Appearing on CNN yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry strongly defended Israel’s right to defend itself. During his appearance (embedded below) Kerry told host Candy Crowley: Israel is under siege by a terrorist organization that has seen fit to dig tunnels and come through those tunnels with handcuffs and tranquilizer...

Two groups of heavily armed Hamas terrorists were intercepted Monday morning when they emerged from tunnels on the Israeli side of the Gaza-Israel border near two kibbutzim and the town of Sderot. When the heavily armed and camouflaged terrorists were detected, residents in nearby kibbutzim were told to lock themselves...

The cyber war between the IDF and Hamas has seen dozens of messages on Twitter feeds, via Flickr and on YouTube. Now, for the first time, Hamas hackers opted to attack the Israeli audience by launching personal threatening social media campaigns. It hasn’t turned out quite the way the hackers...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was sworn in for a third seven-year term yesterday, and used his inauguration speech to blast Arab and Western nations for supporting opposition elements in the war-torn country: There was no longer a place in the country, he said, “for those who are awaiting the end...

The U.N.’s largest single agency, the massive U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), handed over rockets to Hamas that it discovered last week in one of its schools in Gaza. The revelation came after UNRWA embarrassingly was forced to admit last week that its education facilities were...

The Israeli media reported today that Col. Ghassan Alian, one of the highest ranking Druze in the IDF, who was wounded in battle yesterday, is anxious to return to battle. The Times of Israel reports: Col. Ghassan Elian, the Golani Brigade commander injured in overnight clashes in the northern Gaza Strip,...

The State Department on Thursday denied claims, published earlier that day in Al Monitor’s Congress Pulse, that Secretary of State John Kerry told a group of lawmakers earlier that day that new sanctions on Iran could trigger a breakthrough in nuclear talks between Tehran and the West: US Secretary of...

A new report confirms Israel’s role as one of the top cyber defense exporting countries in the world. According to the Israel National Cyber Bureau (INCB), Israel exported an astonishing $3 billion worth of cyber related products so far in 2014. This places Israel second only after the US in cyber export. The number of Israeli cyber-defense companies stands...

The twelfth day of Operation Protective Edge is over. Hamas' tunnel network connects rocket launching sites with command centers. Some tunnels have openings inside Israel & enable infiltration. — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) July 18, 2014 Two soldiers were killed in Israel by terrorists who entered through a tunnel. Israel reported that...

In a phone call Friday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a phone call that was interrupted by Israeli air warning sirens, President Barack Obama reiterated his support for Israel to defend itself. “While I was having the conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu, sirens went off in Tel Aviv,” said Obama....