ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish official says normalization of ties with Israel hinges on reaching an agreement over humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Ibrahim Kalin, spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said Monday “the negotiations are continuing (but)
The Times of Israel reports: Opposition leader Isaac Herzog on Tuesday said he will cooperate with any police investigation into his election financing irregularities in an effort to bring a probe to a close “as soon as possible.” The Zionist
JAFFA Israel – A meeting between the head of Egypt’s Coptic Church and the King of Saudi Arabia, who is currently visiting Egypt, was met with acerbic criticism from Cairo’s prominent Christian columnist, Robert Fares. The meeting between Pope Tawadros
USA Today reports: Amid increasingly negative rhetoric surrounding the U.S. nuclear deal with Iran, first lady Michelle Obama hosted a traditional Iranian new year’s feast Wednesday at the White House to celebrate diversity and inclusion. “Right now when we are hearing
Turkish and Israeli teams made progress towards finalising an agreement to mend ties between the two countries in talks and agreed a deal will be finalised in the next meeting to be convened very soon, the Turkish foreign ministry said
TEL AVIV – Iran is exploiting America’s rift with Saudi Arabia to increase its support to Yemen’s Houthi rebels, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem. Case in point is the region of Taiz, a Houthi stronghold and a strategic location
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on April 21 to discuss security issues in the Middle East, an Israeli political source said on Tuesday. Israel and Russia have maintained a hotline to help
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel and China are set to sign an agreement Tuesday instituting a 10-year, multi-visit visa that will facilitate business and tourist travel between the two countries. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will sign the agreement with Chinese Vice
The Jerusalem Post reports: Military chiefs from Muslim nations that are part of the Saudi-led alliance to fight terrorism met for the first time in Riyadh on Sunday and vowed to “dry up terrorists’ resources,” said Saudi military spokesman Brigadier-General Ahmed
The Jerusalem Post reports: The High Court of Justice on Sunday struck down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flagship natural gas policy, but suspended formally striking the law for a year so he and the Knesset can adjust the 10-year freeze
TEL AVIV – A column in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat argued that the Arab Spring failed because opposition parties were just as undemocratic and dictatorial as the tyrannical regimes they were fighting to replace. Columnist Uthman Al-Mirghani wrote that
U.S. President Barack Obama’s interview in The Atlantic magazine earlier this month has sent shockwaves across Saudi social media. In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg published last week, Obama raised questions about Riyadh’s links to terrorist groups that have destabilized the Middle East.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told the world on Monday, March 14 that his forces will be withdrawing from the front line of Syria’s bloody civil war. Stating that they had accomplished most of their objectives there, Mr Putin added that some
Turkish warplanes struck against Kurdish militant camps in northern Iraq on Monday after 37 people were killed in an Ankara car bombing that security officials said involved a female fighter of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Sunday’s attack, tearing through
TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that it would harshly punish anyone who supports, sympathizes with, or funds Hezbollah, the Jerusalem Post reported. A statement released by the Interior Ministry said that Saudis, expats, and foreigners would suffer “severe penalties” if they violate the kingdom’s anti-terrorism laws.
TEL AVIV – An Israeli-Arab fighting for the Islamic State was killed in Syria in an American airstrike, Ynet news reported. 28-year-old Khalil Saleh, from Umm al-Fahm in Israel’s north, entered Syria via Turkey three years ago. His family received
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has accused Israel of denying entry to the Indonesian foreign minister because she refused to meet with senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem. Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called on world powers to punish Iran after the country test-fired two ballistic missiles emblazoned with the phrase “Israel must be wiped out” in Hebrew. Netanyahu said he instructed Israel’s Foreign
During a radio interview on Sunday, legendary standup comic and staunch Israel supporter Jackie Mason took issue with Sen. Ted Cruz’s attacks on opponent Donald Trump concerning the billionaire’s positions on Iran and Israel during the most recent debate.
TEL AVIV, Israel – The Islamic State’s leadership in Syria and Iraq has criticized ties between its affiliate in Sinai and the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, Salafi jihadist sources in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – The Saudi daily Al-Jazirah published an article Tuesday saying that Iran has replaced Israel as the number one enemy of the Gulf states, and anyone who disagrees is a traitor. The article, authored by Saudi journalist Muhammad Aal Al-Sheikh and translated by MEMRI, argues that Iran is exploiting the Palestinian issue as a pretext for “infiltrating deep into the Arab world, shredding its Arab fabric, and dragging Arab society into supporting its expansionary plan.”
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Science, Technology, and Space Minister Ofir Akunis on Saturday accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of being the worst inciter against Israel over the past six months of violence, the Times of Israel reported. “The [Palestinian] Authority has
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday called for world powers to take “immediate punitive steps” against Iran, following its ballistic missile tests last week. A series of tests conducted by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards caused international concern,
Fox News reports: Iran is preparing to launch a new long-range rocket into outer space as soon as this weekend, U.S. officials told Fox News. The missile is known as a Simorgh, and officials are watching the missile on the
CNN reports: The political future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is non-negotiable, his chief envoy said Saturday, undercutting a chief demand of rebels who are scheduled to attend negotiations next week aimed at defusing a brutal five-year war. Assad’s status is
Ynetnews reports: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former Foreign Minister (and current MK) Tzipi Livni took part in the Global Baku Forum (GBF) in the past week. The forum, conducted in Azerbaijan’s capital city, gathered former heads of
Three senior leaders of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas traveled to Cairo on Saturday to try to repair relations with Egypt after years of tension. The visit comes a week after Egypt accused Hamas of involvement in last year’s assassination of
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Saudi delegation at the Arab League stormed out of a meeting after Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari defended the Shi’ite Hashd Shaabi militia grouping, an Iraqi foreign ministry source told Reuters on Friday. Tensions between
The number of religious television broadcasters across the Middle East has risen by 50 percent, reflecting a rise in sectarianism in the region, according to a study published Thursday. The Northwestern University in Qatar in its study of the media
JAFFA, Israel – Saudi Arabia is planning to “nationalize” its economy due to the country’s mounting deficit, which is the result of plummeting oil prices, structural problems in the economy, and the Saudis’ ongoing involvement in the conflict in Yemen. Last year, Riyadh registered a $100
TEL AVIV – Hillary Rodham Clinton is against the UN Security Council imposing terms for an Israeli-Palestinian peace process “from without,” her campaign said on Tuesday. In an op-ed Clinton wrote for the Jewish newspaper the Forward, the presidential hopeful
Weekend talk radio host and Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein on Sunday personally offered $10,000 to an anti-Israel caller if he could name another Middle Eastern country aside from Israel where all citizens are provided similar democratic rights.
TEL AVIV – A pro-Hezbollah Lebanese newspaper claimed Saturday that American officials warned Beirut that Israel is planning an imminent war against Lebanon. According to Al Akhbar, U.S. officials were informed by their Israeli counterparts that Saudi Arabia’s decision to cut back Lebanese aid and categorize Hezbollah as a terrorist organization has encouraged Jerusalem to plan an attack against its northern neighbor
Egypt’s parliament voted on Wednesday to expel an independent lawmaker who invited the Israeli ambassador in Cairo for dinner, drawing widespread criticism and prompting a fellow deputy to attack him with his shoe. Speaker Ali Abdelaal announced that 465 lawmakers,
TEL AVIV – Nearly two-thirds of Americans favor Israel over the Palestinians, according to a Gallup poll published on Monday. The poll also found that more Americans are for a Palestinian state than against, and religious Republicans over 50 are
Ynetnews reports: The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council decided Wednesday to formally define Hezbollah a terrorist organization. The decision comes against the backdrop of the recent crisis between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon in which Saudi Arabia has decided to stop the transfer
The Washington Examiner reports: President Obama touted progress in the fight against the Islamic State in both Iraq and in Syria on the same day a cease-fire deal with Syrian rebels and the government went into effect. “ISIL is entrenched, including
TEL AVIV – Major Arabic-language news outlet Al-Arabiya praised a recent tweet in Arabic from Bernie Sanders, contrasting Sanders’ outreach to Arab-Muslim Americans to Donald Trump’s previous comments about Muslims, MEMRI reported.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that the amount of cash Iran will receive due to the implementation of the nuclear agreement is below the $50 billion level. “It’s below the $50 billion (level),” he told the
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel is coming back to Africa, and Africa is returning to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday in welcoming visiting Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to his Jerusalem office. Kenyatta arrived in Israel on Monday for
