There are fears that he remains president in name only, and that it is, in fact, Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...

After Khamenei’s death, Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader, offered his “deep condolences”, condemned a “cynical murder that violated all norms of human morality and international law” and mourned the ...

How long will it last? Will it grow? What will it mean to us — and to global security overall? Those questions echoed across ...

The Supreme Court ruling comes after Israel said it would ban 37 aid groups from Gaza for failing to follow new rules.

The statement comes after a recent report by the Council of Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem found “threats to Christian heritage." The Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in a ...

A feud between the ultra-Orthodox Shas and Degel HaTorah parties over control of Jerusalem’s religious council spilled over into public view Monday, with senior lawmakers from both parties accusing ...

Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the ...

After 14 years, Cyprus takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union on January 1. It will lead during a politically sensitive moment, and aims to shape the EU's role on the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Archaeologists have uncovered the longest continuous remains of ancient Jerusalem’s Hasmonean walls, a rare find ...

Catholic leaders visited the basilica beneath Lake Iznik, believed to be the site of the First Council of Nicaea, after falling water levels revealed the submerged ruins. In 2014, the remains of a ...

Mor Ephrem Syriac Orthodox Church, Istanbul. Image credit: By Alessandro57 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=135664268 ...