Mideast Envoys Think Jimmy Carter’s Peace Proposal is Nuts After publishing an op-ed in The New York Times on Tuesday calling on President Barack Obama to recognize Palestinian statehood and support efforts in the United Nations Security Council to set parameters for a peace agreement, former President Jimmy Carter was the...

Newly displayed assertiveness by Iran-backed Shiite militias is concerning Sunni residents of the strategic Iraqi city of Tal Afar on the Syria border, the Associated Press reported Friday. With the Iraqi army is currently involved in the battle to defeat the Islamic State in Mosul, the country’s second largest city, the...

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and PayPal have announced a new partnership to conduct joint research and development in the fields of big data, machine learning, and cybersecurity. It is the first such collaboration between PayPal and an Israeli university. “This partnership will allow PayPal to leverage BGU’s top-notch...

A British research group has suggested that arms shipments that were intercepted en route to Houthi rebels in Yemen this year were likely sent with the complicity of the Iranian regime, Reuters reported Tuesday. A report recently released by Conflict Armament Research found that two of the three smuggling ships seized by Western navies in the Arabian...

A bipartisan resolution stating that peace between Israelis and Palestinians “will come only through direct bilateral negotiations between the parties” passed the House of Representatives unanimously on Tuesday. The resolution urged President Barack Obama to veto any United Nations Security Council resolutions that would set parameters for a peace deal between the...

The New York Times op-ed that former president Jimmy Carter published on Tuesday, which explains his support for a United Nations Security Council resolution outlining parameters for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, contains recommendations that would “leave the Obama legacy in tatters, while diminishing US credibility in the process,” veteran State Department peace negotiator Aaron David...