President Barack Obama’s administration on Tuesday vowed to press ahead with a half-billion-dollar mission to train Syrian opposition fighters, despite fears that its initial failures have dented U.S. credibility. After

Senator Chuck Schumer on Tuesday said that even if the United States backs away from the deal with Iran and other countries lift their sanctions, Iran still will feel meaningful

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Syria on Wednesday and discuss a “new plan” by the Islamic Republic to help resolve the conflict there, his spokeswoman said Tuesday,

Synagogues are commonly known as Jewish houses of prayer – and of course that is their primary purpose. Yet the common Hebrew term for a synagogue (or shul in Yiddish) is

The Sinai branch of Islamic State (ISIS), Sinai Province, announced on Wednesday that it has executed Croatian citizen Tomislav Salopek, who it captured on July 22 in Cairo. This marks the

Air France on Wednesday responded to popular backlash and put Israel back on its in-flight maps, after shocked passengers documented how the maps wiped Israel out even while listing “West Bank”

Yehuda Ben Moyal, 26, who was stabbed at a gas station northwest of Jerusalem on Sunday, was released from Shaare Tzedek Hospital Wednesday. His condition improved steadily since the attack

A huge interfaith campaign is uniting the efforts of millions of Christians throughout the US to press Congress to defeat the Iran nuclear deal, warning that the leading state sponsor of

Jewish Home Chairman, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, criticized the High Court Wednesday for the verdict that amended the Infiltrators Law. The court was wrong to interfere – for the third

Even as Megyn Kelly wrestles with Donald Trump about his supposed “war on women,” Canadian Jewish businessman Steve Maman is helping save lives in the real war on women being

The IDF has changed its open-fire instructions for warriors serving in Judea and Samaria, making it even more difficult for them to fire at terrorists. The new instructions determine that only

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that he is “pleased with the fact that the state’s basic position – that illegal infiltration of labor immigrants into Israel cannot be tolerated

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) says he has more than doubled the budget for IGY, an organization catering to homosexual and lesbian youth, following the murder of Shira Banki

Former Prisoner of Zion, Rabbi Yosef Mendelevitch, told Arutz Sheva Tuesday about how he staged a hunger strike to pressure Soviet authorities to give him his Torah and prayer books

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of Efrat explained Tuesday to Arutz Sheva that the decision by a group of leading rabbis to establish independent conversion courts is “completely within Halacha” and should

A Hamas terrorist responsible for terror tunnel digging was arrested via a joint operation of the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and the Israel Police in early July, it was cleared for

The High Court partially rejected the motion filed by leftist human rights organizations against the so-called Infiltrator Law. It determined, however, that leaving infiltrators in an open detention facility for 20 months

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday vowed that his country would press on with its relentless campaign against Kurdish militants “until not one terrorist” was left, as Ankara launched

Islamist groups and pro-regime forces agreed late Tuesday on a 48-hour ceasefire in flashpoint towns in northwest Syria and along the border with Lebanon, a monitoring group said, according to

“We, the undersigned, wish to strengthen the hands of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, the sole source of halakhic decisions that affect the State of Israel on a national level and

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked did not appear very happy with High Court’s ruling Tuesday regarding illegal entrants – but she maintained her composure. “The Supreme Court has just ruled on

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that he is “pleased with the fact that the state’s basic position – that illegal infiltration of labor immigrants into Israel cannot be tolerated

Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said that he is “deeply saddened” by the High Court verdict on the Infiltrators’ Law, “which delivers a serious blow to the state’s attempt to

The Deputy Minister of Regional Cooperation MK Ayoub Kara (Likud) called for participants in the deadly lynching of an ambulance carrying Syrian refugees to repent and be willing to accept punishment for their

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to pay a visit to Iran within the coming two months, a senior PA official told the Xinhua news agency on Monday.

Senator Chuck Schumer on Monday told a local audience in New York his decision to oppose the Iran nuclear deal was one of the most difficult decisions he’s ever had

Jason Rezaian, the Iranian-American reporter for the Washington Post detained in Tehran for more than a year, could receive his verdict as early as next week, his lawyer said on

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, Fatah’s so-called “military wing”, on Monday threatened to carry out terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria in response to the arson in the Palestinian Arab village

Republicans who oppose the nuclear deal with Iran are doing so for political reasons more than anything else, President Barack Obama claimed on Monday. “Unfortunately, a large portion of the

A former New Jersey resident has been arrested and charged with allegedly conspiring and attempting to provide support to the Islamic State (ISIS), the Department of Justice said Monday, according