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News Briefs / Islamists / Iraq / ISIS

Germany to Begin Supplying Kurds With Weapons to Fight Islamic State

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Germany and other western countries have begun providing weapons to Kurds in fight against the IS.

Terrorism / Israel / Iran / News Briefs / Islamists / Iraq / ISIS

Netanyahu Insists Military Force Needed to Stop Nuclear Iran

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Israel remains a lone outpost for those who know that talking to liars is not a diplomatic solution.

Syria / Politics / News Briefs / Islamists / Iraq / ISIS

ISIS Beheads American Journalist, Threatens Obama Will Repeat

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Islamic State allegedly beheaded one American journalist, has threatened another with the same fate.

News Briefs / Islamists / Iraq / ISIS

Iraq's Al-Maliki Agrees to Step Down

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Iraq's Prime Minister, Nuri Al-Maliki, has agreed to step down and to support the designated new leader.

Gaza / Hamas / Government / News Briefs / Islamists / United Nations (UN) / Iraq / ISIS

Israel’s United Nations Amb. Prosor: Watch Out Because You’re Next

By Jewish Press Staff

"The battle we fight today is the same battle that you all will fight tomorrow." - Ambassador Prosor.

Terrorism / Iran / News Briefs / Iraq

Even Iran Fears ISIS, Adds Surveillance Along Border

By Jewish Press News Desk

Iran apparently does fear something; Tehran is watching ISIS fighters closely on its Iraqi border.

Terrorism / Syria / US / Eye on "Palestine" / Iran / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Islamists / Jordan / Egypt / Iraq

John ‘Chicken’ Kerry Skips Israel on New Middle East Tour

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

“My friends all say I'm losing it big time…I'm going back there again/Back to the house of pain “ – Deep Purple

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Iraq

Kurdish Oil Tanker Docks in Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel isn't afraid of sanctions from Iraq, which doesn't permit oil sales to Israel.

Terrorism / Syria / Iran / News Briefs / Islamists / Hezbollah / Iraq

Iran Issues Warning About Muslim Disunity

By Jewish Press News Desk

Iran -- ironically -- has issued a warning that Sunni militants are trying to create 'disunity' in the Muslim world.

News Briefs / Turkey / Jordan / Iraq

Turkey Evacuates Consulate in Iraq

By Jewish Press News Desk

Turkey has evacuated its staff from the city of Basra, located in southern Iraq.

Terrorism / Syria / News Briefs / Jordan / Iraq

ISIS Al Qaeda-Linked Terrorists Heading for Jordan?

By Jewish Press News Desk

Jordan appears to be the next target for the Al Qaeda-linked ISIS terrorist group, says an Arab news writer.

Syria / News Briefs / Iraq

Al Qaeda Eyes Baghdad After Taking Northern Iraq

By Rachel Levy

The Al Qaeda-linked ISIL group is now eyeing Baghdad after swallowing northern and central Iraq, and eastern Syria. Emirate to follow?

Terrorism / Syria / News Briefs / Islamists / Iraq

Syrian Rebels Stone Girl to Death for Using Facebook

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) heroic warriors took a Syrian girl named Fatoum Al-Jassem to the Al-Reqqa religious court, where the judge ruled that membership in Facebook is tantamount to adultery and sentenced her to death by stoning, Al-Rai Al-Youm reported. Dawla al-Islāmiyya fi al-'Irāq wa-sh-Shām, abbreviated ISIS, is an armed […]

Jewish / US / News Briefs / Iraq

Senate Urges State Dept. to Renegotiate Terms for Iraqi Jewish Archive

By JTA

The Senate unanimously urged the State Department to renegotiate the terms for the return to Iraq of an archive of Iraqi Jewish texts. The resolution passed Thursday “strongly urges” the department to renegotiate the agreement with the Iraqi government “in order to ensure that the Iraqi Jewish Archive be kept in a place where its […]

Terrorism / Syria / Iran / News Briefs / Iraq

Report: Al Qaeda Breaking Ties with a Branch in Syria

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Al Qaeda terrorist network reportedly is breaking ties with the Islamic State of Iraq and greater Syria (ISIS) Syria that has been balking at orders from Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri. The terrorist group also is known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). An unconfirmed website message from Al Qaeda […]

Terrorism / Syria / News Briefs / Iraq

Suicide and Car Bombs Kill More than 30 in Iraq and Syria

By Jewish Press News Desk

At least 13 Iraqi soldiers and 18 Syrians, including woman and children, were killed Thursday in another round of the seemingly endless fighting in both countries. Iraq was supposed to be safe from democracy after the American invasion, but it has been neither safe nor democratic since then. Bombings by anti-government and Al Qaeda terrorists […]

US / News Briefs / Religion / Iraq / Judaism

Damaged Torahs Found in Iraq Buried in New York

By JTA

Damaged Torah scrolls found by U.S. troops in Iraq’s intelligence headquarters were buried in a cemetery in New York on Sunday, according to Jewish law for disposing of unusable religious objects and texts. More than 100 people, including Lukman Faily, the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S., attended the ceremony at the New Montefiore Cemetery in […]

Syria / News Briefs / Lebanon / Islamists / Hezbollah / Iraq

Syrian Rebels Kill 17 Hezbollah Fighters in Direct Hit (Video)

By Jewish Press Staff

Syrian opposition forces again prove Hezbollah is not invincible. They posted a video showing a direct hit near Damascus on a multi-story Hezbollah building, which collapsed like dominoes.

Terrorism / News Briefs / Iraq

Ten Car Bombs, Suicide Bombing, Kill 49 in Iraq

By Jewish Press News Desk

Iraq, the country that the Bush Sr. administration made safe for democracy, lost 49 more citizens and soldiers the past two days with 10 car bombs on mostly Shi’ite Muslims and suicide bombings of a group of soldiers. Another 100 people suffered injuries as violence returns to the hey-day of 2008, when American troops were […]

Terrorism / Israel / Syria / US / Iran / News Briefs / Egypt / Iraq

Peres Hoping for a Possible ‘Iranian Spring’ Rebellion

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Shimon Peres is wonderful man. The older he gets, the more he is optimistic – and the more he is detached from reality. He foresees an “Iranian Spring.” Doesn’t he know what happened in Libya and Egypt?

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter V

By Ruchama Feuerman

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