United States Vice President Joe Biden announced Saturday that his son, Beau, has died of brain cancer, according to The Associated Press (AP). Beau Biden was 46. “It is with

Israel’s new tourism minister Yariv Levin (Likud) held his first working meeting Saturday evening, notably choosing to host Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan and CEO Shlomi Wormstein at his Jerusalem

The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group launched an assault on the largely Kurdish city of Hasakeh in northeast Syria on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attack came a day after

Amnesty International made waves last Tuesday with its report detailing how Hamas executed citizens in Gaza last summer in war crimes at the close of Operation Protective Edge, but just what

Yesh Atid chairperson Yair Lapid struck out at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government on Channel 2‘s “Meet the Press” program, and announced that despite having nosedived in elections from 19 seats

The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group Saturday demolished a prison in the Syrian city of Palmyra, a monitor said, eliminating what was for decades one of the country’s most feared detention centers. The jail was

Amid accelerated international efforts to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, the UN atomic agency on Friday reported that work on an assessment of allegations that Tehran worked on atomic

Palestinian Football Association President Jibril Rajoub is submitting an amendment to the PFA’s proposal to ban Israel from FIFA, minutes ahead of the vote itself. The vote was not expected

Rabbi Eugene Kwalwasser, a well-loved figure in the New Jersey area, spent four decades as an educator, with 27 of those as principal of Yavneh Academy in New Jersey, now

Syrian troops retreated as regime warplanes bombarded Al Qaeda-led rebel fighters on Friday, a day after the insurgents overran the last government-held city in the key northwestern province of Idlib.  

A boys soccer team from ISNA Private Islamic High School in Canada’s Brampton refused to finish a tournament match on Tuesday, since the opposite team had two female players. The

A Syrian Christian fighter has beheaded an Islamic State group (ISIS) jihadist to avenge people “executed” by the group in northeastern Syria, a monitor said on Friday, according to AFP.

The United States on Friday officially dropped Cuba from its blacklist as a state sponsor of terrorism, in a landmark move aimed at paving the way towards normalizing ties frozen

Former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee will officially enter the presidential race on behalf of the Democrats on June 3, a source with knowledge of his plans told the Politico

Arizona police stepped up security on Friday near a mosque for a planned outdoor protest by an anti-Islam group that includes drawing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, Reuters reported. The

The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group on Friday claimed responsibility for car bombings at two upscale Baghdad hotels that officials said killed at least nine people and wounded dozens, AFP

Security forces tasked with dispersing Palestinian Arab riots are used to being attacked with rocks and firebombs, but on Friday they were surprised by a new weapon used by the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday blasted the Palestinian Authority (PA) for its provocation, after Palestinian Football Association chairman Jibril Rajoub withdrew his bid to have Israel banned from FIFA.

With most of its natural and mineral resources having fallen under rebel control, Syrian state revenues have shrunk, leaving the government dependent on unstable sources of income for its survival. Four years of

New Jersey governor Chris Christie on Thursday spoke at the third annual “Champions of Jewish Values” awards gala in New York. In his remarks, Christie launched a verbal attack on

Former Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday said that the Israeli government should initiate steps to end the conflict with the Palestinian Authority (PA). Speaking to Army

Outgoing UN aid chief Valerie Amos made a final appeal Thursday to world powers to take action to end Syria’s four-year war, saying it had brought more despair than ever

United States defense aid to Israel is likely to increase after 2017, sources on both sides told Reuters on Thursday, seeing a possible link to Washington’s efforts to assuage Israel’s

Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog on Thursday threw his support behind Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s comments against the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) bid to have Israel banned from FIFA. “Boycotting Israel

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is leaning toward not including Israel on an annual list of states responsible for violating children’s rights in armed conflicts despite proposals to include it, UN

Police in Cyprus arrested a 26 year-old Lebanese man on Thursday on suspicion of planning terror attacks against Israelis in the island nation, after finding two tons of fertilizer and

The European Union (EU) on Thursday added a high-ranking Syrian military official to its sanctions list as it extended measures against supporters of President Bashar Al-Assad for another year, Reuters

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who has openly declared that he intends to work to expand his 61-member government, recently offered Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid to join the coalition, Channel 2

The nuclear-armed rogue dictator state of North Korea has significantly upgraded its main rocket launch site, according to new satellite imagery revealed by a US research institute in a report

The 65th annual FIFA Congress met in Switzerland Friday, and will decide, among other issues, whether to heed the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) intransigent demands to oust Israel from world soccer over security