One year after it signed the nuclear deal, Iran is still attempting to secretly procure illicit nuclear technology and equipment, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency revealed last week. In its 317-page annual report, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, known by its German acronym BfV, said that Iran is engaging...

The Israeli Defense Ministry and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency have successfully completed a test to ensure that both countries’ missile defense systems can work in sync, the Defense Ministry revealed on Wednesday. The five-day-long test, which was the first of its kind, assessed the connectivity between American systems and Israel’s “David’s...

The Palestinian Authority’s objections to the latest report issued by the Quartet—the foursome comprising the UN, EU, United States and Russia that tries to mediate peace talks—should serve as a wake-up call for the international community about the petulance of Palestinian diplomacy and the strong undercurrent of rejectionism that grounds it. The...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently held a secret meeting with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the first-ever high-level contact between the two countries, The Times of Israel reported. An opposition-linked Somali website first reported two weeks ago that Mohamud and three other Somali officials met with Netanyahu and other Israelis in Tel Aviv. A senior Somali official confirmed to The Times...

Merger and acquisition deals in the first half of 2016 indicate that Israeli startups still fetch top-dollar price tags and remain in hot demand. There were 45 exits by Israeli startups worth $3.32 billion in the first half of this year, according to the IVC-Meitar Exits Report from the IVC Research Center, which...

The Algerian national soccer team canceled a friendly match against Ghana in order to prevent Ghana’s head coach, who is Israeli, from entering the country, the Ghanaian news website Pulse reported Tuesday. Avram Grant, who has previously coached the Israeli national team and the legendary London club Chelsea, has led Ghana’s Black Stars...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein announced Tuesday that there was strong evidence that Iran-backed Shia militias had committed atrocities in the recent battle to reclaim the Iraqi city of Fallujah from ISIS. More than 900 men and boys from heavily Sunni Fallujah remain missing, and may have been...

The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign publicly condemned a son of one her close advisers after he denounced the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel after Wiesel’s death. Max Blumenthal, an anti-Zionist activist and son of longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal, tweeted less than an hour after Wiesel’s passing: “Elie Wiesel went from a victim of war...

A renowned Iranian-Canadian sculptor was barred from leaving the Islamic Republic on Saturday, the day before he was scheduled to speak at the British Museum. Parviz Tanavoli said he was ready to board a flight to London at Tehran’s international airport when his passport was confiscated. Border control officials told...

On the first leg of his historic trip to Africa on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the leaders of seven African nations to discuss opportunities for collaboration in the fight against terrorism. The heads of Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia jointly issued a statement...