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The Allenby Bridge is about three miles east of Jericho and is also known as the King Hussein Bridge. It is used to transfer goods and people in and out of the West Bank. Israeli civilians are not allowed to use the crossing. On Sunday, Hamas praised the attack and said it was “executed by a fearless Jordanian individual” in response to Israel’s war in Gaza and its actions in the West Bank and

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday he will not allow the Justice Department "to be used as a political weapon," as he denounced "conspiracy theories and "dangerous falsehoods" targeting federal law enforcement. Speaking to U.S. attorneys gathered in Washington and other Justice Department members, Garland forcefully defended the department's integrity and impartiality

Four people were killed and several others injured in a shooting near a mosque in Oman's capital, Muscat, in a rare flare of violence in the Middle Eastern Sultanate. The shooting took place near a mosque in the al-Wadi al-Kabir neighborhood in the east of the city, the Royal Oman Police said in a post on X in the early hours of Tuesday morning, local time. The force said at least four people

Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said Jews should be permitted to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque as he stormed the religious compound in occupied East Jerusalem with up to 2,000 Israeli settlers earlier today. Under the current status quo, non-Muslims are allowed to visit the holy site but are not allowed to pray there. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces killed