A surge of violence in Iraq, including as many as 15 car bombings, has left more than 50 people dead. Iraqi police officers said that many of the bombs went off in largely Shiite neighborhoods, heightening concerns that the sectarian conflict in Syria may spill over into a full-blown sectarian...

Gulf nations will impose sanctions on Hezbollah, with diplomats making a point of telling journalists that their approach will be harsher than the sanctions imposed by the European Union, which earlier this month blacklisted the so-called military wing of the Iran-backed terror group. Saudi Arabian paper Al-Watan, which cited an...

Observers are calling on the United Nations to mobilize sanctions against Hezbollah, after a European Union decision earlier this month saw the bloc blacklist the Iran-backed terror group. The move was broadly criticized for creating an untenable distinction between the group’s military wing and its so-called political wing. The Wall Street...

Bipartisan legislation is set to pass the House of Representatives this week that, if approved by the Senate, would significantly ratchet up sanctions against Iran over its illicit nuclear program. The Nuclear Iran Prevention Act is co-sponsored by Ed Royce (R-CA) and Eliot Engel (D-NY), respectively the chairman and ranking...

Members of Israel’s governing coalition sought this weekend and into Monday to dampen criticism of a Cabinet decision to release 104 jailed Palestinian terrorists – almost all convicted of murdering Israeli civilians – as a gesture toward Palestinian diplomats, who have been demanding the concession as a condition for returning...

Turmoil in Tunisia is threatening to further strain optimism originally engendered by the Arab Spring, after Egypt’s post-Spring Islamist government was overthrown in the wake of the largest national anti-government protests in human history. Like Egypt, Tunisia’s post-Spring government was led by Islamists. Like Egypt, that coalition is falling apart....

One of the two Palestinian negotiators sent to conduct exploratory peace talks in Washington has a less than peaceful social media presence, The Tower has learned. Mohammad Shtayyeh is a low-profile but veteran Palestinian negotiator. The 53-year-old was born and raised in the West Bank city of Nablus. He earned...

The European Union has begun implementing its unanimous decision, made earlier this week, to blacklist Hezbollah’s “military wing” as a terror organization. The E.U.’s Official Journal – a record of the bloc’s decisions and how they are implemented – added the “Hezbollah Military Wing” to its list of individuals and...

Palestinian officials have imposed further precondition that they are demanding Israel fulfill before they will sit down for peace talks scheduled to begin next week in Washington. A Palestinian source spoke to the left-leaning gazette Ha’aretz to explain the new ultimatum: The Palestinians will not take part in peace talks scheduled to...

A number of Jewish relief agencies are stepping forward to aid refugees from the Syrian civil war who have fled to Jordan. The left-leaning Israeli broadsheet Ha’aretz reports that a coalition of Jewish agencies will come together under the umbrella label of the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief, and will to...