In recent weeks, Israel-based aid organization IsraAID has been stepping up its program to aid Yazidi and Christian displaced persons in northern Iraq. More than 18,000 Yazidis and  Christians are living in camps after fleeing from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). One of those displaced people Shehab,...

Addressing Iran’s expanding role in the Middle East, The Washington Post editorial board wrote on Friday that “the Obama administration has declined to counter increasingly aggressive efforts by Iran to extend its influence across the Middle East and seems ready to concede Tehran a place as a regional power at...

An Iranian diplomat was expelled from Uruguay two weeks ago after a bomb detonated near the Israeli embassy there, according to a report published in Ha’aretz today. Investigations carried out by Uruguay’s intelligence services after the discovery of the device yielded information pointing to a possible involvement of someone at the...

Arab world experts and commentators predict that the execution of the Jordanian pilot by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will prompt Jordan to intensify the activity of its military in the international coalition fighting the terror organization in Iraq and Syria. The pilot, Moath Al-Kasasbeh, is the latest captive...

Egypt became on Sunday the first Arab country to designate the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a faction of Hamas, as a terrorist group. The court that made the designation accused the Hamas branch of launching terrorist attacks to support the Muslim Brotherhood and executing a bombing that killed 33 security personnel in...

A video released today shows the execution by burning of a Jordanian pilot, Moaz al-Kasasbeh, who was captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) when his plane was shot down in December near Raqqa in Syria. The BBC reports: Jordan has confirmed the death of pilot Moaz...