Reports of a mysterious explosion inside Iran’s underground nuclear bunker at Fordow – where the regime has installed more than 2,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium – are increasing in tempo despite Iranian denials. The news comes after several weeks in which American and European officials issued unusually blunt statements condemning Tehran for...

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday announced the opening of a Gaza-based military academy that will train schoolchildren to violently target the Jewish state. Haniyeh said that the new academy would prepare children as young as 12 for the establishment of a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.”...

Eight people were killed Thursday when a car bomb exploded in the Syrian town of Saasa, the latest mass casualty incident in an ongoing Syrian civil war. That the incident happened in Saasa, located in the Syrian Golan just 14 miles from the Israel-Syria border, increases concerns that the now two-year war...

IAEA officials are still attempting to restart negotiations with Iran. Failed talks this month were the latest in a series of unsuccessful negotiation attempts, including diplomatic efforts held in February, June, August, and December of 2012. A senior Iranian lawmaker has suggested Tehran will only cooperate with officials from the UN’s nuclear watchdog if...

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday announced the opening of a Gaza-based military academy that will train schoolchildren to violently target the Jewish state. Haniyeh said that the new academy would prepare children as young as 12 for the establishment of a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.”...

Protests in Cairo, marking the second anniversary of the Arab Spring uprising that saw the regime of Hosni Mubarak overthrown in favor of what would eventually become an elected Muslim Brotherhood-linked Egyptian government, have left dozens injured. Police officers across the country worked to contain similar riots, using tear gas against...

Nearly twice as many Israelis were injured by terror attacks in 2012 than in 2011, according to a report by the Israel Security Agency. Domestically, most of the fatalities and injuries were the result of attacks from the Gaza Strip in October and November of 2012. The Palestinian terror group Hamas...

The final tally in Israel’s election has slightly altered exit poll predictions, increasing by one the total seats allocated to the Jewish Home party (now at 12) and adding to the Knesset the centrist Kadima party. The latter secured sufficient votes to pass Israel’s minimum threshold to enter the Knesset and...

Trying to contextualize why he had urged Egyptians to teach children hatred for Jews, and also why he had referred to Zionists as “the descendants of apes and pigs,” Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi reportedly told a Senate delegation last week that controversy over his remarks was the result of a Jewish-controlled...

Iran is now proposing that the next round of talks between Tehran and the P5+1 group, aimed at increasing transparency around the country’s atomic program, be held in Cairo. Arabic media reports indicate that Egypt is uninterested in hosting the talks, and a spokesperson for the European Union’s Catherine Ashton implied...