U.S. school district bosses voiced regret Tuesday for a writing assignment asking teenage students to discuss whether the Holocaust really happened, while saying it aimed to develop “critical thinking skills,”

Egypt’s ex-army chief and leading presidential candidate Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has declared that the Muslim Brotherhood movement of ousted president Mohammed Morsi was “finished” in Egypt and would not return

The Israel Air Force (IAF) displayed its colors on Independence Day with a traditional flyby in the skies of Israel, and about 70,000 people visited the IAF’s bases, according to

Egypt’s ex-army chief and leading presidential candidate Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi declared that if Israel won’t recognize the “state of Palestine,” with its capital in Jerusalem, he will never visit Israel.

Residents of the capital reported on the vandalism to Arutz Sheva, and one resident of the Katamon neighborhood where the swastikas were scrawled spoke about the incident. The owner of the

Syrian insurgents attacked a regime checkpoint with 40 tons of explosives on Monday, killing at least 30 Syrian troops, including two officers. Videos and images posted by opposition supporters online

Authorities in Hamas-run Gaza on Thursday executed two Palestinian Arabs for allegedly collaborating with Israel, the territory’s interior ministry said in a statement. “Two collaborators with the Israeli occupation, condemned to death for having given

A watchdog group has raised alarm over anti-Semitism in the UK Wednesday, noting that Hamas and Holocaust denial are becoming endemic at British universities – and all in the name

A large majority of the Jewish public in Israel (68%) support the government’s decision to halt peace talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA) following its unity pact with Hamas, a

US National Security Adviser Susan Rice met Israeli leaders Wednesday, AFP reports, after the collapse of US-brokered Middle East peace talks and amid allegations Israel was spying on its principal ally. Rice started her visit

The commander of the Iranian Navy stated on Tuesday that his forces were trained to destroy U.S. warships. Speaking to the Fars news agency, the commander, Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi,

An immense explosion has been heard throughout the northern Iranian city of Qazvin, semi-official Fars news agency reported, and many casualties are expected from the blast.  Around 1.1 million people live

Fighting between rival jihadist groups in eastern Syria killed 74 people on Monday, AFP reported, citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The clashes between Al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch Al-Nusra Front

Two Iranian warships docked in Sudan on Monday, Khartoum’s military said, according to AFP. Sudan’s army spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad was quoted as having said that the warships, one of

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it illegal to justify or deny Nazi war crimes. According to AFP, Putin on Monday signed new legislation introducing harsh punishments for such acts.

Beit Haggai, a 100-family Jewish community in the Hevron hills, was cut off from water at 2:00 a.m. Tuesday, as a result of Palestinian-Arab sabotage. The Har Hevron Regional Council’s

The unity pact between the PLO-Fatah and Hamas went into force on Monday as the interior ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said it freed six prisoners from rival party Fatah in

Eitan Amos, 18, of Toronto, is the winner of this year’s Bible Contest. He is the first Canadian to win the contest. Amos is a student at Ohr Haim Yeshiva in Toronto.

President Shimon Peres revealed on Monday that three years ago he reached a peace agreement with Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Speaking to Channel 2 News in a special

The Hamas-run Gaza government released six prisoners affiliated with the Fatah movement on Monday, an official said, according to the Ma’an news agency. Iyad al-Bazim, spokesman for the Gaza Interior

A security jeep that was driving through the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan (Shiloach) was attacked on Monday evening by some 30 masked men, who hurled rocks and paint bottles

Indian security agencies say a suspect has revealed in interrogation that Pakistan was behind planned terror attack on Israeli and American consulates in India. Official sources on Sunday revealed that

Nuclear experts from Iran and six world powers are due on Monday to start a week of talks in New York aimed at reaching a permanent agreement that limits Iran’s

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad will face two other candidates in the coming June presidential election, the country’s Supreme constitutional Court announced Sunday, according to The Associated Press (AP). 21 other

Libya’s Congress leader on Sunday rejected the appointment of a new interim prime minister hours after he was sworn in, reports the BBC. Ahmed Maitig thought he had secured the

A British Tory council candidate has been forced to resign from the party after posting anti-Islamic comments on Twitter, the BBC reported on Sunday. David Bishop, a candidate in Brentwood

A former Member of Knesset who was forced to flee Israel after it was revealed that he revealed sensitive security details to Hezbollah terrorists will head a new Qatar-based television

The Al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist group Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis on Sunday claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings in Sinai on Friday that left three dead, reports Daily News Egypt. In a statement

A former New York Police Department (NYPD) officer was arrested on Sunday, after surveillance video apparently captured him on an anti-Semitic graffiti rampage in the religious Jewish neighborhood of Borough

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