Tehran is reportedly continuing to deny international nuclear inspectors access to the country’s Parchin military base, a site that Western diplomats and U.N. inspectors have long emphasized – per a 2011 report by the the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – shows “strong indicators” of having been used for explosives...

Outlets and journalists over the weekend and into Monday continued to unpack what the Washington Post bluntly described as the “failure” of Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent Israeli-Palestinian peace push, which had formally expired on April 29 but had functionally been suspended since the declaration of a unity agreement...

The Daily Beast on Thursday cited a range of Western intelligence analysts converging on the assessment that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime not only has a secret cache of undeclared chemical weapons – which the outlet said included “crude chlorine-filled bombs, secret stockpiles of sophisticated nerve gasses or their components” –...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday conveyed angry remarks from Iranian officials in reaction to last week’s publication of the State Department’s annual country-by-country terrorism roundup: “Accusing Iran of supporting terrorism is politicized and based on double standards,” ministry spokesperson Marzieh Afkham said in a statement reported by the official IRNA...

Of all the achievements the Palestinians and Israelis have achieved despite the moribund peace talks, security cooperation in the West Bank has allowed for a tense, but mostly peaceful, co-existence. However, that cooperation is now being threatened by the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation and the announcement that 3,000 Fatah military personnel will...

With peace negotiations again on indefinite hold, the Israeli government is still determining the best course of action given the recent unity deal between the Palestinian Authority and the terrorist organization Hamas. Observers from across the world are keeping a keen eye on both parties, eagerly waiting the next turn...