One year after the body of Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found in suspicious circumstances in his Buenos Aires apartment, the judge in charge of investigating his death has summoned two members of Nisman’s security detail for questioning. Judge Fabiana Palmaghini is examining whether Federal Police may be implicated...

The editors of The Washington Post celebrated Iran’s release of their reporter Jason Rezaian along with three other Americans in exchange for Iranian prisoners, but nonetheless warned in an editorial published Sunday that absent stronger action from the administration, “Iran’s attacks on Americans and vital U.S. interests will surely continue.” The editorial noted that the four...

Four high-profile Americans who were being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison have been freed, U.S. officials announced on Saturday, although two other U.S. nationals will remain incarcerated in Iran. The Obama administration, meanwhile, has agreed to release seven Iranians currently in American custody and to drop its pursuit of...

Israel is intensifying efforts to strengthen ties with Sunni Arab states in the wake of rising regional instability following the nuclear deal with Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) on Thursday. The Journal identified several public examples of rapprochement between Israel and Arab states, all made in an effort “to...

The United States and Canada need to do more “to confront lethal homophobia and persecution in the Arab world and Iran,” Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in a commentary for Canada’s National Post on Thursday. Weinthal advocated a number of steps that North American...

Iran’s seizure of two American naval vessels and their crews on Tuesday likely violated the principle of “innocent passage” in international maritime law, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) on Thursday. Officials are looking into whether one of the sailors may have “fat-fingered” a navigation unit, entering erroneous coordinates...