A recent announcement from a top Turkish official – in which Science, Industry, and Technology Minister Fikri Isik declared that Ankara will begin indigenously producing weapons in order to circumvent potential import restrictions from supplier countries – has left “Western diplomats and military officials… puzzled” over Turkey’s intentions, according to...

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to impose an arms embargo on Damascus, generally citing a surge in the deployment of so-called “barrel bombs” by the Bashar al-Assad regime: Its statement comes more than two months after a February 22 Security Council resolution demanding...

Iran is reportedly set to bust through oil sale caps set by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) for the sixth straight month, according to a report published late Tuesday by Reuters assessing that the Islamic republic will have managed to send abroad an average of 1.1 million barrels...

Reuters on Tuesday conveyed remarks made by Mahmoud Al-Zahar – a former Hamas foreign minister who the outlet described as one of the terror group’s “most influential voices” – emphasizing that Hamas would maintain its commitment to the eradication of Israel in the aftermath of a recently revealed unity agreement...

Israeli high-tech companies raised $673 million in venture capital during the first quarter of 2014. Reuters reported on the findings of the Israel Venture Capital (IVC) Research Center: “The bullish U.S. capital market and capital raising for technology companies via IPOs on Nasdaq in the last 12 months have been drivers of venture capital, both...

The United States is reportedly ready to provide an anti-missile shield to its allies in the Gulf, raising questions about American confidence in its ability to rein in Iran’s expanding conventional and non-conventional capabilities. According to the Global Security Newswire: The planned antimissile deployments would be an answer to Iran’s...

Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari is of the opinion that his warships’ missions on the high seas are playing “a vital role” in affecting Tehran’s nuclear talks with the P5+1. “The presence of our Navy (in international waters) is even important for the nuclear talks,” Rear Admiral Sayyari...

Lebanese lawmakers are theoretically meant to elect a new president with a second round of voting on April 30, but the two key blocs led by Hezbollah and the pro-Western MP Saad Hariri cannot agree on a consensus candidate. Under Lebanon’s complex, confessional-based political system, in which top political posts are...

Secretary of State John Kerry late Monday issued what was widely described as an “unusual” statement walking back remarks made to a conference last week in which he told influential world leaders that Israel may become an “apartheid” state should it fail to quickly secure a two-state solution to the...

The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) on Sunday announced that the group’s central committee had adopted a plan under which the Palestinians would seek to join 60 United Nations bodies and international treaties, per a report by Agence France-Presse (AFP) subsequently cited in both Arabic and Israeli media: Palestine People’s Party...