The United States announced Wednesday that it was withdrawing troops from Syria after what it described as the “defeat” of the Islamic State terrorist group. The decision, however, is a fatal miscalculation with potentially devastating consequences for Syria and the region. Our enemies are weakened, but by no means defeated....
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Albania expelled two Iranian diplomats, including the ambassador, for “damaging its national security,” Reuters reported Thursday. Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post that the two had been expelled for a terror plot that targeted a World Cup match between Israel and Albania in 2016. The move to expel the...
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The international community must rigorously enforce the United Nations-brokered peace deal between the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and Yemen’s internationally recognized government or risk a permanent “Hezbollahisation” of the conflict, TIP Senior Fellow Julie Lenarz wrote in an op-ed published in the European Union’s The Parliament Magazine on Thursday. “From the conflict’s...
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At Security Council, Israel Accuses Lebanese Army of Informing Hezbollah about Anti-Tunnel Operation
At the United Nations Security Council meeting discussing the terror tunnels that Hezbollah built from Lebanon into Israel, the country’s Ambassador to the UN accused the Lebanese army of tipping off Hezbollah about Israel’s operation to locate and destroy the tunnels, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. “Israel gave UNIFIL...
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Ahead of the United Nations Security Council open meeting on Hezbollah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the council “to condemn Hezbollah’s wanton acts of aggression,” in a speech he delivered Wednesday. Prior to Netanyahu’s speech, IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus explained how the army detected the fourth...
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A Canadian-backed resolution condemning Iran for “severe” human rights violations passed the United Nations General Assembly by a wide margin, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The resolution passed by a margin of 84 to 30, with 67 abstentions. https://twitter.com/CanadaFP/status/1075033990288023552 Iran was “strongly” urged by the resolution to end its...
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