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Anti-Semitic killings in 2018 'highest' in decades: Israel

The number of Jews murdered in anti-Semitic attacks around the world in 2018 reached its "highest" level in decades after a mass shooting at a US synagogue, an Israeli government report said Sunday. A total of 13 Jews were killed in three separate attacks over the year, according to the...

Netanyahu warns Hezbollah chief of Israel's "lethal" power

Israel's prime minister warned the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah of his army's "lethal" power on Sunday, in reaction to Hassan Nasrallah cautioning the Jewish state against further strikes in Syria. "The lethal striking force of the IDF (Israeli army) stands facing Hezbollah," Israel's...

Near IS holdout, Syrian fighters face women suicide bombers

Driving towards the frontline of what remains of the Islamic State group's self-declared "caliphate" in eastern Syria, US-backed fighters pass huge craters from air strikes and buildings reduced to rubble. Backed by air strikes of the US-led coalition, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...

Iran says Arab separatists have killed 2 police

Iran says Arab separatists have killed two policemen who were on patrol in the country's oil-rich south. The semi-official Fars news agency quoted police official Ali Ghasempour on Sunday as saying the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz, a "terrorist and separatist...