The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that Ahmed Abdi Godane, leader of the Somali Al-Shabaab terrorist group, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Somalia this week, Reuters reported. “We have

A Nigerian tourist in her twenties was hospitalized in isolation at Shaarei Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Friday, after rising concerns that she may have tested positive for Ebola, according to

The Lebanese military said one person was killed as Israel blew up a suspicious device after it had been detected in southern Lebanon on Friday. The official National News Agency (NNA) said earlier

The reclusive son of a Nazi-era art dealer who amassed a giant secret collection snuck a Monet with him into the Germanhospital where he died in May, investigators said Friday. The executor

At least three Canadians who joined Islamic State (IS; formerly known as ISIS) and other Al Qaeda-offshoot groups in Syria were directly involved in abducting and interrogating two US journalists,

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Friday dismissed Jerusalem Councilman Aryeh King from his position on the municipal coalition, due to an administrative petition King submitted to the Jerusalem District Court over

Police forces were alerted and rushed to save a one-and-a-half year old infant from suffocation in a locked car in Elad, located in Israel’s coastal plain area to the east of

The 45 UN peacekeepers from Fiji who were abducted by Al Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front rebel forces on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights last Wednesday are to “stand trial”

The leadership of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist group in Syria and Iraq took a sharp blow on Thursday, as roughly 20 senior figures, including a top aide

The West has long threatened to stop donating to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it continues to pay salaries to its terrorists – and so the PA has found a

A senior leader of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction has launched a new international campaign against Israel, calling on nations of the world to cancel the citizenship

Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee visited Gush Etzion on Thursday, days after Israel’s announcement that it would declare 4,000 dunams of land in the region as state

French prosecutors have launched a probe into a controversial comic widely accused of anti-Semitism for mocking the decapitation of American journalist James Foley in a video, AFP reports Friday.  Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, whose trademark

Hamas is not willing to discuss the possibility of demilitarizing weapons from its “military wing,” the Al-Qassam Brigades, or other Palestinian terrorist organizations operating in the Gaza, one of its

Reports on Friday indicated that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei authorized his army to coordinate joint military operations with the United States against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in

Former Yesha Council director and Binyamin Regional Council head Pinhas Wallerstein was called on to help develop the Gaza Belt communities, and has been doing so while staying at Kibbutz Nahal

France for the first time has become the country with the highest numbers of aliyah (immigration to Israel), according to the French office of the Jewish Agency for Israel on

Gila Tragerman, the mother of four-year-old Daniel hy”d who was killed by a Hamas mortar shell on August 22 while in his Kibbutz Nahal Oz home, criticized the United Nations

Egyptian officials expect the Israeli negotiating delegation to arrive in Cairo within a week to continue indirect talks, sources in Egypt told the Ma’an news agency on Thursday. Egypt has

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Thursday that the United States is concerned that the most dangerous terrorist groups could get a hold of chemical weapons

The deputy speaker of the Palestinian parliament Ahmad Bahar has accused the national unity government and its prime minister Rami Hamdallah of “negligence” towards Gaza, the Ma’an news agency reported

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned on Thursday against cuts to the defense budget. “The Middle East is changing. The great armies have been replaced by bloodthirsty terrorist groups, that are

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent his condolences on Thursday evening over the passing of comedy icon Joan Rivers, who died earlier in the day at the age of 81. “Joan

More than one hundred people demonstrated on Thursday evening at the Ariel junction in Samaria, in protest over the danger presented by Palestinian Arab workers who use the subsidized public

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday defended the policy of not paying ransom to terrorist groups for the release of kidnapped civilians. “I know it is difficult to hear

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday sent his condolences to the family of journalist Steve Sotloff, who was beheaded by terrorists from the Islamic State. “Steven was murdered because for

Dear Sir, My name is Gila, I am an Israeli citizen, and I am a resident of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the border with Gaza.  A week ago, we lost our

Bat-Galim Sha’ar, the mother of abducted and murdered 16 year-old Gilad, spoke passionately about the need to stop terror and bloodshed Thursday after new details were revealed about her son’s

MK Alex Miller (Yisrael Beytenu) was sworn in to the Knesset Thursday. Miller, who served in the 17th and 18th Knessets (2006-2013) replaces former MK Carmel Shama-Hacohen (Likud), who is

The IDF returned fire at a Syrian army position along the northern border Thursday afternoon, after a mortar shell struck Israeli territory. Sirens were heard throughout throughout the Golan Heights