Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday dismissed as “counter-productive” an announcement by Washington that it couldtake extra measures to defend US-allied fighters in Syria, according to AFP.  At a news conference in

As many as 15,000 ISIS terrorists have been killed in air strikes led by the U.S. and its allies over the past year, an independent group following the war against

The White House said Monday said it is willing to take “additional steps” to defend US-allied fighters in Syria, warning the regime of Bashar al-Assad not to impede their actions. Spokesman Josh Earnest said

The UK’s National Union of Teachers (NUT) has been accused of indoctrinating British youth with Palestinian terrorism, in its new teaching resources pack that discusses Palestinian “occupation, freedom and resistance” from

A new Congressional resolution calling to end the Iran nuclear deal has already received the support of at least 218 Republican lawmakers within just two weeks, and is well on

Israel has not escaped the heat wave scorching the Middle East in recent days, which has caused massive damage to the Israeli agricultural industry to the tune of millions of shekels.

A divorced father recently got a taste of the unique justice meted out by Israel’s secular family courts when he was ordered to pay child support to his ex-wife despite

Jordan is joining forces with the Palestinian Authority (PA) to demand that the UN Security Council (UNSC) “end the Israeli occupation,” in a call following the lethal arson that killed

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed on Monday that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin has shifted away from his support from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and is open to a Syrian

The United States on Sunday resumed formal security talks with Egypt that were last held six years ago despite persistent human rights concerns, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Two days

Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, said on Sunday that his country’s nuclear deal with the West would create better prospects for faster solutions in Syria and Yemen, two of the Middle

The Israeli Embassy in Asunción, Paraguay, was reopened last week in the presence of Ambassador Peleg Levy and outgoing Foreign Ministry Director-General Nissim Ben-Shitrit. Paraguay was represented at the opening

A French anti-Semitism watchdog group reports that burglars recently broke into the home of an elderly Jewish leader. In addition to stealing $10,000 worth of jewelry and valuables, the criminals

MK Oren Hazan (Likud), affectionately known as the “Casino MK” over allegations that he ran such establishments in Bulgaria, was questioned for five hours at the Israel Police Lahav 443

“The Cabinet views the arson and murder in Duma as acts of terror in every aspect, and has called on all the relevant authorities to use all necessary measures in

On the same weekend in which it threatened to “annihilate” Israel following the nuclear deal it struck with global powers, Iran experienced a mind-boggling 164 degrees (73 Celsius) heat index reading last Friday, in

The Hamas terrorist organization called for attacks against IDF soldiers and “settlers” last Friday shortly after an Arab infant was killed in an arson attack at the village of Duma

President Barack Obama has authorized the use of airstrikes to defend U.S.-trained Syrian rebels if they come under attack from terrorist groups or the Assad regime, Bloomberg reported on Sunday.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Qatar for talks with Arab officials whose countries are wary of the nuclear deal world powers have struck with Iran, The Associated

For the second time in just a few weeks, a soccer match involving an Israeli team in Europe turned violent on Sunday. In the latest incident, players from the Israeli

Arutz Sheva spoke with Rabbanit Hadassah Froman, widow of the late Rabbi Menahem Froman, at Sunday’s joint Israeli-Arab prayer session, in which rabbis, sheikhs, and MKs gathered together to pray

The leader of Yemen’s Houthis urged his militia on Sunday to fight on against Yemen’s Gulf Arab-backed government, dismissing its recapture of Aden last month as a ‘limited’ achievement made

An MK from the Zionist Union party is coming under fire from the left because he visited the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council. “It is precisely because of the complexity of today

Hamas is continuing to take advantage of recent goings on in Judea and Samaria (the murder of the baby in Duma and the violent clashes in various cities) to escalate

The Even Sapir moshav has been evacuated Sunday afternoon, after a brushfire spread through the forests just outside Jerusalem.  The Fire Department reported that eight firefighting planes with flame retardant

IRNA, the Iranian state news agency, quotes Ali-Akbar Salehi, Head Nuclear Negotiator and Head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), as stating that “The text is not

An arrest has been made in the murder of a Jewish jeweler in Queens in June, police announced Thursday, after a lack of leads led the family to offer a

President Reuven Rivlin has turned to the Israel Police over a number of death threats against him on his Facebook page Sunday, after he wrote a post condemning the arson

Clashes broke out on Sunday at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism and also home to the Al Aqsa Mosque, two days after a Palestinian toddler was killed in a

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the double crimes committed during Thursday and Friday last week, including the stabbing at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade and the arson attack on the