It’s been a long time since I saw a gesture this desperate. At the recent Arab Summit in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, the Palestinian Authority (PA) foreign minister, Riyad al-Maliki, announced that his boss, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, had asked the Arab states prepare a legal case against Britain...

The recent arrest of an Iranian cleric by authorities in Kosovo shed light on Tehran’s efforts to gain influence in the central European Muslim-majority nation, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported Thursday. Hasan Azari Bejandi was arrested earlier this week on charges of financing terrorism and money laundering through an organization...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to attend a summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Nigeria later this year, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The prime minister met Thursday in his office with ECOWAS’ president, Marcel Alain de Souza, where the two signed a...

The Israeli and American teams vying to win Google’s Lunar XPRIZE challenge have emerged as the competition’s two frontrunners, CNN reported on Tuesday. Thirty private teams from 16 countries initially entered the competition, which challenged participants to land a spacecraft on the moon, move it 500 meters in any direction, and...

Hamas is building six miles of tunnels every month, Israeli officials told Israel’s Channel 2 on Wednesday. The unnamed defense and diplomatic officials also said that Israel has “no perfect solution” to the tunnel threat, adding that “neither does any other country.” Since the end of the 2014 Gaza war, the...

The U.S. Marine Corps and elite Israeli naval commandos held a joint military exercise to showcase and practice techniques used in the fight against the Islamic State and other terrorist groups, Israeli media reported on Thursday. The exercise, called “Noble Shirley,” took place in Israel’s Negev desert last week and...