Government forces captured Kfar Nabudah in northwest Syria on May 8, then lost it last week. The village lies on the border with Idlib, the last rebel stronghold in Syria.

Shiite-majority Iraq has been trying to maintain a fine line as allies Iran and United States descend into verbal vitriol.

After Germany's anti-Semitism czar says he cannot recommend Jews wear kippot "at all times everywhere in Germany," President Reuven Rivlin says, "We will never react to anti-Semitism with defeatism, and expect and demand our allies act in the same way."

The two major sticking points holding up a new coalition are haredi conscription and the justice minister appointment. Despite what the media is saying, the question of immunity for the prime minister is not an issue.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched a drone strike on military hangars in Saudi Arabia's Jizan airport near the Yemeni...