The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced Thursday that it had broken up a “wide-ranging” Hamas terror plot run by Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas official who lives and operates openly in Turkey. CNN reports that more than 30 suspects were arrested after authorities investigated a series of explosions...

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Reports emerged Friday morning that at least 30 Hamas members had been arrested in the West Bank in recent weeks for planning a series of terror attacks against Israeli targets. Senior Palestinian officials told veteran Arab affairs correspondent Avi Issacharoff that the expansive West Bank network was both funded and...

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been under heavy criticism from a number of prominent Arab writers and journalists after recently claiming that Muslim sailors, not Christopher Columbus, had discovered the Americas. Erdogan, who has been in power in Turkey for more than a decade, stirred up controversy on Saturday when he claimed that the Americas were discovered...

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Egypt’s leaders should declare Hamas, Qatar and Turkey “hostile entities” and cut off all political and diplomatic relations with them, according to a senior military expert. The comments were made by Maj.-Gen. Ahmed Rajai, founder of the Egyptian Armed Forces 777 Division for combating terrorism, in the wake of coordinated...

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A conflict of interests and differing regional stances are fueling a crisis between the Turkish and Iranian regimes. The two sides are now dealing with “the most violent” exchange of accusations since the war in Syria began, the Al-Khabar Press website reported. Iran and Turkey back opposing actors in the...

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In ISIS: Can the West Win Without a Ground Game?, published in the October 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Jonathan Spyer outlines the dilemmas facing policy makers who wish to, in the words of President Barack Obama, “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)....

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This past week, Turkish-Egyptian tensions took on a new, economic dimension. Egypt decided (Arabic link) to prevent the passage of Turkish trucks and ships through its territory to the Persian Gulf states, signaling an increase of friction between the two rival countries. The Egyptian government signed an agreement with Turkey in March...

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An analysis published Sunday in Turkey’s Today’s Zaman accuses the ruling Freedom and Justice Party (AKP) of consolidating its monopoly over Turkey’s government institutions in a similar fashion to how the clerics took control of Iran’s government following the the 1979 revolution that ousted the Shah. An Istanbul-based political commentator, Ömer...

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The Turkish government and the administration of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been subject to harsh criticism in the past several days from various parties in the country, which stem from the passage of several controversial bills in the parliament and a tightening grip on the judiciary. Turkish commentators fear...

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Yesterday, Turkey denied suggestions that it granted the United States permission to use the Incirlik air base to launch attacks against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The Washington Post reports: A statement issued by the office of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said talks are continuing between Ankara...

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