There is a converging consensus among U.S. officials and independent experts to the effect that Iran was deeply involved in North Korea’s February nuclear test — the country’s third — and that the bomb might even be considered an “Iranian bomb.” Experts interviewed by the Washington Post cite extensive and...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan risks destabilizing the region and alienating the United States as he scrambles to deal with “hardline domestic criticism” in the aftermath of having been diplomatically out-maneuvered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in settling on terms for restoring ties between Israel and Turkey. At...

Arabic media sources report that France is ready to add Hezbollah’s military wing to the European Union’s list of terror organizations. Al-Hayat, a pan-Arab daily based in London, describes a meeting earlier this week between French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Secretary of State John Kerry, in which Fabius informed Kerry...

Bulgaria’s interim prime minister Marin Raikov announced today that his government will present new evidence linking Hezbollah to the July 2012 in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. Bulgarian government officials announced in February that they had found proof that two of the suspects in the bombing had ties...

Palestinian human rights groups are blasting Hamas for banning several members of the rival Palestinian Fatah faction from traveling outside the Gaza Strip. The Iran-backed terror group has controlled the territory since it expelled most Fatah officials from it in a bloody 2007 battle. The Fatah officials who stayed inside the...

Turkey is reiterating warnings and objections — which were already explicitly issued by Ankara last week — against Cypriot moves to leverage the country’s offshore energy reserves as part of Nicosia’s efforts to stave off an economic collapse. Cyprus used its offshore natural gas reserves as a last-ditch guarantee to secure bailout...