The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is set to meet Iran in Vienna on May 14-15, just months after the IAEA expressed open disappointment in Iran’s lack of transparency regarding its nuclear program. The meeting between the sides will come…
Israel added another twist to the political transition in the Middle East on Sunday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised the prospect of moving elections forward. Ynet reported that national parliamentary elections, currently scheduled for 2013, could be moved…
An announcement from Israel on Sunday sent out a “severe travel warning” regarding Israelis traveling in the Sinai Peninsula, due to concerns about an immediate terrorist threat. The statement from the National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Bureau “underscores” the Sinai warning…
An electricity crisis in Gaza blamed as a cause for the deaths of multiple children appears to be over after the two main Palestinian political groups reached a deal on supplying fuel for the coastal enclave’s power plant. The WAFA…
Internal Palestinian political issues and unsuccessful negotiations with Egypt have combined to place the Gaza Strip in an electricity crisis. The Ma’an News Agency has reported that Gaza’s lone power plant has shut down four times since mid-February, although the…
In what is becoming a tradition, the Israeli and US presidents issued messages to the Iranian people for the Persian Nowruz new year. Shimon Peres and Barack Obama also addressed the Persian people as separate from the government in Tehran.…