U.S. officials have been pushing their Hungarian counterparts to robustly condemn the use of chemical weapons by the Bashar al-Assad regime. Hungary’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs had issued a statement condemning the use of chemical weapons in general, and welcoming an investigation to find out “who was responsible for this...

Hezbollah maintains an extensive terror network in the United States. It has sought to facilitate [PDF] attacks on U.S. airports. Its agents have targetted American embassies in Asia. A recent article by Matthew Levitt described how “the Hezbollah-Qods Force threat has sometimes eclipsed that of al-Qaeda.” In the context of...

Bipartisan endorsements for President Barack Obama’s request for an authorization to use military force against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime trickled in through most of the morning. On the Senate side, the president met with Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham. McCain subsequently declared that he had not made up...

Israel’s Defense Ministry confirmed this morning that Jerusalem had carried out a successful anti-missile exercise over the Mediterranean. The test – which came amid renewed, destabilizing threats of attack from the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria – was reportedly conducted as a joint exercise with the United States. The missiles...

An Egyptian air force raid near the border with Israel has left at least 15 Islamists dead. The raid was one of several moves – military and otherwise – that the country’s military is making to root out jihadist infrastructure in the restive Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian security forces have also...

Israel is undertaking an array of defensive measures in preparation for what Syria and Iran have promised will be attacks against the Jewish State should the West move against the Bashar al-Assad regime. Israeli officials have upped their efforts to prepare civilians for the attacks. Last Thursday Israel announced that...

Analysts unpacking the West’s approach to the Syria crisis have, among other things, turned to the importance that signal intelligence is playing in the policy and public debates over the war. Reports emerged over the weekend that British intelligence had intercepted exchanges between senior Syrian military figures explicitly ordering battlefield...

Egypt has appointed what the Wall Street Journal describes as a “mostly secular group” to draft the country’s next constitution. The group’s composition is being read as a contrast the controversial drafting of an Islamist constitution during the administration of Egypt’s former president Mohammed Morsi, during which women and religious...

Egyptian officials have increased their efforts to clamp down on goods flowing in and out of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The Iran-backed terror organization is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, and per The New York Times has been struggling since the Brotherhood-linked government of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi lost power...

Amid frustration at an inevitable Russian or Chinese veto of robust UN action targeting Syria in the aftermath of a mass chemical attack by the regime against opposition-controlled Damascus suburbs, the White House today pressed its case regarding potential military action. Criticism of the international bloc’s role in shielding the...