A group of 45 UN peacekeepers from Fiji taken hostage in the Golan Heights two weeks ago will be released soon, the Fiji government said Tuesday night, according to AFP.

Russian officials have traveled to Iran’s capital to boost economic ties between the two countries, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Tuesday. Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh and Alexander Novak,

A number of bronze shoes were stolen from the riverside Holocaust memorial ‘Shoes on the Danube’ in Budapest, Hungary, The Budapest Beacon reported on Tuesday. It is not known whether

Palestinian Arab terrorists who are serving time in Israeli jails announced on Tuesday night that they will start a hunger strike on Wednesday. The mass hunger strike is a response

Greece on Tuesday ratcheted up its punishments for racism, anti-Semitism and hate speech, in a move prompted by the surprise rise of a neo-Nazi party.   A new law approved

Technology juggernaut Apple unveiled the iPhone 6 on Tuesday, the newest entry in its highly popular line of cellular phones, along with its foray into the smart-watch market entitled the

Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces have reportedly arrested Fares Kawasmeh, a Hevron-based member of the Hamas-linked Kawasmeh clan that conducted the abduction and murder of Naftali Frenkel (16), Eyal Yifrah

Former President Shimon Peres coordinated a goodwill soccer game for “peace,” in which 80 Israeli and Arab children participated last Monday. According to the Palestinian Authority (PA), the “friendly” match

Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov claimed on Tuesday that the joint Israeli and American test of an Arrow (Hetz) 2 interceptor missile, conducted in a simulated ballistic missile

The United Nations (UN) and Palestinian Authority (PA) on Tuesday called for international donors to supply $550 million to the Hamas terror enclave of Gaza, despite the fact that Hamas

As the INS Tanin, Israel’s fourth and most advanced Dolphin class submarine, is making its way to Israel from Germany, it has elicited criticism from various German political leaders in

The controversy over the Jewish Home party’s new constitution continues to rage among party MKs, revealing what could be described as a crossroads for the religious-Zionist party, as well as

A fugitive rabbi fleeing sex-crimes charges in Israel has once again evaded police in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who heads the Shuvu Banim hassidic sect, was conducting a

Murdered journalist Steven Sotloff was kidnapped and sold to the radical Islamic State terrorist group, or ISIS, by one of the “moderate” rebel groups to whom the US government has

Israel’s honorary consul to Wales, UK has called for the dismissal of the Deputy Lord Mayor of Cardiff, the country’s capital, after the latter dismissed Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli

“Provocation”, “a Moroccan Muslim”, “an Ayatollah”: the appointment of a young Morocco-born woman as France’s education minister has sparked a wave of attacks that has renewed concerns about racism in

It’s a comparison that Hamas’s leadership can’t stand, but Jewish-American rapper Ari Lesser has released a new single comparing Hamas – the Islamist terrorist organization which rules the Gaza Strip

Arab foreign ministers said on Monday they will back Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s efforts to lobby the United Nations to set a deadline for Israel to withdraw from

Palestinian Authority (PA) officials on Tuesday claimed Israel committed a “war crime,” after an Arab terrorist jailed in Israel committed suicide by hanging himself. Israel Prison Service spokesperson Sivan Weizman

The New York Jewish community and its supporters will stage an historic march on September 14 in downtown Manhattan, protesting the recent skyrocketing wave of anti-Semitism and media culpability in

The Jewish museum in Brussels will reopen on Sunday under tight security, in a message of defiance after terrorist Mehdi Nemmouche, a former torturer for the brutal Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS)

US-based NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday accused Israel of “illegally” sending almost 7,000 illegal immigrants back to their home countries in Africa. “Israel’s convoluted legal rules thwart Eritrean

Syrian rebels strengthened their hold of the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Tuesday morning, conquering the mountain Al-Mal in the Quneitra region where they have recently been capturing

Five weeks following the arson of a synagogue in Wuppertal, Germany, Germany police placed two German nationals under arrest for the crime. At the height of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, amid

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri on Tuesday denied reports that Hamas was planning to imminently resume rocket fire against Israel. “Hamas denies what has been reported on an Israeli website

Residents of cities throughout Israel had front-row seats to a successful test of the IDF’s long-range missile defense system Tuesday. The Israeli Defense Ministry, together with the American Missile Defense

Sometime in the coming days a governmental committee is to convene to decide whether a new Qatari-funded Arab city in the heart of Samaria will be populated. It is currently

The tension between Hamas and Fatah continued on Monday, with Hamas accusing Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah head Mahmoud Abbas of trying to sabotage a fragile reconciliation agreement. According to

As the U.S. considers how to expand operations against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Iraq, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Monday that President Barack Obama needs to weigh

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday denied reports that he had offered to establish a Palestinian state in the Sinai Peninsula, the website of Egypt’s Al-Ahram newspaper reported. In