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A federal judge in New York has vacated a Trump administration policy that suspended the processing of visas from 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and Somalia, whose nationals the Trump administration deemed likely to require public assistance in the US.
Syria is set to be removed from the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list after nearly 47 years.
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Hardliner Mohsen Rezaei also threatens American economic interests in first interview since appointment to supreme national security council
The number of illegal Israeli settlements and outposts in the occupied West Bank has reached 592 by the end of July, according to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.
As extremist settler violence rears its ugly head yet again this past week in the Palestinian village Kusra and south of Hebron, Defense Minister Israel Katz has proposed shifting responsibility for enforcing law and order among Israeli residents in the West Bank from the IDF to the Israel Police.
Allies of Mike Rogers, a Republican Senate nominee in Michigan, have asked the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) not to run ads on his behalf, according to Axios.
The Aguda, the Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel, faced heavy criticism after posting a celebratory message on Wednesday about Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana securing a top position on the Likud party list.
The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) released an analysis breaking down IDF reserve service by religious identification throughout the Israel-Hamas War.
Israel Police responded to reports of a violent incident in east Jerusalem on Saturday night, which turned out to be a clash between two feuding families.
French President Emmanuel Macron will be hosting Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman on Sunday for a two-day visit set to range from esports to the war in the Middle East.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Saturday warned countries against participating in the United States' "economic war" against the Islamic republic, saying they would be considered enemies.
Mansour Abbas, the conservative leader of the United Arab List (UAL) party in Israel, has called on Israel to recognise an “independent Palestinian state”, saying that it was already “a reality, which most of the world recognises, with the exception of the United States and Israel”, Israeli media reported.
South Korea sent its first trial container ship through the Arctic on Saturday, as the Middle East war rattles global shipping, while environmental groups warned the route could accelerate polar ice melt.
Abu Dhabi-based Muslim Council of Elders and Gulf Cooperation Council have condemned Israeli plans to build a so-called E1 settlement in the occupied West Bank and settlement activities east of occupied Jerusalem.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, said London and Paris were making a “deliberate choice” to participate and collaborate in crimes committed by Israel by “continuing to send” it weapons and “provide any kind of support”.
One of the most respected political analysts from whom you can always expect to get the truth is Gen. Jack Keane, who served as US Army vice chief of staff from 1999 to 2003.
Iran has threatened to treat nearby countries as enemies and target their interests if they join a United States campaign to cripple its economy.
Hamas leader Osama Hamdan said the group told US envoy Jared Kushner that it would not consider itself obligated to implement any part of president Trump’s Gaza peace deal unless Israel publicly accepts it and begins implementing its obligations, including halting attacks and withdrawing from Gaza.
Six EU nations want the bloc to introduce a windfall tax on oil companies’ “excessive profits” linked to price hikes caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran, several media outlets reported on Saturday, citing a joint letter from the countries’ finance ministers.
Following severe disruptions at Ben-Gurion Airport and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s move to end his Likud membership, Israel Airports Authority workers’ union chairman Pinchas Idan appeared Saturday evening on Kan News’ “At Seven with Ayala Hasson” program, rejecting claims that he was responsible for the air…
Over 20 actors who have appeared in Marvel films have joined a campaign calling for the release of convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti, according to an Instagram post published on Friday by the group, freemarwannow.
The village of Beit Jinn is southwest of Syria's capital Damascus
Iranian state television released footage of the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Ali Abdollahi, visiting an underground ballistic missile production facility, BBC reported on Saturday.
A dispute between Israel and US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, intensified this week after comments he made on the Golan Heights and Turkey’s role in Syria prompted criticism from Israeli officials and Trump allies who said his positions conflict with the president’s stated policy.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul navigated the topic of Israel in a sit-down interview with the New York Times earlier this week as she runs for reelection in November.
In the past week, two op-eds personally attacking Senator Jon Ossoff appeared in the Jewish press – by Michael Morris in the Atlanta Jewish Times and by David Zalik in The Jerusalem Post – purporting to speak on behalf of the entire Georgia Jewish community. Ossoff is running for re-election this year as the senior …
Israeli military raids and attacks by Israelis from illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank have injured at least 19 Palestinians, according to Palestinian health officials and local media reports.
Tehran would target the interests of countries that help the United States in its economic pressure campaign against Iran, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, stated on Saturday.
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Iran has granted permission for a number of Iraqi oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz following repeated requests from Baghdad through various channels, according to Iranian state media.
Israeli attacks on civilian-populated areas in southern Lebanon continued throughout Saturday, according to Lebanese media.
As Israel heads towards pivotal elections this October, the country finds its international standing and brand at a nadir in most of the developed world, including the United States.
As Israel enters the final stretch of the election campaign, voters deserve something more than slogans, branding, and political attacks. With roughly two months left until election day, it is time for the candidates who want to lead Israel to tell us what they actually intend to do.
Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief David Zini decided not to provide Yashar Party head Gadi Eisenkot with a security detail, Channel 12 reported Saturday evening.
Axios political reporter and Middle East correspondent Barak Ravid reported early Saturday that 40 tankers transited the Strait of Hormuz on Friday night, citing three unnamed US officials.
Tensions between Israel and Syria flared this week after Israel bombed an airbase, a move US special envoy Tom Barrack called ‘unnecessary’
Tensions between Israel and Syria flared this week after Israel bombed an airbase, a move US special envoy Tom Barrack called ‘unnecessary’
At least two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in the last 48 hours, Gaza’s Ministry of Health says, as many victims of past strikes remain trapped under rubble, inaccessible to ambulance and rescue crews.
Tom Barrack, the United States ambassador to Turkiye and its special envoy to Syria, has accused Israel of offering no warning before carrying out military strikes in Syria this week, though Israeli officials insisted it did.
Israeli settlers shot and killed a Palestinian teenager near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Palestine’s Health Ministry said in a statement on Friday. In a separate incident the same day, the IDF killed a retired Palestinian man in Jenin, according to Al Jazeera.
Israeli settlers shot and killed a Palestinian teenager near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Palestine’s Health Ministry said in a statement on Friday. In a separate incident the same day, the IDF killed a retired Palestinian man in Jenin, according to Al Jazeera.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Saturday that Israel does not seek escalation with Turkey, but "will not accept" Turkish presence in Syria.
ARCHIVO – El embajador estadounidense ante Turquía y enviado especial a Siria, Tom Barrack, habla en un panel del Foro de Diplomacia de Antalya en Antalya, en el sur de Turquía, el 17 de abril de 2026. (AP Foto/Riza Ozel, Archivo)
Iran's First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref said on Saturday that the government will not allow what he called "America's economic terrorism" to undermine the country's economic stability and people's livelihoods.
At first glance, the basic story of Sandy and Rosalie Goldstein’s aliyah seems unremarkable and not much different than the typical aliyah experience. The retired couple made aliyah from Englewood, New Jersey, in March 2023 and settled in Netanya, near their daughter, where they enjoy spending time with their family…
The IDF struck the Abu al-Duhur military airfield after troops received intelligence that Turkey sought to place a radar and an air defense system manned by Turkish troops at the Syrian base, sources confirmed to The Jerusalem Post.
Israeli forces shot and wounded three Palestinians near the separation barrier in al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, according to the Jerusalem Governorate.
Lebanon’s government is weighing whether to extradite Ashraf Dabbour, the former Palestinian ambassador to Lebanon, to the Palestinian Authority (PA), which accuses him of corruption and embezzling public funds during his 2012-2025 tenure in Beirut. Dabbour denies the allegations and says the prosecution is retaliat…