Israeli athletes won big on Sunday, with a young Israeli taekwondo fighter taking gold at the Youth Olympics in Singapore while swimmer Gal Nevo won Israel's second medal in the European Swimming Championship in Hungary.
Former British MP and longtime anti-Israel activist George Galloway has announced that a new international flotilla from Britain, Morocco and Qatar will set sail for Gaza on September 18 with the aim of breaking Israel's naval blockade on Hamas.
Muslims must build a mosque near Ground Zero because “we have to build everywhere,†Hamas senior leader Mahmoud al-Zahar told WorldNet Daily’s Aaron Klein in an interview on WABC radio in New York.
Ex-Israeli General Giora Eiland told BBC's Panorama Television program that Gaza-bound Flotilla crew members were deliberately planning violence. "They (the activists) were committed to kill and be killed," said Eiland.
Iran will begin building a third nuclear enrichment site within a year, the head of Iran's atomic program Ali Akbar Saleh announced Monday.
The IDF has taken the unusual step of revealing to the press the precise location of Hizbullah hideouts in southern Lebanon. A Northern Command officer showed an Associated Press reporter the Hizbullah outposts visible from the Lebanon border.
President Barack Obama has warned Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that if his country wants to purchase United States weapons, it must change its foreign affairs policy regarding both Israel and Iran, according to the Financial Times.
PARENTS of a Muslim girl have been charged with beating and imprisoning their daughter after they discovered she had been in an alleged secret relationship with a man she met on Facebook.
After weeks of dodging the issue, at a White House Ramadan dinner Friday night, President Obama came out in support of Park51, the planned Muslim community center and mosque two blocks away from the World Trade Center site.The President says he wasn't endorsing the ground zero mosque—only defending the right to build it. Sam Harris on his failure to acknowledge that Islam is different than other faiths.
Popular Iranian footballer Ali Karimi, sometimes described as "the Maradona of Asia," has been fired by his club for not fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the club said on Sunday.