The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is denying that Qods Force commander Gen. Qassem Suleimani said that Iran seeks to control Jordan, just as it controls Iraq and Lebanon. Iran has also removed the report of Suleimani’s remarks from the Iranian Students’ News Agency website. Al Masdar reported on Monday: Eralier on...

In answer to a question today about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, President Barack Obama suggested that progress was not likely to happen as long as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in office. Notably, the president failed to acknowledge that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has twice blocked his administration’s...

Among those paying close attention to the American retreat from Yemen this week is a provincial governor in Iraq, Eli Lake reports today in Bloomberg View. To understand how the hurried evacuation of U.S. special operations forces from Yemen is connected to Iran’s regional strategy, look no further than Atheel...

All U.S. personnel, including the last remaining 125 US Special Operations advisors, have been evacuated from Yemen as the country’s security situation continues to deteriorate. The Iranian-backed Houthis, a Shiite rebel group, have continued to sow unrest and chaos that has led to a disruption of U.S. counter-terror efforts both...

When the Hamas terrorist movement arose in 1988, the mosque was the main platform for spreading its ideas. Today, more than 26 years later, Hamas has a well-oiled media machine that operates TV channels, newspapers and websites. In order to become more open to the outside world, Hamas recently launched (Arabic link)...

After freeing the Iraqi town of Amerli, which had been under siege by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Iranian-backed Shiite militias rampaged through the area carrying out reprisal raids against the Sunni population. This was reported in a document prepared by Human Rights Watch (HRW), as reported Wednesday...