According to the Reuters news agency, the Kremlin said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday lifting a ban on the delivery of S-300 anti-missile

Germany’s most famous writer, Gunter Grass, best known for his 1959 novel “The Tin Drum” but whose reputation was tarnished by his admission he had served in Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s Waffen SS,

Iraq has exhumed the remains of 164 people believed to have been massacred by jihadists from mass graves in Tikrit, the human rights ministry said Monday. “Search teams have discovered the remains of 164

Israel has been focused more on events nearer-by than the wars in Syria and Iraq. However, it has not been lost on many that Israel will need to continue developing

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced she is running for President in 2016. “Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked

Former IDF Deputy Chief of Staff, Major General (res.) Yair Naveh said Sunday that “more and more people agree” that the deal negotiated by the P5+1 powers with ith Iran

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared Sunday that anyone convicted of digging tunnels into Gaza from Sinai or of assisting in such activity would face a death sentence, according to

Dozens of Likud branch chairmen and members of Likud’s Central Committee published a petition this week demanding that party chairman, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, add the Jewish Home to his

Germany has approved the delivery of the fifth of six promised submarines to Israel – amid claims that the sub will be outfitted with nuclear weapons. Is this part of Israel’s answer to

A Washington Post journalist detained in Iran for over eight months is accused of “espionage” and “acting against national security,” The Associated Press (AP) reported Sunday, citing Iranian media. The

An Egyptian court’s decision to sentence 14 men to death and jail 37 others accused of ties to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood was “politically motivated” and “blatantly unjust”, Human Rights

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday urged lawmakers not to put up obstacles in the path of the talks between Iran and the West on its nuclear program,

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, a possible Republican candidate in the 2016 presidential election, expressed his discontent on Sunday over the fact that President Barack Obama had held a meeting

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid was welcomed Sunday by both Germany’s foreign minister and France’s former president. Hours before the announcement was made, German foreign minister Frank-Walter

Jordan on Sunday expressed concerns over air traffic safety as it restated its opposition to the construction of an Israeli international airport near the coastal city of Aqaba, AFP reports.

Activists from the Canadian-Palestinian organization Samidoun are planning to hold a demonstration outside the Israeli Consulate in Toronto, in protest against the arrest of Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian Arab parliamentarian

Thousands of people on Sunday joined Hungary’s annual “March of Life” commemorating the Holocaust, as World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder denounced the country’s surging far-right Jobbik party as “extremist”, AFP reported. Over 10,000

A Syrian regime air strike hit a school in the main northern city of Aleppo on Sunday killing five children and four other civilians, a monitoring group said, according to

Israel’s status as a regional superpower is unusual for its lacking a reliable set of local allies. Even where security ties with Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia might be strong,

Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to announce her long-awaited second run for president of United States in an online video on Sunday, AP reported.  Clinton, a former first lady and New York state senator,

Pope Francis has officially deemed the murder of more than 1 million Armenians in 1915-17 by the Ottoman Turks as “genocide” Sunday – a definitive step in ensuring recognition of

In a blockbuster admission, Admiral Bill Gortney, Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) disclosed that the Pentagon now believes North Korea has mastered

Hundreds of Israelis are stranded abroad on Sunday after four separate flights that were supposed to return to Israel were delayed for various reasons.  Greek airline company Blue Bird cancelled

Is Israel a superpower? The question comes up and meets a number of answers and reactions. Some would answer that it is a miniature superpower, while others feel Israel is

Police presence was high Sunday morning at the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Grenimann in Bnei Brak, who died on Friday at the age of 89. Police are apparently not taking risks

London’s High Court will examine the legality of the University of Southampton’s cancellation of a conference challenging Israel’s right to exist, the Southern Daily Echo reported Saturday.  Entitled “International Law and the State

The June 30, 2015 deadline for a final nuclear agreement between the P5+1 powers and Iran is subject to the whims of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Tehran has announced. “Iran

With 18 days since Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was handed the mandate to form the next government, Likud is under pressure to finalize agreements with their coalition partners.  But Development of

Israel was hit with an unusually late winter storm Sunday, with rainfall levels not seen in decades during early April. With spring already in the air – and Passover just

More than 500 Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have been killed in clashes on the border with Yemen since the Saudi-led air war against them began, the Saudi Defense ministry said Saturday,