A video released today shows the execution by burning of a Jordanian pilot, Moaz al-Kasasbeh, who was captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) when his plane was shot down in December near Raqqa in Syria. The BBC reports: Jordan has confirmed the death of pilot Moaz...

Although hailed in the West as a potential reformer, the tenure of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has seen freedom of the press in Iran only deteriorate, according to both state officials and reports in the Iranian media. Tehran MP Ali Motahari said on January 30 that under the Rouhani administration self-censorship...

Both Iran and Hezbollah are threatening worldwide retaliation against Israel after the January 18 deaths of a number of Hezbollah terrorists and Iranian military officers, according to a report by Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs that was published Sunday. Shapira noted that in many news reports, Hezbollah was...

The United States and Iran are moving closer to a deal that would allow Iran to keep as many as 6,500 centrifuges operating in return for Iran “guaranteeing regional stability,” according to a report today in The Jerusalem Post. The news, which cited European diplomats, was originally reported by Israel’s Army Radio. According...

Documents found in the garbage of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s apartment show that he had intended to ask a judge to arrest Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman, according to a report (Spanish link) yesterday in Clarin, a Spanish-language newspaper in Argentina. Nisman died of a gunshot...

Israel-based Wix.com was one of 15 businesses that bought Super Bowl ads for the first time Sunday. Bloomberg News reports: In Wix’s ad, the football players open fictional small businesses with matching websites. Favre, who won the championship with the Green Bay Packers in 1997, starts a charcuterie store (Favre...

An international team of researchers has just revealed its discovery of a rare 55,000-year-old partial skull in a cave in northern Israel. Their report, “Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans,” suggests that this find provides new clues about the migration of modern humans out...

Prof. William Schabas, the controversial head of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commission charged with investigating charges of war crimes alleged against Israel during Operation Protective Edge last summer, has resigned amid growing indications of bias. Reuters reports: In a letter to the commission, a copy of which was seen...

The terror attack against military forces in Egypt’s northern Sinai last week was beyond a routine terrorist act. Arab security experts are calling it a turning point in the terrorist attacks in Egypt, explaining that the attack shows that Egypt is subject to the turmoil taking place in the Middle East and the...

In an essay for Politico Magazine, former State Department advisor Aaron David Miller called the American-Israeli diplomatic relationship “too big to fail.” Among other observations, Miller writes that the current turmoil in the Middle East underscores America’s “need for traditional friends who are able to offer stability,” and that with...