The United Nations Security Council convened yesterday and called for “clarity” regarding the latest alleged chemical attack by the Bashar al-Assad regime. While some details of yesterday’s chemical attack near Damascus remain murky – different groups have so far have offered different estimates of the casualties – the evidence was...

Media watchers spanning the political spectrum – from the Washington Free Beacon to Bloomberg and Atlantic columnist Jeffrey Goldberg – expressed something between resignation and outrage yesterday, as Al Jazeera America aired within hours of its launch an interview with Harvard professor and noted conspiracy theorist Stephen Walt. The interview...

Switzerland has nominated to the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) a candidate who is a vocal defender of Hezbollah, of Holocaust deniers, and of the Gaddafi regime. Tweeting about Jean Ziegler’s nomination, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power did not mince words: .@UNWatch: Indeed. Dr. Ziegler is unfit for...

Paraguay will reopen its embassy in Israel in the coming weeks, after keeping it shuttered for almost a decade due to budgetary reasons. The country’s newly elected President Horacio Cartes informed Israeli officials of the decision on Wednesday. Elkin’s office quoted Cartes as saying that he was interested in strengthening...

An expose published over the weekend by the Washington Post highlights the role that all-expense-paid trips to Iranian indoctrination camps are playing in the Islamic republic’s ongoing efforts to penetrate the Americas. Tehran has sought for decades to bolster its presence in Latin America. Iranian strategists reportedly view the region...

Observers are calling on the United Nations to mobilize sanctions against Hezbollah, after a European Union decision earlier this month saw the bloc blacklist the Iran-backed terror group. The move was broadly criticized for creating an untenable distinction between the group’s military wing and its so-called political wing. The Wall Street...