Bruno Finel

The Israel Defense Forces has published a database of 170 people killed in Gaza who were publicly described as journalists or media workers, but whom the military says were members of the armed wings of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups.

The United Arab Emirates announced Thursday the opening of an investigation to determine whether the alleged attack aboard a Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv the previous day was of a "terrorist" nature.

The co-pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv tried to crash the plane after stabbing the pilot, but passengers subdued him while other crew members landed the aircraft safely in Saudi Arabia, Israeli officials said.

King Mohammed VI has appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as Morocco's prime minister, making the 50-year-old the first woman ever to hold the position in the kingdom's history, and only the third woman to serve as prime minister anywhere in the Arab world.

Israel is heading into what might be its most consequential election since statehood, and somehow, nobody running seems to want to talk about the price of hummus.

Already warned by the United Arab Emirates, Israel reportedly received a second alert about an imminent Hamas attack before October 7, 2023 — this time from Egyptian intelligence, according to a new investigation by The Atlantic.

"Last year, I said that Syria had returned. Today, I say that Syria is rising," Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, one year after becoming the first Syrian leader in nearly six decades to address the body.

Israel reacted sharply to remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron at the United Nations, after Macron criticized Israeli actions in the West Bank and claimed Hamas was not active in the territory, where the Palestinian Authority governs.

A major step forward in Morocco-Israel relations: the two countries "have confirmed their agreement on elevating [their] diplomatic missions to full embassy status," Le Monde reports. 

The foreign ministers of Israel and Morocco agreed to upgrade diplomatic ties, including opening embassies and appointing ambassadors, according to a statement Wednesday by the official Israeli government account in Arabic on X.

Israel goes to the polls on October 27 in what may be its most consequential election in years - the first since October 7, the wars with Hamas and Hezbollah, and the seven-month conflict with Iran. 

A cell of "malicious actors" based in northern Yemen used Claude, the artificial intelligence system built by US company Anthropic, in an attempt to develop guided weapons, the company announced Thursday, as Iran-backed Houthi rebels press a major offensive across Yemen.