The civil war in Syria is increasingly turning into a proxy war between regional powers, with Saudi Arabia and Turkey backing the opposition and Iran backing the regime, and it increasingly threatens to expand beyond Syria’s borders. The BBC reports that one of its teams found a cache of weapons...

A new report has dramatically reduced estimates of how far Iran is from nuclear breakout, declaring that the Tehran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to arm a nuclear bomb within two to four months. The report comes from the Institute for Science and International Security, a thinktank led by former...

Hamas’s rocket barrage against Israel on Monday marked an escalation in the group’s ongoing war against Israel, both quantitatively in the amount of rocket fire, and qualitatively in Hamas’s willingness to claim responsibility for the attack. The attack has triggered broad concerns that the terror group is returning to its posture of...

The human rights situation in Egypt worsened over the weekend, with gunmen opening fire on the home of a Coptic Christian. A wave of similar attacks had forced the government to issue condemnations and assurances mere hours before the incident, with Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi promising to protect Christians. Coptic...

Iran’s Lebanon-based proxy Hezbollah raided Israeli airspace with a drone over the weekend, which was intercepted and destroyed by Israeli jets. Based on the debris from the interception, which the IDF published and can be viewed here, the drone does not appear to have been armed.The IDF responded to the...

The security situation in southern Israel deteriorated rapidly overnight, beginning with a Palestinian terror attempt that was blocked by the IDF. The IAF targeted Gaza-based terrorists Tala’at Halil Muhammad Jarbi and Abdullah Muhammad Hassan Maqawai, both of whom had extensive history and involvement in terror activity and at least one of...

Muslim Brotherhood supporters are staging major shows of strength in Jordan, following up a rally on Thursday with another on Friday. Jordan’s King Abdullah dissolved the country’s parliament on Thursday, setting up a new election which the Muslim Brotherhood has announced it will boycott. The boycott appears designed to undermine the...

Analysts are heavily criticizing the Swiss government’s refusal to join European Union sanctions against Iran’s energy and financial sectors, a policy which is particularly complicated in light of Switzerland’s history of trading with Nazi Germany in WWII, its welcome of Hamas leaders, and of rising anti-Israel sentiment throughout the country....

The United Nations Security Council condemned this week’s cross-border mortar fire from Syria into Turkey, in which five Turkish civilians were killed. Calling on Syria to “fully respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity” of its neighbors, the UNSC stressed the “grave impact the crisis in Syria has on the security...

The United States is sanctioning several Lebanon-based charities that fundraise for Hamas, including Al-Waqfiya and Al-Quds, which according to the Treasury Department “exist to support the families of Hamas fighters.”  Hamas is a designated terror organization and has consistently targeted Israeli civilians with rocket and mortar fire. The organization violently seized...