Canadian officials on Wednesday announced that Canada would cease all trade with Iran. At issue are a range of Iranian policies and atrocities, ranging from human rights abuses to Iran’s continued violation of U.N. resolutions demanding that it reduce the opacity around its atomic program: “The absence of progress …...

Turkish analysts are sounding alarm bells over recent legislation adopted by Turkey that tightens restrictions on alcohol sales. The move has deepened worries that the country’s Islamist government is limiting individual rights in the interest of imposing Islamist norms. The legislation, which also bans alcohol advertisements, is being blasted by secular opponents for undermining what used...

An open letter signed last week by 72 congressmen is calling on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to demand that Iran be removed from serving as the chair of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament. The bipartisan letter – coauthored by Peter Roskam (R-IL), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Mike Kelly (R-PA),...

Opposition forces battling the Bashar al-Assad regime have stolen at least two “virtually indestructible” U.N. vehicles in recent months from the U.N. Disengagement Force (UNDOF) along the Golan Heights. The acknowledgment of the thefts by UNDOF will renew speculation that Israel may have to act to reestablish stability amid the...

Russian officials have reiterated today Moscow’s intention to deliver advanced S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Syria. The U.S. and its allies have long urged Russia to forgo the planned transfer, fearing among other things that the missiles would deeply complicate any future Western intervention against the Bashar al-Assad regime. Russia has...

Scandal threatens to engulf several prominent foreign correspondents and human rights workers who were revealed yesterday to be engaging in what the Washington Free Beacon described as “an anti-Israel hate-fest” on a private Facebook group. A post to the group, named the “Vulture Club,” sparked open contempt for a new...