Iranian state media boasted on Tuesday that Tehran has successfully inked an oil and gas deal with a top Italian energy company, bragging that the deal came despite the fact that Iran has yet to reach a final agreement with the P5+1 global powers regarding the country’s atomic program. The story...

A Palestinian resolution calling to impose a peace settlement on Israel failed in a United Nations Security Council vote tonight, garnering only eight votes, one short of the number required to have forced a promised veto from the United States. The New York Times reports: The United States and Australia...

The United States on Monday signaled that it would oppose unilateral Palestinian efforts at the United Nations, with State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke telling reporters that a new draft Palestinian proposal “fails to account for Israel’s legitimate security needs, and the satisfaction of those needs, of course, integral to a sustainable settlement.”...

The state of Christians in the Middle East is becoming an “existential struggle,” according to an analysis published in The Jerusalem Post Sunday, written by Ben Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Weinthal quotes a number of experts about the plight of Christian communities in the...

By going to the United Nations Security Council with a resolution this week to force terms of peace deal on Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is “insisting on failure” an unsigned editorial in The Washington Post observed today. The editorial observed that Abbas, having refused to accept an American sponsored...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ latest threat to submit a resolution to the United Nations Security Council imposing a peace deal on Israel has reportedly been rebuffed by Secretary of State John Kerry, according to a report today in The Times of Israel. Abbas called Kerry Sunday night to inform...