On Thursday, Western powers demanded Iranian cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) investigation into Iran’s military nuclear research. Reuters reports: Western powers told Iran on Thursday it must step up cooperation with a U.N. watchdog’s investigation into suspected atomic bomb research by the country if it wants to get a...

A major foreign policy address given on Thursday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who in recent weeks has been politically strengthened by a growing consensus that the Jewish state emerged strengthened from its summer war against Hamas – saw the Israeli premier outlining Jerusalem’s posture on a range...

In an interview with Reuters published Thursday, jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti expressed satisfaction with the outcome of this summer’s war against Israel. Without mentioning Hamas, he praised the 50-day war the Islamists and other militant groups in Gaza fought against Israel, calling it a victory for all Palestinians. More than 2,100...

On Wednesday, a senior Israeli army official confirmed that Israel is supplying intelligence information to the United States to help fight the Islamic State of Iran and Syria (ISIS). Interviewing with the Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, the official also focused on the terrorist group’s financing. A senior Israel Defense Forces officer said Wednesday...

US aerospace company Lockheed Martin has formed a technology-focused Israeli subsidiary, Lockheed Martin Israel, that will focus on cybersecurity, enterprise information technology, data centers, mobile, analytics and cloud, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Earlier this year, Lockheed Martin signed an agreement with EMC Corporation to jointly...

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani used the occasion of a state visit to Berlin to assure German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Doha “has never and will never support terror organizations” after months of growing international consternation regarding Doha’s alleged role in diplomatically and...

Yesterday, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) published a translated statement from an Iranian professor criticizing his nation’s nuclear program and its stance towards Israel. Sadegh Zibakalam, a professor of political science at the University of Tehran, made the remarks at an academic conference in May of this year....

The Baha’i International Community issued a report Monday, which charged Iran with failing to meet its own pledges on human rights. The document lists 34 broken commitments, and was presented at a news conference in Geneva. “Iran has utterly failed in every case to fulfill the commitments it made to improve human rights in...

On Wednesday, Tehran’s legal authorities sentenced the six stars of a lip-synced dance video cover of Pharrell William’s song “Happy” to jail time and 91 lashes each. The Telegraph reports: Authorities arrested the group for contravening Iran’s strict vulgarity laws, which prohibit public displays of dancing, and paraded the six on state television,...

The Times of Israel reported Wednesday that Dr. Alan Bauer, an American who was injured in a 2002 Jerusalem terror attack, is seeking to seize the ships that were involved in the 2010 flotilla, run by the Turkish group IHH, that attempted to break Israel’s legal blockade of Gaza. The suit, which...