Middle East
The option of dividing the country into cantons to protect ethnic minorities could be raised at the conference, provided discussions are confidential.
Elizabeth Tsurkov has been held by militias since her kidnapping in Baghdad in March 2023.
The president-elect repeated his stark warning that “all hell will break loose in the Middle East” if the captives are not released before he takes office.
Barbara Leaf, the U.S. State Department’s top Middle East official, described the Iranian withdrawal as “extraordinary.”
Open-source flight monitoring found Iran’s Mahan Air flew 11 flights over Turkey between Dec. 13, 2024 and the end of the year.
The resurgence is likely to continue, the Institute for National Security Studies’ Yoram Schweitzer tells JNS.
Raised in a stronghold of the Lebanese terrorist group, she has garnered attention on social media for her activism on behalf of the Jewish state.
As the Middle East adjusts to Syria’s new Sunni leader, not all are convinced by his pragmatic facade.
Esther Panitch, the only Jew in the Georgia state legislature, told JNS that “people thought he was a good person, even if he wasn’t a great president.”
The conflict with Iran “is not just Israel’s war, but the entire Western world’s,” said former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Danny Ayalon.
The protests over the economy coincide with resentment over religious coercion.
Conspirators included local helpers who planted a bomb in or near the bed of the Hamas leader in Tehran, Israel’s “Channel 12" reported.
