An operative from Iran’s Quds Force – an elite branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that conducts overseas terror operations – was caught by Bulgarian authorities conducting surveillance of Sofia’s only synagogue in July 2012, just days after the Burgas, Bulgaria bus bombing that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian....

Riots erupted Tuesday in at least four Israeli prisons following the death of an inmate from terminal esophageal cancer. Security reinforcements were sent to the Ramon, Nafha, Ketziot, and Eshel prisons to counter the riots, which saw prisoners banging on cells and throwing objects. Outside of the prisons, dozens of Palestinians threw rocks...

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is using its Twitter feed to lash out against President Obama, the U.S. embassy in Cairo, and American policy in general. At stake are criticisms leveled by U.S. officials in response to the arrest of Egyptian television satirist Bassem Youssef on charges of insulting Islam and...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has denied requests from representatives of the Palestinian faction Hamas to visit “political” detainees held in West Bank prisons. The West Bank is controlled by Abbas’s own Fatah faction. The move was denounced by senior Hamas representative Aziz Dweik, who is viewed by Hamas as...

Analysis to the effect that political responsibility over the Gaza Strip would moderate the Iran-backed Islamist terror group Hamas — a mainstay of certain strains of foreign policy reasoning — were undermined this week when the group sought to enforce gender segregation on boys and girls starting in grade four....

The U.S. State Department on Monday blasted Egypt for issuing an arrest warrant against the country’s most popular satirist. The warrant comes at a time when the political legitimacy of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Egyptian government is in a downward spiral, and the State Department emphasized that the new move seems...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordanian King Abdullah II have signed an agreement pledging to cooperate on protecting Christian and Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem. The agreement will be read against a series of moves by Abbas to implicitly and explicitly declare that Israel is endangering Muslim holy sites in...

Saudi authorities last week decapitated a Yemeni citizen and then crucified his headless body. A Saudi court had convicted Mohammed Rashad Khairi Hussain of sodomizing and murdering Pakistani national Pashteh Sayed Khan. Both are crimes punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. The public execution, conducted in the southern city of...

Damascus’ 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue – one of the world’s oldest synagogues and Syria’s holiest Jewish site – has been burned to the ground and its contents looted. Responsibility for the destruction remains unclear, and both the Syrian regime and anti-government rebels on Sunday accused each other of destroying the building....

There is a converging consensus among U.S. officials and independent experts to the effect that Iran was deeply involved in North Korea’s February nuclear test — the country’s third — and that the bomb might even be considered an “Iranian bomb.” Experts interviewed by the Washington Post cite extensive and...