The IDF has raised the terror alert level on Israel’s border with Syria in the Golan Heights, foreign media reported Monday night, after the IAF reportedly attacked a Syrian military

United States Senator John McCain on Monday urged the deployment of international ground forces to combat terrorists in Syria andIraq, as he toured the Middle East with a Senate delegation. “For months we’ve been

Former head of Military Intelligence and Res. Gen. Amos Yadlin has joined the Labor party, Labor announced Monday. Yadlin has been appointed to the #11 spot, at Labor leader Yitzhak

Egyptian jihadists claimed Monday to have bombed a pipeline in the Sinai that carries gas to Jordan, saying it was targeted over Amman’s role in the United States-led war on the Islamic State terrorist

Syria has begun destroying its remaining chemical weapons production sites, despite being hampered by bad weather and logistical problems, the world’s chemical watchdog said Monday. “Destruction operations commenced in December,” Organization for the Prohibition

Renowned Israeli poet Natan Zach sparked controversy anew Monday when he published an ad in Haaretz showing support for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.  The simple announcement reads as follows: “To Abu Mazen

The number of anti-Muslim incidents in France has soared since the Islamist attacks in Paris two weeks ago, an organization that tracks Islamophobia said Monday. The National Observatory Against Islamophobia said 116 anti-Muslim incidents

Germany’s “anti-Islamization” movement PEGIDA vowed at its first press conference Monday to take to the streets again next week, after a march was cancelled over a terrorism threat. Asked about

Canadian special forces exchanged gunfire with Islamic State (ISIS) fighters in Iraq in recent days, in the first confirmed ground battle between Western troops and ISIS, a senior officer was

More than 2,000 Iranians protested on Monday outside the French embassy in Tehran, chanting “Death to France” and urging the ambassador be expelled because of a cartoon of the Prophet

Duke University was to be the first school in the United States to sound the Muslim call to prayer over its school-wide speaker system. The prayer call was to occur

Argentina’s government said Monday there was no indication that anybody else was involved in the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who had accused President Cristina Fernandez of shielding Iranian suspects

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday said the fight against “terrorism” needs a new Muslim religious discourse in addition to security and military measures, AFP reported. “The rise in

United Nations (UN) peacekeepers serving in the Golan Heights saw drones flying before an Israeli airstrike on Syria that killed an Iranian general, a UN spokesman said Monday, according to

The Meretz party on Monday evening released the results of its primaries for the 20th Knesset. MK Ilan Gilon came in first, and will be placed in the number two

The European Union (EU) is to appeal a decision by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg last December to remove Hamas from its official terrorist organization blacklist, according to EU foreign

US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to London on Thursday to host with his British counterpart a meeting of members of the coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group. Kerry’s spokeswoman

An Argentine prosecutor who accused President Cristina Kirchner of obstructing a probe into the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) reportedly died just hours before he was due at a Congressional

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas unleashed vitriolic invective on his unity partner Hamas, the terrorist organization ruling Gaza, claiming on Saturday that it had reached secret agreements with Israel to create

A South Korean teenager who went missing in Turkey near the Syrian border had images of what appeared to be Islamic State (aka ISIS, or IS) terrorists on his home computer, police

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in the midst of an historical three-day visit to Israel after arriving on Sunday, and during meetings with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu he expressed

The Likud party has officially launched an “Anglo” campaign division, designed to engage voters from English-speaking countries. The effort, ehich will be managed by professional consultants Elie Bennett and Jeremy

In response to the reported Israeli airstrike in Syria that killed Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of Hezbollah’s former operations officer Imad Mughniyeh, the Lebanese-based terrorist group has threatened Israel with retaliation

Supporters of Iran sanctions in the American Senate have unveiled a toned-down bill aimed at gaining enough votes to override a presidential veto, AFP reported on Sunday. According to the

Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi on Sunday testified for the first time in his espionage trial, and launched a tirade against his successor whom he accused of removing him in

The Election Commission of Likud, led by Justice Menachem Ne’eman, has officially placed MK Tzipi Hotovely in the #20 spot for the Likud list, it announced Monday. Hotovely replaced new

Alan Gross, the United States contractor released from prison in Cuba last month, will be among 22 guests of First Lady Michelle Obama as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union

The IDF published the names of the recipients of citations and medals for their service during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza on Monday.  About half of the candidates will receive

President Reuven Rivlin held a working meeting with the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzō Abe on Monday afternoon. Abe is in the midst of a three-day official visit to Israel – his

The Turkish coastguard intercepted in Mediterranean waters a ship carrying 333 mainly Syrian migrants bound for the European Union, the official Anatolia news agency said Monday. In an operation employing