In a televised speech yesterday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that “there is no place extending on the land of occupied Palestine that the resistance’s rockets cannot reach.” The Times of Israel reports that Nasrallah made specific threats: Hezbollah’s secretary-general also pledged that the Shiite organization’s rockets would force Israel...

In an analysis published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, Michael Singh, managing director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, writes that though the United States in recent years has become more accepting of Tehran’s positions, “the changes in U.S.-Iran relations have been decidedly one-sided.” Singh writes that while...

Iranian officials over the weekend and into Monday issued a series of statements emphasizing hostility toward the United States, days after a series of articles emerged suggesting that the Obama administration was in many ways laying the groundwork for a regional realignment that would grant the Iranians greater influence across...

After the recent capture of Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, by Shiite rebels, an Iranian official has boasted that the Islamic Republic now controls four Arab capitals. The other three capitals are Damascus, Syria; Baghdad, Iraq; and Beirut, Lebanon. The boast, which was reported in an analysis published yesterday by Lt. Col. (ret.)...

Ahead of nuclear talks expected to take place next week in Oman, influential figures in Arab countries are expressing concern over the possible agreement that may be reached between Iran and the world powers, emphasizing that Iran seeks to obtain nuclear weapons regardless of the outcome of the negotiations. For them,...

Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Egypt’s most active militant organization, and Ansar al-Sharia Bayt al-Maqdis, a Salafi jihadist group in the Gaza Strip, have both sworn allegiance to the Islamic State, statements from the two groups said on Monday. In a video broadcast on the Internet, the Gazan Ansar al-Sharia Bayt al-Maqdis...

The Times of Israel reported Monday that the sister of Hamas spokesman Moussa Abu Marzouk is being treated at an Israeli hospital. The hospitalization of the sister of Abu Marzouk is the latest case of a relative of a member of the terror group being treated in Israel despite a...

An unsigned editorial published Friday in The Washington Post urged President Barack Obama “to initiate a reset” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of last week’s diplomatic spat. The editorial begins by wondering “why the Israeli leader provokes such passionate animus from an administration that coolly shrugs off insults...

Israeli high school student Avital Boruchovsky is the 2014 European Youth U18 Chess Champion, after winning a four-hour game against his Spanish opponent Jaime Santos Latasa at the Georgian championships. Russia’s Daniil Yuffa was the runner-up in the contest and Valerii Iovcov from Moldova placed third. “I can’t believe it’s...

A wave of condemnation against Hezbollah has broken out in Lebanon over the terrorist organization’s ongoing involvement in the Syrian civil war and clashes that haven broken out in Lebanon in recent weeks, particularly in Tripoli. On Sunday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah once again defended the organization’s involvement in the Syrian crisis, saying...