Turkish police arrested 11 people over the murder of an American woman who disappeared while visiting Istanbul last month, police and the local media reported Sunday. The body of 33-year-old

After previously speaking with President Shimon Peres, the United States’ new Secretary of State, John Kerry, phoned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday evening. During the conversation, Netanyahu told Kerry

Egypt received four F-16 aircraft from the United States on Sunday, the Egypt Independent reports. According to the report, the country’s Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi praised the growing military

Jerusalem-based research institute NGO Monitor released a report Sunday analyzing submissions made by NGOs to the Israeli registrar of non-profits in 2012, as legislated under the NGO Transparency law. The

Newly-installed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry isn’t wasting any time in getting started on his new job. After two full days in office, Kerry spoke to officials in Mexico,

Israel intends to declare a buffer zone inside the Syrian border to prevent terrorists from getting too close to its territory when the embattled Damascus regime topples, security sources quoted

The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Border Guard have foiled another attempt by Palestinian Authority Arab terrorists to kidnap someone within pre-1967 Israel – but the facts were withheld

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate William C. Thompson joined in the chorus of opposition directed at the Brooklyn College’s political science department, which is co-sponsoring an event aimed at promoting

The armies of Syria, Lebanon and Jordan are all on high alert, a report in a Lebanese newspaper said Sunday. The report in Ad-Diar said that the alerts were due

Moscow said Saturday it wanted to keep in regular contact with the Syrian opposition, after ground-breaking talks between the Russian foreign minister and the coalition’s leader. AFP reported that Russian

Iran’s currency plummeted to an all-time low on Saturday, registering a more than 21-percent drop in a span of two weeks against the U.S. dollar, currency tracking websites and money

Iran has threatened to attack Israel in retaliation for the destruction of a chemical weapons processing center near Damascus, using Syria as its proxy. Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu criticized the Syrian government over the weekend, for failing to respond to an alleged attack by Israel inside Syria earlier this week, the Turkish daily

Iran on Saturday presented a new fighter jet, claiming it is able to evade radar systems, AFP reports. In an unveiling ceremony inside a hangar, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled a

The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), a group that is outlawed in Turkey, claimed responsibility on Saturday for the terror attack at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara on Friday, the

Egypt’s main opposition group on Saturday backed calls to oust the ruling Islamists after deadly clashes, as President Mohammed Morsi scrambled to contain fallout from footage of apparent police brutality,

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is making efforts to bring the leader of a terrorist group to live in the areas assigned to it in Judea and Samaria, the PA-based WAFA

About 200 Arabs set up an illegal outpost Saturday near the village of Burin, not far from Shechem, in Samaria. They had put up a tent when the IDF arrived

Israel explained on Friday, unofficially, what happened on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, when its planes allegedly attacked a target in Syria. It also explained why Syria gave a

The Washington Post disclosed Saturday that it had suffered a cyberattack and suspects Chinese hackers were behind it, joining Twitter and major US media outlets that have endured intrusions. The

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Saturday night of the danger of a civil war in Israel, in a speech he delivered after receiving the presidential nod to assemble the next

President Shimon Peres is expected to summon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to the Presidential Residence Saturday evening, in order to give him the go-ahead for assembling the next government coalition.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemned on Friday the attack on the American Embassy in Ankara. In a letter he sent to U.S. President Barack Obama, Netanyahu wrote, “I am shocked

Protesters and security forces clashed at the Egyptian presidential palace on Friday, as thousands of people rallied in cities across the country against President Mohammed Morsi, AFP reported. The Republican

Iran proudly claimed this week that it sent a live monkey into space, but the claims may have been untrue. According to a report in the British Telegraph on Friday,

The White House condemned Friday’s suicide bombing outside the U.S. embassy in Ankara as a “terrorist attack.” “We strongly condemn what was a suicide attack against our embassy in Ankara,

The suicide bomber who killed one person and wounded another in an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara on Friday is a member of an outlawed leftist group, Prime

Former New York mayor Ed Koch died on Friday and the age of 88. Koch, who served as the mayor of New York in the turbulent 1970s and 1980s and