A French jihadist, who shot dead four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May 2014 in the first terror attack on European soil by a returning foreign fighter from Syria, has been sentenced to life in prison, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Mehdi Nemmouche was convicted last...

A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been sentenced to an extra 10 years in jail on top of the five-year term she is already serving for defending protesters against the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab laws, the BBC reported Monday. Nasrin Sotoudeh, an award-winning women’s rights activist, was arrest last...

As the effects of Western sanctions take effect, the Iranian-backed terror group, Hezbollah, has reached out to its supporters for financial assistance, Reuters reported Friday. “I announce today that the resistance is in need of its (popular base),” Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech last week. The...

Israel has closed the Temple Mount following a firebomb attack on the police station there, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. The riots took place after Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said that there would be “no second mosque on the Temple Mount” and expressed hope that Jews would be...

Doing good is a noble thing, but it’s not the most lucrative business model out there, right? Jerusalem-based global investment platform OurCrowd put the lie to that assumption at its annual Global Investor Summit on March 7, 2019. “We truly believe in this double bottom line. We are absolutely convinced that we...

Britain’s decision to outlaw Hezbollah last month casts a harsh light on the rest of Europe’s refusal to do so, two experts wrote in an op-ed published Sunday in the New York Post. After Britain “rejected the notion that Hezbollah is a ‘two-winged’ group without unified command and control over...

Investigators working for the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM), an organization established by the United Nations to probe charges of war crimes committed in Syria since 2011 over the course of its bloody civil war, say that they are getting closer to bringing members of the regime of Bashar...

United States Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Ambassador to Israel David Friedman toured attack tunnels on Sunday, which were dug by the Islamist terrorist group Hamas, which exercises complete political and military control over the Gaza Strip, JNS reported. “The tunnels have been used by groups like Hamas to smuggle...

In a video message to mark International Women’s Day on March 8, firebrand Palestinian-American activist and co-chair of the Women’s March, Linda Sarsour, claimed the movement and other left-wing pressure groups helped water-down the language of a resolution aimed at condemning anti-Semitism that passed in the House Thursday night. The...

The United States envoy in charge of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians defended Israel’s decision to stop transferring taxes collected to the Palestinian Authority by the amount the PA was paying terrorists and their families, The New York Times reported Friday. “If your citizens were being routinely attacked by...