Israeli President Shimon Peres has said the sanctions placed on Iran will prove to be an efficient deterrent to it pursuing a nuclear program. (AP)/ President Shimon Peres on Thursday distanced himself from the Israeli premier’s comparison between the Holocaust and the threat posed by Iran’s ...
on Thursday distanced himself from the Israeli premier's comparison between "It's not the same thing," Peres told the Ynet website of "Holocaust is one thing and Iran is another. The comparison is out of place. But I'm not a literary critic and the prime minister expressed his opinion on the ...
President Shimon Peres, seen here in March, has distanced himself from the Israeli premier's comparison between the Holocaust and the threat posed by Iran's nuclear programme./ President Shimon Peres on Thursday distanced himself from the Israeli premier's comparison between the Holocaust and ...
The nuclear agency has not been able to inspect any sites attacked by the US and Israel last year/ The UN's nuclear watchdog has said it is "increasingly concerned" about a nuclear facility in Iran which it has not been allowed to inspect. Iran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency ...
The strike hit a building at Nasser hospital containing the surgical wards and intensive care units/ At least six people have been killed and about 20 injured in an Israeli air strike on Nasser hospital, the biggest in the southern Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Eyewitnesses ...
The US removed all its bombers from the UK's RAF Fairford base last month after a major incident in September that police described as "suspicious"/ The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced charges against three Iran-backed operatives that it alleges were involved in a string of plots in ...
A top Democratic senator has blamed a crackdown on independent journalism in Egypt on a decision by the Trump administration to waive human rights conditions on US military funding to the country. Chris Murphy, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accused the US government of ...
Many Syrians say their economic situation has worsened in the last two years amid a cost-of-living crisis/ Last month, protests erupted in squares and streets across Syria. People burned tyres, blocked roads and chanted slogans, angry at the government's decision to raise fuel prices again. It ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Partial results from Israel's general election show veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marginally ahead of his rival, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, but still short of a majority in parliament. With 99% of ballots ...
Neither Gadi Eisenkot (left) or Benjamin Netanyahu (right) are projected to win enough seats for a majority/ With 85% of votes counted after Tuesday's election, neither the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, nor the bloc of his key challenger Gadi Eisenkot look set to have ...
Between 150 and 200 people were in the church at the time of the shooting, according to one witness/ Seven people have been killed in an attack on a funeral in central Jordan, officials have said. At least 34 others were injured as gunmen opened fire on a church in Hmoud, in the Karak ...
At rush hour in Nazareth, the largest Arab-majority city in Israel, students are handing out leaflets by the roadside urging motorists to vote in next week's closely fought, general election. Polls indicate that Arab parties could be left holding a critical balance of power. Disaffection has ...
right minister Ben Gvir (left) has significant support among Israeli youth/ When Israel's far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, reached voting age, he was rejected from Israel's army for being too politically extreme. His views have not changed much in the 30 years since then - ...