The New York Times reported Tuesday that Iranian negotiators have continued to deny the West access to Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, even as the P5+1 global powers are trying to hammer out an agreement that would force Iran to put its atomic program beyond use for weaponization: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is considered by...

A poll commissioned by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that was released yesterday shows that “fewer than 30% of Palestinians now support a ‘two-state solution’: a West Bank/Gaza Palestinian state in lasting peace with Israel.” According to David Pollock of the Washington Institute, who wrote an analysis of the...

Tuesday, The New York Times profiled a Bedouin IDF tracker, Maj. Mohammed Mazarib, and his role in the search for Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach. The Times described the skills of a tracker: They are like a forensics unit, in nature. An intact spider web means no one has crossed....

In the wake of increased rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel’s southern population centers, Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar announced an agreement with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on Tuesday night. The Jerusalem Post reports: “There will be no security for the Zionists over and under the land,” Zahar said in a...

On Tuesday NGO Monitor, a watchdog group monitoring the activities of non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), called on European funders of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) to exercise greater care in funding the organization in light of Israel’s declaring the organization illegal due to IRW’s support of Hamas. According to a statement released by...

Israeli basketball fans are whooping it up as recently resigned Maccabi Tel Aviv coach David Blatt signs head coach position with the Cleveland Cavaliers. This is the first time an Israeli will coach an NBA team. After Blatt led Maccabi Tel Aviv to a stunning upset of Real Madrid in...

Israeli officials on Tuesday doubled down on claims made earlier this week that the Bashar al-Assad regime was responsible for a weekend attack near the Israel-Syria border that killed an Israeli boy. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said it was “clear” that forces loyal to the Assad regime were behind...

Iraq’s ambassador to Iran Mohammad Madjid al-Sheikh on Tuesday told reporters that Tehran has “played an important role in supporting Iraq politically” but that Baghdad has not asked the Islamic republic for assistance in combating extremist Sunni fighters. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has made steady gains...

Back-to-back car bombings on Friday and Monday – which targeted military officials and civilians in areas of Lebanon critical to Hezbollah – have renewed worries that blowback generated by the Iran-backed terror group’s participation in regional Sunni-Shiite conflicts may end up dragging Lebanon into those conflicts. The incidents were the...

A day after an Israeli expert detailed the ISIS threat to Israel and Jordan in a briefing hosted by The Israel Project, a Ynet report revealed that the two governments are cooperating and coordinating their response to jihadist terrorism. Terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)...