In 2009, at the beginning of his first term in office, President Barack Obama announced that his administration would be seeking to “directly engage” with Iran. Nonetheless, Obama acknowledged that Iran’s “actions over many years now have been unhelpful when it comes to promoting peace and prosperity both in the region and...

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A report that appeared Tuesday in Forbes Israel (Hebrew link) ranks Hamas as the world’s second wealthiest terror organization, trailing only the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in rankings. The Times of Israel reports: Hamas is the second richest terror group in the world, with finances of around $1...

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A special report in Reuters today (.pdf) documents the extensive ties three leading Iraqi Shiite militias—Asaib Ahl al-Haq, the Badr Brigades, and Kataib Hezbollah—have with Iran. Reuters describe the militias as being “instrumental” in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Aside from bordering Iraq, “Iran’s population is overwhelmingly...

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Hezbollah is working to recruit Christian, Druze, and Sunni youths for a possible future confrontation with Israel, the Lebanese newspaper al-Nahar reported (Arabic link) today. The new enlistment campaign is using the slogan “Our fate is one and we must fight together” in order to attract young fighters. The Shiite terror...

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The Associated Press (AP) reported today that Shiite militias in Iraq are proving to be “just as brutal as that of their sworn sectarian enemies,” the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In a grisly video recently posted online, a Shiite fighter shouts the name of a revered imam in victory...

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Citing a report in a Brazilian newspaper O Globo, The Jerusalem Post reported today that Hezbollah has been smuggling arms to criminal gangs in that country. According to the report in the Rio de Janeiro-based paper, Federal investigators in Brazil have been probing possible ties between Lebanon and criminal gangs in Brazil...

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A  series of overnight blasts targeting the homes of Fatah officials in the Gaza Strip has prompted Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to cancel his scheduled trip Saturday to the Hamas-ruled area. Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports: Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has cancelled a visit to Gaza planned for...

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Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday warned that rockets in the Iran-backed terror group’s arsenal were capable of hitting any place in the Jewish state—specifically that Jerusalem “will not find a single piece of land” that rockets could not hit—and that Israel would be forced to close its ports in...

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The Associated Press (AP) reported Wednesday that photos appearing on Iraqi news sites showed that Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani was involved in a recent battle to drive the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from the Iraqi city of Jurf al-Sakher. The AP also...

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Iran has decided to unite its Shiite militias operating in Syria into one organization that will be a “Parallel Army” to the Syrian army, the al-Hayat newspaper reported on Wednesday. Iran operates Iraqi and Afghan militias in Syria in an attempt to protect the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Siraj...

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