Middle Orient

The immigration of 2,000 members of the Falash Mura community was approved by the government in September. Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata is set to travel to Ethiopia on Saturday night in preparation for the immigration to Israel of some 2,000 members of the Falash Mura community by February …

Iran is viewed as a threat by Jerusalem, Riyadh and Washington. So despite human rights violations, there will likely be more arms procurement by the Kingdom should they normalize ties with Israel. Over the past few years, Saudi Arabia’s appetite for weapons has grown and with normalization with Israel no …

There will be no attack by the US on Iran in US President Donald Trump’s remaining seven weeks in office. But apparently there are many who would like to convince Iran and its proxies that the threat is real.

Ankara will take necessary steps in every field against the EU’s Operation Irini over the illegal search of a Turkish-flagged vessel bound for Libya, Turkey’s National Security Council said on Wednesday.

Nuri Gökhan Bozkır, a former major who served in an elite force attached to the Special Forces Command (ÖKK) in the Turkish military before he was dishonorably discharged in 2007, on Tuesday explained in an interview with Ukrainian news website Strana the details of Turkey’s illegal arms deliveries to Syria, …

Twenty-nine people were killed Tuesday by explosives in three separate incidents in parts of north Syria along the border with Turkey, a war monitor said. There was no immediate link between the two car bombings near Al-Bab and in Afrin that killed a total of eight people, or the incident …

Hamas is strongly opposed to security coordination with Israel and considers it a form of “collaboration with the Zionist enemy.” The Palestinian Authority’s recent decision to restore its relations with Israel has scuttled efforts to end the long-standing dispute between the Palestinian ruling Fatah faction and Hamas.

Syria’s state news media reported material damage from an Israeli strike on Syrian air defenses and Iranian militias in the country yesterday. Israel reportedly bombed targets in southern Syria again late Tuesday evening.

The Dutch now take the helm of a training mission that focuses on “expert specialized capabilities.” The Netherlands is preparing to bolster its mission in Iraq by sending up to 150 additional troops to Iraqi Kurdistan, according to a vote by the Dutch Council of Ministers on Friday. The troops …

Egypt seeks to check Turkish influence in North Africa and the Horn, while its priority remains Nile Dam talks with Ethiopia. The incoming Joe Biden administration will find that key Middle East fault lines are increasingly present in Africa. On one side is Egypt, backed by Saudi Arabia and the …