Turkey’s prime minister on Sunday delivered his most virulent attack so far on Bashar al-Assad, calling the Syrian president a “butcher” and warning that he will be held to account

The government on Sunday authorized a series of steps designed to strengthen Jerusalem. In advance of Jerusalem Day, to be celebrated Tuesday night and Wednesday, the government authorized the establishment

The Syrian foreign ministry statement said Sunday that three military sites had been hit in an Israeli nighttime aerial raid: a “research center” at Jamraya, a “paragliding airport” in the

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appealed Sunday for restraint to avoid an escalation in the Syrian conflict, expressing “grave concern” over Israeli air strikes, AFP reported. “The secretary-general calls on

Two men in their 20s died Saturday in a Kibbutz Yotvata in southern Israel. The two have been identified as Natan Maharat and Binyamin Kabda. The two young men had

This Sunday, just two nights before the start of Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) — the holiday when Jews in Israel and around the world celebrate the reunification of Jerusalem in

US nurse Mae Lopatin Herman summed up the horror of Mauthausen when she described her arrival at the Nazi concentration camp after its liberation 68 years ago this Sunday.  “We could

Three Jews were wounded on Saturday night in clashes that broke out with Palestinian Authority Arabs at the Talmonim bloc in the Binyamin region. One of the wounded Jews was

A 17-year-old Israeli youth from the town of Nofim in Samaria (Shomron) won a European championship last week. Nir Shovinsky took first place for his mastery of the kyokushin kaikan

Israel is justified in protecting itself from advanced weapons shipments to Lebanon-based militant group Hizbullah, United States President Barack Obama said Saturday, the AFP news agency reports. Obama spoke following

The Western world is increasingly realizing that the terrorist threat it faces is the same threat that Israel has faced for decades, says Avi Posnick of the StandWithUs Israel advocacy

A series of explosions were heard in Damascus overnight Saturday, as the official Syrian news agency SANA claimed that Israel carried out a rocket attack on the Jamraya scientific research

Israel bombed a weapons shipment headed for Hizbullah on Friday, an Israeli source confirmed Saturday. The source spoke after American media outlets reported the strike. Israel has not officially commented

Two IDF soldiers were injured Friday as Palestinian Authority resident Arabs rioted in Judea and Samaria (Shomron). One soldier was hit by a rock thrown during riots near Bethlehem. He

The “game changing” weapons destroyed in an Israeli airstrike Friday before they could reach Hizbullah were sent by Iran, the New York Times reports, citing senior American officials. The strike

China said on Friday it is willing to set up a meeting between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas if they wish to meet while visiting

The Pentagon has redesigned its biggest “bunker buster” bomb with more advanced features intended to enable it to destroy Iran’s most heavily fortified and defended nuclear site, the Wall Street

Israel is conducting some sort of dialogue with Gaza’s Hamas terrorist rulers, the head of the IDF’s Gaza Division, Brigadier-General Mickey Edelstein, said on Friday. Speaking at an event with

Internet giant Google has placed the name “Palestine” on its search engine instead of “Palestinian Territories” in recognition of the Palestinian Authority’s unilateral bid at the United Nations, the U.S.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that there is no doubt that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has used chemical weapons against rebels. Erdogan added that he would

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Latino Coalition (TLC) have announced today a cooperative agreement to jointly deepen and strengthen relations between the Jewish and Latino communities in the

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who is in charge of the negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, met Thursday with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss reviving the Middle East

Sixty-five years after the fall of Jerusalem in the War of Independence, the publication of a diary written by now-renowned Rabbi Shar Yishuv Hacohen sheds new light on life in

Terrorists in Gaza fired two rockets at southern Israel on Thursday night. The rockets hit the Eshkol region. No casualties have been reported, and the rockets appear not to have

Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) said on Thursday night that the attempted terror attack near Mitzpeh Yericho is proof that the Palestinian Authority is not interested in reaching a

A Syrian citizen who was wounded in the country’s civil war was brought by IDF soldiers to the Ziv Hospital in Tzfat on Thursday night. The man, who was shot

A Republican women’s group in New York held a conference this week on the dangers of radical Islam. The conference was titled, “Radical Islam, Public Enemy Number One – is

Sixteen people have been killed and three more are missing in Saudi Arabia after downpours caused flash floods in several areas of the desert kingdom, the civil defense authorities said

FBI agents arrested a Los Angeles man for allegedly running a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that primarily targeted the Persian-Jewish community, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. Shervin Davatgarzadeh, who is also

Two Iranians were found guilty by a Kenyan court Thursday for possessing explosives allegedly for use in bomb attacks. Ahmed Mohammed and Sayed Mansour, who were arrested last June, were