Middle East Experience

The court rejected the ministers' argument that the court’s demands on Netanyahu would “unequivocally” constitute “severe harm to the state's security.”
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Court rejects ministers’ request to delay Netanyahu trial

Over the last two academic years, 81% of university-related incidents were categorized as abusive behavior, totaling 264 incidents
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: 325 antisemitic incidents in UK universities across last two years, CST reports

The development comes a day after the fall of the SDF-controlled town of Manbij.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Turkey-backed forces advance on Kurdish Syrian town of Kobani

"For us, it's important to fund the opposite. It's important to fund all the people that need our help and all the soldiers and other people in Israel whose lives have been upended."
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: 'Jewish donors giving to universities often supporting anti-Jewish ideology'

Excavations at Ashdod-Yam reveal a second-century BCE fortress destroyed in conflict, the Institute of Archeology at Tel Aviv University reported.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: TAU researchers discover second-century BCE fortress at Ashdod-Yam

The UN has called Israel's role in taking over the buffer zone a violation of a 1974 ceasefire agreement between Israel and Syria.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Syrian mission to UN to continue work after regime exit, calls for Israel's withdrawal

Turkey has expanded its border crossing capacities to accommodate the surge in Syrian refugees seeking to return home following the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the interior minister has said. Following Assad's ouster on Sunday, hundreds flocked to Turkey's southern border with Syria, with Ankara quickly moving to expand its crossing facilities, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya told reporters in remarks published on Tuesday. "Although we had a daily capacity to accommodate 3,000 crossings, we have increased that to between 15,000 and 20,000," Yerlikaya said.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Turkey braces for surge of Syrian refugees heading home

Syrians lived in terror for decades of what went on behind the concrete walls of Damascus's security compound. Now the Assad dynasty has been toppled, its dungeons and torture chambers are giving up their secrets.Rebel fighters stand guard at the entrances to the forbidden city in the capital's Kafr Sousa district, where the feared security services had their headquarters alongside government offices.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Assad's feared dungeons give up their secrets

"Time will tell, but Al-Qaeda and Al-Nusra alumni don’t strike me as reasonable,” Bennett said.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: 'Any sane country would do this': Bennett denies IDF advance on Damascus, outlines defensive needs

"You are late," a person could be heard saying while an additional individual shouted "Does the Prime Minister condemn calls for an intifada against Jews?"
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Australian PM criticized during visit to scorched Adass Israel Synagogue