Iran is continuing its massive efforts to save the Houthi rebels in Yemen from being defeated by the Saudi-backed Operation Decisive Storm. The rush of diplomatic activity comes as Secretary of State John Kerry admitted Wednesday that the U.S. was aware that Iran was providing military support to the Shiite rebel group, which overthrew the Yemeni government. Iranian...

Shortly after the understanding was signed between Iran and the P5+1 countries over the country’s illicit nuclear program, a U.S. State Department fact sheet—since disputed by Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif—stated that “U.S. and E.U. nuclear-related sanctions will be suspended after the [International Atomic Energy Agency] has verified that Iran has taken...

Palestinian police will expand their patrols to three towns near Jerusalem for the first time after an agreement was reached with Israel, Reuters reported Wednesday. Louy Izriqat, spokesman for Palestinian police, said 90 officers had deployed in Abu Dis, A-Ram and Biddu, towns that had been largely under Israeli security control since a 1993 interim...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said that the United States has the capability to destroy Iran’s nuclear program “over a fraction of one night” in an interview Wednesday on CNBC. The interview is embedded below. The U.S. needs to give Iranian leaders a clear choice: Get rid of your...

Aziz Kaddan, one of the co-founders of Myndlift, didn’t flinch when asked in front of an audience at the recent BrainTech conference in Tel Aviv how he plans to go up against the better-funded American companies with his alternative non-drug treatment for attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity...

Pushing back against claims that the alternative to the current nuclear negotiation framework with Iran is war, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon argued in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Washington Post that the protocols announced last week actually make war more likely. As Israel’s minister of defense, as a former Israel...

Egyptian military intelligence has revealed (Arabic link) that some military officers and soldiers have adopted extremist ideas and joined terrorist organizations in Sinai, which has been a hotbed of violent religious extremism in recent months. The development further complicates the efforts of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to deal with extremists in the peninsula,...

Iran’s Defense Minister, Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, ruled out any international inspection of Iran’s military sites, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported yesterday. “No such agreement has been made; principally speaking, visit to military centers is among our redlines and no such visit will be accepted,” Gen. Dehqan stressed on...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to Twitter today to accuse the Obama administration of lying about the parameters of a future nuclear deal. The Times of Israel reported: A framework nuclear deal reached with world powers last week is no guarantee a full agreement will be secured by the...

Braving a biting late spring wind, hundreds of people turned out for the March 30 grand opening of the city’s new urban nature park at Gazelle Valley – the only one of its kind in Israel. Bordered on all sides by major traffic thoroughfares and dense residential housing, Gazelle Valley...