The Islamic State (ISIS) shot down a regime aircraft near a key military airport in southern Syria Friday, with pro-ISIS Twitter accounts saying the jihadist group had captured the pilot, AFP

Poland’s leaders have guardedly accepted words of regret from FBI director James Comey over remarks that seemed to equate Poland’s role in the Holocaust with that of Germany, The Associated

Iraq’s health ministry does not have DNA test results from a close relative of Izzat al-Duri that could determine whether Saddam Hussein’s long-fugitive deputy has been killed, a spokesman said

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman slammed South Africa on Friday, after the country’s communist party labeled Israel an “apartheid state”. The South African Communist Party’s (SACP) statement came after Israel refused

Syria’s former political intelligence chief Rustom Ghazaleh has died after being fired for a quarrel with another regime official in which he was beaten up, a source close to his

Turkey is continuing to quarrel with other countries over the definition of the mass killings of Armenians in 1915. Russia on Friday became the latest country to be condemned by

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other Knesset Members on Friday afternoon condemned an incident in Jerusalem whereby a religious IDF officer from the Givati Brigade was attacked by haredim when

Israel was the eleventh happiest country in the world in 2014, according to the World Happiness Report released Friday – outranking the US, UK, and numerous European countries. Just outranking

The Senate Finance Committee has adopted new amendments to the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) aimed at countering the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The amendments would require U.S.

Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday the United States would deliver new F-35 fighter jets to Israel next year, saying the move would help the Jewish state maintain its

Former President Shimon Peres announced on Thursday that he was canceling the contract with Bank Hapoalim, which was met with criticism by MKs from both left and right. Under the

While the Palestinian Authority (PA) has often been touted as a peaceful alternate to Hamas by some, a Hamas MP in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) has revealed just how involved

Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, insisted on Thursday that the massacre of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks a century ago was not a “genocide”. Speaking at an international

Russian hackers accessed an unclassified Pentagon network earlier this year, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter revealed Thursday, in the latest high-profile penetration of government networks that has been blamed on Russian

Hamas has signaled to Israel that it is not responsible for Thursday evening’s rocket attack on southern Israel and that it is working to find and arrest the shooters, Channel

Syria’s entrepreneurs, suffering from crippling losses after four years of civil war, have launched a drive to encourage consumers hit by burgeoning inflation and a shortage of imports to “buy Syrian.” A first installment

Israel is experiencing a post-war baby boom after last summer’s Operation Protective Edge, the Labor Delivery Director of Rehovot’s Kaplan Hospital said Friday, after a total of 49 babies were

Finalizing his breach of 2008 pre-election promises, US President Barack Obama was notably absent from memorial ceremonies in Armenia on Friday marking 100 years to the genocide committed by Ottoman Turks, in which

British Labor party leader Ed Miliband is to vow to end the country’s “small-minded isolationist” attitude to Europe if he becomes prime minister after an election in two weeks’ time, indicating his desire

Hamas is definitively preparing for another war against Israel, Brig. Gen. (res.) Zvika Fogel said Friday morning – hours after a rocket fired from Gaza struck the Sha’ar HaNegev region

As Israel celebrated 67 years since the establishment of the renascent modern Jewish state on Thursday, thousands of the state’s Arab citizens decided to “celebrate” their state by mourning the

In the absence of Palestinian National Authority elections, the student elections at Birzeit University have become a key gauge of Palestinian Arab sentiment, and despite the campus’s historic pro-Fatah leanings the Hamas

American estimates grossly underplay the actual nuclear threat posed by North Korea, according to top Chinese nuclear experts who shared their figures in a top-secret closed door meeting with US

Last week, FBI National Director James B. Comey wrote ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day that such evils can never be forgotten, lest we fall on the trope that we

US President Barack Obama has saddled the Democratic party with a political time bomb in his “obsession” for a nuclear deal with Iran, according to Pulitzer prize finalist Daniel Henninger,

Police raids in Italy may have been targeting 18 Al Qaeda-linked suspects who were planning an attack on the Vatican, a state prosecutor revealed Friday. Chief Prosecutor Mauro Mura revealed to Reuters that the

In honor of Israeli Independence Day on Thursday and in a sign of the warm relations enjoyed between Israel and Canada, Toronto City Councillor James Pasternak held an Israeli flag-raising

Israel’s latest population figures, released as is traditional ahead of Israeli Independence Day, cite a population that added 176,000 babies, 32,000 new immigrants and has reached an estimated total of

Israel’s sole skiing site, Mount Hermon on the northern border, was opened on Friday morning to visitors after an unseasonably large snowfall covered the mountain in several centimeters of white over Thursday

President Reuven Rivlin participated Friday morning in the memorial ceremony to commemorate ANZAC Day, in memory of fallen soldiers of the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps.   The President laid a