The terrorist organization Hamas has warned that the Gaza Strip could become a breeding ground for extremism unless the world delivers more funds for reconstruction to repair the damage from last summer’s war against Israel. In an apparent attempt to capitalize on last week’s terror attacks in Paris, Hamas official...

Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian has been indicted by Iran and may face a trial, the Post reported Wednesday. Iranian judiciary authorities have referred the case of a detained Washington Post journalist to Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, a news agency reported Wednesday, in a move that appears to set the stage...

The disastrous pipeline rupture in the Arava provided an opportunity to test out new cleanup methods from Israeli academia. In one of the worst environmental disasters in Israel’s history, between three and five million liters of raw crude oil gushed from a burst pipeline near the Evrona Nature Reserve in...

Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) on Tuesday warned that sanctions relief provided to Iran by the current interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) had bolstered the Iranians’ negotiating position in nuclear talks with the West, and suggested that lawmakers in Washington would vote to boost the leverage of American negotiators in...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced plans yesterday to build two more nuclear reactors near the one already operating in Bushehr, Iran’s Farsnews reported today. “Construction of two new power plants will increase the capacity of Bushehr province’s power generation to 2,000 megawatts,” President Rouhani said in a meeting with investors and...

In remarks ahead of his meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva, Iranian foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the depictions of Mohammad by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were “provocative,” and undermined efforts to “engage in a serious dialogue,” Bloomberg News reported today. While...

Why was Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal’s visit to Tehran unexpectedly postponed until further notice? This question is the focus of a new position paper (Arabic link) written by the Iranian Institute for Diplomacy think tank. The answer, according to them, is that “there are still a lack of confidence and...

“Terrorism” is not the term the Turkish government prefers to use when it refers to the groups that it supports across the Middle East. But when terrorists affiliated with these groups staged attacks in France, a key ally, Turkey rushed to condemn them and tried to parlay its support for France into...

Amid low viewership, the Qatar-owned TV network Al Jazeeera America is cutting back its staff and programming, The New York Post reported on Monday. The cable outfit told staff on Friday it’s canceling both its morning news report and “Consider This with Antonio Mora” at 11 a.m. It’s also scrapping its...

A new groundbreaking procedure was used by doctors at Rambam Health Care Campus to implant a titanium jawbone in a Syrian shooting victim, who had come to Israel for medical treatment after a bullet demolished his lower jaw. The 23-year-old Syrian man arrived at Rambam in critical condition after a...