Israeli officials believe that chemical weapons were used yesterday in Syria for the first time in that country’s two-year conflict, with each side blaming the other for an attack that killed at least 25 people. Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons is thought to be the world’s largest, and last week IDF...

Palestinian security forces are deploying more than 3,000 officers in the West Bank to contain protests that have erupted in Palestinian cities in response to President Obama’s visit to the area. There have been angry demonstrations in protest of the visit every day this week. In Bethlehem, protesters in the famous...

David Trimble, a member of the British House of Lords and winner of the Nobel Peace prize, blasted the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) earlier this week over a recent report criticizing Israel. The head of the panel that produced the report described it as “a kind of weapon” to be used...

Reflecting on his recent interview with Jordanian King Abdullah II, The Atlantic national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg described the monarch as “decidedly unimpressed” with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. The King spoke candidly with Goldberg on a range of issues, but expressed particular frustration that Morsi fixates on Israel – rather than on Palestinian...

Bulgarian investigators will conduct an experimental reenactment next month of the July 2012 bus bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian. The country’s officials in February linked the terrorist attack to the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah,and noted at the time that they would continue gathering evidence to still-unanswered questions...

Hezbollah officials in Lebanon are lashing out at U.S. diplomats after U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly urged Lebanese authorities to move forward with scheduled elections on the basis of existing electoral laws: Hezbollah’s Baalbek-Hermel MP Nawar Saheli denounced Sunday what he called “flagrant interference” by U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Maura...

Israel’s new government will be sworn in today, after weeks of negotiations by incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yielded a coalition controlling 68 out of 120 seats in Israel’s Knesset. In addition to Netanyahu’s Likud-Beiteinu slate (31 seats), the coalition includes Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid (19), Naftali Bennett’s Jewish Home...

The Tower has learned that just days before President Barack Obama arrives in Israel for discussions on sensitive regional issues, a high-ranking group of Egyptian army intelligence officers has made a quiet trip to Israel to meet counterparts. The discussions this week come at a time of increasing strain between Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group based in...

Iran’s regime-linked Mehr News Agency is blaming Pope Benedict XIV’s resignation on “Zionists.” Iran has in recent years blamed Zionists for homosexuality, the drug trade, film, and the Olympic logo — and more seriously for fabricating evidence that Iran had sought to murder the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. on American...

Fifty-six members of the House of Representatives sent a letter this week to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Secretary of State John Kerry urging them to take action against Iranian efforts to reflag its vessels, a tactic that Tehran uses to disguise the origin of ships it uses to transport illicit...