The Wall Street Journal on Thursday conveyed commitments from Iran’s oil minister vowing to boost the country’s crude exports despite what the outlet described as “a cap agreed upon with the international community.” The interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) – which Iran and the P5+1 global powers had agreed...

Israeli soldiers patrolling the Golan Heights can now see Islamist flags flying on the Syrian side of the border, The Tower has learned. Islamist groups have taken up positions to the south of Quneitra, the largest Syrian town close to Israel, particularly in the area of Kudneh.  “A-Raya flags with...

Reuters reported on Monday that a delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – the U.N.’s atomic watchdog – would be holding talks until Tuesday on among other things “how the U.N. agency would monitor a planned heavy-water reactor near the town of Arak,” which the West has long...

The Rialto Unified School District in San Bernardino County, just east of Los Angeles, found itself the subject of negative attention when it was reported earlier this week that the district gave its eighth graders an assignment to debate whether the Holocaust occurred, or whether it was “merely a political scheme...

South African security site DefenceWeb on Monday rounded up developments surrounding last week’s announcement by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) that he would block additional security assistance to the Egyptian army as a result of his “growing dismay” at Cairo’s heavy-handed tactics against the Muslim Brotherhood, a move that came after...

Tehran is reportedly continuing to deny international nuclear inspectors access to the country’s Parchin military base, a site that Western diplomats and U.N. inspectors have long emphasized – per a 2011 report by the the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – shows “strong indicators” of having been used for explosives...