Iran will “produce any weapons that we need,” Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said at the nation’s Army Day parade, Agence France-Presse reported Wednesday. Rouhani added that Iran “will not wait for your remarks or agreement” to obtain the weapons it says it needs. The United States and its allies have...

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The upcoming Lebanese elections scheduled for next month could lead to the formation of a “Hezbollah government,” a political scientist told Agence France-Presse in a report published Wednesday. The elections would be the first since 2009 and would be held according to Lebanon’s new election law passed last year. The 128 members...

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Following last week’s airstrike that targeted Iranian forces based at the Tiyas or T-4 airbase in Syria, two Iranian officials have threatened Israel. On Monday, according to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-affiliated Tasnim News,  Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that Israel would receive “required responses sooner or later,” and that Israel “cannot take...

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Ahead of Israel’s Independence Day, the military is preparing for a potential direct attack against the Jewish State by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) air force, in response to Israel’s strikes on Iranian military targets in Syria, The Times of Israel reported. On Tuesday morning, the IDF released aerial...

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The United States, United Kingdom and France launched more than 100 missiles on Friday night against what they say were Syrian chemical weapons facilities in response to a chemical weapons attack in Douma, near Damascus, a week ago, the BBC reported on Saturday. The Pentagon said the strikes, which began...

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Benjamin Netanyahu’s, and by extension – Israel’s future, could go in any one of four distinct directions in the coming months. Netanyahu’s current coalition just escaped its most recent crisis – avoiding early elections. At the same time, Netanyahu is the subject of a number of investigations and could face...

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According to the IDF, an Iranian drone that entered into Israeli airspace in February was armed with explosives and demonstrated “an Iranian intent to carry out an attack” inside the Jewish State, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. By intercepting the Iranian UAV, IAF combat helicopters prevented the attack Iran had...

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Iran’s liaison between the nation’s Supreme Leader and its powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force threatened that “Tel Aviv and Haifa will be razed to the ground” by Iran, if the Islamic Republic is given a pretext, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Thursday is  commemorated as Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel....

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A German company involved in Syrian chemical attacks has defied a warning from the United States and continues trading with Iran, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. A Syrian photographer had found parts made by German company Krempel in Iranian-produced chemical rockets that were used in chemical...

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By withdrawing from Syria too soon, the United States would effectively hand over the country to Iran and Russia, risking a catastrophic “strategic collapse in a region long deemed vital to U.S. interests,” Joshua S. Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, warned in an op-ed published in The Hill...

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