In response to rocket attacks earlier this week, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned Gaza’s Hamas rulers against allowing an escalation against Israel just as Hamas was negotiating a unity deal with the Palestinian Authority. Though rocket attacks against Israel’s southern residents saw a reduction after Operation Pillar of Defense in...

The Lebanese government on Tuesday reported progress in providing relief to residents of the besieged border town of Tfail, a remote Lebanese outpost functionally accessible only via Syrian roads, has been subject to isolation and bombardment by Hezbollah-backed forces fighting on behalf of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime. The Iran-directed terror...

The two leading Palestinian factions – Fatah and Hamas – announced this morning a unity agreement, part of which will include the formation of a cabinet that brings the Fatah-controlled West Bank and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip under the control of a single government. The two territories have been ruled...

The Associated Press on Tuesday described Syrian rebels as “making their last desperate stand in Homs,” as forces loyal to the Bashar al-Assad regime pressed what has been an unsteady march of advances across the war-torn country. Some among the hundreds of rebels remaining in the city talk of surrender, according...

Top Palestinian figures spent much of Tuesday walking back statements – aired in recent days by a range of Palestinian Authority (PA) figures, including reportedly by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas himself – threatening to dissolve the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) if Israel refused to make sufficient concessions to entice Ramallah...

Like the city of Pompeii was at once destroyed and preserved by the volcanic ash that settled upon it from the violent eruption of nearby Mt. Vesuvius in the year 79 CE, the village of Kantur on the Golan Heights was both destroyed and preserved by a massive earthquake nearly 700...

A top official linked to Iran’s atomic agency bragged this week that a critical uranium-related concession made by Tehran under the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) could be reversed in a matter of weeks, part of a broader speech that included boasts about the quality of new Iranian centrifuges –...

Despite protests from dozens of lawmakers, Tunisia’s Interim Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa decided to allow Israeli tourists to visit the North African country even though there are have been no diplomatic relations with Israel since 2000. “There is a decision to allow Israeli tourists into Tunisia,” Jomaa said at an...

Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News over the weekend characterized the country’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as having broken new legal ground after the Turkish leader applied for damages from the Turkish state as part of an ongoing controversy related to Twitter: The move has been described as a “first of...

Reuters on Monday conveyed statements from Iranian officials describing efforts by the regime to prepare a document that would comprehensively lay out the development of the country’s weapons program, a statement that the outlet read alongside long-standing and explicit demands from the West that Tehran must account for possible military...