Jordan’s State Security Court sentenced six people to life in jail on April 2 for their role in a truck-bombing plot. In a 128-page decision issued on Wednesday, the tribunal sentenced Kataeb Al Tawheed leader Azmi Al Jayousi and five other terrorists to life for “conspiracy to commit terrorist acts” and...

Reuters reported Wednesday afternoon that Russia and Iran were advancing on a scheme that would see the Iranians bartering roughly 500,000 barrels of oil a day in exchange for Russian goods, a plan that the outlet said would “enable Tehran to boost vital energy exports in defiance of Western sanctions” and which the White...

Lawmakers in both chambers of Congress are moving to enact legislation that would prevent Iran from securing a visa for its newly appointed ambassador to the United Nations, just a day after Businessweek had already described the choice of Hamid Aboutalebi as creating a “dilemma” for President Barack Obama’s diplomacy toward the...

An official from Turkey’s main opposition party on Tuesday showed journalists a photograph of a top figure from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) standing next to a police chief and an election official as votes were counted in Antalya during the country’s March 30 local elections, the latest in a...

Recent weeks have seen an escalation of tensions between Hezbollah in Israel. Attacks on the Golan from Lebanon have brought about IAF responses to restore deterrence. The aggressiveness of Hezbollah and its growing threat to Israel raise the specter of another war. Lee Smith, senior editor at the Weekly Standard,...

Tensions among members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been further aggravated, when a top Dubai security official, General Dahi Khalfan stated that Qatar was the “eighth emirate” of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Last month Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar for “for interfering...

Despite U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s best efforts to bring Israel and the Palestinians together at the negotiating table and Israel’s support for continued peace talks, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has once again broken his word to Israel and the United States. In addition to rejecting the basic...

Spokesmen for Hamas hailed the apparent victory of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in municipal elections. One Hamas official, Salah Al-Bardawil, said: The reason behind our happiness at the victory of [Turkish premier Recep] Erdogan and his party is his closeness to the Palestinian cause because our assessment of...

Turkish security officials on Tuesday turned water cannons on protesters marching in reaction to widespread allegations that this weekend’s local elections – which saw the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan secure a plurality of the votes – were marked by fraud, intimidation, and mysterious power outages...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Tuesday conveyed recent figures from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) assessing that more than 150,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, amid another string of prominently reported gains by forces fighting on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...