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IDF strikes IS target in Syria, day after killing 4 IS-affiliated terrorists following clash

Military says it took out compound used as base for attack on IDF troops Sunday by members of Khalid ibn al-Walid Army in Golan Heights

By Judah Ari Gross and Times of Israel staff

An Israel Air Force F-16 fighter jet fires off flares during a demonstration on December 31, 2015. (Hagar Amibar/Israel Air Force/Flickr)

IDF forces on the Golan Heights, northern Israel, January 20, 2015. (Basal Awidat/Flash90)

Analysis: First IDF-Islamic State clash sends Israeli message: Don’t mess with us

By Judah Ari Gross

Smoke rising from the Syrian village of Jubata al-Khashab, where Israeli aircraft struck Syrian army positions after fire from its war-torn neighbor hit the Golan, September 10, 2016. (AFP/Jalaa Marey)

IDF airstrike kills 4 IS-affiliated terrorists in Syria after clash

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli F-16I fighter jet during an exercise in the United States in 2009. (Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald/US Department of Defense/Wikimedia)

Israel Air Force officer: ‘Syria’s the global stage, everybody’s playing there’

By Judah Ari Gross

Throngs pay homage to Cuba’s Fidel Castro

Thousands of Cubans pay final respects to deceased leader at Revolution Square, site of some of his most famous speeches

By Laurent THOMET

The Interior Ministry building with the image of legendary guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara and the Cuban flag fluttering at half mast at Havana's Revolution square, during revolutionary icon Fidel Castro memorial, on November 28, 2016 in Havana. (AFP PHOTO/ADALBERTO ROQUE)

Syria calls chemical arms accusations ‘campaign of lies’

Regime rejects claim of three chlorine attacks, saying it is based on ‘inaccurate and unconvincing findings’

By AFP

A child victim of a suspected chlorine attack in Idlib, Syria, in March 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)

Michael Oren seems to urge boycott of French products, drawing ambassador’s ire

Deputy minister’s call to ‘think twice’ before purchasing goods from France follows Paris’s decision to label settlement goods

By Raphael Ahren

Kulanu MK Michael Oren shows a 'Made in Europe' label he prepared a few weeks earlier, in response to the European decision to label products made in territories Israel captured in the Six Day War in 1967. (Courtesy Michael Oren)

Can conservative Fillon keep France’s far-right at bay?

Republican presidential nominee’s biggest rival is National Front leader Marine Le Pen

By Adam PLOWRIGHT

French member of Parliament and candidate for the right-wing primaries ahead of France's 2017 presidential elections, Francois Fillon gestures before delivering a speech following the first results of the primary's second round at his campaign headquarters in Paris, November 27, 2016. (AFP/Thomas SAMSON)

IDF general gives exclusive interview to Saudi paper

Latest Israeli to speak to London-based Elaph, Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz says Tehran hasn’t changed in light of Iran deal

By Judah Ari Gross and Dov Lieber

Trump assails recount push, claims millions ‘voted illegally’

Without evidence, president-elect casts shadow on legitimacy of election he actually won, alleging ‘serious voter fraud’ in 3 key states won by Clinton

By Steve Peoples and Calvin Woodward

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally in New York on Nov. 9, 2016 (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Syria rebels said to lose all of northeast Aleppo

Kurdish forces cooperating with government as army pushes offensive to retake the battered city

By AFP

A tank is seen on a street on November 27, 2016 in the Masaken Hanano district in eastern Aleppo, a day after Syrian pro-government forces resized it from rebel fighters. (AFP PHOTO / GEORGE OURFALIAN)

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Israeli settlers grieve over their burnt houses in the Halamish settlement on November 27, 2016. AFP / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Fires give way to fears of being left high and dry

Despite government pledges to cut red tape, blaze victims still dread squelching their way to recovery, while experts warn global warming and too many trees can keep this rash keep aflame

By Joshua Davidovich

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November 29, 2016
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American and Israeli firefighters posing for photographs after returning from a call in Jerusalem, Nov. 27, 2016. (Courtesy of Emergency Volunteers Program)

Top US firefighters ‘dropped everything’ to help Israel battle the blazes

39 firefighters, mostly not Jewish, answered Israel’s call for help through the Emergency Volunteers Project

By Andrew Tobin

November 29, 2016
2:44 am

Emma Morano, the last living person born in the 1800s. (YouTube screen capture)

Last living person born in 1800s turns 117

Italian Emma Morano, born in November 1899, says her long life comes from eating two eggs a day and cookies

By AFP

November 29, 2016
2:17 am

File: Avichai Mandelblit arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on January 17, 2016. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

A-G proposes absentee land compromise in Amona demolition dispute

As December 25 deadline for removing illegal settlement nears, officials seek a way out of the political deadlock that does not contravene Israeli and international law

By Sue Surkes

November 29, 2016
12:55 am

Palestinian demonstrators hold Fatah party flags as they demonstrate in the center of the West Bank city of Hebron on November 4, 2015. (AFP/HAZEM BADER)

Some Gazans kept from Ramallah, but Fatah congress to go ahead

Palestinian officials say enough delegates will arrive to allow rare confab intended to choose members of party committee

By AFP

November 28, 2016
11:02 pm

Like a kid in a candy store, IDF salivates over incoming F-35 jets

As PM announces acquisition of 17 additional planes, senior officer gushes over new stealth aircraft, due to arrive next month

By Judah Ari Gross

November 28, 2016
9:32 pm

The damage inside a burnt house in the northern Israeli town of Haifa following a wildfire, November 25, 2016. (AFP/ JACK GUEZ)

MKs call for state to cover all homes destroyed in fires, arson or not

Finance ministry to give immediate NIS 2,500 stipend to those who can’t return to their homes, but director general says ‘some will fall between the cracks’

By Raoul Wootliff

November 28, 2016
9:04 pm

This image, taken from video provided by the SITE Intel Group made available January 17, 2013, purports to show militant militia leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar. (AP/SITE Intel Group)

French strike likely killed arch-jihadist Belmokhtar: US official

American intelligence aided targeting of former Al-Qaeda leader behind deadly 2013 and 2016 African attacks

By Laurent Barthelemy

November 28, 2016
8:54 pm

Law enforcement officials are seen outside of a parking garage on the campus of The Ohio State University as they respond to an active attack in Columbus, Ohio, on November 28, 2016. (AFP/ Paul Vernon)

Terror suspected as 9 hurt in car ramming, knifing at Ohio State campus

Suspect, reportedly of Somali descent, killed by police after driving into crowd, attacking students with butcher knife

By AFP

November 28, 2016
7:07 pm

Segment from Moroccan TV program "Sabahiyat" on how to use makeup to cover up signs of domestic violence. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Morocco show sorry for advice on makeup to hide abuse

Segment on how to cover up signs of domestic violence draws widespread ire, complaints

By AP

November 28, 2016
6:36 pm

Illustrative. The windshield of an IDF military vehicle is shattered by Palestinian stone-throwers in the West Bank, July 3, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Soldier lightly wounded after mistakenly entering Palestinian town

4 servicemen escorted out of Anabta in the northern West Bank by PA police; IDF opening an investigation

By Judah Ari Gross

November 28, 2016
6:10 pm

Paul Nuttall gestures after being announced as the new leader of the UK Independence Party in London, November 28, 2016. (AP/Alastair Grant)

Anti-EU UK Independence Party party picks new leader

Paul Nuttall to replace Trump ally Nigel Farage, vows to unify members and continue Brexit push

By AP

November 28, 2016
5:51 pm

A picture taken from the Golan Heights shows a loaded missile launcher used by members of an armed group in the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on November 28, 2016. (AFP/ JACK GUEZ)

Defense minister: Israel will respond with ‘full force’ to IS attacks

In first comments since clash on Syrian border, Liberman says aggression against IDF soldiers will face ‘immediate’ retaliation

By Raoul Wootliff

November 28, 2016
5:14 pm

Raed Khalil, 36, arrives to a court hearing at the District Court in Tel Aviv on December 13, 2015. (Flash90)

Stabber who killed 2 in Tel Aviv sentenced to life in prison

Raed Khalil given 2 life sentences plus 20 years for deadly attack on worshipers in Panorama office building synagogue; Petah Tikva stabber sentenced to 16 and a half years

By Times of Israel staff

November 28, 2016
3:22 pm

Smoke billows over the northern Israeli city of Haifa, where a major fire was raging, November 24, 2016. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90

In Haifa, decades-long coexistence endures trial by fire

Amid accusations of recent wildfires being sparked by homegrown ‘terror,’ residents of ravaged port city insist no arsonist came from their midst

By Dov Lieber and Video by Luke Tress

November 28, 2016
2:46 pm

Iraqi special forces soldiers from the medical unit, and an American medic volunteer, center left, treat an injured man who was wounded by a mortar shell at a field hospital, in the Samah front line neighborhood, in Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Iraq hospital brimming with Mosul civilian, army casualties

Doctor says triage center struggling to treat floods of new patients injured in battle to free city from Islamic State jihadists

By MYSTYSLAV CHERNOV

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Analysis: First IDF-Islamic State clash sends Israeli message: Don’t mess with us

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