Hezbollah fighters on Tuesday attacked an Israeli convoy with a roadside bomb planted inside Israeli territory, injuring two soldiers and triggering concerns that the Iran-backed terror group may be shifting its posture toward the Jewish state and risking deterioration along the Israel-Lebanon border. The attack – which was quickly claimed...

Just a day after Hezbollah launched a double bomb attack against Israeli soldiers, the leader of Lebanon’s pro-Western March 14 bloc Saad al-Hariri warned that Hezbollah is leading Lebanon into the “unknown”. Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri Wednesday said Hezbollah’s latest operation against Israel in the border area of Shebaa was...

Ghoncheh Ghavami, the female British-Iranian law student who was arrested by Iranian authorities for trying to attend volleyball game played by male athletes in Iran, has begun a hunger strike yesterday, as reported by Fox News. She has been held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for 100 days. Law student Ghoncheh...

The Jerusalem Post reported Monday that jihadists are hiding among the Syrian refugees entering Europe. Citing a report in the German newspaper, Bild am Sonntag, which credits the information to American intelligence that had “decod[ed] locked communications of the ISIS leadership,” Benjamin Weinthal writes: The Bild am Sonntag wrote,“In view of the chaotic...

In How Hamas Destroys Its People, as Seen Through the Eyes of IDF Soldiers, published in the September 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Yardena Schwartz contends that “coming from politicians like Benjamin Netanyahu or Naftali Bennett, the words ‘human shield’ sound more like an Israeli public relations slogan than a tragic...

Tel Aviv University researchers are literally setting a new gold standard in cardiac tissue engineering to develop functional substitutes for damaged heart tissues. Because heart cells cannot multiply and cardiac muscles contain few stem cells, heart tissue is unable to repair itself after a heart attack. So, Dr. Tal Dvir...

A range of Western news outlets reported Monday morning that an explosion had rocked the Iranian military base at Parchin – where the UN’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) suspects Iranian scientists conducted work related to nuclear weaponization – just a day before an IAEA team was set to land in the...

An article published Monday in The New Republic by Lori Plotkin Boghardt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy examines Qatar’s troubling ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical Islamist movements, including Hamas and ISIS. Boghardt explains that Qatar, a small emirate on the Persian Gulf caught between its more...

UPDATE: Hezbollah has taken credit for the IED explosion. The IDF lists Hezbollah’s attacks on the border in recent months going back to March. Report: Concerns mount that Hezbollah, Lebanese army could cooperate against Israel: http://t.co/72WPyeDXIS — The Israel Project (@israelproject) October 7, 2014 Two Israeli soldiers were injured today...

In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic yesterday, a Kurdish intelligence official in the city of Kobani, located in Syria near the border with Turkey, expressed his fears if the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) succeeds in capturing the city. I just got off the phone...