Iran is stepping up its offensive against rebels in southern Syria, exacerbating “the tensions on Israel’s northern border,” Jonathan Spyer, director of the Rubin Center, and Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an analysis published yesterday. The Iran/Hezbollah/Assad troika has long threatened to develop the...

Turkey’s “permissiveness” towards jihadists traveling through its territory to Syria is greatly aiding the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday. Agence France-Presse reports: The Turkish government was more concerned with Kurdish opposition and the...

In I Saw the U.S. Hand Iraq Over to the Iranians. Is the Whole Region Next?, which was published in the February 2015 issue of The Tower Magazine, Michael Pregent observes that not only has the United States seemingly given in to Iranian demands in nuclear negotiations, but “it is doing the...

The United States Treasury Department designated two members of Hezbollah who are running an amusement park in Nigeria. Armin Rosen of Business Insider reports: The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control added two individuals to its specially designated nationals list on February 26: Fouzi Reda Darwish Fawaz and Mustapha...

Reuters reported on Tuesday about the significant role Iran has in arming, training, and commanding Shiite militias in Iraq. A secret branch of the Iraqi government known as the Popular Mobilization Committee (“Hashid Shaabi” in Arabic) serves as an umbrella group for Shiite paramilitary organizations. The group is run by Abu...

When a visiting New York mental-health counseling student asked residents of Gaza border communities why they stay despite the constant threat of missile attack, they answered in one word: Home. “It struck me that they said ‘This is my home and I don’t want to leave.’ After 9/11, we saw...