Syria is showing its muscle Monday with war games, and Israeli Knesset Member Shaul Mofaz (Kadima), a former IDF Chief of Staff, said that the closer Syrian President Bashar Assad

Intelligence officials have raised a major terror alert in southern Israel and warned all hikers to leave the area immediately. The order does not affect trips within the city of

A senior U.S. State Department official said Monday that “strong steps” need to be taken against Iran’s nuclear program urgently. The statement is arguably the toughest yet made by the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decided on Sunday to hold the primaries in his Likud party earlier than scheduled, on January 31, 2012. Prior to announcing his decision, Netanyahu held telephone

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not only criticize what she claimed are Israel’s “anti-democratic” proposals in her address to the Saban Forum in Washington, but also criticized Israel’s

Syria said Sunday it is still negotiating with the Arab League over its request to send observers into the country, The Associated Press reported. A Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted

The IAF’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has increased dramatically in recent years, the IDF website reported Sunday. It quoted Lieutenant Colonel Amir Weiss, of the IAF’s UAV department,

Norway is suffering from an unprecedented wave of rapes that are largely being perpetrated by Muslim immigrants against local women, according to Yehuda Bello, an acclaimed Israeli blogger whose special

The official Iranian news agency IRNA reported Sunday that national military forces have brought down a US Lockheed Martin RQ-170 stealth unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The aircraft sustained “little damage”

Attorneys for the convicted Arab murderer of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy say he is innocent and hope to set him free. William F. Pepper and Laurie Dusek have filed another

In a further sign of deteriorating relations, Pakistan has ordered the US to leave a strategic airbase after 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a cross-border NATO air strike on

Iran pulled out its “oil card” Sunday, warning the West that blockading Iranian crude will result in sky-high prices at the pump. Iranian Foreign Ministry official Ramin Mehmanparast told the

Tunisians are out in the streets for a fourth day of protests as a new constitution is being drafted for the nation. Although national elections have already been held, calm

Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel approved the sale of a Dolphin-style military submarine U-boat to Israel last week on condition that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu unfreeze taxes collected for the Palestinian

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to be ignoring an ultimatum by his fellow Arab leaders, and what may have been their final attempt to toss out a life preserver before

An El Al plane nearly hit another plane on the ground in Zurich earlier this week – but miraculously was able to avoid the other plane. On the plane was

An Arab League ministerial committee has presented Damascus with yet another ultimatum to accept observers to monitor the unrest in the country, Al-Jazeera is reporting. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad

South Carolina Representative Alan Clemmons visited on Friday the community of Netzer, between Elazar and Alon Shvut. During the visit, Clemmons was given a tour by the leader of the

Following its big win in the first round of parliamentary elections, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is seeking to reassure Egyptians that it would not sacrifice personal freedoms in promoting Islamic law.

An Arab organization opposed to the Jewish presence in Jerusalem over the weekend proclaimed that Israel’s plans to expand the prayer area for women at the Kotel was “very dangerous.”

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu personally intervened over the weekend to halt an ad campaign aimed at Israeli yordim (former Israelis) living in the United States encouraging them to consider returning

The recent explosions in Iran – possibly affecting that country’s nuclear facilities, according to some reports – were not part of a “shadow war” against Iran’s nuclear program, Defense Minister

With his boss, U.S. President Barack H. Obama, doing poorly in the polls less than a year before the 2012 election, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lashed out at Israel

Israel’s worst fears regarding its relationship with the Arab world – and with Egypt in particular – are coming true before its eyes, Middle East expert Dr. David Buk’i told

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urged Israel on Friday to “reach out and mend fences” with Turkey, Egypt and other security partners in the Middle East, saying he is troubled

The collapse of the 40-year-old Assad regime in Syria would radically change the politics of the Middle East, reducing the influence of Iran and its Islamist proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon,

Lebanese media reported on Friday that two people were wounded in a blast that occurred in the south of the country, between the towns of Srifa and Deir Kifa. According

Millions of dollars have been deposited suspiciously into the bank accounts of 15 Kuwaiti MPs suspected of money laundering, Kuwait’s al Jarida newspaper reported on Wednesday. Kuwait’s central bank informed

An explosion was heard on Friday in the southern Lebanon towns of Srifa and Deir Kifa, the Beirut-based Daily Star reported. According to the report, there was conflicting information regarding

The United Nations’ human rights chief called on the international community to protect Syrian civilians on Friday, as violence surged across the country. The UN estimates that more than 4,000