Ambassador Dennis Ross, who served as President Obama’s special adviser on Iran during his first term, co-chaired a task force whose report, published Monday, offers a stark and pointed assessment of last year’s P5+1 interim agreement over the Iranian nuclear program, also known as the Joint Plan of Action (JPA). The report,written by the Iran...

“Some” are looking to turn Jerusalem into a city of one religion, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said May 12 in a barely-veiled attack on Israel. He made the comment during the opening ceremony of a conference in Ankara on the status of Jerusalem, organized by the United Nation’s Committee on...

Lebanon’s NOW Media on Sunday conveyed statements by a top figure from the anti-Hezbollah March 14 bloc, Assem Araji, worrying that political maneuvering by Hezbollah would lock in a political vacuum at that country’s presidential level over the medium term, after the Iran-backed group and its allies last week managed to...

Palestinian outlet Ma’an reported Monday that the United Nations had officially accepted the Palestinians as members of the U.N. Convention against Corruption, one of scores of international institutions that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has committed to joining and – of those treaties and bodies – one of many that analysts...

Asaf Romirowsky describes The Real Palestinian Refugee Crisis in the May 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine. At the center of the crisis, Romirowsky explains, is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which works counter to its stated goals: “UNRWA has no...

The Associated Press (AP) on Monday reported that what it described as “a once-promising U.N. attempt to probe suspicions that Tehran worked on atomic arms” – a reference to long-standing United Nations Security Council demands that the Islamic republic among other things disclose possible military dimensions (PMD) of its nuclear work – was...

Reuters on Monday leaked a confidential new report from a U.N. Panel of Experts documenting a range of Iranian efforts aimed at circumventing international restrictions on its acquisition of illicit material, with the wire highlighting parts of the report in which experts worried that the Islamic Republic has “learned how to outsmart security...

Though conventional wisdom holds that “that Sunni al Qaeda couldn’t possibly cooperate with Shia Iran,” another piece of evidence has emerged that Iran does indeed cooperate with the Sunni terror group. A recent statement made by a spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Abu Muhammad al Adnani, claims that...

Qualcomm, one of the world’s leading mobile phone chip manufacturers, has reportedly agreed to buy the Israeli chip maker Wilocity for $300 million. ZDNet reports: According to financial website TheMarker, Qualcomm’s potential acquisition could cost the company up to $300 million. Wilocity shipped its first chips commercially at the end...

At the end of March, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hastened the end of the American-sponsored peace talks with Israel by pursuing membership in fifteen of international treaties (of which the PA was already in violation of at least 11). This week, the PA was accepted into the  United Nation’s anti-corruption treaty....