Human rights groups and media outlets are calling renewed attention to the use of the helicopters and jets by the Syrian military. Syrian air assets have been critical in efforts by the Bashar al-Assad regime to limit rebel military gains — this week saw a new air offensive in the...

Arabic media outlets are reporting that a high-level Israeli security delegation landed in Cairo on Thursday to meet with Egyptian intelligence and military officials. The leak to Ma’an News Agency is said to have come from an airport official. Focus on the Sinai Peninsula If confirmed, the news will be...

North Korea is signalling that it is committed to another missile test, following a nuclear test earlier this year and alongside nuclear threats it’s leveling at South Korea. The moves have put the entire region on edge, with Japan deploying Patriot batteries in Tokyo and U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warning...

Long-strained tensions between Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas may have finally frayed beyond repair. Reuters has multiple sources reporting that Fayyad has submitted his resignation: Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad offered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday following a rift between the two men...

A bizarre series of leaks and hacks is threatening to reignite still-simmering anger over the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. There is an ongoing United Nations Special Tribunal preparing indictments related to the assassination, which is widely thought to have involved the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah...

Bahrain’s cabinet has made the country the first Arab state to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. The move follows a recommendation issued last week from the Gulf nation’s parliament to do so. Bahrain has long claimed that the Iran-backed terror group foments instability inside the Gulf nation’s borders. In a secret...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is delaying a planned trip to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, which if carried out would widely be viewed as a diplomatic victory for the Iran-backed terror group. He will now delay the trip at least until after he meets with President Barack Obama in May....

Last month analysts declared, based on an array of government statements, that Canada was rapidly losing patience with Iran. Earlier this week Ottawa’s stance became even more explicit with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird declaring that if Israel acts unilaterally to degrade Iran’s atomic program, the Islamic republic would have only...

Public approval of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi hit an all-time low in March, though the electoral consequences of his unpopularity are unclear. The Muslim-Brotherhood linked president has only a 47 percent approval rating — alongside 45 percent disapproval — but the opposition is so fractured that he would handily win any new election: However, the...

A little-noticed 14-minute clip of Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad — pushed to YouTube by supporters of the Bashar al-Assad regime — underscores the broad but uneven efforts of pro-government elements to leverage social media. The YouTube video was published last week on YouTube on the accunt AmazingNews99, which hosts...