An Egyptian disciplinary court on Saturday ordered 41 judges into compulsory retirement for supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, judicial sources said, according to the Reuters news agency. The Disciplinary Council

Hamas’s interior ministry in Gaza on Saturday accused the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) security forces of being behind a wave of violence in the coastal enclave, AFP reported. The ministry’s spokesman

Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks on Saturday made his first public appearance in Copenhagen after surviving an attack last month in the Danish capital, local media reported, according to AFP. The

Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett announced on Saturday night that after the results of Tuesday’s election are made public, he will call Binyamin Netanyahu and suggest a “unified technical bloc”

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tried to cancel a January briefing for U.S. Senators by Mossad Head Tamir Pardo, reports Time, citing sources familiar with the events. The head of the

Mark Levin, the presenter of the popular US radio show bearing his name, told Israel Hayom Friday that if Likud under Binyamin Netanyahu is defeated in the elections Tuesday –

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has launched a bipartisan probe into an American nonprofit’s funding of efforts to oust Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, after the Obama administration’s State

Likud Minister Gilad Erdan said in a live interview panel Saturday at a Tel Aviv theater that the first party to join a Likud coalition after the elections will be

Iraqi commanders were plotting a strategy for flushing out the few remaining Islamic State terrorist group jihadists from central Tikrit, a city one commander said Saturday would be liberated within three

An influential relative of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, once infamous for smuggling, has been assassinated in a dispute over control of a key government stronghold, a monitor said Saturday. The

US President Barack Obama is “committed” to a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday on the stalled Middle East peace process. “The position

The IDF has made changes to the “preferences of service” form filled out by recruits eligible for combat positions – adding more options that will require them to choose between

Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday while in Egypt that whatever the outcome in the Israeli election, the US hopes it will help push the peace process with

The Obama administration expects that as a matter of course, the UN Security Council would endorse any final nuclear agreement reached between world powers and Iran, the State Department said

Many Jewish bodies in Europe are being bankrupted by the growing need for security measures, the State Department’s special envoy on anti-Semitism said on Friday, according to AFP. Jewish communities

Final pre-election polls released on Friday evening show that the “Zionist Union”, headed by Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni, is maintaining a four-seat lead over the Likud headed by Prime

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Friday said there was no other choice but to “reexamine” relations with Israel, Kol Yisrael radio reported. Speaking on the sidelines of an

Yuval Diskin, formerly the head of the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet), on Friday said he backed Yitzhak Herzog, who heads the joint Labor-Hatnua list, as a candidate

Nuclear talks between Western powers and Iran have made progress, but some very difficult issues remain, a senior European diplomat said on Friday, according to Reuters According to the diplomat

The United States is working to provide an additional $70 million in non-lethal aid to the Syrian opposition, the State Department said Friday, according to Turkey’s Anadolu news agency. Deputy

Republican Senator John McCain said on Thursday that Republicans stood behind a letter to Iran’s leaders threatening to undo any nuclear deal despite an outpouring of criticism. According to Reuters,

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker on Thursday warned President Barack Obama against taking a potential nuclear deal with Iran to the UN Security Council while bypassing Congress. “There

The letter written by Republican senators to Iran’s leadership has garnered quite a bit of criticism, with the latest coming on Thursday from Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Speaking

The United States on Thursday renewed its call for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to step down, marking the fourth anniversary of the civil war by paying tribute to “the brave

United States Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II on the sidelines of economic talks in Egypt on Friday,

Major world powers have quietly begun talks on a UN Security Council resolution to lift UN sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck, Western officials said Thursday, according

MK Yitzhak Herzog, leader of the “Zionist Union”, said on Thursday that he would not give away parts of Jerusalem as part of a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority

Everyone is excited about the prospects that Israel could foster a new military ally in India. People should not expect as deep a strategic relationship though as Israel has with,

The mayor of a small town in eastern Germany has resigned, he told local media Wednesday, after a neo-Nazi demonstration against immigration erupted outside his home – and after local

Nobel Prize in Economics winner Prof. Yisrael (Robert) Aumann spoke to Arutz Sheva ahead of the elections next Tuesday, and despite concern that Likud may be outpaced by Labor in the race