Terrorism

A poll released last week revels that a majority of Palestinians believe that Israel is possibly behind the terror attacks in Paris earlier this month. The Times of Israel reports: The survey, which was released last week by the official Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadida, showed 84.4 percent of Palestinians,...

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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman will face the challenge of having an Iranian client, Yemen, bordering on its south, Avi Issacharoff wrote in a profile of the new king on Friday for The Times of Israel. King Salman is not expected to make dramatic changes to Saudi Arabia’s foreign and defense...

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In a speech Sunday night, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, praised the U.S.-Israel relationship and explained the importance of the invitation of House Speaker John Boehner to Israel’s Prime Minister of Israel to speak before a joint session of Congress on March 3. Placing a heavy emphasis on...

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The late Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman accused Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani of involvement in planning the July 1994 terror attack on the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, journalist Andres Oppenheimer of The Miami Herald reported Wednesday On July 1, 2013, Nisman emailed me part of Mesbahi’s testimony. Quoting from his...

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The government of Argentina announced today that “rogue” intelligence agents are suspected in the death of state prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who before his death had formally accused President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of sabotaging an investigation into Iran’s role in a deadly terror attack. Reuters reports: Argentina suspects rogue agents from its own...

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Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his government resigned Thursday in the face of attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The Washington Post reports: Yemen’s Western-backed president and his cabinet resigned Thursday amid deepening turmoil that left Shiite rebels in effective control and threw into question this nation’s continued participation...

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