Analysts, diplomats, and journalists spent overnight Saturday and into Sunday outlining both the meaning and the implications of an interim agreement secured last night between the P5+1 global powers and Iran. Controversy erupted not just over the substance of the deal – whether it met the benchmark previously set by...

Israeli media outlets this morning conveyed and further contextualized an infographic, published yesterday by The Israel Project (TIP), evaluating the details of an agreement that the P5+1 global powers and Iran are reportedly close to signing. Arutz 7’s Ari Yashar stated that the graphic “offer[ed] detailed figures and analysis of...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last night doubled down on a controversial Wednesday speech in which he branded Israel a “rabid dog” – part of a diatribe in which he also declared that Israeli leaders “cannot be called humans” but “are like animals” – by posting images to Twitter...

Efforts by U.S. lawmakers to impose new financial pressure on Iran picked up momentum Thursday, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid committing to having the Senate vote to boost sanctions after the body’s Thanksgiving recess, and 14 other senators, hailing from both parties, declaring that they would cooperate to push...

A massive car bomb detonated yesterday in the Sinai Peninsula killed at least eleven Egyptian military personnel and injured dozens more, amid a months-long effort by the Egyptian army to uproot jihadist infrastructure and fighters from the increasingly anarchic territory: It was the deadliest attack against security forces since August and...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday lashed out at a range of actors and elements long described by Tehran as antagonists – including Israel and global powers seeking to negotiate a settlement over Iran’s nuclear program – leading Agence France Press to report that talks scheduled to begin shortly in Geneva...

Reports emerged late yesterday that Jibril Rajoub – a senior Palestinian official and for decades a top figure in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process – had earlier this month accused the United States of permitting Israel to assassinate former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat: In an interview given to official PA television earlier this month, Fatah...

The Associated Press describes a burgeoning “strange alliance” between Israel and Saudi Arabia, the latest development in what has become a cascade of regional adjustments by traditional U.S. allies concerned that Washington is ceding its traditional role as a regional power: In one of the region’s oddest pairings, Israel and the Gulf...

It’s been almost a month since European Union foreign policy head Catherine Ashton called on the rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to reconcile. The two groups have been openly at odds since at least 2007, when Hamas seized the Gaza Strip from Fatah in a bloody five day battle,...

Forces loyal to the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria today announced that they had pushed opposition fighters out of Qara, a mountain town that both sits on the road between Damascus and Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, and that has for years served as a key transit point for rebels. If...