Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a “big fabrication” that was used to justify the U.S. war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported. Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West and Israel, made the comment in a meeting with Intelligence Ministry personnel. It came amid... 

Rabbi Mordechai Elon, accused of sexual abuse Yet another prominent Orthodox rabbi has been charged with sexual abuse. This time it is Rabbi Mordechai Elon, one of the foremost rabbinic leaders of the Israeli Orthodox movement and former rosh yeshiva at the flagship Yeshivat HaRav, where last year a Palestinian mounted an assault which left several students dead. The... 

British Police 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... 

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,... 

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... 

* 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’... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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...