Around 200 Assyrian Christians protested outside the UN building in Iran’s capital Thursday to demand action to halt the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group’s victimization of their community in Syria and Iraq. ISIS has “destroyed

Thousands of Iraqi troops and militiamen laid siege to jihadist fighters holed up in Tikrit on Thursday, wary of rushing into streets littered with bombs and infested with snipers. After

More than 50 regime soldiers and Islamist terrorists were killed as they battled over a strategic hilltop in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s home province, a monitoring group said on Thursday. Government forces clashed

Israel has a severe shortage of elderly care workers, with most of them coming from abroad, largely from India and the Philippines. To address the issue, the IDF will be training

DROR is a relatively new organization, but it has made a quick impact in dozens of Israeli girls’ lives, turning things around for them by utilizing a unique form of intensive tutoring,

Secretary of State John Kerry urged lawmakers Wednesday to give President Barack Obama updated war powers to go after Islamic jihadists at “a pivotal hour” in the battle against the

The Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court extended by five days on Wednesday the confinement of an 18-year-old Arab terrorist from Bir Zeit, who stabbed a haredi man near Tzahal Square in central

Syrian government forces are responsible for killing over 600 doctors and medical workers during the four-year war, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said Wednesday, calling the attacks a crime against humanity. The New York-based

While Binyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama spar on the approach to Iran, one expert considers the strong possibility that the US is trying to make ISIS into “Iran’s Vietnam.” The Netanyahu

Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari claimed Wednesday that Iran can defeat the US in “any scenario.” At a convention in Tehran, Jafari boasted “we have grown

A Toronto resident originally from Pakistan has been arrested and is on trial for allegedly planning to attack the US consulate and other buildings in Toronto’s financial district. Jahanzeb Malik

Civilians maimed in devastating barrel bombings by Syria’s regime in the divided city of Aleppo face a dire shortage of surgeons, wheelchairs and artificial limbs, a humanitarian group said Wednesday. A chronic lack

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction took the unusual step on Tuesday of more than doubling the number of Israelis murdered in a brutal terrorist attack from 1978,

An Israeli partner in the Leviathan offshore gas field said on Wednesday a Palestinian Arab company had cancelled a $1.2-billion supply contract, citing delays by Israel’s Antitrust Authority. Delek said it had informed the Tel

In response to the court announcement that his sentencing will take place March 26, Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, said that the arrest of Palestinian Arabs would

Qatar on Tuesday launched a project to build 1,000 homes in Gaza to house Palestinian Arabs displaced by last summer’s war between Hamas and Israel, AFP reported. The Gulf state,

Former CIA chief Michael Hayden said Tuesday he was “uncomfortable” with Iran’s growing influence in Iraq, made especially evident by an offensive in Tikrit, reports the AFP news agency. The

Three London schoolgirls who fled to Syria are believed to have stolen family jewelry to fund their travel, police said Tuesday, according to the AFP news agency. The three, Kadiza

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday brushed off Palestinian Arab threats to haul him before an international court for proposing to behead Arab citizens disloyal to the state. “I saw

Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday told reporters she used private emails out of “convenience” during her time in office, but admitted it “would have been

Iran is considering two new laws that would strongly discriminate against women without children – in an attempt to increase population growth. One law is named the “Bill to Increase

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid is “an out-and-out leftist, everything about him is an impersonation,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in an interview with Makor Rishon that will appear in

Guidelines during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza gave a 15-second window to Gaza Belt residents to run to shelters in the event of a “Code Red” alarm – a short

Six days before elections, public favor is swinging toward Labor-Hatnua and a leftist government, according to the latest pre-elections poll. Labor-Hatnua would gain 24 seats in the 20th Knesset if

President Reuven Rivlin hosted at his residence a conference with around 100 citizens who had declared they were not intending to exercise their right to vote on Tuesday. The conference, entitled “Don’t

The head of the IDF Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Hertzi Halevi, told the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) annual National Gala in New York Tuesday night that Israel must be “prepared”

Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett promised Tuesday not to allow the Israel Hayom Bill to pass in the next Knesset. In response to a question in an appearance at Bar

Israel and India are finally coming out in the open: with the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party, India has outwardly expressed its desire to expand

Sunday marked International Women’s Day. Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction celebrated the event in a unique way: by lauding a female Arab terrorist who kidnapped and murdered a 16-year-old

Another mad man drove his car into a bunch of people in Jerusalem on Purim, though thankfully this time no one was seriously hurt.  These things unfortunately happen too frequently, especially in