Vice Admiral Kevin Donegan, the newly installed commander of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, said that Iran’s “malign behavior” at sea has not changed since the announcement of the nuclear deal this past July, the Associated Press reported Sunday. Donegan took command of the Dubai-based fleet in September. He told...

The Obama administration’s outreach to repressive regimes in Myanmar, Cuba, and Iran, rather than having a moderating influence, has instead allowed them to “entrench their authoritarian systems for the long term, while screening out any liberalizing influence,” Jackson Diehl, the deputy editorial page editor of The Washington Post, wrote in...

In the wake of the nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama can help secure Israel’s borders by recognizing its sovereignty over the Golan Heights, former Israeli ambassador to the United States and Knesset member Michael Oren wrote in an op-ed published at CNN on Sunday. Oren argued that this recognition,...

John Robert Gallagher, a Canadian who was reportedly killed last week while fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) alongside the YPG, a Syrian Kurdish militia, wrote an essay on the war against jihadism and other forms of religious extremism that motivated him to risk his life, which was...

A group of 172 Jordanians arrived in Eilat on Thursday to begin working in that city’s hotels, an initiative of Interior Minister Silvan Shalom to bolster cooperation between Israel and its eastern neighbor. 1,500 Jordanians are expected to participate in the program. Shalom greeted the workers Thursday saying, “This is a day...

Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R – Tex.) chaired a subcommittee hearing this week that highlighted testimonies from victims of Iranian and Palestinian terrorism, including their struggle to receive just compensation from the perpetrators of the attacks, The Dallas Morning News reported on Wednesday. Orde F. Kitre, an Arizona State University...

Incitement-fueled violence against Israelis continued Friday as three teenagers were shot in two separate attacks in Hebron. The first attack took place outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs, where a 16-year-old was seriously hurt by gunfire to the upper body and taken to a hospital in Jerusalem, Channel 2 reported. An 18-year-old was reported...

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed the use of mustard gas, a powerful chemical agent, during a battle in the northern Syrian city of Marea on August 21, the BBC reported Friday. The OPCW report has not yet been published, but journalists who have had access...

The global financial giant Deutsche Bank was fined $258 million for violating American sanctions against Iran, Syria, and other nations, The New York Times reported Thursday. It is the latest in a string of settlements over sanctions violations as regulators take aim at banks for doing business with blacklisted countries. Still, criminal investigations...

President Barack Obama will have a “very substantive agenda” to pursue with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his upcoming visit to Washington, which will include discussions on Israel’s security challenges and the recently signed nuclear deal with Iran, senior administration officials said Thursday. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told...