Israel’s recent security chiefs, often at odds with the country’s political leadership, have joined forces with serving and former politicians to deny a Newsweek report suggesting Israel routinely spied on Americans including then vice-president, Al Gore. Former Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin was among those to dismiss the...

Firefights between Yemeni army forces and Al Qaeda fighters killed at least seven people on Friday in the country’s capital of Sana’a, as violence spread to Yemen’s presidential palace on the same day as an assassination attempt almost claimed the life of its defense minister, Major General Muhammad Nasir Ahmad....

Turkish officials throughout the week and into Friday scrambled to respond to last week’s “Freedom of the Press” report – published annually by the Washington-based Freedom House watchdog group – which had downgraded Turkey from “Partly Free” to “Not Free” and had explained that “constitutional guarantees of freedom of the...

French Jewish immigration to Israel has increased significantly during the first quarter of 2014 and “could touch a record” for the year. The Jewish Agency for Israel reports that 1,407  French Jews left for Israel in the first three months of the year as opposed to just 353 during the same period...

Reuters on Friday published a wide-ranging analysis – headlined “Egypt’s [Abdel-Fattah El-] Sisi turns Islam on the Islamists” – documenting a range of moves and statements being made by the country’s presumptive next president suggesting that Sisi appears to be positioning himself as a “religious reformer”: With references to God...

Officials from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear watchdog disclosed on Friday that they had demanded more information from Iranian officials regarding tests on detonators – specifically, on Exploding Bridge Wire (EBW) detonators – suspected of having been conducted with the aim of creating nuclear warheads, the latest...

Despite the ongoing P5+1 negotiations between the West and Iran, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed expectations of any compromise on his country’s ballistic missile program as “stupid” and “idiotic.” UPI reports on the statements made to Iran’s IRNA news agency. So this is a stupid, idiotic expectation …...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has seemingly accepted Israel’s offer of help in rescuing some 200 schoolgirls captured in April by members of the Islamist terror organization Boko Haram. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office gave no details of its proposed assistance but Jonathan said Netanyahu offered during a phone conversation to...

An Israeli startup has created a reactor that transforms excess heat, carbon dioxide, and water from industrial processes into fuels and oxygen. NewCO2Fuels (NCF), using technology purchased from Yeda, the Weizmann Institute of Science’s technology transfer office, has developed a device that converts byproducts of industrial processes into usable end products. The...

Iran will continue to develop its nuclear program and refuses to “retreat even an iota,” the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, said May 11. “All westerners, easterners and the (Group) 5+1 (six world powers engaged in nuclear talks with Iran) should know that we will not retreat a single step in...