Shortly after the conclusion of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge this past August, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) met with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Turkey, Ynet reported today. Khaled Mashal, the head of the Hamas political bureau, met with Iran’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani several...

In order to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), one must understand that their ideological is far from “un-Islamic,” but rather preaches a version of the religion that “derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam,” Graeme Wood wrote in an article published in The Atlantic...

New research by an Israeli researcher will likely be crucial to measuring the impact of climate change on thunderstorms. The varying frequency and intensity of thunderstorms have direct repercussions for the public, agriculture, and industry. To draft a global thunderstorm map, Prof. Colin Price of Tel Aviv University’s Department of...

Lebanon marked the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Saturday, bracing from the effects of numerous political and security challenges stemming from the Syrian conflict, infiltration by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and Iranian meddling. All of Lebanon’s political factions took part in the...

Fatah, the political party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, posted images on its Facebook page promoting rocket fire against Israel, The Times of Israel reported yesterday: One image showed a Fatah fighter holding a rocket while others fired guns, and another displayed a man firing an automatic rifle...

The Syrian army, aided by Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces, has for the past several days been conducting an intensive military campaign in southern Syria. These forces are trying to regain control of areas controlled by the Syrian rebels and radical Islamist groups, some of whom are close to the border...

After chiding members of Congress for planning to boycott next month’s scheduled speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Congress, an editorial published Saturday in The New York Daily News urged politicians to “put global security and solidarity ahead of petty, partisan one-upmanship.” In the words of the editorial:...

The current proposal for the number of centrifuges Iran could keep under a final nuclear deal would not give the West enough to react in case Iran chose to develop a nuclear bomb, according to an analysis written this past Thursday by Dr. Dore Gold, Israel’s former ambassador to the...

Dan Uzan, the Danish security guard who was killed while guarding a synagogue in Copenhagen yesterday, was described by Danish Chief Rabbi Jair Melchior as “irreplaceable.” In a profile of the Uzan reported today by the Associated Press, Melchior also described Uzan as “a person who was always willing to...

Two people were killed and at least five injured in separate shootings yesterday at a Copenhagen cafe and synagogue yesterday. Police later shot and killed the suspect in both attacks. The Wall Street Journal reported: The first targeted a seminar on Islam and free speech in the wake of the...