Category: Middle East

Israel Sees Record-High Daily Infections, Hints at Fourth Vaccine Dose

Highly vaccinated Israel recorded the highest number of daily CCP virus infections per capita this week as the country’s health ministry announced that on average, more than 10,700 new COVID-19 cases are being reported each day. Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash said during a video call on Sept. 14 that the new figures are “a…


Israel Sees Record-High Daily Infections, Hints Fourth Vaccine Dose

Highly vaccinated Israel recorded the highest number of daily CCP virus infections per capita this week as the country’s health ministry announced that on average, more than 10,700 new COVID-19 cases are being reported each day. Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash said during a video call on Sept. 14 that the new figures are “a…


Bin Laden’s Former Right-Hand Man Has Resurfaced. Does It Matter?

News Analysis A recently released video suggests that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri may still be alive. Some national security experts have downplayed this due to Zawahiri’s apparent lack of charisma and leadership abilities, but others have pointed out that al-Qaeda has flourished—even garnering U.S. support in some conflicts—over the last decade under Osama bin Laden’s former…


ISIS Bride Shamima Begum Pleads for Forgiveness, Offers to Help UK Fight Terrorism

Former ISIS bride Shamima Begum has begged the British public for forgiveness, and has even offered to help the UK fight terrorism. Begum, who is now 22, left the UK for Syria to join the ISIS terrorist group as a 15-year-old schoolgirl. She had her British citizenship revoked by the UK government over security concerns,…


Blinken Says US Doesn’t Know Who Was Killed in Kabul Drone Strike, Review Forthcoming

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday that he doesn’t know at this stage whether a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, last month killed a suspected member of the ISIS-K terrorist group or an Afghan aid worker and his family. “The guy the Biden administration droned, was he an aid worker or an…


CDC Advises Against Travel to Afghanistan, Other Countries Over COVID-19

Washington—The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday warned against travel to Afghanistan, Albania, Serbia, Belize, Lithuania and four other destinations because of COVID-19 concerns. The CDC raised its travel recommendations to “Level 4: Very High” for nine destinations, telling Americans they should avoid travel to the locations. The destinations also include Grenada,…


Five Afghans Flown to US Diagnosed With Measles

Five people who were recently evacuated to the United States from Afghanistan were confirmed to have measles, Virginia health officials said Tuesday. “All recently entered the United States as part of Operation Allies Welcome, the U.S. federal government’s emergency evacuation of citizens of Afghanistan,” a spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Health told The Epoch Times…


Biden Admin Faces Bipartisan Criticism Over Afghanistan at Blinken Senate Hearing

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared before Congress for the second time this week—this time to address the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. On Monday, Blinken’s appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee became heated, as Democrats and Republicans hurled accusations at rival party administrations. While debates in the upper chamber were calmer, they…


Taliban Rejects Claim Top Leader and Group’s Co-founder Was Killed

The Taliban denounced claims on Tuesday that one of its top leaders who is also a co-founder of the designated terrorist group was killed during a clash with resistance forces. Rumors recently spread on the disappearance of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar—a top leader who hasn’t been seen in public since the Taliban’s swift takeover of…


Germany Arrests Man for Shipping Equipment for Iran’s Nuclear Program

BERLIN—German police arrested a German-Iranian man suspected of exporting equipment to be used in Iran and missile programs in breach of European Union sanctions, Germany’s federal prosecutor said on Tuesday. Police searched 11 locations, including apartments and offices in the states of Hamburg, Schleswig Holstein, and North Rhine-Westphalia linked to the suspect, the prosecutor said….