Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is further distancing herself from the foreign policy of the administration she served by calling for the removal of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and imposing a no-fly zone over that country. On the campaign trail yesterday, Clinton said of Syria,...

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Two high-ranking members of the Iranian military made threats against the United States in public statements Sunday, with one saying that the conflict between the Islamic Republic and the U.S. “will never end.” “The raison d’etre of our quarrel with [the United States] is a quarrel between the right and wrong in...

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The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case determining whether Iran’s central bank must pay $1.75 billion to victims of Iranian terror, Reuters reported Thursday. The high court agreed to hear an appeal filed by Bank Markazi, the Iranian central bank. The bank is contesting a July 2014 ruling...

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It’s been a month since the brutal reality of Syria’s civil war was driven home to the world by a photograph of the lifeless body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, washed up on the Mediterranean Sea’s shoreline. That image crystallized a massive, if belated, outpouring of concern for the fate of millions...

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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) twice tried to get President Barack Obama to announce that the United States would veto any United Nations resolutions calling for an independent Palestinian state. But Reid was rebuffed both times, Politico reported Thursday. The requests from Reid came as he was trying to line up...

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Kuwait Airways must change its booking practices after it illegally discriminated against an Israeli by refusing to let him book a flight from New York to London, the U.S. Department of Transportation ruled Wednesday. The Associated Press reported: Eldad Gatt, an Israeli citizen, complained to the Department of Transportation that in 2013...

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Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that “humorous words, slogans and improper jokes” by the United States serve to “damage the trend [towards] confidence-building,” Iran’s Fars news agency reported Monday. Rouhani’s complaint comes days after he promised that Iran “will not ask for permission or abide by any resolution” that prevents...

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A federal judge in Manhattan, George B. Daniels, ordered the Palestinian Authority (PA) to post a $10 million bond and pay $1 million more per month as it appeals a verdict that found it liable for a series of terrorist attacks in Israel that killed 33 people and injured over...

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A congressional rejection of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) would not lead to war or diplomatic isolation of the United States, as the Obama administration has warned, just as similar warnings proved incorrect about stronger sanctions, former Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman wrote in an op-ed published Friday in...

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Israel is the land where one can “see a Muslim woman, a gay couple kissing, and a Hassid sharing the same small space,” Haisam Hassanein, an Egyptian-born student, said in his recent commencement speech at Tel Aviv University, which was published in The Jerusalem Post yesterday. Hassanein, who came with his family...

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