Jordan is one of the most strategic nations in the Middle East, and now it could be the next target for ISIS. Middle East expert Joel Rosenberg explains why it's a critical time for the U.S. to support this faithful ally.

Hezbollah, Iran's Lebanon-based terror proxy, is blaming the death of key commander Mustafa Badreddine on extremist Sunni insurgents.

It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for "casualties." Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young Israeli soldiers charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that would change them forever, wound the country in large and small ways, and foreshadow the un-winnable conflicts the U.S. would soon confront in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited all U.N. personnel in Israel to a seminar on Jewish history. The invitation followed a recent resolution by the U.N. agency UNESCO that omits any connection of the Jewish people to the Temple Mount.