An Iranian-American business man and his father, sentenced to a 10-year prison term in Iran for “cooperating with the hostile American government,” have lost an appeal in court, a lawyer for the pair said. The Times of Israel reported Monday that Jared Genser, their Washington-based legal representative, learned over the...

Two teams of Israeli aid experts are on their way to Texas to provide vital relief and psychosocial support to the thousands of people who have lost everything in the catastrophic hurricane Harvey. The storm, which was downgraded to a tropical storm on Saturday, first hit Texas on Sunday and continues...

The last United States ambassador to Syria said that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has won, that Iran is likely to stay in Syria, and that “this is the new reality that we have to accept, and there isn’t much we can do about it,” in an interview Monday. In the...

Hezbollah has evolved from a Lebanese terrorist organization into the spearhead of an international militia network led by Iran, a major investigative article has revealed, published in The New York Times on Sunday. The group, which is in complete political and military control over Lebanon, “is not just a power...

The new leader of the terrorist organization Hamas in Gaza said on Monday that the group has successfully reset ties with Iran after a five-year rift, using the newfound assistance for “rebuilding and accumulating” its military infrastructure to “liberate Palestine” from Israel. “Thousands of people work every day to make...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has called on the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to stop bias against Israel at the UN by singling out “the world’s only Jewish state,” Haaretz reported. Speaking at a meeting with Guterres, the President said: “This targeting of Israel, this singling out of the world’s...

American comedian and talk show host Conan O’Brien is visiting Israel for the first time, kicking off his trip in Tel Aviv, where he met with Israelis, tasted local food, and soaked up the August sun, The Washington Post reported Sunday. In a video posted on Facebook, which was filmed...

Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency reported Sunday that Qatar’s ambassador to the Islamic Republic is back in the job, after arriving in Tehran on Friday. Qatar pulled its representative from Iran in early 2016 after attacks on two Saudi Arabian diplomatic posts following the Saudi execution of a prominent Shiite...

At a rally in the German city of Cologne on Saturday, attended by some 20,000 Kurds from different parts of the world expressing support for an independent Kurdistan in northern Iraq, the Israeli flag was raised in solidarity with the Jewish state. Kurdish people from Greater Kurdistan that includes all...

On Friday, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley condemned the UN peacekeeping commander in Lebanon for turning a blind eye to the “massive flow of illegal weapons” to Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon and called for the force to do more to stop these activities, Haaretz reported Sunday. The...