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A call by Jordan’s justice minister to free the jailed killer of seven Israeli girls has soured the Hashemite Kingdom’s relations with Israel, but…

WASHINGTON— The United States stands with cyber dissidents and democracy activists from the Middle East to China and beyond, Secretary of State…

The US-backed president of Yemen told parliament Wednesday he would not seek reelection or transfer power to his son, in an apparent reaction to…

WASHINGTON – Israel’s ambassador to the UN warned the Palestinians against going to the world body with a unilateral declaration of statehood, saying…

Just before the dramatic 1976 Entebbe rescue operation in Uganda, Daniel Sullum and Deborah Dworman celebrated their wedding at the Holyland Hotel in…

This week we learned that Nazareth is an al-Qaida hub. Sheikh Nazem Abu Salim Sahfe, the Israeli imam of the Shihab al-Din mosque in the city, was…

WASHINGTON – Eric Cantor has spent a lifetime relishing in wearing the other hat. Among Jews, the Republican congressional whip from Richmond, Va.,…

Aid to Israel has long been the locomotive that pulls foreign aid through Congress. For just as long, some lawmakers have been saying they’d vote for…

Recently released WikiLeaks documents describing American involvement in Iraq detail suspected Iranian involvement in undermining government…

WASHINGTON -- A Republican Congress would seek to remove funding for Israel from the foreign operations budget , a GOP leader said. U.S. Rep. Eric…

WASHINGTON – A senior UNRWA official broached two largely taboo topics at a conference here on Friday, saying governments across Europe and the world…

Did our mammalian ancestors eat only vegetables, avoiding eggs and milk, or did they hunger for meat as well? It’s hard for anthropologists to…

WASHINGTON — Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that neither the US nor Israel is likely to launch a military strike on Iran…

Faith and factSir, – Your article (“Israeli scientists blast off at Hawking’s view that ‘God was not needed’ to create the universe,” September 3)…

Almost 10,000 olim have made aliya so far in 2010, of whom 2,426 came from English-speaking countries, according to data released by the Jewish…

Nathan Brown, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, wrote a timely report last month entitled…

WASHINGTON – The top US official for battling anti-Semitism hopes that a recent trip of imams to Auschwitz will help decrease Holocaust denial and…

A military strike on Iranian military bases, airports, bridges, railroad stations and other key infrastructure could lead Iran to suspend its nuclear…

At its base, it’s a glorified debating forum; that’s how political analyst Shadi Hamid describes the Arab League. The organization has been dubbed a…

DENVER — A Mideast diplomat who grabbed a surreptitious smoke in a jetliner's bathroom sparked a bomb scare and widespread alert that sent jet…