In an op-ed published in The New York Daily News on Thursday, Matthew Levitt, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), argued that the United States must step up its military attacks against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) if it hopes to defeat the terrorist...

Two Norwegians have been identified as leading commanders within the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), operating under the direct charge of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to Israeli press reports Thursday. The Times of Israel reported: The two Norwegians were named by the broadcaster as Bastian Vasquez from Skien, southwest of...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will propose a timetable for talks with Israel during a meeting with Arab League foreign ministers slated for September 7. Palestinian supreme judge Mahmoud al-Habbash said Abbas wants to garner support from Arab countries for nine months of talks with Israel. The plan…includes three months of...

Palestinian negotiators in the United States were slated to speak with Secretary of State John Kerry today about resuming negotiations with Israel and removing Israeli presence from the West Bank and east Jerusalem within three years. Veteran negotiator Saeb Erekat and intelligence chief Majid Faraj represented Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the parley....

Shurat Hadin – Israel Law Center – filed a formal request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday to investigate possible war crime violations committed by Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal. While Meshaal resides in Qatar, he is a citizen of Jordan, which renders him subject to the jurisdiction of the...

The Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah made the case against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on August 31, suggesting the Sunni militia “wants Lebanon.” The threat of ISIS to Lebanon cannot be underestimated, a Hezbollah official warned Sunday, stressing that occupying the country was part of the group’s expansionist...