Reuters reports that a soon-to-be-released report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will show that Iran is making advancements in developing nuclear infrastructure capable of providing Tehran with the option of building uranium- and plutonium-based nuclear weapons. A report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog is expected to show that Iran is pressing...

Secretary of State John Kerry this afternoon labeled Syria’s use of chemical weapons “undeniable,” declaring that U.S. officials will soon release “additional information” about what is widely believed to be a nerve gas attack conducted by the Bashar al-Assad regime against rebel-held suburbs of Damascus last week. “What we saw in...

The State Department this morning rushed to emphasize that Israeli-Palestinian peace talks were ongoing – “sustained and serious” was Foggy Bottom’s exact language – after Palestinian negotiators reportedly called off a meeting between Jerusalem and Ramallah in the aftermath of an incident this morning in which three Palestinians were shot and killed in clashes...

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad today rejected widely aired allegations by Western intelligence agencies that regime forces had used chemical weapons in a mass attack last week. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon had already said last Wednesday that “it was not the first time they used chemical weapons,” referring to previous...

Analysts are continuing to unpack Israeli and Egyptian military cooperation, amid confusing regarding a strike this month against jihadists in the northern Sinai Peninsula and after – according to foreign sources – a meeting took place last Tuesday in Cairo between a top Israeli security official and Egyptian counterparts. The...

Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s choice of Yossi Cohen, the outgoing deputy head of the Mossad, to be Israel’s new National Security Advisor. Cohen, 52 years old, made his career as a “case officer”: a spy-runner. Until Wednesday, under censorship restrictions, Cohen could only be...

Iranian media outlets are bragging that the Iran-backed Syrian army has pacified portions of Homs and the adjacent countryside. The claims come weeks after fierce fighting triggered the detonation of an ammunitions depot in the strategic Syrian city, killing at least 40 people. Rebels were at the time firing rockets...

A Thai court last week sentenced two Iranians on Thursday to between 15 years and life in prison for an attempted 2012 terror attack against Israeli diplomats stationed in Bangkok. The bombing attempt was one of at least 10 global terror plots that year, part of what the State Department...

A Jewish-American photojournalist was detained and tortured by jihadists in the Syrian city of Aleppo for seven months, after Al Qaeda-linked captured him last December. The New York Times on Friday published a harrowing front-page accoun of Matthew Schrier’s ordeal, including details of repated psychological and physical torture. Schrier, a...

Israelis are rushing to equip themselves and their families with gas masks, amid an escalation in the Syrian crisis and the widely suspected use of chemical weapons by the Bashar al-Assad regime. Syria has one of the world’s largest chemical-weapons arsenals, containing roughly 1,000 tons of nerve agents. The Israel...