Islamist rebel forces fighting against the regime of Syria’s Iran-backed dictator Bashar al-Assad achieved an impressive achievement with the takeover (Arabic link) Sunday of the city of Idlib, a regional capital in northwestern Syria. Idlib overlooks the country’s main highways and is close to the Alawite stronghold in the coastal city...

The question of whether to trust Iran’s claims that its nuclear program is purely for peaceful purposes can be answered by a single issue: “Iran’s failure to deliver on multiple pledges to answer questions about its suspected research on nuclear warheads,” a staff editorial in The Washington Post asserted on...

The framework agreement currently taking shape in Lausanne, Switzerland is “extremely dangerous,” Brigadier General (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, former chief of the research division in IDF Military Intelligence and former Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs, said Sunday in a conference call hosted by The Israel Project. The Israel...

The Associated Press on Sunday reported that efforts in Lausanne, Switzerland to seal a nuclear framework agreement with Iran are being hampered by continuing Iranian demands regarding research and development of enrichment technology. The P5 +1 countries – the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia – are calling...

Placing trust in Iran to abide by the nuclear deal being negotiated would be “short-sighted and wrong,” Josh Block, the president and CEO of The Israel Project writes in an op-ed that was published yesterday in The New Jersey Star Ledger. The Israel Project published The Tower. Citing Ayatollah Ali...

The Iranians continue to show signs of inflexibility in the negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program taking place in Lausanne, Switzerland. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, in comments to reporters at United Nations headquarters in New York, said that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was “not very precise” about Tehran’s willingness to compromise...