Rumors emerged in recent weeks that Hezbollah – its brand as a Lebanese organization protecting Lebanese interests having been shattered by its involvement in the Syrian conflict – was untangling itself from that almost three year old conflict. A graphic video posted online and embedded below, which appeared to show...

Hezbollah’s global branding has for decades rested on the core claim that it is a Lebanese organization defending Lebanese interests. The group and its Iranian sponsors sought to characterize Hezbollah as engaging in what they termed “resistance” against Israel, rather than as being a global terror organization operating at the...

Scholars have struggled for quite literally decades to unpack the development and psychology of suicide terrorism. The indoctrination process involves not just propaganda but institutions which channel and ground particular kinds of ideological moves. A series of recent studies by Israeli Lt. Col. Anat Berko has sought to analyze, more...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) – the Geneva-based non-profit famous for hosting the annual Davos conference – just issued its first-ever Human Capital Index. The goal of the Index is, per a press release published by the organization, to identify “the most successful countries in the world when it comes...

A car bomb targeting Egyptian forces working to uproot terrorist infrastructure in the northern Sinai Peninsula killed four ysterday, a day after a roadside bomb wounded four army soldiers. The violence marks the latest efforts by jihadist groups operating in the area – many of which are linked to Al...

A series of announcements and moves out of Turkey – ranging from skepticism expressed by the country’s Turkish President Abdullah Gul to new developments in an anti-Israel show trial – have observers worrying that Ankara is backsliding on U.S.-driven efforts to achieve diplomatic rapprochement between Israel and Turkey. Israeli-Turkish relations...

Several weeks ago what Iranian officials described as a technical “glitch” briefly gave Iranian citizens access to banned Internet sites, including social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. The access was hailed by Western journalists as potentially “the start of a more tolerant attitude towards social media by the government”...

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea today slammed Hezbollah for trying to use purported threats to energy resources near the country’s coast as a pretext for generating tensions with Israel. Caretaker Energy Minister Gebran Bassil, a politician from the Hezbollah-allied Free Patriotic Movement, has begun a process by which energy companies...

White House officials announced Wednesday night that the Obama administration will substantially curtail assistance to Egypt, but that they aspired, according to the Washington Post, “to maintain a robust military and diplomatic partnership with Egypt.” Among other restrictions, the administration will withhold delivery on high-priority military items such as F-16...

New revelations aired this week on a Colorado radio station threaten to deepen a scandal that has for weeks dogged CNN, after the cable news station aired and then defended a mistranslation that had Iranian president Hassan Rouhani condemning the “Holocaust” in an interview with Christiane Amanpour. The remarks were...