The U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, arrived in Israel on Sunday for a work visit, the Israel Defense website reported. General Dempsey arrived as

A planned visit by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was canceled by Egyptian authorities. The visit, originally scheduled for several months ago, was postponed several times due to the

Two Israeli soldiers were among the four people who were killed in Sunday’s accident on Highway 6, it was cleared for publication Sunday evening. The two soldiers are Hai Ben-Naim,

Gaza’s Islamist rulers are nervous. The fall of Mohammed Morsi – the Islamist president of Egypt and scion of Hamas’s parent organization, the Muslim Brotherhood – has left them isolated. The

The IDF and Shin Bet have released their report on terrorist attacks in the month of July. Over the course of the month, 38 Israelis were wounded in terrorist assaults.

Top U.S. officials are reviewing the threat of a terrorist attack that has led to the weekend closure of 21 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world and a

Hassan Rouhani has officially replaced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran. Rouhani’s election was endorsed on Saturday by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a ceremony in the capital, Tehran.

Interpol issued a global security alert on Saturday, citing prison breaks across nine nations in the past month, reported the New York Times. The international police organization said that Islamist

Ex-Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Saturday evening that there is no chance that “peace talks” between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) will lead to a peace deal. “Nine months

The U.S. intelligence community has been leaking information on Israeli air strikes in Syria, and U.S. President Barack Obama is behind the leaks, according to a report in the World

Destroying Israel is the interest of the entire Arab world, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah declared on Friday. AFP reported that the head of the Lebanese terror group made a rare

The United States issued a worldwide alert on Friday, warning of plans by Al-Qaeda to launch an attack in the Middle East or North Africa in August, AFP reported. The

A freely-distributed Finnish paper notorious for its anti-Semitic content has said it would tone down its editorial line after being criticized by the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center, AFP reported on

Syrian opposition leaders said on Friday that United Nations inspectors would have “unfettered” access to areas under rebel control to investigate the use of chemical weapons, AFP reported. The Syrian

A 50-year-old Syrian woman was brought on Friday evening to Israel after being wounded during the civil war that is raging in her country. The woman, who was listed in

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, responded Riday to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s remarks in which he was cited as saying that Israel “has been a wound on the body of the Islamic world

Security forces are on heightened alert Friday morning in the Wadi Ara region in the lower Galilee, after about 1,000 Arabs tried to block a major traffic artery there Thursday.

At least two rockets slammed into an area south of Beirut that houses the Defense Ministry and presidential palace on Thursday night, Lebanon’s state-run news agency reported. There were no

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed on Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives’ decision to tighten sanctions on Iran. “Following the Iranian elections the House of Representatives has sent a clear

The annual Gay Pride parade and rally was held in Jerusalem on Thursday evening. Several roads were shut down during the parade, which traveled through the downtown area to a

Gunfire from the Syrian side of the border hit close to an IDF patrol in the northern Golan Heights on Thursday night. There were no injuries or damages. The IDF

The Knesset can be a tough crowd for any Prime Minister. The fierce debate often forces the Knesset speaker to intervene and even discipline MKs who are deemed too disruptive. So

The Color Red incoming rocket alert siren was activated early Thursday afternoon in the Golan Heights region. Local sources said there were unconfirmed reports that the siren activated throughout the

US officials estimate that Israel will lose about 15 percent of “major settlement blocs” in Judea and Samaria in any final status deal worked out with the Palestinian Authority. Sources

Hundreds of hareidi-religious young men will don IDF uniforms for the first time on Thursday morning. They are part of a growing trend toward voluntary hareidi IDF service that has

The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and the police have arrested four Palestinian Authority Arabs on suspicion of being responsible for a robbery that turned into a murder in October

United Nations inspectors will go to Syria to investigate three sites where chemical weapons attacks have been reported, the international body said Wednesday, according to the AFP news agency. The

British Foreign Secretary William Hague signalled on Wednesday that Britain was open to improved relations with Iran on a “step-by-step” basis, following talks with his counterpart in Tehran, reported the

An Al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria kidnapped around 200 Kurdish civilians after violent clashes with Kurdish fighters in the country, a monitoring group said on Wednesday, according to Al Arabiya. “Fighters

Palestinian Authority Arabs attacked Jewish hikers in the Binyamin region on Wednesday, as they were exploring near the Wadi Zarqa valley. The group of hikers, who were walking near an