The United States House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday that will allow Congress to review, and perhaps reject, a nuclear agreement with Iran. The bill passed 400-25, similar in its popularity to the Senate’s 98-1 tally. CNN reported: Initially the White House resisted efforts to give Congress a...

Decrying “resurgent” anti-Semitism globally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that modern anti-Semitism primarily targets Israel at the fifth Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism hosted by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. “Today there is no doubt that we are living in an age of...

As President Barack Obama is making his case for a nuclear deal with Iran, a former Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Turki bin Faisal, is arguing that the deal will have the opposite effect of what the president intends by “open[ing] the door” to nuclear proliferation, The New York Times reported today. “Whatever...

Five Iranian naval vessels fired on a Singapore-flagged cargo ship sailing through the Straits of Hormuz CNN reported today, citing a U.S. official. It is not yet clear if any of the rounds hit the Alpine Eternity. There were no U.S. citizens or cargo on board. The Pentagon is still gathering...

Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, said that Moscow would not support the automatic snapping back of sanctions, mentioned by the Obama administration as a central enforcement mechanism of the emerging nuclear deal with Iran to counter possible violations, Bloomberg News reported today. “There can be no automaticity,...

The former American ambassador to Syria said that last week’s discovery of traces of chemical weapons in that country shows that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is in violation of the Russian-sponsored agreement, and a related United Nations Security Council Resolution, to rid Syria of chemical weapons, Josh Rogin reported today...