Russia

US President-elect Donald Trump is making cyber defense a priority in his new administration, citing hacking by Russia and China to show why it's needed.

The agreements had been kept secret for almost a year, and were publicized only because the Trump administration indicated it was planning to go public with them.

The P5+1 Iran Deal partners have given a green light to send a secret shipment of more than 100 tons of natural uranium to Iran as a "thank you" gift.

Russia's advanced Iskander SS-26 "Stone" ballistic missile system has been spotted at Latakia by Israel's satellite.

European Parliament President Martin Schultz is one of two recipients of the 2016 Medal of Tolerance for his commitment to preserve the memory of the Shoah.

PM Netanyahu spoke with Russia's Pres. Putin about the situation in Syria, security coordination between the two nations, and about "peace."

This reversed Putin's own foreign minister, who stated earlier: "We, of course, cannot leave unanswered insults of this kind – reciprocity is the law of diplomacy and foreign relations."

Lavrov warned against bringing the US domestic agenda into the work of the Middle East Quartet and the United Nations Security Council.

Russia says it voted for UNSC resolution 2334(2016) because it reflected "the general view of the international community."

Russia says it "had several issues with the wording, and ... wanted to delay the vote" on the UN Security Council resolution against Israel.

Hull fragments of the Tu-154 plane operated by the Russian Defense Ministry have been found about 1.5 km off the Black Sea coast of Sochi at a depth of 50-70 meters.

The T-50 designers prefer maneuverability over secrecy, and so it's not as stealth as the F-35. In fact, its twin-engine design more closely resembles the F-22 Raptor of 20 years ago.

'The terrorists are trying to impose their agenda and language on the world, focusing on no negotiations, no value for human life, and murder and intimidation.'

A Turkish riot police officer was responsible for the death of Russia's envoy to Ankara but it's not clear who he was working for.

Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead.

Liberman said that 'any peace agreement should be based on populated-area exchange, which should also include Israeli Arabs who consider themselves to be Palestinian.'

Rabbis in Englewood, New Jersey are calling on fellow Jews to recite psalms and pray for the innocent in Aleppo, Syria.

A former CIA official told NBC News that the US will find it difficult to retaliate by embarrassing Putin, for the same reason the Russians didn't bother to release embarrassing information about Donald Trump.

PM Netanyahu and his wife visited the Great Synagogue in the capital city of Kazakhstan, Astana, "in an Islamic country that honors coexistence."

PM Netanyahu is hoping Kazakhstan will support Israel's bid for a seat on the UN Security Council.

'I always support the residing president,' Dershowitz said. 'I have a hope that in 2020 I will enthusiastically vote for Donald Trump. I hope he will do a great job as president.'

The fall of Aleppo could mark the approaching final days of the Syrian rebel armies, bringing Syria closer to an end of the civil war begun in 2011, and a return of Assad's government control over the country's five major cities.

Trump Transition Team sources say the president-elect has chosen a man like himself for Secretary of State.

According to Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Netanyahu hold regular telephone conversations.

PM Netanyahu travels next week to Kazakhstan, which begins a 2-year stint on the UN Security Council. No Israeli prime minister has ever visited.

Foreign firefighting heroes who came to help Israeli firefighters battle nearly 2,000 fires are heading home.

Amazingly, Tatiana’s performance was received with applause by the audience, but social media folks have been condemning it in a mix of rage and disbelief.

The US Supertanker aerial firefighter arrives in Israel as the list of captured pyroterrorists grows, with fires starting to slow down.

The difficulty in establishing whether a fire was set deliberately has to do with the fact that in arson cases the fire destroys most of the evidence. In Haifa, on Thursday, for instance, investigators were certain that at least some of the fires were the result of arson, but they failed to come up with conclusive evidence.

Numerous foreign Mediterranean, European and eastern European nations sent aerial firefighters to help Israel.