The Wall Street Journal over the weekend evaluated the prospects for the Syrian chemical weapons disarmament deal struck by Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The odds of success are, per four distinct scenarios unpacked by the paper, not great: But the road map unveiled...

A leaked United Nations report, likely set for publication on Monday, piles on evidence linking the Bashar al-Assad regime to the August 21 mass chemical attack on opposition-controlled Damascus suburbs. While the report will not explicitly implicate the regime, it will get pretty close: The UN inspectors left Syria on...

Turkey continues to veto cooperation between Israel and NATO – extending a policy that stretches back years and which diplomats had hoped would cease amid a U.S.-backed reconciliation effort – according to Greek Ambassador Spiros Lampridis. Speaking to the Jerusalem Post, Lampridis outlined both the scope of programs nixed by...

The United Nations Human Rights Council has a permanent agenda item to discuss and criticize Israel, making the Jewish state the only U.N. member marked in that way. The body has found time in recent months to distribute anti-Semitic images and to defend the anti-Semitic rhetoric of employees. What it...

The results of Australia’s election Saturday night, which saw Tony Abbott’s Liberal Party sweep into power, are expected to result in stronger relations between Canberra and Jerusalem: Abbott has said he wants to return bilateral relations to the era of former Liberal leader John Howard, who was an unapologetic supporter of Israel....

National Security Adviser Susan Rice addressed the New America Foundation today and forcefully argued that Congress should approve President Barack Obama’s request for an authorization for the use of military force against Syria: “Any president, Republican or Democrat, must have recourse to all elements of American power to design and...