Analysts are positively comparing the political resolve shown by Bulgarian officials – who yesterday announced that they had discovered links between Hezbollah and the July 2012 bombing of a tourist bus in Burgas, Bulgaria – with recent Argentinean moves that have been criticized for papering over Iran-backed terrorism. Buenos Aires...

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Cairo on Wednesday, marking the first time an Iranian leader has visited Egypt in three decades. Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi publicly welcomed the Iranian leader, with other Egyptian officials and parts of the Egyptian public criticized Iran. One unidentified assailant even pelted the Iranian...

The air strikes on a weapons convoy in the Lebanon-Syria border area and on a suspected weapons facility northwest of Damascus underscore the complexity of the new security situation Israel will confront in 2013. It seems that in the Middle East, despite the euphoria of the “Arab Spring,” it’s more...

Bulgarian officials today announced that more than half a year’s worth of investigations into the July 2012 Burgas bombing yielded sufficient evidence to link two of the suspects to the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. Five Israelis and a Bulgarian died in the attack. Among the issues at stake are efforts by France...

Israeli media sources are making much of an announcement indicating that the country’s Iron Dome missile defense system will be featured in the upcoming Aero India show. The defense systems and aerospace exhibition is one of the world’s most important, and the Iron Dome short-range system will be featured alongside David’s...

Deepening Egyptian political instability – driven partly by increasingly graphic reports of violent crackdowns conducted by security forces on behalf of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government – may soon be exacerbated by economic turmoil. The government has been unable to implement austerity measures demanded by the IMF in exchange for a critical...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become the first Iranian head of state to visit Egypt since Tehran broke off diplomatic relations with Cairo in 1980. Iran has been engaged in something of a charm offensive toward Egypt, dispatching high-level officials and using state-controlled Iranian TV to promote rapprochement. However, deep divisions remain...

Bulgarian officials have announced that a half-year investigation conducted by Sofia has linked members of the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah to the July 2012 terrorist attack in the Bulgarian resort city of Burgas. Five Israelis and a Bulgarian were killed in the bombing. The announcement comes in the midst of American efforts...

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal used a recent speech, carried by Arabic-language media outlet Al-Hayat, to emphasize that Hamas will not accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel. His statement is in tension with recent second-hand leaks the effect that Mashaal was ready to compromise on Hamas’s commitment to the eradication of the Jewish state. The stance...

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu over the weekend lashed out at Israel over the reported strikes, urging  the Bashar al-Assad regime – against which Turkey has been waging a two-year proxy war inside Syria – to retaliate against Jerusalem. Davutoglu, described by US diplomatic cables as “exceptionally dangerous” and “lost in neo-Ottoman Islamist fantasies”,...