A multinational delegation of senior military and political leaders has submitted a report to the United Nations asserting that “Israel not only met a reasonable international standard of observance of the laws of armed conflict, but in many cases significantly exceeded that standard” during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge in...

The United States and the other Western nations involved in the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran are prepared to reach an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program despite Iran’s refusal to fully come clean about all of its past nuclear research, the Associated Press reported today. After a November 2013 interim...

Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that Iran would not commit to the transparency measures insisted on by the United States until they “see the final text,” Reuters reported today. The United States urged Iran to implement the so-called Additional Protocol, which allows more intrusive access...

The Obama administration is poised to redefine many terror and human rights sanctions imposed on Iran as nuclear-related sanctions, with an eye towards lifting them and providing a greater boost to Iran’s economy as part of an emerging nuclear deal, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. According to anonymous officials quoted...

The United States has cut funding to a program “intended [to] foster an independent moderate Shiite voice” in Lebanon, leading critics to fault the move as an effort to appease Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Tuesday. The Hayya Bina program in question was funded through the International Republican Institute,...

A United Nations panel found that Western nations have systematically ignored Iranian violations of international sanctions so as not to jeopardize the talks over Iran’s illicit nuclear program, Bloomberg News reported today. The sanctions were put in place because of the country’s nuclear proliferation and support for terror. “The current situation with reporting...