Clashes along the Syria-Lebanon border on Monday killed more than a dozen people, less than a week after Washington leveled sanctions against a Beirut-based network of companies believed to be supplying resources to the terror group: Seven fighters from the Lebanese group Hezbollah were killed in fighting with Sunni Islamist insurgents in...

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The State Department’s top war crimes official claimed on Thursday that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is guilty of  “crimes against humanity.” Josh Rogin of The Daily Beast quotes Steven Rapp, the State Department’s ambassador-at-large for War Crimes and director of the Office of Global Criminal Justice. “This is...

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The Associated Press reported on a suicide bombing in a Beirut hotel Wednesday: The bombing is the latest in a string of attacks and security scares in Lebanon over the past week that have sparked fears of renewed violence in a country that has been deeply affected by the civil...

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Israeli officials on Tuesday doubled down on claims made earlier this week that the Bashar al-Assad regime was responsible for a weekend attack near the Israel-Syria border that killed an Israeli boy. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said it was “clear” that forces loyal to the Assad regime were behind...

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Back-to-back car bombings on Friday and Monday – which targeted military officials and civilians in areas of Lebanon critical to Hezbollah – have renewed worries that blowback generated by the Iran-backed terror group’s participation in regional Sunni-Shiite conflicts may end up dragging Lebanon into those conflicts. The incidents were the...

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The Times of Israel reported Monday that Israel is actively seeking to dampen escalatory tensions along the Israel-Syria border: A senior military official noted Monday, however, that Israel had no interest in military escalation along its northern borders, as the IDF was focused on an operation in the West Bank...

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As we march towards the July 20 deadline for reaching agreement on stopping the Iranian nuclear weapons program, it is worth gauging Iran’s intentions by looking at the words of its foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. On June 13, The Washington Post published an op-ed by Zarif entitled Iran is Committed to...

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A mortar or anti-tank missile fired from Syria killed an Israeli teenager and seriously wounded his father south of the Kuneitra crossing on the Golan Heights. The boy, identified as Mohammed Karkara, was apparently accompanying his father to work with a civilian crew doing maintenance work on the border fence....

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The Daily Star reported Monday that new batches of Hezbollah fighters were preparing to deploy into Syria as Iraqi Shiite militias – which had been battling on behalf of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime – were recalled back across the Syrian-Iraqi border to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...

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At least 31 people were killed Monday in barrel bomb attacks in the northern city of Aleppo, according to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog group: Some of the wounded were in a serious condition after the strikes on the Sukkari and Ashrafiyeh neighbourhoods, the Syrian Observatory for...

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