While Mahmoud Abbas continues to rebuff invitations to bilateral talks, the tantalizing prospect on the lips of many Israeli politicians is of a regional peace conference. In the absence of one-on-one negotiations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has endorsed the Arab Peace Initiative as a “good foundation” for talks, provided that...

As the White House moves towards deeper coordination with the Russian military and intelligence agencies backing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, members of Congress are being urged to support bipartisan legislation that would impose new sanctions upon the Damascus regime. Writing in The Washington Post, Josh Rogin reports: On Thursday, the House Foreign...

Israel’s diplomatic efforts have lead to “a revolution in our relations with important Arab states,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in a college commencement speech Wednesday. Speaking to the National Security College in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu told students that Arab states have begun to realize that their real enemy isn’t Israel, but...

On the ten-year anniversary of the beginning of the Second Lebanon War, Israeli officials continued to warn that any future conflict with Hezbollah will result in unprecedented damage to the group. Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, the IDF Chief of Staff, promised on Sunday that Israel will “decisively defeat” the terrorist organization, echoing...

The family of American war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in Syria four years ago, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Syrian government on Saturday, alleging that she had been assassinated on the orders of the high-ranking regime officials. Colvin, a veteran journalist who had reported on conflicts across the globe, was killed by a...

American and Iranian officials confirmed Monday that the Obama administration undertook an $8.6 million purchase of nuclear materials from Iran, the Washington Free Beacon reported. The taxpayer-funded deal sought to prevent Iran from violating the nuclear deal it reached with world powers last summer. “I can confirm reports that the DOE...