The United States would not comment on Wednesday when asked whether Israel had carried out an airstrike in Syria. “I don’t have any comment for you on those reports. I’d

The arms convoy that Israel reportedly attacked last night along the Syria-Lebanon border carried SA-17 missiles, among other things, according to foreign sources. The SA-17 is a Russian-made anti-aircraft missile.

Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, Commander of the IAF, described the chaotic threat facing Israel from its neighbors Tuesday, just hours before jet fighters under his command reportedly hit a major

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi defended his rancorous anti-Semitic comments, claiming that they were taken out of context. Morsi asserted in September 2010 that peace negotiations are “a waste of time

The number of Israelis ordering gas masks has more than doubled in recent days, the Post Office reports. The increase comes in the wake of warnings from experts that Syria’s

According to reports, Israeli warplanes carried out a surveillance mission over Lebanon Tuesday night which possibly included a strike on an alleged weapons convoy located near the Syrian-Lebanon border. Lebanese news agencies claimed that

An IDF officer was injured Wednesday in an accident involving an armored personnel carrier (APC). The officer suffered light to moderate injuries. The accident took place in the Golan. The

In recent weeks the IDF has had to deal with the release of several video clips harmful to its image, including films taken by Arabs in Judea and Samaria showing

Police have nabbed several Palestinian Authority resident Arabs accused of running a car theft ring. The suspects, members of a single family from Hevron, allegedly disguised parts stripped from stolen

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard stunned constituents on Wednesday by announcing that national elections will be held on September 14. Gillard, who holds power by a narrow margin and is

The bodies of 78 young men, all executed with a single gunshot, were found Tuesday in a river in Aleppo city, adding to the grim list of massacres committed during

The outcome of Israel’s elections did not torpedo hopes for peace with the Palestinian Authority, but instead opened up a new chance for dialogue, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said

Yemeni authorities working with the United States Navy intercepted a ship carrying a substantial cache of illegal arms that U.S. officials suspect were being smuggled from Iran.  The arms, intercepted

United States Senator John Kerry easily overcame the first hurdle of his confirmation as the next secretary of state Tuesday with a unanimous vote of approval by the Senate Foreign

Italy’s first Holocaust museum, a modern $30 million facility, is being built on the site of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s former residence in Rome, if the many financial and bureaucratic

Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sisi warned Tuesday that Egypt could be facing collapse. Al-Sisi explained that military units have been stationed in cities next to the Suez Canal,

A US soldier who lost all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq has successfully received a rare double arm transplant, Johns Hopkins hospital said Monday. The

A terrorist stabbed a young Jewish man at a hitchhiking station at Tapuach Junction in Samaria (Shomron) Tuesday. The boy suffered light to moderate wounds and was evacuated to Beilinson

President Shimon Peres sent a letter on Tuesday to the chairman of the Football Association, strongly condemning the organization for not speaking out against the racism and incitement by fans

The Jewish divorce rate rose by a full 5% last year, according to statistics from the Rabbinical Courts, while the number of divorce files opened rose by an astounding 9%.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met on Monday with a bipartisan delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives led by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA). During the meeting, the Prime Minister said,

A protracted surveillance operation led to the capture of three suspects who were caught red handed robbing an ancient grave near Kibbutz Metzer. Inspectors for the Unit for Prevention of

The US military plans to set up a base for drones in northwest Africa to bolster surveillance of Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in the region and allied Islamist extremists, a US official

The Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Strategic Affairs, Moshe Yaalon, said Monday that the government devoted much of its weekly session Sunday to the danger that Syrian chemical weapons

Rupert Murdoch apologized on Monday for a “grotesque” cartoon carried in one of his British newspapers, showing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu building a wall with the bodies of Palestinian Authority

The White House says President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke by telephone on Monday, almost a week after Netanyahu’s ticket won the most seats in Israel’s

An American-Iranian pastor sentenced to eight years in jail by Iran for his role in underground churches in the Islamic republic has vowed to appeal against the verdict, the Shargh

Iran has arrested and taken into custody nearly a dozen journalists, accusing them of cooperation with foreign news outlets. The Islamic Republic claimed the reporters were collaborating with foreign-based, Persian-language

The European Jewish Congress has demanded an apology from the Sunday Times for its abhorrent cartoon that depicted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of ‘Palestinians’,

Jordan has begun to beef up its border with Syria, sending hundreds of thousands of troops, artillery and armored vehicles to the north, a senior Jordanian security source says. The