Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon said on Sunday that Israel is closely monitoring the battlefronts in Syria after press reports that rebels had seized Scud missiles from regime forces. However,

While Turkey’s prime minister made headlines by calling Zionism a “crime against humanity” at a United Nations conference in Europe, Israeli and Palestinian Authority lawmakers were quietly meeting in Istanbul to find ways

The Simon Wiesenthal Center commended U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday for directly confronting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s slanderous accusation in which he called Zionism a

President Barack Obama has appointed a new coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf, the White House announced Saturday. Philip Gordon, a veteran foreign policy expert, will

As a reminder to those who thought the account related in the Passover Haggadah might have been an exaggeration – think again. Millions of locusts have swooped down in a

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Jordan’s King Abdullah II met in Jordan last week and discussed the Middle East peace process, a diplomatic source told AFP on Saturday. Israel has

Syrian rebels on Saturday hanged two Arabs registered as “Palestinian refugees” at a camp in Damascus on suspicion of aiding the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, a rights watchdog said,

Defense Minister Ehud Barak will be the first foreign counterpart to meet with new U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, it was reported over the weekend. The reports said that Barak

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad referred Saturday to a reported Israeli airstrike in January on Syrian soil, which had allegedly damaged a chemical weapons site, vowing to hit back the Jewish

Three mortar shells exploded Saturday afternoon in the southern Golan Heights, near Ramot Magshimim. No one was hurt and no damage was caused. The defense establishment believes that the shells

US Secretary of State John Kerry was in Cairo on Saturday to push for a way out of Egypt’s violence-wracked political impasse, underlining the need for a consensus to overcome

President Shimon Peres has granted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a 14-day extension in which to put together a new coalition, after Netanyahu failed to do so in the first four

Spring may not have come yet to Washington, DC, but at week’s end, the unique relationship between the United States and Israel was in full bloom. Several hundred Jewish leaders

For the first since the end of the IDF’s Pillar of Defense counterterrorism operation, Gaza-based terrorists opened fire on Friday afternoon towards the Shaar Hanegev region in southern Israel. No

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday rejected Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s comments against Zionism a day earlier, and called for Turkey and Israel to repair their

Comedian Joan Rivers has no intention of apologizing for a joke she made about the Holocaust, CNN reported Friday. Rivers, while appearing Monday on “Fashion Police” on E!, talked about

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu intends to “punish” the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria by freezing all new construction in the region, Channel 2 News reported on Friday. According to

The White House condemned on Thursday the remarks made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who compared Zionism with fascism in a public address. “We reject Prime Minister Erdogan’s

The IDF Spokesman, Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, rejected on Friday statements about an “intifada” that has supposedly broken out in Judea and Samaria. “For the past few weeks, I have

Official Palestinian Authority TV broadcast a tribute this past week to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), which was responsible for the 1974 Maalot massacre in northern

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sharply condemned on Thursday evening Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statement about Zionism and its comparison to fascism. “This is a dark and mendacious statement

A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced a new resolution which says that the United States would back Israel militarily if the Jewish State were to attack Iran in

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz spoke to commanders as they completed two days of training on response to violent riots. “The reality we live in is dynamic and ever-changing,”

The number of mobile telephones worldwide is set to catch up to the globe’s population next year, the United Nations’ telecommunications agency said Thursday. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said

The UK is joining the United States in training and equipping opposition forces in their fight to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague met

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has announced the United States will provide $60 million to hand-picked Syrian rebel groups. Kerry said the aid, to be provided “immediately in non-lethal

Croatia said Thursday it will withdraw its soldiers stationed on the Golan Heights as part of a UN force after reports said that Syrian rebels battling the regime of Bashar

Palestinian Authority resident Arafat Jaradat was not harmed before his death, a team of medical experts has found. Jaradat died in an Israeli prison over the weekend, sparking days of

Two people were killed Thursday morning when a car bomb exploded in Rishon Lezion. The incident occurred in the center of the town next to the city’s court building. There

The international community must intensify the sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday. Netanyahu, who met with Sri Lankan External Affairs Minister Prof.