Ankara criticized for the relative ease with which terrorists and would-be fighters are able to go back and forth across the Turkish border into Syria.

Jean Plantureux, Le Monde's chief cartoonist and close friend of the Charlie Hebdo attack victims, believes that by understanding Israel can the French understand their own society; due to arrive in Jerusalem next week, he wants to see the French condemn anti-Semitism as they did the attack on the famous magazine.

Sergeant Major Ohad receives citation for mission after entering tunnel to gather information that would allow its destruction and prevent Hamas from infiltrating Israel.

Sentence passed after mass trial for killings of 16 policemen in 2013; al-Sisi calls Muslim Brotherhood a major threat.

Undersecretary says death of Alberto Nisman linked to attempt to oust rgime, not investigation into a 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center which some say Iran is behind.

Obama readying request to use force against Islamic State as Assad says he had known about the US-led campaign before it started but didn't have details.

Over 140 workers from Israel Chemicals' Bromine Compounds factory in south to be fired, joining at least three other factories recently shut down in Israeli desert region.

Drug smuggling cell operating on Israeli and Egyptian sides of the border in south shot and killed after shoot out with Egyptian soldiers; IDF fired warning shots and evacuated the smugglers who later succumbed to their wounds.