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Seven Israeli teenagers were in the custody of Jerusalem police Monday in connection with the recent assault on Palestinian youths at West Jerusalem's Zion square which the Israeli authorities described as "lynching."

Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi will visit Iran at the end of August, the first time an Egyptian leader has visited Iran in more than 30 years.

Most collectors claim they are simply military historians, and not neo-Nazis.

Kansas Republican Kevin Yoder has apologized for swimming nude in the Sea of Galilee last August while on a trip paid for by the American Israel Educational Foundation -- an organization sponsoring these trips to "help educate political leaders".

The Israeli Defense Force has deployed an Iron Dome air defense system in the town of Eilat to intercept and destroy rockets, days after the town along the Egyptian border came under rocket fire, a military spokesperson said Monday.

During state-sponsored protests across Tehran, Iranians shouted "Death to America, death to Israel!"

Netanyahu is paying a visit to the U.N. General Assembly in New York next month where he will likely bump into U.S. President Barack Obama, or at least expect him to issue strong rebukes against Iran in his speech to the world.

Israel may be closer than ever to launching a unilateral missile attack against Iranian nuclear facilities, and debates over this explosive issue has reached a fever pitch in Tel Aviv.

The upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran, quite ironically, has become a stage to gauge the member nations' stand on certain international issues, though the world's largest single political coalition doesn't promise support to any major power bloc.

Israeli Civil Defense Minister Matan Vilnai outlined the possible outcome of an attack against Iran, predicting a month-long conflict that could claim 500 lives.

In his masque in honor of chastity and free thinking, John Milton introduces to his audience the virtues of recta ratio, the ability to exercise reason and restraint in the face of temptation and libidinal desire.

War with Iran would probably turn into a month-long conflict on various fronts with missile strikes on Israeli cities and some 500 dead, Israel's civil defense minister said in an interview published on Wednesday.

A prominent Shi'ite clan in Lebanon announced Wednesday it has kidnapped more than 20 Syrian nationals in retaliation for the alleged abduction in Damascus of one of their own by members of the Free Syrian Army. Meanwhile, a bomb was detonated in Damascus.

The EU on Tuesday declared that the Israeli city of Modi'in did not lie fully in Israel; parts of it belong to the West Bank. This could have consequences for Israel's trade with the EU.

Former Kadima party member and party leader aspirant Avi Dichter has resigned his MK status and taken up with Netanyahu's war-bent government, leaving many to questions what Dichter's motives were for leaving Kadima, and what Netanyahu's and Barak's intentions are for Iran.

Mitt Romney's close ties with Benjamin Netanyahu and his trip to Israel were supposed to attract more Jewish-American votes this fall. But Paul Ryan's proposed budget cuts to Social Security and Medicare might push some senior citizen Jewish-American Florida residents back into the Obama column.

Today, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan imperils his country’s chances of regional preponderance by pursuing a policy of speak pugnaciously and carry no stick.

The Transportation Security Administration’s “expanded behavior detection” pilot program at Boston Logan International Airport was supposed to be the model for airports nationwide, but reports of rampant racial profiling has put the controversial method in question and forced the agency to open up an investigation.

Gasoline production issues and tensions between Iran and Israel have sent U.S. gasoline prices above $4 per gallon in some cities, and prices likely won't fall until October, according to gasoline analysts.

A tribal leader and his son in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula were shot dead Monday by militants, two days after Bedouin tribal chiefs extended cooperation to the Egyptian security forces to restore normalcy in the lawless border region along Gaza and Israel.

Major data releases aplenty are on the economic calendar next week. In the U.S., investors will focus on July retail sales, industrial production, and consumer prices. In the euro zone, second-quarter gross domestic product figures across the major economies and the German ZEW index are the main highlights.