An international investigation into the assassination of a senior Palestinian militant in the Persian Gulf region has taken British police to Israel. A special British police investigator has arrived in Israel to probe the use of false British passports in the assassination of a senior Hamas operative in Dubai last month. The investigator will meet with dual Israeli-British citizens whose passports... 

Sources close to the Israeli government have warned Executive Intelligence Review that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s inner cabinet is close to making a decision to launch a preventive strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Such a decision, that would be a further step closer to a devastating regional confrontation, could come as early as Sunday, when the Israeli cabinet convenes.... 

Mossad's Motto: "By Way of Deception, thou shalt do War" The number of fake British passports involved in the Mossad assassination of a Hamas leader has doubled to 12, it was revealed last night. Another 15 suspects were yesterday added to the wanted list over the killing of commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel – taking the total to 26. Police in Dubai are convinced Israeli... 

* Agent claims MI5 and Foreign Office were tipped off * David Miliband vows to ‘get to the bottom’ of affair * Gordon Brown promises an inquiry into identity theft * Dubai police chief calls for arrest of Mossad head * Hamas promises retaliation against Israel MI6 was tipped off that Israeli agents were going to carry out an ‘overseas operation’ using fake British passports,... 

Reporters take pictures of electronic instruments Lebanese security forces found with arrested Israeli spies. A Lebanese court on Thursday sentenced two men to death on charges of espionage and involvement in the killing of senior members of Lebanese and Palestinian resistance groups. A military tribunal convicted the former member of Lebanon’s security force Mahmoud Qassem Rafeh, 63, of “collaboration... 

Rabbi Mordechai Elon Israeli police said on Friday they were looking into allegations of sexual abuse against one of the country’s most famous and politically influential rabbis, in a case that has triggered dramatic headlines this week. Mordechai Elon — known as “Rabbi Motti” by viewers of his popular TV show and by many young men in the West Bank settler movement — has... 

At left, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran in Tehran on Tuesday. At right, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Jidda, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. The confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program appeared to deepen Tuesday as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton escalated her verbal assault during a Persian Gulf visit and Russia joined the United States and France in bluntly questioning... 

Israeli Goel Ratzon sits in a courtroom at the district court in Tel Aviv, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010. Ratzon, a 60-year-old Israeli man who kept a harem of at least 21 women who bore him 49 children, has been charged with multiple counts of enslavement, rape, incest and other sexual offenses. An Israeli man who kept a cult-like harem of women and fathered dozens of children with them was charged in a Tel... 

Lebanese troops opened fire Sunday on four Israeli warplanes that flew into Lebanese airspace, the army said. Israeli warplanes frequently fly over Lebanese territory in what Israel says are reconnaissance missions. The overflights have been a constant source of friction between the two countries. Sunday’s incident comes amid heightened tensions in the Middle East following some of the sharpest... 

Ahmadinejad tells Assad Jewish state must be "resisted with full force." Ahmadinejad tells Assad Jewish state must be “resisted with full force.” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Syrian President Bashar Assad that Israel “must be resisted” and finished off “once and for all” if it launches a military operation in the Middle East, Reuters cited... 

Israeli Soldier Gazan farmers whose land lies in Israeli defined buffer zone accompanied by international observers have been held down in their field by live gunfire. The Israeli army shot live ammunition for a quarter of an hour after finding the unarmed group fertilizing wheat crops. The international observers loudly informed the soldiers they were unarmed civilians, but the bullets only landed... 

Buried Alive in Turkey A 16-year-old girl was buried alive by relatives in southeastern Turkey in a gruesome honor killing carried out because she reportedly befriended boys, the Anatolia news agency reported Thursday. Acting on a tip, police discovered the body of the girl, identified only as M.M., in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a 2-meter-deep hole dug under a chicken pen outside her... 

Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women’s groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of black babies. A feminist movement has accused the Israeli government of adopting a racist policy towards the country’s Ethiopian Jews. Activists believe black women are deliberately being... 

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan The rift in Israeli-Turkish relations is the result of Ankara turning away from secularism and toward more radical Islam, Israel’s military intelligence chief said on Tuesday. The comments to a parliamentary committee by Maj. General Amos Yadlin reflected wider concern in Israel and followed a high profile visit to Turkey on Sunday by Defense Minister... 

Israeli security forces arrested residents of a West Bank settlement in connection with last month’s torching of a Palestinian mosque. Ten settlers were arrested at two yeshivas in the northern West Bank community of Yitzhar in a late Sunday night raid. Five are accused of burning down a mosque in the nearby village of Yasuf, allegedly in retaliation for an Israeli government-imposed freeze...