The IDF is conducting a search for three missing yeshiva students in the areas near Gush Etzion and Hebron. 3 missing teenagers since last night is a serious event. #IDF mission ongoing in order to establish the circumstances of disappearance. — Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) June 13, 2014 Ynet reports: Israeli...

On Wednesdsay, the United Nations General Assembly selected Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa, a vocal anti-gay activist, as the international body’s president for the 2014-2015 session, set to begin in September. Bloomberg News reports: The former lawyer and politician defended Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s February enacting legislation that toughened punishments for gay sex...

This week the Iraqi cities of Mosul – the second largest city in the country – and Tikrit – Saddam Hussein’s birthplace – fell to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a terror group that broke away from al-Qaeda. The Guardian reported that some 30,000 Iraqi troops fled an...

In an interview with Wall Street Journal editorial board member Mary Kissel, (embedded below) former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren explains that the reason for the “outrage” expressed by Israeli officials to the Obama administration’s acceptance of the Fatah-Hamas unity government is that the United States reversed a...

Wednesday, Yair Rosenberg of Tablet Magazine interviewed Australia’s ambassador to Israel, Dave Sharma, about his country’s declaration last week that eastern Jerusalem is not occupied territory—and learned that the Australian position goes far beyond Jerusalem to include the entire West Bank. In the course of the interview, Ambassador Sharma expanded on...

On Wednesday, Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Susan Collins (R-ME) led “a bipartisan supermajority of 88 Senators in sending a letter to President Barack Obama” calling the Palestinian unity government “a serious setback to efforts to achieve peace.” The Times of Israel reported further: According to the senators, Hamas’s role in the...

Egypt’s Third Army has deployed the equivalent of a battalion of soldiers near the Israeli border to conduct counter-terrorism operations and prevent jihadists from targeting Israeli civilians – and especially civilian planes – with anti-aircraft weapons, according to a Wednesday report published in the Times of Israel by veteran Israeli...

The Telegraph on Wednesday described the United States and Britain as having expressed deep concerns over the ongoing seizure of Iraqi territory by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), as forces from the Al Qaeda offshoot followed up their Tuesday conquest of Mosul – Iraq’s...

Reuters on Tuesday conveyed new statements from French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declaring that Iran must only be allowed to maintain a few hundred centrifuges in the context of any comprehensive deal between Tehran and the P5+1 global powers, amid moves by the Iranians to hold bilateral negotiations with various...

Veteran journalists took turns at Wednesday’s daily State Department press briefing aggressively questioning the wisdom and coherence of the Obama administration’s approach to a recently appointed Palestinian unity government – agreed to by the rival Hamas and Fatah factions – hours after rockets fired from the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip struck...