Lamenting that the “the administration’s assurances are at odds with its actions,” a staff editorial in The Washington Post today expressed concern that President Barack Obama is prepared to accept increasing Iranian aggression in the Middle East in order to preserve the nuclear deal that the P5+1 nations are negotiating with Iran. The president himself...

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A Syrian activist who is visiting Israel said “we saw the Israelis are human beings and not monsters,” Ha’aretz reported yesterday. The activist had been part of a network of health professionals who sought to secretly treat rebels and protect them from the government of President Bashar al-Assad. However, two years...

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A video released Tuesday by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shows the killing of an Arab-Israeli recruit, who had left his home to join ISIS, for purportedly being a spy. The Times of Israel reports: In the video, Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam, 20, was seen kneeling in...

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Two recent reports in major publications have documented the growing discontent within the ranks of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that is beginning to threaten the group’s cohesion, even as it seeks to expand upon the territory it controls. The Washington Post reported on Sunday: Reports of rising tensions between foreign...

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Secretary of State John Kerry was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Thursday in an attempt to “to ease Gulf Arab concerns about an emerging deal [with Iran] and discuss ways to calm instability in troubled Yemen and other Mideast nations.” Since the signing of the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) in...

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In a historic address this morning before a joint session of Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu re-emphasized the strength of the America-Israel alliance, thanked President Barack Obama for the support he gives Israel, described the threat Iran poses to Israel, the United States, and the world, and made a...

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Terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have kidnapped at least 70 Assyrian Christians after raiding their villages according to the activist group A Demand For Action, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. The latest assault began before dawn on Monday, when the militants swept through the villages...

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Haaretz reported Wednesday that Hamas announced plans to establish military units to fight Israel from southern Lebanon, illustrating renewed cooperation and improving ties between Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. This development also signals a Hamas attempt to open a new front against Israel. Hamas’s effort to repair ties with Iran is a...

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The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched a new offensive on the city of Aleppo on Tuesday, the same day it reportedly agreed to a United Nations plan to suspend aerial bombing and artillery shelling on the northern city. In the new offensive around Aleppo, the Syrian army is...

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Lebanon marked the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Saturday, bracing from the effects of numerous political and security challenges stemming from the Syrian conflict, infiltration by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and Iranian meddling. All of Lebanon’s political factions took part in the...

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