LawNews
Justices Struggle Over Venue in Case Involving Big Tech, Saudi Arabia
Supreme Court justices grew fiery at times, and occasionally comical, during Monday’s arguments in the case of a former Twitter employee who was a paid… Read More
SecurityNews
Reuters: As Many as 150 US Troops Wounded So Far in Iran War, Sources Say
REUTERS—As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the 10-day-old war with Iran, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday…. Read More
PoliticsNews
‘RADICAL COMPANY’: Republicans Slam Spanberger’s History Teaching at School Tied to Hamas
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republicans are again condemning Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger for her history teaching at an Islamic school funded by Saudi… Read More
InternationalCommentary
What We Learned From President Trump’s First Official Trip Abroad
Official presidential travel is a weighty business. Unlike unofficial travel—for events like Pope Francis’s funeral—official trips are planned months in advance and carefully choreographed to… Read More
International Analysis
Besides Israel, There Will Not Be a Sovereign State West of Jordan River, Ambassador Says
Gaza will never become an independent nation, Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter says. “There’s not going to be an independent sovereign state… Read More
InternationalNews
Trump’s Lifting of Sanctions on Syria Wins Cautious Approval
The Trump administration made a bold announcement this week, declaring it would lift sanctions on Syria, earning bipartisan praise in doing so. “I will be… Read More
Commentary
Trump’s Middle East Strategy Is Ambitious but Also Dangerous
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see… Read More
International Analysis
Trump’s Core Strategy in the Middle East
There is an opportunity for the Middle East to be defined “by commerce, not chaos,” President Donald Trump said, speaking at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum… Read More
PoliticsNews
With Trump Back in Office, More Countries Are Expected to Join Abraham Accords
TEL AVIV, Israel—After Oct. 7, 2023, and amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, the Abraham Accords remain in place and may soon be… Read More
InternationalNews
Saudi Arabia, Qatar Bail Out War-Ravaged Syria
The Middle East was the source of some rare positive news on Sunday when Qatar and Saudi Arabia announced that they would be paying back… Read More
SecurityAnalysis
Biden Empowered Iran Proxies Attacking US Forces and Threatening Wider War Against Israel
The budding regional war in the Middle East is a crisis of President Joe Biden’s own making. Not only has the president empowered Iran by… Read More
We Are Drilling, Baby! U.S. Passing Saudi Arabia in Oil Production
What do you know—“Drill, baby, drill” is working. Thanks to new smart-drilling and production technologies (including hydraulic fracturing), the U.S. is the leading liquid fuels… Read More
Q&A on the Iran Nuclear Deal
James Phillips, Heritage’s Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs, gives us his take on the latest deal with Iran. Will the interim agreement stop… Read More
A Bad Nuclear Deal with Iran Could Lead to War
The deal that the Obama Administration struck at the Geneva talks yesterday amounts to a flawed agreement that risks reducing sanctions pressure on Iran over… Read More
Iran Gains Sanctions Relief from the Obama Administration
The Obama Administration, eagerly seeking a deal on Iran’s nuclear program, is now signaling that it will ease the sanctions that finally forced Tehran to… Read More
Peace Talks on Syria Collapse over Iran
The U.S. and Russia have failed to come to a peace talk date to diplomatically solve the crisis in Syria. The main point of contention… Read More
SecurityNews
U.S. Allies Voice Alarm over Obama’s Middle East Policies
Saudi Arabia and Israel, two key U.S. allies, have publicly challenged the Obama Administration’s Middle East policies this week and expressed alarm over the unraveling… Read More
5 Reasons Congress Should Press Obama on Syria
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) both endorsed military action in Syria yesterday, but it’s unclear whether President Obama has… Read More
Iran’s Covert Cyber War
Over the weekend, Hassan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, was officially sworn in as Iran’s new president. Unfortunately, there are no indications that he… Read More
SecurityNews
Arrest of Notorious Zetas Leader Built on U.S.–Mexican Cooperation
Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, leader of Los Zetas, was captured by Mexican law enforcement on July 15. Treviño was among the most feared outlaws… Read More
SecurityNews
North Korea Ups the Ante with Cyber Attack
On Tuesday, several South Korean banks and television broadcasters were taken offline due to a “pretty massive” cyber attack. For the most part these attacks… Read More
U.S. Should Export Natural Gas
A long-awaited report on natural gas exports was finally released by the Department of Energy (DOE) last week. Unsurprisingly, it concluded that exporting natural gas… Read More
Legalize Crude Oil Exports
An energy renaissance is underway in the United States. According to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), America’s decades-long dependence on foreign… Read More
The Next StuxNet?
The Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs has released a report on a new, sophisticated malware variety called FLAME. It has been found on various targets… Read More
Morning Bell: Is America Prepared for a Saudi Oil Crisis?
Think fueling up your car at $4 a gallon is rough? How would you feel about paying more than $6.50? Add on top of that… Read More
Schumer, Who Opposed Keystone XL, Calls for More Saudi Oil Production
Responding to record-high gas prices and a potential for further disruptions in supply, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Monday requested that the State Department pressure… Read More
The Latin American Gang of Five—and Iran
When the U.N. General Assembly voted on resolution A/RES/66/12 in late November, it passed easily with 106 votes. What was unusual about the otherwise routine… Read More
United States Thwarts Iranian Terrorist Plot
U.S. authorities announced today that they disrupted an Iranian plan to commit a “significant terrorist act in the United States,” making it the forty-second thwarted… Read More
Dare to Drive: A Saudi Woman Remains Imprisoned For Defying Moral Law
Empowering and educating women in oppressive regimes around the world is one of the best ways to elevate freedom and democracy in those areas. The… Read More
The Middle East-and U.S. Policy-in Growing Disarray
Troops loyal to Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi’s regime continued their advance toward the rebel stronghold of Benghazi yesterday, as the Obama Administration scrambled to mount… Read More
