Despite recent reports of battlefield reversals suffered by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, the embattled dictator is still relatively secure, Jonathan Spyer, director of the Rubin Center, wrote in an analysis published Friday in The Jerusalem Post. Spyer argued that two factors—Assad’s ability to consolidate his rule over critical...

The terrorist organization Hezbollah has begun recruiting children as young as eight to join the Mahdi Scouts, which prepares boys to become armed jihadists when they grow up. The scouts number some 50,000 members ranging in age from 8 to 18 and has branches in areas such as Beirut and south Lebanon, according to the Lebanese newspaper...

Iranian activists called foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif a “Pinocchio” for saying that “the Islamic Republic doesn’t imprison journalists or dissidents over their views,” Bloomberg News reported Friday. The controversy was sparked when Zarif said in an interview with Charlie Rose last week that “We don’t...

An article (Persian link) published in the influential Persian-language Iranian website Alef claimed that Jews are “human history’s most bloodthirsty people.” The article provided “evidence” based on “historical events” drawn from some of the most infamous blood libels in Europe, which were previously used to justify the mass killings of...

The Obama administration is attempting to reassure the United States’ Gulf Arab allies, who fear the consequences of a potential nuclear deal with Iran. The New York Times reported Friday that the White House, State Department, and Pentagon have been “scrambling” to find a way to allay the Arab countries’ anxieties...

In Argentina, the fallout from the probable murder of Special Investigator Alberto Nisman is rapidly turning into an ugly round of “accuse the Jews.” That turn of events was perhaps inevitable, given last week’s epic Twitter rant by Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner depicting Nisman as the local representative...