Both Iran and Hezbollah are threatening worldwide retaliation against Israel after the January 18 deaths of a number of Hezbollah terrorists and Iranian military officers, according to a report by Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs that was published Sunday. Shapira noted that in many news reports, Hezbollah was...

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The terror attack against military forces in Egypt’s northern Sinai last week was beyond a routine terrorist act. Arab security experts are calling it a turning point in the terrorist attacks in Egypt, explaining that the attack shows that Egypt is subject to the turmoil taking place in the Middle East and the...

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Hezbollah’s increased activity in the Syrian Golan Heights is a sign of an Iranian effort to “militarily encircle” Israel, Phillip Smyth wrote in an analysis for Foreign Policy on Wednesday. While the Jan. 18 attack represents another saga in the long-running war between Israel and Hezbollah, it also underlines a...

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Iranian troops are testing a missile designed in 2012 that could potentially hamper Israeli efforts to fight Hezbollah in the future, Armin Rosen of Business Insider reported Wednesday. The Dehlaviyeh’s actual capabilities haven’t been proven on the battlefield yet. Iran has a history of over-hyping its weapons advances, most notoriously...

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An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday night condemned the death earlier that day of a Spanish peacekeeper in the Golan Heights, but failed to address the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah’s rocket attack on an IDF convoy, killing two Israeli soldiers and wounding seven more. Before the meeting, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations...

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Hezbollah operatives fired Kornet anti-tank missiles at an Israeli army patrol along the Israel-Lebanon border on Wednesday, killing two Israeli soldiers, wounding seven, and prompting Israeli retaliatory artillery fire on southern Lebanon. A Spanish peacekeeper of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was killed in the exchange of...

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Prominent Lebanese politicians have criticized Hezbollah after the Iran-backed terror organization fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli army convoy, killing two soldiers and wounding seven others. Samir Geagea, a leader of the anti-Hezbollah March 14 movement, today charged that”Hezbollah is more and more expanding its regional schemes against the Lebanese state.” The Daily...

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An Iran-backed Shiite Iraqi militia showed off a captured American tank in a recent video, Bill Riggio and Caleb Weiss reported today at The Long War Journal. A video uploaded to YouTube appears to show a large Hezbollah Brigades convoy transporting weapons, troops, and armored vehicles to the front to...

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Two Israeli soldiers were confirmed dead and seven wounded after terrorists in Lebanon fired an anti-tank missile that hit a military vehicle on the border with Israel, the IDF confirmed. Israel responded to the cross-border attack with artillery fire and a warning to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, which claimed responsibility for the...

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The airstrike on January 18 that killed Hezbollah and Iranian soldiers, allegedly undertaken by the IDF, has been surprisingly welcomed with cheers by many in the Middle East. The strike destroyed a convoy carrying senior Hezbollah commanders and an Iranian military team headed by a general in the Iranian Revolutionary...

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