Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle are working on a series of responses to Iran’s attempts to procure conventional arms from Russia and its recent ballistic missile launches, according to Al-Monitor. United Nations Security Council resolution 2231 includes a 5-year ban on the sale of conventional weapons to...

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter called Iran’s treatment of the American sailors it detained in January “outrageous” and “inconsistent with international law” during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday. Carter, who credited the nuclear deal for preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, nonetheless acknowledged that “our concerns with Iran persist.” After singling...

Israel and South Africa have reached an agreement to improve diplomatic ties and increase cooperation on issues such as agriculture, trade, science, and technology, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Sunday following the visit of its director general, Dore Gold, to South Africa. Israel and South Africa are actively engaged in a wide range of fields...

Israel’s Channel 2 has aired an investigation alleging that Breaking the Silence, a group with the stated goal of ending the occupation of Palestinian territories, collected potentially classified information about IDF operations, I24 News reported on Thursday. In its investigation, Channel 2 cited unpublished testimonies from Israeli soldiers that were obtained by the right-wing NGO...

Israeli actress Gal Gadot has revealed how she got the coveted role of Diana Prince, AKA Wonder Woman. Making her Ellen DeGeneres Show debut on Tuesday, Gadot described seeing 30 missed calls on her phone when her flight from Israel to the U.S. landed. Still in her airplane seat, she called her agent and...

During an official visit to Moscow on Wednesday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin told Russian President Vladimir Putin that any future agreement on Syria must not strengthen Iran and Hezbollah. According to a Haaretz reporter, Rivlin also said that Israel considers Iranian and Hezbollah outposts on the Israeli-Syrian border to be a red line. “We...