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TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy met for five hours Monday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the Trump administration’s attempt to jumpstart the moribund peace process with the Palestinians.

Director Ava DuVernay celebrated her decision to wear a gown to the 2017 Oscars by a designer from Lebanon, which she proudly described as predominantly Muslim country. Lebanon was founded as a Christian “sanctuary” state in the Middle East, and its religious makeup is so controversial the nation has not held a census since 1932.

President Donald Trump recently announced that he will be issuing another executive order temporarily pausing travel of refugees and/or aliens from seven dangerous countries to the United States.

TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with his U.S. counterpart James Mattis for the first time on Friday at the Munich Security Conference in Germany to discuss issues related to Middle East security.

TEL AVIV – In a new video posted to social media, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu highlighted the diversity of Israeli society and the Jewish state’s advancement of equal opportunities for the country’s Arab citizens.

Florida Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart attacked the “double standard and hypocrisy” of opponents of President Donald Trump’s executive order on migrants from terror-prone countries, noting that many did not oppose a similar move by President Barack Obama that stranded thousands of Cubans throughout the Western Hemisphere.

President Donald Trump answered critics of his immigration restrictions from seven high-risk countries in the Middle East, sending a message out on Twitter.

Global terrorism rose 25 percent last year, with a high proportion of terrorism occurring in the Middle East, according to a report by the London-based research firm IHS Markit.

The Turkish government has taken the opportunity of a visit from a high-ranking Japanese official to warn the east Asian country to beware of any ties to Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses of running an international terrorist network responsible for a failed coup against him in July.

TEL AVIV – President-elect Donald Trump said the Palestinians were “given so much” in last month’s UN Security Council resolution that the prospects of a peace deal under his watch have been made that much more difficult.  

TEL AVIV – President-elect Donald Trump confirmed that his Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner will work to “broker a Middle East peace deal.”

TEL AVIV — President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, slammed the Obama administration over its recent treatment of Israel at the UN, and added that while he supported the two-state solution, Palestinian terrorism was preventing peace.

ISTANBUL — The once bustling Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is astonishingly quiet. The shops and restaurants in the city’s trendy Istiklal Street are all but empty of foreign customers and the hotels in the upscale Nisantasi district are nearly deserted.

Lame-duck Secretary of State John Kerry blasted the Israeli government at the State Department on Wednesday, and attempted to defend the Obama administration’s decision to let an anti-Israel resolution pass at the UN Security Council last week.

More than 70 criminal, illegal aliens living in the United States have been arrested by federal immigration authorities following an interstate roundup.

TEL AVIV – Israel would “welcome” the suggestion of President-elect Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner to serve as peace broker with the Palestinians, the country’s top diplomat said.

The influence of the United States as a superpower in the Middle East has eroded significantly, former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon told the audience at The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, in an interview published Tuesday, issued his first remarks since the United States elected Donald Trump its next president. Assad told the Portuguese outlet RTP TV Trump’s attitude towards Syria was “promising” and suggesting Trump may be a “natural ally” to Syria, Iran, and Russia.

A chilling new report on the state of religious freedom throughout the world has denounced the rise of “Islamist hyper-extremism in the Middle East,” while offering a bleak assessment of the state of religious freedom across the globe.

A treasure trove of gold and silver objects dating back about 3,600 years from the Canaanite period has been found in the Tel Gezer excavation center.

In a private fundraiser speech made public in today’s release of hacked Wikileaks emails, former president Bill Clinton referred to the country of Lebanon as a positive example in the world. Lebanon, he argued, was “hanging on against all the

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday to cement a gas pipeline deal. The business agreement, the Kremlin suggested, would be the beginning of an attempt to rehabilitate the Russia-Turkey bilateral relationship “in all aspects.”

Egypt’s Interior Ministry said early on Tuesday that it killed a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader it said was responsible for the group’s “armed wing” and another member of the group in a shootout on Monday.

60 percent of registered voters believe that Iran has already violated the P5+1 nuclear deal with the United States or will do so in the future, according to a Breitbart/Gravis national poll conducted on September 21, 2016 with 1,560 registered across the United States.

Saudi Arabia said Monday it has smashed three cells linked to the Islamic State group which planned to attack military facilities and other targets and has also detained 17 suspects.

One of the most important initiatives of our organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and its Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) program – apart from the ad campaigns, First Amendment lawsuits, activism, etc. – is our work helping to safety those who are under the boot of the sharia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama intends to veto bipartisan legislation that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, according to the White House.

Saudi Arabia has begun issuing hajj pilgrims with identification bracelets one year after a stampede killed around 2,300 people.

(Reuters) A U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship changed course after a fast-attack craft from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps came within 100 yards (91 meters) of it in the central Gulf on Sunday, U.S. Defense Department officials said on Tuesday.

(Reuters) Four vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “harassed” a U.S. destroyer on Tuesday by carrying out a “high speed intercept” in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. defense official said on Wednesday.

America has no better ally and no truer friend in the world than Israel. I was reminded of this again first-hand a few days ago when I led a Texas delegation to Israel.

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech in Ohio on Monday, which Newt Gingrich hailed as “historic.”

The Kingdom is struggling with weak GDP growth, higher fees and taxes, and an economy that is unable to pay the dues to its workers, leaving thousands of workers from South Asia with an uncertain future.

Bomb blasts in two cities in southeast Turkey killed nine civilians and wounded dozens on Wednesday, security sources said, blaming the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for the coordinated attacks targeting police.

JAFFA, Israel – Tens of thousands of illiterate people have been employed by the Saudi government in 2015, a new report reveals.

Turkish military officials, under the name the “Peace in the Country Council,” have issued a statement on the coup underway in Ankara, confirming that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s tenure has ended and that the armed forces have taken over as