Mortality statistics from Israel’s Health Ministry released Sunday held good news and bad for residents in the Jewish State.  Cancer has remained Israel’s number one killer over the past two

Several people were wounded Sunday in an explosion in Bandar Imam Khomeini, a port city in Iran, but few details have been released. The city is located some 1,000 kilometers

IDF forces are on high alert in the Golan Heights, carefully scrutinizing the border with Syria, as opposition forces begin to consider a new target: Israel. Syrian rebels have penetrated

A court verdict over deadly soccer violence sparked fresh unrest in Egypt on Saturday, with two people killed and buildings torched in Cairo, AFP reports. A Port Said court, sitting

King Abdullah II of Jordan reappointed Abdullah Nsur as premier on Saturday and tasked him with forming the new government after talks between his chief of staff and parliamentarians, the

US President Barack Obama on Saturday expressed his determination to continue outreach to his Republican opponents in order to facilitate approval by Congress of his key agenda items. The pledge

Sean Penn sat grim-faced at Hugo Chavez’s funeral on Friday — one of a clutch of Hollywood stars who lionized the late Venezuelan leader, in defiance of America’s fierce antipathy

The Head of Central Command in the IDF, Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, gave orders at week’s end to dismantle the fences protecting two Jewish communities, following the High Court’s ruling

The 21 Filipino UN peacekeepers who were kidnapped by Syrian rebels earlier this week have been handed over to Jordan, official sources in the Hashemite Kingdom said Saturday afternoon. An

Sanctions on Iran over its contested nuclear program are biting but need to be strengthened further, President Shimon Peres and French President Francois Hollande said on Friday. Peres was Hollande’s

Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid will likely be Israel’s next Finance Minister, it was reported on Friday, after a meeting between Lapid and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was described

The Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups threatened on Friday that a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama to the Temple Mount during his upcoming visit to Israel will be

The United Nations called off an effort to secure the release of 21 Filipino peacekeepers held by a Syrian rebel group until Saturday because of darkness in the Golan Heights,

U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Israel this month even if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has not completed the job of forming his new coalition, the White House said

President Barack Obama met with Jewish community leaders at the White House on Thursday, in anticipation of his upcoming trip to Israel and signaled that there would be no monumental

Worshippers started throwing rocks at security forces, Friday afternoon, at the end of Muslim prayers at Temple Mount mosques in Jerusalem’s Old City. Police stationed at the Mughrabi gate broke

The Philippines said on Friday that rebels who are holding 21 Filipino peacekeepers hostage in the Golan Heights are insisting Syrian troops leave the area before releasing their captives, the

Israeli, Greek and US warships began a joint two-week Mediterranean naval exercise on Thursday, IDF spokespeople revealed. The exercise has been codenamed “Noble Dina.” The drill will test a variety

The Al-Jazeera network broadcast, on Thursday, video of six United Nations observers who were abducted by rebel forces Wednesday in the Golan Heights The Philippine battalion commander said his troops

Israeli President Shimon Peres urged the European Union on Thursday to formally label Hizbullah as a terrorist organization. Peres told the European body Thursday at a meeting held in its

First Lady Michelle Obama and the U.S. State Department this Friday honor 10 women with the Int’l Women of Courage Award – including one who tweeted her joy about Al

The fugitive suspect in the hit-and-run that killed a young hassidic couple in Brooklyn over the weekend turned himself into police on Wednesday. Julio Acevedo, who for three days had

The Counter Terrorism Bureau issued a warning Wednesday, alerting Israelis to refrain from traveling to Sinai and a myriad of other hostile locations over the Passover holiday. There are currently

The United Nations Security Council condemned on Wednesday evening the seizure of 20 UN peacekeepers by Syrian rebels and demanded their immediate release. “The members of the Security Council strongly

The results of a probe into claims that former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat was poisoned by polonium will not be known until the end of May at the earliest,

About 20 UN observers have been detained by approximately 30 armed rebels in the Golan Heights on the Syria-Israel border, the international body confirmed Wednesday. The confirmation came in response to a video

The United States is warning that Iran has taken “further provocative actions” rather than moving towards compromise and cooperation on its nuclear development activities. Speaking at a meeting of the agency’s board

Israel responded Wednesday to a UNICEF report claiming its prison service “systematically” mistreats Palestinian Authority Arab “children.” Figures from the end of January showed that of the 233 of the

A swarm of one million locusts that was headed north from the southern border of Israel has been stopped dead in its tracks by the Ministry of Agriculture — but

Al Qaeda terrorists have been spotted along Israel’s northern border from the Golan Heights, tracking IDF soldiers from the Syrian side of the fence. The operatives, who are fighting on