Israeli aircraft struck militant targets in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip early on Thursday after a rocket from the coastal territory landed in southern Israel, the Israeli military said. A passerby was lightly hurt in the Gaza Strip, according to residents. No damage or...

Israel's nuclear affairs minister said his country was like the boy in the fairy tale who pointed out the emperor had no clothes, heaping scorn on the Iran nuclear deal on Wednesday and emphasizing Israel's right to unilateral self-defense. Tuesday's agreement between six world...

 Israel on Sunday released an Islamic Jihad leader, Khader Adnan, from jail following a deal last month in which he agreed to end a 56-day hunger strike, Islamic Jihad sources in the West Bank said. Adnan's strike had galvanized Palestinians behind a "battle of empty stomachs" against...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Syria's Salamiyeh city in the eastern countryside of Hama province is no longer surrounded with fear in the east, sadness and dust in the south like what Mohammed al-Maghout, the city’s well-known poet,  described it years ago. Today, Salamiyeh is surrounded...