Syrian security forces on Monday shut down all the offices belonging to Hamas in the country, Al-Jazeera reported. Despite previously being close allies, there has been a rift between Hamas

The Palestinian Authority will push on with a bid to achieve non-member status at the United Nations despite pressure to back down, PLO top negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Monday,

A Swiss laboratory team has arrived in Ramallah to prepare for the exhumation of former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, PA sources told AFP on Monday. The team, along with

Turkey on Monday hosted former Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab, amid a four-day meeting of the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) in Doha. The Turkish daily Hurriyet reported that the

At least 50 are dead following a massive suicide bombing in central Syria, activists and state media report. “At least 50 government troops and loyalist militiamen were killed this morning

United Nations nuclear agency chief Yukio Amano told the UN General Assembly Monday Iran is not cooperating with its investigation. In his annual report to the world body, the head

An Israeli military jeep was hit Monday by Syrian gunfire on the Golan Heights, AFP reported. IDF soldiers were patrolling this evening near the northern border when they came under gunfire

The father of a Jewish family was badly beaten and the family home was completely trashed on Sunday by local youths in Marseille, France.Residents in their Jewish neighborhood are stunned

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised on Monday that by the time his term as Prime Minister is over, Iran will not have a nuclear weapons program. Speaking to Channel 2,

Only 52 % of Arab-Americans back President Barack Obama, with 16% undecided, and their votes could be the deciding factor in several swing states, according to a poll by the

Microsoft director Steve Ballmer met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday on his fourth trip to Israel, this time to discuss cooperation on cloud technology. They discussed Microsoft’s commitment to

Iranian experts have succeeded in building a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drone which will be unveiled in the coming months, the Mehr news agency reported on Sunday. According to

“When members of the Democratic Party booed the inclusion of G-d and Jerusalem in their party platform this year, I thought of my parents,” writes Jewish philanthropist Sheldon Adelson in

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas received a phone call from President Shimon Peres on Sunday, the PA-based WAFA news agency reported. According to the report, the two discussed the peace

French President Francois Hollande voiced support on Sunday for a transitional Syrian opposition government, AFP reported. According to the report, Hollande also called Iran’s nuclear ambitions a “threat” to the

A Channel 2 investigative report says that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the military and intelligence service to prepare for a military strike on Iran

Four IDF soldiers were slightly hurt Sunday when a jeep they were in overturned, near Ein Yahav, in the Arava region north of Eilat. The accident occurred in the course

The Ministry of Defense officially announced Sunday that a series of tests to the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system has been successfully completed, in an important step in the IDF’s

China’s Ministry of Industry in recent weeks published statistics on the growing kosher industry in the country. The bottom line: There has been a “kosher revolution” in China, with more

The United Kingdom’s Foreign Office has raised its terror threat level in Egypt from “general” to “high”, following reports of an al Qaeda-inspired plot to attack western tourists. In recent

A huge bomb exploded Sunday morning at a Damascus hotel often used by United Nations observers, state media reported. Several people were wounded in the explosions at the Dama Rose

Russian police have detained 25 men wearing black field overcoats with images of Nazi swastikas in Moscow Sunday, the RIA Novosti news service reported. The arrests coincided with Unity Day,

Gunmen killed three Egyptian policemen and seriously wounded a fourth on Saturday in El-Arish, in the Sinai Peninsula, state television said. “Armed men who might belong to a jihadist group

Arutz Sheva visited the annual Go4Europe conference, one of the most prestigious conferences in Israel. Go4Europe addresses the current issues of raising funds and establishing strategic alliances in Europe. “The

Gaza terrorists attack Israel with their 611th rocket this year on Sunday, and media continue to ignore the missile strikes – so long as there are no injuries or damage.

Iran has suspended 20-percent uranium enrichment in order to have Western-imposed sanctions lifted, a parliament member told the Al Arabiya network on Saturday. Earlier, according to the report, Foreign Policy

The spokesman for the Palestinian Authority (PA), Nabil Abu Rudeineh, published a clarification Saturday evening following an interview PA head Mahmoud Abbas gave Israel’s Channel 2 television news. After Hamas

President Shimon Peres on Saturday saluted as “courageous” remarks by Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas in which he appears to relinquish the demand for a “right to return” of