Syrian regime forces strengthened their hold on Palmyra on Monday and pushed forward against the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group after dealing it a major blow by retaking the ancient city. Antiquities director Maamoun Abdulkarim

The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Monday asked the UN to investigate “extrajudicial killings” by Israel, in the wake of an incident in Hevron last Thursday in which an IDF soldier

While Islamic State (ISIS) attacks in Europe and massacres in Syria and Iraq have dominated the headlines in recent months, the radical Islamic terror group may be shifting its focus,

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke in a Likud faction meeting on Monday about the IDF soldier who shot a wounded terrorist last Thursday, and also condemned the Supreme Court decision Sunday canceling his

Fatah and Hamas delegations met in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday and Sunday to discuss the implementation of a reconciliation process between the two major Palestinian factions, the Ma’an news agency

The head of the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA), Admiral Michael Rogers, was secretly in Israel last week for a working visit that dealt with forging closer cooperation in

The head of the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA), Admiral Michael Rogers, was secretly in Israel last week for a working visit that dealt with forging closer cooperation in

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a Pakistani offshoot of the Taliban, has taken responsibility for killing more than 70 people in a public park on Sunday. At least 300 more were injured in the

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump became a grandfather for the eighth time Sunday night. The billionaire business mogul’s daughter Ivanka “Yael” Trump, who converted to Judaism in 2009, announced via

Low winter-like temperatures are expected to remain throughout the northern and central regions of the country on Monday, while intermittent showers will occur throughout those areas. There is concern of

A German judge is facing reprimand for exposing how the German legal system regularly prevents Holocaust survivors from receiving money they are owed. Colette Avital, the head of the Center Organizations of Holocaust

Israel’s military is the eleventh strongest in the world, according to the international defense site Global Firepower (GFP). GFP only factored into account conventional military capabilities when assembling its list

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced Monday morning the formal appointment of former Yesha Council head Dani Dayan as Israel’s Consul General in New York. Dayan will replace Foreign Ministry career

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Tzfat, was interviewed by Radio Kol Rega on sunday regarding the soldier who shot and killed a neutralized terrorist. When asked if he considers

A Jerusalem court has convicted Omar Abu Sa’ara of incitement to violence and incitement to racism. According to the indictment, Abu Sa’ara made his statements in the al-Kabali Mosque on

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday evening spoke out against the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down his landmark natural gas policy, when it ruled that if the Knesset does

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Sunday strongly condemned last week’s passage of a UN Human Rights Council resolution calling for the creation of a “blacklist” of companies operating in Judea

Air raids on Sunday night killed 14 men suspected of belonging to Al-Qaeda in southern Yemen, medics and local residents said, according to the Reuters news agency. The air strikes

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he supports a “two-state solution” for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the Palestinian Authority (PA) must also recognize Israel and stop its incitement to terrorism

Dutch police on Sunday arrested a 32-year-old French national in the port city of Rotterdam on suspicion of planning a terror attack, prosecutors said, following a raid carried out at

More than 360 civilians were killed during the first month of an unprecedented ceasefire in Syria, the lowest monthly toll for four years, a monitoring group said on Sunday. The

A 7-year-old boy tragically drowned Sunday afternoon in a hotel pool in the southernmost port city of Eilat. Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics were called to the hotel, whereupon they

The Lowy Institute for International Policy recently published its Global Diplomacy Index (GDI), which found that despite the diplomatic threats of isolating Israel, the Jewish state currently stands ranked 29 in terms

Anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered scrawled across a synagogue in the central Ukrainian city of Cherkasy. Vandals spray-painted “kill the Jews” and “Jews annexed Ukraine” on an external wall of the

Rina Ben-Shabbat, the daughter of Rabbi Dan Mertzbach who was accidentally shot and killed by an IDF soldier, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Sunday about the difficult emotions her family is struggling

Sholom Rubashkin, 56, serving his seventh year of a controversial 27-year prison sentence in the United States for offenses connected to his running of a slaughterhouse in Iowa – the

The mother of the IDF soldier who shot a wounded Arab terrorist in Hevron last Thursday wrote to Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) on Sunday, criticizing how her son has been

The nationalistic crime division of the Judea-Samaria district police recommended on Sunday to stand on trial two now infamous radical leftist activists, following an investigation. The two activists, Ezra Nawi and

Israel’s Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef told listeners during his weekly Torah class that according to halakha (Jewish religious law) gentiles are forbidden to live in Israel except under special circumstances. Rabbi Yosef

A parole committee heard on Sunday the request of former President Moshe Katzav to have his seven-year rape sentence reduced by a third, an official said, with the decision postponed for next week. A