Sixteen Indonesians, mostly women and children, have been arrested in Turkey attempting to cross into Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS) group, a minister said, the latest case of Indonesians heading to

“Good day, my name is Mouaz.” The Portuguese is rudimentary, but the effort is sincere. The young man at a Sao Paulo mosque left the horrors of the Syrian civil war for

An Australian preacher’s anti-Semitic rant has made waves this week, after footage surfaced of him Thursday calling Jews “the most evil creatures of Allah.”  Ismail Al-Wahwah, spokesman for the Australian

Senior Hamas politburo official Khalil al-Hayya said in a conference in Gaza’s Khan Younis on Friday that Hamas and the other local terrorist organizations are obligated to keeping the ceasefire

Jewish Home chairman and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett made a late-night visit to Hevron in the early hours of Friday morning, where he prayed at the Cave of Machpelah and

Likud MK Miri Regev responded to a report on Friday that Labor chair Yitzhak Herzog paid a private company to launch a campaign against his predecessor Shelly Yechimovich, saying she

The Turkish coastguard opened fire to stop a cargo vessel carrying 337 mainly Syrian migrants heading towards European Union waters and arrested the suspected traffickers, a top local official said Friday. The

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett has not done his part to help Israelis with their housing and daily lives, Kulanu party chairman and former Likud minister Moshe Kahlon opined Friday. “I want to

The Hyper Cacher Jewish supermarket in Paris that became the site of a bloody hostage drama during a jihadist attack in January will re-open Sunday, a management source stated to AFP Friday. The kosher

Rabbi Meir Mazuz, the rabbinical counsel of Yachad – Ha’am Itanu chairperson Eli Yishai, in responding to a student’s question on Friday revealed the party intends to demand the cancellation

Iraqi army forces and Shi’ite militias, with the help of Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers, continue their fight to liberate Tikrit from Islamic State (ISIS), according to local reports Friday.  Iraqi officials explained

Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 67, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Thursday for immigration fraud for failing to tell US authorities that she had been jailed in Israel for a 1969 supermarket

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu launched a media blitz Thursday, granting interviews to Israeli television channels as well as other news sources, in a last-minute attempt to shore up support ahead

The French National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) reported that two Jewish teens were assaulted and robbed while leaving a synagogue in Marseille, and as a result of the attack

The Islamic State (ISIS) group has accepted a pledge of allegiance to the group made by the Nigerian jihadist organization Boko Haram,  according to an audiotape Thursday purportedly from its spokesman. “We announce to

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged the Security Council on Thursday to overcome divisions and take action to end the war in Syria as the conflict entered its fifth year with little prospect for peace. The

A new poll continues to show Likud falling behind Labor and Hatnua’s “Zionist Camp” a week before elections, with the distance between the two remaining at 21 seats to Likud

Hamas is continuing to incite youths in Gaza towards violence against Israelis. During a Hamas rally held in Gaza on March 6, two boys rapped about fighting “the occupation”. “Through

Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday declared that U.S. lawmakers won’t be able to change the terms of any nuclear agreement with Iran because it won’t be legally binding,

Vegetables harvested in Gaza will be exported to Israel for the first time in eight years on Thursday, the Palestinian Arab Ma’an news agency reports. A Gaza merchant, Salim Abu

The presence of Iranian advisers in the Iraq battle for Tikrit is “concerning” to the United States, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Wednesday, according to AFP. The comments came

The United States and Cuba have re-established a direct telephone link, the Cuban state telecommunications company said Wednesday, the AFP news agency reported. For the first time since 1999, calls

An Australian teenager who carried out a suicide attack in Iraq was under surveillance and his passport had been cancelled, officials said Thursday, as reports emerged that he left bomb-making material

A new petition sent to the White House is calling to file charges of treason against 47 senators who wrote a letter to Iran’s leadership, warning that any nuclear deal

Attacks in and around Baghdad, mostly bomb blasts, killed at least 17 people on Wednesday, Iraqi police and medical sources said, according to the AFP news agency. The deadliest single

Turkey on Thursday claimed an intelligence agent working for one of the states in the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) group had been captured for helping three British teenage girls cross into Syria to

Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri continued Thursday morning to reject the option of his party sitting in a left-wing government led by Labor leader Yitzhak Herzog.  This latest refusal, however, comes

Thousands of Iraqi troops and militiamen laid siege to jihadist fighters holed up in Tikrit on Thursday, wary of rushing into streets littered with bombs and infested with snipers. After

Around 200 Assyrian Christians protested outside the UN building in Iran’s capital Thursday to demand action to halt the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group’s victimization of their community in Syria and Iraq. ISIS has “destroyed

The body of a young German woman killed in Syria fighting with  Kurdish forces against the Islamic State (ISIS) group was on Thursday transferred to the Turkish side of the border ahead of