Iran’s Fars News Agency (FNA) and Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) have signed what the organizations term a “media cooperation program aimed at sharing the media services and expertise.” Both agencies are state-controlled, and disseminate what is widely considered to be disinformation on behalf of the regimes in Tehran and...

Iran has provided drones to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to opposition forces speaking to CNN. Syrian government troops have reportedly turned the unmanned aircraft against Syrian civilians and rebel forces. The reports come in the aftermath of intelligence reports published in September that documented how “planes...

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi deliberately omitted an endorsement of the Saudi-initiated Arab League peace plan, which provides for the recognition of Israel by the Arab world, according to an investigation by the JTA news agency. Morsi’s prepared remarks included that endorsement, as well as a reaffirmation of Egypt’s 1979 Camp...

The Israeli Air Force met Greek counterparts for a joint exercise in Greek air space to simulate a rescue operation. The event, which included exchanges on tactics and principles, follows a joint naval exercise between the two countries that took place in July. Relations between Greece and Israel, which have...

Western diplomats are expressing concern that Argentina is preparing to paper over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people and wounded approximately 300 more, as part of a broader campaign by Argentina to boost ties with Iran and facilitate the Islamic Republic’s penetration of...

The alliance between Israel’s Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu parties – which will see the two center-right parties running on a joint list in the January 22 election and which was overwhelmingly approved by the Likud Central Committee last night – has sent other Israeli parties and politicians rushing to respond....

Two Iranian warships docked in Sudan yesterday. State-controlled Iranian media described the naval group’s purpose as promoting “peace and friendship,” but the arrival comes just after an explosion at an Iranian-linked Sudanese weapons factory brought renewed international scrutiny to the relationship between Khartoum and Tehran. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has...

Israeli security forces are stepping up a campaign to uproot Hamas from the West Bank, where the Iranian-backed Palestinian terror group has re-established its presence and now threatens the integrity of the Palestinian Authority, controlled by its rival Fatah party. The Israel Security Agency, Shin Bet, has arrested 30 Hamas-linked...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey is in Israel to oversee the Austere Challenge joint military exercise. The drill – which brings together Israeli soldiers with 3,000 American troops spread across Israel, Europe, and the United States – simulates missile attacks on Israeli cities and tests...

The consequences of last Thursday’s surprise merger between the Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu parties continue to reverberate across the Israeli political landscape. Israel’s Channel 2 and Channel 10 published conflicting polling results on the share of Knesset seats that the joint list will receive in the upcoming January 22 election,...