Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman acknowledged his country’s recent airstrikes against Syrian targets, saying in an address to European Union ambassadors on Wednesday that the strikes were meant to prevent Hezbollah from receiving “advanced weapons, military equipment and weapons of mass destruction.” Though it is unusual for an Israeli government official...

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A Hezbollah arms convoy and a Syrian military target were hit overnight by Israeli air strikes, Arab media reported Wednesday. Syrian government-associated news sources reported that there were four explosions in Damascus at 1:15 in the morning, as a military compound near the Damascus airport was hit by Israel Air Force planes operating in...

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Russian and Hezbollah officials have met in the Syrian city of Aleppo to coordinate movements on the ground, the Lebanese website al-Akhbar reported on Thursday. The website, which is considered to be supportive of Hezbollah, said that Russian officials instigated the meeting, the first of its kind, in order to establish “continual”...

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Iran is smuggling weapons to the terrorist group Hezbollah inside commercial flights to Lebanon, the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations has charged in a letter to the UN Security Council. Such actions would violate several Security Council resolutions. Citing reports from Israel’s intelligence agencies, Ambassador Danny Danon wrote that “the Iranian Al-Quds...

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The success of Iran-backed Shiite militias has bolstered the once-faltering Syrian regime and given Tehran increased influence over the outcome of the country’s civil war, The Washington Post reported Sunday. “They are building a force on the ground that, long after the war, will stay there and wield a strong military and...

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The Israeli army is bolstering the country’s northern defenses in anticipation of future attacks from the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, Haaretz reported Sunday. The Israel Defense Forces changed its doctrine towards the terror group following threats by its leader Hassan Nasrallah, who claimed that Hezbollah sought to “enter into Galilee and …go even beyond the...

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Oberlin College Cans Karega Joy Karega, an associate professor of rhetoric at Oberlin College whose Facebook posts featured conspiracies about Jewish bankers controlling world events and accusations that Israel founded ISIS and was responsible for 9/11, was dismissed by the college Tuesday. The school’s board of trustees said in a statement...

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The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah is “effectively controlling Lebanon” following the recent election of its ally Michel Aoun to the Lebanese presidency, David Daoud, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, warned in a Newsweek analysis published on Sunday. While Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif personally visited and congratulated Aoun...

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The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah showed off its “massive” arsenal of armored vehicles during a “military parade” near the northern Syrian city of al-Qusayr on Sunday, the website al-Masdar News, which is associated with the terror group, reported. Columns of armored vehicles were visible in photos uploaded to Hezbollah-affiliated social media accounts....

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The chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces boasted at a public ceremony that his country has provided the terrorist group Hezbollah with missile technology that enabled them to target Israeli civilians, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported Thursday. “Iran established the missile industry for Syria in Aleppo in...

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