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Four Republican senators introduce a bill to appropriate immediate assistance and aid to Israel. It decouples it from aid for Ukraine.

Some Arab sources report the start of a special IDF ground operation in the West Bank. Israel has not yet officially confirmed this. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said on October 22 that the operation in the Gaza Strip could take up to three months, following which Hamas would have to be destroyed. He also

Jerusalem - Holy City, Hills, Valleys: Jerusalem stands on hills at an elevation of 2,575 feet (785 metres). The modern unified city is the largest municipality in Israel or the West Bank and is the heart of an urban agglomeration that spills outside the city limits into adjacent areas of both jurisdictions. At the centre of the modern municipality is the Old City, a walled medieval enclosure of less than half a square mile (roughly one square km), from which the entire city has grown. To the e...

The U.S. president reinforced support for Israel in its fight against Hamas in a speech in Tel Aviv.

China’s position on the current conflict, and the Israel-Palestine issue more broadly, is not unusual. So why is it attracting so much attention?

Beirut DC, a film co-operative founded in 1999, seeks to make independent Arab author cinema more widely known, among other things via "Ayyam Beirut", the Arab Film Festival that recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. Mona Sarkis talked to Eliane Raheb

The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar have changed the release date of the record grossing film for a second time to Aug. 10, and the film will open in Saudi Arabia Aug. 9.

The Middle East Forum has released a policy paper challenging Israels passive "mow the lawn" Gaza policy, instead presenting a path toward Israel Victory. The paper calls on Israel to rid itself of Hamass threat by disarming it, prohibiting its

But for Syria itself, oil is a major pillar of its economy, accounting for one-fourth of its national income.

Saudi Arabia will reopen its diplomatic mission in Syria, the Saudi foreign ministry said on Tuesday, nearly a decade after diplomatic ties were cut and two days after Syria was readmitted into the Arab…