The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah and its allies swept to victory in municipal elections in the Bekaa valley region of eastern Lebanon on Sunday. Hezbollah won a “complete victory” in the cities of Baalbek and the town of Brital, which borders Syria, according to its deputy chief, Sheikh Naim Kassem. Hezbollah competed in 80 of the...

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Iran’s parliament passed a law Tuesday to provide citizenship for families of foreigners who died fighting for Iran, state media reported Monday. The bill grants Iranian citizenship to “wives, children, and parents of foreign fighters who were killed on a mission for Iran during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988 and afterwards.” Some...

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Security footage recovered from a destroyed pediatric hospital in Aleppo shows the moment the facility was shelled by the forces of Syrian dictator Bashar-al Assad. The video, originally aired by Britain’s Channel 4, shows hospital staff and patients walking in the corridors of al-Quds hospital on Wednesday evening. The city’s last pediatrician, Dr. Mohammed...

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The forces of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad continued bombing rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Friday, striking a medical clinic and killing two doctors just days after destroying a hospital in the city. The clinic, which has been offering dental services and treating patients with chronic illnesses for approximately five years,...

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A barrage of airstrikes that destroyed a hospital in a rebel-held area of the Syrian city of Aleppo, killing patients and doctors, appears to have been a deliberate attack by the Iran-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday. “The indications that we have now...

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A summit of over 50 Muslim countries criticized Iran on Friday for supporting terrorism and interfering in the internal affairs of its neighbors. The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which concluded its meeting in Istanbul on Friday, stated as part of its final communique that it “deplored Iran’s interference in the internal affairs of...

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By failing to take a stand against the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Palestinian leaders have “lost the Arab depth, their credibility and their narrative,” Hanin Ghaddar, the editor of the Lebanese news site NOW, wrote in a commentary Thursday. Ghaddar observed that Assad and Hezbollah, both of which are backed...

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The Iran-backed Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad held parliamentary elections in areas under its control on Wednesday, a move that Western nations and the Syrian opposition said undermined negotiations for a political solution to the conflict and will likely result in a rubber-stamp legislature in favor of Assad. U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Mark...

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If Bashar al-Assad and senior members of the Syrian leadership are ever captured and brought to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and charged with war crimes, the evidence being gathered by an obscure investigative agency could be crucial to establishing their guilt. In the newest issue of The New Yorker, Ben Taub documented the efforts of the Commission...

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Giving Iran access to U.S. dollars in order to boost its international business profile would erode diplomatic leverage against the Islamic Republic and jeopardize the international banking system, experts said in a conference call with the Foreign Policy Initiative last week. Mark Dubowitz and Eric Lorber, respectively the executive director and senior advisor of the Foundation...

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