Israeli President Shimon Peres is due to receive the official results from the country’s January 22 election. The president will then begin marathon meetings with leaders whose parties will be represented in Israel’s incoming 19th Knesset. Peres’s meetings are meant to assist the president in evaluating which party leader has...

Al Qaeda is infiltrating Lebanon, building on the momentum and successes of Al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria. A new report names Majid al-Majid as the terrorist group’s new emir in the country, and suggests that Al Qaeda has a “roadmap” for a Lebanon takeover that includes targeting political figures, religious...

The Egyptian military may forcefully intervene if opposition street protests continue, according to a Tuesday announcement by Egyptian general Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. At least 60 people have been killed in the most recent protests criticizing Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Mohammed Morsi. El-Sissi, who also serves in the capacity of defense minister,...

Israeli Air Force jets conducted an overnight strike against a convoy of advanced weapons being transferred from Syria to Damascus’s Lebanese ally Hezbollah, according to reports that emerged early Wednesday. Israeli officials and international analysts have been expressing increasingly pointed concerns regarding the security of Syria’s nonconventional arsenal, which is...

Hamas’s Khaled Mashaal may seek the PLO presidency, according to Arabic outlets reporting on efforts to replace current PLO chair (and incumbent Palestinian Authority President) Mahmoud Abbas. Mashaal was in Jordan on Monday for talks with the country’s King Abdullah II, and reportedly both Jordan and Qatar are ready to...

An al Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility for an attack last week that killed at least 42 people. The al-Nusra Front, which has declared that the United States and Israel are enemies of Islam and is considered to be a terrorist organization by those countries, announced the group’s responsibility for the car...

Iran’s recent missile launch, in which the Islamic republic claims to have sent a monkey into space, would also demonstrate that the regime possesses intercontinental ballistic capabilities, according to NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate John Grunsfeld. Reuters conveys the concerns of multiple Iran watchers and analysts to the...

The European Union may not designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization, even if it turns out that the Iran-backed Lebanese group committed a terrorist attack against EU nationals on EU soil, according to the EU’s top counter-terrorism official. Gilles de Kerchove was quoted Monday on the news site EUobserver making the statement,...

At least 50 people have been killed and more than 300 have been injured as unrest continues to sweep across Egypt. The situation disintegrated over the weekend after an Egyptian court handed down death sentences to 21 defendants linked to a violent February soccer riot. Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has...

Iran and Argentina will set a joint commission to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and injured more than 100. Israeli officials expressed surprise at the decision inasmuch as Iran has been widely linked to the attack, and in fact Argentinean...