The security situation on Israel’s southern border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip deteriorated sharply over the weekend, with Palestinian terror groups led by Hamas launching more than one hundred rockets and mortars at Israeli civilians Saturday and into Monday. The attacks, which target more than one millions Israelis, are part of an...

Palestinian terror groups led by Hamas launched a barrage of rockets at Israeli civilians Saturday and Sunday, part of an escalation that began when Palestinians fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli jeep traveling along Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The subsequent Hamas-led rocket barrage against Israeli civilians, which is...

Iranian warplanes last week attacked a U.S. Air Force Predator drone conducting routine maritime surveillance in international airspace over the Persian Gulf. The two jets, Iranian Su-25 fighters piloted by members of Iran’s elite revolutionary Guard Corps force, failed to hit the drone despite repeated passes. The incident, which elicited...

Belgium is blocking efforts to place Hezbollah on the European Union’s terror list, despite explicit and repeated requests from U.S. counter-terrorism officials. Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy that has been linked to past and ongoing terror operations on five continents – in the Middle East and central Asia, in North...

As its “Zero Problems” foreign policy continues to crumble, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) embarked on a series of moves this week that threatened to heighten tensions with a range of regional and global actors. Turkish officials publicly raised the prospect of deploying NATO Patriot batteries along Turkey’s southern border with Syria....

Egypt’s struggle to create a new constitution was at the center of marches in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday, as about 10,000 Salafist protesters took to the streets to demand the immediate implementation of strict Islamic law. CNN reports that the Muslim Brotherhood, with which the government of Egyptian President...

At the end of a week which saw Palestinian Authority officials repeatedly emphasizing their commitment to pursuing a declaration of non-member statehood in the United Nations – over and against the objections of American, European, and Israeli diplomats – high-ranking Palestinian officials seemed to confirm some of the most pointed Western suspicions...

Palestinian officials signaled that they remain committed to pursuing a declaration of non-member statehood in the United Nations. Diplomats from the United States, the European Union, and Israel have all urged Palestinian leaders to suspend their unilateral campaign, which violates decades of Palestinian commitments to pursuing peace with Israel in...

An Israel Air Force plane carrying an 18-person Home Front Command team has been dispatched to Ghana in the aftermath of a shopping mall collapse in the capital that killed three and left dozens injured. Ghanan President John Dramani Mahama accepted the Israeli offer, signaling a further warming of ties...

Turkish officials are considering deploying NATO Patriot batteries along Turkey’s southern border with Syria, a critical step in establishing a no-fly zone over northern Syria that would provide protection to opposition forces seeking the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party has seen its “Zero...