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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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France launches ‘urgent’ conference on Israeli-Palestinian peace

French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech during an international and interministerial conference in a bid to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, in Paris

By John Irish

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s president said on Friday that spiraling Middle East upheaval since the collapse of (More…)

Archaeologists vs robbers, Israel’s race to find ancient scrolls

The Wider Image: Searching for remains of the Dead Sea Scrolls

By Ari Rabinovitch

TZEELIM VALLEY, Israel (Reuters) – The disposable paper face masks offer little protection from the clouds of (More…)

Israel has homegrown Islamic State threat in hand

An Israeli soldier is silhouetted as he takes part in an open-fire scenario training in which soldiers respond with laser-firing rifles to a simulated Palestinian attack

By Dan Williams

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s crackdown on Arab citizens trying to join Islamic State in Syria or Iraq (More…)

Netanyahu says willing to discuss Arab initiative for peace

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters to a media conference together with Israel's new Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, head of far-right Yisrael Beitenu party, following Lieberman's swearing-in ceremony at the Knesset, the Israeli parlia

By Ori Lewis

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Monday of reviving a (More…)

Netanyahu tells France’s Ayrault he opposes peace conference

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault

By Jeffrey Heller

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told France’s foreign minister on Sunday that Israel remained opposed (More…)

Iranian minister denies recent mid-range ballistic missile test

Iranian Defence Minister Dehghan delivers a speech as he attends 5th Moscow Conference on International Security in Moscow

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s minister of defence denied on Monday that the Revolutionary Guards had recently tested a medium-range ballistic (More…)

Israel discovers 2nd cross border tunnel built by Hamas

An entrance to a tunnel which Israel's military said it had discovered is seen just outside the southern Gaza Strip

By Eli Berlzon

SUFA, Israel (Reuters) – Israel’s military said it had discovered a cross-border tunnel on Thursday built by (More…)

Israeli, Palestinian violence flares along Gaza border

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly government cabinet meeting in Jerusalem

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA (Reuters) – Violence erupted along the Israel-Gaza border on Wednesday as Israeli forces and Palestinian militants (More…)

Russian forces in Syria fired on Israeli aircraft: Israeli newspaper

Vladimir Putin and Netanyahu

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Russian forces in Syria have fired at least twice on Israeli military aircraft, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin (More…)

Bus Bomb in Jerusalem wounds 16

Flames rise at the scene where an explosion tore through a bus in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A bomb blew up a bus and set fire to another in Jerusalem on Monday, wounding 16 (More…)