The checkered history of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s inspections, which are meant to determine if a nation’s nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, demonstrates the need for agency to have complete access to all areas in Iran—including military sites—that are suspected of having nuclear activity, Yishai Schwartz, an associate editor of...

An anti-Assad rebel group in Syria may quit the American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) over American demands that it not target the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Michael Weiss reported Sunday for The Daily Beast. A centerpiece of the U.S. war plan against ISIS...

A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that Iran’s stockpile of nuclear fuel has grown 20 percent since the November 2013 Joint Plan of Action agreement between the Islamic Republic and the West, The New York Times reported today. The report raises questions over how Iran could come into compliance...

Pictures of a lead Iranian military figure reportedly in Iraq’s Anbar province have raised concerns over the level of Iran’s involvement in Iraq, according to a report in the Long War Journal Monday. American military and intelligence officials indicated that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Qods Force General Qassem Suleimani was recently Anbar, where...

Narendra Modi, who was elected prime minister of India last year, will be the first Indian leader to visit Israel, The Times of India reported today. Narendra Modi will be the first Indian prime minister to travel to Israel, a visit that will finally bring one of the world’s close...

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon stated that last Friday’s arrest of a Hezbollah terrorist in Cyprus pointed to a large-scale terror campaign by the Iranian-backed terror group against Israeli targets in Europe, Reuters reported today. Speaking to reporters, Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon described the suspect’s apartment as “a hideout, which according to what to...

Israel-based humanitarian relief agency IsraAID has sent a team of volunteers to flood-ravaged Texas to help with relief efforts. This is not the first time the Israeli organization has sent disaster relief aid to the U.S. The latest team of seven volunteers will help with removing debris from damaged houses...

A nuclear deal with Iran is “useless” if it does not allow inspectors to check military sites, French Foerign Minister Laurent Fabius told (Google link) The Wall Street Journal today. Fabius said if Tehran wanted to build a nuclear weapon in violation of an international agreement, it would inevitably do so at a...

A member of Iran’s negotiating team said that inspections of military sites, deemed essential to ensuring that Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon, “has never been on the agenda in our negotiations,” The Jerusalem Post reported today. Iran has repeatedly ruled out “alien” inspections into any of its military...

The 29 women serving in Israel’s newly elected Knesset have once again set a record, CNN reported yesterday. “If you don’t have women around the table, then decisions are made according to what’s convenient for men, not what’s convenient for women,” said Rachel Azaria, a first-term Knesset member with the Kulanu party. “Every...