Mohamed Ibrahim, Egypt’s Interior Minister, on Thursday accused Hamas of being involved in the bombing of police headquarters in Mansoura last Monday that killed 16. Ibrahim announced that seven suspects have

Human rights groups report that thousands of women have been raped by Syrian army soldiers in the ongoing war, which is now in its third year and has left 130,000 dead.

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) has arrested 14 terrorists, some from the Islamic Jihad organization, on suspicion that they were involved in the bombing of a bus in Bat

Talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are at a critical stage, President Shimon Peres said Thursday. He called on European countries to lend support to the process. “The negotiations

Jamal al-Jamal, the Palestinian Authority ambassador to the Czech Republic, was not killed in a terror attack, but by what appeared to be a “work accident,” PA Foreign Minister Ri’ad

Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood planned a series of bombings at Egyptian churches, according to a report in the Kuwaiti paper Al-Watan, according to Channel 10 news. According to the report,

Ariel Sharon’s medical condition stabilized somewhat overnight Wednesday, Israel Radio reported Thursday morning. With that, medical officials said, he is not likely to survive much longer. Doctors have told Sharon

The IDF is planning new combat training that will prepare soldiers to fight underground, in tunnels built by terrorists, Maariv/nrg reports. “The tunnels infrastructure has expanded and continues to expand.

Experts from Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers have chosen January 20 to begin implementing the Geneva deal on Tehran’s nuclear program, AFP reported on Wednesday, citing the

The IDF had a safer 2013, IDF spokespeople said Wednesday.  Statistics published by the IDF spokesperson’s office concluded that there has been a general decline in deaths and injuries in

The trip was sponsored by the World Zionist Organization (WZO), and led by Rabbi Yechiel Wasserman, who heads the WZO’s Religious Affairs Department. The rabbis and community leaders were given

A memorial service for the 69 sailors of the INS Dakar was held at Mount Herzl Wednesday, marking 46 years since it sank into the Mediterranean.  The submarine disappeared in 1968, while en

Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s condition continues to worsen, Sheba Hospital in Tel HaShomer reported Wednesday to Channel 10.  Sharon’s condition has been on the decline since being hospitalized for renal failure.

The US financial aid designated for the Palestinian Authority (PA) is set to grow considerably in 2014 to $440 million, up from $426 million in 2013. The aid aims to

The Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the Czech Republic has died of wounds sustained in an explosion which rocked his house in the capital Prague.  Jamal al-Jamal was rushed to hospital

Peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is elusive as ever, but not for United States Secretary of State John Kerry, who begins 2014 with a trip to the Middle

A 29-year-old Belz hassidic-religious Jew, who ran a store named Yossi’s Wine and Liquor on 18th Avenue in the Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park, Brooklyn, was stabbed on Tuesday night in

More than 130,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the conflict in Syria nearly three years ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday, according to

Terrorists in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday blew up a gas pipeline that feeds an industrial area in the region, security officials said, according to AFP. The officials said

The first milestone in plans to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal by mid 2014 was missed on Tuesday, as shipments of the country’s most dangerous chemicals did not make it

Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza conducted a test using long-range M-175 rockets on Tuesday evening. Rockets of this type are able to reach the central Israeli city of Tel Aviv and

A senior Egyptian Justice Ministry official said on Tuesday that the assets of more than 500 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, from which the country’s ousted president hails, have been

A Jordanian-Palestinian dissident has voiced his fears over a politically-motivated indictment by a Jordanian court, issued in reaction to his vocal opposition to the ruling Hashemite monarchy there. Mudar Zahran,

The military court in Judea and Samaria on Tuesday convicted Ali Saada, of the Hevron area, in the murder of Asher Palmer, 25, and his baby son Yonatan, in September

The Jewish commandment to tie tzitzit (fringes) to four-cornered garments, as a reminder of all the commandments, includes the precept to tie a thread dyed “tekhelet,” a shade of sky-blue.

A resident of Tel Aviv has been arrested for vandalizing a synagogue with Nazi graffiti. Worshippers arriving at the city’s Gr”a synagogue this morning were horrified to discover swastikas and

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas declared Monday that an Israeli annexation of the Jordan Valley would be a “red line” as far as he is concerned. Abbas told the

A Sunday New York Times article shows why Israel must never cede control of Judea and Samaria, according to Arutz Sheva analyst Mark Langfan. The report cites a newly-published analysis

Egypt, which has blacklisted the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, on Monday urged other members of the Arab League to follow suit. AFP reported that Egypt called on Arab

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz holds the Lebanese Army directly responsible for Sunday’s rocket attacks on Israel, Maariv reported Tuesday.  “Occasionally we get a kinetic reminder of our environment, which reminds