Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah last week gave a fiery speech promising to double the number of troops that the Iran-backed terror group has fighting in Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime. The Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Tuesday slammed the speech: “At the same time that...

Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have poured into northern Iraq this week, after the Kurdish Regional Government that controls the area opened up a temporary bridge. Previously, the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees had registered 155,000 Syrian refugees in Iraq. The agency says the latest “exodus” is “among...

The Washington Post yesterday described moves being made by traditional American allies in the Gulf designed to bolster the Egyptian military as it moves to quell unrest in the country. Over 1,000 Egyptians have in recent days been killed in clashes between the army and supporters of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, as well as in...

Media watchers spanning the political spectrum – from the Washington Free Beacon to Bloomberg and Atlantic columnist Jeffrey Goldberg – expressed something between resignation and outrage yesterday, as Al Jazeera America aired within hours of its launch an interview with Harvard professor and noted conspiracy theorist Stephen Walt. The interview...

Earlier this year veteran Israeli journalist and Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz evaluated advances in Israeli water technology and concluded that it had functionally eliminated a water crisis that had been plauging the country: But for Israel, for the foreseeable future… the water crisis is over…. an insistent...

Switzerland has nominated to the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) a candidate who is a vocal defender of Hezbollah, of Holocaust deniers, and of the Gaddafi regime. Tweeting about Jean Ziegler’s nomination, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power did not mince words: .@UNWatch: Indeed. Dr. Ziegler is unfit for...

Hezbollah has been under increasingly vocal criticism by Lebanese officials for entangling the country in the Syrian war. The leader of one of Lebanon’s largest Christian political parties declared that the Iran-backed terror group was plunging the country “into fire.” A top Hezbollah commander was reportedly killed last week during a battle in Syria outside of...

Palestinian media sources are printing quotes leaks from both sides, after a weekend meeting between Hamas and Fatah aimed at achieving reconciliation between the two Palestinian factions fell short: A meeting held late Sunday to discuss political reconciliation failed to make progress as the Hamas movement rejected the idea of...

At least 25 Egyptian police officers were murdered yesterday by suspected Islamists who ambushed two police minibuses traveling near border between Sinai Peninsula and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. CBS News described the situation as a “bloodletting.” The Associated Press characterized the killings as “execution-style.” The details are brutal: The militants forced...

Rumors have been circulating all day that Hossam Ali Nisr, a top Hezbollah commander, was killed in Damascus. If confirmed, the incident will be read both as a substantive loss to the Iran-backed terror group and as confirmation of Hezbollah’s deep involvement in the Syrian conflict. Some Lebanese news outlets...