Israeli soldier seriously wounded and Palestinian man killed in West Bank checkpoint incident
A Palestinian man was shot dead and an Israeli soldier was seriously wounded after a vehicle drove toward Israeli forces at a checkpoint west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli police and Palestinian officials. The incident took place near the settlement of Beit Horon, at an intersection used by Israeli forces stationed in the area. Israeli police described the episode as a car-ramming attack.Israel's ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, said the wounded soldier was his son, Neria Dov ben Chana. In a social media post, Leiter said medics were fighting to save his son's... [Continue Reading]
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BBC investigation says Assad regime planned Austin Tice kidnapping for weeks
US journalist Austin Tice's disappearance in Syria in 2012 was the result of a planned kidnapping operation that had been in preparation for more than a month, according to a new investigation. The findings, published on 17 September, say the abduction was not an opportunistic detention at a checkpoint, as many had long assumed. The report also says a member of the group that detained Tice has claimed the operation was sanctioned by Syria's then-leader, Bashar al-Assad.Tice, who had been reporting on the Syrian civil war, was seen getting into a car with a driver he knew and trusted before... [Continue Reading]

