Hamas said it had arrested “many” Palestinians in Gaza on suspicion of collaborating with Israel to kill senior members of the enclave’s Islamist rulers and bomb training sites and government offices. The announcement came as a Hamas...

A Palestinian man wielding a knife, a can of gasoline and a toy gun broke into the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, attempted to take hostages and demanded asylum before embassy security guards apparently shot and wounded him.

Not long before Hillel Ben Sasson attended his first demonstration in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, Aryeh King − perhaps the person most identified with Jewish settlement there − declared that in the battle over the capital of...

The European Union wants to help open a sea route to Gaza and to revive and expand its role at the land crossings into the area, diplomatic sources told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Its Foreign Affairs Council plans to debate the matter on Monday,...

Smoldering trash cans and broken glass littered Jerusalem streets Friday morning as police prepared for a fourth day of rioting by ultra-Orthodox Jews enraged at the arrest of a mentally ill Hasidic woman who authorities say was starving her...

Two Israeli missile class warships have sailed through the Suez Canal ten days after a submarine capable of launching a nuclear missile strike, in preparation for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The deployment into the Red Sea,...

Surrounded by the barbed wire of Buchenwald concentration camp, Barack Obama laid a white rose on a memorial to the 56,000 people murdered there by the Nazis yesterday. The US President, on his first ever visit to a concentration camp, and the first by...

At least 307 people have now been killed since Israeli bombers began carrying out strikes on the highly populated territory, Palestinian emergency services have said.Around 1,000 more including civilians and children caught up in the carnage are said to...

This past Saturday at its 52nd International General Conference held in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) again called for the establishment of a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East. 82 IAEA member states, including all Arab...