Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday (video embedded below). The primary focus of his interview with host David Gregory was the current turmoil in Iraq. MTP: Netanyahu on Iraq: "Both sides are enemies of the US. You don't strengthen one – you weaken both"...

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The Jerusalem Post reported Friday that bipartisan efforts to impose sanctions on Hezbollah were progressing in both chambers of Congress: Last month, US Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) and Marco Rubio (R-FLorida), both members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014...

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As we march towards the July 20 deadline for reaching agreement on stopping the Iranian nuclear weapons program, it is worth gauging Iran’s intentions by looking at the words of its foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. On June 13, The Washington Post published an op-ed by Zarif entitled Iran is Committed to...

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A mortar or anti-tank missile fired from Syria killed an Israeli teenager and seriously wounded his father south of the Kuneitra crossing on the Golan Heights. The boy, identified as Mohammed Karkara, was apparently accompanying his father to work with a civilian crew doing maintenance work on the border fence....

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The Daily Star reported Monday that new batches of Hezbollah fighters were preparing to deploy into Syria as Iraqi Shiite militias – which had been battling on behalf of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime – were recalled back across the Syrian-Iraqi border to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...

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At least 31 people were killed Monday in barrel bomb attacks in the northern city of Aleppo, according to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog group: Some of the wounded were in a serious condition after the strikes on the Sukkari and Ashrafiyeh neighbourhoods, the Syrian Observatory for...

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Gains being made across Iraq by the radical Sunni group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) – Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul on Tuesday, Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit on Wednesday, and what appeared to be further gains aimed at marching on Baghdad on Thursday –...

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This week the Iraqi cities of Mosul – the second largest city in the country – and Tikrit – Saddam Hussein’s birthplace – fell to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a terror group that broke away from al-Qaeda. The Guardian reported that some 30,000 Iraqi troops fled an...

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Lebanon’s former head of General Security Jamil al-Sayyed, who spent four years in jail because of his alleged role in the killing of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, has launched a campaign to end the power-sharing arrangement between Shi’ites, Sunnis and Druze. This would effectively pave the way for Hezbollah...

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Bashar al-Assad’s re-election earlier this week is viewed by Iran as “a defeat for the United States and some Arab countries in the region,” according to an analysis published Friday by a Harvard-affiliated scholar. Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, an Iranian-American political scientist who serves on the board of the Harvard International Review, writes:...

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