Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Monday spoke with his French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and offered Israel’s support in the wake of the terrorist attacks that took place in Paris

The Obama administration is not backing off its plans to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States in 2016, the State Department clarified Monday, despite the fact that several

An Egyptian cleric, speaking on local television following the Paris terrorist attacks, expressed condolences over the attacks but also said that the West should not be surprised by them nor

Italy’s Interior Minister announced Monday that air space over Rome will be closed to drones throughout the Roman Catholic Holy Year celebrations beginning next month, due to a fear that

Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman on Monday denounced Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, after she appeared to link ISIS’s attacks on Paris with “Palestinian frustration” with Israel. The attempt by the

If the world had any innocence left, it is gone now. Chaos and bloodshed rule the headlines. Uncertainty and instability consume peoples’ thoughts. For the atheist it is just another

The Jerusalem District Attorney filed a claim Tuesday for 23,368 shekel ($5968) in damages against three Arabs who threw rocks at the Jerusalem Light Rail, damaging the public transport car.  The claim

Nahariya residents have endured without fresh, clean running water since Monday – and complain Tuesday that the municipality’s warning to boil all water did not reach them for hours after

France launched new airstrikes Tuesday on the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, in north-central Syria, while French police carried out 128 anti-terrorism raids throughout France overnight. French military spokesman Col.

Russia’s security chief, FSB head Alexander Bortnikov, acknowledged that terrorism downed a Metrojet flight which crashed in the Sinai several weeks ago, killing 224 people – long after Western intelligence declared that

The IDF carried out a large scale operation overnight in the city of Shechem in Samaria and its environs, for locating weapons. The operation was carried out together with the

France has listed more than 10,000 people suspected of being radicalized or potential security threats, including homegrown assailant Omar Ismail Mostefai who killed scores of people at Paris’s Bataclan music on Friday. According to

As French authorities struggle to get to grips with the vast network of Muslim extremists in its country – some 10,000-strong according to official estimates – a sermon recorded at a

The President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) has sharply condemned “deeply troubling” comments by Sweden’s foreign minister, in which she appeared to link ISIS’s attacks on Paris with “Palestinian frustration”

Hungary does not endorse labeling of products from Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights throughout the EU, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó declared Monday.  “We do not support the decision to

An alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces fighting the Islamic State group (ISIS or IS) in northeast Syria has driven the jihadists out of nearly 200 villages, its spokesman told

Two senior Democratic Congressman have written a letter to the US Department of Justice urging “fair consideration” of Jonathan Pollard’s wish to emigrate to Israel upon his release this week.

Israel’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, on Monday wrote to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, demanding a condemnation of the Palestinian Red Crescent, following the revelation that the organization’s ambulance was at

US President Barack Obama said Monday the United States had no precise intelligence warning of the Paris bombing and shooting attacks that have been claimed by Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists.

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(Paris: AFP) When Hamideche Dorea nervously left home on Monday, opposite La Belle Equipe cafe where 19 people were gunned down in the attacks that tore through Paris, her pulse sped

A teacher who taught a beginners’ Hebrew course at Jordan’s Petra University was fired from his post this week, after he told his students that Hebrew language would help them understand

A clear majority of Americans support escalating their country’s fight against ISIS – but simultaneously oppose the notion of sending ground troops to the Middle East to take on the

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced increasing calls Monday to delay bringing in 25,000 Syrian refugees by year’s end due to security concerns, following attacks in Paris. While an online petition against fast-tracking Syrian

The IDF has released video of the overnight operation on Sunday night, in which it demolished the home in Qalandiya in the north of Jerusalem belonging to Mohammed Abu Shahin, the terrorist

Belgian police launched a crackdown on Monday in the Muslim immigrant neighborhood of Molenbeek, Brussels. Rue Delaunoy was identified as the street where the raid took place according to RTBF, with RTL radio

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) visited on Monday the location of Friday’s terrorist double murder near Hevron, and said that cars with Palestinian Authority license plates should not be

A breathtaking ancient mosaic in Lod – unearthed by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) while building a visitor center for another famous mosaic – will be opened to the public for

A French official on Monday identified Abdelhamid Abaaoud of Belgium, 27, as being the mastermind behind the Islamic State (ISIS) attacks in Paris on Saturday, in which at least 129 people

Opposition Head and Labor party chairman Yitzchak Herzog, as well as Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid, hurled barbs of invective at rookie Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich Monday, as they