After multiple rockets from Gaza landed in Israeli territory on Saturday, Israel retaliated against Gaza-based launch sites late Saturday night. The Times of Israel reports: “In response to the three rockets fired earlier this evening at Israel an IAF aircraft targeted three terror activity sites, two weapon storage and manufacturing facilities...

The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday that Israel recorded record-breaking tourism numbers for the first five months of 2014. Tourist entries into Israel are up by 17% for the first quarter of 2014, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics. The bureau stated that a record 382,000 visitors entered Israel this...

The Jerusalem Post reported Friday that the German government plans to conduct a study on the relationship between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. The Post obtained a copy of letter sent from an adviser of German’s President Joachim Gauck to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The letter, by Gauck’s senior diplomatic and foreign policy adviser,...

On Friday Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that the monarchy of Qatar would resolve the issue of the salaries of Gaza-based Hamas employees who were effectively fired when the Palestinian unity government was formed nearly two weeks ago. The Gulf state said it would contribute a total of $60 million (44...

Overnight Israel conducted sweeping arrests of over 80 Hamas operatives as the Israeli army dragnet continues in the search for three teenage students kidnapped by terrorists, with efforts concentrated around the city of Hebron, 16 miles south of Jerusalem, according to reports. The three, Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gil-Ad Shayer, 16, and Naftali Frenkel,...

Some 150,000 Israelis and foreigners took part in the 16th annual gay pride march through the streets of Tel Aviv on June 13, according to a statement from city hall. This stands in dramatic contrast to the decision by the United Nations General Assembly to choose Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam...

Reuters on Thursday published an extensive evaluation – double bylined by the outlet’s veteran U.S. foreign policy correspondent Arshad Mohammed and its energy & environment correspondent Timothy Gardner – conveying new responses from the Obama administration to concerns over what outside experts have evaluated as seven straight months of Iran...

Reuters on Thursday conveyed comments made at a Rome conference by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi threatening that the Islamic republic “will return to 20 percent enrichment if a deal cannot be reached” between Tehran and the P5+1 global powers, which have in recent days reportedly stumbled over issues...

Gains being made across Iraq by the radical Sunni group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) – Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul on Tuesday, Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit on Wednesday, and what appeared to be further gains aimed at marching on Baghdad on Thursday –...

The New York Times on Thursday conveyed remarks from Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah – who sits atop the newly formed cabinet agreed to by the rival Hamas and Fatah factions – admitting that his unity government has functionally zero control over the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip: “You have...