The Islamic State group released a video Tuesday purportedly showing the burning alive of a Jordanian pilot, in the jihadists’ most recent execution yet of a foreign hostage. The highly produced 22-minute video released online showed images of a man purported to be the pilot Muath al-Kassasbeh, who was captured in December, engulfed in flames inside a metal cage. Later ...

Jordanian fighter jets pounded ISIS hideouts in Syria Thursday and then roared over the hometown of a pilot killed by the militants, while below them King Abdullah consoled the victim’s family. Witnesses overheard the monarch telling the pilot’s father the planes were returning from the militant-held city of Raqqa. A security source told Reuters the strikes hit targets in the ...

The deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan was sentenced on Sunday to 18 months in prison for criticizing the United Arab Emirates in a Facebook post. The state security court, a special body that has jurisdiction over Jordan’s internal and external threats, found the Brotherhood leader, Zaki Bani Rushaid, guilty of “acts harmful to the country’s relations with ...

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested in a Paris synagogue last week that France’s Jews should move to Israel, he likely tapped into the fears of a community shaken by the recent attack at a kosher market and increasingly concerned about their safety. Before leaving for Paris for the unity rally, Netanyahu took to the airwaves, saying Israel would ...

Miss Israel has hit back at Miss Lebanon over a selfie scandal that has caused a global stir. Miss Israel, Doron Matalon, has denied she photobombed Miss Lebanon after a photograph she posted on Instagram sparked a backlash in Lebanon. Matalon posted a photograph of herself with Miss Slovenia, Miss Japan, and Miss Lebanon onInstagram last week, with all four beauty ...

The first journalist to report on the death of an Argentine state prosecutor, who was investigating the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, arrived in Israel on Sunday after fleeing the South American country. Damian Pachter, who also holds Argentine-Israeli citizenship, said he had “quickly” fled Argentina fearing for his life following threats to his security. ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Sunday that European Jews should embark on a “mass immigration” to Israel. The statement follows recent murders of Jews in Copenhagen and Paris, including Saturday’s death of a Jewish guard in front of a synagogue and last month’s terrorist attacks in Paris, which left four French Jews dead. “Jews have been murdered again on ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied Monday that his upcoming speech to the U.S. Congress was a slight to President Barack Obama, and insisted the U.S.-Israeli alliance remains strong. “You are here to tell the world that reports of the demise of the U.S. relationship is not only premature, but it is wrong,” the Israeli leader told delegates to a pro-Israeli ...

Iraq may need three years to rebuild and restructure its military, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday, as the country battles Islamic State militants who pose the biggest threat to its security since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. The ultra-hardline militant group seeking to redraw the map of the Middle East swept through the north last June ...

Iraq has told President Barack Obama’s envoy that the US-led coalition battling Islamic State needs to do more to help Iraq defeat the jihadists controlling large areas of the north and west of the country. Parliament speaker Selim al-Jabouri said he delivered the message in a closed meeting with retired US Marine General John Allen, who visited Baghdad this week ...