None of the issues that last year’s Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement were supposed to address have been solved, according to a policy brief written yesterday by Grant Rumley, a research analyst for the Foundation of Defense of Democracies. The decision of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to join a unity government...

The United States accused the Iran-backed regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of assisting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by conducting air strikes against anti-Assad rebels battling ISIS, Reuters reported today. Islamic State fighters pushed back rival insurgents north of Aleppo on Sunday near the Turkish border, threatening...

Pictures of a lead Iranian military figure reportedly in Iraq’s Anbar province have raised concerns over the level of Iran’s involvement in Iraq, according to a report in the Long War Journal Monday. American military and intelligence officials indicated that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Qods Force General Qassem Suleimani was recently Anbar, where...

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon stated that last Friday’s arrest of a Hezbollah terrorist in Cyprus pointed to a large-scale terror campaign by the Iranian-backed terror group against Israeli targets in Europe, Reuters reported today. Speaking to reporters, Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon described the suspect’s apartment as “a hideout, which according to what to...

Iranian-backed militias that are designated as terror organizations by the U.S. government are increasingly taking charge of the battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Iraq in the wake of the fall of the city of Ramadi, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Iraq’s two main allies...

A Lebanese-Canadian man with ties to the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah was arrested while in possession of an estimated two tons worth of a compound that can be used for explosives, Agence France-Presse reported today. The Phileleftheros newspaper said the 26-year-old man, who was remanded in custody on Thursday, belonged...