President Barack Obama “doesn’t intend to lose” the battle with Congress over the Iran deal, he told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday. Those who are opposed to the deal, he

A major shortage of aid funding for Iraq threatens food assistance relied on by more than two million people, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for the country said on Sunday, according

A bomb attack at a police station in Istanbul wounded five police officers and two civilians on Sunday night, The Associated Press (AP) reported, citing Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency.

Some 180 Palestinian Arab security prisoners decided on Sunday to temporarily halt the hunger strike they announced the previous day in protest of the conditions of their incarceration, i24news reported.

Police have recently released a number of the youths arrested Sunday morning during a raid on Givat HaBladim near Kohav HaShahar. The rest of the detainees will be freed later

An artificial beach named “Tel Aviv on the Seine” will open in the French capital for a one day celebration on Thursday.  Dreamt up by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and her Tel

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday warned against what he called unfounded claims that Syria has chemicalweapons, as the United Nations Security Council investigates deadly chlorine gas attacks. His

A fire broke out on the northern slopes of the Yitzhar community in Samaria on Sunday afternoon. Fire crews have been called to the scene working to extinguish the fire.

Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett announced his support on Sunday for the use of administrative detentions, house demolitions and the death penalty for Jews convicted of nationalist crimes.  In an interview

The final hearing in the trial of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian is expected to be held Monday, the Post stated Sunday, after the journalist was accused of espionage while

Opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union), spoke at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on Sunday morning, at a conference of Democratic representatives from US Congress. Herzog attacked Prime Minister

A Swedish citizen of Lebanese descent was arrested after a joint investigation from the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and the Lahav 433 anti-fraud unity last month, it

Six-month long administrative detention orders were issued Sunday morning against two right-wing Jewish activists – Meir Ettinger and Evyatar Slonim.  The orders were signed by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on the recommendation of the

A 26-year-old Israeli man was wounded lightly in a stabbing attack on Sunday evening at a gas station on Highway 443, which stretches from Lod to Modi’in in central Israel between Tel

Two young children drowned in pools in Israel on Sunday, in tragic incidents that left both of them in serious condition as medical teams fight to save their lives. In one

The Islamic State (ISIS) group advanced Sunday against rival rebel forces, including Islamists, in a bid to capture a series of key villages in northern Syria, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht Ravanchi stated on Sunday that the Iran nuclear deal sealed last month with world powers is final, and includes a clause stipulating sanctions cannot be

The grassroots Im Tirzu Zionist organization awarded 30 Bedouin Israeli activists a special “Award for Zionism,” for the efforts to encourage IDF enlistment among Israel’s Bedouin Arab population. The award was presented at

Hamas continues to lead daily protests against the intention of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), to cut its services in light of a deficit

A Colorado jury sentenced James Holmes to life in prison in the July 2012 Aurora, Colorado, shooting at a movie theater that left 12 people dead, Reuters reports Saturday. Holmes

Dozens of Arabs have blocked the roads and are throwing rocks and firebombs at the Israel Police and the Border Police on Saturday night, in the Arab neighborhood of Isawiyya

The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s Fatah movement has formed a new militia to protect villages against “settlers,” after the arson attack on the PA village of Duma last month which killed

Deputy Foreign Minister MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) responded sharply to defend the Religious Zionist community in Israel on Saturday night, after a post from former Israel Security Agency (ISA or

Twenty-nine nuclear scientists have signed a letter to US President Barack Obama praising the Iranian nuclear deal, the New York Times reports Saturday night, calling it “innovative” and “stringent.” Signatories

The chief of the Iranian army defended the deal struck between the West and the Islamic Republic regarding Iran’s nuclear program on Saturday, according to state news agency IRNA. “The

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir will visit Moscow on Tuesday to discuss Syria conflict and the Islamic State group with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign ministry said

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s “interference” in US affairs is ‘unprecedented,’ US President Barack Obama asserted during an interview which will air in full Sunday night.  Speaking to CNN interviewer Fareed Zakaria, Obama addressed

The UN’s envoy to the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, on Saturday warned against allowing “extremists” to “escalate the situation”, following the death of Sa’ad Dawabshe, the father of the infant

Rocket fire from rebel-held areas around the Syrian capital Damascus killed five people and wounded 37 on Saturday, AFP reported, citing the state news agency SANA. “Five dead and 37

Sa’ad Dawabshe, the father of the infant who was killed in an arson attack on the Palestinian village of Duma last month, has died in Soroka Medical Center in Be’er