The new United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) report on the Gaza war says: 27. International law does not require the continuous presence of troops of the occupying forces in all areas of a territory, in order for it to be considered as being occupied. In the Naletelic case, the ICTY...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), an organization with an established record of anti-Israel bias, is poised next week to condemn the Jewish state for its conduct during last year’s Operation Protective Edge, noted an op-ed published Friday in The Boston Herald by Jeff Robbins, a former UNHRC delegate....

The Iranian government banned women from attending today’s volleyball match between Iran and the United States in Tehran, despite hopes among activists that women would be allowed to attend. NBC reported: Earlier this month, Iran’s Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Shahindokht Molaverdi announced that a limited number of women —...

Iranian women are hoping to attend the June 19 volleyball match between Iran and the United States at Azadi Stadium in Tehran, but official and unofficial forces are arrayed against them, according to a report published Wednesday in The Daily Beast. Although Iran’s vice-president for women’s affairs has said that 500 women will...

The continuing repression of Christians and other religious minorities in Iran raises questions about President Hassan Rouhani’s inclination to adhere to any nuclear deal his country might sign, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote Sunday in an analysis for The Jerusalem Post. After...

A multinational delegation of senior military and political leaders has submitted a report to the United Nations asserting that “Israel not only met a reasonable international standard of observance of the laws of armed conflict, but in many cases significantly exceeded that standard” during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge in...