Analysts are focusing on deepening concerns that Turkey may be moving away from the West and pivoting both toward geopolitical rivals such as China and regional antagonists such as Iran. Newsweek describes Ankara’s moves as a shift toward an Islamist model: But recent dramatic shifts in policy may also be part of...

The U.S.’s Israeli and Arab allies are said to be furious over a deal, which the West is widely reported to be close to finalizing with Iran, which would see Iran make limited concessions on its nuclear program in exchange for financial relief that Mark Dubowitz, executive director at the...

Several media outlets today gave prominent coverage to the release of a 108-page report by the University Centre of Legal Medicine evaluating claims that former Palestinian Authority (PA) President Yasser Arafat had been poisoned by polonium. The report was described by some Western outlets as concluding that Arafat was “probably poisoned with...

Details continued to emerge throughout the day regarding the likely terms of an interim agreement between the international community and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program, amid increasing skepticism from U.S. policymakers that the deal being worked out would substantially check the Islamic republic’s ability to sneak across the nuclear...

Analysts and diplomats are increasingly concerned that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations, responding to what they perceive as Western willingness to leave Iran’s nuclear program largely intact, may turn to Pakistan in order to purchase nuclear weapons off the shelf. Top global figures including President Barack Obama have been unequivocal that...

Reuters today evaluated the efforts of Secretary of State John Kerry to dampen an increasingly public spat between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia over a range of issues. The wire noted that strain has emerged “particularly on Syria’s civil war and the nuclear dispute with Iran.” It also assessed that,...

Hamas’s varied efforts to radicalize children in the Gaza Strip have traditionally run the gamut from television shows with Jew-eating rabbits to summer camps training child soldiers to social media posts glorifying child martyrs. The terror group has now found a more direct way to pass on its ideology of...

Israeli negotiators have long emphasized that any robust Israeli-Palestinian peace deal must include a formal recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. Israeli officials have gone so far as to foreground the issue as one covering “90% of the conflict,” and it was described in 2011 by Israeli Prime Minister...

Skepticism of Iranian intentions – a crucial variable in evaluating the degree to which the U.S. should be willing to offer concessions to the Islamic republic during upcoming talks over Tehran’s nuclear program – has been aired with various intensity in recent days by American, Arab, and Israeli leaders. Media...

Qatar had engaged in a broad PR campaign to secure hosting rights to the 2020 World Cup. Per a partner at the firm that ran Qatar’s campaign, the sporting event was supposed to “give the world its first real opportunity to have a very close look at the modern Middle...