Hezbollah has struggled in recent months to contain the blowback from its involvement in the Syrian war, where the Iran-backed terror group’s forces have been critical in enabling the regime to erode years of opposition gains. In response to jihadist attacks on Hezbollah-dominated areas of Beirut, the group militarized their...

The Associated Press reported yesterday on political high drama unfolding in Tehran, where Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif briefly checked himself into a hospital citing physical pain caused by what he insists were fabricated statements attributed to him by the hardline newspaper Kayhan. The daily had quoted Zarif walking...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan met yesterday with top officials drawn from what Hamas describes as its political and military operations. A Hamas statement confirmed the attendance of among others Khaled Mashaal and Ankara-based Saleh al-Arouri. The two are respectively the terror group’s political bureau head and the founder of...

Among the security assurances given to Israel at the end of its 2006 war with Hezbollah was that an enlarged United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) – the peacekeeping force along the Israeli-Lebanese border – would fan across southern Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah from smuggling weapons into the region....

The Wall Street Journal last night broke the details on the package of concessions that Iran is preparing to offer the West in upcoming talks. The offer will, if accurately described, fall short of explicit U.S. demands outlined in recent weeks, which were underlined by repeated statements from top State...

CNN last night announced that they had a bit of a scooplet about Egypt, and that the White House planned to cut off aid to Cairo in the wake of the army’s July move to depose the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked former president Mohammed Morsi. The news came as a surprise...

Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas’s political bureau, had until recently never visited the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Over the years there had been many justifications – a primary one being that it kept him beyond the Israelis’ range – but the upshot was always that he remained physically separated from...

North Korea announced yesterday that it was placing its military on high alert. It warnedthe United States of “disastrous consequences” and an “unexpected horrible disaster” after the U.S. moved naval assets, including an aircraft carrier, into a South Korean port for what officials described as a routine trilateral search and...

National Security Adviser Susan Rice has stated that the administration will not accept any deal would “let Iran enrich its own uranium.” The State Department’s top figures, including Secretary of State John Kerry, subsequently stated multiple times that it considers no deal better than a deal that falls short of...

Analysts have worried since literally the first hours after the election of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani that the revolutionary-era cleric, who ran on a platform more moderate than his fellow regime-approved candidates, would be hamstrung by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The Supreme Leader controls Iran’s nuclear policy, and had...