As a conservative fed up with how so-called “mainstream” reporters and national security experts have been in the tank for President Obama’s disastrous foreign policy but relentlessly attacked President George W. Bush’s, I’ve been experiencing a bit of schadenfreude as I watched some of these journalists and experts squirm after David Samuels’ New York Times profile of Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes.
Critics have accused the Obama administration of effectively acting as Iran’s law firm during the nuclear negotiations, but now Secretary of State John Kerry seems determined to volunteer as Iran’s marketing director.
The United States has carried out four airstrikes in recent weeks against a resurgent al-Qaida branch in Yemen, killing 10 jihadists and injuring one, according to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).
Iran would drown U.S. warships if they pose a threat to the Middle Eastern country, warns a commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy.
Israel Airforce fighter jets struck a weapons convoy headed into the hands of Hezbollah fighters in Syria, Channel 2 citing Arab media sources reported Tuesday. The attack allegedly occurred on the Syrian-Lebanese border earlier in the afternoon and struck a number of vital positions important to the terror organization. Channel 2 added that the Israeli Air Force struck the weapons convoy near a Syrian “rebel safe-haven” where Hezbollah militants were allegedly stationed.
TEL AVIV – For the first time in 15 years, liberal Democrats in the U.S. sympathize more with the Palestinians than with Israel (40 percent versus 33 percent), a new poll from the Pew Research Center found.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer declared that during the Obama administration’s sale of the Iran nuclear deal, “There was lying point by point, all the way through” on Monday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. Krauthammer said, [relevant remarks begin around 4:35]
TEL AVIV – Iran’s state-affiliated Press TV on Monday ran a false report claiming that Saudi King Salman financed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election campaign in 2015 to the tune of $80 million. The report, titled, “Leaked: Saudi King financed
The White House appears unwilling to say that senior administration officials did not publicly lie to the public when trying to sell the Iran nuclear deal.
TEL AVIV – In an oped published on Politico, former Middle East adviser to President Barack Obama, Dennis Ross, declared that Israel and Arab countries are increasingly turning to Russia because the United States is seen as “weak” and Middle Eastern leaders have “given up” on Obama.
Speaking to an overflow crowd in Lynden, Washington, Donald Trump called Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton “trigger happy” on foreign policy.
Several Iranian soldiers were killed near Aleppo, the Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, in what appeared to be one of Iran’s biggest losses in Syria since it deployed forces to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Islamist insurgents on Friday seized
The ongoing fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is taking place in a political arena, rather than a battlefield, where Iraq’s rival ethnic and religious groups are duking it out over how to go about liberating the strategically important city, reports Foreign Policy (FP).
South Korean President Park Geun-hye has asked Iran to help convince North Korea to cooperate with U.N. Security Council resolutions for nuclear disarmament.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani publicly opposed North Korea’s nuclear program this week during a historic three-day summit between him and South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye in Tehran, Iran.
Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 on a pledge to end the war in Iraq.
TEL AVIV – Islamic Jihad Leader Ramadan Abdullah Shallah (pictured) is visiting Iran for bilateral talks after a year-long rift. On the trip, Shallah met the Iranian leadership for the first time, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif, and others.
Iran has sued the United States at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), attacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that Iran must pay compensation to the victims of terrorist attacks it sponsored.
TEL AVIV – The United States is the Middle East’s main enemy, with the “Zionist regime” a close second, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Iran regime “has sanctioned a new recruiting video aimed at youngsters in the hope that they enlist in the Syrian civil war as well as the fighting in Iraq.” See the video below: Continues the
CBS News reports: The Syrian dictatorship and Russian forces are on the offensive to encircle the city of Aleppo, a stronghold of the rebels who rose against the government five years ago. A new partial cease fire was agreed to
Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC), chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, and 22 other Republicans wrote a letter opposing sanctions relief by the Obama administration for a Chinese corporation accused of providing spy gear to Iran.
An Iranian woman was reportedly publicly flogged 100 times on Wednesday in the Iranian state of Isfahan for an alleged extramarital affair four years ago.
Reuters took a long look at the rocky relationship between Russia and Iran this week, noting that a stronger alliance between the two nations always seems to fall apart for one reason or another. For example, one Iranian diplomat described personality clashes between the Iranian and Russian leaders by saying, “Rouhani and Putin don’t get along that great.”
The Washington Times reports: Iran has begun to ask its teenage boys to volunteer to fight in Syria in a sign the hard-line Islamic regime’s military is suffering rising casualties in the five-year war and needs a morale boost, an opposition group says.
During an address to workers in Tehran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the United States of undermining its nuclear deal with Iran.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” former Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) stated that while he still believes the Iran nuclear deal was a good thing, “Iran’s behavior is not changing internally” and “a betterment of relations in the short
A document allegedly leaked to Western media by a group of Alawite leaders claims Bashar al-Assad’s religious sect is “dissociating” itself from the Syrian dictator’s leadership.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Iranian media reported on Monday that President Hassan Rouhani requested to remove the words “Death to Israel” from the ballistic missiles belonging to his country.
Tens of thousands of Armenians gathered internationally to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in which the Ottoman Empire murdered 1.5 million Armenians.
Speaking to a group of students in Tehran last week, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced a recent move by several Sunni Arab nations to label Iran-backed Hezbollah a terrorist organization and said the Shiite group is a source of honor and pride for the Islamic world.
TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabian and other Gulf press lashed out at President Barack Obama prior to his visit to Riyadh, accusing a “schizophrenic” Congress of being in cahoots with Iran in its attempt to pass a bill that would hold the kingdom responsible for involvement in the 9/11 terror attacks.
Syrian opposition coordinator Riad Hijab defended his body’s decision to walk out of peace talks in Geneva and criticized U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura over the rise in violence, during a high level EU visit to the Turkish border province.
The Algemeiner reports: JNS.org – Russia has released a statement denying reports that a Russian aircraft intercepted an Israeli aircraft near the Israel-Syria border this week. “I do not want to comment on Israeli media. The reports of the Israeli media outlets
Iran’s flouting of the Obama nuclear deal continued with the test of a new “space rocket,” built with North Korean technology, that may be capable of delivering a nuclear warhead.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the United Nations in New York on Friday to discuss more sanctions relief for Iran, which has complained the benefits promised in President Obama’s nuclear deal are arriving too slowly.
Iranian troops in Syria are only volunteers operating under the supervision of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, claims the commander-in-chief the Islamic Republic’s military.
The White House spent a good deal of President Obama’s first day in Saudi Arabia trying to spin away the unmistakable snub dealt by King Salman, who personally greeted the leaders of other Gulf nations at the airport but left Obama to be welcomed by the governor of Riyadh and the Saudi foreign minister.
U.S. President Barack Obama has penned an opinion column in Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper outlining why he believes Britain should remain in the European Union (EU). The core of his arguments are: that Britain’s voice would be lost without Brussels
Families of the victims of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut and other terrorist attacks will be able to collect an estimated $2 billion in frozen Iranian funds, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
