Moscow’s “man in Tel Aviv,” Marcus Klingberg, has passed away at age 97. Klingberg was the best-known – and probably most important – spy the Soviet Union had in Israel,

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ankara of shooting down a Russian warplane last week to protect supplies of oil from the Islamic State group to Turkey. “We have every reason to

Hours after he shook hands with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the first time in five years, Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Monday used his speech at the

A ceremony marking the deportation of Jews from Iraq seven decades ago was held for the first time on Monday in the country’s autonomous Kurdish region. It also marked the

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has banned a Gaza-based Hamas network from broadcasting within its borders Monday, it announced on its official Facebook page – apparently to stop incitement.  While Israel has

Labor MK Stav Shafir expressed her satisfaction Monday after hearing news that MK Yinon Magal (Jewish Home) is stepping down as Knesset Member, following accusations of improper past behavior with

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Monday that Iraq has sufficient forces to fight the Islamic State group (ISIS), after American senators called for more US troops to be deployed to

Lt. Gen. (ret.) Michael Flynn, who served as head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 2012 to 2014, spoke to the German Der Spiegel on Sunday about the war against Islamic

Turkey will not apologize for downing a Russian fighter jet on the Syrian border but Moscow should reconsider retaliatory sanctions, Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday as he held talks at NATO headquarters. “Protection of our

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday urged Greek premier Alexis Tsipras to focus on a “positive agenda,” after he lashed out at Turkey over the shooting down of a Russian warplane

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a meeting with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the climate conference in Paris on Monday, the Kremlin said, as a dispute rages over Ankara’s downing of a Russian

MKs Yoav Kisch (Likud) and Yifat Shasha-Biton (Kulanu) submitted a bill to the Knesset Monday that would set clear and egalitarian guidelines for calculating child support after divorce. The amounts paid

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Monday that Iraq has sufficient forces to fight the Islamic State group (ISIS), after American senators called for more US troops to be deployed to

Lawyers for two journalists from a Turkish opposition newspaper on Monday appealed a court ruling to detain them on spying charges, over a report revealing how Ankara shipped arms bound for Islamist jihadists in Syria,

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday sentenced three Arab terrorists from Jerusalem to jail time, over their plot to abduct and murder Jews on the Temple Mount – the holiest

A group of Arabs threw about ten Molotov cocktails at Border Police in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud. Arab sources report that security forces returned fire and killed one rioter

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seeks to pass a bill that will allow Israelis abroad to vote in national elections. A second planned bill will take away the President’s role in

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev on Sunday instructed the Director of Culture at her Ministry to establish a professional team that will examine concerns that the films shown at

A Honduran judge on Sunday ordered a hearing for five Syrians who arrived in the country after a five-country odyssey, AFP reported. Honduras say the men were arrested on November

A row in Britain’s main opposition Labor party over whether to back air strikes in Syria has deepened splits over Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, while reviving uncomfortable memories of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prime

Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Women’s Affairs Haifa Al-Agha, who is herself a woman, recently said Palestinian Arab women are “unique” in the world because they rejoice at the death

A volunteer police officer who didn’t appreciate being called out for his alleged unfairness in the local media is to be awarded NIS 25,000 ($6,400 US), a Tiberias judge ordered.

Britain’s defense minister on Sunday said the government was intensively lobbying opposition Labour lawmakers to support airstrikes in Syria as efforts mount to force a vote next week, AFP reports.

A group of self-styled “goods inspectors” in Germany this past weekend went on a campaign in which they label all the Israeli products they can find as being “from illegal

Saudi Arabia has widened its sanctions against the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist group, adding 12 names to a blacklist of individuals and firms whose assets in the kingdom will be frozen,

Deputy Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday once again praised the current terror wave against Israelis, which Hamas calls the “Al-Quds Intifada”, referring to it as “the greatest strategic development

Iran on Sunday threatened to cancel the nuclear deal with world powers unless a probe into allegations of its past weapons research is closed, AFP reported. The declaration, by a

About 300 people on Sunday protested the arrest of two prominent journalists on charges of spying over their reports about Ankara’s alleged arms supplies to Syrian rebels in a case

President Barack Obama arrived in Paris for the UN climate conference on Sunday night, and stopped at the Bataclan concert hall to pay respect to the victims of the November 13

A Muslim group has been welcomed to pray in the Beth Israel Synagogue of Peterborough, Ont., after their own mosque was damaged in an arson attack earlier this month. A