Senior officials in the United States on Tuesday defended their program for accepting Syrian refugees and insisted that screening was stringent enough to prevent letting extremists slip into the country.

Turkish soccer fans on Tuesday evening booed during a minute’s silence for the victims of the Paris attacks before a game against Greece, Reuters reported. If the booing was not

Overnight, our father Yaakov transforms himself from a reluctant pursuer of his father’s blessing to a visionary who literally sets the foundation stone for the future Holy Temple and for

Following on the heels of the Swedish foreign minister, the chairman of the Dutch Socialist Party in the Netherlands justified the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists who conducted Saturday’s brutal attacks

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) paid a condolence visit on Tuesday night in Kiryat Arba, where he visited the mourning Litman family; Rabbi Ya’akov Litman and his son Netanel Litman were

Jordan’s King Abdullah II has announced that he intends to personally monitor the footage from cameras Israel controversially agreed to have placed on the Temple Mount, and that the footage will

The Diplomacy and Security Cabinet has declared the Northern Wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel an illegal organization. The Northern Wing is the more extreme wing of the Islamic Movement, and

Last week’s Islamic State (ISIS) attack on Paris will change the face of French society, Dr. Dennis Sharvit, French culture expert and political science professor at the Open University explained

The United Nations hit back Monday at calls to turn back refugees from Syria to prevent extremists like those who carried out the Paris attacks from entering as purported asylum-seekers.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Monday he would consider closing some mosques in America with radical leadership because of the Paris attacks if he were elected president. “I would

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Monday spoke with his French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and offered Israel’s support in the wake of the terrorist attacks that took place in Paris

The Obama administration is not backing off its plans to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States in 2016, the State Department clarified Monday, despite the fact that several

An Egyptian cleric, speaking on local television following the Paris terrorist attacks, expressed condolences over the attacks but also said that the West should not be surprised by them nor

Italy’s Interior Minister announced Monday that air space over Rome will be closed to drones throughout the Roman Catholic Holy Year celebrations beginning next month, due to a fear that

Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman on Monday denounced Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, after she appeared to link ISIS’s attacks on Paris with “Palestinian frustration” with Israel. The attempt by the

If the world had any innocence left, it is gone now. Chaos and bloodshed rule the headlines. Uncertainty and instability consume peoples’ thoughts. For the atheist it is just another

The Jerusalem District Attorney filed a claim Tuesday for 23,368 shekel ($5968) in damages against three Arabs who threw rocks at the Jerusalem Light Rail, damaging the public transport car.  The claim

Nahariya residents have endured without fresh, clean running water since Monday – and complain Tuesday that the municipality’s warning to boil all water did not reach them for hours after

France launched new airstrikes Tuesday on the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, in north-central Syria, while French police carried out 128 anti-terrorism raids throughout France overnight. French military spokesman Col.

Russia’s security chief, FSB head Alexander Bortnikov, acknowledged that terrorism downed a Metrojet flight which crashed in the Sinai several weeks ago, killing 224 people – long after Western intelligence declared that

The IDF carried out a large scale operation overnight in the city of Shechem in Samaria and its environs, for locating weapons. The operation was carried out together with the

France has listed more than 10,000 people suspected of being radicalized or potential security threats, including homegrown assailant Omar Ismail Mostefai who killed scores of people at Paris’s Bataclan music on Friday. According to

As French authorities struggle to get to grips with the vast network of Muslim extremists in its country – some 10,000-strong according to official estimates – a sermon recorded at a

The President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) has sharply condemned “deeply troubling” comments by Sweden’s foreign minister, in which she appeared to link ISIS’s attacks on Paris with “Palestinian frustration”

Hungary does not endorse labeling of products from Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights throughout the EU, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó declared Monday.  “We do not support the decision to

An alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces fighting the Islamic State group (ISIS or IS) in northeast Syria has driven the jihadists out of nearly 200 villages, its spokesman told

Two senior Democratic Congressman have written a letter to the US Department of Justice urging “fair consideration” of Jonathan Pollard’s wish to emigrate to Israel upon his release this week.

Israel’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, on Monday wrote to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, demanding a condemnation of the Palestinian Red Crescent, following the revelation that the organization’s ambulance was at

US President Barack Obama said Monday the United States had no precise intelligence warning of the Paris bombing and shooting attacks that have been claimed by Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists.