Iran’s Supreme Leader last month reportedly instructed Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah to prevent the overthrow of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad “at all costs,” according to Arab officials speaking to a Kuwaiti outlet. Over the past few days a source affiliated with Hezbollah told the Arab press that Hezbollah units were taking...

Leading Egyptian economists told The Guardian that Egypt is facing its worst economic crisis in eight decades. One of the country’s top economists, Galal Amin, bluntly told the paper that the economic crisis was the worst since the global Great Depression. In terms of its devastating effect on Egypt’s poorest, the...

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is at the center of tit-for-tat petitions seeking to highlight criticism and support for his Muslim Brotherhood-linked administration. A petition circulated by opponents has reportedly garnered over two million signatures. It comes amid polls showing that support for Morsi had all but cratered in March and then continued...

Officials from the Western-backed Palestinian Fatah faction yesterday slammed what they called “activities of normalization” with Israel. Top Fatah figures blasted the organizers of a sports match designed to promote coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis. “Every now and then, some organizations who call themselves Palestinian come up with activities of normalization with...

A United Nations body in the West Bank was engulfed in controversy yesterday after leaked emails revealed that a top staffer had promoted a speaking event by an academic who supports economic warfare against Israel. A double-bylined Jerusalem Post expose by Jonny Paul and Benjamin Weinthal disclosed that Ray Dolphin, an...

Iran yesterday, in meetings in both Vienna and Istanbul, again refused to enter serious diplomatic negotiations with the international community regarding the West’s heightened concerns that Tehran is developing a nuclear weapon. In Vienna, the U.N. nuclear watchdog held a meeting with Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA. He told...

Israeli diplomatic sources are expressing disappointment at the outcome of Tuesday’s meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu, who initiated the meeting, flew to Sochi in a small plane for a quick rendezvous on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. He was accompanied...

Hezbollah fighters are now reportedly moving toward the country’s southern border with Jordan. If the reports are confirmed they would indicate that the Iran-backed terror group has functionally deployed throughout large swaths of Syria: Hizbullah fighters have been advancing swiftly into southern Syria and have reached the flashpoint southern town...

Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have agreed to reenter talks aimed at bringing Fatah-controlled portions of the West Bank and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and under the rule of a single government. Efforts to overcome divisions between the two groups have repeatedly faltered, but yesterday representatives from both pledged...

OSLO – The world remembers 1948 as the year of Israel’s birth and the year the Israeli-Palestinian conflict took on its present proportions. But it was also the year another decades-long conflict first erupted, one that has claimed tens of thousands of lives but attracts far less attention: the Baloch...