AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan said Monday that a terror cell targeted in a deadly weekend raid by security forces was composed of supporters of the Islamic State terror group and shared its extremist views. Saturday’s raid, during which three jihadists were killed and five arrested, revealed that they were preparing a series of attacks in Jordan, Interior Minister Samir Mubaideen said. A joint unit of special forces, police and army troops raided a house in Salt, a town northwest of Amman, a day...

The uncle of Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, has accused his nephew of being an “immigration hypocrite,” who supports policies that would have condemned his own Jewish family to death if they had been enacted a century ago. Writing in Politico, Miller’s maternal uncle, David Glosser, described how Miller’s great-great-grandfather Wolf-Leib Glosser fled the Belarusian shtetl of Antopol, arriving in the United States in 1903, “with $8 to his name.” In that time,...

A Palestinian shot three months ago in clashes along the Israel-Gaza border has died while being treated in Egypt, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said Monday. Wissam Hijazi, 30, was shot on May 14, during a day of huge protests along the border, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP. The body has not yet been returned to Gaza, he said. Free Sign Up The protests, which coincided with the controversial opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem on the same day, were the peak of months...

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman will meet with senior members of the Israeli security establishment on Tuesday to discuss easing restrictions on the Gaza Strip following a decrease in Palestinian violence, a senior defense official said Monday evening. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said reopening the Kerem Shalom crossing will be considered during the 12:00 p.m. meeting, as well as returning the permitted fishing zone to six nautical miles from the current three, if the...

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s office on Monday evening clarified a statement made earlier in the day, in which he appeared to say that every Palestinian killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip in the past four and a half months was a member of the Hamas terrorist group. “Since the start of the ‘March of Return’ events, Hamas has sustained 168 deaths, 4,348 injured, and dozens of terror facilities destroyed,” Liberman said on Monday morning, referring to a series of organized protests and...