Hamas Gaza-chief Ismail Haniyeh indicated Wednesday he has added Iran to the itinerary of his international tour. Hainyeh recently returned from the first leg of his tour to drum of

The US Federal Reserve says it will extend its freeze on interest rates until the end of 2014 in its longest longest-running response to the ongoing global financial crisis. Reserve

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman voiced pleasure Wednesday with the European Union’s newest sanctions against Iran and said that this is the first time that determined and meaningful steps have been

The threat posed by a missile attack on Israel is not as terrible as people think, according to Haim Rosenberg, the former head of long-term planning at Rafael Advanced Defense

The final “exploratory” meeting between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization ended Wednesday in Amman with no progress, official said. PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat and Israeli attorney Yitzchak Mocho made

Palestinian Authority hackers briefly managed to pull down a few sites in Israel Wednesday night in the ongoing cyberwar launched by Iran and anti-Israel Arabs. Among the sites that fell

MK Michael Ben Ari is still being refused a visa to enter the United States – but the lawmaker says Hamas terrorists are allowed to visit. In an interview with

Ambassador Yoram Ettinger, formerly a Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in Washington, said on Wednesday that he believes that the pro-Israel Republican candidate, Newt Gingrich, who won Saturday’s

Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti on Wednesday said the Israeli-Arab conflict will only come to an end when Israel withdraws to the pre-1967 lines. Arch-terrorist Barghouti’s remarks were made after he

Google has come under fire over plans to track user’s across all of its websites and use the information to alter the person’s search results. The Internet giant indicated it

MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) told U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro on Wednesday that the plan for two countries west of the Jordan River has reached a dead end.

US Special Forces rescued an American and a Dane in Somalia on Wednesday after a shootout with the pirates who had taken them hostage. The raid in the Horn of

The websites of the Tel Hashomer and Assuta medical centers came under cyber-attack on Wednesday. Both websites, which represent two of the largest medical centers in central Israel, were down

President Shimon Peres met on Tuesday with European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton. During the meeting, Peres said he welcomed the oil embargo imposed

Minister of Public Diplomacy Yuli Edelstein told the World Jewish Congress on Tuesday that it was a misnomer to say Iran has a “nuclear program.” Rather, Edelstein said, Tehran has

Iran continues to claim it is reaping the rewards of European sanctions even amid a deep currency crisis that rocks Tehran. In fact, the oil ministry in Tehran claims the

NATO is not considering any involvement in Syria or Iran, the alliance’s top commander in Europe said on Tuesday. “In terms of Syria, I can tell you from a NATO

U.S. President Barack Obama made the annual State of the Union speech on Tuesday, and spoke on issues such as the American military, the economy and the hottest issue currently

The terrorists who were arrested in Azerbaijan were planning an attack against the Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Michael Lotem, Russian media reported on Tuesday. The report said that Azerbaijan officials

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, warned on Tuesday against the world’s silence in the face of the Iranian nuclear threat. “It’s never been clearer that Iran is

Lebanese judicial officials said on Tuesday that a former army general has been sentenced to two years in prison for giving information to Israel, The Associated Press reported. Tuesday’s sentence

Qaddafi loyalists from the infamous Brigade 93 seized the Libyan city of Bani Walid on Tuesday after clashes with fighters from the new regime erupted the previous evening. The Brigade

European Union foreign-policy chief Catherine Ashton is coming to the Middle East in an effort to pressure Israelis and Palestinians to formally renew peace talks before the January 26 deadline

Egypt’s military ruler said that the country’s decades-old state of emergency will be lifted on Wednesday. “I have taken a decision to end the state of emergency, in all parts

Turkey warned French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday against signing a law that makes it a crime to deny that the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century

The Iranian “rial” currency sank again Monday after the European Union slapped sanctions on oil imports, leaving the rial 80 percent below its level last month. Iran’s semi-official Mehr news

Border Police at the entrance to the Patriarch’s Cave Tuesday morning foiled a terrorist attack by an Arab who tried to stab them to death. No one was injured. The

Security and military officials revealed Monday Tuesday that they have arrested two teenage Palestinian Authority terrorists who carried out a number of shooting, firebomb and rock-throwing attacks on Jewish civilians

Israeli security forces detained PA lawmaker Abul Jabbar Fuqaha from his Ramallah home on Tuesday morning. Fuqaha is the fourth Hamas-affiliated MP seized by Israeli forces on suspicion of terror

US diplomats on Monday repeated their position that a solution to the Arab-Israeli crisis would only come through direct talks saying the Security Council makeup remained unfavorable to the Palestinian