Members of an Iranian heavy metal band have reportedly been arrested on charges of blasphemy for playing “satanic” music and face possible execution. Trev McKendry of the online music station Metal Nation Radio received a message earlier this month from an a fan of the Iranian band Confess. The email claimed that lead singer Nikan “Siyanor” Khosravi...

Israelis living near the border with Gaza are growing increasingly concerned about terror tunnels being rebuilt by the Iran-backed terror group Hamas, and have reported hearing the sounds of new tunnels being dug, The Telegraph reported Monday. Residents of Israeli towns like Netiv Ha’asara, who live close enough to Gaza to see Palestinians on the other...

The U.S. government has reached a deal with Haifa-based Pluristem Therapeutics to stock the company’s therapy for treating patients who have been exposed to lethal doses of radiation, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, asked Pluristem to join its...

40 Iranian state-run media outlets announced in a coordinated push on Sunday that they were renewing the death sentence fatwa on British author Salman Rushdie, raising the bounty for killing him by $600,000. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the first Supreme Leader of Iran, placed a fatwa and a $3 million bounty on Rushdie after his 1989...

A Syrian refugee now living in Turkey has created a website to acknowledge the help that Israel, and Jews worldwide, have been providing to displaced residents of his native country. 39-year-old Aboud Dandachi, who worked in high-tech before the war, created a website called Thank you Am Israel, which links...

One of the founders of Hezbollah has strongly criticized the Iran-backed Lebanese terror organization for its participation in the Syrian civil war, saying that doing so was serving the interests of Tehran and “the Russian conqueror” rather than the Lebanese people. Subhi al-Tufayli, Hezbollah’s first secretary-general, made his remarks to...

Rep. Ted Deutch (D – Fla.), the ranking Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Mideast and North Africa Subcommittee, is seeking to ensure that the administration keeps its pledge to hold Iran responsible for continued terrorism. Deutch, along with Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III (D – Mass.), introduced the Zero...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has many compelling reasons not to achieve statehood, which may explain why peace negotiations have failed, Gadi Taub argued in a Haaretz op-ed Thursday. Taub was prompted to examine why Abbas doesn’t seem to be taking the steps necessary to “liberate his people from Israeli...

Although the State Department has said that a proposed arms deal between Russia and Iran would violate a United Nations Security Council ban on weapons transfers to Iran, doubts are emerging whether the Obama administration will actually move to block the deal, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Thursday. Iran announced...

There is an “intense struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party” being waged between those who believe that the United States is “the leader of the free world” and those who reject that premise and see rather “hubris, not leadership in America’s history,” Josh Block, president and CEO of The Israel...