Israel will do what is necessary to stop rocket fire from Gaza, former Israeli national security advisor Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror said during a news conference hosted by The Israel Project on July 8. Israel gave Hamas 48 hours to stop the fire, with Egypt trying to broker the deal....

Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) believes a couple of extremist Islamist groups are preparing for multiple attacks within Lebanon, with the main threat coming from ISIS. A military court charged 28 people with membership of ISIS on July 7. Seven others are already in custody. The charges leveled against the...

Israel has arrested at least six people in connection with the July 2 murder in Jerusalem of Arab teenager Muhammed Abu Khdeir. As a result of the 17 year old’s killing widespread rioting erupted in Jerusalem, northern Israel and parts of the West Bank. Palestinians have claimed that the murder...

Some half a million Israelis spent much of their weekend running to bomb shelters, with school camps remaining closed in one city July 6 because of rocket fire from Gaza. “The Ashdod municipality had said on Saturday night that no classes or other planned activities would be allowed to open,...

The Daily Beast on Tuesday conveyed assessments from a range of Israeli officials and U.S.-based experts linking the recent kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers to Saleh al-Arouri – a top Hamas official who sits atop the group’s terror infrastructure in the West Bank – who has reportedly been allowed to operate...

A July 1 poll from Pew Research suggests that worries about the spread of violent Islamist extremism are increasing throughout the Middle East: …from civil war to suicide bombings, plague the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, concern about Islamic extremism is high among countries with substantial Muslim populations… in the Middle East,...