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During an interview with ABC News on Monday, Israeli Consul General in New York Ofir Akunis stated that a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas “was closer than ever ten days ago.” But Hamas remains the problem in

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released video Monday that it said it recovered from Hamas terrorists in Gaza and, which shows Hamas planting a large bomb near a hospital.

Hamas and the United Nations (UN) are trading accusations of malfeasance after the looting of aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip on Monday led to the deaths of two people.

The head of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group now running Syria, told Saudi media on Sunday that he expects it could take the jihadists up to three years to write a new constitution and four to hold elections.

Germany’s federal prosecutor on Monday charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Monday that it had killed ‘multiple’ terrorists overnight in ambushes that were set up to catch fighters attempting to flee the Jabaliya area in northern Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Sunday that no civilians were killed in a raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, though 19 terrorists were killed and 240 arrests were made.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has arrested 240 terror suspects at a hospital in Gaza, including the hospital director, after evacuating patients, in an operation that anti-Israel media had inflamed into a supposed attack on the facility.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo prostate removal surgery on Sunday after being diagnosed with a urinary tract infection, his office says.

Israel is preparing to submit a report to the United Nations later this week that describes the torture suffered by Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas to Gaza last October 7, including sexual assault and the “branding” of children.

A second Florida state lawmaker has defected from the Democrat Party in favor for the GOP this month, citing her former party’s inability to “unequivocally support Israel.”

The International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC) has written an open letter to Pope Francis criticizing his “one-sided perspective” in the Gaza conflict.

A U.S.-made-and-supplied Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense battery was reportedly used on Friday morning against a ballistic missile fired by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen at Israel.

South African ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool boasted last year that he owned a keffiyeh that had been signed by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

A Palestinian terrorist stabbed an 83-year-old woman to death outside her nursing home in Israel on Friday, police said.  The attack took place in the town of Herzliya on the Mediterranean coast outside Tel Aviv.

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels fired yet another missile at central Israel early Friday morning, sending millions of Israelis to bomb shelters in the middle of the night, despite Thursday’s counterattack by Israeli forces in Yemen.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Ruby Chen, whose son, Itay Chen, is believed to have been killed in the October 7 attack, and, if so, has had his body held in Gaza, praised President-Elect Donald

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Kurdish militias in Syria on Wednesday to either lay down their arms or be “buried.” On the same day, the Turkish military said it killed 21 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and Iraq – including members of the People’s Defense Units (YPG), the leading Syrian Kurdish force allied with the United States against the Islamic State.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), was in the international airport in Sana’a, Yemen, on Thursday when it was attacked by the Israel Air Force (IAF).

Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Thursday, after the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck multiple targets across Yemen, the fourth Israeli counterattack against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and the most ambitious thus far.

Protests broke out in Syria’s coastal cities after a video showing an Alawite shrine attacked by unknown militants appeared on social media.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck targets across Yemen on Thursday during the speech of Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, striking the port city of Hodeida and the international airport in the capital city of Sana’a in the interior.

Several dozen anti-Israel activists protested outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on Christmas Day, continuing a practice in which they have targeted Christian symbols and the Christmas holiday over the last 15 months.

Syrian Kurds find themselves in a difficult position after the fall of dictator Bashar Assad, as Islamists seize power in Damascus and Turkey seeks to carve out a slice of Syrian territory along its border.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lit the first candle of Hanukkah in Jerusalem, Israel, on Wednesday evening, and warned Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who have been firing missiles and drones from Yemen that they are about to learn a lesson.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Wednesday that it had seized over 85,000 weapons that had been amassed by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization along Lebanon’s southern border with Israel.

The year 2024 was not a good one for Iran, which saw much of its proxy army across the Middle East decimated by Israel, its puppet dictator Bashar Assad ousted in Syria, and its old enemy Donald Trump return to the White House.

The Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched a ballistic missile at Israel overnight on Christmas Eve into Christmas Day, sending millions of Israelis into bomb shelters in the middle of the night for the second night in a row.

Though the holidays often overlap, it is only this year — and every 19 years after that — that the first night of Hanukkah is also on Christmas Day.

Aviva Siegel, a former hostage and the wife of American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, said Tuesday that she had witnessed and experienced torture by the Hamas terrorists who abducted her and roughly 250 other Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023.

An explosion killed 11 people and wounded 7 at an explosives factory in northwestern Turkey, prompting an investigation.

A Russian cargo ship on its way to Syria sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday after an explosion in its engine room.

Hundreds of Christians marched through the streets of Damascus on Tuesday to protest the burning of a Christmas tree in a village in central Syria. Christians have been highly skeptical of promises to protect all religious minorities made by the Islamist rebel leaders who overthrew dictator Bashar Assad.

The Kremlin says claims the wife of deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad is filing for divorce so she can move to London do not “correspond with reality”, amid claims the couple are under effective house arrest in Moscow after fleeing Syria.

Men involved in violence which erupted around a Uefa Europa League football match between a Dutch club and Israel´s Maccabi Tel Aviv.

The Biden-Harris administration has let five University of California campuses off the hook in a settlement with the Department of Education over antisemitism that erupted after the Hamas terror attack in Israel on October 7, 2023.