Kurdish fighters seized the eastern and southern outskirts Friday of a key Islamic State (ISIS) stronghold in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.  

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a landmark series of regulation on how Americans will access the internet Thursday, voting for “net neutrality” in a 3-2 sweep – and sparking immediate

US President Barack Obama is sending National Security Advisor Susan Rice and UN Ambassador Samantha Power to address the AIPAC convention next week. The two are “widely seen as among

An eight-way televised debate Thursday between the heads of most of parties expected to enter the next Knesset included heated confrontations between Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) and Zehava Galon (Meretz),

A Danish man whose Facebook comments appeared to back the gunman behind the deadly Copenhagen attacks will not face charges of condoning terrorism, a prosecutor said Thursday to AFP.  The unidentified man had posted

Differing polls place Likud and Labor in very different spots for the 20th Knesset elections Thursday, after one poll places the two at a tie and another gives Labor a

Jordan and Israel signed a deal on Thursday to build a pipeline to link the Red Sea with the shrinking Dead Sea and combat regional water shortages, according to AFP.  The official Petra news agency

Any Arab MKs to join the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the 20th Knesset will not be privy to classified information, MK Yariv Levin (Likud) stated Thursday. “The general committee will

IDF, Border Police and Israel Police forces launched a large-scale operation Thursday to block and contain the wave of rock throwing terror in Judea and Samaria. The operation was launched

An Argentine judge on Thursday dismissed the case against President Cristina Kirchner for allegedly shielding Iranian officials from prosecution over the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center, AFP reports. The long-unsolved bombing at the Argentine Jewish

An anti-Israel organization on Wednesday unveiled a new bus ad that uses Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s upcoming Congress speech to call on the Obama administration to cut Washington’s aid to

The White House on Wednesday backed comments by National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who said in an interview that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech in Congress is “destructive”

Former Miss Turkey Merve Buyuksarac is facing up to two years in prison for social media posts that prosecutors have deemed to be critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, The

Over the course of the last academic year, four doctoral students and one recent alumna of Dr. Roee Holtzer’s Neuropsychology and Cognition Lab at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of

The United States and Iran have a “mutual interest” in defeating the Islamic State (ISIS) group, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday, AFP reported. He stressed, however, that

The Comptroller’s Report on housing prices is “a very important document that we place a great deal of importance on,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office said Wednesday. “We believe that

A young Canadian woman abruptly left her family to join the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria after purportedly being radicalized while studying religion online, AFP reported Wednesday. The 23-year-old’s

Three New York residents have been arrested for plotting to join extremists fighting in Syria and two threatened to carry out attacks within the United States, officials said Wednesday, according

Austria’s parliament on Wednesday passed a law banning foreign sources of financing to Muslim organizations and requiring imams to be able to speak German, AFP reported. The law, first introduced

Islamic State terrorists have abducted 220 Assyrian Christians from villages in northeastern Syria in recent days, a monitoring group said Thursday, more than twice as many as previously reported. “No fewer than 220 Assyrian

A church-owned building in Jerusalem was torched overnight, the Israel Police said in a statement Thursday morning.  Arsonists set fire to an annex of a Greek Orthodox Seminary just outside

France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Thursday that he “condemned with the greatest strength” a decision by three French lawmakers to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom he described as “a butcher.” “I

The back and forth banter between Israel and the United States over Iran’s nuclear aspirations continued on Wednesday, as Secretary of State John Kerry questioned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s judgment

An Iranian-American engineer in a key US company and nearly smuggled sensitive fighter jet plans to Iran has pleaded guilty. He could be sentenced to 20 years in prison and

Adolg Hitler’s anti-Semitic manifesto Mein Kampf  (My Struggle) is returning to German bookshelves in early 2016, sparking public and political outrage across the country.  For 70 years, the State of Bavaria in

Amit Barak, one of the founders of the Im Tirzu organization and an activist advocating IDF service for Christian Arabs, is demanding that Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein open an investigation

Iranian forces conducting military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, blew up a mock US aircraft carrier. State television showed Iranian speedboats surround the ship and hit it with what the

It’s been four months since veteran Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick was gunned down in an attempted assassination in Jerusalem. Four bullets fired by an Islamic Jihad assassin pierced his body, and

The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and IDF have uncovered two terrorist cells, whose members carried out, recently, a number of shootings at Israeli vehicles and at an IDF

An Arab satellite television network report claimed Thursday that a US-led coalition airstrike against Islamic State targets in areas they control has killed a “large number” of the organization’s top commanders. It is