Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made an agreement with the Jewish Home party, headed by Naftali Bennett, allowing him to reach a 61-seat governing coalition shortly before the midnight deadline. The Times of Israel reported more: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to tell President Reuven Rivlin late Wednesday night that he has...

The oldest known complete manuscript of the Ten Commandments will be on display for two weeks in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Associated Press (AP) reported Tuesday. The 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scroll, from a collection of the world’s most ancient biblical manuscripts discovered near the Dead Sea east of Jerusalem, has...

A decisive battle is underway in the area of Syria’s northwestern bornder with Lebanon between Syrian rebels and the Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah. Launched a few days ago, this battle is taking place in parallel with other battles by Syrian rebel groups in southern Syria who are trying to topple...

Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, reaffirmed his commitment to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday, saying that if Assad falls, so too does Hezbollah. Last Thursday, Fahad Jassim al-Freij, the Syrian Defense Minister, visited Tehran to discuss military coordination and cooperation between the two countries. Meanwhile,...

Narges Mohammadi, a leading Iranian human rights activist, was arrested on Tuesday. The arrest comes after Iran’s foreign minister and lead nuclear negotiator, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said that “the Islamic Republic doesn’t imprison journalists or dissidents over their views” last week. The New York Times reported: Ms. Mohammadi is one of the...

Leading nuclear experts have raised concerns that the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was agreed to last month between the P5+1 nations and Iran, do not account for Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium (LEU). David Albright, the executive director of the Institute for Science and International Security,...

Abed al-Rachman Mustapha, a onetime physics professor who is also known as Abu Alaa al-Afri, has been appointed the successor to  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. Al-Afri was promoted to the post after an emergency meeting convened...

Sunni Gulf states are seeking security assurances and weapons from the United States in return for their support of any future deal made with Iran over its nuclear program, increasing instability in a region that is already combustible. Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported that key Gulf states,...

The seizure of the ship Maersk Tigris by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) last week was a “flagrant breach of international law,” Northwestern University law professor Eugene Kontorovich wrote Sunday in The Washington Post. Iran has claimed that the ship was seized in order to settle a lien against the Maersk shipping line imposed by...

A third female executive of Al Jazeera America (AJAM), the American division of the Qatari-based broadcaster, resigned this week, Adweek reported Monday. The departure of Marcy McGinnis, senior vice president of outreach for the station, followed those of Diana Lee and Dawn Bridges, two other executives with AJAM, and the filing of a $15 million...