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About 3 million people traveled to the country in 2015, representing a decline of just 3 percent from 2014.

Tehran does not accept that a U.N. resolution bars it from testing missiles, as long as it has no nuclear warheads to place on them.

Police said it remained unclear whether the Friday attack in the Israeli city was a criminal act or politically motivated.

The Israeli education ministry ruled against the inclusion of the 2014 novel "Borderlife" in the high school curriculum.

Leaders of the Palestinian movement determined such events were “incompatible” with Islam, a police spokesman said.

Word of the investigation follows a report that the National Security Agency eavesdropped on Iran nuclear deal negotiations.

Sheldon Adelson, who bought Nevada’s biggest newspaper this month, fine tuned his media strategy at a right-wing Israeli publication.

The charges related to his 1992-2003 term as Jerusalem's mayor and real estate deals in the city.

A proposed law, given preliminary approval by the Israeli cabinet Sunday, will force the entities to disclose more details about their sources of funding.

Yair Ramati presided over the successful Iron Dome program during the Gaza war but seems to have mishandled classified data.

Israel has not claimed responsibility for the airstrike that killed the extremist Samir Kantar in Syria last week.

Almost daily Palestinian stabbings, car-rammings and shooting attacks have killed 20 Israelis and a U.S. citizen, raising fears of escalation.

The military says the men killed in Jerusalem and the West Bank were attempting attacks, one by knife and one by motor vehicle.

“Turkey is determined to not accept any sort of restriction on Turkish assistance to Gaza,” a Turkish newspaper reported Saturday.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi says the militant group hasn't forgotten about Palestine and that Russian airstrikes haven't weakened the terrorist organization.

Ironically, the tour was organized by Breaking the Silence, a left-wing group that reports Israeli military abuse of Palestinians.

With violence still raging in the region, Bethlehem tourism businesses have reported downturns in revenue this Christmas season.

The video appears to shows several people at a Jewish wedding in Jerusalem mocking the death of an 18-month-old Palestinian baby, who was killed in an arson attack in July.

Israel has granted hundreds of rare permits to visit family outside Gaza for Christmas, but many in the fading community fear the young won't return.

The Pentagon announced Monday that the company reached its delivery goal for F-35 jets this year.

In another year of highs and lows for social media, IBT highlights the best of Twitter in 2015.