A former Supreme Commander of NATO advocated for even closer military cooperation between the United States and Israel in an essay for Time on Thursday. Former Admiral James Stavridis, now the Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, wrote that in order for the United States to confront the...

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Iran has received more than $10 billion in sanctions relief in cash and gold since reaching an interim nuclear deal with world powers in November 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. These payments, which came from unfrozen assets in numerous countries, were favored by Iran as they offered “quick access to its...

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President-elect Donald Trump has picked David Friedman, a 57-year-old bankruptcy lawyer and longtime advisor, to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel, the Trump transition team said in a statement on Thursday. Like Washington’s current envoy to Israel, Dan Shapiro, Friedman is a fluent Hebrew speaker. Friedman served on Trump’s Israel advisory...

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As Israel struggled to put out the hundreds wildfires that rampaged across the country on Thursday, many of which were started by terror arsonists, both domestic and foreign support poured in to help battle the blazes and evacuate residents. At the same time, expressions of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate spread across the internet....

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Iran is threatening to retaliate against sanctions legislation that was overwhelmingly passed by the House of Representatives last week, shortly after the Institute for Science and International Security reported that Iran may be in violation of elements of last year’s nuclear agreement. “So far, the current US government has committed several violations...

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Much remains unclear about President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy, and so the two months before his inauguration will be “crucial” as Israel determines how its relationship with the United States will evolve over the next four years, a former Israeli national security advisor told reporters Monday. Gen. (ret.) Yaacov Amidror praised...

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989, criticized the American presidential election in a series of tweets last week while commemorating the 37th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Khamenei criticized the two leading U.S. candidates for president, calling them “unethical.” In US presidential #debates...

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An Iranian general said that his country’s elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), will be in the United States and Europe “very soon,” the Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday, citing Iranian media. “The whole world should know that the IRGC will be in the U.S. and Europe very...

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Iran threatened to shoot down two American planes flying in international airspace in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, the latest example of Tehran’s increased aggression in the Persian Gulf. The American planes disregarded the warning and eventually landed safely. “We wanted to test the Iranian reaction,” a U.S. defense official...

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After nearly a year of negotiations, Israel and the United States have signed a record $38 billion, 10-year military aid package. The deal is “the single largest military assistance package—with any country—in American history,” American ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said earlier this week. The current U.S.-Israel military aid agreement, which expires in 2018,...

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