Nasir al-Wuhayshi, the head of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) who last year was promoted to “General Manager” of Al Qaeda’s operations throughout the Muslim world, presided over a gathering of more than a hundred terrorists in Yemen threatening the United States. A video of the gathering surfaced recently, raising...

In the April 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, author and scholar, Joshua Muravchik, reviews John B. Judis’s new book Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict. In John B. Judis and the Future of Liberal Support for Israel, Muravchik looks not only at Judis’s premises and mistakes,...

The arrest of an Arab-Israeli human rights activist on suspicion of being recruited by Hezbollah threatened on Thursday to expand into a broader scandal over the role of a controversial U.S.-based non-profit that has been criticized for funneling money to anti-Israel organizations and activists, including to those that support waging...

The Turkish parliament on Thursday approved what both international and Turkish media described as a “controversial” new law widening the powers of the country’s National Intelligence Agency (MIT), a move that was widely read against the backdrop of ongoing efforts by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and...

The Associated Press late Thursday conveyed a statement from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) announcing that an agreement had been reached between its members, a deal that the wire described as “a possible first step toward bridging deep rifts among its six energy-rich Arab states.” Speaking to Arabic media outlets, Oman’s Foreign Affairs...

The Associated Press on Wednesday conveyed remarks from Iran’s defense minister doubling down on a long-standing Iranian red line ruling out any discussions of the country’s ballistic missile program in the context of ongoing nuclear negotiations between the P5+1 global powers and Tehran: Gen. Hossein Dehghan’s remarks rebuffed recent comments by U.S. State...

Israeli innovation has not only been good for Israel, but the lessons learned by the Israeli tech sector are being shared with others. Writing in the Times of Israel, Vijeta Uniyal, an Indian born entrepreneur tells of a recently launched program in which Israelis will teach female Indian entrepreneurs the...

Lockheed-Martin, one of the world’s largest defense contractors, just opened its first office in Israel. Marilyn Hewson, Lockheed’s CEO observed that the office’s location in the Beersheba Advanced Technologies Park (ATP) was intentional as “it is clear that Beersheba is on its way to becoming the Silicon Valley of Israel.”...

A pro-Israel hacking group launched a counter-attack against the Anonymous hacking group, exposing a number of their members by gaining control of their web cams. The exposure came a few days after the hackers launched the “Op Israel” attack on Israeli websites, April 7. The Israeli hackers, known as Israeli...

Palestinian media outlet Ma’an conveyed comments earlier this week by Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh declaring that the kidnap of Israeli soldiers was a “top priority” for the Iran-backed terror group: Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Tuesday that capturing Israeli soldiers was the best method for achieving freedom for...