The Arab League said Sunday that it would back military action led by the US and Europe against IS (aka ISIS or ISIL), the Islamist group that has taken over

Jack the Ripper was a 23-year-old Polish immigrant called Aaron Kosminski, according to an author claiming to have exposed the serial killer’s true identity using DNA evidence. Russell Edwards, 48,

Dozens of Arabs rioted in the Wadi Joz area of Jerusalem Sunday following the death of Mohammed Abu Sankara, 16, who was injured during another riot a week earlier. He

Egypt arrested seven men on Saturday for taking part in a gay wedding video that went viral on social media, accusing them of inciting debauchery and undermining public morals. The arrest of two

President Barack Obama said he will explain to Americans and congressional leaders this week his strategy to deal with and ultimately defeat the Islamic State terrorists, who he said could

Two weeks after the IDF’s counter-terror operation Protective Edge in Gaza was halted by a ceasefire, a senior diplomatic source says that Hamas has renewed its production of rockets and the

During 50 days of war against Hamas in Gaza, one of the stated goals of Israel was the demilitarization of Gaza. Officials and politicians from parties both right and left

Hundreds of people gathered over the weekend at a synagogue in Miami, Florida for a service in memory of Steve Sotloff, the American-Israeli journalist who was brutally beheaded by terrorists

The Somali Al-Shabaab terrorist group confirmed on Saturday that its leader Ahmed Godane had been killed in a U.S. airstrike this week and named a new leader, Reuters reported. U.S.

Egypt on Saturday charged ousted president Mohammed Morsi and several other people with endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar, Reuters reported. Security sources had

Middle East studies expert Dr. David Bukay of the University of Haifa ridicules intelligence experts trying to downplay the danger posed by the extremist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS),

Concerns that a young Nigerian tourist hospitalized in Jerusalem’s Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital may have been carrying the lethal Ebola virus were dismissed on Saturday night, as test results revealed she

A senior member of the Palestinian Arab negotiating team that reached a ceasefire deal with Israel on August 26 in Cairo said Saturday that restarted talks on larger demands will

A freed French hostage has said the terrorist behind the deadly shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May was among his Islamic extremist captors in Syria, and was part

The Lebanese army says it is looking into reports that the Islamic State terrorist group has beheaded another of its soldiers Saturday. An IS commander told Turkey’s Anadolu news site that

Knesset Coalition Chairman MK Yariv Levin (Likud) on Saturday indicated in a TV interview that the coalition may be in for a shake-up in the near future – and that

Before Shabbat began on Friday evening, residents of the northern Jerusalem neighborhood Pisgat Ze’ev reported to the 100 police emergency hotline that they heard gunshots from the adjacent Arab neighborhood

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to combat anti-Semitism, the White House said in a statement. “The President met with Turkish President Erdogan today

The United States said Friday it has “no plans” for any military coordination with Iran in the fight against Islamic State fighters operating in Iraq and Syria, AFP reported. “We

U.S. and Iranian officials on Friday met for a second day of negotiations in Switzerland as they work towards hammering out a full nuclear deal ahead of a November deadline,

New York’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is in the process of revoking a license plate reading “HAMMAS,” which it says never should have been issued in the first place,

Opposition leader and Labor party chairman MK Yitzhak Herzog on Friday spoke with Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the first conversation between an Israeli leader and Abbas since the

Al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch, the Al-Nusra Front, on Friday threatened Lebanon’s Sunni Muslims they must support its cause or “pay the price”, Reuters reports. The group said the coming period would

A two year-old has been declared dead on Friday, according to Magen David Adom (MDA) medics, in the second serious baby-left-in-car incident in Israel in 24 hours.  The child was

The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that Ahmed Abdi Godane, leader of the Somali Al-Shabaab terrorist group, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Somalia this week, Reuters reported. “We have

US President Barack Obama urged NATO to intervene in Islamic State’s conquests of Iraq and Syria Friday, ending a two-day conference with the international body stating that it has “a critical

An odd social media trend transcended political and cultural boundaries, international media reported Friday, after the popular “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge” (#ALSicebucketchallenge) has sparked a movement to make burning the

The Lebanese military said one person was killed as Israel blew up a suspicious device after it had been detected in southern Lebanon on Friday. The official National News Agency (NNA) said earlier

A Nigerian tourist in her twenties was hospitalized in isolation at Shaarei Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Friday, after rising concerns that she may have tested positive for Ebola, according to

At least three Canadians who joined Islamic State (IS; formerly known as ISIS) and other Al Qaeda-offshoot groups in Syria were directly involved in abducting and interrogating two US journalists,