Boko Haram, an Islamist terrorist organization based in northeast Nigeria, has pledged allegiance to ISIS, the Islamist terrorist organization that rules a self-declared caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, according to an audio statement released online Saturday. “We announce our allegiance to the Caliph … and will hear and...

Yemen’s ousted President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled to Aden after escaping from the Houthi Shiite militia controlling Yemen’s capital city Sanaa, has declared the southern port city of Aden as the country’s new capital city. “Aden became the capital of Yemen as soon as the Houthis occupied Sanaa,”...

A new Tel Aviv University (TAU) study may offer hope to the tens of thousands of people diagnosed with ‘untreatable’ brain tumors every year. There are no effective available treatments for sufferers of Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive and devastating form of brain tumor. And the fatal disease has...

Secretary of State John Kerry was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Thursday in an attempt to “to ease Gulf Arab concerns about an emerging deal [with Iran] and discuss ways to calm instability in troubled Yemen and other Mideast nations.” Since the signing of the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) in...

An incident last month at UCLA, in which a Jewish student was briefly prevented from serving on a student judicial board because her faith would ostensibly lead her to be biased, is part of a trend of anti-Semitic sentiment, especially on college campuses, that has been “on the rise across the country...

George Deek, Israel’s former Deputy Ambassador to Norway, spoke to the Stanford Political Journal, an undergraduate publication of Stanford University, in an interview published Monday, about the anti-Israel boycott movement and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Deek, an Israel-Arab Christian, characterized the anti-Israel boycott movement “as a continuation of the [Arab-Israeli wars] in...

A judge slapped sanctions amounting to nearly $200,000 on the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a controversial group that advocates for stronger ties between the United States and Iran, finding that in the process of suing blogger Hassan Diaoleslam, a critic of the group, it had “‘flouted multiple court orders’ and improperly...

The PLO central council voted on Thursday to suspect security cooperation with Israel. The Times of Israel reports: The PLO council decided “to stop security cooperation in all its forms with the occupying power” which it urged to “take over full responsibility for the Palestinian people in the occupied State...

At least five people were injured today in Jerusalem when a car plowed into a group of pedestrians in an apparent terror attack. The Times of Israel reported: A Palestinian man in a private vehicle hit the five, who included a bicycle rider and a pedestrian, as they stood on...

Tel Aviv is the third best place in the world for technology business, according to a new report by property consultants Savills. Austin took the top spot, followed by San Francisco. Savills surveyed 12 global cities with strong tech environments. The scores were measured according to five metrics: business environment,...