Vegetables harvested in Gaza will be exported to Israel for the first time in eight years on Thursday, the Palestinian Arab Ma’an news agency reports. A Gaza merchant, Salim Abu

The presence of Iranian advisers in the Iraq battle for Tikrit is “concerning” to the United States, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Wednesday, according to AFP. The comments came

The United States and Cuba have re-established a direct telephone link, the Cuban state telecommunications company said Wednesday, the AFP news agency reported. For the first time since 1999, calls

An Australian teenager who carried out a suicide attack in Iraq was under surveillance and his passport had been cancelled, officials said Thursday, as reports emerged that he left bomb-making material

A new petition sent to the White House is calling to file charges of treason against 47 senators who wrote a letter to Iran’s leadership, warning that any nuclear deal

Attacks in and around Baghdad, mostly bomb blasts, killed at least 17 people on Wednesday, Iraqi police and medical sources said, according to the AFP news agency. The deadliest single

Turkey on Thursday claimed an intelligence agent working for one of the states in the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) group had been captured for helping three British teenage girls cross into Syria to

Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri continued Thursday morning to reject the option of his party sitting in a left-wing government led by Labor leader Yitzhak Herzog.  This latest refusal, however, comes

Thousands of Iraqi troops and militiamen laid siege to jihadist fighters holed up in Tikrit on Thursday, wary of rushing into streets littered with bombs and infested with snipers. After

Around 200 Assyrian Christians protested outside the UN building in Iran’s capital Thursday to demand action to halt the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group’s victimization of their community in Syria and Iraq. ISIS has “destroyed

The body of a young German woman killed in Syria fighting with  Kurdish forces against the Islamic State (ISIS) group was on Thursday transferred to the Turkish side of the border ahead of

The Koby Mandell Foundation, founded by the parents of terror victim Koby Mandell who was murdered in the early days of the Second Intifada, sponsors special post-trauma camps for kids aged 8 to

More than 50 regime soldiers and Islamist terrorists were killed as they battled over a strategic hilltop in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s home province, a monitoring group said on Thursday. Government forces clashed

DROR is a relatively new organization, but it has made a quick impact in dozens of Israeli girls’ lives, turning things around for them by utilizing a unique form of intensive tutoring,

Israel has a severe shortage of elderly care workers, with most of them coming from abroad, largely from India and the Philippines. To address the issue, the IDF will be training

While Binyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama spar on the approach to Iran, one expert considers the strong possibility that the US is trying to make ISIS into “Iran’s Vietnam.” The Netanyahu

Syrian government forces are responsible for killing over 600 doctors and medical workers during the four-year war, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said Wednesday, calling the attacks a crime against humanity. The New York-based

The Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court extended by five days on Wednesday the confinement of an 18-year-old Arab terrorist from Bir Zeit, who stabbed a haredi man near Tzahal Square in central

Secretary of State John Kerry urged lawmakers Wednesday to give President Barack Obama updated war powers to go after Islamic jihadists at “a pivotal hour” in the battle against the

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction took the unusual step on Tuesday of more than doubling the number of Israelis murdered in a brutal terrorist attack from 1978,

Civilians maimed in devastating barrel bombings by Syria’s regime in the divided city of Aleppo face a dire shortage of surgeons, wheelchairs and artificial limbs, a humanitarian group said Wednesday. A chronic lack

A Toronto resident originally from Pakistan has been arrested and is on trial for allegedly planning to attack the US consulate and other buildings in Toronto’s financial district. Jahanzeb Malik

Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari claimed Wednesday that Iran can defeat the US in “any scenario.” At a convention in Tehran, Jafari boasted “we have grown

In response to the court announcement that his sentencing will take place March 26, Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, said that the arrest of Palestinian Arabs would

An Israeli partner in the Leviathan offshore gas field said on Wednesday a Palestinian Arab company had cancelled a $1.2-billion supply contract, citing delays by Israel’s Antitrust Authority. Delek said it had informed the Tel

Qatar on Tuesday launched a project to build 1,000 homes in Gaza to house Palestinian Arabs displaced by last summer’s war between Hamas and Israel, AFP reported. The Gulf state,

Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday told reporters she used private emails out of “convenience” during her time in office, but admitted it “would have been

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday brushed off Palestinian Arab threats to haul him before an international court for proposing to behead Arab citizens disloyal to the state. “I saw

Three London schoolgirls who fled to Syria are believed to have stolen family jewelry to fund their travel, police said Tuesday, according to the AFP news agency. The three, Kadiza