Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday that there was little hope for a breakthrough in the peace process after Israeli and Palestinian Authority negotiators met this week. The talks between

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said support for “Palestine” should be a “religious and nationalist commitment” for Arabs as he arrived in Tunis Thursday. “Palestine is not a banner that we

Israeli authorities demanded Egyptian officials move with greater alacrity to improve monitoring along the Sinai border on Thursday. Egyptian security officers told the Palestinian Authority affiliated Ma’an News Agency the

Israel National News has frequently taken a cynical appraisal of the European Union’s motivations in the Middle East and that cynicism was not groundless. Nevertheless, if the European Union does

The Israeli military is gearing up together with U.S. forces for a major missile defense exercise, the IDF announced Thursday. The Associated Press reported that the “Austere Challenge 12” drill

At a time when tensions are high between hareidi-religious, religious-Zionist and secular Jews in Israel, a group of students proved on Thursday that it does not have to be this

Many people think that the help that Anne Frank’s family received from workers and friends typified the Dutch during the Holocaust. The facts are apallingly different. More than 100,000 of

Hamas leader Ismail Radwan said Wednesday that the PLO talks with Israeli envoys in Amman this week would damage Fatah’s reconciliation deal with the terror group. “We consider these meetings

Terrorists fired an average of nearly two missiles a day at Israel in 2011. In the course of the year, 680 rockets, mortars and Grad missiles were fired at southern

Saudi hacker “0xOmar,” who succeeded in hijacking at least 15,000 Israeli credit card numbers, published the details of 11,000 more cards Thursday. More than half of these are out of

Three years after it began its work, a committee headed by retired judge Meir Shamgar handed over to Defense Minister Ehud Barak its recommendations on ways to deal with freeing

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement has issued a rare condemnation, slamming the Jewish leadership of Lithuania for its silence in the face of media anti-Semitism. The fiery statement came in the wake

Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar confirmed on Thursday that peace talks with the United States are on the horizon. Omar has demanded the release of Afghan prisoners from the Guantanamo

The Taliban announced Tuesday it would be opening its first overseas political office in what is seen as a political gesture to the United States. In a statement on its

Israel will attempt to pursue a dialogue with Islamic factions in Egypt. According to the Hebrew-language Maariv, Israel’s Foreign Ministry has instructed Ambassador Jacob Amity to seek talks with Egypt’s

Amid heightened tensions in the Persian Gulf over Iran’s nuclear program and threats to close the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, an old fashioned oil feud is boiling to the

European Union governments moved closer to halting oil purchases from Iran on Wednesday, stepping up the confrontation over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Bloomberg reported that EU foreign ministers are

A Lebanese newspaper reported Wednesday the Israeli Air Force conducted a three-hour drill in the skies above southern Lebanon. The display was not one the usual surreptitious reconnaissance flight, according

Anat Kam, who is serving a 4.5 year sentence for serious espionage and transferring secret information, filed a motion Wednesday to the Petach Tikva District Court asking to change the definition

Maronite bishops in Lebanon called Wednesday for Beirut to implement a longstanding deal on the disarmament of ‘Palestinian’ groups outside their ‘refugee camps.’ Voicing concern about the country’s “fragile” security

The grim truth leaking out of Syria through Internet social media outlets is that government forces continue to kill protesters despite the presence of Arab League monitors in the country.

Police arrested two terrorists at different locations Wednesday morning and prevented intended attacks on Be’er Sheva residents. Acting on intelligence information, Border Police raided an apartment in the capital of

The IDF staged a surprise drill at its base at the port of Haifa as Iran completed ten days of “war games” that included a threat on Israel. Iran claimed

New U.S. sanctions dealt Iran a potentially lethal economic blow this week even before they took effect, sending the local currency into a nosedive before the government artificially posted a

Algerian police are systematically raiding merchants selling clothing bearing a “Made in Israel” label on the items. According to a report published Wednesday in Algeria’s El-Khabar daily newspaper, the sting

The meeting in Amman on Tuesday between Israeli delegate Yitzhak Molcho and the Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, was positive, Channel 10 News reported. According to the report, the

The Turkish army nearly downed an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on Tuesday, Turkish daily Today’s Zaman reported. According to the report, which was based on a claim made by another

A raid in northern Samaria on Tuesday morning that netted a cache of weapons also resulted in the capture of a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist. Israeli forces raided the home

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday he hoped a conference between Israeli and PA envoys would jump-start the moribund peace process. “God willing, results of this meeting will be

The US military said Tuesday that United States will continue to deploy warships in the Persian Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz after Iran warned a US aircraft carrier not