Senior IDF officials: Iran’s nuclear threat must be removed completely

Against the backdrop of the ongoing negotiations between the US and Iran, senior IDF officials say that although Israel’s military objectives in Iran have been achieved, as long as the nuclear program... Read more »

Board of Peace denies plans to shut down ceasefire coordination HQ in Israel’s south

US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace has denied a report that the US will be shutting down the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC), tasked with facilitating the entry of humanitarian aid into... Read more »

Iraq’s import trap: A system that produces demand, not supply

Shafaq News Every day, above the oil fields of southern Iraq, gas burns off into the sky in towers of orange flame. Iraq flares 1,200 million standard cubic feet of gas per... Read more »

Trump rejects Iran’s new proposal to end the war, threatening to ‘blast them to hell’ if a deal is not reached

The United States has rejected Iran’s latest proposal for negotiations to end the war, with US President Donald Trump threatening to “blast them to hell” if a deal is not struck. Peace... Read more »

IDF troops improvise solutions as Hezbollah’s ‘simple’ drone threat grows – Israel & Jewish News

( May 1, 2026 / Israel Hayom ) In the absence of a technological and operational response to Hezbollah’s latest drone threat, Israel Defense Forces troops in Southern Lebanon are improvising solutions... Read more »

International Labor Day in Iraq: A holiday in search of its workers

2026-05-01T16:32:37+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News As much of the world marks May 1 as a tribute to the labor movement, Iraq’s roughly 15 million workers face a... Read more »

Who really dragged whom into the war with Iran?

US President Donald Trump made the decision to attack Iran after his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago in late December 2025, but the foundations for that decision had been... Read more »

Two Jewish men stabbed in London attack as antisemitism spikes

Two Jewish men were seriously wounded after they were stabbed in London on Wednesday, amid a spike in attacks targeting Jewish communities across the United Kingdom. The attack took place near a... Read more »

JTS ‘breaks mold,’ names campus innovator Rabbi Mike Uram as next chancellor

JTA — The Jewish Theological Seminary has named Rabbi Mike Uram as its next chancellor, elevating a Jewish educator best known for his time as executive director of the University of Pennsylvania... Read more »

The ‘First Salute’ explores how Jews shaped the American Revolution

In November 1776, a small Caribbean island fired a cannon at an American ship — and in doing so, made history. The exchange, known as the “First Salute,” marked the first international... Read more »