The Syrian army’s ongoing assault on Aleppo – which over the course of a week has killed nearly 500 people, among them scores of children – has drawn attention to a relatively new and cheap improvised explosive device being deployed by forces loyal to the Bashar al-Assad regime. The Telegraph described...

Anti-Israel groups have turned Christmas into an annual opportunity to attack the Jewish state in particularly surreal terms, with some going so far as to roll out invective-filled Christmas carols and call for economic warfare against Israeli Jews, according to a detailed report issued yesterday by the Jerusalem based research...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Shimon Peres this weekend declared that Israel would continue pursuing a multi-year plan to economically develop the country’s southern Negev region and politically integrate the Bedouin populations that live in the area, after activists late last week staged violent rallies opposing the so-called Prawer-Begin plan: Israeli...

Iranian dissidents, U.S. lawmakers, and analysts have all in recent days criticized what Roya Boroumand – executive director of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation, a human rights group that monitors abuses in Iran – described to the Daily Beast as “the fact that human rights and democracy have not been the subject of...

It’s been almost a month since European Union foreign policy head Catherine Ashton called on the rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to reconcile. The two groups have been openly at odds since at least 2007, when Hamas seized the Gaza Strip from Fatah in a bloody five day battle,...

The Christian Science Monitor reports on efforts being made across the Middle East in general – and Egypt in particular – to push back against Islamist violence targeting them and their communities. A recent massacre during a Coptic wedding refocused attention on the subject, but southern Egypt had in fact...