Saudi Arabia and three other Arab states have severed diplomatic and transport links with Qatar as a result of its support for Islamist groups, deepening the split between Gulf nations. Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined Saudi Arabia in the announcement that involves withdrawing all diplomatic staff...

The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah is “now more militarily powerful than most North Atlantic Treaty Organization members,” a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The Wall Street Journal. Hezbollah is now “10 times as strong now as it was in 2006, and its...

Hundreds of Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisons ended their 40-day-long hunger strike on Saturday. The 834 prisoners still participating in the strike, down from 1,100 when the strike began, resumed eating over the weekend after an agreement was reached over their demand for a second family visit each month. The...

The Secretary General of the United Nations and the Norwegian government slammed the Palestinian Authority for naming a women’s center built with their support after a notorious terrorist. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said in a statement on Sunday that naming the center after Dalal Mughrabi was “offensive”...

Hamas executed three men it had accused of killing a terror mastermind by hanging and firing squad drawing international criticism, The New York Times reported Thursday. Ashraf Abu Leila, the alleged triggerman in the killing of Mazen Faqha, a Hamas commander, in March, was hanged as well as Hisham al-Aloul, who was...

The Palestinian Authority issued payments to terrorists and their families totaling more than $1 billion over a four year period, according to a recent study by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The sum accounts for seven percent of the PA’s budget and is equivalent to 20 percent of the foreign aid the PA receives...