Citing ideological and financial issues, both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have rejected U.N. requests to take in approximately 150,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria. Hamas’s Gaza head, Ismail Haniyeh, reportedly told UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, that taking in refugees would be used by Israel against Palestinians’...

Just a day after Israelis go to the polls on January 22, neighboring Jordan will follow suit. “We changed the constitution…a new constitutional court, a new independent commission for elections and then we went to elections,” the monarch told The Daily Show in September. However, a new study suggests that...

It is now estimated that 60,000 people have lost their lives in Syria’s 22-month, three-way proxy war between Bashar al-Assad’s regime, West-backed rebel forces, and Kurdish troops. This figure is the result of a cross-checking of the names of the dead by the United Nations and suggests that previous numbers...

As Iran concluded its six-day naval exercise this week, its military began using domestically produced helicopters replete with lasers, weapons, and electronics. Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi described the Toufans as “a new generation of combat choppers” that “enjoy advanced and updated technology.” Vahidi went on to describe the Toufan as...

The first Israeli opinion poll of 2013 seems to confirm that the joint Likud Beiteinu party list of incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has seen its position erode in recent weeks. Wednesday’s Dahaf poll predicts that the list will win only 34 out of 120 Knesset seats in the...

Iran will hold a festival of cartoons minimizing and mocking the Holocaust, a repeat of a similar event held in the country in 2006. Tehran’s efforts to trivialize Nazi Germany’s near-annihilation of European Jewry, which extend into virulent and explicit Holocaust denial, have caused concern among foreign policy analysts that...

The Palestinian faction Fatah staged celebrations marking the 48th anniversary of its founding on Tuesday, with masked men marching on the outskirts of Bethlehem wielding guns, axes, knives and mock rockets. Fatah politically controls the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority, and is locked in a battle for Palestinian prestige...

A top adviser to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has declared that Israel will cease to exist in a decade, and is suggesting that Jews of Egyptian descent should evacuate the Jewish State and return to Egypt in order to make room for Palestinian refugees. The Muslim Brotherhood, to which the...

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has announced a renewed focus on bolstering Egypt’s increasingly troubled economy, but the Muslim Brotherhood-linked president’s domestic and foreign policy tactics and priorities may complicate his agenda. Morsi’s statement came immediately after Egyptian voters approved a new constitution that has been widely criticized for institutionalizing Islamic...

Iranian press reports conveyed by Chinese media describe a “massive” six-day military exercise launched by the Iranian navy on Friday. The drills come at a time of generally heightened tensions between Tehran and regional Arab states, and just days after Gulf Cooperation Council states lashed out at Tehran for interfering...