American passport holder Osama al-Zebda who died fighting for Hamas was on the U.S. terror watch list.

Proven Israeli technology should be an urgent U.S. priority to fill the 'dangerous gaps in American defense,' say experts on the geopolitical situation in the Mideast.

There is significant bipartisan concern in Washington that President Barack Obama 'won’t have Israel’s back' at the United Nations following the election of his successor in November, Clifford D. May, a prominent Middle East expert, says.

The $1.7 billion cash payment that the White House recently sent to Iran suggests that Washington may have transferred to Tehran more than $33 billion in untraceable cash and precious metals since 2014, giving the Islamic Republic greater flexibility to launder money and finance terrorism.

In what many people must have seen as an incredibly naive assessment, President Barack Obama said last August in his speech at American University that 'our best analysts expect the bulk of this revenue to go into spending that improves the economy and benefits the lives of the Iranian people.'

The world's major economies on Friday suspended anti-money laundering measures against Iran for a year despite concerns that the Islamic Republic uses its financial sector to protect criminal enterprises and fund terrorist activity.

Since Mahmoud Abbas rose to power, the situation in the West Bank has become as unstable as ever. With no clear successor and reports of rampant corruption, the PA faces an uncertain future.