Negotiations to end the ongoing Yemeni civil war collapsed last week, after delegates of the Iran-backed Houthi Shiite militia refused to compromise on key issues. Yemeni Foreign Minister Riad Yassin stated that Houthi representatives acted like “ghosts” during the talks, opting to relax in their hotel rooms rather than engaging with delegates from other parties. Meanwhile, the...

Iran’s parliament voted Sunday to approve legislation that would forbid international inspectors from accessing military sites as part of any nuclear accord with the West. The legislation, which is in line with pronouncements of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior Iranian officials, would block one of the...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), an organization with an established record of anti-Israel bias, is poised next week to condemn the Jewish state for its conduct during last year’s Operation Protective Edge, noted an op-ed published Friday in The Boston Herald by Jeff Robbins, a former UNHRC delegate....

A delegations of 100 German business leaders is slated to visit Israel later this month, Israel Hayom reported Thursday. While many in Europe are calling for a boycott of Israel, a delegation of 100 German industry leaders is preparing for a trip to Israel to meet with top businesspeople in...

Israel relaxed security restrictions to allow thousands of Palestinians to observe the first Friday services of the holy month of Ramadan in Jerusalem, Al Jazeera reported Friday. Police said at least 80,000 people from East Jerusalem, Israel and the West Bank had gone to Islam’s third-holiest site, for Friday prayers,...

The Iranian government banned women from attending today’s volleyball match between Iran and the United States in Tehran, despite hopes among activists that women would be allowed to attend. NBC reported: Earlier this month, Iran’s Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Shahindokht Molaverdi announced that a limited number of women —...

The Obama administration’s response to the new book by former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren is part of an opportunistic effort “to portray itself as a loyal friend to Israel,” Jonathan Tobin wrote Thursday in Commentary. The motives for these denunciations are obvious. The president knows that the truth about his hostility...

The U.S. government’s internal monitoring organization has determined that the State Department is three years late in applying certain sanctions to Iran, Al-Monitor reported Wednesday. The report raises questions over whether the State Department is intentionally delaying sanctions on Iran as negotiations over its nuclear program continue. The report (.pdf), issued by the Government Accountability...

A 25-year-old man was killed and a second man wounded in a terror attack near Dolev, northwest of Jerusalem in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported today. The 25-year-old was shot in the upper body near the settlement of Dolev, northwest of Jerusalem. He was found unconscious and...

President Barack Obama’s “paternalistic” view towards Israel negatively impacted the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Ben Cohen, Senior Editor of The Tower, wrote Thursday in a review of former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren’s new book Ally. In his book, Oren wrote that “the Israel [Obama] cared about was also the...