Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, one of the strong advocates for new sanctions on Iran, was indicted Wednesday on corruption charges for allegedly using his Senate office to push the business

Announcements of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers were premature, it appears, as the talks were extended yet again on Wednesday night. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry

A Palestinian Arab in Gaza claims that a local artist “duped” him into selling an “original Banksy” – a door scrawled with graffiti drawn by the celebrated tagger – for far

Rebels backed by Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate, the Al-Nusra Front, on Wednesday seized control of the last border crossing with Jordan that had been under the control of the Damascus regime,

There was an increase of 71% in anti-Semitic incidents in the Netherlands in 2014 compared to 2013, the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI), a Dutch monitor, said

Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Wednesday urged world powers to “seize the moment” and drop their “excessive demands” as marathon nuclear talks with the West continued. “Iran has

President Reuven Rivlin met with a bipartisan delegation of members of the United States Congress on Wednesday afternoon, headed by Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH), Chairman of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Tactical Air Land Forces. 

China is creating a “great wall of sand” in the South China Sea, and thus building hegemony in East Asia at the expense of the United States, an American admiral

Pro-government militiamen were seen looting shops in the center of the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday after its recapture from the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group in a month-long

Turkey has arrested nine British nationals on the Syrian border as they sought to illegally cross over from Turkey, the army said on Wednesday. “Nine people of British nationality were

Support for a “two-state solution” to solve the Israel-Arab conflict is less popular in the United States than it has been in at least two decades, a new Washington Post-ABC

France is preparing a draft UN Security Council resolution on Palestinian statehood to be submitted in about 12 days, French diplomatic officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The draft

Syria’s government, presiding over an economy ravaged by war and facing dwindling foreign currency reserves, is taking new measures to slash imports and prop up exports. Importers require government licenses that allow them

MK Yuli Edelstein (Likud), who was the Knesset Speaker in the 19th Knesset, will serve in the same position in the 20th Knesset as well. Edelstein was chosen for the

MK Avi Dichter (Likud), who in the past served as head of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), on Tuesday said that Israel has “very good reasons” to be concerned

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, claimed on Tuesday night that Iran and the six major world powers had reached a preliminary agreement on “all the key aspects” of a deal

The new host of the “The Daily Show” Trevor Noah faced mounting criticism on Tuesday after the emergence of several past Twitter posts accused of being anti-Semitic, AFP reported. The

President Barack Obama on Tuesday released military aid to Egypt that was suspended after the 2013 overthrow of the government, The Associated Press (AP) reports. The White House said that

Three men have been arrested as part of an investigation into the Paris attacks in January in which 17 people were killed, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday, according

Trevor Noah, the newly announced host of Comedy Central‘s The Daily Show, fired back Wednesday after a storm of criticism over tweets perceived as anti-Semitic. “To reduce my views to

China scored a diplomatic coup by enticing 50 countries including key US allies to join its new development bank. But analysts say authoritarian Beijing now faces a daunting task managing a multilateral

Two reportedly armed intruders burst into a district office of the governing AK Party (AKP) in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Wednesday morning. The break-in occurred in the Kartal

Lufthansa has admitted that it was in fact aware that Germanwings copilot Andreas Lubitz, who purposely crashed his plane in the French Alps killing all 149 others aboard, was suffering from a

Scores of provinces in Turkey suffered a massive power cut Tuesday, halting mass transportation, hospitals and the manufacture of goods, and closing down 11 of the country’s air traffic control

The Ukrainians are coming, in droves. Thanks to the country’s brutal civil war, thousands of Jews are fleeing the country and many of them are heading toward Jerusalem. The Jewish

Argentine prosecutors launched a new appeal Tuesday of a court’s decision to dismiss their case against President Cristina Kirchner for allegedly protecting Iranian officials accused of orchestrating a deadly 1994 bombing on a Jewish center. Prosecutors

Jerusalem Councilman Arieh King reported on Tuesday night that Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat’s urban construction plan 30006 – creating roughly 10,000 housing units for Arab residents in the city – has passed, thereby

The United States has confirmed that nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers will continue beyond the self-imposed Tuesday night deadline and will be extended by at least a

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, a staunch ally of Israel, was defeated in elections on Tuesday by his his contender Muhammadu Buhari, in a turn of events feared to have a negative

As the March 31 deadline for an Iran nuclear deal ticks down, US State Department officials said Tuesday they are ready to extend the talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, overnight and into