Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was welcomed to Turkey with a knight’s honor by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. When the two shook hands on the steps of Erdogan’s new luxurious and controversial palace in Ankara, they were surrounded by 16 guards dressed as knights in armor and carrying spears or...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin delivered a eulogy today in Jerusalem for Yoav Hattab, Yohan Cohen, Francois-Michel Saada, and Philippe Braham, the four French Jews who were killed at a Paris kosher supermarket last Friday: Dear families, Yoav, Yohan, Philippe, Francois-Michel, this is not how we wanted to welcome you to Israel. This...

The terrorist organization Hamas has launched a strategic plan to attempt to strengthen its popularity among Muslim-majority countries in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia and Malaysia. The aim of this strategy is to expand the number of countries that support the Palestinian terror group financially and militarily as an alternative to...

A series of boasts by Iranian officials in recent weeks is deepening concerns that Western negotiators now lack the necessary leverage to extract meaningful concessions from Tehran. The comments, which range from boasts about Iranian military power to its relations with the Western countries it is currently engaged in negotiations with,...

Hamas and Fatah are continuing to fight each other for funds and influence instead of working to rebuild Gaza, Avi Issacharoff reported Sunday in The Times of Israel. Issacharoff reports that at the end of December, a meeting in Gaza between Palestinian Authority (PA) officials and Hamas to discuss reconstruction ended...

After having been arrested nearly half a year ago, Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian still has neither been informed of the specific charges against him nor been allowed to see a lawyer, the Post reported Saturday. In what appears to be the longest imprisonment for a Western journalist in Iran, Rezaian, who...

Call it the little company that could. Israeli startup ZUtA Labs, which used a Kickstarter campaign to raise initial seed money, won Best of Innovation in the Computer Accessories category for its PocketPrinter. The Jerusalem startup was up against industry giants like Philips, Dell, Pioneer Electronics, Samsung and Qualcomm but...

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is preparing to reintroduce legislation in the coming weeks that would impose further sanctions on Tehran and call for a greater congressional voice in Washington’s negotiations with the Islamic Republic. The legislation, first introduced in December 2013, was not at the time brought to the...

The Gulf states are showing a united front against attempts by Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah to penetrate their territories. The Arab countries reacted after the latest inflammatory statement by Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah, who accused Bahraini authorities of limiting the rights of its Shiite minority. In a televised...

In the wake of last week’s terror attacks in Paris that left seventeen people dead, French authorities have decided on the largest “military force in France has … used in civilian protection” to date, The Washington Post reported today. The extraordinary measures marked the first time such a large military force in...