Following Wednesday reports that Tehran is pouring assets into Iraq, analysts are raising concerns that Iranian efforts in the country, which in recent weeks has seen Sunni extremists overtake portions of the country, could complicate U.S. moves aimed at restabilizing the Iraq. Ephraim Kam, a senior research fellow at the...

Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, Yuval Steinitz, is heading to Washington with a delegation of top Israeli nuclear and defense experts in advance of the July 20 deadline in talks with Iran. Israel fears the Americans will back down from demands that Iran comply with multiple United Nations sanctions. The...

Despite the promise from Palestinian Authority President Mahmnoud Abbas that the new government he created with Hamas would reject violence, some 56 rockets have been fired from Hamas’ Gaza stronghold in the two weeks since three Israeli teens were abducted. The latest barrage on Saturday night led to the destruction...

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is directly attributable to policies adopted by the Turkish government. Focusing on a Turkish trucker named Turfan Aydin, the Times notes that cross-border trade between Turkey and Iraq has virtually stopped “by the...

A leading scholar of the Middle East has proposed that the key to understanding how the middle east affects U.S. interests lies less in Al-Qaeda and its affiliates and more in the expansionist efforts of the Iranian regime. Lee Smith, author of The Strong Horse and a senior editor at The...

On Tuesday the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to seize Iran’s internet domain (.ir) and IP addresses in order to recover more than $1 billion in damages that the Islamic Republic owes for...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday conveyed statements from Iran’s Foreign Ministry blasting the P5+1 global powers for making “excessive demands” in the face of “rational proposals” being put forth by Tehran: “Iran is ready for a resolution and made rational proposals,” the official IRNA news agency quoted foreign minister Mohammad...

Itay Eshet’s 10-year-old said she wanted a Facebook account. Nothing doing, said Dad. But everyone’s using it, the little girl complained. At that point, some parents would have caved in and others would have ignored the whining. Eshet did neither. He agreed that children under 13 – the official minimum...

On Wednesday the the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014. The Jerusalem Post reports: The Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014, introduced by US Representatives Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), includes a provision to sanction foreign financial institutions that knowingly...

In an op-ed published Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who was tapped last year by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to head peace talks for Jerusalem, and who during the most recent negotiations with the Palestinians was a key figure in laying the groundwork for Secretary...