As its “Zero Problems” foreign policy continues to crumble, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) embarked on a series of moves this week that threatened to heighten tensions with a range of regional and global actors. Turkish officials publicly raised the prospect of deploying NATO Patriot batteries along Turkey’s southern border with Syria....

Palestinian officials signaled that they remain committed to pursuing a declaration of non-member statehood in the United Nations. Diplomats from the United States, the European Union, and Israel have all urged Palestinian leaders to suspend their unilateral campaign, which violates decades of Palestinian commitments to pursuing peace with Israel in...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned this week that the Syrian opposition aligned against the regime of Bashar al-Assad was being “hijacked” by Islamic extremists, even as rebel forces expanded their influence into Palestinian refugee communities and were accused by human rights groups of committing war crimes. Secretary Clinton declared on Wednesday...

Developments this week highlighted the destabilizing role played by Iran’s conventional arsenal, in regions far beyond the Islamic Republic’s immediate neighborhood and in contexts independent of its military and terrorist efforts against Israel. Inside Syria, opposition leaders stressed to CNN that Iran’s military coordination with Bashar al-Assad’s regime has escalated, and that...

Western diplomats are expressing concern that Argentina is preparing to paper over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people and wounded approximately 300 more, as part of a broader campaign by Argentina to boost ties with Iran and facilitate the Islamic Republic’s penetration of...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey is in Israel to oversee the Austere Challenge joint military exercise. The drill – which brings together Israeli soldiers with 3,000 American troops spread across Israel, Europe, and the United States – simulates missile attacks on Israeli cities and tests...