An Israeli partner in the Tamar gas field announced Wednesday a deal to sell natural gas to an Egyptian company, as Cairo said it knew nothing of the deal, which it must approve. Delek said the partners would supply Dolphinus Holdings with at least five billion cubic meters (177 billion cubic feet) of gas
Shortly after President Obama’s inauguration in 2009, Likud, with Netanyahu at its head, was tasked with forming the government. He was concerned about balancing the pressure he was under from the right wing of the Likud, so he invited Ehud Barak, a former Chief of Staff of the IDF and former Prime Minister, to break
Syria's military downed a US drone in the country's west because it was snooping in an area where Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists are not present, a military source said Wednesday. "Did the drone come into Syrian territory just to have a picnic?" asked the source, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity.
Waiting in an aid line outside Lebanon's capital Beirut, Assyrian Christian Francie Yaacoub remembers the well-stocked home she left behind in Syria as she fled advancing Islamic State (ISIS) group jihadists. "We left behind a house full of everything. Why do we now have to stand at the church door?" she asked quietly as
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee headed by Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Wednesday, to discuss implementing the PLO Central Committee's decision earlier this month to end security cooperation with Israel. The Wednesday meeting was scheduled before the results of the Knesset elections - in which Likud soundly defeated
As elections results finalize and signify a resounding victory for Likud, the Hamas terrorist organization that rules Gaza commented on the process. Hamas called on Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas to abandon peace talks with Israel, after the latter previously indicated he would be willing to resume negotiations after the elections. "The
Iran on Tuesday said it began producing more natural gas from a giant field shared with Qatar, as President Hassan Rouhani declared that the pressure from international sanctions was over, reports The Associated Press (AP). The additional production from the South Pars field, known as North Dome in Qatar, will add 81 million cubic
The Palestinian Authority (PA) was not pleased on Tuesday night with exit polls in Israel that showed that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is the favorite to head a government. Speaking to AFP, the PA’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the results of the elections meant that the Palestinians will continue their unilateral efforts
The Islamic State (ISIS), which has been destroying churches and forcing thousands of non-Muslim women to serve as sex slaves of the jihadists, and in Nineveh, Iraq, it is enforcing sharia law against Muslims. An ISIS report from Nineveh documents in photos the carrying out of a death sentence against two Muslim locals who
The Islamic State terrorist group posted pictures Tuesday of the beheadings of four men it said were recruiters for pro-government militia fighting its terrorists in northern Iraq. The images show four men dressed in black kneeling in an empty street with knife-wielding jihadis standing behind them, after which they are pictured being beheaded.
