Secretary of State John Kerry refused to answer Thursday when asked whether the U.S. would veto Russia’s proposed sale of Sukhoi-30 fighter jets to Iran. Iran announced that it intended to purchase fighter jets from Russia on February 10. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, which endorsed and laid out the nuclear...

Claims that Israel is being diplomatically isolated are not true because the majority of African countries “see Israel as a very close friend,” the foreign minister of Kenya told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Amina Mohamed, who is on a visit to Israel with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, said that Israel “has more friends than not on...

A professor at Oberlin College, one of the most prestigious institutes of higher education in the country, has written and shared a series of Facebook posts claiming that Jews or Israelis control much of the world and are responsible for the 9/11 and Charlie Hebdo attacks and the rise of ISIS. Joy Karega, an assistant professor...

Friday’s elections for Iran’s parliament and the influential Assembly of Experts will likely “uphold the largely conservative makeup” of both bodies, Mehdi Khalaji, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, wrote Thursday in The Wall Street Journal. Like previous Iranian elections, the upcoming one will be “neither...

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said that Iran is establishing a global terror network that includes sleeper cells capable of carrying out attacks in Europe and the United States, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. “The Iranian regime through the Iranian Revolutionary Guard corps is building a complex terror infrastructure including...

Iran will pay $7,000 to the families of Palestinian terrorists who were killed while carrying out attacks, and $30,000 to families of terrorists whose houses were demolished by Israel, the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon announced on Wednesday. “The decision firstly includes giving an amount worth $7,000 to every family of...

A gay Iranian poet who was granted a visa to visit Israel in December has now applied for asylum in the Jewish state, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Payam Feili, who escaped persecution in his native Iran and has been living in Turkey since 2014, traveled to Israel in...

Iran’s increasing efforts to ship explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) to Shiite militants in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia pose a strategic threat to those American allies in the Gulf, Michael Knights argued in a paper published on Wednesday by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he is a fellow. Iran’s Islamic...

Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog said during a tour of the West Bank city of Ariel on Tuesday that all major settlement blocs will remain part of Israel in any future peace deal with the Palestinians. Herzog surprised political observers by advocating from unilateral withdrawal from much of the West Bank and agreeing...

An Israeli soldier was killed during a Palestinian stabbing attack when gunfire meant for his assailant hit him instead, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Eliav Gelman, a 30-year-old captain in the Israeli Air Force’s reserve corps, was returning home from base when he was attacked at the Etzion...