Observers fear that escalating Palestinian rocket fire will trigger deterioration along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, months after assessments began to harden that the Palestinian Hamas faction was seeking to escalate violence in order to boost its precipitously deteriorating regional and domestic positions. On Monday rocket fire forced school closures in the Israeli city of...

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri yesterday hailed the opening of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) at The Hague as the “first page of true justice” in response to the assassination of his father, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, as the STL launched its first trial into Hariri’s February 2005...

Observers are expressing deepening concerns regarding efforts by Palestinian groups to destabilize Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, amid months of foiled attempts by the Iran-backed faction to launch spectacular terror attacks that would bolster its precipitously sliding domestic and regional stature. As many as eight rockets were fired overnight from the Gaza Strip at...

A now-familiar pattern of judiciary action followed by anti-judiciary purges – which has in recent weeks marked the open political warfare being waged by rival Islamist camps inside Turkey – expanded this week as police forces raided the headquarters of the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a group with close...

Reuters on Monday published photos taken earlier that day showing “Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif… lay[ing] a wreath at the grave of assassinated Hezbollah military commander” Imad Mughniyeh, a terrorist who was killed in 2008 after having spent literally decades killing Americans and others on behalf of his paymasters in Tehran....

Israel Hayom Friday published an interview with Israeli General Tamir Yadai, the commander of the Israeli military’s West Bank forces, in which the general confirms that Hamas’s terror attempts have increased in tempo and that the group’s campaign is being “directed from Gaza via Turkey.” “Between April and July, we really saw...