Intrigue continues to swirl around events last week in which Israel appears to have targeted advanced Syrian anti-aircraft SA-17 missiles that Jerusalem suspected of being bound for Hezbollah. Inconclusive reports described strikes on both a convoy of the missiles and on a Syrian military facility. New reports based on Syrian television broadcasts indicate...

US Ambassador-at-large Daniel Benjamin harshly criticized the European Union over the weekend for refusing to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Speaking at a one-day conference in London, Benjamin described Hezbollah’s legal status in the EU as “undermin[ing] security goals” pursued by the US and its allies. The debate over designating Hezbollah is...

A suicide bomber from a far-left Turkish group opposed to U.S.-Turkish ties detonated himself in front of the US embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a Turkish security guard. The attacker managed to enter American property and the U.S. State Department described the attack as a “terrorist blast.” Turkey’s government has been...

Israeli diplomats and politicians, including elected officials from the center-left Labor party that will lead the next Israeli opposition, are blasting the UN Human Rights Council for a series of recent diplomatic attacks on Israel and Israeli policy. Member of the Knesset Dr. Nachman Shai describes the body’s focus on Israel, which...

While both the Arab League and the Iranian regime have condemned reported Israeli strikes on Syrian military assets, British Foreign Secretary William Hague has indicated that London is “not going to give any condemnation of Israel or rush into any criticism.” Reports emerged earlier this week that Israel had struck either a weapons...

Non-proliferation experts are emphasizing that the installation by Iran of advanced IR-2m centrifuges in the Natanz enrichment facility would be a “game-changer.” Tehran recently informed the International Atomic Energy Agency in a letter that it intends to take such a step. Whereas the centrifuge units currently installed in Natanz can hold 170 centrifuges each,...

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is still scrambling to contain diplomatic damage from revelations that he linked classical Islamist anti-Semitic tropes – references to “apes and pigs” – with calls for Egyptian children to be taught to hate Israelis. The Muslim Brotherhood-linked president was repeatedly asked about the statements while on...

The IAEA has issued a carefully worded statement declining to confirm reports that there was an explosion last week in Iran’s underground nuclear bunker at Fordow, a military installation that Iran has filled with over 2,000 centrifuges as part of its atomic program. Satellite imagery taken after the incident is...

Senior Hamas official Izzat al-Risheq has described as “baseless” reports that the Iran-backed terror group is prepared to accept the existence of Israel. The denial was echoed by Hamas legislator Salah Bardaweel, who denied that the group was ready to accept a two state solution and further delineated between accepting...

Syria’s ambassador to Lebanon has reserved for Damascus the ability to launch a “surprise retaliation” against Israel, a day after reports emerged of multiple Israeli Air Force operations designed to bolster Israel’s “red line” against the transfer of Syria’s nonconventional arsenal. Reports first emerged early Wednesday that Jerusalem had struck...