Egyptian authorities on Thursday closed the Rafah Crossing as planned, after it had been open for three consecutive days, reports the Ma’an news agency. The Gaza Crossing and Borders Department

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday dismissed as “propaganda” accusations that Islamic State (ISIS) fighters had been allowed to cross from Turkey into Syria to launch a fresh assault

Al-Qaeda has confirmed that an American drone strike earlier this year killed its English-language spokesman, a California native known as Azzam the American, AFP reported Thursday, citing the SITE Intelligence

Commercial cargo ships carrying food, fuel and other vital supplies must be allowed to reach ports in Yemen which is threatened by famine, the UN Security Council said Thursday, according

President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday about the need to maintain “unity” in talks between Iran and the six world powers. The two spoke in

Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists beheaded 12 men from rival Syrian rebel movements accused of fighting against them, in a video released on Thursday, according to AFP. It is the latest

Students sometimes arrive late to school – but usually not 80 years late. And yet a grandfather in Italy has just now finished middle school at the ripe old age

A Muslim terrorist attacked a gas factory in eastern France on Friday, pinning a decapitated head to the gates and wounding at least two others with explosive devices before being arrested. “According to the initial

The Vatican on Friday signed an historic first accord with “Palestine,” two years after officially recognizing the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a state. The accord, a treaty covering the life and activity of the Church

Arutz Sheva caught the final game of the Summer Baseball Classic tournament of the Israel Association of Baseball ‎‎(IAB) on Thursday, and learned how baseball is catching on fast in Israel as the Jewish

One of the main organizers of a neo-Nazi rally targeting London’s Jewish community has extended an invitation to far-left politician George Galloway to address the gathering of anti-Semites, citing Galloway’s

At least 120 civilians have been killed by the Islamic State (ISIS) group since it entered the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane just over 24 hours ago, a monitoring group said Friday. “According to

Donald Trump, the billionaire real estate mogul who this month announced he is running as a Republican presidential candidate, has apparently angered the US television network Univision by making remarks about

Terrorists in the Al Qaeda affiliate Al Shabaab in Somalia launched a brutal attack at dawn on Friday against African Union (AU) peacekeepers at a base 80 miles south of

An Arab terrorist tried to conduct a shooting attack on an IDF checkpoint in the Jordan Valley region on Friday. The terrorist was shot by IDF forces soon after he pulled

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continues to be embroiled in controversy, as on Thursday the US State Department said it cannot find 15 work-related emails from Clinton’s private server that were

Iran is Israel’s top security threat, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stated Thursday, at the graduation ceremony for new Israeli Air Force (IAF) pilots.  “The top threat that endangers our security is Iran’s

Israel on Thursday released a founding member of the Hamas terrorist organization in Judea and Samaria, the terror group claimed, a year after he and hundreds of other Hamas terrorists were arrested following

The Babi Yar memorial in Ukraine has been vandalized with graffiti swastikas, a Shorashim organization delegation discovered Monday, in yet another vandalism incident at the site.  “We came here to facilitate

In a youth soccer tournament just outside of Jerusalem held for the Muslim fast month of Ramadan, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has made clear what kind of person it views

The Israeli Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and police have arrested several people, including one minor, in the investigation into the terrorist murder of farmer David Bar Kapparah.  Bar Kapparah, 70, was

Arab residents have tried to drain an historic spring in Samaria on Thursday, after rioting at the spring which is where a 25-year-old Israeli was murdered last week.  The attempt was

One of the NGOs behind the latest anti-Israel flotilla to Gaza is funded by the French government, Arutz Sheva has learned. The Platform of French NGOs for Palestine (Plateforme des

A Russian pair are giving a whole new meaning to the phrase “going off the straight and narrow” – the two, a transsexual man and his gay female friend, have

Eight Iranian fighters have been buried in Iran Thursday after they were killed fighting ISIS in Syria, according to Iranian state media. Three of the men, all of whom were

Turkey on Thursday rejected as “black propaganda” claims that Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists crossed from Turkey to carry out deadly bombings and raids on the Syrian town of Kobane, AFP

Mr. Herbie Selig was born in the year 1914 in Bavaria. His family had been living in the town of Zeilitzheim, Germany for over 300 years, but by the time Mr.

The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group on Thursday sold 42 Iraqi women it had abducted from the Yazidi religious minority to its fighters in eastern Syria as sex slaves, a monitor said. The Syrian

Plans to set up a formal twinning agreement between Amsterdam and Tel Aviv have been dropped because some members of the city council oppose the idea, the English-language website Dutch

The White House on Thursday said efforts to have Israel charged with war crimes at the International Criminal Court (ICC) were “counterproductive” and would be opposed by Washington, according to AFP.  The United States has “made clear that