Kurdish forces have prevented displaced Arabs from returning to disputed areas of Iraq that Kurdish leaders want to incorporate in their autonomous region over Baghdad’s objections, a report said Thursday. Human Rights Watch warned

The IDF on Thursday suspended air exercises, after several “close calls” in recent weeks demanded a review of procedures and safety practices, Israel Air Force officials said. The exercises would

The worst forecasts of the expected jump in gasoline prices materialized Thursday, as the Economics Ministry announced that the new price of gas beginning Sunday would be NIS 6.46 per

Police can no longer require suspects to strip for a search unless they have a very good reason to believe that a suspect is hiding weapons or drugs on his

Students in Israeli Religious Zionist high schools are demanding that the four religious parties running in this election – Jewish Home, Yachad-Ha’am Itanu, Shas, and United Torah Jewry – put

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon will be the Guest of Honor – via pre-recorded video – at a giant Chabad youth event this Sunday. That same day, modern Jerusalem’s busiest synagogue, and

Jews who attempt to ascend to the Temple Mount have a great many obstacles placed in their way – and the latest consists of mobs of Muslim women who form

The State Comptroller’s Office Wednesday published a damning report on the conduct of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, just one week after State Comptroller Yosef Shapira officially rebuked him over excessive spending on running his

President of Israel Reuven Rivlin hosted a delegation from Apple Wednesday, led by CEO Tim Cook, currently on a visit to Israel. “It is a great privilege to host you and

54% of Jewish American college students experienced anti-Semitism on campus during the 2013-2014 academic year, according to a landmark study released Tuesday – and one conservative think-tank is determined to

An Australian who travelled to Syria to join Kurds battling jihadists has been killed, a monitor said Wednesday, adding he was the first Westerner to die fighting alongside the Kurds. “An Australian man

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he “respects” US President Barack Obama but stressed he has no choice but to travel to America to lobby against a nuclear deal with Iran. “I

Egypt’s former mufti expressed doubt recently that the Islamic State (ISIS) indeed burned alive a Jordanian pilot it kidnapped in Syria. In an address posted on the internet on February

The European Union’s foreign policy chief on Tuesday said that an Iran nuclear deal was “at hand”, AFP reported. “We cannot miss this opportunity,” Federica Mogherini said at Chatham House, a

For the second time in as many years, Yeshiva University men’s basketball player Benjy Ritholtz has earned one of the highest academic honors a college student-athlete can earn, as the

Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid continued on Tuesday to blame Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the housing crisis in Israel, ahead of a new report by the State Comptroller

The shooting attack in the Czech town of Uhersky Brod on Tuesday in which eight people were killed was not a terrorist attack, Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said Tuesday

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday night that he will not form a unity government with the “Zionist Camp”, headed by Labor leader Yitzhak Herzog and Hatnua chairwoman Tzipi

The American public has grown more supportive of the US fight against the Islamic State group, with nearly two-thirds now backing the air campaign against the jihadists, according to a

A video released by ISIS in Libya and published by the Arabic-language Asharq al-Awsat shows the two perpetrators of a deadly attack on the Corinthia Hotel in January threatening that ISIS’s

The Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet), arrested a 17-year-old Jewish youth in a nighttime raid on Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in Yitzhar, Samaria. The youth was taken to

A Palestinian Arab mosque was set alight in a village near Bethlehem Tuesday, with anti-Arab slogans in Hebrew sprayed on a nearby wall, Palestinian witnesses said. The fire was discovered in

A group of Iranian dissidents said on Tuesday that Iran has an “underground top-secret site” that is enriching uranium intended for nuclear weapons and which has been hidden from the

The Israel Electric Corporation on Wednesday limited the electricity flow to Shechem and Jenin, after doing so earlier in the week to several other Palestinian Authority-controlled areas. The IEC did

After having flown missions over Afghanistan and Libya, French Rafale fighter pilot “Sharpy” now faces fresh challenges on his new assignment against the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group in Iraq.  

Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the Yisrael Beytenu party could distribute copies of Charlie Hebdo as part of its campaign ahead of a March 17 general election.   Foreign

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has reportedly declined an invitation to meet with U.S. Senate Democrats during his trip to Washington next week, Reuters reported late Tuesday. The invitation was extended

US National Security Adviser Susan Rice said Tuesday that Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech in Congress is “destructive” to the relationship between the two countries. Rice made the comments in

The United States has condemned the abduction by the Islamic State terrorist group of dozens of Assyrian Christians in Syria and demanded their immediate release. It was the first mass