The head of Mossad, Tamir Pardo, earlier this week met secretly with his Turkish counterpart, according to a report published in the Turkish daily Hurriyet. The meeting between Pardo and Hakan Fidan, the head of MIT, the Turkish intelligence agency, took place Monday in Ankara according to the report. The...

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Hamas officials are scrambling to shore up ties with Iran, which have been strained by the role that Iran and its Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah have been playing in bolstering the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria: “I cannot say the relationship with Iran was severed, but it was affected,” Salah...

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Speaking Sunday at a youth summer camp in the Gaza Strip, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh proclaimed to the crowd that Israel would be destroyed to make way for a Palestinian state. Arab media sources summed up his speech with the headline ‘Haniyeh: No future for Israel on the land of Palestine.’...

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Iran and its terrorist allies, Hezbollah and Hamas, are carrying “non-stop” cyber attacks against Israel’s central computer systems, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Sunday in his address to an international conference on cyber warfare at Tel Aviv University. Without elaborating, Netanyahu said that “vital national systems” had been targeted. Suspected...

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Lebanese Christians have joined just about everybody else in the region in blasting Hezbollah for its role in the Syrian conflict, and for dragging Lebanon into the now two and a half year conflict. Veteran Lebanese politician Samir Geagea made the point a few weeks ago: The LF leader said...

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A week after an Al Qaeda-linked Somali terror organization urged its followers to conduct operations similar to the Hamas kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, a Hamas spokesman reaffirmed his organization’s embrace of the tactic that it pioneered. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – whose Fatah faction rivals Hamas – had...

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In 2005 Hamas won municipal elections in the West Bank city of Qalqilya, triggering declarations from some observers to the effect that power would force the Iran-backed terror organization to govern pragmatically. When the organization won the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006, the same analysis was expanded to encompass hopes...

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This week’s campaign to free seven kidnapped Egyptian security officials in the Sinai Peninsula exposed deep rifts between the Egyptian army and the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government. The regime and its Brotherhood allies are preventing the army from uprooting the terrorist networks in the territory. A top jihadist explains the Brotherhood’s...

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Sari Essayah is no typical E.U. parliamentarian. The bespectacled Finn is a retired world-champion race walker, who inherited her distinctly non-Finnish family name from a Moroccan father. And while Essayah had little contact with her father growing up, something of the Middle East and North Africa appears to have stayed...

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Seven Egyptian security personnel abducted last week in the Sinai Peninsula have been freed after the Egyptian military dispatched heavy armor and war planes to the territory. A spokesman for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Mohammed Morsi declared that the release of the kidnapped personnel would not stop the government’s military...

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