Immediately prior to President Barack Obama’s ISIS speech on Wednesday, Israeli government ministers and senior security officers gathered to discuss the threats posed by Islamist terror organizations in the region. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) head Yoram Cohen, Police Commissioner Yohanan...

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon traveled to Azerbaijan today for a two day visit to Iran’s northern neighbor. The Jerusalem Post reports: Ya’alon met with the Azeri President Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev, as well as with the country’s Defense Minister, Zakir Hasanov, and Foreign Minister, Elmar Mammadyarov, as well as senior officials...

ISIS is now training members of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, one of the deadliest terror groups operating out of the Sinai Peninsula, according to the Reuters news agency. Confirmation that the militants are extending its influence to Egypt will sound alarm bells in Cairo, where the authorities are already facing a security...

Yesterday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas blasted Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization currently ruling the Gaza Strip. The New York Times reported: Mr. Abbas started a speech to Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on Sunday discussing the bitter history of his Fatah faction’s fight with Hamas, the Islamist movement that...

The Islamist terror organization the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) executed a second Lebanese soldier, according to photographs posted online on September 6. The mother of a Lebanese soldier held captive by the militant Islamic State (ISIS) group said photographs posted online Saturday purporting to show his beheading appeared to...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will propose a timetable for talks with Israel during a meeting with Arab League foreign ministers slated for September 7. Palestinian supreme judge Mahmoud al-Habbash said Abbas wants to garner support from Arab countries for nine months of talks with Israel. The plan…includes three months of...