A top Iranian general said that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) troops are feeding intelligence to Russia in order to guide its airstrikes on the Syrian city of Aleppo, Amir Toumaj, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported in the Long War Journal on Tuesday. Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi,...

While Democratic and Republican leaders in Washington have made defeating the Islamic State a top priority, “that’s not nearly as important as confronting the challenge posed by Iran,” former Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya’alon wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-ed published Thursday. Ya’alon said that while last year’s nuclear deal had certain benefits  — namely delaying Iran’s...

Sunni Arab powers in the Middle East fear that Iran is establishing a “Shiite Crescent” in order to advance its regional ambitions, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. As the Islamic State continues losing territory to Iran-backed militias, Sunni countries are concerned that they may “face a potentially more dangerous challenge: a land corridor from Tehran to...

Honeybees across the world are in a sticky situation. Their numbers are dwindling dramatically due to colony collapse disorder (CCD) for reasons that are not fully understood. Yet the honeybee population in Israel is holding steady. That’s great news at this time of year, when sweet Jewish New Year dishes...

A Palestinian militia has been fighting alongside forces loyal to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the ongoing battle for the city of Aleppo, the Long War Journal reported on Wednesday. The Quds Brigade, also called the Liwa al-Quds, is predominately made up of Palestinian fighters drawn from...

Iraqi Kurds held a memorial service for former Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday, hours after the veteran statesman passed away at the age of 93, according to various Kurdish news sources. Kurds in the Duhok region, which is north of Mosul in Iraq, reportedly held a half hour service in honor...

One of the likeliest successors to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a “a contempt for the West” and is committed to “the theocracy’s mission of repression,” Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Ray Takeyh wrote in The Washington Post on Monday. Ibrahim Raisi, a former prosecutor general, is being positioned to succeed...

Recent Palestinian-led efforts to boot Israel out of FIFA, the world governing body of soccer, “contradict longstanding FIFA practice and create a double standard for Israel,” a leading legal expert wrote in The Washington Post Monday. Eugene Kontorovich, a law professor at Northwestern University and head of the Kohelet Policy Forum’s international...

World leaders across the globe continue to pay tribute to former Israeli prime minister and president Shimon Peres, who passed away early Wednesday at the age of 93. President Barack Obama described “my friend Shimon” as one of the “few people who we share this world with who change the course of human...

Shimon Peres symbolized possibility. He embodied the daring idea that the impossible could be made possible. It wasn’t blind faith that led him on this path. It was experience. In his life he witnessed time and again how ideas and dreams, previously deemed insane, became taken-for-granted reality. Primarily among these...