Former Egyptian Finance Minister Hazem el-Beblawi has been named Egypt’s prime minister, as the country’s military moved to stabilize political chaos that began weeks ago when millions of anti-government protesters flooded into the streets demanding the ouster of the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked then-President Mohammed Morsi. Egypt’s interim president on Tuesday named liberal economist...

Syrian government troops continued their assault on Homs this week, threatening to fully wrest control of the strategic city from rebels who have used it to threaten the regime’s supply lines between Syria’s capital, Damascus, and the Mediterranean Sea. Syrian government troops unleashed a major artillery barrage on the city of Homs...

Dozens of terrorists linked to Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups have entered the Sinai Peninsula from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip with the intention of clashing with the Egyptian army, according to a senior Egyptian official. The official told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that Egyptian authorities have observed the entry of 150 Izz al-Din al-Qassam...

As tensions and violence in Egypt continue to simmer, some in the country are falling back into rhetorical and political tactics that have been prevalent throughout the country’s modern history. Discussing efforts by the Muslim Brotherhood to undermine Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour, the Washington Post highlights how Brotherhood officials are...

The growing chaos in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has again spilled over beyond the country’s borders. Gas supplies to Jordan were disrupted this weekened after a pipeline was attacked near el-Arish in the Sinai desert. The attack was not the first on that particular pipeline pipeline: A security source said that...

Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor assigned to investigate the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community in Buenos Aries that killed 87 and injured hundreds, has compiled an exhaustive report on his findings. He has issued an indictment outlining evidence and charges spanning 500 pages. He has laid out how Iran...

Speculation has been rife for weeks that Ron Dermer, a top adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will succeed Michael Oren as Israel’s ambassador to Washington.  An Israel Radio report suggested as much last week. This morning the rumors were seemingly confirmed by Emergency Committee for Israel Executive director...

At least 50 people were wounded Tuesday morning as a car bomb ripped through a Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut. The bomb went off in the poor, largely Shiite area of Dahiyeh, near a boulevard named after the Iran-backed terror group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah. The area was full of shoppers...

Having told The New York Times in late May that “[m]usic is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show,” Alicia Keys on July 4th entertained a sold-out crowd of fans at the Nokia Stadim in Tel Aviv....

A scandal that shook Qatari news channel Al Jazeera this afternoon – in which 22 of the the station’s staffers in Egypt resigned over what they allege is editorial control from Doha enforcing pro-Muslim Brotherhood coverage – is the latest in a series of controversies that have battered the station’s...