In an analysis published on Thursday by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Arab affairs analyst Pinchas Inbari wrote that Hamas is positioned to open a new front in its war with Israel—in the north. Inbari cites a Lebanese news site that connected Qatar-based Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal with the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front, which...

A 12-second video clip created by a Ferguson, Missouri resident as a private message to a friend is believed to have captured Police Officer Darren Wilson allegedly shooting to death Michael Brown on August 9. Using the Israeli-made Glide video messaging smartphone application, the man started to record his message...

Amid reports that they engaged Syrian rebels in a gun-battle that lasted for seven hours, dozens of Filipino peacekeepers managed to escape Syria and seek refuge in Israel. Under cover of darkness, 40 Filipino peacekeepers who were surrounded and came under fire by Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights made...

Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in as the country’s president on Thursday, amid concerns that the three-term prime minister, who was elected earlier this month with just over half the vote, has made substantial moves to consolidate power under what has until now been a largely ceremonial post. Reuters described Erdogan’s inauguration...

Gaza’s Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas, deliberately portrayed terrorists killed in fighting as non-combatants, and sometimes even as children, according to a report disclosed by the news site Israel Today. Israel Today’s reporting is based on a systematic review of casualties performed by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information...

Top figures from the U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday lashed out against Hamas, criticizing the Palestinian terror organization for what now appears to have been a deliberate series of escalatory gambits in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, which ultimately triggered, respectively, Israel’s Operation Protective Edge and Operation Brother’s...

In an essay published Wednesday in The New Republic, Yossi Klein Halevi celebrates the resilience shown by Israelis during Operation Protective Edge, when nearly all of Israel came under attack by Hamas rockets and mortars, by concluding that the message Israel sent its enemies is, “We’re here to stay.” In...

In the past 48 hours, two men from Minnesota have been reported killed while fighting for the terrorist group ISIS in Syria. Both died in a battle with the Free Syrian Army. Douglas McCain, who grew up in the suburb of New Hope, was first reported dead by NBC News....

Though a poll cited by numerous commentators and experts suggests that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in political trouble due to his handling of Operation Protective Edge, a column yesterday by Shmuel Rosner argues that both Netanyahu and his coalition are in good shape politically: [T]he first two post-war polls show strong support...

Hamas was forced to accept a ceasefire with Israel without securing any of its core demands – an end to import restrictions on the Gaza Strip, salaries for Hamas operatives, the release of captured terrorists, the construction of a sea port, and so on – despite the group having long...