Israel’s 66th Independence Day  (Yom Ha’atzmaut) was celebrated today. Every year the day before Independence Day, is Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) honoring those who fell in battle in defense of the country, as well as the many victims of terror who have died since the Jewish state was founded once...

Tehran is reportedly continuing to deny international nuclear inspectors access to the country’s Parchin military base, a site that Western diplomats and U.N. inspectors have long emphasized – per a 2011 report by the the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – shows “strong indicators” of having been used for explosives...

Outlets and journalists over the weekend and into Monday continued to unpack what the Washington Post bluntly described as the “failure” of Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent Israeli-Palestinian peace push, which had formally expired on April 29 but had functionally been suspended since the declaration of a unity agreement...

A Sri Lankan national arrested in India is suspected of planning terror attacks against the Israeli consulate in Bangalore (Bengaluru) and the American consulate in Chennai. Both cities are in southern India. The suspect is believed to be an agent of Pakistan’s intelligence service, ISI. Based on Indian media, Ynet...

An American delegation headed by National Security Adviser Susan Rice is heading to Israel later this week to discuss the upcoming P5+1 negotiations with Iran, scheduled to take place next week in Vienna. Lead American negotiator Wendy Sherman and other high-ranking administration officials will accompany Rice. They will primarily be meeting with Israel’s National Security...

The U.S. and the United Kingdom reported the first cases of the camel-borne Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus on their respective territories over the last few days, and aim to clamp down before it spreads and possibly kills. There have been 300-400 reported cases thus far, with 100 deaths. America...

Libyan parliamentarians elected the Islamist-backed Ahmed Mitig on May 4 as the country’s fifth prime minister since Muammar Gaddafi was forced from office in 2011. It was the latest success in the rise and rise of Islamists in the North African state. The vote was immediately condemned as illegal, including...

Lebanon’s NOW media outlet on Friday published a series of interviews and updates from the besieged Lebanese town of Tfail, which has been targeted by what NOW described as a “campaign of aerial bombardment against… civilians” by Hezbollah-backed forces loyal to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime: “For the past two nights,...

Emerging worries that a unity agreement between the rival Palestinian Fatah and Hamas factions would provide the latter with a badly needed lifeline seemed set to deepen on Friday, with multiple reports being published indicating that the Iran-backed terror group was surging in the Fatah-controlled West Bank. Hamas was reported...

The Daily Beast on Thursday cited a range of Western intelligence analysts converging on the assessment that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime not only has a secret cache of undeclared chemical weapons – which the outlet said included “crude chlorine-filled bombs, secret stockpiles of sophisticated nerve gasses or their components” –...