South Korean president Lee Myung-Bak learned North Korean despot Kim John Ill died of a heart attack from the North’s state-run TV on Saturday morning. Defense Minister Kim Kwan-Jin was

The Rebbe of the Satmar Hassidic movement, Grand Rabbi Aron Teitelbaum, spoke out Saturday night against Jews who oppose U.S. President Barack Obama. The Rebbe, who lives in the New

Germany called on Israel to refrain from publishing construction tenders in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem saying it sends a “devastating message” for peace efforts. “The Israeli government must be aware

A British legislator in Cameron’s government has lost a key post and is under probe for celebrating at a Nazi costume stag party. Conservative party Member of Parliament Aidan Burley

Troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad continued to kill opponents Monday while he agreed to sign an Arab League proposal for sending observers. The document was signed by the

The Lebanese army discovered four Katyusha rockets ready for launch at Israel Monday, while government officials said they know who fired at Israel earlier this month. The rockets were discovered

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beitenu faction, said Monday that the attacks against Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria (Yehuda and Shomron, or Yesha) are wrong and

An alleged CIA agent being held in Tehran was shown on Iranian state television on Sunday. The channel named the man as Amir Mirzai Hekmati and said he was an

Now that the second phase of the Shalit deal has been implemented and 550 terrorist prisoners have been released, the Hamas terror group is already planning the next kidnapping. In

Egypt’s two leading Islamist parties said on Sunday their parties have secured about three-quarters of votes cast in the second round of a parliamentary election, Reuters reported. A source from

He is still president for another few months, but Dmitry Medvedev has become Russia’s almost forgotten man. At Vladimir Putin’s four and a half hour call-in show last week he

Israel has offered to export natural gas to India, The Times of India is reporting. According to the report, the offer was made by Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz to

An IDF soldier was lightly wounded Sunday from rocks thrown by an Arab mob north of Jerusalem. The riot took place near the Bitunia checkpoint, not far from Beit El.

The Israel Electric Company has just signed an $8 billion deal to buy natural gas from the Noble Energy-led group developing the Tamar gas field off the coast of Haifa.

Egyptians on Sunday entered a third day of deadly clashes between protesters and government forces on a street close to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and home to a campus of the

At least 650 people are dead, and some 800 others are still missing on the southern island of Mindanao after Tropical Storm Washi struck the Philippines on Friday. Entire villages

A video uploaded to YouTube on Saturday reveals an Arab attempt to lynch a Jew near the village of Asira al-Qibliya in Shomron. The video, which was filmed by the

It is worth reviewing the lecture by David Richards to the Royal United Services Institute for an inkling about the changing balance of power. On the one hand, the top

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said Saturday that its agents have arrested a person of Iranian origin on suspicion of spying for the United States, the Associated Press said. Iran’s Foreign Ministry

Video shot Saturday shows Egyptian soldiers administering savage beatings to protesters in Tahrir Square. Al Jazeera reported nine people had died in two days of violence. Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri

A man who witnesses said appeared to be an Arab stabbed and lightly wounded a security guard at the entrance to Maaleh Adumim Saturday. The stabber escaped. The guard, aged

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Thursday that he would battle the recently proposed legislation that would change the way judges are elected to Israel’s Supreme Court and restrict the

Recent violent incidents ascribed to right-wingers may have rattled the government enough to cause it to reappraise its attitude toward leftist and Arab violence, too. Government Secretary Tzvi Hauser told

Syrian security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters after prayers at several locations around the country on Friday, The Associated Press report. At the same time, the report said, the

A senior Hamas official has warned that a new Arab intifada could start due to the recent torching of mosques in Judea and Samaria. The terror group on Thursday condemned

Two protesters have been killed by gunfire in clashes that broke out on Friday between Egyptian soldiers and anti-military protesters. A youth activist told The Associated Press that she saw

Russia surprised Western diplomats on Thursday when it put forth a draft resolution in the United Nations Security Council taking a harder line on violence in Syria. Moscow, which has

A proposal released Thursday would see the U.S. Congress allowing American economic aid to the Palestinian Authority to continue next year, so long as the entity is not admitted as

A senior leader of Canada’s Muslim community compared a recent policy requiring no face-coverings be worn when new immigrants take the citizenship oath to the dire oppression of Jews in

A city in western China is trying reduce religious fervor by prohibiting people from wearing veils, traditional Arab dress, or growing long beards, Associated Press reports. “Dilute religious consciousness, advocate