A high-toned European-favored celebration contrasts with a pop-up park outside the gritty central bus station

Graffiti includes Hitler mustaches burned on photos of rabbis, politicians in exhibit celebrating Jewish life in city

High-profile assassination of Hisham Barakat raises prospect of tougher crackdown against Islamists

US president says Tehran has to agree to a ‘strong, rigorous verification mechanism'; Russian FM says deal ‘within reach’

Amos Gilad, head of the Defense Ministry’s political-security division, says Assad controls just a fifth of country

United Church of Christ urges boycott of Ahava Dead Sea products, SodaStream; two more churches also weighing similar resolutions

Artist’s mural on security barrier covered up within hours by demonstrators who decry ‘shameful’ rainbow banner

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reveals five-year plan to rehab economy, devoting 5 percent of budget to military as part of ‘regional balance of power’