King Abdullah II of Jordan called on Jews and Christians to unite with the Muslims in a joint effort to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS) and other terror groups around the globe.
Senior Republican lawmakers wrote a letter to President Obama asking him to avoid bolstering Iran, but Obama has made clear he plans to facilitate further business investment in the Islamic Republic and has threatened to veto any bill demanding otherwise.
Iran violated the nuclear deal at least twice, producing more heavy water than allowed under the agreement. With the incoming US administration warning it could try to overturn the deal, Iran's repeated violations are adding concerns about the deals' durability.
The US on Thursday voted against a UN resolution condemning the veneration of Nazism saying it hindered freedom of speech, while raising concerns that Russia, the country that sponsored the resolution, was using it to carry out political attacks against its neighbors.
The strikes, including hundreds of artillery shells and dozens of airstrikes, hit four hospitals in east Aleppo, a rebel-held enclave of 275,000 people, and now all hospitals in the area are out of service.
After parents in Nice, France named their child after Mohamed Merah, an Islamist terrorist who killed seven people in terror attacks on a Jewish school and French paratroopers in the southwestern Toulouse region in 2012, a judge will rule on whether they must change the name.
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general, Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo as the next head of the CIA and former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.
Zionist Organization of America leader Morton Klein has defended Steve Bannon, the newly appointed chief strategist in the Trump administration, as a strong supporter of Israel.
The act, first passed by Congress in 1996 and renewed several times since then, expires at the end of 2016. The bill approved by the House extends the law by another 10 years, to 2026.
US President-elect Donald Trump, before becoming a politician, donated at least hundreds of thousands of dollars to help resettle evacuees of Israeli Jewish communities in the Sinai and Gaza Strip, a new report indicates.
Concentrations of major greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue to increase to new limits and Arctic sea ice remains at a very low level, even though gas emissions are dropping, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization announced.
The Islamic Republic of Iran and China have signed an agreement on military cooperation which would entail the holding of joint military exercises and the cooperation in the “fight on terrorism.”
The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Morocco, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Yemen signed a letter to the UN General Assembly in which they decried Iran's support for Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen and the Shiite Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon.
Trump laid out a 100 day plan to change paths on taxes, tariffs, common core education, school choice, the border wall, health care, veterans, illegal immigrants.
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus has been appointed the new, incoming White House Chief of Staff, but he will share some responsibilities with Stephen Bannon, who has been accused of being an anti-Semite.