The Telegraph Wednesday described the Turkish government as having launched “the biggest purge of the judiciary in the country’s history,” with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) “firing and reassigning senior judges and prosecutors,” in what has escalated into a near-existential struggle between the AKP...

Earlier this month both the New York Times and the Washington Post published articles focusing on anti-Israel and anti-Jewish demonization by Palestinian leaders. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) earlier this week introduced Congressional legislation that would tie future aid to an end to calls and exhortations to violence. It is an...

Israel’s Shin Bet security service appears to have confirmed that Israeli officials captured three Al Qaeda-linked Palestinian terrorists plotting a mass-casualty terrorist attack against the American embassy in Israel. Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) lifted a gag order Wednesday and announced it has arrested three terrorists, Iad Abu Sara (24) and Rubin...

The BBC yesterday provided an overview of today’s Geneva 2 opening session – being held in Montreux, Switzerland, with the aim of dampening the violence in Syria’s almost three-year war – describing “extraordinarily ill-tempered scenes and some very direct language.” At a fractious evening news conference, during which there were repeated calls...

Multiple outlets and analysts are assessing that the West’s reduction of sanctions on Iran, implemented on Monday per the Joint Plan of Action (JPA) agreed to by the P5+1 global powers and Tehran, has triggered a “gold rush” into the Islamic republic as companies and nations scramble not to be...

Controversy is likely to deepen in the coming days regarding the Obama administration’s refusal to publicly release the text describing how the Joint Plan of Action (JPA) is to be implemented, after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told CNN late on Wednesday that the White House’s public description “both underplays [Western] concessions...

Observers fear that escalating Palestinian rocket fire will trigger deterioration along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, months after assessments began to harden that the Palestinian Hamas faction was seeking to escalate violence in order to boost its precipitously deteriorating regional and domestic positions. On Monday rocket fire forced school closures in the Israeli city of...

The rollout to the Geneva 2 conference stumbled over the weekend and into yesterday, marked by a series of diplomatic missteps regarding the conference’s composition and violence in Lebanon that underscored the degree to which instability in the region may deepen regardless of the talks’ outcome. A car bomb detonated...

Analysts at the U.S.-based Institute of Science and International Security (ISIS) Monday published a report [PDF] describing what steps Iran would be obligated to take under a comprehensive nuclear agreement, should that agreement robustly impose barriers on the Islamic republic’s ability to produce nuclear weapons. The Wall Street Journal noted that the “prescriptions aren’t viewed as...

The World Bank’s recently released Global Economic Prospects report shows that Iran’s economy is expected to steadily grow in the coming years, the latest analysis reinforcing what Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, described Monday as “broad agreement that Iran’s economy is showing signs of recovery and...