Israeli non-governmental humanitarian aid organization IsraAID sent a first-response team of 16 volunteers to southern Nepal on August 17 to bring medical, psychosocial, and sanitation assistance in the wake of floods and landslides affecting six million people in 18 districts. The surging waters have washed away thousands of houses and...

North Korea has been caught delivering shipments to a Syrian government agency in charge of the country’s chemical weapons program, according to a confidential United Nations (U.N.) report on North Korea’s sanctions violations. The report, submitted to the U.N. Security Council earlier this month and seen by Reuters on Monday,...

Iran’s atomic energy chief said Tuesday that the Islamic Republic would just need five days to ramp up its uranium enrichment to weapons-grade uranium. Ali Akbar Salehi, chief of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said, “If there is a plan for a reaction and a challenge, we will definitely surprise them,” the...

Israel’s unemployment rate for July dropped to 4.1%, an all-time low. According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, the rate fell from 4.3% in June, Globes reported Monday. Overall, for the month of July there were 4 million people over the age of 15 in the workforce in Israel, of whom 3,836,000 were...

Hezbollah has used drones for the first time to attack ISIS positions, bunkers, and fortifications in the Western Qalamoun area near the border with Lebanon. Video footage of the attack was released by its Al-Mayadeen media network on Monday afternoon. Hezbollah says this is the first time it has used...

The city of Buenos Aires honored Dr. Alejandro Roisentul, the Argentinian-born chairman of the Israeli Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, for his humanitarian work with Syrians wounded in the civil war raging across Israel’s northern border. Roisentul, head of the maxillofacial surgery unit at Ziv Medical Center in Safed...