Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forces party, last week became the latest in an increasingly diverse group of Lebanese political leaders to blast Hezbollah for undermining the country’s stability. Domestic critics of the Iran-backed terror group have become open in demanding that it untangle itself from the Syrian...

What seemed to be a never ending trial of hundreds of Turkish officials accused of attempting to overthrow Ankara’s elected government culminated last Monday with verdicts. After five years the Turkish court in Silivri, a town in the outskirts of Istanbul, sentenced at least 18 people including General Ilker Basburg,...

Hamas authorities in Gaza are intensifying their crack down on political activity across a number of platforsm. The Palestinian terror group si reportedly driven, among other things, by fears that the territory could experience mass protests like those that overthrow the organization’s Muslim Brotherhood allies in Egypt. Gazan activists, unhappy...

Jane’s Defense Weekly this week published new satellite imagery showing that Iran has built a new rocket launch site. The purpose of the site, according to experts, is not in doubt: Analysts said the unfinished site 25 miles south east of the city of Shahrud has no storage for the liquid...

Earlier this month, a Coptic Christian man was found beheaded in the Sinai Peninsula. Scores of Christian homes have been burned. Massive intimidation marches, death threats, and a string of attacks have all increased in recent weeks, amid Islamist conspiracy theories that blame Christians for the removal from power of former President Mohammed...

Two months ago Israeli officials reported that a record-breaking number of tourists were visiting the country. The exact figures on the boost that those tourists were providing to the Israeli economy, however, hadn’t yet been worked out. Israel’s Tourism Ministry recently took its victory lap: “In recent years, revenue from...

Hezbollah has taken more than one diplomatic hit for the critical support that it has provided to the Bashar al-Assad regime, which has allowed Syrian forces to erode two years of rebel gains. Militarily, however, the Syrian war has disciplined the group and hardened its fighters. The result – for...

The proposed cabinet of recently inaugurated Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is providing diplomats and analysts with new information about the likely policies – and, perhaps as importantly, tone – that a Rouhani administration is likely to set. Initial expressions of optimism, made by foreign policy analysts who hoped to see...

Israel’s Foreign Ministry held a virtual meeting Tuesday with residents of Persian Gulf states, engaging them in a Twitter chat on the “official channel of the virtual Israeli embassy to GCC countries.” Rafi Barak, the normally low-profile ministry director-general, held court, assisted by staffers translating queries and responses into Arabic....

The U.S. is intensifying drone strikes against Al Qaeda elements in Yemen. Two Thursday drone strikes – the sixth and seventh in the last two weeks – killed at least nine suspected terrorists. The heightened activity comes as the West scrambles to deal with a suspected Al Qaeda plot. Dozens...