Dozens of people protested as the Iran-Argentina World Cup soccer match kicked off in Belo Horizonte, Brazil yesterday. Twenty years after the worst terror attack in Argentina’s history left 85 dead at the Buenos Aires Jewish Center, Israel maintains Iran was behind the bombing. Six Iranians were identified as collaborating...

A mortar or anti-tank missile fired from Syria killed an Israeli teenager and seriously wounded his father south of the Kuneitra crossing on the Golan Heights. The boy, identified as Mohammed Karkara, was apparently accompanying his father to work with a civilian crew doing maintenance work on the border fence....

A professor at the University of Tehran announced on his Facebook page Wednesday that he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for questioning Iran’s spending on its nuclear program. Reuters reports: Sadegh Zibakalam, a political science professor at the University of Tehran, confirmed to Reuters on Thursday Iranian news...

While many sports fans were shocked that defending champion Spain were knocked out of the 2014 World Cup so quickly, a red ruffed lemur at the Zoological Center Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan could have warned them not to expect success. Max the lemur is serving as Israel’s ‘Paul the octopus’ in...

President Barack Obama on Thursday announced plans to send 300 American military personnel to train and advise Iraqi forces and to expand intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance missions as Washington aims to curb recent advances by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The President also addressing growing concerns from U.S....

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on Thursday blasted the Shiite-dominated government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for having systematically instituted policies that “incited sectarianism,” echoing a criticism of Maliki under which he has been broadly blamed for alienating Iraqi Sunnis and creating an environment favorable to the current...

Suspicions that Hamas was behind last week’s kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers deepened Thursday, with an Israeli security official naming Saleh al-Arouri, the founder of Hamas’s armed wing in the West Bank, as  a key figure behind the abductions: The official claimed al-Arouri, who used to live in a village...

Reuters reported today that a tanker carrying oil from Kurdistan is anchored in the Israeli port city of Ashkelon and is prepared to dock Saturday. Officials said Israel was keen to build good ties with the Kurds, hoping to expand its limited diplomatic network in the Middle East and broaden options...

The American rock band The Pixies performed in Tel Aviv Tuesday night. The Times of Israel reported that though the band didn’t greet the audience with pleasantries, they demonstrated an enthusiasm for performing in Israel. For their first time in Tel Aviv, there was something close and intimate about the...

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro visited the parents of 16-year-old Naftali Fraenkel, the Israeli high school student who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists along with two other Israeli teenagers. The Fraenkels hold dual Israeli-American citizenship. Shapiro said he “offered the strong support of the US government, our people, and...