The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental organization charged with combating money laundering and terrorist financing, may blacklist Turkey for “inadequate monitoring of bank transfers and unwillingness to freeze accounts” associated with terrorist activities. Turkey has responded by insisting that while the country intends to implement FATF rules, “parliament’s...

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice insisted at a United Nations Security Council meeting yeserday that Hezbollah is part of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad’s “killing machine” and must be countered firmly by the international community. The ambassador’s stance echoes that of the Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor,...

Iran lashed out at the United Arab Emirates Tuesday over three disputed islands, marking an increasingly heated escalation in a war of words that has been growing between the two countries since the spring. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast threatened to downgrade ties with the UAE over competing claims to the...

While sparring over an array of issues, Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan converged on the critical importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship to American interests and on the need to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. The candidates’ stances, while differing sometimes sharply in claims and analyses, reflecting a...

The Obama administration launched another round of financial sanctions against Iran earlier this week, with President Obama issuing an executive order implementing Congressionally-approved sactions. The announcement comes as the International Monetary Fund published an analysis predicting that sanctions would fail to collapse the Iranian economy, and that Iran would be...

A Swedish ship carrying anti-Israel activists set sail from Italy on Saturday, in the latest attempt by the Free Gaza movement to breach Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. A comprehensive United Nations investigative committee concluded in 2011 that Israel’s blockade is legal under international law and that Israel...