Hezbollah has been influenced by Russian forces fighting alongside them in Syria, raising concerns that the Iran-backed terror group will adapt those tactics for use against Israel, Defense News reported Sunday, citing a forthcoming report from the Israeli National Security Council. The NSC report asserts that Russian influence may help Hezbollah evolve from a well-armed...

• Kindle

High-ranking Iranian officials have hailed the election of Lebanon’s new president Michel Aoun as a boon for the Islamic Republic, with a top adviser for Iran’s parliamentary speaker saying that Aoun will advance “the resistance against the Zionist regime,” Iran’s state-owned PressTV reported on Wednesday. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also claimed that Aoun’s election will...

• Kindle

Members of Congress are warning that a recent White House directive to share more sensitive intelligence with Cuba will in turn benefit Iran, which is developing a larger footprint in Latin America, the Washington Free Beacon reported Monday. The policy directive, issued on October 14, instructed the U.S. director of national intelligence “to...

• Kindle

Lebanon’s newest president, a retired general who is firmly allied with the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah, threatened Israel in his inaugural address in Beirut on Monday, The Times of Israel reported. Michel Aoun secured 83 votes in parliament, comfortably exceeding the majority required to win the presidency in the 128-seat chamber....

• Kindle

Three men linked to the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah were accused of laundering drug money on behalf of the Colombian cartel after authorities said they illegally moved $500,000 into Miami banks, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday. The apparent ringleader of the money laundering scheme, 31-year-old Mohammad Ahmad Ammar from Medellin, Colombia, “was quietly booked...

• Kindle

Six residents of the village of Ghajar on the Golan Heights were accused on Thursday of planning a terror attack in Israel with help from the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah. Diab Kahamuz, the alleged ringleader, was caught after he apparently forgot where he hid the explosives he received from Hezbollah. The explosives were found...

• Kindle

The leader of a coalition of Sunni rebels fighting against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad expressed that his group, which includes Islamists, has no desire to go to war with Israel, Eli Lake of Bloomberg View reported Thursday. Mohammed Alloush, the political leader of Jaish al-Islam, which translates to “Army of Islam,” which...

• Kindle

Iran is working to obstruct the election of a new Lebanese president, a Lebanese member of parliament said on Sunday, highlighting continued attempts by the Islamic Republic and its terrorist proxy Hezbollah to maintain the political gridlock in Beirut. Jamal al-Jarrah, who belongs to the Sunni-majority Future Movement party, explained that “[former Lebanese Prime...

• Kindle

Iran “must stop meddling in Arab affairs, from Yemen and Bahrain to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon,” former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri wrote on Thursday in The New York Times. Hariri’s father Rafik, also a former prime minister, was assassinated in 2005. An international tribunal at The Hague determined that the assassination was carried out...

• Kindle

A top Hezbollah official acknowledged that the Iran-backed terrorist group has been blocking the appointment of a new Lebanese president, Ya Libnan reported Sunday. Hezbollah’s second-in-command Naim Qassem said that the Future Movement, a political party primarily supported by Lebanese Sunnis, must “end its hesitation” and support the Hezbollah-backed presidential candidate Michel Aoun,...

• Kindle