A missile that was shot down last week as it approached Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport had Iranian “markings,” the top United States Air Force official said, supporting Saudi charges, the Associated Press reported Thursday. “There have been Iranian markings on those missiles,” Lt. Gen. Jeffrey L. Harrigian, who commands the Air...

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Israel’s largest-ever biennnial aerial exercise, including the air forces of nine countries, is underway, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. Teams from the United States, Greece, Poland, France, Italy and Germany will be participating in Blue Flag 2017. For the first time a team from India will participate. An eighth...

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On Sunday, one of the Middle East’s most feared operators traveled to northern Iraq. Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the elite Quds force—the foreign wing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps—was on a mission: to destroy the Kurdish dream of independence. Things began to unravel quickly. In the early hours...

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The United States is withdrawing from the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the U.S. State Department announced on Thursday, citing concerns over “continuing anti-Israel bias” at the institution. “The Department of State notified UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova of the U.S. decision to withdraw from the organization and...

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Israeli intelligence officials warned the United States about Russian hackers breaking into their information security, using Kaspersky Lab antivirus software. The U.S. government recently prohibited federal agencies from using the company’s products, a software used by 400 million people globally, after it emerged that Russian operators had morphed the program...

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The United States announced multi-million dollar rewards for information on two Hezbollah operatives, and the top U.S. counterterror official said that intelligence agencies have assessed that Hezbollah is “determined” to attack the U.S. homeland, at a State Department briefing Tuesday. Nathan Sales, Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism, announced that the State Department...

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President Donald Trump’s national security team has unanimously recommended a plan for the president to decertify the nuclear deal with Iran and ramp up pressure against the Islamic Republic to counter its conventional threats. “Trump’s team plans to work with Congress and European allies to apply new pressure on the Iranian regime,...

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Israel and the United States inaugurated a American military facility on Israeli soil on Monday, which will serve dozens of soldiers operating a missile defense system, located inside the Israeli Air Force’s Mashabim Air Base. Brig. Gen. Tzvika Haimovitch, the commander of Israel’s aerial defense, said the installment was “nothing...

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On Tuesday’s meeting with Jared Kushner, senior adviser to President Donald Trump, Jordan’s King Abdullah II praised the United States’ commitment to working towards peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Kushner, who was accompanied to the Middle East by U.S. Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt and Deputy National Security Adviser...

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Three top administration officials are headed to the Middle East to consult with Israel, the Palestinians and other Arab states in efforts to restart negotiations with no preconditions, a U.S. official announced Friday. Presidential adviser Jared Kushner, who is also President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, U.S. Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason...

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