Following the October 2011 deal between Israel and Hamas to free kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from captivity, there were fears that the precedent of swapping hostages for terrorists would encourage the Iran-backed terror group to attempt more kidnappings. The effect that the exchange had on Hamas’s decision calculus is...

Israeli Air Force Chief Amir Eshel warned today that Syria will soon receive advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles from Russia. The warning comes after one that Israeli officials reportedly conveyed privately to their American counterparts two weeks ago. Israeli media had already disclosed that Syrian soldiers had completed two months of training on...

Iran’s Guardian Council has approved a total of eight candidates, out of some 680 applicants, to run in the country’s June 14th presidential election to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Tower had reported on regime moves – made over the last four years, and intensifying in recent month – to break the...

In a stunning development that calls into question the basic willingness of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to accept any peace agreement with the Jewish state, TheTower.org has obtained a hand-drawn map created by Abbas documenting a 2008 peace proposal outlined to him by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert – which...

A report released today by the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog reveals that that Iran is locking in critical infrastructure necessary to quickly produce weapons-grade nuclear material. The report discloses that Iran has sped up the installation of, among other things, advanced IR-2m centrifuges at its Natanz plant. The technology allows Tehran to...

A top Palestinian Authority official has dismissed an upcoming visit by Secretary of State John Kerry designed to bring Palestinian negotiators back to the peace process table: The Palestinian Authority does not believe that US Secretary of State John Kerry – who is returning to the region on Thursday – will...

Seven Egyptian security personnel abducted last week in the Sinai Peninsula have been freed after the Egyptian military dispatched heavy armor and war planes to the territory. A spokesman for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Mohammed Morsi declared that the release of the kidnapped personnel would not stop the government’s military...

Among the classic, repeated Hamas slogans is the one in which the group’s fighters declare that that they “love death” more than their declared Israeli enemies “love life.” The Iran-backed terror organization has gone to enormous lengths to brainwash Palestinian children with that ideology. Reports began to emerge early this...

The European Union is reportedly poised to blacklist the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, following a formal request from the United Kingdom to pursue such a designation. Any of the E.U.’s 27 member states can veto a designation, and France and Germany have both historically blocked such moves. Recent...

Last week Egyptian media outlets reported on the capture of Al Qaeda-linked Egyptians who had been planning suicide car bombings against the French and American embassies in Cairo. The suspects were found with 22 pounds of explosive materials. It is expected that the suspects had escaped from prison in 2011...