An Egyptian court ruled that Hamas is a terrorist organization, Reuters reported yesterday. An Egyptian court listed the Palestinian group Hamas as a terrorist organization, judicial sources said on Saturday, part of a sustained crackdown on Islamists in the most populous Arab state. … While a court ruled in January...

Iran is stepping up its offensive against rebels in southern Syria, exacerbating “the tensions on Israel’s northern border,” Jonathan Spyer, director of the Rubin Center, and Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an analysis published yesterday. The Iran/Hezbollah/Assad troika has long threatened to develop the...

Anti-Semitic French comedian Dieudonne gave a gift of a golden “quennelle” to former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his visit to the Islamic Republic, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Friday: Dieudonne visited the Islamic Republic last week, the news site fararu.com reported, and presented Ahmadinejad with a golden statue of...

Turkey’s “permissiveness” towards jihadists traveling through its territory to Syria is greatly aiding the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday. Agence France-Presse reports: The Turkish government was more concerned with Kurdish opposition and the...

In I Saw the U.S. Hand Iraq Over to the Iranians. Is the Whole Region Next?, which was published in the February 2015 issue of The Tower Magazine, Michael Pregent observes that not only has the United States seemingly given in to Iranian demands in nuclear negotiations, but “it is doing the...

Amid reports that the emerging nuclear deal between the P5+1 nations and Iran would reportedly allow Iran to keep 6,500 centrifuges operating, a former CIA deputy director who served under President Obama has stated that this number is sufficient for Iran to build a nuclear weapons program. Michael Morell, now an analyst for CBS news, made...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R – Ky.) and Minority Leader Harry Reid (D – Nev.) when in Washington to address Congress next week, The Times of Israel reported yesterday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold a meeting with a bipartisan Congressional delegation...

Only 11% of Americans view Iran favorably, according to the results of a Gallup poll released today. As the United States and several other nations continue to negotiate what would be a landmark agreement to limit Iran’s production of nuclear weapons, more than eight in 10 Americans view Iran unfavorably...

The United States Treasury Department designated two members of Hezbollah who are running an amusement park in Nigeria. Armin Rosen of Business Insider reports: The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control added two individuals to its specially designated nationals list on February 26: Fouzi Reda Darwish Fawaz and Mustapha...

Israel and Jordan signed a historic water-sharing agreement on the Jordan side of the Dead Sea today, The Jerusalem Post reported. According to Thursday’s agreement, Jordan and Israel will share the potable water produced by a future desalination plant in Aqaba, from which salty brines will be piped to the...