A Hezbollah officer boasted on Thursday that the Iran-backed terror organization had forced Israel to switch “from an offensive to a defensive doctrine,” The Times of Israel reported. The official’s claim appears to refer to countermeasures Israel adopted across its northern border to fight possible infiltration by Hezbollah, whether by land...

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Getting Serious on Syria Secretary of State Rex Tillerson last week made a widely criticized remark that “the longer-term status of President [Bashar al-Assad] will be decided by the Syrian people.” However, following a deadly chemical weapons attack in the rebel-held Syrian province of Idlib on Tuesday, which killed at least...

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The Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah has emerged as the “one clear winner” from the destruction of the Syrian civil war, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. “Hezbollah,” the Journal observed, “is today stronger, more independent and in command of a new Syrian militia that its officials say is ready to...

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The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah recently raided drug houses in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Beirut, underlining its increasing entanglement with the Lebanese government. “This is what a country that has given up its authority in favor of the ‘tiny state’ looks like,” said Ashraf Rifi, a Hezbollah critic...

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Israel’s High Court on Wednesday stayed the order to empty an ammonia storage tank in Haifa, which has been the target of threats by the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, Bloomberg News reported. The Haifa District Court initially mandated the tank be closed by Saturday following a municipal report raising fears that it...

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The Israeli navy will add an extra Iron Dome battery to each of its four new surface ships in order to guard its natural gas fields from Hezbollah, Defense News reported Tuesday. A senior naval officer explained that due to Hezbollah’s growing arsenal of 122mm Grad-type rockets and longer-range weapons systems, Israel will...

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A Hamas terrorist who was convicted of planning a suicide bombing that killed nine Israelis was killed in an apparent assassination at his Gaza home on Friday. Mazen Faqha was shot dead by unknown assailants using a gun with a silencer. He had been sentenced to nine life terms by...

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As reports of the savage terrorist attack in central London March 22 emerged, it was clear pretty quickly that British authorities were dealing with an incident straight from the Islamist terror manual. The weapons of choice in London were ordinary consumer goods that are easily refashioned for the purposes of...

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In case of a future war with the Islamist terrorist groups Hamas or Hezbollah, Israel would completely evacuate its border communities–up to 250,000 people in either case–to lower the threat level, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. These evacuations, coordinated with local municipalities to keep civilians safe, would be the biggest in...

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The head of the Israeli military warned Sunday that the Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah is building up its arsenal in Lebanon, which will bear the brunt of any future conflict between the Iranian proxy and Israel. In a “future war, there will be a clear address: the state of Lebanon and...

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