Austria has become a “hub” for Iranian-linked money laundering, according to experts at the Simon Wiesenthal Center quoted by the Jerusalem Post. The Telegraph further reported that entities identified by U.S. Treasury officials as “support[ing] a range” of Iran’s weapons procurement objectives have been allowed to travel through Europe with...

As the dimensions of Syria’s proxy war expanded over the weekend, so did its potential to spiral into a full-blown regional conflict, with Syrian tanks entering the demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights that separates Syria from Israel. The tanks reportedly fired at Syrian rebels living in the Syrian village...

Lines between opposing groups in the Syrian civil war sharpened further over the weekend, as ethnic Kurds emerged as opponents to both the Bashar al-Assad government, which is backed by Iran and its proxies, and to Syrian rebel groups, who are backed by Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Syrian Kurds have...

The Turkish military over the weekend dispatched F-16s across the border into Iraq, bombing bases of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and killing five. The PKK – which is identified as a terrorist organization by the U.S., EU, and others – is locked in a decades-old war with Turkey, the...

Senior Israeli defense official Amos Gilad declared today that the regime of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is “an appalling dictatorship,” and outlined the degree to which ties between Jerusalem and Cairo have degraded since the Muslim Brotherhood-linked president took control of the Egyptian government. While emphasizing that the Camp David...

A video of Syrian rebels spraying bullets at captured government troops as they lay on the ground may document a war crime, according to human rights groups, and will complicate Western efforts to unite and assist forces fighting the ruling regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The video, which was...

Controversy erupted in Tunisia this week when A-Sahbi Atiq, head of the parliamentary faction of the country’s ruling Islamist Ennahda party, suggested that Hamas leaders opposed inserting a clause in the Tunisian constitution that would criminalize relations with Israel. Iran-backed Hamas quickly issued statements insisting that its leaders do in...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again rejected overtures from Israel to rehabilitate relations, which Turkey froze in 2010 after Israel intercepted a terrorist-linked Turkish vessel trying to breach Israel’s legal blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Passengers aboard the MV Mavi Maramara attacked Israeli commandos who were boarding...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned this week that the Syrian opposition aligned against the regime of Bashar al-Assad was being “hijacked” by Islamic extremists, even as rebel forces expanded their influence into Palestinian refugee communities and were accused by human rights groups of committing war crimes. Secretary Clinton declared on Wednesday...

Developments this week highlighted the destabilizing role played by Iran’s conventional arsenal, in regions far beyond the Islamic Republic’s immediate neighborhood and in contexts independent of its military and terrorist efforts against Israel. Inside Syria, opposition leaders stressed to CNN that Iran’s military coordination with Bashar al-Assad’s regime has escalated, and that...