Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard stunned constituents on Wednesday by announcing that national elections will be held on September 14. Gillard, who holds power by a narrow margin and is

The bodies of 78 young men, all executed with a single gunshot, were found Tuesday in a river in Aleppo city, adding to the grim list of massacres committed during

The outcome of Israel’s elections did not torpedo hopes for peace with the Palestinian Authority, but instead opened up a new chance for dialogue, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said

Yemeni authorities working with the United States Navy intercepted a ship carrying a substantial cache of illegal arms that U.S. officials suspect were being smuggled from Iran.  The arms, intercepted

United States Senator John Kerry easily overcame the first hurdle of his confirmation as the next secretary of state Tuesday with a unanimous vote of approval by the Senate Foreign

Italy’s first Holocaust museum, a modern $30 million facility, is being built on the site of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s former residence in Rome, if the many financial and bureaucratic

Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sisi warned Tuesday that Egypt could be facing collapse. Al-Sisi explained that military units have been stationed in cities next to the Suez Canal,

A US soldier who lost all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq has successfully received a rare double arm transplant, Johns Hopkins hospital said Monday. The

A terrorist stabbed a young Jewish man at a hitchhiking station at Tapuach Junction in Samaria (Shomron) Tuesday. The boy suffered light to moderate wounds and was evacuated to Beilinson

President Shimon Peres sent a letter on Tuesday to the chairman of the Football Association, strongly condemning the organization for not speaking out against the racism and incitement by fans

The Jewish divorce rate rose by a full 5% last year, according to statistics from the Rabbinical Courts, while the number of divorce files opened rose by an astounding 9%.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met on Monday with a bipartisan delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives led by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA). During the meeting, the Prime Minister said,

A protracted surveillance operation led to the capture of three suspects who were caught red handed robbing an ancient grave near Kibbutz Metzer. Inspectors for the Unit for Prevention of

The US military plans to set up a base for drones in northwest Africa to bolster surveillance of Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in the region and allied Islamist extremists, a US official

The Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Strategic Affairs, Moshe Yaalon, said Monday that the government devoted much of its weekly session Sunday to the danger that Syrian chemical weapons

Rupert Murdoch apologized on Monday for a “grotesque” cartoon carried in one of his British newspapers, showing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu building a wall with the bodies of Palestinian Authority

The White House says President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke by telephone on Monday, almost a week after Netanyahu’s ticket won the most seats in Israel’s

An American-Iranian pastor sentenced to eight years in jail by Iran for his role in underground churches in the Islamic republic has vowed to appeal against the verdict, the Shargh

Iran has arrested and taken into custody nearly a dozen journalists, accusing them of cooperation with foreign news outlets. The Islamic Republic claimed the reporters were collaborating with foreign-based, Persian-language

The European Jewish Congress has demanded an apology from the Sunday Times for its abhorrent cartoon that depicted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of ‘Palestinians’,

Jordan has begun to beef up its border with Syria, sending hundreds of thousands of troops, artillery and armored vehicles to the north, a senior Jordanian security source says. The

History was made on Saturday evening as natural gas began flowing from the regasification ship hired by the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) to its power stations.  The ship, anchored about

Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul has taken what very well could be considered his most pro-Israel stance yet, saying in an interview that an attack on Israel should be treated

Russia on Sunday unveiled an exhibition honoring its soldiers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum, site of the former Nazi German death camp in southern Poland, on the anniversary of the camp’s

Iran on Monday sent a capsule containing a live monkey into space and later retrieved the “shipment” intact, the Tehran-based Arab-language Al-Alam channel said, quoting an official statement. A previous

The historic manuscripts of Timbuktu, including one written in Hebrew, are no more. They were destroyed by Islamic terrorists in the African nation of Mali. The radical Islamist terrorists attempting to

A police officer was wounded Sunday afternoon in riots that broke out during the demolition of two illegal structures in Jerusalem’s Silwan (Shiloach) neighborhood, nestled in the valley just south of

President Barack Obama commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, January 27, by vowing to “to stand in the way of any tyrant or dictator who commits crimes against humanity.”

Israel is becoming increasingly concerned that Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons will fall into the hands of terrorist groups such as Hizbullah or into the hands of terrorist groups among