Likud party leader Benyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu met with religious and secular party allies in Jerusalem on Sunday to begin early talks of forming a government after a major upset in Israel’s 25th parliamentary elections.
Israeli citizens in the nation’s south spent the night in bomb shelters on Friday as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Israeli military (IDF) traded rocket fire and airstrikes for hours.
A major earthquake in eastern Afghanistan kills hundreds, a major political shakeup in Iraq’s parliament, anti-Israel parties reconcile in Syria, Turkey assassinates Kurdish politician in Iraqi Kurdistan.