Middle East / Levant

Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela told the U.N. Human Rights Council their countries are bastions of freedom.

Fighting near the border with Israel apparently set off the rocket alarm.

The President is "troubled" over the death sentence to the Muslim Brotherhood leader whom he once congratulated.

Jordanian security forces rescued the six Chareidi Kashrut inspectors.

Oren spilled the beans on Obama one week before his new book is released and four months after he dumped Netanyahu in the election campaign.

An Egyptian court handed down two sentences to former president Mohammed Morsi Tuesday, first ordering him to prison for 25 years and then upholding...

Qatar, Turkey and Hamas like the idea. Has anyone asked Israel?

Rivlin stressed the flourishing relationship between Israel and Cyprus, which he attributed to the two countries' deep understanding and shared values.

Syria’s ever-deepening civil war has for the first time put the country's 800,000 strong population under threat of genocide by Islamic extremists.

US fighter pilots may have killed a key Al Qaeda terrorist in Libya.

Rumors are flying that Khamenei's days are numbered. Hard-liners are outdoing each other to ditch a deal on its nuclear program.

Israel's children are again being taught how to deal with their fears from rocket alerts, by song.

Druze Israelis beg the government to accept Syrian refugees.

The tweet was posted two days after a new Mohammed drawing contest was announced in New Hampshire.

More Palestinian Authority workers also are working in Israel, but B'Tselem manages to find a black lining in a silver cloud.

But it may too little, too late, as the Druze community have begun organizing,..

Four batteries of the system have been deployed to protect Be'er Sheva, Ashkelon and Ashdod.

Terrorists attack Tunisia's Consulate in Tripoli, Libya, taking 10 workers hostage.

The Arab world clearly distrusts Obama even more than Israel doubts him, although they are a bit paranoid.

Lebanese-Druze were shocked by the massacre of their Druze relatives this week in Syria.

The same virus spying on the Iranian delegations in Europe was found inside anti-virus software maker Kaspersky lab's servers.

Israeli-Druze have been warning of a potential massacre against their relatives in Syria.

Capability to attack with a nuclear weapon imam even be important than being able to produce a nuke.

The spyware was a variant of Duqu, which Kaspersky is convinced is Israel’s most powerful intelligence-gathering program.

A Sinai ISIS chapter launched rockets at an airport used by MFO peacekeepers in the Sinai.

Syrian pilot commits suicide when surrounded by ISIS terrorists.

ISIS forces took control of strategic position in the city of Al-Qusayr killing dozens of Hezbollah terrorists.

ISIS terrorists have seized a power plant in Sirte; they have also captured the entire Libyan city.

A Syrian hacker group breached a declassified US Army website Monday, posting pro-regime propaganda until the site was taken down.

The Islamic State has found a novel way to fund its doomsday machine.