Last week’s strange episode in the Palestinian embassy in the Prague, in which the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic was killed by an explosion inside the building, escalated over the weekend into a potential scandal as reports emerged that Palestinians may be using the country as a transit point...

Comments made last Friday by chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat – in which Erekat accused Israel of poisoning former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and expressed concerns that Jerusalem would similarly kill sitting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – became fodder for a tense exchange at today’s State Department briefing, with journalists pressing Deputy Spokesperson Marie...

The Times of Israel reported Tuesday that Hamas is being forced to reposition itself in relation to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood – of which it is an off-shoot – in the wake of Cairo’s recent decision to brand the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, with the shift likely to deepen an emerging consensus that the...

Israel overnight Tuesday released 26 Palestinian prisoners convicted of terror-related crimes, the third of four such gestures designed to boost U.S.-backed peace talks. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had been explicit with Secretary of State John Kerry last spring that the Palestinians would not sit down for peace talks without a broad...

Egyptian authorities are intensifying their most recent crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood – Friday morning’s Reuters headline tersely noted “Egypt arrests more Brotherhood supporters, more protests anticipated” – days after the country’s army-backed interim government designated the Islamist group as a terrorist organization. At least 32 figures linked to the Brotherhood have...

Another forensic investigation regarding the death of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat – this time conducted by a Russian lab with access to the deceased terrorist’s remains – has concluded that he died of natural causes and not, as some conspiracy theorists have suggested, of polonium poisoning: Russia’s state news...