Mortars from across the Syrian border have again struck Israel’s Golan Heights, this time exploding in a popular Israeli tourist destination during the country’s Shavout holiday celebrations. Israeli officials closed the area to evaluate the incident, before concluding that the fire had been accidental. It was the first time that Mount...

Hamas officials are publically debating over a proposed penal code that would apply Islamic law to Gaza citizens. The new regulations would criminalize offenses that had previously not been offenses. It would also institutionalize floggings and hand amputations as punishments. Hamas officials are divided on whether it should be imposed...

The prime minister of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government, Hesham Kandil, declared this week that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be welcome to visit the Gaza Strip through the border crossing that Egypt controls into the territory. “Our doors are going to be wide open for him of course,” Kandil told...

Human rights groups expressed something approaching horror earlier this week after a video was posted online showing a Syrian rebel commander cutting out the organs of a Syrian soldier and eating one of them. The video allegedly shows Abu Sakkar, the founder of opposition group Farouq Brigade, excising the organs of...

OSLO – Denouncing dictators is only partially effective without also naming and shaming their enablers, said analysts and activists Tuesday at a key international human-rights conference in the Norwegian capital. “Let’s not just expose the ugliness of the pig; let’s expose those applying the lipstick, too,” Jamie Kirchick told participants...

Iran will chair this year’s annual session of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament, taking the helm of the U.N. body despite broad international concerns that Tehran is pursuing nuclear weapons and shredding the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The U.N.’s annual Conference on Disarmament, which Iran is slated to lead from May 27 to June...

Controversy continues to swirl around comments made earlier this month by a prominent Fatah official who declared that the Palestinians are enemies of Israel and would use nuclear weapons against the Jewish state if they possessed them. Jibril Rajoub, a member of the Palestinian Fatah faction’s Central Committee, made the statements...

Palestinian terrorist groups activated by the Bashar al-Assad regime are gearing up to attack Israel, according to reports and a statement made by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). The terrorist group issued a call for “all Syrian citizens to volunteer in the formation of the...

Forces loyal to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime have regained the momentum in the bloody war. The Washington Post conveys analysis to the effect that “there is little doubt that the pendulum is now swinging in favor of Assad,” providing the regime with a range of potential advantages from a relatively...

Norway has been dubbed the West’s most anti-Semitic and anti-Israel country, but Naim Araidi – the Druze-Israeli poet who is Jerusalem’s ambassador in Oslo – says not to believe the hype. Bilateral relations are not without challenges, he admits, but neither are they destined for eternal hostility. “When I got...