Statements recently made a top Hezbollah figure and published Friday by Hezbollah’s Al-Manar media outlet risk accelerating a wave of sectarian strife that, having been largely imported from the nearly three-year conflict in neighboring Syria, has increasingly generated open fighting between various factions and a wave of car bombs targeting Hezbollah in retaliation for...

National Journal on Thursday published analysis detailing how terror activities being facilitated by the Turkish government – Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other top officials have provided “protection and access” to terrorist members from a range of groups, including Hamas and Al Qaeda – have now reached a point where they “threaten future cooperation...

A raid on a Baghdad government building killed at least 18 people today, bringing the country’s death toll this month to to over 900 and putting Iraq on pace to exceed 2013’s death tool. Nearly 8,000 lives were claimed last year by spiraling, largely sectarian violence in Iraq. The large-scale...

Last December Israel conducted the third of four planned prisoner releases, part of a basket of confidence building measures designed to coax Palestinian diplomats into peace negotiations and keep them there. Each release has proven more controversial than the last, with the Palestinian public and Palestinian leaders staging spectacles celebrating...

Israel’s air force chief Major-General Amir Eshel yesterday described “thousands” of military installations created by Hezbollah in residential buildings across Lebanon. “We will have to deal aggressively with thousands of Hezbollah bases which threaten the State of Israel and mainly our interior,” Eshel said in a speech, citing Beirut, the Bekaa Valley...

Egyptian officials on Tuesday brought to court the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked former president Mohammed Morsi to stand trial on charges relating to a 2011 jail break, as continuing violence targeting Egyptian political and security institutions continued to rock the country for the second week in a row. General Mohamed Saeed, head of the Interior...