US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey made news over this week by calling an Israeli-led attack on Iran foolish if attempted anytime soon. Israeli officials aren’t impressed, however, and are responding with words of their own. Gen. De

That means his four-month detention order will be counted from the day of his arrest, not the day it was issued several weeks later. The deal also suggests that military prosecutors will not seek extensions, which can often be used to prolongue administr

• charges about developing nuclear weapons; • being the "world's leading state sponsor of terror," according to AIPAC; • targeting Israeli officials in India, Georgia, and Thailand; and • planning Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's assassination, acco

American-Israeli relations have not been so bright recently. The visit of a top Obama administration official was supposed to ease tensions between the countries but instead it might have only widened the gap regarding attitudes toward the Iranian nuclea

Speaking in a nationally televised interview with the CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” show on Sunday, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey said, “We are of the opinion that Iran is a rational actor.” Dempsey pointed out that US offi

JERUSALEM - Chinese Middle East envoy Wu Sike said Sunday that China is willing to play a constructive role in bringing Israel and the Palestinians back to peace negotiations. Wu, on a visit to the region, met with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieber

After decades of selling arms to dictators in the Middle East, the west's talk of humanitarian intervention rings hollow Calls for aggressive intervention in Syria are growing as the country slides further into sectarian civil war. The shrillest are from

According to World Tribune, the Kremlin has ordered the military to draft options for a Russian response to any foreign attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The report added that the Russian Defense Ministry has set up a facility to monitor Tehran as Mos

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) this week sent a sharply critical letter to Knesset members government ministers, and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, demanding that Jews have the right to “unfettered access and freedom” to pray on the Temple

The country's leaders are clashing over what constitutes a proper Israeli response to the events in Syria - where around 6,000 civilians have been killed - in the revolt against President Bashar Assad. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman believes it is ti

With the fear of Iran emerging as the next nuclear weapons state, Washington stepped up their economic sanctions on Monday. The new mandates give U.S. banks the ability to freeze assets associated with the Iranian government. Iran has admitted it has enr

New York: India is under tremendous pressure, especially from the United States and Israel, to investigate the terrorist attack on Israeli diplomatic targets in New Delhi and bring the perpetrators to justice. While condemning the car bombing in New Delh

The Israeli leaderships has used strong language to condemn the attacks, which Avigdor Lieberman Israel's foreign minister vows "will not be overlooked", but senior military and defence strategists believe it is unlikely this tough talk will be acted on.

Then there is a third way, which is probably only of syllogistic worth -- maintaining the status quo. Even this does not look possible as with each passing day Iran's purported march towards the nuclear weaponization gains pace. In August 2009, Ex-US env

Despite some tough rhetoric against Iran and Hizbullah following attacks on Israeli targets in New Delhi and Tblisi, Israel is unlikely to respond harshly, as they were low-level hits that do not warrant strong retaliation, analysts here said. Israel's P

Image: An Israel diplomat's car goes up in flames after an explosion in New Delhi on Monday Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday termed the attack on an Israeli diplomat as a terror strike and said a well-trained person orchestrated the crime. Condemni

Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has accused Iran of being behind twin attacks on Israeli targets in India and Georgia in a further escalation of tensions between the two countries. The attacks on Monday, in which four people were injured, fo

NEW DELHI: Israel assailed Iran as the world’s “biggest exporter of terror” after two bombs targeted its overseas personnel in India and Georgia, critically wounding one female diplomat in New Delhi. In Washington, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton c

Israel is not expected to respond harshly to on Monday's twin attacks on Israeli representatives in India and Georgia, Israeli sources said Monday night. In one attack, the wife of Israel's defense attache in India was moderately wounded in a car bombing