Saudi Arabia’s King Salman will face the challenge of having an Iranian client, Yemen, bordering on its south, Avi Issacharoff wrote in a profile of the new king on Friday for The Times of Israel. King Salman is not expected to make dramatic changes to Saudi Arabia’s foreign and defense...

In a speech Sunday night, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, praised the U.S.-Israel relationship and explained the importance of the invitation of House Speaker John Boehner to Israel’s Prime Minister of Israel to speak before a joint session of Congress on March 3. Placing a heavy emphasis on...

The late Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman accused Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani of involvement in planning the July 1994 terror attack on the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, journalist Andres Oppenheimer of The Miami Herald reported Wednesday On July 1, 2013, Nisman emailed me part of Mesbahi’s testimony. Quoting from his...

Saudi Arabia’s new monarch, King Salman, pledged to continue the policies of his predecessor and half-brother Abdullah, who died yesterday. Reuters reports: Salman, thought to be 79, takes over as the ultimate authority in a country that faces long-term domestic challenges compounded by the plunging price of oil in recent...

The government of Argentina announced today that “rogue” intelligence agents are suspected in the death of state prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who before his death had formally accused President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of sabotaging an investigation into Iran’s role in a deadly terror attack. Reuters reports: Argentina suspects rogue agents from its own...

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, who assumed the throne of the desert kingdom in 2005, died earlier today in a hospital. According to the BBC, he was suffering from a lung infection. He succeeded his brother King Fahd in 2005, though Abdullah had effectively been ruling the country...