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Israel & the Region

Diplomacy, defense, politics, Middle East affairs
File: A Cyprus police van carrying an Azeri national suspected of taking part in an alleged plot to attack Israelis on the Mediterranean island is pictured outside the criminal court in the capital Nicosia, on December 6, 2021. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP)
After Cyprus plot, Israel vows to thwart Iran terror ‘wherever it raises its head’
By ToI Staff
PM’s office says Israel operates widely and ‘in every place to protect Jews and Israelis,’ after Nicosia foils alleged Iranian-planned terror op in island nation
Illustrative: An Israeli policeman walks near cement cubes placed as a roadblock by Israeli security forces on a road linking the East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina with West Jerusalem on September 15, 2021 (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
US set to cease scientific, tech cooperation with Israeli entities over Green Line
By ToI Staff
Rescue workers search for survivors after an explosion at Israeli military headquarters in the Lebanese city of Tyre in 1982. (Wikimedia Commons/IDF Archive)
Israel launches formal inquiry into 1982 blast at IDF headquarters in Lebanon war
By Emanuel Fabian
Palestinian youths brandishing fake rifles parade during a military-style summer camp organized annually by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group during the school holiday, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 22, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
Photo Essay‘Ensuring jihad will continue’: Gaza summer camp teaches youth to fight, hate Israel
By ToI Staff
Illustrative picture of a Chabad center on Cyprus, September 2005, in the port city of Larnaca (Marina PASSOS / AFP)
June 26, 2023, 9:59 am
Iran said to target Israeli businessman, Chabad House, hotels in Cyprus terror plot
Greek intelligence services also arrest 7 Pakistan nationals said recruited by Tehran to carry out attacks in Greece, international arrest warrant issued for cell’s leader
By ToI Staff
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, right, sits inside a military vehicle posing for a selfie photo with a local civilian on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area of the headquarters of the Southern Military District (AP Photo)
June 26, 2023, 8:53 am
With Russia revolt over, Wagner future and direction of Ukraine war uncertain
Putin and Prigozhin remain publicly silent; Blinken says events are ‘extraordinary,’ adding ‘I think we’ve seen more cracks emerge in the Russian façade’
By AP
Palestinian youths brandishing fake rifles parade during a military-style summer camp organized annually by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group during the school holiday, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 22, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
June 26, 2023, 4:08 am
‘Ensuring jihad will continue’: Gaza summer camp teaches youth to fight, hate Israel
Young Palestinians parade and brandish fake rifles as they are instructed on combat against the ‘Zionist enemy’ at Palestinian Islamic Jihad camp
By ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attends an event at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, May 17, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
June 26, 2023, 1:07 am
Foreign minister says Israel ‘very optimistic’ on normalization deal with Saudis
Eli Cohen notes ‘window of opportunity’ for deal before March 2024, after which US likely to focus more on presidential election cycle
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Robert Sesselmann, center, visits a butcher shop in Sonneberg, Germany on April 27, 2023. (Robert Sesselmann)
June 25, 2023, 11:46 pm
German far-right party wins its first county leadership post, rising in polls
Victory of AfD’s candidate in rural Sonneberg area reflects rising popularity of anti-immigration party; Jewish group says party’s surge is something we ‘cannot simply accept’
By AP and ToI Staff
File: A Cyprus police van carrying an Azeri national suspected of taking part in an alleged plot to attack Israelis on the Mediterranean island is pictured outside the criminal court in the capital Nicosia, on December 6, 2021. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP)
June 25, 2023, 11:05 pm
After Cyprus plot, Israel vows to thwart Iran terror ‘wherever it raises its head’
PM’s office says Israel operates widely and ‘in every place to protect Jews and Israelis,’ after Nicosia foils alleged Iranian-planned terror op in island nation
By ToI Staff
Posters bearing the portraits of recently killed Israelis, with 'revenge' written underneath them in Hebrew are plastered along the Tapuach junction bus station in the West Bank, guarded by Israeli soldiers, on June 25, 2023. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
June 25, 2023, 10:43 pm
IDF sends 2 more battalions to West Bank after series of settler attacks
In all, 25 battalions will be deployed to region, a sharp increase from the typical 13
By Emanuel Fabian
Newly-elected Lebanese member of parliament Taymour Jumblatt, son of Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and grandson of Kamal Jumblatt, arrives to attend the first session of the newly-elected assembly at its headquarters in the capital Beirut on May 31, 2022. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
June 25, 2023, 10:33 pm
Lebanon’s main Druze party names new leader, son of longtime party chief
Sole contender Taymour Jumblatt, 41, to succeed father Walid Jumblatt, who headed Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) party for 45 years
By AFP
Muslim pilgrims pray around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, June 25, 2023. (AP/ Amr Nabil)
June 25, 2023, 9:50 pm
Massive crowds converge at Mecca’s Grand Mosque as annual hajj begins in Saudi heat
Islam’s holiest site to host more than 2 million worshipers from 160 countries, in what Saudi authorities expect to be the largest pilgrimage in history
By Haitham el-Tabei
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, center, leader of center-right New Democracy party poses for the media with his daughter Dafni Mitsotakis, left, and son Konstantinos Mitsotakis at a polling station in Athens, Greece, June 25, 2023. (AP/ Yorgos Karahalis)
June 25, 2023, 9:44 pm
Exit polls in Greece project landslide win for conservative New Democracy party
Poll projects Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ party gaining 40-44% of vote, with main rival Syriza party suffering defeat with just 16-19%
By Agencies
Illustrative: An Israeli policeman walks near cement cubes placed as a roadblock by Israeli security forces on a road linking the East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina with West Jerusalem on September 15, 2021 (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
June 25, 2023, 7:15 pm
US set to cease scientific, tech cooperation with Israeli entities over Green Line
Move said to be resumption of policy that was reversed under Trump administration; Foreign Minister Eli Cohen tells reporters that the decision ‘is wrong’
By ToI Staff
A member of Wagner group speaks with a local resident in Rostov-on-Don, on June 24, 2023. (Roman Romokohv / AFP)
June 25, 2023, 6:53 pm
Russian city at heart of brief rebellion expresses relief, confusion after mutiny
In Rostov-on-Don, some locals say they understand the Wagner mercenaries who rebelled, but one is pleased that things have ‘somehow become calmer’
By AFP
Rescue workers search for survivors after an explosion at Israeli military headquarters in the Lebanese city of Tyre in 1982. (Wikimedia Commons/IDF Archive)
June 25, 2023, 6:31 pm
Israel launches formal inquiry into 1982 blast at IDF headquarters in Lebanon war
Officials long claimed that explosion which killed 91 people in Tyre was a gas leak, but probe launched last year says there’s reason to believe it was a Hezbollah suicide bombing
By Emanuel Fabian
File: Ukraine's ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, gives a statement to the media in Tel Aviv, on March 11, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)
June 25, 2023, 6:04 pm
In blistering critique, Ukraine accuses Israel of pro-Russian stance
Foreign Ministry to summon Kyiv’s envoy for reprimand after embassy says Israeli officials have ‘a blatant disregard for moral boundaries’
By Lazar Berman
A truck drives as a plume of smoke rises from a building during a reported Russian airstrike on Syria's northwestern rebel-held Idlib province, on June 25, 2023. (Abdulaziz KETAZ / AFP)
June 25, 2023, 5:51 pm
Russian airstrikes kill at least 11 people in rebel-held Syria
The explosions, including one allegedly at a food market, are said to be in retaliation for deadly drone attacks last week attributed to rebels
By AFP
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