The Egyptian army moved this week against jihadist elements in the northern Sinai Peninsula, near the border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, in the aftermath of an ambush on an Egyptian military convoy. At least 72 terror suspects were detained in the ensuing raids. The anti-terror campaign comes amid ongoing...

After weeks of polling showing that he would trounce his opponent and secure a second term as mayor of Jerusalem, high-tech entrepreneur Nir Barkat on Tuesday did indeed handily defeat Moshe Lion, a former director of the Prime Minister’s bureau. Barkat won by 6 points and garnered an absolute majority,...

Iran has publicly signaled that the international community’s demands that it halt enrichment, codified in half a dozen United Nations Security Council resolutions, is a non-starter. The New York Times has explained that Iran has installed thousands of new centrifuges in the last year, many of them more sophisticated than...

The West amid a spike in terrorism in the West Bank that has seen five attacks leaving three Israelis killed and a young girl shot in front of her parents’ home. The upsurge is in part the result of concentrated efforts by Hamas to rebuild its West Bank terror infrastructure, a campaign reportedly...

Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida is reporting that the Israeli air force on Tuesday destroyed a shipment of missiles near the Syrian-Lebanese border and bound for the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah. If confirmed, the interception would not be the first time that Jerusalem has reportedly acted to enforce its long-declared red line...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday lashed out against NATO in response to criticism regarding a $3.4 billion deal for Chinese missiles, the integration of which would according to Western officials functionally introduce a “virus” into NATO’s command and control infrastructure. The deal would see Turkey purchase missile...

The White House today issued a statement marking thirty years since a Hezbollah suicide bomber attacked the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon, killing 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and 3 soldiers in the “the deadliest single-day death toll for the U.S. Marine Corps” since World War II. New York Governor Andrew...

Israel’s new ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer last week made his first speech since taking up his post. The speech took place in Los Angeles and among other things outlined the contours of what a deal over Iran’s nuclear program would have to contain to robustly assure that Iran...

Over the weekend Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called on Palestinians to launch another war against Israel, triggering speculation by analysts that the terror group was desperate to restore its flagging popularity by orchestrating spectacular violence against Israel. A website affiliated with Hamas’s Al Qassam Brigades is now conveying comments...

Syrian National Coalition President Ahmad Jarba is signaling that elements of the Syrian opposition will boycott proposed peace talks unless the negotiations’ goal is to facilitate the removal from power of the Bashar al-Assad regime, after Assad stated that not only is he not considering stepping down, but that he sees no reason why he shouldn’t...