In response to urgent pleas from the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the US government and other countries, Israel is sending more than a million shekels’ worth of medical equipment, as well as expert personnel to fight the spread of the African Ebola epidemic that has claimed 3,400 lives...

A range of Western news outlets reported Monday morning that an explosion had rocked the Iranian military base at Parchin – where the UN’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) suspects Iranian scientists conducted work related to nuclear weaponization – just a day before an IAEA team was set to land in the...

An article published Monday in The New Republic by Lori Plotkin Boghardt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy examines Qatar’s troubling ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical Islamist movements, including Hamas and ISIS. Boghardt explains that Qatar, a small emirate on the Persian Gulf caught between its more...

Lawmakers from the House of Representatives on Thursday dispatched a letter to the Obama administration – signed by 354 members, comprising over 80 percent of the chamber – calling on Secretary of State John Kerry try harder in securing a deal with Iran that puts a nuclear bomb beyond Tehran’s...

Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs announced today that Israel is increasing its participation in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus sweeping western Africa. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has authorized MASHAV, Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, to send three mobile emergency clinics to areas in western Africa where...

In a report Thursday, the United Nations revealed that over 5,500 Iraqis have been killed since an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) offensive started in June. According to The New York Times: Those deaths represent nearly half of the 9,343 civilians killed in Iraq from January through September, the...