US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted Thursday that Israel’s security was a top priority in talks with Iran on its controversial nuclear program after an initial deal was signed.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Israel on Wednesday for the first time since world powers struck a nuclear deal with Iran that angered the Jewish state, and

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman met on Wednesday in New York with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The two discussed the recent agreement signed between Iran and world powers, the negotiations

Roughly 250,000 Syrians in the besieged communities of the war-torn country are beyond the reach of humanitarian aid, according to UN humanitarian affairs coordinator Valerie Amos. Her closed-door Security Council

A week after North Korea reportedly restarted its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, retired NBA star Dennis Rodman announced he would make his third visit to the isolated regime on December 18.

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has challenged his successor, Hassan Rouhani, to a debate intended to defend his eight-year record in office, reports the British Telegraph. In his first political

The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists on Tuesday sent a letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, asking him to condemn recent hateful remarks about Israel made

Hezbollah on Wednesday said one of its leaders had been assassinated near Beirut and accused Israel of being behind the killing. “The Islamic resistance announces the death of one of

Israeli actor and comedian Sefi Rivlin passed away on Tuesday evening at the age of 66. Rivlin, who for years battled throat cancer and lost his voice to the disease

Alert Border Police officers foiled a stabbing on Tuesday near the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Maarat Hamachpelah) in Hevron. The would-be attacker was a 21-year-old man from the Palestinian Authority

German-based NGO Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index on Tuesday. The index, which ranks corruption of countries on a 0 to 100 scale, with the lowest scores indicating the

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Tuesday announced that Israel has sent humanitarian aid to Syria during a visit to the Golan, reports AFP. “We’ve sent food, water, baby food and other

A local Palestinian Authority (PA) official on Tuesday told AFP that Israel has bulldozed land slated for the construction of 255 new Jewish homes in Samaria northwest of Ramallah. The official, Abdallah

Brigadier-General Tamir Yadai, Commander of the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division admitted this week that terrorism in Judea and Samaria is on the rise, and becoming more lethal.  “In Judea

Police have arrested five Palestinian Arab teenagers on suspicion of hurling rocks at an Israeli family last week in southern Jerusalem. The attack caused serious injury to a two-year-old girl.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has warned that the PA will “take action” against Israel via international bodies if peace talks fail, ahead of a visit by US Secretary of

U.S. senators opposed to the nuclear deal signed between Iran and the West are hard at work on new sanctions on the Islamic Republic and are not buying the president’s

Egyptian forces defused a bomb placed in a car and primed to explode on a roadside near the capital Cairo on Monday, security officials told AFP. The interior ministry said

Arabs hurled rocks at a bus as it approached a stop in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem on Monday afternoon. A police investigation into the incident has found that the

Syrian rebels, including jihadist groups, captured the historic Christian town of Maalula north of Damascus on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP. Rebels assaulted the town by

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office released a statement following his meetings with Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta Monday. The statement addresses key issues including peace talks with the Palestinian Authority

The United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights has for the first time said that war crimes by pro-regime forces in Syria were authorized “at the highest level,” including by

Syria has reportedly appealed for international aid in order to destroy its chemical weapons arsenal safely and correctly, according to the New Zealand Herald.  Syrian deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad stated

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has rejected the country’s new constitution, nearly half a year since the ouster of Brotherhood-backed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. 138 of the 247 articles of the draft

The Syrian war continues to spill over into Israel: IDF forces on the Golan Heights near the Syria border were shot at from a Syrian army outpost Monday. The IDF

Israel’s new state-of-the-art “Cyber Gym” was opened this month by the Israel Electric Company (IEC) to train IT and infrastructure company employees to defend against cyber attacks, reports AFP. Cyber Gym

The Israel Police’s elite Yamam anti-terrorist unit received a certificate of honor Monday at a meeting of the police’s top commanders, for its successful operation against an extremely dangerous terrorist

Israeli hi-tech startups have sparked a flurry of mergers, acquisitions and investment bids unseen since the dotcom bubble burst in 2000, reports AFP. In the third quarter of 2013, Israeli new

On Sunday an Israeli official told AFP that Israel has been approved to join the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) Western European and Others Group (WEOG), and that a formal invitation is