The United Nations is expressing hopes that 21 Filipno U.N. peacekeepers captured this week by Syrian rebels will be released on Saturday. A bid to secure their release was aborted on Friday, and they are now set to be freed tomorrow during two-hour truce between the Syrian army and the...

The Palestinian Authority today expressed condolences to Venezuela over the death of its election-rigging, terror-promoting, Iran-boosting president Hugo Chavez. Palestinian officials described Chavez — whom observers have blasted for pushing “staggering and undeniable” hatred of Jews, and who oversaw an “unprecedented surge in anti-Semitism throughout Venezuela” — as a “loyal friend”:...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the first world leaders to publicly mourn the death of Hugo Chavez, late of Venezuela, in a message of condolence to Vice President Nicolas Maduro. The Iranian president referred to Chavez as a “martyr,” and insisted that the Iranian ally, Hezbollah supporter –...

Turkey’s Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan — who in recent weeks has belittled Israeli efforts to seek rapprochement, mocked Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad for not militarily attacking the Jewish state, and accused Jerusalem of “state terrorism” — declared Wednesday that Zionism is a “crime against humanity”: Speaking in Vienna at a United...

Taking into account the global nonproliferation regime, the effect of sanctions on Iran, and the internal political situations in Iran, the New York Times evaluates the prospects for a breakthrough in today’s P5+1 talks in Kazakhstan and deems them… not great: When Iran’s nuclear negotiating team sits down with its Western...

Nigerian officials have arrested three members of Iranian-backed terrorist cell who were gathering intelligence about potential U.S. and Israeli targets in the country and plotting to murder military and religious leaders. The cell’s 50-year old head Abdullahi Mustaphah Berende, a prominent figure in a local Shiite sect, has already confessed...