Middle East / Levant

Lebanon’s Maronite Catholic patriarch has defied terrorist death threats and arrived in Israel to honor Pope Francis and visit the faithful.

Since taking office in 2003, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has moved to align Turkey with Islamist elements

A Turkish court has issued arrest warrants for four ex-IDF officers over the deaths of 10 Turkish citizens on board the Mavi Marmara.

Amos Yadlin invites Saudi Prince Faisal Al Saud for talks on 2002 Arab Peace Initiative

Egyptians are headed to the polls today and tomorrow to choose a president for the second time since 2011.

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah celebrated the 14th anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from the south Lebanon security zone Sunday with a warning that the...

Additional fatality from 2010 attack brings Mavi Marmara toll to 10; Ankara rejects Israel 'compensation' offer

Concern in Israel about Jordan-Iraq plans to lie oil pipeline in Gulf of Eilat

Former Balad party MK Sayid Nafa met with terrorists while in Syria. Not the first Balad MK to do so either.

In Eman Mohammed's TED interview were wildly false accounts of IDF ethical standards and actions.

Syrian border has been quietist in Israel for more than 40 years. Could al-Qaeda on the border change that?

An Islamic Jihad terrorist plot to kidnap an Israeli was foiled in a joint operation by the Shin Bet and Israel Police.

The Palestinian Authority is hoping to use the upcoming visit by Pope Francis as a political pipebomb.

Three Israeli students from Ben Gurion University of the Negev won second place at the International Cultural and Academic Meeting of Engineering Students conference (ICAMES), a world-wide engineering project competition organized by the Engineering Society of Bogazici University in Istanbul.

Six Arab protesters were arrested Tuesday on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem after they harassed Jews on the site.

The Jewish community in Lebanon has officially denounced the State of Israel as the country's sole synagogue prepares to reopen in Beirut.

US Army Specialist Adrian M. Perkins, 19, of Pine Valley, California, was shot and killed on Saturday. He died in an Amman, Jordan hospital from...

Egypt's Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has already picked up 85% of the ex-pat vote for president.

More than 265,000 Egyptian expats voted in the Egyptian presidential elections.

Severe birth pains have accompanied Libya's lurch towards democracy.

An Israeli held for 14 years in an Egyptian prison accused Israel’s prime minister of not doing enough to secure his release. The prisoner, Ouda...

Talks between Iran and the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany in Vienna ended on Friday with no progress.

Expats have begun early voting in Egypt's presidential elections.

“The phenomenon of Israeli Arabs going to Syria presents a tremendous threat to the State of Israel," said Shabak officials

Israel’s embassy in Turkey canceled a celebration of Israel’s Independence Day and President Shimon Peres sent a letter of condolence to Turkish President...

The United Nations is considering the possibility that Iran just might have figured out how to avoid international sanctions in order to continue that...

An Israeli man charged in the United States with selling arms to Iran was arrested at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport.

Clinton's State Department refused to name Boko Haram as foreign terrorist organization in 2011.

Once again, peace with Israel is a major campaign issue in Egypt. Frontrunner al-Sisi says treaty is 'stable'; challenger is long-time opponent of treaty

This Arab is angry that everyone in the media is picking on poor David HaNachlawi.