Saudi Arabia is "creating contact, normalizing relations, acknowledging the existence of Israel - and then cooperating with it.

Iraq’s army and the Kurdish peshmerga are within striking distance of Mosul, but strategy and regional concerns put them at a crossroads.

A visit to an Israeli-run agricultural project illustrates how Israel is making inroads into Africa.

This is the second intra-Palestinian dialogue to be organized by the NGO in the country this year.

“I don’t understand what they’re talking about, it’s laughable,” Mayor abu-Saleh said. Druse in the Golan “don’t serve in the IDF and so far are only receiving from the state.”

News of the law sparked protests in April in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the political and financial capital of the West Bank, with one demonstration attracting almost 10,000 people.

Evoking rabbinical traumas in Czarist Russia and even ancient Rome, the debate over ultra Orthodoxy’s core curriculum runs much deeper than the politicking it has stirred.

The majority of these Peshmerga soldiers are already battlefield tested – the history of the Kurds is of a constant battle to protect their people and their land.