Thai authorities have disrupted a major Hezbollah terror plot targeting Israeli tourists traveling through the country during the Passover holiday season. The Iranian-backed global terror group has killed more Americans than any other terrorist organization except Al Qaeda. First revealed by journalists in Thailand on Thursday, the story of the foiled attack was...

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The arrest of an Arab-Israeli human rights activist on suspicion of being recruited by Hezbollah threatened on Thursday to expand into a broader scandal over the role of a controversial U.S.-based non-profit that has been criticized for funneling money to anti-Israel organizations and activists, including to those that support waging...

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Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces Party, has announced his candidacy for president of that strife-torn country. According to a newspaper report, he wants to treat all Lebanese equally and wants to strengthen the state but “not weaken Hezbollah.” The website Ya Libnan reports: Addressing his presidential program, the...

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Germany’s Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere, announced that his ministry has banned a Hezbollah front organization that was acting as a charity to gather millions of dollars for Hezbollah’s Shahid Foundation, which opposes “Israel’s right to exist.” AFP reported that Germany’s investigation has been ongoing since 2009. De Maiziere said German investigators...

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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah boasted in an interview published Monday that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime was no longer in danger of being overthrown by opposition elements, as U.S. lawmakers moved to target the Iran-backed terror group over its critical support for Damascus: Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whose fighters have been supporting Assad...

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The terrorist who in July 2012 blew up an Israeli tourist bus in the Black Sea resort town of Burgas was an Algerian who trained in southern Lebanese camps, according to security sources quoted by the Bulgarian daily Presa and conveyed on Monday by Lebanon’s Daily Star. “The assailant was born in...

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Lebanon’s Daily Star on Friday reported that religious and political figures from the Lebanese city of Sidon have been traveling to Hezbollah’s offices in Beirut to try to convince Hezbollah leaders to reverse their recent decision to reactivate and boost the activities of the organization’s Resistance Brigades inside Sidon: The decision risks...

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The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) has begun taking over Hezbollah checkpoints in the Bekaa Valley in northeastern Lebanon, close to the border with Syria. This move offers considerable advantages to Hezbollah, which gets the benefits of containment of blowback from Syria in the former of Sunni rebel fighters crossing over...

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Recent weeks have seen an escalation of tensions between Hezbollah in Israel. Attacks on the Golan from Lebanon have brought about IAF responses to restore deterrence. The aggressiveness of Hezbollah and its growing threat to Israel raise the specter of another war. Lee Smith, senior editor at the Weekly Standard,...

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Iran dispatched a high-ranking military officer to Lebanon to lead a cleanup of Hezbollah after feared leaks to the West and Israel and mistakes made in Lebanon and Syria, according to the April 1 edition of The Daily Star Lebanon. The changes are a response to violations committed within party...

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