Hezbollah is lashing out against President Obama after the president told a crowd of Israeli students last week that the European Union should blacklist the Iran-backed group. Hezbollah conducts critical fundraising and logistical work inside the E.U., and even the group’s head, Hassan Nasrallah, has said that an E.U. designation “would...

Barack Obama has traveled a long way over the past four years in his Middle East policy. In other words: The Mideast has traveled a long way since the president took office. The tête-à-tête vis-à-vis Israel has now become hugs and kisses, and Obama is gradually bidding adieu to his...

Concerned by the increasing extremism of some religious leaders in the remotest parts of the country, Algeria has decided to create a national syndicate of imams. The idea is for a regulated system of mosques to clamp down on extremism and calls to commit acts of terror. The type of...

Israel and Turkey have taken what officials are describing as a first step toward rapprochement, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and apologized for operational mistakes surrounding Israel’s 2010 interception of a Turkish vessel trying to break Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-controlled...

President Obama spoke to a crowd of Israeli students earlier today in what the New York Times described as “an enthusiastically welcomed speech.” The president laid out the case for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – a stance supported by an overwhelming majority of the Israeli public and...

A Cyprus court has found a confessed Hezbollah member guilty of five terror-related charges, including participation in a criminal organization, acceptance and participation in committing a crime, and money laundering. The conviction of Hossam Taleb Yaacoub marks the second time in two months in which Hezbollah has been formally linked to...

The rockets fired this morning on Sderot from Gaza should not come as a shock to either Israelis or Palestinians. It’s the quiet that has prevailed in southern Israel since November’s Operation Pillar of Defense that is far more surprising. President Barack Obama’s visit brings with it ample opportunities for...

U.S. President Barack Obama is today visiting the West Bank town of Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority government is housed. The visit is meant to highlights the president’s commitment to the two-state solution and creation of a Palestinian state, but for PA officials – who already had low expectations for the...

Landing in Israel on Wednesday for his historic first visit as U.S. president, Barack Obama pledged “unwavering” and “unbreakable” support for the Jewish state and declared in Hebrew that the alliance between the two countries is “eternal”: U.S. President Barack Obama pledged on Wednesday enduring support for the Jewish State,...

A just-published analysis by Washington Institute fellow Eric Trager argues that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has “doubled down” on efforts to secure power and that the Brotherhood-linked Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) is likely to prevail in the country’s upcoming but still unscheduled parliamentary election. He outlines an array of Brotherhood tactics...