Egyptian navy ships were on their way to the waters off Turkey Thursday afternoon, where they will rendezvous with Turkish navy vessels for a joint exercise. Egypt’s top naval commander,

As diplomacy begins to thaw between India and Pakistan a wandering primate who strayed across a disputed border region into Pakistan has sparked a media firestorm. The monkey, who remains

The rumors of an imminent destruction of a Jewish community came true early Thursday morning as Border Police officers arrived without warning in large numbers in the outpost of Mitzpe Yitzhar

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday endorsed harsher sanctions on Iran, as part of U.S. attempts to weaken Tehran economically and derail its pursuit of nuclear weapons. The Associated

A former top Pentagon official said that the drone Iran exhibited last week “appears to be a fake,” USA Today reported Thursday. The official requested anonymity because he was not

Syrian army defectors killed at least 27 soldiers and government personnel early Thursday. The deaths came in three separate clashes at dawn in the southern province of Dara’a, where the

Iran’s intelligence chief visited Riyadh for talks with Saudi Arabia’s top security officials on Monday amid continued tensions between the Persian Gulf rivals. Iranian Intelligence Minister Haidar Moslehi met with

A proposal bill to ban Jewish kosher slaughter of animals in Holland was rejected late Tuesday by the upper house of the Parliament on the ground that it violates freedom

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said that Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich’s remarks about Palestinian Authority Arabs were “unhelpful.” Gingrich told The Jewish Channel last week that the claim

The Israel Prison Service (IPS) uploaded the list of prisoners designated to be released in the second stage of the Gilad Shalit deal to its website on Wednesday. From the

The United States predicted on Wednesday that the downfall of Syrian President Bashar Assad is imminent, The Associated Press reported. According to the report Frederic Hof, a senior official in

The United Nations has been warned — Syrian citizens are dying by the thousands, with the death toll in Syria rising by at least 1,000 in the past 10 days

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday accepted the recommendations of Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch and Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman for dealing with disturbances in Judea and Samaria.  The ministers

Cal State has joined the Ivy League and New York State University in rescinding a ban on its students studying in Israeli universities after 9 years. The California State University

Even as Yemen swears in its interim government and prepares to say goodbye to outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh, terrorists from Al Qaeda continue to grab headlines in the teetering

Egyptians are heading to the polls for round two of their parliamentary elections. The selection of a new parliament in Egypt is a three-stage process, with the second round taking

The Hamas rulers of Gaza are celebrating their 24th anniversary since the terrorist group was founded. Tens of thousands of their supporters joined in the celebrations Wednesday, waving the signature

Police pounced on expelled Yesha residents in Jerusalem’s Kiryat Moshe neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, throwing some of them out of windows, an eyewitness said. Protesters fought police, and three of them

According to the Swiss paper Tagesanzeiger authorities in Germany and Switzerland are investigating possible links between the 2001 murder of an Israeli-born rabbi in Zurich and a series of murders

Religious students from the Beit Yatir pre-military academy located in the Hevron Hills in Judea held a demonstration on Tuesday evening in support and solidarity with Israeli soldiers. The demonstration

Police suspect that arsonists attacked an unused mosque near downtown Jerusalem in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday. Investigators found slogans against Muslims and the words “price tag” spray-painted on the walls of

Iran’s supreme Muslim leader, Ali Khamenei, has ordered the arrest of several Revolutionary Guards, along with one of his sons, suspected of plotting to assassinate him, the Jordan-based Al Bawaba website

Relatives of more than 14,000 Jews and others massacred by the Nazis in the Ukrainian city of Simferopol 70 years ago gathered Sunday to remember the horror. They observed a

The National Conference on Jewish Affairs (NCJA), a coalition of Jewish leaders and heads of Jewish, pro-Israel, pro-America organizations in America and abroad, welcomed on Tuesday recent comments by Republican

Religious students from the Beit Yatir pre-military academy located in the Hevron Hills in Judea held a demonstration on Tuesday evening in support and solidarity with Israeli soldiers. The demonstration

A former top advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that there is still time to stop Iran’s nuclear program using economic and political pressure. Dennis Ross, Obama’s

A key U.S. lawmaker denied on Tuesday Iran’s claims that its military brought down a U.S. drone last week, and said technical problems pulled the UAV from the sky and

Bahrain’s King Hamad on Tuesday charged Syria with training opposition figures and provocateurs in his tiny island kingdom. King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa told Britain’s Daily Telegraph, “We have evidence