At least 600 Syrian refugees were deported from Turkey following clashes with military police at a refugee camp near the Turkish-Syrian border. Turkish officials deny that anyone was expelled — they insist that the refugees left voluntarily — but human rights organizations are pointing to evidence of the opposite, and are...

Bulgaria’s interim prime minister Marin Raikov announced today that his government will present new evidence linking Hezbollah to the July 2012 in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. Bulgarian government officials announced in February that they had found proof that two of the suspects in the bombing had ties...

Lebanon’s delicately built sectarian electoral system — which seeks to balance representation across the country’s 17 officially recognized religious sects, and which is so fragile that Lebanon has not held a census since 1932 — is in danger of an out-and-out collapse. The country’s prime minister dissolved the country’s government on Friday. Much...

Saudi officials have announced that they have evidence directly linking 18 people arrested last week on espionage charges to Iranian intelligence services. Among those arrested were 16 Saudis, an Iranian, and a Lebanese. The public declaration – even more than the capture itself – is bound to increase tensions between...

The parliament of Bahrain has passed legislation declaring that Hezbollah is a terror group and is calling on both the country’s Foreign Ministry and on Bahrain’s Gulf allies to do the same. The move comes as the death toll in Bahrain’s two-year uprising — which the country accuses Iran of helping...

Unconfirmed reports from Syrian rebels indicate that they may have successfully struck an Iranian airplane that was attempting to land at the Damascus airport and deliver arms to the Bashar al-Assad regime. Reuters recently reported that Iran has “significantly stepped up” military assistance to Syrian army. The main weapons routes...

Palestinian human rights groups are blasting Hamas for banning several members of the rival Palestinian Fatah faction from traveling outside the Gaza Strip. The Iran-backed terror group has controlled the territory since it expelled most Fatah officials from it in a bloody 2007 battle. The Fatah officials who stayed inside the...

Turkey is reiterating warnings and objections — which were already explicitly issued by Ankara last week — against Cypriot moves to leverage the country’s offshore energy reserves as part of Nicosia’s efforts to stave off an economic collapse. Cyprus used its offshore natural gas reserves as a last-ditch guarantee to secure bailout...

Political, economic, and diplomatic missteps have left Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi and his government scrambling to contain interlinked crises that threaten to turn the country into a failed state. A series of power grabs early after Morsi’s election – which saw the Muslim Brotherhood-linked president and his allies centralize power and push...

Gunfire from across the Syrian border struck Israeli army vehicles over the weekend, triggering an Israeli retaliation that destroyed a Syrian machine-gun position. The Israeli military judged that the attack was deliberate, in contrast to previous cross-border gunfire: The cease-fire line between Israeli and Syrian forces on the Golan, which...