Hezbollah and Iran-backed militias advanced closer to Syria’s border with Israel marking “a new expansion of Tehran’s influence” on Israel’s northeastern neighbor. The Syrian army, supported by Druze militias, and Iran-backed forces, has “pushed deeper into the last rebel-held enclave” approaching the border area with Israel, Reuters reported on Sunday. According to rebel sources,...

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In the wake of a report earlier this week that the Obama administration ended an investigation into Hezbollah’s drug-trafficking operations in the Western Hemisphere in order to secure the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, a former United States Treasury Department official outlined steps that the Trump administration could take to effectively combat...

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The Obama administration obstructed a campaign by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to monitor and prosecute Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, in order to solidify the 2015 nuclear accord with the Islamic Republic, Politico reported on Sunday. The campaign, called Project Cassandra, launched in 2008, was aimed at disrupting...

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In an op-ed published in The New York Times on Monday, Mark Dubowitz and Toby Dershowitz argued that the treason charge sought against Argentinian ex-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and a number of her top aides, vindicates the late Alberto Nisman’s investigation into the 1994 AMIA bombing. Last Thursday, Argentinians woke up...

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In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday, Daniel Schwammenthal, the director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute, has warned that failure to confront Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah over its violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 will make a future war between Israel and Lebanon more likely....

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A week after Hezbollah terrorists operating on behalf of Iran blew up the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, the terror group sent a suicide bomber to bring down a small commuter flight in Panama, carrying mostly Jewish passengers. The FBI believes it now knows the real name of the...

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After returning to Lebanon following his resignation earlier this month, later rescinded, in Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that Hezbollah was a regional problem and that his nation “cannot do anything about it.” Hariri made the comments in an interview with Al-Rajol, a Saudi magazine, the Daily Star reported Sunday. The Lebanese prime...

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The commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, General Joseph Aoun, has called upon his soldiers “to be fully prepared on the southern border to confront the Israeli enemy’s threats and violations,” The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The general also warned that Israel has “hostile intentions against Lebanon, its people,...

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The Arab League held an emergency meeting in Cairo on Sunday and issued a resolution that heavily criticized Iran and Hezbollah. Speaking at the meeting Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir said his country “will not stand by and will not hesitate to defend its security” in the face of...

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Confronting Iran’s hegemonic ambitions in the Middle East needs to be a “bipartisan priority,” the Democratic congressman who initiated a letter signed by 42 of his colleagues to United States Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, protesting Iranian interference in Syria, said on Wednesday. “A permanent Iranian presence in Syria is...

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