Arab commentators believe that recent attacks attributed to Iran against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) positions in Iraq show a significant strengthening of Tehran’s efforts to help its allies in Baghdad and Damascus and maintain its regional influence through the fight against the threat of radical Islamists....

Syrian television claims that the Israeli military hit targets near Damascus today. The Jerusalem Post reports: “The Israeli enemy committed aggression against Syria by targeting two safe areas in Damascus province, in all of Dimas and near the Damascus International Airport,” state television said, adding that there were no casualties....

The Knesset is set to pass the second and third readings of a bill tomorrow to dissolve itself and hold elections on March 17, 2015. This vote comes amid feverish talk of an anti-Netanyahu Left-center bloc being formed by Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog, Hatnua party leader Tzipi Livni and possibly...

In a tweet Friday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared, “we strengthened our brothers’ fists in Gaza; West Bank will be armed.” The quote was from a speech Khamenei delivered (embedded below) on November 25, to the International Congress on Takfirism. In the section of the speech devoted to threatening Israel,...

A letter authored by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and signed by nearly fifty legislative colleagues demanded that the Obama administration clarify reports that it considering sanctioning Israel for building in Jerusalem. The Washington Free Beacon reports: Members of Congress are demanding that President Obama come clean about controversial reports that...

On Thursday, the House of Representatives approved a measure that would require the White House to report to Congress on Iranian compliance with regards to its nuclear program. The measure, included in the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and co-authored by Reps. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) and Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.),...

Two Israeli professors and an engineer are the winners of a new $10,000 award for their amazing inventions including an injectable form of chemotherapy; a metal ligament prosthesis; and a bendable plastic touch screen display for smartphones. Professor Dan Peer, of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Cell Research and Immunology,...

Saudi Arabia has suspended most of the aid it sends to its southern neighbor, Yemen, in response to the hold the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have over the capital city of Sanaa, according to a Reuters report yesterday. Yemen, which is battling an al Qaeda insurgency, a southern secessionist movement, endemic corruption and...

Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for 30 year-old Soheil Arabi, who was convicted of insulting the prophet Mohammed in a Facebook post, according to a report at Al-Monitor on Tuesday. According to Arabi’s lawyer, Vahid Moshkani Farahani, the Tehran court had originally sought the death penalty for Arabi...

The West must reestablish a credible threat of force in order to restore eroded leverage with Iran according Amos Yadlin, former head of Israel’s military intelligence and director at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), and INSS researcher Avner Golov. In an article published Wednesday, Yadlin and Golov argued...