Some foreign policy analysts have, in the past, claimed that when Iranian officials call for the eradication of Israel, they mean that peacefully. This will not...

Syrian forces fighting on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime wrested a key southern town from rebel control on Wednesday, the latest success for the Syrian army in a counteroffensive which has seen rebels dislodged from several critical towns and cities: Among the areas where this counteroffensive has been most...

The United Arab Emirates on Monday blasted a visit by Iranian officials to contested Gulf islands in the Strait of Hormuz. The Gulf islands – Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb – lie along the approach to the Strait of Hormuz. Their status has been disputed since 1971, Iran...

A former consultant to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is set to become the next head of the Israeli Institute of Biological Research (IIBR). Dr. Shmuel Shapira is expected to replace Dr. Avigdor Sheferman, who is retiring after running the institute for 18 years. The Institute’s researchers...

In recent months Iranian and Hezbollah operatives have been linked to multiple terror plots in Bulgaria. Iranian agents are on trial for another terror plot in Thailand. Nigerian police recently broke up an Iranian terror cell. A recently concluded trial in Cyprus of a confessed Hezbollah member ended with a...

In January – amid rumors of a thaw in relations between Israel and Turkey, which had been frozen by Ankara three years ago – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan bitterly denounced what was widely suspected to be an Israeli air strike on missiles in Syria in transit to Hezbollah....

More details are emerging about an order given to Palestinian terrorist groups by Syria’s Basher al-Assad regime, under which the groups were given permission to conduct “operations” against Israel from within Syria. The Tower exclusively conveyed the news yesterday. The story was subsequently confirmed by Syrian media outlets, which described...

Hezbollah is dramatically increasing its involvement in Syria’s civil war, “raising alarm among U.S. officials,” the WSJ reports. Interviews with local residents reveal that for the second straight day, Hizbollah terrorists are fighting side-by-side with Syrian troops in attacking the opposition held town of Qusayr, ten miles inside Syria, the paper reports. U.S. officials...

The Egyptian army has launched another campaign to destroy the roughly thousand of smuggling tunnels that link the Egyptian-controlled Sinai Peninsula to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Authorities are claiming limited but significant success: The head of engineering for the Egyptian Armed Forces, Major General Tahir Abdullah, announced today that authorities...

Rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime have kidnapped four UN peacekeepers, the second such a kidnapping has occurred since March. Again the observers are Filipnos attached to the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which for the last four decades has been tasked with monitoring the...