A suspect armed with two AK-47 rifles and who has reported ties to the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo massacre earlier this week has taken hostages at a kosher supermarket near Paris today. Earlier reports said that two people had been killed, though this was denied by the French Interior Ministry. The Times of Israel...

American weapons initially delivered to the Iraqi government are falling into the hands of Iran-backed Shiite militias in Iraq according to a report for Bloomberg View Thursday by Eli Lake and Josh Rogin. U.S. weapons intended for Iraq’s beleaguered military are winding up in the possession of the country’s Shiite...

Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Iraq are threatening the Kurdish regions in northern Iraq according to a report published Wednesday in The National Interest. The report quotes a minister from the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Mustafa Sayid Qadir, who explains: […] From the KRG perspective, two Shia militia forces—Asaib Ahl Haq and...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is ineligible to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) because it is not a “sovereign state,” spokesperson Jen Psaki said at yesterday’s State Department’s daily press briefing: Well, let me give you a short answer and then let me take part of this, because there’s a legal answer...

French President François Hollande called yesterday’s attack on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that killed twelve a “terrorist attack” as thousands rallied in the streets of Paris and one French politician called the attack “our September 11.” In addition to declaring three days of mourning Hollande vowed to bring the...

Kataib al-Imam Ali, an Iraqi Shiite militia with strong ties to Iran, is headed by a terrorist with a long record of attacking American interests according to terrorism experts Matthew Levitt and Phillip Smyth in a paper published by the Washington Institute of Near East Policy on Monday. Levitt and Smyth...