Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked President was forced to flee from the Presidential palace yesterday, as thousands of demonstrators battled with police in the area. A deepening crisis in political legitimacy, triggered by a power grab under which Morsi reserved for himself sweeping powers and exacerbated by the rushed approval of a...

As Israel’s January 22 election approaches so does the political intrigue that’s swirling around it. Former Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz this morning announced that he is abandoning the Labor Party, where he was #3 on the party’s election slate, for The Movement party recently founded by former Minister of...

Egypt’s political legitimacy crisis, which began weeks ago with a powergrab by President Mohamed Morsi that granted him sweeping powers and insulated him from judicial review, spiraled further into violence today. By day’s end, tanks were deployed into Cairo’s streets to clear out demonstrators, after protests outside the Presidential palace...

Two months after launching a round of escalatory rocket fire into Israel and less than a month after Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense compelled it to cease that rocket fire, Hamas is celebrating its 25th anniversary this weekend. Ashraf Zayed, a spokesman for the Iran-backed terror organization, unpacked the anticipated...

Global concern is spiking as evidence emerges that Syria has loaded sarin gas materials into chemical warheads. Once prepared and loaded the weapons have 60 days before they expire, raising fears that the Bashar al-Assad regime intends to use them imminently against rebel forces seeking its overthrow. The Syrian war,...

Palestinian Authority officials are now threatening to wage a campaign of international legal warfare against Israel, leveraging the upgraded status they secured via a diplomatic gambit at the United Nations last week. PA officials are raising the possibility that they will sue Israel over West Bank construction in the International...

The U.S. Senate has passed its $631 billion defense authorization bill, which includes an amendment leveling new sanctions against Iran, by a vote of 98-0. Analysts linked the unanimous vote, which was only the second in 51 years on the defense bill, to the bipartisan consensus on American defense policy....

Iran is seeking to advance its penetration of South and Central America, deepening concerns by analysts and top U.S. intelligence officials that Iran will use the region as a platform for launching attacks against the United States. In the upcoming days, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American Affairs...

Fears that the Palestinian Authority will use its upgraded status in the United Nations to wage diplomatic warfare against Israel were heightened today by reports that the PA may sue Israel in the International Criminal Court over settlement construction. The news is in line with the pronouncements of Palestinian officials...

NATO looks ready to deploy Patriot anti-missile batteries to Turkey, as dangerous signs are emerging that Syria is preparing to utilize chemical weapons. If confirmed the Patriot deployment may complicate ties between Turkey and Russia, which have already been strained by Russia’s backing of the Damascus regime and its allies against...