Pro-government militiamen were seen looting shops in the center of the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday after its recapture from the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group in a month-long

China is creating a “great wall of sand” in the South China Sea, and thus building hegemony in East Asia at the expense of the United States, an American admiral

Syria’s government, presiding over an economy ravaged by war and facing dwindling foreign currency reserves, is taking new measures to slash imports and prop up exports. Importers require government licenses that allow them

France is preparing a draft UN Security Council resolution on Palestinian statehood to be submitted in about 12 days, French diplomatic officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The draft

Support for a “two-state solution” to solve the Israel-Arab conflict is less popular in the United States than it has been in at least two decades, a new Washington Post-ABC

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, claimed on Tuesday night that Iran and the six major world powers had reached a preliminary agreement on “all the key aspects” of a deal

MK Avi Dichter (Likud), who in the past served as head of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), on Tuesday said that Israel has “very good reasons” to be concerned

MK Yuli Edelstein (Likud), who was the Knesset Speaker in the 19th Knesset, will serve in the same position in the 20th Knesset as well. Edelstein was chosen for the

Three men have been arrested as part of an investigation into the Paris attacks in January in which 17 people were killed, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday, according

President Barack Obama on Tuesday released military aid to Egypt that was suspended after the 2013 overthrow of the government, The Associated Press (AP) reports. The White House said that

The new host of the “The Daily Show” Trevor Noah faced mounting criticism on Tuesday after the emergence of several past Twitter posts accused of being anti-Semitic, AFP reported. The

Trevor Noah, the newly announced host of Comedy Central‘s The Daily Show, fired back Wednesday after a storm of criticism over tweets perceived as anti-Semitic. “To reduce my views to

Two reportedly armed intruders burst into a district office of the governing AK Party (AKP) in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Wednesday morning. The break-in occurred in the Kartal

China scored a diplomatic coup by enticing 50 countries including key US allies to join its new development bank. But analysts say authoritarian Beijing now faces a daunting task managing a multilateral

Scores of provinces in Turkey suffered a massive power cut Tuesday, halting mass transportation, hospitals and the manufacture of goods, and closing down 11 of the country’s air traffic control

Lufthansa has admitted that it was in fact aware that Germanwings copilot Andreas Lubitz, who purposely crashed his plane in the French Alps killing all 149 others aboard, was suffering from a

The United States has confirmed that nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers will continue beyond the self-imposed Tuesday night deadline and will be extended by at least a

Jerusalem Councilman Arieh King reported on Tuesday night that Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat’s urban construction plan 30006 – creating roughly 10,000 housing units for Arab residents in the city – has passed, thereby

Argentine prosecutors launched a new appeal Tuesday of a court’s decision to dismiss their case against President Cristina Kirchner for allegedly protecting Iranian officials accused of orchestrating a deadly 1994 bombing on a Jewish center. Prosecutors

The Ukrainians are coming, in droves. Thanks to the country’s brutal civil war, thousands of Jews are fleeing the country and many of them are heading toward Jerusalem. The Jewish

The University of Southampton in England has reportedly cancelled a conference challenging Israel’s very right to exist, according to organizers of the conference, although a university spokesperson denied the decision

A far-left American Jewish organization has drawn angry condemnation in both Israel and from withing the US Jewish community, over a campaign in which it brands Jews living in Judea

As the March 31 deadline for an Iran nuclear deal ticks down, US State Department officials said Tuesday they are ready to extend the talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, overnight and into

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, a staunch ally of Israel, was defeated in elections on Tuesday by his his contender Muhammadu Buhari, in a turn of events feared to have a negative

British parliamentary candidate Jeremy Zeid has resigned after making a Facebook post suggesting that Israeli should “do an Eichmann” on US President Barack Obama, and force him to stand trial.

The “Freedom Flotilla” campaign aiming to breach Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas terrorist stronghold of Gaza – a blockade barring weapons influx that is fully legal under international law

Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu lost absolutely no time in fulfilling its campaign pledge of a death penalty for Arab terrorists, with the party’s MK Sharon Gal submitting a bill on

The Canadian Ministry of Health announced on Monday that it will start including new warnings on drugs taken to control Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), after reports show they may have side effects of

Israel has in recent years been pursuing a policy of exponentially expanding ties with Asia, with a focus on India, Japan, China and South Korea. Those ties with the orient

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin opened the 20th Knesset Tuesday afternoon, welcoming MKs new and old and hailing the March 17 elections as a celebration of Israel’s vibrant democracy. “On the recent