United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed on Thursday the release of 45 Fijian UN peacekeepers who were kidnapped by members of the Syrian jihadist rebel group Al-Nusra Front. “The

The United States on Thursday received the backing of 10 Arab countries for a “coordinated military campaign” against Islamic State fighters, Reuters reported. According to the report, after talks in

A Palestinian Authority (PA) official said Thursday the results of an autopsy prove that a Palestinian Arab prisoner Israel said had committed suicide actually died of a blow to the head.

Former Canadian Minister of Justice, Professor Irwin Cotler spoke to Arutz Sheva last week on the importance of hasbara, or explaining facts and myths about Israel.  “I think hasbara is part of diplomacy;

44 Fijian UN peacekeepers have been released by Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front in Syria, according to Al Jazeera. The soldiers are scheduled to cross into Israel later today, from where

Officials in Ramallah and Gaza claim that there is little or no support there for ISIS, the Islamist terror group that has conquered large parts of Iraq and Syria. A

Leading Republican Senator and Christian supporter of Israel Ted Cruz (R-Tx) was booed off stage at a gala dinner in support of the Middle East’s embattled Christian minority, after voicing

Once again, Israel is not part of an international coalition to “defend the Middle East”, even though Israel is at the heart of the Middle East – and it’s all

Gadi Yarkoni, the last Israeli to be injured in Operation Protective Edge, was out of danger on Thursday, doctors said. Yarkoni is the administrator of Kibbutz Nirim in the Gaza

A Jerusalem-based cell of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) has threatened to kill Twitter employees and target its offices if the social media site does not stop closing

As polls show strong support for Jewish Home among the electorate – and rapidly slipping support among voters for her Hatnua party – Justice Minister Tzippy Livni said Thursday that

In an interview Thursday, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said that the US and Israel would continue to cooperate diplomatically and militarily in the wake of US President Barack

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will speak at a Berlin rally against anti-Semitism on Sunday to condemn hate speech and attacks against Jews that spiked amid the latest Gaza conflict. The

Anti-Semitism across the globe during Israel’s fifty-day self-defense operation against Hamas, Operation Protective Edge, drew heavily on Holocaust and Adolf Hitler references, according to a report released Thursday.  The Anti-Defamation

A leading Fatah party member has compared Hamas’s methods of executing and brutalizing its political opponents in Gaza to the gruesome executions carried out by the “Islamic State” terrorist group,

Nine years after being arrested for violating the law during a rally protesting the disengagement, Kiryat Arba resident and mother of four Miriam Schlissel got a knock on the door

Two soldiers who were involved in leaking a list of IDF soldiers killed in action during Operation Protective Edge were punished by their commanders in a military trial, Channel Two

Hamas’s exiled deputy leader said on Thursday the terrorist group could be forced to negotiate directly with Israel, ahead of planned talks in Cairo to consolidate a truce. But an

After two years on the run from Israeli authorities suspected sex-offender Rabbi Eliezer Berland has reportedly been arrested in Amsterdam’s international airport, and will soon be extradited back to Israel.

After years of ambiguity over whether or not individuals who suffered property losses due to violence associated with the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Knesset Finance Committee on Thursday authorized regulations governing

Israel’s deputy foreign minister warned Thursday that Hamas was likely to resume “violence” if it feels it has made no political gains from upcoming talks in Cairo. The remarks came

Was 9/11 a US conspiracy by George Bush to get rid of the CIA? Yes, according to this guy: Obviously it can’t be true though – he didn’t mention the

On the 13th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, New York mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday that such an attack could happen again. “The responsibility I have

Some 40 Jordanian parliamentarians have demanded that the Jordanian government prevent the national electricity company from signing an agreement to import gas from Israel, the Jordanian-based Ammon News website reported

U.S. President Barack Obama declared on Wednesday night that Washington will form a broad coalition to combat the Islamic State (IS). In a speech to the nation regarding the threat

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday that France was prepared to take part in air strikes on Islamic extremists in Iraq “if necessary,” according to AFP. “In Iraq…

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), confirmed on Wednesday that chlorine gas was used in attacks in northern Syria this year, according to the BBC. The OPCW,

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on Wednesday called for the resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), claiming that doing so would help the fight against the

Housing Minister Uri Ariel said on Wednesday evening that the Tekuma faction of the Jewish Home, which he heads, will consider its next step following the approval of the Jewish

William Schabas, the Canadian professor who was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to head a commission of inquiry into Israel’s military operations in Gaza, on Wednesday insisted