The Wall Street Journal on Thursday conveyed commitments from Iran’s oil minister vowing to boost the country’s crude exports despite what the outlet described as “a cap agreed upon with the international community.” The interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) – which Iran and the P5+1 global powers had agreed...

A Syrian plane attacked an aid convoy sponsored by a Turkish organization near the city of Aleppo killing one person. Agence France-Presse reports: Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said that trucks carrying flour and blankets were caught in the middle of an air campaign late Thursday by the Syrian Air Force...

Several outlets on Thursday reported on Congressional efforts to reassert a measure of control over the trajectory of nuclear negotiations with Iran, with members of the House of Representatives making a variety of moves over the last few days to monitor the status of ongoing talks and to establish acceptable...

President Barack Obama was honored Wednesday by the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation. Filmmaker Stephen Spielberg, who created the foundation, presented the president with the Ambassador for Humanity award. In his remarks, the president condemned the official anti-Semitism of foreign governments such as Iran. And that includes confronting a rising tide of anti-Semitism around...

Analysis published this week by the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) conveyed a variety of indicators – ranging from public data about Israeli-Egyptian energy agreements to recent statements by Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi – converging on the conclusion that Cairo is making a concentrated effort to boost and insulate bilateral...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday angrily denounced reports printed by Western outlets alleging that the Islamic republic had supplied Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime with chlorine-filled chemical weapons (CWs): In a statement on Wednesday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry described the news as “a lie”, and said the fact that the...

During her recent trip to Israel, American National Security Adviser Susan Rice hailed American strategic cooperation with Israel as an “investment in protecting the many interests that our nations share.” The Times of Israel reported: Rice said that the new deal “will take our total investment in Iron Dome, which has...

A recent report from a Palestinian human rights group shows a sharp rise in human rights violations in areas under Palestinian control. A report published yesterday by the Ramallah-based Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), “offers a hint at the kind of scrutiny the Palestinian Authority might face after joining United Nations agencies...

In a surprising move, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Indonesian diplomat Makarim Wibisono to replace the controversial special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, Richard Falk. Though Falk’s term as rapporteur has come to a close, his wife, Hilal Elver, was appointed by the council to...

Israeli soldiers patrolling the Golan Heights can now see Islamist flags flying on the Syrian side of the border, The Tower has learned. Islamist groups have taken up positions to the south of Quneitra, the largest Syrian town close to Israel, particularly in the area of Kudneh.  “A-Raya flags with...