The Wall Street Journal revealed late last week that Iran has been hacking U.S. Navy computers in recent weeks. The allegations, coming as the Obama administration ramps up talks with Iran over its nuclear program, show the depth and complexity of long-standing tensions between Washington and Tehran. The U.S. officials said...

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Weekend violence and political developments inside Lebanon again have observers focusing on the role played by Hezbollah and its Iranian patrons in undermining the country’s stability. Debates over the degree to which the West should target Hezbollah have sometimes turned on claims that, in fact, the Iran-backed terror group is...

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Sunni jihadists yesterday detonated a series of coordinated car bombs in Shiite neighborhoods across Baghdad, the latest attacks in tit-for-tat violence that has analysts worried the country is slipping back into the all-out sectarian warfare of 2005-2006. At least fifty-four people were killed. The country’s renewed sectarian violence is in...

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Responding last July to news that Turkey was planning to purchase air defense systems from China, a NATO official declared that the decision – if confirmed and implemented – “would certainly leave many of us speechless.” Last week Turkey announced that it was moving ahead with purchasing the FD-2000 missile...

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At least 78 people were killed in a bombing outside of a Pakistani church Sunday, with the attack being only the latest in a cascade of anti-Christian violence that has rocked the Middle East and Africa in recent months. In Egypt, Islamist supporters of the country’s deposed former President Mohammed...

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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) seemed set Friday night to adopt a resolution aimed at dismantling Syria’s vast arsenal of chemical weapons. For weeks the UNSC’s Western nations – the United States, Britain, and France – had been demanding that the measure include some means of automatic enforcement if...

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Hezbollah was heavily involved in instigating and extending violence in Iraq, stretching back almost a decade. The Iran-backed terror group has been critical in assisting Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime extend that country’s war, which has seen over 100,000 people killed and hundreds of people gassed to death. The group has...

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Reuters reports that Russia has expressed hopes that some resolution revolving around some aspect of Syria’s vast chemical weapons arsenal can be hammered out this week. The details of that resolution have yet to be worked out, but Russia officials have very definite ideas about what won’t be included: “There...

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Reports of Israeli medical assistance to Syrian war victims long ago began to filter back into Syria. Jerusalem set up a field hospital near the Israeli-Syrian border last March, and victims who require extensive care have been taken to hospitals deeper inside Israel. Over 100 Syrians have been treated, leading...

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A Syrian human rights group is reporting that at least seven people were killed in a car bomb that exploded today in Damascus. Syrian state news outlets also confirmed the attack. The BBC noted that the Tadamon district where the explosion occurred has been the scene of some of the...

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