Category: Middle East

Iran Accuses ‘UK-Linked’ Foreign Nationals of Fomenting Unrest

Tehran has accused seven recently-detained foreign nationals of having sought to “incite riots” inside Iran with the aim of destabilizing the country. Since mid-September, Iran has been shaken by violent anti-government protests that have reportedly left hundreds of demonstrators and scores of security personnel dead. Iranian officials have repeatedly blamed the continued unrest on external…


Military Bases Had $260 Million in Damages From Afghan Evacuation

WASHINGTON—Military bases that housed tens of thousands of Afghan refugees in the United States incurred almost $260 million in damages that in some cases rendered buildings unusable for troops until significant repairs to walls and plumbing are made, the Pentagon’s inspector general found. Over the last two weeks of August 2021, the U.S. Air Force…


PREMIERING 12/27 at 7:30PM ET: Enes Kanter Freedom: Why I Sacrificed My Future in the NBA to Stand Up to the Chinese Regime

“How can the biggest dictatorship in the world control a 100 percent American-made organization and put pressure on them to fire an American citizen?” I sit down with NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom. After playing 11 seasons, his career abruptly ended when he made headlines, speaking out about human rights abuses in China. “NBA is…


Explosion in Northern Iraq Kills Two Soldiers, Injures Three

BEIRUT—Two soldiers were killed and three were injured in an explosion in northern Iraq, Iraqi state news said Thursday. The soldiers were traveling in an army vehicle a day earlier in the Makhmour district when an explosive device detonated, the state Iraqi News Agency reported. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. It was…


Israeli Ministry of Health Refuses to Provide Complete Mortality Data Despite Court Order

HAIFA, Israel—The Israeli Ministry of Health (MoH) is refusing to provide complete mortality data for the period of the COVID-19 pandemic despite a court order. A court ordered the agency in September to provide all-cause mortality data by Nov. 15 following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by David Shuldman, an Israeli citizen. The MoH did…


Netanyahu Says He’s Formed New Government Minutes Before Deadline

Incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has officially formed a new government and notified President Isaac Herzog. Netanyahu had until midnight Wednesday to form the government after winning elections in November, securing his sixth term as prime minister. “I got it,” Netanyahu wrote on Twitter 10 minutes before the deadline. “I was able to establish a government that will work…


Iran Security Forces Kill 2, Arrest 2 Over Deadly Attack

CAIRO—Iranian security forces killed two men and arrested two others allegedly behind a deadly shooting last month in a southwestern city, state-run media reported, amid conflicting accounts of the incident that coincided with a wave of anti-regime protests. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said the two suspects killed were behind last month’s shooting that left…


Saudi Arabia Gets Closer to China While Moving Away From US: Gregory Copley

With the growing closeness between China and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. sees the deterioration in its relationship with the Gulf country, according to Gregory Copley, President of the International Strategic Studies Association. “It is the most significant setback which the United States and the West has seen since perhaps the middle of the Cold War…


Saudi Arabia Gets Closer to China While Moving Away From US: Expert

With the growing closeness between China and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. sees the deterioration in its relationship with the Gulf country, according to Gregory Copley, president of the International Strategic Studies Association. “It is the most significant setback which the United States and the West has seen since perhaps the middle of the Cold War…


Israeli Archaeologists Excavating ‘Jesus Midwife’ Tomb

JERUSALEM—An ancient tomb traditionally associated with Jesus’s midwife is being excavated anew by archaeologists in the hills southwest of Jerusalem, the antiquities authority said Tuesday. The intricately decorated Jewish burial cave complex dates to around the first century A.D., but it was later associated by local Christians with Salome, the midwife of Jesus in the…