President Donald Trump confirmed that he agreed to stop the United States from conducting joint military exercises with South Korea. The decision came during his meeting on Tuesday with Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
Iran is urging longstanding ally North Korea to be cautious in future dealings with President Trump, citing the withdrawal of the United States from the Iran nuclear agreement as reason for Pyongyang to be wary.
President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un surprised reporters with an unscheduled signing of documents after their summit in Singapore on Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat on Sunday accused the Trump administration of “crushing Palestinian national and human rights.”
As Singapore prepares for the historic Trump-Kim summit, Pope Francis offered prayers and best wishes Sunday for a fruitful outcome of the talks.
President Donald Trump landed in Singapore aboard Air Force One on Sunday at the Paya Lebar Air Base.
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un arrived in Singapore on Sunday, ready for his historic meeting with President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump suggested Friday that Russia be allowed back into the annual G7 summit of world leaders.
British Prime Minister Theresa May met her visiting Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in London on Wednesday with the UK premier conceding “differences of opinion” regarding the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s navy will for the first time participate in the summer Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) multinational naval exercise led by the U.S. 3rd fleet off the coast of Hawaii.
The UK’s permanent representative at the UN Security Council has condemned repeated mortar and rocket attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israel.
SINGAPORE — Although Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to discuss North Korea during his talks with allies and partners at an annual defense conference in Singapore, he is also expected to address the other 800-lb. gorilla in the room — China.
Israel is holding “advanced talks” with Russia on a potential withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria, Hadashot TV news reported Thursday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has extended his upcoming European tour to include a meeting with UK Prime Minister Theresa May in Downing Street.
The US should learn the lesson of Iraq, President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday, threatening to expel American troops from Syria and retake areas from its Kurdish allies.
President Donald J. Trump hailed peace talk progress between North Korea and the United States on Tuesday.
Israel and Russia have reached a secret agreement to distance Iranian forces from the border area in southern Syria, Israeli TV reported Monday, as Jerusalem and Moscow sent differing messages regarding the extent of their tolerance for Iran’s military presence in that country.
BEIRUT — A Syrian state-run newspaper says Damascus will keep fighting the country’s rebels — or “terrorists” as the government calls opposition fighters — despite U.S. warnings against a new offensive in southern Daraa province.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading for Europe to drive a diplomatic push rallying support for the U.S. withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal.
TEL AVIV – Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest dispelled rumors that next year’s competition would not take place in Israel as “speculation only,” JTA reported.
President Donald J. Trump said Friday that negotiations continued with North Korea about a possible summit meeting with Kim Jong-un, asserting that it could still happen on June 12th.
President Donald J. Trump reacted Friday to the latest statement from North Korea, noting the marked change in tone after he canceled a June 12 meeting with dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
Paris – France’s Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has cancelled a planned trip to Israel early next month, citing “domestic agenda reasons”, his office said on Wednesday.
As Jerusalem basked in tight-knit ties with Washington, a senior European official was said on Tuesday to have recently warned Israel not to “disparage” the EU, adding that US President Donald Trump’s legacy could be scaled back just as quickly as that of his predecessor Barack Obama.
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Sunday accused the “liberal media” of “glorifying” Hamas terrorists in its coverage of last week’s US embassy move and concurrent Gaza riots in order to denigrate US President Donald Trump, and appeared to accuse the press of having “blood on its hands” for allowing Hamas to garner front page real estate.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes as a “true friend of Israel” as he opened his country’s embassy in Jerusalem this week, becoming the third country after the U.S. and Guatemala to relocate its mission to the capital.
Fox News reports: As protests continued for a third day in the southern Iranian city of Kazerun, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted his support for the protesters in that country.
Israel said Friday that it will not cooperate with an investigation ordered by the UN Human Rights Council into the IDF’s killing of Palestinians in violence on the Gaza border this week.
Amid Israel’s severe crisis with Turkey, which resulted in its ambassador Eitan Na’eh being expelled from the country Wednesday, Tourism Minister Yariv Levin called on Israelis not to visit Turkey.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees is fueling “unrealistic” hopes of return after 70 years and is therefore helping keep the Israeli-Palestinian conflict alive, Switzerland’s foreign minister said Thursday.
A senior Palestinian official on Wednesday criticized US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and her pledge to “take names” of countries that do not back Washington, saying she had not been appointed “the schoolmarm of the world.”
A top European official branded President Donald Trump selfish and capricious Wednesday as E.U. leaders came together seeking ways to resurrect the flawed Iran nuclear deal.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recalled the Palestinian envoys to the U.S. and four EU countries over their support of President Donald Trump’s decision to open the American embassy in its new location in Jerusalem Monday.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States had not conclusively heard from North Korea about whether or not they wanted to cancel Kim Jong-un’s meeting with the president.
A diplomatic feud between Israel and Turkey over deadly clashes on the Gaza Strip border continued on Wednesday, with the Foreign Ministry dressing down a senior Turkish envoy over the “humiliation” hours earlier of the expelled Israeli ambassador as he boarded a flight to Tel Aviv.
Israel expelled Turkey’s consul to Jerusalem on Tuesday, as diplomatic tensions between Jerusalem and Ankara over deadly clashes on the Gaza border a day earlier spiraled to a fresh nadir.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday slammed the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem as a “settlement outpost,” and vowed that the Palestinians will not take part in peace talks brokered by the Americans “in any way, shape or form.” He also repeated the lie that Jews have no ties to the land of Israel.
President Donald Trump delivered a video address at the ceremony opening the official United States embassy in Jerusalem, recognizing the historic impact of his decision.
Sixty-nine years after Israel declared Jerusalem as its capital, and 23 years after the US Congress passed a law mandating that Washington move its embassy there, the US will formally open its embassy in the city on Monday at 4 p.m., in a move Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared as “momentous.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Sunday with Jared Kushner, the US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser in his office, in Jerusalem, Hebrew media reported.
