A Salafist group affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fired a mortar at Hamas headquarters in Gaza, The Jerusalem Post reported today. The mortar attack is the latest escalation between the two groups this week. The group, which calls itself “Supporters of Islamic State of Iraq...

The deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that he would “welcome war” with the United States, The Times of Israel reported today. Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, said in an interview on state-run television that a battle with the...

Despite all the talk about how Israeli companies are great at exits but not at scaling up into large corporate entities, the Tel Aviv-based general manager of Microsoft Ventures Global Accelerators declared that impact matters more than size. “Much has been written about Israel moving from a startup nation to...

After an agreement by the Danish shipping company Maersk to pay a settlement that has been called a “ransom” by a legal scholar, Iran has released the Maersk Tigris, the cargo ship it seized last month in an international shipping lane, The New York Times reported today. The Maersk Line,...

A bill mandating legislative review of any potential nuclear deal with Iran passed the Senate today by an overwhelming 98-1 margin, signalling bipartisan veto-proof support, The New York Times reported today. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) was the sole dissenting vote, doing so on constitutional grounds, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was absent. A...

The terms of the emerging nuclear deal with Iran is causing so much concern in Saudi Arabia that influential advisors in the kingdom are growing increasingly vocal about their desire to create a nuclear deterrent of their own, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) today. While Saudi Arabia has long advocated...

Reported attacks on Sudanese military sites are raising questions about the regime’s ties to Iran and its continue support of terror. The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday: Officials and residents of the Sudanese city of Omdurman said foreign warplanes struck a military installation nearby late Tuesday night, a London-based Arabic news...

Al Jazeera America (AJAM) announced that it had demoted its unpopular CEO in the wake of several high-profile resignations, a potentially embarrassing lawsuit, and dismal ratings, The Daily Beast reported Wednesday. A mere 48 hours after trying to defend the troubled news channel Al Jazeera America from allegations of sexism and anti-Semitism in...

Breaking the Silence, an NGO that has recently been in the news for its criticism of Israel’s actions during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge, was explicitly directed by European charities to prove that Israel acted improperly, the watchdog group NGO Monitor showed in a report released Monday. NGO Monitor’s staff...

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen shelled the town of Najran on Saudi Arabia’s southern border, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Although numerous border skirmishes have been reported since a Saudi-led coalition launched a campaign of airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen in late March, Tuesday’s attack marked the first time that the...