Following a barrage of nearly 200 rockets and mortars fired into Israel on Saturday, an errant rocket fell short and knocked out electrical lines carrying power into Gaza, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) reported Monday. According to COGAT, initially workers were unable to approach  the downed lines...

Iran has been seeking to escalate tensions along Israel’s southern border with Gaza, with the goal of “deterring” Israel from taking decisive action either in its north or south, an expert on Lebanon argued in an essay published Monday in Tablet. Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense...

German prosecutors have charged an Iranian diplomat with activity as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit murder, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Prosecutors said their investigation would not hinder Belgium’s extradition request for the suspect. Federal prosecutors announced that Vienna-based diplomat Assadollah Assadi is suspected of contracting a...

Tomorrow, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss events in southwestern Syria. Netanyahu has already released a statement in advance of the meeting declaring that Israel “will not tolerate the establishment of a military presence by Iran and its proxies anywhere in...

During a meeting with Fatah party leaders on Sunday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that Palestinian terrorists and their families will continue to receive stipends and that Arab countries agree with him in opposing the United States peace plan, The Times of Israel reported. Abbas told Fatah that the Palestinian...

Both KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, and Austrian Airlines have announced that they are canceling flights to Iran, Benjamin Weinthal reported for The Jerusalem Post. The announced cancellations, which are to take place in September, come at a time that the home countries of both airlines have ongoing diplomatic disputes with...