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Time is short: Belligerent rhetoric and Iran’s nuclear ambitions

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Iran has toughened its already belligerent rhetoric and is threatening U.S. forces in the region. The aerospace division (More...)

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Israel defense sector faces big hit after new U.S. aid agreement

Visitors watch a demonstration at the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) booth in the IMDEX Asia maritime defence exhibition in Singapore

By Steven Scheer

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s defense industry faces layoffs, closures and a scramble to set up shop in (More…)

U.S., Israel sign $38 billion military aid package

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval office of the White House in Washington

y Matt Spetalnick

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will give Israel $38 billion in military aid over a decade, (More…)

Israeli aircraft attack Syrian army after mortar bomb hits Golan Heights

A man sits on an old tank as he watches fighting taking place in Syria as seen from the Israeli side of the border fence between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel said its aircraft attacked a Syrian army position on Tuesday after a stray mortar bomb struck (More…)

Record new U.S. Military aid deal for Israel to be signed

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on September 11, 2016.

WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM, Sept 13 (Reuters) – The United States and Israel have reached final agreement on a record new package of at least (More…)

World Vision lays off contractors in Gaza after Israel allegations

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA (Reuters) – Christian aid group World Vision has laid off about 120 contractors in the Gaza (More…)

Israel building an underground barrier along Gaza border

The sun sets over the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has begun construction of an underground barrier along the frontier with the Gaza Strip that is (More…)

World War One shells found in drought-hit Sea of Galilee

An Israeli police handout photograph shows what a police spokesperson says are World War One artillery shells discovered in the Sea of Galilee in Tiberias, Israel, made avaliable by Israeli police

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Receding waters in the drought-hit Sea of Galilee have uncovered five World War One artillery shells likely (More…)

Netanyahu says Netherlands, Israel to improve water, gas supply to Gaza

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government will assist Israel in improving water and gas supplies to energy-strapped Gaza, Prime Minister (More…)

Netanyahu considering offer of talks with Palestinian president in Moscow

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a visit at the "Tamra HaEmek" elementary school on the first day of the school year, in the Arab Israeli town of Tamra, Israel September 1,

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering an offer by Russian President Vladimir Putin to host talks in (More…)

Water shortages hit West Bank Palestinians, provoking war of words

Palestine children carrying water

By Sabreen Taha

HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) – At the peak of a searing summer, Palestinians living in parts of (More…)