Israeli officials are urging the United States to release ten Apache helicopters for sale to the Egyptian army. A high-ranking official in Jerusalem said Israel clarified that supplying the helicopters is crucial to Egypt’s fight Against jihadist organizations in the Sinai, and will improve regional security. Collaboration on security between...

The U.S. and EU’s response to the crisis in Ukraine may induce Russia to “raise the stakes” by revising its stance on nuclear talks with Iran, per statements by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov conveyed on Wednesday by Reuters. “We wouldn’t like to use these talks as an element of the game...

One of Hezbollah’s closest allies, lawmaker and retired army general Michel Aoun, says there is a “serious possibility” he will run for the presidency of Lebanon in the spring election. This would add to the anti-Western alliance’s ever-increasing influence over Lebanese politics and the country’s military. Aoun is currently showing...

Before the last election in Israel in January 2013, American punditry was rife with speculation about the “Shift to the Right” among Israelis, according to which the Jewish state had morphed into an unrecognizable haven of unbridled nationalism. After the elections shattered the myth, suggesting a far more plausible shift...

A war of words between leading Palestinian figures has erupted in recent days–underscoring the virulent anti-Israel rejectionism pervading the Palestinian leadership. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas accused the PA’s former security chief in Gaza, Mohammed Dahlan, of being a “spy” for Israel, and accused Dahlan’s man in the Ain...

Hezbollah has launched a multi-lingual news application for iPhones and iPads, the latest weapon in its hate-ware against the U.S., Sunni Muslims and Israel. The Lebanese-based, Iranian-funded Hezbollah describes the app known as LCG as “an application that brings news from all around the world.” Nowhere on the Apple pages...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday told army radio that Jerusalem would “act forcefully to preserve Israel’s security,” after a blast near the country’s Golan Heights border with Syria wounded three soldiers in what The Guardian contextualized as “one of several incidents this month on Israel’s northern borders with Syria and Lebanon.”...

The Syrian army’s capture of what had been the rebel stronghold of Yabroud – accomplished with critical assistance from Hezbollah, to the point where the battle is being grudgingly described on social media as a “triumph” for the Iran-backed terror group – is likely to increase blowback against Lebanese targets, according to...

Reports in Hebrew- and English-language Israeli media outlets on Tuesday conveyed quotes accusing the White House of blocking the sale of 10 Apache helicopters to Cairo. An Egypt military source said to the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat that the White House is impeding an arms deal between US and Egypt according to which the US...

The Associated Press yesterday quoted a European Union official describing renewed talks between Iran and the P5+1 global powers as getting into the “nitty-gritty,” after weeks in which top Iranian officials had repeatedly underscored their red lines against dismantling their uranium infrastructure, downgrading their plutonium-producing Arak reactor, or limiting their ballistic missile program. Obama administration...