Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon met Abdullah on the sidelines of the Munich security conference.

Netanyahu spoke by telephone with Federica Mogherini, ending an extended period in which diplomatic contacts between Jerusalem and Brussels were frozen.

Assad said he would retake the whole country, but that this could take a long time, according to excerpts of the interview published on AFP's website.

A rare warning by a Pakistani intelligence chief posits that the Middle East-based militant group, Islamic State, posed a domestic threat.

“Reform Jews in the US are a dying world,” Yariv Levin said last week.

The Quartet also condemned all acts of terror and reiterated its call for restraint and for Israel and the Palestinians to “reject incitement."

Former guard Reinhold Hanning, 94, is on trial in western Germany.

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