Fatah’s military wing al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades released a new video (Arabic link) showing its fighters training for the “destruction of Israel” and calling for more fighters to join the brigades. Fatah is the political party headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. At the same time, Hamas warned it is...

Roll Call reported Thursday that lawmakers are preparing a series of steps aimed at reasserting Congressional oversight over the final contours of a nuclear deal between the P5+1 global powers and Iran, a few weeks after leaked audio revealed that the Obama administration has been planning for almost a year to...

With a week left until the November 24th deadline on nuclear talks between the P5+1 nations and Iran, remarks made by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this past summer take on greater significance. In a July interview with Fareed Zakaria, Clinton states: […] if you cannot be persuaded that the...

In remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Saturday, United States Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel described the global posture of the United States: Today our military has nearly 400,000 personnel stationed or forward-deployed in nearly 100 countries around the world, from Afghanistan to the Philippines to Guatemala. This continued forward...

Iran is evading and ignoring fresh allegations from United Nations human rights organizations, Arabic and Iranian-opposition media outlets charged on Monday (Arabic link), saying this is not the first time Tehran has ignored such accusations. Ilham Amin Zada, one of the Iranian president’s advisors, responded by saying that global actors were hypocritical...

A Jewish man was stabbed today near the Old City of Jerusalem, in what authorities describe as a nationalistic attack. The Times of Israel reported: The stabbed man reportedly managed to make his way to the Border Police station at the Old City’s Damascus Gate. The police escorted the victim...

The Iranian research institute Iranian Diplomacy is claiming that Saudi Arabia is closely following and attempting to derail the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 nations, which are moving this week from Muscat to Vienna. The institute wrote in its latest report (Arabic link) that was published on the...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday formally endorsed the designation of 82 organizations as terror groups, in line with its federal law on combating terrorism, Al- Arabiya TV reported. A list of the designated organizations, published by the country’s state-run WAM news agency, includes Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the organization’s local...

According to an Iranian general, Hamas and Hezbollah both possess arsenals that “are able now to attack all targets from southern to northern parts of [Israel],” according to a report Wednesday in The Times of Israel. Citing Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency, the Times quoted  Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Brigadier...

On November 12, Windward and CyberSeal were named the first- and second-place winners, respectively, of the International Innovation Competition for HLS and Cyber Technology at Israel’s 2014 Homeland Security Conference, which was sponsored by the Chief Scientist at Israel’s Ministry of Economy with the the Israel Export Institute CyberSeal and MATIMOP – The...