The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held its thrice-yearly session Monday. As always, the body deliberated over its infamous Item 7 – the council’s permanent agenda item on Israel and the only one devoted to a specific country. As always, a convoy of some of the world’s worst human-rights abusers...

Filipino officials disclosed Friday that the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs was recommending that the Philippines withdraw its contribution of troops from the U.N. peacekeeping force (UNDOF) responsible for monitoring the border between Syria and Israel. The accouncement comes a few weeks after several Filipino troops stationed along the border...

South Korea is seriously considering purchasing the Israeli made Iron Dome systems, which intercepts and kills short range rockets and missiles. The Tower has learned that advanced negotiations took place between the two countries during a private visit to Israel by Brigadier General Lee Hee Woo, President of a Chungnam...

Forty-three democracy promotion activists, including 16 Americans, have been sentenced to jail by an Egyptian court after being rounded up in a government crackdown on non-governmental organizations. The Americans had taken refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Cairo after government raids. Washington was ultimately forced to pay $#330,000 in bail for 15...

The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog blasted Iran on Monday for its intransigence during talks designed to reduce opacity around the country’s atomic program. His evaluation of the progress of negotiations was unsparing: Yukiya Amano also said his agency’s talks with Iran on unblocking an IAEA inquiry into possible...

After 9/11 the Iranian regime scaled back its global terror operations and networks. Those operations and networks, according to the recently published State Department annual report on terrorism, have been restored: “Iran and Hezbollah’s terrorist activity has reached a tempo unseen since the 1990s, with attacks plotted in Southeast Asia,...