Several members of the US-led coalition attacking the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Iraq and Syria are doing “nothing at all” to help destroy the jihadists, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Friday. His

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) municipality in Bethlehem, Judea, held an event in late December honoring 52 terrorist prisoners from the city serving life sentences, with a particularly ironic twist taking

Even as Israel is set to receive its own first snowstorm of the year, the East Coast of the US has come in for a particularly serious blizzard, with already at

US President Barack Obama called former President Shimon Peres over the weekend to wish him well, after Peres suffered a heart attack. In the conversation, Obama thanked Peres for their

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), an opposition organization in Syria, reports that a Syrian woman was publicly executed by her son after she attempted to have him quit ISIS. The execution

The rain and snowstorm bearing down on Israel began on Saturday with periodic rains from the north of the country to the Negev in the south, with several thunderstorms also

An Israeli Holocaust survivor may be the world’s oldest man at 112, Guinness World Records said Thursday, providing he can find the documents to prove it. His family say Yisrael Kristal was born in

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on Friday joined in on the global condemnation following Israel’s initiative to declare 1500 dunams (371 acres) of land north of the town of Almog, near

A spokesman for the Kremlin on Friday denied reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a senior intelligence official to Damascus late last year to ask Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday said he backs Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon with regards to the eviction of Jews from their Hevron homes earlier in the day. “We all

President Barack Obama will visit the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on the evening of January 27, where he will take part in the first ever ceremony in the United

Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) on Friday met with French President Francois Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, and blasted the EU’s resolution from this week stipulating that

The state of New York this week became the latest state to pass legislation against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The New York State Senate passed a

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas had his claims Thursday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu snubbed his efforts for peace talks further denied, as the American administration clarified it is not

Israel is still recovering from the major sandstorm that hit on Monday, bringing with it dust particulates and air pollution for at least two days, but now the country is

Amir Hekmati, the former American Marine who was held in an Iranian prison and freed as part of a prisoner swap between the United States and Iran, arrived home in

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday said the Islamic State (ISIS) group would be “very seriously” weakened in Syria and Iraq this year, as France announced that some 22,000 jihadists have been killed

In the wake of massive sexual assaults perpetrated by Muslim migrants on New Year’s Eve, and the threat of jihadists infiltrating the sudden mass influx of “refugees,” Germany admitted on

Slovenia’s biggest supermarket chain on Thursday reversed a previous decision to boycott Israeli products, two days after caving to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and removed Israeli products

The conflict with the Palestinian Arabs will “never be solved” so long as the Palestinian Arabs continue to incite their children against Israel, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Thursday. Speaking

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday sharply criticized the European Union’s (EU) double standards when it comes to Israel. Netanyahu’s comments came during a meeting in Davos with the EU’s

An outpouring of criticism combined with threats to the coalition government followed the eviction on Friday morning of 200 Jews from two buildings in Hevron, which they purchased in full from

Turkey is “closely watching” Russian troop movements in Syria near its border, a government source in Ankara said on Friday, after reports that Russian servicemen had deployed in the Syrian border town of Qamishli.

After security forces evicted 200 Jews on Friday morning from two buildings in Hevron, which they purchased in full from an Arab buyer and took residence of on Thursday, the Jewish

A Syrian suspected of being among jihadists who kidnapped a UN peacekeeper in Damascus in 2013 has been arrested over the “war crime”, Germany’s federal prosecutor said Friday. The 24-year-old

In the wake of a prisoner swap between the US and Iran on Sunday, that took place the same day America gave Tehran $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds, concerns are

The name of the late Lady Amélie Jacobovits (1928-2010) appears on the list of the wives of peers in the United Kingdom, as she received the title when Queen Elizabeth elevated

After a Channel 10 poll on Thursday found that if former IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. (res.) Gabi Ashkenazi were to enter politics he could potentially cause a watershed shift in Israeli

As security forces on Friday morning began evicting two buildings in Hevron, where 200 Jews took residency the day before after buying the structures in full from an Arab seller, Jewish

Deputy Regional Development Minister Ayoub Kara (Likud) was one of several MKs in the government on Friday to condemn the eviction of Jews from two buildings bought in Hevron, and