Two young girls were among the four people killed outside a church Sunday in the Egyptian city of Giza, the latest in what the Associated Press described in early August as a “stepped-up hate campaign” against the country’s Coptic Christian community. Samuel Tadros, a Research Fellow at Hudson Institute’s Center...

There has been some confusion over the degree to which the Iranian regime has moderated its rhetoric in the aftermath of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s election. On October 1st there was something of a media dust-up regarding the possibility that some top Iranian officials had ceased publicly denigrating Israel as...

Israeli-Nigerian ties have both deepened and broadened in recent years, after a relative low point four years ago when Nigeria’s then-foreign minister made a point of publicly castigating his Israeli counterpart. Half a year later a new Nigerian government under Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan took over. Abuja subsequently increased both...

Hamas officials are scrambling to halt what has become a broadly acknowledged slide in the organization’s international position and domestic popularity. After making a series of bad gambles – betting heavily on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood being the most damaging – the group finds itself in a tailspin. Some of...

The Department of Defense announced on Thursday that it intends to sell $10.8 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with Bloomberg describing the move as designed to send “a message of support” to Gulf allies known to be increasingly critical of the Obama’s administration’s general...

Turkish diplomats scrambled for a second day to contain the fallout from a Washington Post bombshell published late Wednesday night, as journalists published more details surrounding allegations that top Turkish officials – including the country’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and its intelligence chief Hakan Fidan – deliberately burned 10...

The Washington Post on Thursday brushed off repeated Iranian assertions that the Islamic republic has an absolute “right” to enrich uranium, matter-of-factly noting that “no ‘right’ to enrich uranium exists in the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” that enrichment is not “needed for a nuclear program,” that “many countries using nuclear power do...

The Obama administration is said to be considering a proposal that would provide non-sanctions financial relief to Iran in exchange for Iranian nuclear program concessions, giving the administration the flexibility to reciprocate confidence building measures without threatening the delicate sanctions regime widely credited for bringing Tehran to the bargaining table....

The launch of a new website may reignite a smoldering media controversy over how Palestinian rock throwing – a common tactic directed at Israeli civilians and police forces – is portrayed. Last August the New York Times was blasted by media outlets and watchdog groups for what they described as...

In a story published last week about Israeli innovation, The Tower noted that stories about record-setting acquisitions by U.S. technology giants are becoming fairly routine. The specific post described how Israel had just been ranked among world leaders in the development of human capital, and the mention of routine tech...