One of the reasons that Prime Minister Netanyahu flew out to California earlier this month was to sign a number of agreements with Gov. Jerry Brown. One area of cooperation between the two was for Israel to provide guidance to the Golden State to fight its drought “with water conservation...

Turkey watchers spent much of last Friday piling on the country’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) for their decision late Thursday to ban Twitter – Erdogan’s exact phrase was that he was going to “eradicate” the microblogging service – amid widespread and successful...

Analysts continued late last week to gauge the degree to which nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 global powers might be affected by the crisis in Crimea, with Washington-based energy expert Nicholas Cunningham rounding up analysis that broadly converged on the conclusion that “Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the retaliatory steps...

The U.S. and EU’s response to the crisis in Ukraine may induce Russia to “raise the stakes” by revising its stance on nuclear talks with Iran, per statements by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov conveyed on Wednesday by Reuters. “We wouldn’t like to use these talks as an element of the game...

President Barack Obama met yesterday with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to advance a U.S.-backed framework outlining a comprehensive peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, after weeks in which – per the Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl – Abbas “publicly campaign[ed] against the U.S. and Israeli position even before arriving in...

Analysts and journalists worked yesterday to unpack a weekend interview between Reuters and Vann Van Diepen – the U.S.’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation – in which Van Diepen bluntly declared that there has been no change in Iran’s efforts to illicitly procure components for its nuclear...