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DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Iranian and Syrian defense ministers pledged during a meeting in Damascus to work in coordination to counter the regional threat they see posed by Israel.
Richard Goldstone, author of a U.N. report critical of Israel’s role in the Gaza war, has won the Stockholm Human Rights Award.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Lebanese lawmakers were expected to debate the right to armed resistance until they reached a vote of confidence, leaders said Thursday.
Israel's prime minister on Thursday offered additional funds and new social benefits to tens of thousands of Jewish settlers in a move seen as an attempt to soothe tensions over new restrictions on construction in the West Bank.
The European Union accused Israel on Thursday of trying to divide the 27-nation bloc to stop it passing a resolution calling for Jerusalem to be the shared capital of Israel and a future Palestinian state.
A Jewish father and daughter were arrested for allegedly praying on the Temple Mount, according to reports. An Arab policeman arrested the two visitors to the mount Wednesday morning as they were being shown around the site by a relative, who is a volunteer tour guide at the site.
Quebec has ended a 24-year arrangement that allowed fervently Orthodox Jewish students to study at a Montreal junior college at public expense.
A U.S. congressman is the latest to call for a Justice Department investigation into whether a pro-Palestinian group has been raising money on college campuses for Hamas.
One of the key players in Palestinian politics and therefore in any future peace talks with Israel has spoken to CNN from his Israeli prison cell. Marwan Barghouti is serving five life sentences following his conviction in an Israeli court on murder and other charges related to his role in planning attacks on Israelis during the second Intifada.
A healthy man in blockaded Gaza faked cancer, hoping the deadly disease would be his ticket out of the territory that has become an open-air prison for its 1.4 million residents.
With much fanfare, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has unilaterally declared that Israel will temporarily freeze Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, but notably,...
Let me state this at the outset: I do not think President Obama deserves his Nobel Peace Prize. I believe that awards and honors should...
WESTPORT - A standing-room only crowd of close to 300 people filled the small sanctuary at The Conservative Synagogue in Westport on Sunday, Dec. 6 to hear Dr. Daniel Gordis, senior vice president of the Jerusalem-based research and educational institute, The Shalem Center, discuss the future of Israel, Zionism and the U.S.-Israel alliance.
Toronto woman single-handedly rescued thousands of Syrian Jews... one by one. STAMFORD - In 1972, a young Toronto mother and university musicology lecturer read in The Jerusalem Post about a group of 12 Jewish men trying to escape from their native Syria into Turkey.
A Palestinian grocer labeled as a "terrorist group leader" in the movie "Bruno" has filed a $110 milllion lawsuit, saying the film ruined his life.
About 10,000 West Bank settlers and their backers filled part of downtown Jerusalem Wednesday, listening to fiery speeches, dancing in circles and pledging to defy a building ban imposed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Imam Shamsi Ali (l.), leader of the Jamaica Muslim Center, greets Rabbi Yitzhak Yeshoshua (c.), chief rabbi of the Bukharian Jewish community in North America, and Rabbi Shlomo Nisanov, spiritual leader of Kehilat Sephardim in Kew Gardens Hills.
Egypt has been digging trenches and installing metal sheets underground along its border with Gaza in an apparent attempt to curb smuggling into the Palestinian territory through tunnels, Gaza border guards and area residents said Thursday.
Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki on Thursday rejected holding Middle East peace talks in Moscow in the absence of preliminary negotiations with Israel.
The Obama Nobel Peace Prize is seen as inappropriate by many Arabs, who are angry about the surge of US troops into Afghanistan and a stagnant Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Mendy Dubrowski doesn't let the barrage of Christmas music, mall Santas and baby Jesus scenes overshadow his party.
