|  | | Unidentified assailants fired two land-to-air missiles at a Russian passenger plane carrying over 150 people when it flew over Syria. | | | | | |  | Syrian forces have used chemical weapons against rebel forces and civilians, the head of Israel's military research said.
| | | | | |  | Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Budapest against anti-Semitism, as Hungarian police prevented a neo-Nazi demonstration for the third time in two weeks.
| | | | | |  | A Paris suburb is scheduled to host a ceremony honoring several Palestinian terrorists.
| | | | | |  | The parliament of Portugal is scheduled to vote on whether to naturalize descendants of 16th-century Jews who fled the country because of religious persecution.
| | | | | |  | U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry released $250 million in financial aid to Egypt on Sunday, with a pledge of more if President Mohamed Morsi implements economic and political reforms.
| | | | | |  | Incoming US Secretary of State John Kerry, on his first foreign trip, set forth what sounded like a new Obama administration policy for Syria in his remarks in Paris Wednesday, Feb. 27.
| | | | | |  | North Korea is threatening the US with a nuclear attack, claiming it has long-range missiles with atomic warheads capable of reaching the American mainland.
| | | | | |  | Syrian rebels downed a warplane over Hammuriyeh on Wednesday, shortly after an air strike killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more in the Damascus province town.
| | | | | |  | Israel's Foreign Ministry charged its diplomats with calling on the international community to urge the Tunisian government to protect its Jewish community.
| | | | | |  | Tuesday night, Feb. 12, the Syrian Air Force began bombing the large al-Jarra air base which rebels led by Islamist battalions conquered near the northern city of Aleppo.
| | | | | |  | Thousands demonstrated against Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi and his political backers, the country's ruling Muslim Brotherhood, on the second anniversary of former President Hosni Mubarak's ouster from power.
| | | | | |  | | Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis said Friday that the upgrade is in line with Cyprus' recognition of Palestinian statehood in 1988. | | | | | |  | | At a ceremony in honor of the F-16s received from the U.S., Sisi said Egypt looks forward to further cooperation to build and develop the combat capabilities of the Armed Forces. | | | | | |  | Venezuela's secret service, SEBIN, is spying on the country's Jewish community, according to leaked documents said to be from the spy agency.
| | | | | |  | Germany is marking the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's rise to power with the inauguration of an exhibition in Berlin.
| | | | | |  | As Japan prepares to shut down all of its nuclear reactors, North Korea has announced it will soon launch a third nuclear missile test.
| | | | | |  | French and Israeli intelligence sources affirmed Saturday, Dec. 29, that, contrary to reports appearing in the United States Friday, Iran has accelerated rather than slowed down its 20-percent grade enrichment of uranium and is racing toward a nuclear weapons capacity.
| | | | | |  | | In the latest blow to the Syrian government, the head of Syria's military police has defected and has now declared allegiance to the rebel uprising seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. | | | | | |  | | While NATO unpacked the Patriots in Turkey, a dozen mobile batteries, each carrying a pair of Iskander missiles, were fixed into position opposite Turkey, and another dozen, opposite Jordan and Israel. At all their stations, the Russian missiles pointed at US military targets. | | | | | |
|  | Iran congratulated North Korea on Wednesday for its "successful" launch of a long-range rocket, an incident that provoked global condemnation.
| | | | | |  | The Jordanian Tourism Ministry warned Israelis not to wear Jewish symbols when visiting the country.
| | | | | |  | Prominent representatives of the Jewish community in the Netherlands have expressed outrage over the Cabinet's plans to cease providing funding for Jewish Broadcaster Joodse Omroep, the only Jewish broadcasting network in the Netherlands.
| | | | | |  | Members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party attempted to enter the Greek parliament armed with guns but were stopped by a metal detector and asked to leave.
| | | | | |  | | Iran has launched its own video-sharing website to compete with Google’s YouTube, whose content is deemed inappropriate by the Islamic regime, state television reported Sunday. | | | | | |  | There is growing concern that some of the chemical weapons the Assad regime has been pushing out of the Damascus area in the last few days were sent across the border to Hizballah strongholds in the Lebanese Beqaa Valley to keep them out of rebel hands.
| | | | | |  | | Israel's ambassador to Australia was dressed down by government officials after being summoned over Jerusalem's decision to expand settlement construction. | | | | | |  | Iranian and Pakistani warships had planned their first ever rendezvous to take place in Port Sudan Friday, Nov. 30. The United States put a stop to this plan at the last moment by threatening to call off the direct talks with Tehran that were scheduled to open Saturday, Dec. 1.
| | | | | |  | Thousands demonstrated in front of the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest to protest against the anti-Semitism of the far-right Jobbik party.
| | | | | |  | Police fired tear gas and beat demonstrators as large-scale protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square continued over Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's power grab.
| | | | | |  | Pakistan on Wednesday said it has successfully test-fired a medium-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
| | | | | |  | Tuesday, Nov. 27, the Middle East military spotlight swung around from Gaza to the Syrian war with steps for the start of US and NATO intervention in that conflict.
| | | | | |  | Metropolitan Police reportedly said the recent delivery of an explosive device to a house near London was an anti-Semitic hate crime.
| | | | | | | | | Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood-led government is suggesting that the country's new constitution be based on the principles of Islam. | | | | | |  | The US Embassy has warned American citizens in Cairo to remain alert and be aware the diplomatic mission has credible information terrorists are targeting female missionaries in Egypt.
| | | | | |  | Sudan blamed Israel for an attack on an arms factory in Khartoum.
| | | | | |  | The grave of Moshe Dayan was vandalized on the anniversary of the former Israeli defense minister's death.
| | | | | |  | | Iranian police, termed "Iran's Gestapo" by a Christian news site, has arrested between 100 and 400 Christians and thrown them into prisons. | | | | | |  | Iran has given a proposal to find an exit strategy for the Syrian crisis, the Al Arabiya network reported on Sunday.
| | | | | |  | | French police have found an explosives lab which they say Jihadists used in the recent bombing of a kosher store near Paris. French President Francois Hollande has said he would beef up security around Jewish institutions. | | | | | |  | Iraq is determined to stop and search flights from Iran over its territory which are suspected of carrying weapons to Syria, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said.
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