The Washington Post reported earlier this week that images smuggled out of a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria show “disturbing images of emaciated children and elderly people” and indicate that there are thousands of residents in the Yarmouk camp at risk of starvation, the result of a siege being maintained by Syria’s...

A referendum asking Egyptians to approve the country’s new constitution has passed overwhelmingly, with Reuters reporting late on Wednesday that official figures had roughly ninety percent of voters pulling the lever in favor. “The approval of the constitution is perhaps more than 95 percent,” Major General Abdel Fattah Othman, director of public...

The erosion of American influence in the Middle East has created power vacuums which are being filled by geopolitical rivals from across the region, forcing Washington’s allies to “take matters into their own hands,” according to analysis published Wednesday in the New York Times. Michael Doran and Max Boot – senior fellows...

A recent speech by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas – in which the Palestinian leader declared that “there will be no peace” unless several contentious Palestinian demands were fully met, and several Israeli red lines were definitively crossed – has triggered concerns that the current Palestinian leadership may be...

Reuters yesterday conveyed statements from “senior Egyptian security officials” declaring that the country’s military – having largely suppressed the Muslim Brotherhood within Egypt’s borders – will now shift to eroding the Brotherhood’s Palestinian offshoot Hamas. “Gaza is next,” said one senior security official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the...

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer blasted the White House on Tuesday for accusing U.S. lawmakers who favor pressuring Iran of seeking to drag America into a war. “There have been some that have suggested in the White House that those folks were more interested in war than they were in the resolution...

A central White House argument against Senate legislation that would impose future sanctions on Iran should negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program fail – that any bill doing so would drain bilateral good will necessary for diplomacy to succeed – may now face deepening skepticism after top Iranian government officials engaged...

Journalists and analysts struggled yesterday to evaluate how the weekend announcement regarding the Joint Plan of Action (JPA) – revealing that the deal’s implementation will begin January 20th, at which point the six month negotiations clock will start ticking – would affect a legislative push in the Senate to lock in...

The White House is refusing to make public the details of the implementation agreement codified this weekend regarding the Joint Plan of Action (JPA), and has even reportedly committed to a secret side deal with Iran that describes the concessions that the Islamic republic is obligated to make. The Los Angeles Times late on Monday conveyed...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was laid to rest yesterday in a funeral attended by what the Washington Post described as “Israel’s political and military establishment, joined by Vice President Biden and former British prime minister Tony Blair,” with those attending lauding the decorated Israeli war hero and statesman for his...