Analysts have begun to unpack the implication of reports – published in Arabic and Israeli news outlets earlier this month – to the effect that Hamas has rebuilt ties with Iran and with Tehran’s Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah. The reports detailed meetings which took place at Iran’s Beirut embassy and...

Analysts and diplomats continue to debate the consequences of a potential military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. Last week Israel’s minister for international affairs Yuval Steinitz told an interviewer that Iranian retaliation against Israel in the aftermath of any strike would do “very limited damage” because Israel “can intercept many”...

The bloody war in Syria which has claimed more than 100,000 lives and driven an estimated 3 million residents out of the country into refugee camps in neighboring Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. There have been periodic predictions that the regime is on the verge of collapse. Bluntly put, the end...

An expose published over the weekend by the Washington Post highlights the role that all-expense-paid trips to Iranian indoctrination camps are playing in the Islamic republic’s ongoing efforts to penetrate the Americas. Tehran has sought for decades to bolster its presence in Latin America. Iranian strategists reportedly view the region...

Much of the spillover from the Syrian conflict has been in the form of hardening sectarian tensions, with countries such as Lebanon and Iraq splitting along Sunni and Shiite lines. The brute strain of managing refugees, meanwhile, has destabilized countries such as Jordan and to a lesser extent Turkey. Inside...

Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Martin Dempsey met yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a range of issues The Israeli leader afterward declared in a press conference that Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons “dwarfs” other regional threats. Yaakov Lappin, the Jerusalem Post’s defense correspondent, had contextualized Dempsey’s trip...

A series of setbacks are complicating attempts by rebels, who have seen their positions steadily erode in recent months, to regain momentum in the Syria’s protracted conflict. Over the weekend rebels launched an offensive against the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, part of a series of moves by opposition groups...

Turkey’s Hurriyet discusses recent promotions and demotions in the country’s military, concluding that they highlight the extent to which Ankara’s ruling Islamist Justice and Development Party is succeeding in eroding the influence of army figures. The article specifically deals with defense procurement issues. An annual reshuffling, the article states, “underlines full government control over defense...

The BBC reports on “a further backlash” against Egypt’s Christians, who have found themselves increasingly subject to physical attacks – up to and including several murders – at the hands of Islamists who support former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. The Coptic Orthodox Church is one of Christianity’s oldest, founded in Alexandria around 50 AD....

Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system yesterday intercepted a rocket fired from the Egypt-controlled Sinai Peninsula and aimed at the southern resort city of Eilat. Islamist militants operating in the lawless desert peninsula said they fired the rocket at the city, which was packed with tourists, in retaliation for the killing of...