The Gaza Strip’s only power station has run out of fuel, sparking a fresh energy crisis and likely blackouts in the immediate future. Turkey and Qatar donated three months worth of fuel in January but that supply has now been used up. The fuel shortage has reignited a longstanding disagreement...

Ready for a really yucky statistic? Sixty percent of the 6.8 million liters of daily sewage sludge generated in Brazil gets dumped back into nature untreated. And even that is a big improvement over the situation five years ago. Now the South American country is poised to clean up its sewage...

A Hezbollah officer boasted on Thursday that the Iran-backed terror organization had forced Israel to switch “from an offensive to a defensive doctrine,” The Times of Israel reported. The official’s claim appears to refer to countermeasures Israel adopted across its northern border to fight possible infiltration by Hezbollah, whether by land...

The United States ambassador to the United Nations identified Iran, along with its proxy group Hezbollah, as the “chief culprit” behind instability in the Middle East during a Security Council meeting on Thursday. “If we are speaking honestly about conflict in the Middle East, we need to start with the...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran “fails to achieve the objective of a non-nuclear Iran; it only delays their goal of becoming a nuclear state.” In prepared remarks to the press, Tillerson said the deal “represents the same failed approach of the past that brought us...

U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis arrived in Egypt on Thursday as part of his tour of the Middle East. While in Egypt, Mattis is expected to discuss regional security issues with Egyptian Defense Minister Sedki Sobhy and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. He will also lay a wreath in a...