In order to ensure that the emerging nuclear deal will effectively prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the United States must insist on implementing eight principles to “achieve a sound, enforceable deal,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – S.C) wrote in an op-ed (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal today. Graham...

American Delta Force commandos raided a compound in Syria Friday night that was controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), killing Abu Sayyaf, who oversaw the terror group’s oil operations, in what Defense Secretary Ashton Carter called a “significant blow” to the organization, The New York Times reported Saturday....

Saudi Arabia had made the “strategic decision” to purchase a nuclear weapon from Pakistan amid the ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, a former American defense official said in a report published today in The Sunday Times. “There has been a longstanding agreement in place with the Pakistanis and the House...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is advancing in both Syria and Iraq, according to news reports published today. The New York Times reported that ISIS forces were progressing toward the city of Palmyra in central Syria. Palmyra is the location of ancient ruins, and ISIS’ progress raises concern that those ruins could be...

An explosion at a terrorist training camp in the Gaza Strip injured fifty people, mostly women and children, Agence France-Presse reported today. “An explosion happened inside a post of the resistance in Beit Lahiya,” said interior ministry spokesman Iyad al-Bozum, in reference to the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military...

Noting that “Iran’s security apparatus has tightened around domestic opposition in a sign of the regime’s growing self-confidence,” Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, former general manager of the Saudi TV network Al Arabiya, argued in a column Thursday in A Sharq Al Awsat that a nuclear agreement with the West will strengthen Iran’s hardliners, During the...

The Czech Republic stopped Iran from making a major purchase of equipment that could be used in its nuclear program, Reuters reported Wednesday. Some details of the attempted purchase were described in the latest annual report of an expert panel for the United Nations Security Council’s Iran sanctions committee, which has...

Hezbollah has embedded its significant terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanese villages, risking the lives of thousands of civilians in the event of another war against Israel, according to a senior Israeli military official quoted in The New York Times Wednesday. Viewed from the air, Muhaybib looks like a typical southern...

The United States House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday that will allow Congress to review, and perhaps reject, a nuclear agreement with Iran. The bill passed 400-25, similar in its popularity to the Senate’s 98-1 tally. CNN reported: Initially the White House resisted efforts to give Congress a...

A bill prohibiting the Illinois state pension fund from investing in companies that boycott Israel won unanimous approval in a State House of Representatives committee and will move forward for consideration by the whole house, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported today. The bill on Wednesday was unanimously approved by the...