Avi Issacharoff

A stranger who happened on the streets of Cairo this week might have thought Egypt was preparing for war. Already

Rarely does a day go by in Lebanon without funerals being held for Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria. For months

Soon after it became clear to Ali Akbar Velayati that he had no chance of winning this week’s presidential election

The Egyptian military is attempting to restore calm in the wake of tensions between Cairo and Ethiopia concerning Addis Ababa’s

Syrian rebels seized the Syrian side of the Quneitra border crossing yesterday. Even if they only held it temporarily, their

Syrian rebels Thursday morning seized control of the Syrian side of Quneitra border crossing, just a few hundred meters from

The Middle East, model 2013, is returning with surprising speed to its old habits. Sunnis and Shiites are again at

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday appointed Rami Hamdallah to be the PA’s new prime minister. Hamdallah is

“I am still waiting for a phone call from him,” former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tells TheTower.org in an

In a stunning development that calls into question the basic willingness of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to accept any peace

An Israeli official has confirmed to The Tower that Egypt had received permission from Israel ahead of time before launching

The report in yesterday’s Sunday Times that Syria had advanced missiles trained on Tel Aviv could create the impression that

“This is the best offer we’ve ever gotten from Israel and the best we’ll ever get.” That’s how Palestinian Authority

This week’s reactions from Arab and Muslim leaders to airstrikes on Syria, widely attributed by non-Israeli sources to Israel, reached

Two mortar shells struck Israel’s Golan Heights on Monday in the early evening local time. Though the IDF described the

The latest overnight airstrikes targeting reportedly targeting a dozen military bases, weapons depots and sensitive facilities across Syria, including in

It is far from certain the Iran-backed Assad regime in Syria or the Lebanese based Iran-backed terrorist army Hezbollah will

Hamas’s recent campaign to be removed from the European Union’s terror list is unlikely to succeed given its stance toward

The Palestinian Authority (PA) will defy U.S. calls and pursue a unilateral diplomatic strategy unless Israel meets a series of

Today’s events in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip portend the start of what may be a hot summer

Hezbollah’s decision to launch a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) toward Israel today is not straightforward to understand. In that

In the corridors of power in Jerusalem and Cairo, this week’s fire of two Grad rockets on Eilat came as

Egypt has deployed forces to the Sinai Peninsula several times since the start of this year without prior coordination with

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Muhammad Abbas’s aturday evening decision to accept the resignation of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad came as a result of

Slowly, quietly, the new divided Egypt – divided between the Muslim Brotherhood and its opponents – is changing the space

A foreigner to entering Egypt earlier this week might think he had reached some sort of Middle Eastern paradise. On

Hamas appears to be stopping short of employing its full force to stop Gaza-based jihadists from launching rockets at Israel,

One needn’t romanticize this week’s West Bank unrest. It wasn’t exactly a spontaneous outburst of rage – rather, the three funerals held

Analysts and observers are struggling to unravel reports that Egyptian security officials seized a ship — currently of unknown origin

Israeli and Palestinian sources have confirmed to The Tower that Israeli Air Force jets last night struck Hamas-built tunnels in

Barack Obama has traveled a long way over the past four years in his Middle East policy. In other words:

The rockets fired this morning on Sderot from Gaza should not come as a shock to either Israelis or Palestinians.

U.S. President Barack Obama is today visiting the West Bank town of Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority government is housed.

Israeli sources who spoke to The Tower today described a “Cold War” being fought in the media between Egyptian authorities

The Arab League decided last week to allow its member states to arm the Syrian opposition. Theoretically, until that decision,

Egyptian, Palestinian, and Israeli sources tell The Tower that the Iran-backed terror group Hamas is now believed to have been responsible

Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps are currently in the Gaza Strip, high-level Palestinian security sources tell The Tower. The

The banner hanging in the mourners’ tent at the Jaradat home, in the Hebron-area village of Sa’ir, said it all.

Almost four months have passed since the end of Operation Pillar of Defense, and  Southern Israel is learning to live

Sources in the Free Syrian Army, the main armed group fighting to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad, are announcing

Indications are growing that Hezbollah has made a series of tactical blunders, in Lebanon and beyond in Syria, which have

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s trip to Egypt – designed to go down in the history books as a turning point

The expected arrival of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Cairo – the first of an Iranian president since the 1979 Islamic Revolution

The air strikes on a weapons convoy in the Lebanon-Syria border area and on a suspected weapons facility northwest of