In a year-end interview with Steve Inskeep of NPR, Sen. Marco Rubio said that he expected legislation forcing an up or down Congressional vote on any deal with Iran to come up early in this legislative session: Al-Monitor reports: Probably the first vote in my sense will be something that...

After a quarter of a century of tensions, Saudi Arabia is moving to normalize its relations with Iraq. The improvement in relations between the two countries gradually began with the visit of Iraqi President Fouad Massoum to the Kingdom in November 2014. In addition, the fight against radical movements in...

David Daoud critiques the Obama administration’s recent diplomacy with Iran in Replacement Theory: The Administration’s Crazy New Middle East Illusion, which was published in the December 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine. Daoud outlines possible rationales and consequences of the administration’s rapprochement with Iran. Many interpret America’s softening stance toward Iran...

A joint project between scientists at both the University of Chicago and Ben-Gurion University are “crafting radical new approaches” to water technologies, according to a report today in The Chicago Tribune. One project uses a common inkjet printer to apply layers of chemicals to a water filter to repel bacteria...

Victims of Palestinian terror should bring their claims to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) application to join the court, Shurat Hadin, Israel Law Center, wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday. Today, Mahmoud Abbas signed the Rome Treaty to join the ICC. The day has arrived...

Iran blasted the U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to sanction nine “individuals and entities” yesterday for “their support of Iranian government sanctions evasion efforts and human rights-related abusers,” saying that doing so violated “the good will principles” engendered by the ongoing nuclear negotiations and Joint Plan of Actions (JPOA), Reuters reported...