A United Nations Human Rights Council hearing on last year’s war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas was highlighted by testimony on Monday from three military experts who said that the Council’s recently commissioned report on the war would encourage further terrorism. The three experts were Col. Richard Kemp, former...

Following Wednesday’s terror attacks on military checkpoints, Egypt has stepped up its campaign against “Sinai Province,” the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) affiliate in the Sinai, The Times of Israel reported today. Egyptian forces have commenced heavy fighting against the ISIS affiliate on Wednesday, two days after Egypt’s attorney general was...

An Israeli general has accused Hamas of aiding the Sinai affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Ha’aretz reported today. Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai made his remarks in an interview with the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera. Israel has “clear information that Hamas is supporting the Wilayat Sinai, which belongs to Daesh,” Maj....

Following deadly clashes in the Sinai between the Egyptian government and terrorists affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that “terrorism is knocking at our borders,” The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. “Terrorism is knocking at our borders,” the prime minister said...

In The Central Pillar Supporting the Iran Deal Has a Big Crack In It, Emanuele Ottolenghi explains how the United States and its allies wasted the leverage they had gained through years of building international sanctions against Iran, and how that will undermine the effectiveness of the emerging nuclear deal. The...

Western diplomats said that the “red lines” set out by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week are preventing any breakthrough in the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 nations, Reuters reported today. Major issues still yet to be agreed include monitoring and verification steps to ensure that Iran does...

The United States and its partners should not rush to make a nuclear agreement with Iran, a staff editorial in Toronto’s Globe and Mail argued Wednesday. The editorial frames its argument around last week’s open letter signed by eighteen experts and former government officials, including five who served in the Obama administration, calling on the...

The process by which Iran reduced its stock of low enriched uranium prior to the June 30 negotiating deadline violated the terms of the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA), the agreement it signed with the West in November 2013, according to an analysis (.pdf) published today by the Institute for Science and International...

The expected windfall Iran would receive from sanctions relief as part of a nuclear deal would likely benefit its internal and external security services—including proxy terrorist groups such as Hezbollah—which would further destabilize the Middle East, according to an analysis published today in The Wall Street Journal by Michael Singh, the managing director...

The Shin Bet, Israel’s security intelligence service, announced today that it had broken up a Hamas-linked terror cell in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported. The group was reportedly in the planning stages of a major terror attack. Though the arrests have been made over the past few months,...