Open and even virulent criticism of Hezbollah for providing critical assistance to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime has become a mainstay of Arab discourse. Now that sentiment is taking hold in the group’s home country of Lebanon. Former Lebanese president and current Phalangist leader Amin Gemayal called this week for Hezbollah...

Forty-nine U.S. lawmakers have signed a letter praising the European Union for its decision last month to partially blacklist Hezbollah. There is, however, one significant caveat: A letter signed by 49 members of Congress thanked the European Union for designating Hezbollah’s military wing as a terrorist organization but strongly urged the EU...

The Obama administration is softening reported past resistance to a potential Israeli military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. The shift is modest and – inasmuch as the administration’s actual position has been guarded by the highest levels of secrecy – difficult to measure. Nonetheless the IDF’s Intelligence Directorate Amos Yadlin...

The growth and consolidation of Al Qaeda-linked groups in the Sinai Peninsula is under renewed focus. A story published yesterday by the Daily Beast disclosed that the global terror alert recently issued by the United States was the result of information gathered when an Al Qaeda conference call was intercepted...

The Israeli Defense Forces and U.S. European Command last week concluded two weeks of military exercises as part of regularly scheduled training exercises between the allies. Juniper Stallion 13 and Noble Melinda 13 were concurrent air force and navy exercises. The IDF ran down the purpose of the exercises: Juniper Stallion 13...

In 2006 proliferation experts began to call attention to Iran’s efforts to build a “plutonium bomb factory” at its Arak facility, which contains a heavy water production plant and a nuclear reactor capable of using the heavy water to produce plutonium. Last February the Telegraph published exclusive images demonstrating that...

Egyptian authorities will prevent Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan from going through with a plan that would have seen the Islamist official travel to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip through Egypt, according to sources who spoke to Egyptian media outlets. The development is the result of multiple Middle East dynamics. The Egyptian...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has named Hassan Rouhani’s predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Iran’s Expediency Council, a top arbitration body that has supervisory and arbitration powers over other parts of the Iranian government, including the country’s powerful Council of Guardians. In announcing the appointment, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised Ahmadinejad’s “worthy efforts”...

Hezbollah’s intervention into Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime has triggered a severe deterioration in the group’s stature in the Middle East, to the point where the anti-Israel rhetoric that has traditionally rallied support to the group is falling flat in the Arab world. Shiite Hezbollah has proven...

Recently inaugurated Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged this week to “stand by [the Bashar al-Assad regime] in facing all challenges,” adding fuel to a fiery debate raging in the foreign policy community over the degree to which the revolutionary cleric is willing or able to alter Iran’s confrontational posture toward the West....