of youths participate in local tournament, where contestants wear modest long shorts in accordance with Islamic law

By Khalil Hamra

Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan (2nd right) speaks with a soldier at the scene where an Israeli woman was run over and killed by a Palestinian driver, near the northern West Bank settlement outpost of Havat Gilad on August 16, 2018. (Roi Hadi/Samaria Regional Council)

August 16, 2018, 2:14 pm

PA official says driver in West Bank car death will stay in Palestinian custody

Man surrenders to Palestinian police after hitting, killing Israeli woman near Nablus, claims incident was an accident

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Cofounders of Taglit-Birthright Michael Steinhardt (L) and Charles Bronfman, in Jerusalem on June 4, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

August 9, 2018, 12:02 pm

Birthright co-founder slams walk-off protesters abusing free trip

Charles Bronfman says if young Jews want to criticize Israel, they should pay their own way

By JTA

Members of the Syrian Civil Defence volunteers, also known as the White Helmets, remove a victim from the rubble of his house, following a reported air strike by government forces on a rebel-held area in the southern Syrian city of Daraa, April 8, 2017. (Mohamad ABAZEED/AFP)

July 23, 2018, 10:09 pm

Hundreds of ‘White Helmet’ rescuers still stuck in south Syria after evacuation

Those who missed being rescued by Israel and transferred to Jordan now fear wrath of regime forces closing in from all sides

By AFP

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and US President Donald Trump during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Danang, Vietnam, November 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

June 28, 2018, 11:28 am

Trump will demand of Putin a total Iranian exit from Syria — report

Diplomat tells Arabic newspaper US policy doesn’t oppose Assad remaining in power, but okays Israeli strikes on Iran’s military assets in the country

By Stuart Winer

Ruth Wisse in conversation with David Myers at the Center for Jewish History, April 26, 2018. (Lauren Silberman)

May 1, 2018, 3:09 pm

Harvard prof who escaped Europe on eve of WWII dissects world’s oldest hatred

Speaking in NY, 82-year-old Ruth Wisse shares why anti-Semitism isn’t the Jews’ fault, but how self-rule has made them even more of a target

By Cathryn J. Prince

Israeli soldiers peer into Syria from their tank in the Golan Heights on February 18, 2016. (Ariel Schalit/AP Photo)

April 10, 2018, 9:13 pm

Syria strike and its aftermath raise chances of open clashes with Iran

The last time Tehran acknowledged casualties in Syria, two IDF soldiers were killed in a retaliatory attack. Can Russia calm the situation?

By Judah Ari Gross

Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo speaks at a conference in memory of his predecessor as head of the spy agency, Meir Dagan, on March 21, 2018. (Tamir Bergig)

March 21, 2018, 1:50 pm

Ex-Mossad chief: Only ‘luck’ corrected ‘intelligence failure’ on Syria

Tamir Pardo queries Israel’s decision, 10 years after blowing up Assad’s nuclear reactor, to confirm responsibility for the strike

By Judah Ari Gross

Screenshots from YouTube videos related to the Holocaust history dispute between Israel and Poland. At left, a video from the Polish government's #GermanDeathCamps campaign. At right, a video produced by the Israeli group 'J-nerations,' February 2018.

February 23, 2018, 9:24 am

Poland-Israel Holocaust dispute hits the court of viral YouTube videos

Amid the diplomatic feud over Poland’s new ‘anti-defamation’ law, Jewish activists push back on the Polish government for ‘white-washing’ anti-Semitism

By Matt Lebovic