The recent New York Times Magazine profile of Ben Rhodes, President Barack Obama’s foreign policy messaging chief, provides proof that the Obama administration’s failure to protect Syrian civilians was because it was so intent on pursuing a nuclear agreement with Iran, Obama’s former top Syria adviser charged Monday in an...

An Israeli army officer was seriously injured in a blast at a West Bank checkpoint north of Jerusalem on Tuesday night. The incident took place after the soldier observed a suspicious object left along the road near the Palestinian town of Hizme and stepped out of his vehicle to examine it. According...

Israel needs to hold on the Golan Heights “for the foreseeable future” to as a buffer against the instability in Syria, and “the wisdom of that has only increased” since Syria descended into an intractable civil war, former presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said in wide-ranging talk at the Hudson...

Palestinian kindergarten children wore military fatigues and brandished toy machine guns to simulate the capture of an Israeli soldier while performing a play in the Gaza Strip last week. In another play at the May 5 event, children were seen throwing rocks at peers dressed as Israeli border police officers and Hasidic Jews....

A commonly-used Washington framework to describe Iranian politics is that the government is split between “hardliners” who support global terrorism and “moderates” who are willing to cooperate with the West. But on issues like Holocaust denial, the moderates are doing “a good job of disguising” any differences between themselves and the hardliners, The Washington Post editoral board wrote Tuesday....

The movement to boycott Israel is “counterproductive to the pursuit of peace and harmful to Israelis and Palestinians alike,” Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton wrote in an open letter on Monday, one day before her church is set to vote on whether to divest from companies that allegedly profit from Israel’s control of...

Israeli authorities are continuing their search for the perpetrators who stabbed and moderately injured two elderly women in southern Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. Police say the attackers fled towards the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber. Two individuals apprehended by police earlier in the day have been released after an investigation cleared them of suspicion. The...

At least 13 military advisers attached to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed while fighting in the Syrian village of Khan Touman, Iranian media reported Monday. Former IRGC Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, announced that the soldiers had been killed as ISIS forces launched a surprise attack and...

The cloud of war constantly hanging over Israel has one silver lining: groundbreaking advances in wound care, developed for the battlefield and then shared with the rest of humanity. WoundClot gauze, a flexible and easy-to-handle material made of highly-absorbent regenerated cellulose (plant cells), was originally designed with soldiers in mind but...

The financial ties between the Islamic State, which controls most of Syria’s oil fields, and the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, which indirectly buys much of its energy resources from ISIS, was highlighted in a Wall Street Journal Sunday profile (Google link) of the Russian-Syrian oil mogul who acts as a middleman. George Haswani has...