Iran

High-ranking Iranian military officers have stepped up their rhetorical attacks on Israel in recent days, repeatedly threatening to attack the Jewish state. Lt. Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), stated on Saturday that Iran would form a new West Bank military front against Israel, stating...

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Two Israeli soldiers were confirmed dead and seven wounded after terrorists in Lebanon fired an anti-tank missile that hit a military vehicle on the border with Israel, the IDF confirmed. Israel responded to the cross-border attack with artillery fire and a warning to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, which claimed responsibility for the...

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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has suffered losses this week in both Syria and Iraq. In Syria, Kurdish forces were able to regain complete control of the strategic town of Kobane, which is located near the Turkish border.  In Iraq, army forces have liberated the eastern province of Diyala...

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A group of Senate Democrats led by Senator Robert Menendez (D – N.J.) effectively gave the Obama administration a deadline to achieve an agreement that would prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. In a letter to the White House, the senators expressed support for legislation that would toughen diplomacy against Iran if the Islamic...

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It cannot be confirmed “that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities,” Yukiya Amano, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the nuclear watchdog of the United Nations, said in an address in Indonesia on Friday. As far as Iran is concerned, the Agency is...

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President Barack Obama’s retreat on insisting that President Bashar al-Assad leave power was endorsed in an editorial in The New York Times yesterday. But the unsettling truth is that the brutal dictator is still clinging to power and the United States and its allies are going to have to live with...

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