The United Nations Security Council convened yesterday and called for “clarity” regarding the latest alleged chemical attack by the Bashar al-Assad regime. While some details of yesterday’s chemical attack near Damascus remain murky – different groups have so far have offered different estimates of the casualties – the evidence was...

The White House is blasting comments made by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan blaming Israel for the Egyptian military’s actions against former president Mohammed Morsi. Erdogan had discovered a 2011 video of French-Jewish intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy calling on the military to block the Brotherhood from taking power, and based on that...

Supporters of Egypt’s former president Mohammed Morsi are calling for “Friday of Martyrs” protests to be held later this week. These would follow last week’s “Day of Rage” demonstrations, which saw over 60 killed in what the Washington Post described as “violence involving the security forces, protesters and armed civilians on both sides of the nation’s widening...

Two car bombings have recently ripped through the Hezbollah-dominated Dahiyeh district of southern Beirut, months after Sunni rebels in Syria began threatening to retaliate against the Iran-backed terror group for providing troops to the Bashar al-Assad regime. Lebanese officials had become increasingly vocal in demanding that Hezbollah untangle itself and Lebanon from the...

New revelations are shedding light on the methods Iran is using to create a “halal Internet,” cleansed of material that the regime finds objectionable. University of Michigan computer science professor Alex Halderman has teamed up with two anonymous Iranians to conduct one of the first systematic studies of the scope...

New polling data published by the Pew Foundation indicates that Saudi Arabia – which has been public about floating Cairo economically as the Egyptian military moves to quell a wave of unrest – is building on a strong foundation of good will in Egypt. Field work conducted in March and...

Israel’s internal security organization the Shin Bet – roughly the equivalent of America’s FBI – has set up a new unit to confront the growing threat that jihadi groups in Egypt’s increasingly anarchic Sinai Peninsula may attack Israel. Intelligence and military analysts have increasing emphasized the scope of the threat....

Remarkable footage emerged this week of the inside of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, which after being stormed in 1979 was partially turned by Iran into a museum for anti-American and anti-Israel propaganda. Other parts of the complex were handed over to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Western media outlets...

Foreign policy and intelligence analysts are scrambling to untangle reports emerging overnight Wednesday from Syria, backed by photo and video evidence, that the Bashar al-Assad regime used chemical weapons to kill hundreds and maybe thousands of Syrian civilians in the East Ghouta region outside Damascus. Foreign Policy’s blog The Cable catalogs...

A top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared this week that Iran would never suspend its nuclear activities. He did explain, however, that the regime was willing to modify how it talked about not suspending its nuclear activities. Voice of America explains via the Associated Press: A...