A ceremony marking the deportation of Jews from Iraq seven decades ago was held for the first time on Monday in the country’s autonomous Kurdish region. It also marked the

Labor MK Stav Shafir expressed her satisfaction Monday after hearing news that MK Yinon Magal (Jewish Home) is stepping down as Knesset Member, following accusations of improper past behavior with

Turkey will not apologize for downing a Russian fighter jet on the Syrian border but Moscow should reconsider retaliatory sanctions, Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday as he held talks at NATO headquarters. “Protection of our

Lt. Gen. (ret.) Michael Flynn, who served as head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 2012 to 2014, spoke to the German Der Spiegel on Sunday about the war against Islamic

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Monday that Iraq has sufficient forces to fight the Islamic State group (ISIS), after American senators called for more US troops to be deployed to

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Monday that Iraq has sufficient forces to fight the Islamic State group (ISIS), after American senators called for more US troops to be deployed to

MKs Yoav Kisch (Likud) and Yifat Shasha-Biton (Kulanu) submitted a bill to the Knesset Monday that would set clear and egalitarian guidelines for calculating child support after divorce. The amounts paid

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a meeting with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the climate conference in Paris on Monday, the Kremlin said, as a dispute rages over Ankara’s downing of a Russian

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday urged Greek premier Alexis Tsipras to focus on a “positive agenda,” after he lashed out at Turkey over the shooting down of a Russian warplane

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday sentenced three Arab terrorists from Jerusalem to jail time, over their plot to abduct and murder Jews on the Temple Mount – the holiest

Lawyers for two journalists from a Turkish opposition newspaper on Monday appealed a court ruling to detain them on spying charges, over a report revealing how Ankara shipped arms bound for Islamist jihadists in Syria,

A Honduran judge on Sunday ordered a hearing for five Syrians who arrived in the country after a five-country odyssey, AFP reported. Honduras say the men were arrested on November

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev on Sunday instructed the Director of Culture at her Ministry to establish a professional team that will examine concerns that the films shown at

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seeks to pass a bill that will allow Israelis abroad to vote in national elections. A second planned bill will take away the President’s role in

A group of Arabs threw about ten Molotov cocktails at Border Police in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud. Arab sources report that security forces returned fire and killed one rioter

A volunteer police officer who didn’t appreciate being called out for his alleged unfairness in the local media is to be awarded NIS 25,000 ($6,400 US), a Tiberias judge ordered.

Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Women’s Affairs Haifa Al-Agha, who is herself a woman, recently said Palestinian Arab women are “unique” in the world because they rejoice at the death

A row in Britain’s main opposition Labor party over whether to back air strikes in Syria has deepened splits over Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, while reviving uncomfortable memories of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prime

Deputy Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday once again praised the current terror wave against Israelis, which Hamas calls the “Al-Quds Intifada”, referring to it as “the greatest strategic development

Saudi Arabia has widened its sanctions against the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist group, adding 12 names to a blacklist of individuals and firms whose assets in the kingdom will be frozen,

A group of self-styled “goods inspectors” in Germany this past weekend went on a campaign in which they label all the Israeli products they can find as being “from illegal

Britain’s defense minister on Sunday said the government was intensively lobbying opposition Labour lawmakers to support airstrikes in Syria as efforts mount to force a vote next week, AFP reports.

President Barack Obama arrived in Paris for the UN climate conference on Sunday night, and stopped at the Bataclan concert hall to pay respect to the victims of the November 13

About 300 people on Sunday protested the arrest of two prominent journalists on charges of spying over their reports about Ankara’s alleged arms supplies to Syrian rebels in a case

Iran on Sunday threatened to cancel the nuclear deal with world powers unless a probe into allegations of its past weapons research is closed, AFP reported. The declaration, by a

A Muslim group has been welcomed to pray in the Beth Israel Synagogue of Peterborough, Ont., after their own mosque was damaged in an arson attack earlier this month. A

“We’re used to ‘more’ being ‘better’. More memory in the new cell phone model, more food in a portion size, more shoes at a two-for-one sale, more tests and screenings at

A 20-year-old Israel was killed early Sunday afternoon in a traffic accident on Route 80, in the village of Hawara near Shechem in Samaria. The victim, a motorcyclist, was killed after

Israel’s teacher burnout problem may not be as severe as previously thought, a study released Sunday suggests.  65% of teachers are satisfied with their career choice, the TACK poll for

In April 2014 teenagers Samra Kesinovic and her friend Sabina Selimovic travelled from their Vienna homes to join ISIS in Syria, where it is believed they both married Jihadists. The