Iran has been coordinating with al-Qaeda to target American interests in the Gulf region since 2007, the English version of the Arabic daily A Sharq al-Awsat reported today. Speaking under condition of anonymity, the sources said coordination between Iran and the global terrorist organization was mainly taking place through Saudi citizen...

Security cooperation between Sunni Arab nations and Israel “is now moving into the arena of public discourse in the Arab world,” according to Marc Sievers, a Diplomat-in-Residence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who wrote an analysis last Wednesday on a column written by prominent Saudi journalist Abdulrahman al-Rashed....

An yeshiva student was stabbed and moderately injured before his assailant was apprehended by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and his bodyguards, Ha’aretz reported today. A preliminary investigation revealed that the suspected assailant is an 18-year-old illegal Palestinian resident. According to a paramedic who was at the scene, the man was stabbed...

The brutal massacre of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) affected not only the Egyptian attitude towards its western neighbor, but also towards its small eastern neighbor, the Gaza Strip. Although the Egyptian military reaction targeted terrorist strongholds in Libya, Hamas officials understood the message...

77% of Americans polled see the “development of nuclear weapons by Iran” as a critical threat to the United States, The Algemeiner reported yesterday. A significant majority of Americans — some 77% of those polled — see the “development of nuclear weapons by Iran” as a “critical threat”; another 16% see it...

The first step in fighting violent extremism is to “amplify the voices of peace and tolerance,” President Barack Obama said Thursday while appearing at the three-day Summit to Counter Violent Extremism. Obama outlined a three-part strategy for combating extremism: first discrediting the ideologies behind the extremism by appealing to forces of moderation, and then addressing the economic...