South Korea has reportedly deployed Israeli weaponry to several geostrategically critical islands. The news was published via South Korean outlets during a three-day period in which North Korea launched half a dozen missiles off of its east coast. A South Korean military official said Sunday that Seoul has recently deployed “dozens of Spike missiles”...

The report in yesterday’s Sunday Times that Syria had advanced missiles trained on Tel Aviv could create the impression that another Israeli-Syrian war is in the offing. Syria’s heightened level of alert is no surprise. It’s standard practice for the Assad regime to warn that a single bullet fired at...

The Egyptian army has deployed military and armored vehicles to the Sinai Peninsula in response to the kidnapping of seven Egyptian soldiers. The captives were shown in a video released earlier this week begging Morsi to save them. The incident has deepened tensions between Egyptian security forces and Hamas. The...

Syrian forces loyal to the Bashar al-Assad regime launched a sweeping operation yesterday in the strategically critical city of Qusayr, killing scores of opposition forces. Qusayr, near Syria’s border with Lebanon, had served as a conduit for weapons and supplies shipments smuggled from Lebanon to opposition fighters. Government forces had...

Unknown gunmen in Syria fired bullets into the Golan Heights, underscoring ongoing deterioration in the increasingly anarchic area. Both the Bashar al-Assad regime and rebels seeking its overthrow have pledged to attack Israel from the strategically important plateau. The gunfire struck near an IDF observation post in the latest incident...

As Iran’s June 14th election approaches, the regime continues to intensify its crackdown on citizens’ Internet access: Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month’s presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and experts say. The regime...

Hezbollah’s efforts on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria are threatening to drag Lebanon into the conflict, with the Al Qaeda-linked Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra declaring that confronting the Iran-backed terror group is now a top priority. This came after Hezbollah’s secretary general Hassan Nasrallah declared last week...

Seven Egyptian security personnel were kidnapped in the Sinai Peninsula Thursday after their taxis were ambushed outside the northern Sinai city of el-Arish. Yesterday’s incident is just the latest in a series of kidnappings and attacks in the increasingly anarchic territory. The abduction in the Sinai is the latest incident to highlight...

“This is the best offer we’ve ever gotten from Israel and the best we’ll ever get.” That’s how Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas described the peace offer Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made him in the fall of 2008. Olmert’s offer had indeed been far-reaching on all the final-status issues:...

John Brennan, the longtime counterterrorism advisor to President Barack Obama who this year became director of the CIA, flew Thursday to Israel — on a working visit not announced in advance. Israeli officials suggested that the main topic in consultations on Friday was Syria – that is, what might be done...