The Trump administration will seek to impose new sanctions on Iran and North Korea to “protect American lives,” Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin told Congress this week, Reuters reported Wednesday. Though he did not elaborate, he also said that the administration would be reviewing licenses issued to Boeing allowing the...

A top Iranian commander said that Iran has built a third underground ballistic missile production facility, the state-owned PressTV website reported Thursday. “I hereby announce that in recent years the third underground missile production factory has been inaugurated by the IRGC,” Commander of the Aerospace Division of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps...

Hamas executed three men it had accused of killing a terror mastermind by hanging and firing squad drawing international criticism, The New York Times reported Thursday. Ashraf Abu Leila, the alleged triggerman in the killing of Mazen Faqha, a Hamas commander, in March, was hanged as well as Hisham al-Aloul, who was...

Israel was just announced as the host of the World Lacrosse Championship in July 2018, to take place at Netanya Stadium. The sport’s premier competition is expected to draw athletes from 50 countries and more than 5,000 fans from all over the world. Israel’s national lacrosse team took second place...

A bipartisan bill targeting Iran’s escalating “rogue behavior,” including its continued ballistic missile program, its support of terror, its shipment of conventional weapons and human rights abuses, passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday by an overwhelming 18-3 vote, and now heads to the full Senate. The Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act...

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has given major grants in recent years to groups that call for boycotts of Israel and support the nuclear deal with Iran, Armin Rosen reported Wednesday in Tablet Magazine. Founded in 1940 by David Rockefeller and his four brothers, the fund is one of the most...

The Palestinian Authority issued payments to terrorists and their families totaling more than $1 billion over a four year period, according to a recent study by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The sum accounts for seven percent of the PA’s budget and is equivalent to 20 percent of the foreign aid the PA receives...

Jerusalem will be Israel’s first city – and one of a handful of major cities in the world – to establish an independent municipal wireless network based on super-fast millimeter wave technology. The network will enable “smart city” services in such areas as security and safety, emergency response, parking and...

A powerful Iranian general congratulated Ismail Haniyeh on his recent appointment as the new leader of Hamas, and encouraged him to “raise the issue of Palestine” as part of the Muslims’ “global fight against Arrogance,” the Mehr News Agency reported Wednesday. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps(IRGC)-Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani praised...

The lower house of the Czech Republic’s parliament called on the government to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to stop paying dues to UNESCO, the cultural organization of the United Nations, as long as it continued its anti-Israel bias, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The Czech Chamber of Deputies...