“Too many Israelis are ready to abandon peace”, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday, as he addressed the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. “The situation in Iraq, Syria and

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yair Lapid agreed on Wednesday afternoon on a compromise regarding the state budget for 2015. According to the compromise, the defense system will

Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said Tuesday he has asked for $3.8 billion in urgent aid to help rebuild Gaza following the fighting this past summer. Hamdallah told

Jordan’s central bank said Tuesday it still supports the Jordan-based Arab Bank, which was found liable in a U.S. court of supporting Hamas a day earlier. AFP reported that the

British Prime Minister David Cameron told NBC News on Tuesday that he is certain that the “Islamic State” (IS or ISIS) is plotting attacks in Europe. “These people want to

Iran’s President, Hassan Rouhani, said on Tuesday that airstrikes by the U.S. and a group of allies against Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria are illegal, The Wall Street Journal

Nigeria’s military on Tuesday said that some of the schoolgirls abducted in April by the Islamist Boko Haram group had been freed, but later retracted its statement, according to the

Hezbollah leader Hassan Narsallah declared on Tuesday that the group is against the intervention of the United States in Syria, the Lebanese-based Daily Star newspaper reported. Nasrallah’s comments in a

The family of British hostage Alan Henning on Tuesday said they have received an audio file of him pleading for his life, the BBC reported. In a “further message for

The European Union (EU) counter-terrorism chief on Tuesday revealed that since declaring itself an Islamic caliphate in June, the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group has seen a surge of European jihadists

Captain Ziv Shilon, who was badly wounded in a Hamas attack near Gaza in October 2012 and lost his arm, on Tuesday married his fiancée, Adi, in the city of Ofakim. Prime

India on Wednesday became the first nation to successfully put a satellite in Mars’ orbit, in the process becoming the first nation to succeed in its first attempt and the

A group of Danish Muslim extremists sympathetic to the “Islamic State” terrorist group (IS) planned to murder an entire family and film it as a “warning” to Western states intervening

Over a thousand protesters demonstrated Monday against the Metropolitan Opera’s anti-Semitic “The Death of Klinghoffer” production, including the father of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who was murdered by Al Qaeda terrorists in

Dozens of Arab rioters began shooting fireworks at police on the Temple Mount on Wednesday morning, just hours before the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana) began, and as soon as

Ya’akov Argantero, a resident of Kfar Aza located in the Gaza Belt just outside northern Gaza, told Arutz Sheva he intends to stay at his home for the Jewish New Year (Rosh

A senior member of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction said that Abbas will “drop a bomb” against Israel at the UN General Assembly on Friday. The senior

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem recently said that his country would welcome foreign airstrikes against the “Islamic State” (IS, or ISIS) or the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front. The comments were made

A police search has been launched Wednesday for a man who spewed anti-Semitic comments on a London bus full of Jewish schoolchildren, the Evening Standard reports – but only after

In another strong sign of the warming of ties between Israel and the Republic of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, President of the Republic of Cyprus, inaugurated a photo and video exhibition

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon continued to levy criticism about the conduct of the security cabinet during Operation Protective Edge on Wednesday, noting that the Cabinet’s infighting likely prolonged the war.

Terrorist and hate preacher Abu Qatada was acquitted – and released – by a Jordanian court on Wednesday, on charges of plotting the 2000 “millennium plot” on American and Israeli

Likud Central Committee Chairman MK Danny Danon spoke to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday ahead of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana), slamming the leadership of his party – primarily Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

Rival Palestinian Arab factions Hamas and Fatah began talks in Cairo on Wednesday aimed at resolving internal disputes and reviving their unity government.   The two-day talks will focus on

Western Africa is currently suffering a lethal Ebola epidemic, but according to a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report released Tuesday, the spread of the virus is

A new opinion poll released by Globes shows the right-wing and religious Knesset bloc growing significantly in the next elections – but also illustrates a slight comeback for Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s

The Filipino terrorist organization Abu Sayyaf, which recently pledged loyalty to the Islamic State (ISIS), is holding two German citizens captive and demanding 250 million Philippine Pesos (over $5.6 million) from

Israel continues its push for allies in the Far East in a landmark visit next week by Vietnamese Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Quan, in the first visit by

The family of Netanel Arami hy”d gave a shocking insight into the police investigation during Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Eli Ben-Dahan’s (Jewish Home) condolence visit on Tuesday. Their son fell to

Confusion reigned Tuesday over the fate of the brother-in-law of a notorious jihadist whose 2012 killing spree shocked France, after the interior ministry said he had been arrested at a