Iran is attempting to expand its influence into impoverished African nations by funneling ammunition and supplies to state actors and terror-linked rebel groups throughout the continent, fueling ethnic conflict and government repression. A recently published expose in The New York Times reporting on a global Iranian arms network stretching from Afghanistan to...

Israel is the only Middle Eastern country to rate as “free,” according to the latest annual report by Freedom House, a top U.S.-based pro-democracy NGO. Israel is an anomaly in its region, with many of its neighbors receiving negative ratings, and Syria – until recently advocated by many foreign policy analysts...

Two car bombs in southern Syria were responsible for the deaths of at least 12 people Friday. The attack comes at the end of a week which saw a spike in violence in the war-torn country, and just days after attacks on Aleppo University in the country’s north left 87...

Negotiations between UN nuclear inspectors and Iran — aimed at securing inspector access to Iran’s Parchin military facility, where it is widely suspected that Iranian scientists conducted work related to nuclear detonations — have ended without progress. The result is consistent with multiple statements by Iranian officials over the last...

Bulgarian officials are denying reports published in Israeli media that Bulgarian investigators will declare Hezbollah was behind the July 2012 bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian. The Iran-backed terror group was reported at the time to be plotting several terror attacks against Israeli tourists throughout the region,...

Iran’s 24th fleet will begin a new three-month tour of duty next week that will take the warship and submarine into the Mediterranean Sea to “block threats to the Islamic republic.” Similar deployments have been used as symbolic moves channeled into domestic propaganda channels, but have also been used to deliver...

As Israelis prepare to vote in the upcoming January 22 election, academics and pundits are increasingly skeptical of claims that the electorate has fundamentally moved to the right or left in either composition or ideology. Combining converging polling data with qualitative analysis, an article published in Tablet suggests that the...

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani Wednesday called on Palestinians to accept further Iranian assistance in targeting Israelis. Larijani made the comments in the context of a meeting with top Hamas official Emad Al-Alami, who in turn has linked Hamas’s self-described military victories over Israel to Iranian assistance. Hamas has been attempting...

Hamas declared yesterday it will not dismantle its military wing as part of any reconciliation agreement between the Iran-backed terrorist organization and its rival, the Palestinian faction Fatah, which controls the West Bank. Unity talks are currently being held in Cairo and, should Hamas hold to the commitment, will complicate efforts...

Jordan’s opposition Islamic Action Front appears to be gearing up for mass protests surrounding the country’s January 23 election. In a shift from previous rhetoric and tactics, the Muslim Brotherhood-linked group is directly criticizing King Abdullah II. The expanded focus on the king may indicate that the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood is preparing...