In first, US Jewish umbrella group sends delegation to Saudi Arabia

Conference of Presidents members meet with senior Saudi officials, sheikh who visited Auschwitz; talks focus on counter-terror, regional stability By Ron Kampeas Today, 10:51 pm NEW YORK (JTA) — A delegation of members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations visited Saudi Arabia this week, a first for the umbrella body for […]

US seizes ship carrying 150 Iranian missiles

USS Normandy seizes ship carrying Iranian weapons to Yemen in Arabian Sea. Gary Willig, 13/02/20 22:01 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4iILRK7BA?autohide=1&rel=0] The US Navy seized a ship carrying 150 Iranian missiles, the American military announced Thursday. The USS Normandy warship found the weapons after boarding a dhow in the Arabian Sea on Sunday, Reuters reported. The weapons were […]

Report: Hamas decides to cease fire

Security source says Hamas sent message it was ending rocket launches, arson balloons. ‘We are skeptical.’   Arutz Sheva Staff, 13/02/20 22:25   rockets from Gaza Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90 A security source said this evening that “Hamas sent messages to Israel, which they unilaterally decided to stop launching incendiary balloons and firing rockets […]

Rocket hits northern Iraqi base housing US troops

No immediate reports of injuries in attack on K1 base, where an American military contractor was killed in December by rocket fire By AFP Today, 10:01 pm KIRKUK, Iraq — A rocket slammed into an Iraqi base where American troops are stationed in the remote province of Kirkuk, Iraqi and US security sources told AFP […]

Iran Guards commander threatens to hit Israel, US if ‘slightest error’ made

Threat comes in response to Times of Israel report Defense Minister Bennett said US agreed to counter Iran in Iraq, while Israel fights it in Syria TOI staffToday, 10:01 pm The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Thursday threatened to target both Israel and the United States if they make an “error.” Iranian […]

Pentagon Chief Says U.S., Taliban Seal Seven-Day Plan For Decline In Violence

The United States and the Taliban have negotiated a “proposal” for a week-long scaling-down in violence, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper has told journalists in Brussels. Esper said on February 13 a drawdown of troops and further negotiations with the militants would be “conditions-based” and begin after a decline in violence. “The United States and […]

Secretary Pompeo: ‘US will never cooperate with anti-Israel blacklists’

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says decision by UN Human Rights Commissioner to publish list of 112 companies shows ‘unrelenting bias.’ Gary Willig, 13/02/20 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned the decision yesterday by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to publish a list of 112 companies which do business in […]

From ‘Waze of War’ to a general devoted to countering Iran – the IDF’s new plan

Multiyear Momentum Plan is designed to create a deadlier, more integrated military, though lack of government makes money an issue By Judah Ari Gross Today, 5:24 pm 1 Edit   Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel’s military correspondent.   The Israel Defense Forces this week began in earnest the rollout of its sweeping […]

Syrian Parliament Unanimously Recognises Armenian Genocide as Tensions With Turkey Rise – Report

12:05 GMT 13.02.2020 The overwhelmingly symbolic move comes in the wake of a serious escalation in northwestern Syria, where Turkish and Syrian troops have been trading fire in the rebel-held province of Idlib. The People’s Council of Syria, the nation’s unicameral parliament, has backed a resolution condemning as genocide the mass killings of Armenians by the […]

Next White House may reject peace plan, to Palestinians’ detriment — co-author

Jason Greenblatt warns that if traditional positions on conflict are readopted: ‘Israel will likely continue to thrive and the Palestinians will continue to suffer’ Raphael AhrenToday, 1:34 pm The next US administration may very well repudiate US President Donald Trump’s so-called deal of the century, but if that happened and the traditional parameters of the […]