Lebanon has received a report detailing Bulgaria’s investigation into the July 2012 bus bombing at the Black Sea resort city of Burgas, Bulgaria that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. Last week Bulgarian authorities linked the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, which holds cabinet-level positions in the sitting Lebanese government, to the...

Turkish officials are evaluating what if any diplomatic damage will result from new evidence of past anti-Semitic remarks by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Samuel Westrop of the Institute for Middle Eastern Democracy just published a series of old comments documented by Western and Turkish sources and going back...

Unity talks between Palestinian rival groups Fatah and Hamas have ended with the two sides failing to come together on the procedures that would govern a new election. Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas is currently in the eighth year of his four-year presidential term in the West Bank, while Hamas rules the...

The two-year anniversary of the Egyptian Arab Spring, which ousted then-ruler Hosni Mubarak, was marked this week by clashes between protestors and riot police outside the presidential palace in Cairo. Elections held after Mubarak’s ouster saw the election of Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood-linked candidate who subsequently triggered a crisis in...

Turkey’s diplomatic campaigns against Israel are negatively affecting NATO’s operational capabilities, according to Israeli Deputy National Security Chief Eran Lerman. Turkish officials have blocked Israeli participation in a range of international cooperative programs, including counterterrorism forums and forums dedicated to promoting renewable energy. By limiting Israeli participation in NATO exercises...

An American official has told The New York Times that last night’s powerful nuclear test in North Korea could be linked to Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, and that “it’s very possible that the North Koreans are testing for two countries.” Tehran and Pyongyang have long cooperated on missile technology,...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s trip to Egypt – designed to go down in the history books as a turning point in relations between the two countries – quickly went from very bad to much worse. It’s not too much to suggest that, shortly after receiving an effusive welcome Tuesday at...

As protests continue to simmer in Egypt, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in Cairo on Thursday – the first Iranian leader to visit Egypt since Iran cut off relations over Egypt’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel – calling for a new alliance: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tried Thursday to entice...

Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah “are building a network of militias inside Syria to preserve and protect their interests” should opposition forces successfully overthrow the Bashar al-Assad regime. The regime is aligned with Tehran, and the Iranians have continued to supply Damascus with weapons and training over the course of the...

President Barack Obama may speak at Bar-Ilan University during his visit next month, Hebrew-language Israeli media is reporting. The location would be significant in that the university – just outside Tel Aviv in Ramat Gan – was the venue for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s landmark 2009 address in which...