The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog blasted Iran on Monday for its intransigence during talks designed to reduce opacity around the country’s atomic program. His evaluation of the progress of negotiations was unsparing: Yukiya Amano also said his agency’s talks with Iran on unblocking an IAEA inquiry into possible...

The number two official at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was forced to step down over disagreements regarding Iran’s nuclear program with his boss, the Japanese Director General (DG) Yukiya Amano. Officially it was announced last month that the contract of the Belgian Herman Nackaerts would not be renewed...

Analysts continue to unpack the implications of an interview given last week by Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad to Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV. On some issues – Assad was vague on whether advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles had yet been delivered from Russia to Syria. Regarding his desire to have the Arab world...

After 9/11 the Iranian regime scaled back its global terror operations and networks. Those operations and networks, according to the recently published State Department annual report on terrorism, have been restored: “Iran and Hezbollah’s terrorist activity has reached a tempo unseen since the 1990s, with attacks plotted in Southeast Asia,...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday appointed Rami Hamdallah to be the PA’s new prime minister. Hamdallah is replacing Salam Fayyad, who served six years at the post. Fayyad resigned last month under pressure from Abbas, amid speculation that Palestinian president perceived that his premier had grown too...

Israeli officials are casting further doubt on reports made earlier this week that had Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad asserting that Syria had begun to receive advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles from Russia. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon had said Tuesday the missiles still hadn’t been shipped to Syria. Former defense official...

Lawlessness has become so endemic in Egypt that the U.S. Embassy this week warned Americans away from visiting the country’s famed pyramids. A academic teaching at the American University in Cairo received an email from the embassy warning of “aggressiveness [that] in some cases is closer to criminal conduct… with...

The Israeli government is preparing to institute far-reaching reforms in how prayers are conducted at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest site, if the leading group seeking those changes accepts the reforms, according to sources who spoke to The Tower. The dramatic changes come amid a set of additional...

The dramatic arrest in Nigeria this month of three Hezbollah operatives was enabled by close cooperation between Nigerian security officials and Israel’s Mossad and Aman intelligence services, respectively the Jewish state’s external and military intelligence agencies. Nigeria’s secret service said Thursday it had discovered a cache of weapons belonging to...

Nigerian authorities have broken up what is believed to be a Hezbollah terror cell that was operating in the country.Three Lebanese nationals were arrested and allegedly confessed to being members of the Iran-backed terror group, and a fourth operative is thought to have escaped the country. Authorities also seized a Hezbollah-linked...