Iraqi security forces and the Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi, an umbrella group of Shiite militia, on Sunday night launched an attack on Kirkuk from two front lines, Kurdish news outlet Rudaw reported Monday. The Iraqi army and Shiite militia fired on Peshmerga troops, using advanced weapons and vehicles supplied to them...

Two rockets fired from the Sinai Peninsula landed in southern Israel Sunday evening. An Israeli military spokesperson said one of the rockets exploded in an open area near the communities of Magen and Ein Habasor following an initial search by the IDF, while soldiers are still searching for the second rocket....

Israel was the only country to win more than one gold medal at the Tashkent Judo Grand Prix 2017 in Uzbekistan. Competing on behalf of Israel, judokas Ori Sasson (heavyweight), Sagi Muki (lightweight) and Betina Temelkova (half-lightweight) won first place in their respective weight classes at the Tashkent Judo Grand...

United States President Donald Trump announced in a keynote speech on Friday that his administration would not recertify the Iranian nuclear accord and outlined a tougher strategy toward Tehran, The Times of Israel reported. “We cannot and will not make this certification,” Trump said. “We will not continue down a...

Israel has announced preparations to withdraw from the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), just hours after the United States said it would leave the organization over “continuing anti-Israel bias.” The Times of Israel reported Thursday that Netanyahu’s office had released a statement, saying that “The prime minister...

Saleh al-Arouri, the Hamas terror chief who masterminded the 2014 kidnapping and killing of 3 Israeli teens, said that Hamas has signed a reconciliation agreement with Fatah so that all Palestinian parties can “work together against the Zionist enterprise,” The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Under the agreement, the West Bank-based...

Dentists Khalil and Reem Bakly, a young Arab-Israeli couple in Upper Nazareth, built a 9-by-3-meter sukkah on their deck and invited the general public to come for kosher and Arab cuisine, prayer, live music and discussions on the three intermediate days of the Sukkot holiday, October 8-10. Calling their unusual...

United States President Donald Trump again dismissed the nuclear accord with Iran as “the worst deal” for America, as he prepares to announce a key decision on whether to certify Iran’s compliance with it. In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Trump said that “This is the worst deal. We...

The United States is withdrawing from the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the U.S. State Department announced on Thursday, citing concerns over “continuing anti-Israel bias” at the institution. “The Department of State notified UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova of the U.S. decision to withdraw from the organization and...

Israel’s defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said on Tuesday that the Lebanese army has been fully integrated with Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah and follows Hezbollah’s orders. Reuters quoted the minister saying that “We are no longer talking about Hezbollah alone.  We are talking about Hezbollah and the Lebanese army, and to...