An interview with Abdel Fattah al-Sisi aired Monday – the first televised sit-down that the presumptive future president has done during the current campaign – saw Sisi declaring that the Muslim Brotherhood would not be allowed to operate as a national movement under his administration, accusing the Islamist movement of...

Hurriyet Daily News on Tuesday reported that Turkey’s parliament, which is controlled by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), had established what the outlet described as a “single inquiry commission… dominated by the [AKP] itself,” to investigate graft charges against four former AKP ministers from the government of AKP...

A Hezbollah-linked member of Lebanon’s parliament took to Voice of Lebanon radio to declare that lawmakers from his Loyalty to the Resistance bloc would exercise what he described as their “constitutional right not to enter parliament,” setting up a deadlock in what will be that body’s third attempt to elect...

Reuters reported on Monday that a delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – the U.N.’s atomic watchdog – would be holding talks until Tuesday on among other things “how the U.N. agency would monitor a planned heavy-water reactor near the town of Arak,” which the West has long...

When Pope Francis arrives in Jerusalem at the end of May, among those to greet him will be the Lebanese-based Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, unless Lebanese politicians prevent his trip to an “enemy state.” In responding to threats and criticism, al-Rahi said: “I am the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and...

Although Israel’s national soccer team did not qualify for this year’s World Cup to be held in Brazil, there will be an Israeli presence at the games. An Israeli security firm, Risco Group, will be providing security at the newly built Arena Patanal soccer stadium, in Cuiabá, Brazil. According to the Israeli...

The Rialto Unified School District in San Bernardino County, just east of Los Angeles, found itself the subject of negative attention when it was reported earlier this week that the district gave its eighth graders an assignment to debate whether the Holocaust occurred, or whether it was “merely a political scheme...

In the wake of a meeting between Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal, the Foreign Ministry expressed its support for the recently concluded unity accord between Hamas and Fatah. The Foreign Ministry statement said: In the course of the meeting the main focus...

South African security site DefenceWeb on Monday rounded up developments surrounding last week’s announcement by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) that he would block additional security assistance to the Egyptian army as a result of his “growing dismay” at Cairo’s heavy-handed tactics against the Muslim Brotherhood, a move that came after...

A top Hamas official declared over the weekend that the possibility of disarming the Iran-backed terror group never came up during unity discussions between it and the rival Fatah faction, a boast that seems set to widen concerns that the agreement – which among other things envisions a single Palestinian...