An Israeli civilian is being held against his will by the Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel said on Thursday. Hamas, the Palestinian enclave's dominant faction, declined to comment. Israel suspects militants in Gaza would use its citizens to bargain for the release of Palestinians...
Israel's Shin Bet security agency says it has arrested six Bedouins for establishing a cell supportive of the ISIS. The agency said Monday that four of those arrested were teachers and tried to indoctrinate students at their schools with the extremist group's ideas. It said they intended to...
Five Egyptian civilians were killed on Wednesday when a mortar round hit a house in a North Sinai village where the army is battling jihadist insurgents, security officials said. It was not immediately clear who fired the projectile, which also wounded four people. Both soldiers and militants...
Iran and major powers gave themselves at least until Friday to negotiate an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, but a source from one of the powers said on Tuesday they had to wrap up in the next 48 hours. "We are continuing to negotiate for the next couple of days," EU...
