Iran was ranked as the world’s top global money laundering threat by the Basel Institute on Governance this week, marking the third straight year that the Islamic Republic held the position. The 2016 Basel Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Index identified Iran as the highest money laundering risk out of 149 countries surveyed, The...

The Israeli and American teams vying to win Google’s Lunar XPRIZE challenge have emerged as the competition’s two frontrunners, CNN reported on Tuesday. Thirty private teams from 16 countries initially entered the competition, which challenged participants to land a spacecraft on the moon, move it 500 meters in any direction, and...

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebel movement and its political allies have announced the creation of a governing council, threatening United Nations-sponsored peace talks to end the country’s devastating civil war, Reuters reported on Thursday. The Houthis, a longtime Zaydi Shiite insurgency in the country’s north, took advantage of political paralysis in Yemen...

Hamas is building six miles of tunnels every month, Israeli officials told Israel’s Channel 2 on Wednesday. The unnamed defense and diplomatic officials also said that Israel has “no perfect solution” to the tunnel threat, adding that “neither does any other country.” Since the end of the 2014 Gaza war, the...

The U.S. Marine Corps and elite Israeli naval commandos held a joint military exercise to showcase and practice techniques used in the fight against the Islamic State and other terrorist groups, Israeli media reported on Thursday. The exercise, called “Noble Shirley,” took place in Israel’s Negev desert last week and...

The bombing of four hospitals by the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad “could amount to war crimes,” UNICEF said in a statement on Tuesday. Four hospitals and a blood bank in the rebel-held eastern part of Aleppo were hit by airstrikes on Sunday and Monday, disrupting facilities that provide “key life-saving health services for...

An American-Iranian has become the fourth Western citizen with dual Iranian citizenship to have been arrested in Iran in the past five months, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Reza “Robin” Shahini traveled to Iran in May to visit his sick mother. Before he left, he deleted any references on social media that he thought would...

Former President Bill Clinton wore a pin with the name “Hillary” written in Hebrew at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday as his wife’s campaign slammed protesters who burned an Israeli flag outside the event a night earlier. Bill Clinton wore a Hebrew Hillary pin at tonight's convention. Here's the story...

Jordanian border guards arrested a man who was trying to enter Israel in a truck that was equipped with firebombs, Jordanian military officials said Tuesday. The driver had ignored orders to stop and have his car searched at the checkpoint, instead trying to drive through the roadblocks separating the two countries. “Materials used to...

In a scientific breakthrough, Tel Aviv University researchers have found a way to identify cancerous cells months before they develop into malignant brain tumors. Even after tumors caused by melanoma—also known as skin cancer—are removed, metastatic melanoma cells can disseminate undetected to other parts of the body, including the brain. Once they reach the...