Iran may soon bring online its heavy-water research facility at Arak, a critical step in establishing for Tehran a second pathway for producing weapons-grade nuclear material. Tehran has a vast network of facilities widely believed to be aimed at producing a uranium-based bomb. The Arak facility would produce nuclear material necessary...

Some 100 people rallied outside the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv over the weekend in solidarity with the tens of thousands of Turkish citizens marching in cities across Turkey. The protesters, many of them Turkish-Israelis, chanted pro-democracy, anti-violence, and anti-Erdogan slogans: “Enough with the violence by the state and the...

A million spectators and 35,000 participants lined up on New York’s Fifth Avenue this weekend for the city’s annual Celebrate Israel Parade. Among the marchers were Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senator Charles Schumer, and City Council speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn. Also marching was...

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is being criticized for his response to the rioting that has engulfed the country, after the Islamist official dismissed thousands of protesters as “looters,” declared that foreign agents were behind popular calls for his government’s resignation, and implied that he had personally led an Arab Spring-style...

Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) has ruled that the Shura Council, the Islamist-dominated upper house of Egypt’s parliament and only legislative body, was illegally elected. The decision, which comes amid plummeting popularity for the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Muhammad Morsi, may further undermine the government’s political legitmacy: An activist campaign...

Israeli officials are closely watching the conflict in Syria to improve their understanding and intelligence capabilities of Syria’s long range missiles, according to statements made during a public conference titled “Aerial threats in the Modern era” and held Monday at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv....

Hezbollah’s critical role in bolstering the Bashar al-Assad regime is costing the Shiite organization support across the Arab world. The Iran backed group has been critical in helping the Syrian government reverse months of Sunni rebel gains. An Al-Jazeera online survey that drew almost half a million votes saw 72%...

Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) announced the discovery of an Israeli spy ring Sunday night. Western and Israeli sources with understanding of intelligence operations dismissed the claims According to MOIS, it uncovered a Mossad-trained network of terrorists with links to the spy agency of an Arab state, plotting...

The Middle East, model 2013, is returning with surprising speed to its old habits. Sunnis and Shiites are again at war in three Arab states. In Iraq, a thousand people were killed in sectarian fighting last month. In Syria, Shiite Hezbollah is fighting in the Alawite regime’s war of survival...

Turkey was engulfed by anti-government protests over the weekend and into Monday, after small demonstrations aimed at stopping the demolition of a city park in Istanbul were met with heavy-handed police tactics, including the use of tear gas, which in turn triggered further protests. On Friday Turkish protesters across the country took...