Palestinian terrorists launched rockets at Israel on Sunday, marking a violation of the mostly stable ceasefire that has taken hold since Israel completed its Operation Pillar of Defense last November, which saw Jerusalem substantially degrade the advanced weaponry and military leadership of the Palestinian Hamas faction. The rocket launched was...

Egypt is fast approaching what are expected to be massive demonstrations on June 30, marking the one year anniversary of the inauguration of the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked President Mohamed Morsi. Anti-government groups this weekend published literal roadmaps to guide protesters: “On 27 June, a rally is planned to take place...

This weekend’s Palestinian rocket fire into Israel, after which Israel responded with airstrikes, can be traced to the war raging in Syria and, by extension, to Iran. The attack broke forty days of relative quiet. While Palestinians in Gaza have fired several rockets against Israel since Israel’s Operation Pillar of...

In the days since Iranian president-elect Hassan Rouhani won an Iranian election that analysts fear was stacked for him by the regime, Western journalists and analysts have called attention to his history of conducting violence and terrorism against regime opponents domestically and abroad. Iranian proxies and clients in Lebanon and...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a few weeks left as president of Iran. In the meantime, he spent time this week in criminal court facing unspecified charges brought by parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani. Ahmadinejad had tried to theatrically accuse the powerful Larijani’s brother of corruption from the floor of Iran’s parliament in...

Various Palestinian terror groups stationed in the Gaza Strip are planning summer camps in which children will be indoctrinated into hating Israel. In the United States, the task of running summer camps in which children are indoctrinated into hating Israel is left largely to self-styled “pro-peace” groups, including the Quaker-affiliated...

The Egyptian government appears divided as the country rushes toward the June 30th anniversary of Mohammed Morsi’s election as Egypt’s president, during which anti-government rallies are planned across the country: Egypt’s defence and interior ministers have turned down a proposal by President Mohamed Morsi to prepare security forces for a...

Testimony presented this week to the House Foreign Affairs Committee marked deepening doubts about the capacity and motivation of Iranian president-elect Hassan Rouhani to act as a moderate reformer. Karim Sadjadpour, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment’s Middle East Program, sought to temper expectations [PDF]: While the Iranian public...

Bulgaria has presented new evidence to the E.U. implicating Hezbollah in the July 2012 Burgas, Bulgaria bus bombing that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. The disclosure comes during a meeting convened at the request of the U.K. to decide whether the E.U. will blacklist the Iran-backed group: A Bulgarian...

Turkish diplomats are lashing out against Germany in general, and against German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The German Chancellor on Monday had described herself as “appalled” at Ankara’s heavy-handed response to demonstrators protesting the Islamist government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Police forces have turned tear gas and spray...