A Swedish citizen of Lebanese descent was arrested after a joint investigation from the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and the Lahav 433 anti-fraud unity last month, it

Six-month long administrative detention orders were issued Sunday morning against two right-wing Jewish activists – Meir Ettinger and Evyatar Slonim.  The orders were signed by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on the recommendation of the

A 26-year-old Israeli man was wounded lightly in a stabbing attack on Sunday evening at a gas station on Highway 443, which stretches from Lod to Modi’in in central Israel between Tel

The Islamic State (ISIS) group advanced Sunday against rival rebel forces, including Islamists, in a bid to capture a series of key villages in northern Syria, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said

Two young children drowned in pools in Israel on Sunday, in tragic incidents that left both of them in serious condition as medical teams fight to save their lives. In one

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht Ravanchi stated on Sunday that the Iran nuclear deal sealed last month with world powers is final, and includes a clause stipulating sanctions cannot be

The grassroots Im Tirzu Zionist organization awarded 30 Bedouin Israeli activists a special “Award for Zionism,” for the efforts to encourage IDF enlistment among Israel’s Bedouin Arab population. The award was presented at

Hamas continues to lead daily protests against the intention of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), to cut its services in light of a deficit

A Colorado jury sentenced James Holmes to life in prison in the July 2012 Aurora, Colorado, shooting at a movie theater that left 12 people dead, Reuters reports Saturday. Holmes

Dozens of Arabs have blocked the roads and are throwing rocks and firebombs at the Israel Police and the Border Police on Saturday night, in the Arab neighborhood of Isawiyya

The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s Fatah movement has formed a new militia to protect villages against “settlers,” after the arson attack on the PA village of Duma last month which killed

Deputy Foreign Minister MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) responded sharply to defend the Religious Zionist community in Israel on Saturday night, after a post from former Israel Security Agency (ISA or

Twenty-nine nuclear scientists have signed a letter to US President Barack Obama praising the Iranian nuclear deal, the New York Times reports Saturday night, calling it “innovative” and “stringent.” Signatories

The chief of the Iranian army defended the deal struck between the West and the Islamic Republic regarding Iran’s nuclear program on Saturday, according to state news agency IRNA. “The

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir will visit Moscow on Tuesday to discuss Syria conflict and the Islamic State group with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign ministry said

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s “interference” in US affairs is ‘unprecedented,’ US President Barack Obama asserted during an interview which will air in full Sunday night.  Speaking to CNN interviewer Fareed Zakaria, Obama addressed

The UN’s envoy to the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, on Saturday warned against allowing “extremists” to “escalate the situation”, following the death of Sa’ad Dawabshe, the father of the infant

Rocket fire from rebel-held areas around the Syrian capital Damascus killed five people and wounded 37 on Saturday, AFP reported, citing the state news agency SANA. “Five dead and 37

Sa’ad Dawabshe, the father of the infant who was killed in an arson attack on the Palestinian village of Duma last month, has died in Soroka Medical Center in Be’er

Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft on Friday evening struck a terrorist infrastructure belonging to Hamas in central Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said. A direct hit at the target was

A cousin of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has shot dead a senior air force officer in a road rage incident in the Latakia coastal heartland of their minority Alawite community,

A Palestinian terrorist detainee on hunger strike in an Israeli jail for 50 days is now “at immediate risk” of death, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Friday.

Fitch Ratings graded Iraq Friday as being at risk of default due to insecurity, financial difficulties and poor governance, in its first rating of the country. The Islamic State terrorist

Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday he “profoundly disagrees” with the reasoning behind decisions by two prominent Democratic lawmakers to vote against the nuclear deal with Iran, reports The

Hundreds of Israeli citizens on Friday afternoon gathered for a Kabalat Shabbat (the service said on Sabbath eve) outside the President’s Residence with a message of unity for President Reuven

The Islamic State (ISIS) group has executed more than 2,000 people in and around the  northern Iraqi city of Mosul since seizing it last year, officials said Friday, according to

The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Friday to set up a panel to identify who is behind deadly chlorine gas attacks in Syria, which the West blames on the

A leading Iranian MP revealed on national TV last week that Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi threw a pen at US Secretary of State John Kerry during the Iran

President Reuven Rivlin played down the threat the Iranian nuclear deal poses to Israel on Friday morning, telling local media in an interview marking one year to his presidency that

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