Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi took credit Sunday for the drone dispatched by Hezbollah in early October. The unmanned aircraft penetrated Israeli airspace before being intercepted and shot down by the Israeli Air Force. Vahidi’s remarks echo those of Iranian parliamentary Defense Committee Chairman Esmail Kowsari, who said the drone...

Hamas claimed credit for some of the scores of rockets fired towards Israeli civilians over the last week and weekend. A series of barrages over the weekend saw 20 rockets hitting Israel on Sunday night and early Monday. Schools were canceled and over one million Israeli residents, including around 40,000...

Egypt needs to do more to crack down on Islamist violence and attacks in the Sinai Peninsula, a top Israeli lawmaker said this week as Egyptian security officials warned that Salafist terrorists are preparing to conduct car bomb attacks in the Sinai using Egyptian government vehicles. “Sinai has become lawless territory,” Israeli Vice Prime...

Fears that Syria’s civil war will engulf other countries are on the verge of coalescing into a dangerous reality, as the violence between foreign-backed forces inside Syria spills across the nation’s borders. Already a proxy war between Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, which provide troops and weapons in support of the...

Egyptians support the Iranian regime developing nuclear weapons, even though they view Iranian nuclear weapons as a serious threat to Egypt, a new poll sponsored by The Israel Project has found. In the poll (Charts), based on face-to-face interviews of 812 Egyptian adults conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, 61...

The New York Times yesterday cited a consensus of intelligence officials from multiple countries to the effect that “Iran in recent weeks has virtually completed” installing centrifuges at the underground enrichment facility housed in its Fordow military installation. The paper reports that Tehran’s success comes “despite international pressure and heavy...

In an electoral bombshell, the consequences of which are now being debated, Israel’s governing Likud party announced that it would be running in the upcoming election on a shared list with coalition partner Yisrael Beitenu. The merger between the two parties, headed respectively by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister...

Sudanese officials are continuing to lash out against Israel for mysterious explosions that destroyed a Sudanese weapons factory earlier this week. Khartoum is insisting that the factory was bombed by Israel’s air force, a charge that Israeli officials have yet to comment on. McClatchy news service did, however, quote Israeli...

In addition to spilling over regionally into Turkey and Lebanon, the civil war in Syria is increasingly becoming an explicit proxy war between US-aligned Saudi Arabia and Turkey, on one side, and Iran-aligned Hezbollah and Syria, on the other. A senior Russian general is charging that the Syrian opposition has...

Lebanese politicians are formally accusing the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah of killing Brig. Gen. Wissam Al-Hassan with a car bomb late last week, specifically highlighting similarities between the attack and the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri in 2005. Lebanese lawmakers are also demanding an investigation into Hassan’s...