TEL AVIV — The United States has forced Israel to reshuffle its senior defense leadership after an Israeli subsystem arrived in China. Israeli sources said the U.S. Defense Department (more…)
LONDON — The United States has been seen as withdrawing from the Middle East. Leading officials and strategists agreed that the administration of President Barack Obama was losing credibility (more…)
JERUSALEM — A former leading politician has publicly asserted that Israel has accumulated nuclear and chemical weapons. Former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg said Israel possesses a range of weapons (more…)
NICOSIA — Iran has claimed it could build an atomic bomb. A leading Iranian analyst said Iran has reached the capability to develop nuclear warheads. The analyst, a former (more…)
ABU DHABI — The Gulf Cooperation Council has organized efforts to block what members fear was an emboldened nuclear Iran. Officials said the six GCC states have been planning (more…)
CAIRO — For the first time, Egypt has linked the Muslim Brotherhood to Al Qaida. Officials said the intelligence community has determined cooperation between the Brotherhood and Al Qaida. (more…)
WASHINGTON — Congress has determined that Iran’s new president who has been widely labeled a “moderate” in news reports, has kept hardliners in key positions, including defense and internal (more…)
LONDON — Amid the nearly three-year-old war, North Korea remains a key military supplier to Syria. A leading U.S. analyst asserted that Pyongyang has maintained shipments of missiles and (more…)
TEL AVIV — Israel’s ballistic missile defense concept has been criticized by a leading scientist. Nathan Faber, a leading scientist at Israel’s Technion, has warned that the nation’s missile (more…)