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IN PHOTOS: Israel Wakes Up to a Flurry of Butterflies

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8 Years of War in Syria

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and cabinet members receive security briefing from Israel's Northern Command, February 2nd, 2018

Netanyahu's Cynical, Ruthless and Successful Syria Policy

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hugs Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Tehran, February 25, 2019

Can Assad Survive an Israeli Attack?

A still image taken from video footage released by the Israeli army on January 21, 2019, shows Israeli military action in Syria

8 Years of War in 9 Minutes: 3-part Video Analysis

The image of fighter with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is reflected on a broken mirror in the town of Baghouz, on the frontline of fighting to expel the Islamic State group from the area, in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, on March 12, 2019

Explained Syria's Kurds Defeated ISIS and Were Abandoned by Trump. Now They Must Look to Russia

A Syria Civil Defence member carries a wounded child in the besieged town of Hamoria, Eastern Ghouta, in Damascus, Syria, January 6, 2018

How Assad Defied the Odds, Won in Syria and Pushed the U.S. Out

Women carry their children as hundreds of civilians headed towards a screening point for new arrivals run by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on March 5, 2019.

Analysis ISIS Women Want to Go Home, and the West Faces a Tough Dilemma

Pro-Syrian regime protester waves a Syrian flag as he stands in front of portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad, in Damascus, Syria, December 2, 2011

Doctor, 'Butcher,' President: The Journey of Syria's Infamous Leader

A Syrian refugee holds a poster of President Bashar Assad in a bus window at the border crossing point of Jdedeh Yabous, on his way to Syria. Aug. 13, 2018

Explained As Assad Holds on in Syria, EU's 'Strategic Patience' Tested

A picture taken in eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor shows explosions following shelling by the US-backed forces on the Islamic State group's embattled holdout of Baghouz, on March 11, 2019

WATCH Last Battle to Defeat ISIS Rages in Syria as Hundreds Surrender

Protesters deface giant poster of Syria President Bashar Assad in Deraa, March 25, 2011. - credit: Reuters

New Assad Statue Triggers Protest in Cradle of Syrian Revolt

A large explosion is seen as Kurdish fighters fire weapons at Islamic State held territory in Baghouz, eastern Syria in this still image taken from a video published March 4, 2019

WATCH Dramatic Footage of Firefight Between Syrian Kurds and ISIS Caught on Tape

Syrian President Bashar Assad, Damascus, February 10, 2015

UN Investigators Hot on Trail of Syrian War Criminals

Mounsef al-Mkhayar, 22, an Islamic state fighter of Morrocan descent and Italian citizenship, gestures during an interview with Reuters, in Qamishli, Syria March 9, 2019

Islamic State Fighter Wants to Return to Italy, Warns of 'Sleeper Cells'

File photo: UN chemical weapons experts wearing gas masks carry samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Damascus August 28, 2013.

Syria Slams Watchdog Report Saying It Used Chemical Weapon in Douma Attack

Druze residents of the Golan Heights carry a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a rally in the village of Majdal Shams, February 14, 2019.

Waving Posters of Assad, Golan Heights Druze Mark Anniversary of Israeli Annexation

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Israel Election 2019

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Young Palestinian detainees under guard. Soldiers typically burst into the house in the middle of the night, seize the wanted youth and leave the family with a document stating where he’s being taken.

Israel jails hundreds of Palestinian boys a year. These are their stories

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An apologetic act against the occupation

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Trump once again proves that he's Netanyahu's private Santa Claus

Klaus von Stauffenberg (center) and his brother Berthold, with their spiritual and cultural mentor, Stefan George, who was also an inspiration to the Nazis.

The secret order that inspired the plot on Hitler's life

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Then Representative-elect Ilhan Omar attends a press conference in the capitol, Washington D.C., November 30, 2018.

Keep It Up, Ilhan Omar

FILE Photo: A sloth sleeps while hanging from a tree.

Why Do We Need Sleep? Israeli Scientists Solve the Mystery

Jordan Peterson. Has a simple explanation for his extraordinary popularity: In a culture that sanctifies victimhood, he proposes that people confront life’s inevitable pain unflinchingly.

The Enlightment According to Jordan Peterson

Cyclone Numa

The Forecast: Stronger Hurricanes in the Mediterranean

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, February 14, 2019.

With Poland, Netanyahu Discovers the Limits of Playing With History

ILLUSTRATION: Amos Oz

Between Zionism and Hellenism: Amos Oz on Secular Judaism

“Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo at the Sistine Chapel in Rome (c. 1508-1512).

In the Bigynnyng: A Brief History of the English Bible

Benny Gantz outside his home in Rosh Ha'ayin during a protest by members of Israel's Druze community, January 14, 2019.

Benny Gantz, the General Coming to End the Netanyahu Era

Benny Morris and his wife Leah at their home in Srigim.

'Israel Will Decline, and Jews Will Be a Persecuted Minority. Those Who Can Will Flee to America'

An artist’s rendering of Oumuamua. “It waited in place, like a buoy in the ocean, until the ‘ship’ of the solar system ran into it.”

If True, This Could Be One of the Greatest Discoveries in Human History

Iraqi and foreign mercenary members of a private security company, stand on the rooftop of a house in Baghdad, 18 September, 2007.

Infamous Private Paramilitary Firm Blackwater Planning Comeback. First Stop: Syria

The Arous brochure for European tourists.

The Mossad Ran a Fake Diving Resort for Tourists in Sudan. This Is the Incredible Story Behind It

Top Secret Israeli Cyberattack Firm, Revealed

Discovery of a missing piece of Antikythera Mechanism on the Aegean sea floor

Missing Piece of World's Oldest Computer Found on Aegean Seabed

Consulate staff seen behind the entrance of the Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul. Oct. 17, 2018

The Grisly Hit-job on Khashoggi Is a Disaster for Israel

Donald Trump meets with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, July 7, 2017

Ex-Mossad Chief: Russia Ran Trump for President

Relief of throne-bearing soldiers in their native clothing at the tomb of Xerxes I, demonstrating the satrapies under his rule: List of soldiers under Xerxes' rule: Persian, Median, Elamite, Parthian, Arian, Bactrian, Sogdian, Choresmian, Zarangian, Arachosian, Sattagydian, Gandharan, Hindush, Sakahaumavarga, Sakatigraxauda, Babyloan, Assyrian, Arab, Egyptian, Armenia, Cappadocian, Lydian, Ionian, Saka, Skudrian, anotehr Ionian tribe, Libyan and Ethiopian

2,500-year-old Persian Military Base Found in Israel

An evangelical woman from the U.S. picking grapes in the West Bank. Free volunteers is just one of the ways Christians help settlers

Revealed: The Evangelical Money Flowing Into the West Bank

Herodion fortress

Ring of Roman Governor Who Crucified Jesus Found Near Bethlehem

A satellite image of Tehran.

Tehran Is Sinking, and It May Be Irreversible