Hurriyet Daily News reported Thursday that Iran is looking to deepen the involvement of the Turkish financial sector in its oil and gas trade with Ankara, and is more specifically seeking “another Turkish lender to take part in its oil transactions along with the state-owned Halkbank.” Tehran’s moves were revealed by Turkey’s...

An Israeli firm, Mapal Green Energy, just landed its third contract with a British water utility, according to a report Thursday in the Times of Israel. David Shamah, the Times of Israel’s technology correspondent, reported: United Utilities, the UK’s largest listed water company, is the latest water utility to sign a...

Veteran Israeli military analyst Amos Harel on Thursday assessed that a future war between Israel and Hezbollah seems increasingly likely and that Hezbollah may use the deterioration to launch a spectacular ground operation against Israel: While a balance of mutual deterrence has prevailed since the end of the Second Lebanon War nearly...

The Australian government announced Thursday that it would no longer use the word “occupied” to describe East Jerusalem. The Times of Israel reported: Attorney General George Brandis explained Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s position that using the word “occupied” was judgmental and does not contribute to the dialogue about the...

Comments made on Wednesday by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – which had the cleric boast that Iran has successfully maneuvered Washington past the possibility of using military force against Tehran’s nuclear program – continued to garner attention through Thursday, with the New York Daily News describing the comments as a...

American and European officials on Wednesday deepened their criticism of what is increasingly being seen as deliberate Iranian foot-dragging on Tehran’s obligations to come clean regarding the so-called possible military dimensions (PMDs) of Iran’s atomic program, a reference to a range of activities from the military’s involvement in producing nuclear material to...

State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf was pressed at Wednesday’s press briefing over reports – published a day earlier by Al-Monitor’s insidery Congress Pulse – that the Obama administration has continued to delay the shipment of 10 Apache helicopters to Egypt despite having announced in April that it would release...

When Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrives in Turkey on June 9th, his entourage along with their hosts will point out at every given opportunity the warm ties between the two largest non-Arab states in the Middle East. On the practical level, the governments will sign a series of deals boosting...

Al-Monitor late Wednesday rounded up announcements made earlier in the day by the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in which Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) revealed that they would soon be holding a series of hearings to evaluate...

The Jerusalem Post on Monday conveyed reports from Lebanese media outlets describing a series of lengthy meetings recently held between top Hezbollah and Hamas figures, including Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, the latest in what has become a steady stream of indicators that the Sunni terror group may be returning to...