Al Jazeera America (AJA) will launch in just over a month, a senior staffer confirmed on Monday. Ali Velshi – a Canadian who was CNN’s chief business correspondent and will now be one of AJA’s regular anchors – tweeted that the channel would begin broadcasts on August 20. Aug 20...

Iran’s installation of advanced nuclear infrastructure, including IR-2m centrifuges, risks enabling the regime to go nuclear “within a few weeks” once a political decision has been made to do so, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister spoke on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday and emphasized that Iran would...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Turkish media Sunday that he still considers the ousted Mohammed Morsi to be Egypt’s leader: “Currently, my president in Egypt is Morsi because he was elected by the people,” he told the pro-government Today’s Zaman. “If we don’t judge the situation like that it...

Growing concerns that violence from the increasingly anarchic Sinai Peninsula will spill over into Israel spiked over the weekend, as shots were fired on Israeli soldiers Sunday night. Israeli military officials responded to the incident by ramping up security in southern Israel. Jihadists have engaged in a string of attacks...

Hamas is manufacturing and testing rockets capable of striking Israel’s densely packed population centers. The missiles include a Gaza-built version of the advanced Iranian Fajr-5. Israel substantially degraded the Gaza-based terror group’s storehouses of advanced missiles during November’s Operation Pillar of Defense, which Jerusalem launched to stem months of increased...

Iran has struggled to establish a coherent position on the Egyptian army’s ouster of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi. On one hand, Egypt under Morsi – along with the rest of the region’s Sunni powers – had aligned opposite Shiite Iran in the Syrian conflict. There are rumors that Morsi...

More than one analyst has directly tied the decline and eventual ouster of former Egytpian president Mohammed Morsi to his administration’s mismanagement of the Egyptian economy. By the time Egyptian citizens launched the mass June 30 demonstrations that brought down Morsi’s government, fuel shortages were rampant and the country was...

On Tuesday an attack on a northern Sinai checkpoint killed two and injured six. Later that evening and overnight assailants launched attacks on an airport checkpoint and near an army base. On Wednesday gunmen opened fire on the car of a senior military commander. On Thursday a soldier was killed, reportedly trying to...

Opponents of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi plan to stage a demonstration in Cairo Friday evening, after thousands of the Islamist figure’s supporters staged rallies during the day: Crowds in Nasr City were chanting anti-military slogans, calling Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, the country’s army chief, a traitor for removing of Morsi from...

There are growing worries that the Syrian opposition may splinter, after top Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander Kamal Hamami was killed Thursday by Al Qaeda-linked militants in northern Syria. He was meeting with them so that the Sunni factions could coordinate moves against the Shiite-backed regime of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad....