In the wake of the recent short-lived mutiny, a leading scholar at the National Defense University tells Israel Hayom Putin faces a dilemma: He can allow the Wagner escapades to continue in Africa unhindered – thereby generating further influence and some resources for the government; or he can alternatively attempt to take over these operations but lose the very influence and benefits Wagner brings the Kremlin.

The PA’s failure to control its territory has forced Israel to make increasingly frequent raids on PA territory in order to try and root out the terrorists taking refuge there. The current security situation is untenable, which is one of the reasons the PA has to go.

The US' new strategy paper is blind to the weaponization of progressive and Islamic ideologies in fueling contemporary forms of hate toward Jews.

Near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, hundreds of police with batons and shields stood restlessly along the Champs-Elysées, several in front of the shuttered Cartier boutique. Posts on social media had called for protests on the grand boulevard but the police presence appeared to discourage any large gatherings.