Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has demanded that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu present a map for a future Palestinian state before any peace talks can resume, an aide told AFP

Hamas, a former ally of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, is now training the rebel Free Syrian Army in eastern Damascus, according to a report Friday in the British Times. Diplomatic

White House press secretary Jay Carney said on Friday that the American administration would not be surprised if North Korea followed through on its recent threats to launch a missile.

Three members of the French feminist group FEMEN burned an Islamic flag this week outside the Grand Mosque of Paris. The flag-burning was carried out as a protest of oppression

North Korea has moved more intermediate range missiles to its east coast, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency has reported. According to Fox News, United States officials have confirmed the report.

The UN is hiking its estimates of people trapped in Syria after fleeing their homes, saying Wednesday some four million are now displaced inside the country and in dire need

Egyptian maritime authorities have seized a ship with a crew of 14 and a cargo of 105 crates of unspecified weapons and ammunition, which belonged to an African security company, Egyptian security

Antiquities Authority workers have discovered a well-preserved Byzantine era wine-making facility in southern Israel. The discovery, made during a construction project for a wedding hall, is one of the best

Egyptian maritime authorities seized an Iranian ship carrying a “huge quantity of weapons heading for Egypt,” according to a report by news website NOW, quoted in Lebanese website Ya Libnan.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is blaming the State of Israel for acts of terror and rioting by Arabs following the death of a terrorist prisoner this week. Abbas condemned Israel

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is set to return to Israel on Sunday immediately following a quick visit in Istanbul. The American official is expected to meet with Turkish

For as long as the Dead Sea has been around, people have been visiting it to take advantage of the legendary healing properties of its water, minerals, and mud. While

Internationally renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is scheduled to visit Israel this summer for a second time. His first trip to the Jewish State came at the invitation of the British

Hundreds of Palestinian Authority Arabs rioted in Hevron and elsewhere around the country as the shrouded body of a dead Hamas terrorist was carried through the city in an afternoon funeral.

Egypt has demanded explanations from Hamas as to how it is allowing terror groups to fire rockets into southern Israel, months after the truce that ended Operation Pillar of Defense

IDF soldiers opened fire on Wednesday night at two terrorists who approached an IDF position near the community of Einav in northern Samaria. As the two terrorists approached the soldiers,

The North Korean army said Thursday it had final approval to launch “merciless” military strikes on the United States, involving the possible use of “cutting-edge” nuclear weapons. In a statement

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit the Middle East, his third trip in a month, in yet another attempt to push Israel and the Palestinian Authority to resume

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of not having said “a single word of truth” about Syria’s conflict, in an interview with Turkish media posted

Gaza-based terrorists fired a rocket at southern Israel on Wednesday night. Shortly before 2:00 a.m., the “Red Alert” siren was sounded at the Eshkol Regional Council. A rocket from Gaza

The Israeli military has added another Iron Dome battery to its arsenal of anti-missile defense systems. A fifth unit, one deployed for emergency use in central Israel during the IDF’s

Sixty-five percent of Israelis believe the Jewish people do not face a second Holocaust, according to a new poll conducted by Dahaf on behalf of the Knesset Channel. The poll

The United Nations’ nuclear agency reluctantly has reported that Iran appears to be working on an atomic weapon of mass destruction. Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency

The IDF is planning to give its top combat soldiers new earplugs that allow for selective hearing. The specialized earplugs can block outside noise while allowing soldiers to continue to

An Arab nonprofit organization has removed an article from its website that accused Jews of using “the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover” following a wave of criticism. The

Swastikas and the word “skinhead” were painted on the baseball field of an elementary school in Orange County, California, officials said Monday. According to The Lost Angeles Times, Principal Deborah

A mortar shell fired from Syria fell on the Golan Heights Tuesday evening. The shell fell in the area of Tel Fares, in the center of the Heights. No one

Arabs rioted throughout Judea and Samaria Tuesday, accusing Israel of causing the death of an Arab terrorist who had been imprisoned in Israel and who died of cancer in an

Israel launched its first airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday since the Egyptian-mediated truce ended November’s eight-day bout of fighting. “Occupation planes bombarded an open area in northern Gaza,

A Slovak court said Tuesday it will seek the extradition of Laszlo Csatary, a 98-year-old alleged Nazi-era war criminal, from Hungary for re-trial in Slovakia on charges of crimes against