Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, threatened to attack Israelis Sunday in retaliation for the death of the terrorist Samir Kuntar, who was killed in an airstrike on a Damascus suburb on December 19. “The Israelis should be justifiably worried,” the Hezbollah chief said. “They should be worried along...

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Samir Kuntar, the notorious Hezbollah terrorist who was killed in an airstrike on Saturday night, was preparing forces in the Syrian Golan Heights to orchestrate attacks against Israel before his death, former Israeli national security advisor Gen. Yaacov Amidror said during a press call hosted by The Israel Project on Sunday. While Amidror did...

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Hezbollah commander Samir Kuntar and eight other terrorists were killed in a targeted air strike in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana Saturday night. Kuntar spent 29 years in prison for the brutal murder of an Israeli man and his four-year-old daughter in 1979. “At 10:15 p.m. on Saturday December 19,...

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Israeli security officials have confirmed that Iran has withdrawn most of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces from Syria, The Times of Israel reported Friday. The withdrawal is apparently a reaction to the heavy losses the militia has sustained in recent weeks. A senior IRGC commander and 14 lower-ranking personnel were buried on just...

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A bill that seeks to impose mandatory sanctions on banks that knowingly conduct business with Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group, passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 425 – 0 on Wednesday, The Hill reported. The proposed legislation is now heading to the White House, where President Barack...

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As much as one third of Hezbollah’s fighting force has been killed or injured fighting in defense of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Avi Issacharoff reported Tuesday in The Times of Israel. According to Issacharoff, Israeli sources estimate that between 1,300 to 1,500 members of the Iran-backed terrorist group have been...

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The Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015, which passed the Senate unanimously last week, would strengthen the United States’ ability to clamp down on the Iranian-backed terrorist group’s illicit financing activities if it’s signed into law, Tyler Stapleton, a deputy director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in a...

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The Senate has unanimously passed a bill that would crack down on Hezbollah’s financing, The Hill reported Tuesday. The legislation would let the administration sanction any banks that knowingly work with Hezbollah or supporters of the group. It would also require the administration to hand over a report detailing foreign financial...

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Iran’s determination to prevent ISIS from encroaching on Shi’ite-dominated areas of Iraq, or parts of Syria held by the forces of Iran-allied dictator Bashar al-Assad, will allow it to gain regional influence and global respect, Reuel Marc Gerecht, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Ray Takeyh, a senior...

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The Obama administration has curtailed its demands for the immediate removal of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and has allowed Iran to join diplomatic talks on Syria’s civil war, signaling that the Islamic Republic may continue “wielding influence over Syria” and arming terrorist groups unabated, the Associated Press reported on Thursday....

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