A Sri Lankan national arrested in India is suspected of planning terror attacks against the Israeli consulate in Bangalore (Bengaluru) and the American consulate in Chennai. Both cities are in southern India. The suspect is believed to be an agent of Pakistan’s intelligence service, ISI. Based on Indian media, Ynet...

Libyan parliamentarians elected the Islamist-backed Ahmed Mitig on May 4 as the country’s fifth prime minister since Muammar Gaddafi was forced from office in 2011. It was the latest success in the rise and rise of Islamists in the North African state. The vote was immediately condemned as illegal, including...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday conveyed angry remarks from Iranian officials in reaction to last week’s publication of the State Department’s annual country-by-country terrorism roundup: “Accusing Iran of supporting terrorism is politicized and based on double standards,” ministry spokesperson Marzieh Afkham said in a statement reported by the official IRNA...

Of all the achievements the Palestinians and Israelis have achieved despite the moribund peace talks, security cooperation in the West Bank has allowed for a tense, but mostly peaceful, co-existence. However, that cooperation is now being threatened by the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation and the announcement that 3,000 Fatah military personnel will...

Islamist fighters in Syria took their barbarism to the next level with the publication of graphic photographs of two men said to have been executed and then crucified. The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) announced it had executed seven prisoners in its bastion in northeastern Syria...

As part of its ongoing clampdown on smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip, the Egyptian army uncovered six tunnels over the weekend that started inside a mosque (Arabic link) on the Egyptian side of the border. A military spokesman said in a statement, on the official page of the Armed...