U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday she had held “productive” talks in Paris with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. AFP reported that during the “candid and productive

Egypt’s new president appointed a fact-finding committee to investigate the killing of protesters since the outbreak of last year’s popular uprising that toppled his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak. According to The

Iran’s spy chief accused French and German intelligence services on Friday of cooperating with the CIA to kill Iranian nuclear scientists. The Associated Press quoted Heidar Moslehi as having said

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the UN Security Council on Friday to reduce the number of unarmed military observers in Syria and put more stress on political efforts to

Hamas’ de facto Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, accused the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas of negligence in dealing with the investigation of the death of former PA

This week Cyprus took over the rotating presidency of the European Union. As the main problem on the European agenda continues to be the European debt crisis, the Cypriot presidency

Three days before the expiration of the ultimatum set by Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to accept the conclusions presented in the Plesner Committee’s report, the

Despite earlier hopes that the Israeli athletes who were brutally murdered at the Munich 1972 Games will be remembered in a moment of silence during the opening ceremony of this

The United Nations’ Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed on Friday three officials to conduct a fact-finding mission on how the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria (Yehuda and Shomron) affect

The defection of a top general from the Syrian regime is “significant” and signals cracks in President Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle, the Pentagon said Friday. “We welcome this defection and

A heated television debate between a Jordanian member of parliament and a local activist this week led to the parliamentarian pulling a gun on the activist in front of the

Chairman of the London Organizing Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games, Lord Coe, said that he will hold a “personal” moment for the Israeli athletes brutally murdered at the Munich

In October 2004, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat was holed up in his Ramallah compound, the Mukata. IDF intelligence got reports that his health was deteriorating. Initially, it was assumed

French president Francois Hollande on Friday called for stiffer sanctions against his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, and increased support for rebels seeking Assad’s ouster, at a meeting of Western and

A group of Coptic activists in Egypt announced the establishment of the Christian Brotherhood to counter the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Arabiya news reported. The idea was first

A British Muslim convert, who appeared in a BBC documentary, was reportedly one of six people arrested over a suspected terror plot, just over a mile away from the site

A recently released letter indicates Adolf Hitler made the dramatic intervention to protect a Jew, Ernst Hess, a judge during the interwar years. Hess was Hitlet’s company commander from the

Some of the newest members of the religious-Zionist Jewish Home party have yet to enter the Knesset, but are already taking the lead. Former CEO of the Council for Judea and

An Arab security prisoner from the Palestinian Authority claims he was recruited by Israel’s security services to poison late PLO arch-terrorist Yassir Arafat. Lebanon’s Al-Miadin television broadcast a copy of

Swastikas and anti-Semitic epithets were found scrawled on a building used by the Jewish Agency in St. Petersburg in Russia. Among the epithets was one that read “All Jews should

The archaeological excavation site on Mount Gerizim, near Shechem, was officially inaugurated in a special ceremony on Thursday. The ceremony was attended by Environment Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud), Shomon Regional

A Syrian general who was a leading member of President Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle has defected to Turkey, a Damascus-based website with close links to the regime reported on Thursday.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Israel and Egypt as part of an eight-nation tour which began Thursday, the State Department announced. “Clinton will travel to France, Japan,

Libya’s outgoing National Transitional Council said on Thursday that Islamic law sharia should be the “main” source of legislation and that this should not be subject to a referendum. “The

A poll conducted for Channel 10 News on Thursday found that 46 percent of Israelis believe that the Kadima party should quit the coalition if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does

A former senior Syria Army officer estimates in a report that the Syrian Army has lost 6% of its armored vehicles in the ongoing civil war. The former staff officer,

The IDF is preparing thoroughly for another war while implementing many lessons from the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, Galilee Division Commander Brig. Gen. Hertzi Halevi

Russia dismissed rumors on Thursday that it would offer political asylum to embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as a “joke.” “It is either an attempt to mislead serious people dealing

Russia has unveiled a new and advanced variation of a cruise missile that can be launched from a standard naval container, which Israel is concerned will find its way into