Amid multiple and consistent threats of attack from Iran and its Syrian and Hezbollah clients, the Israeli Defense Force overnight deployed an Iron Dome battery near Tel Aviv, the latest in a series of moves by the military to boost security: “We have a clear responsibility to prepare the army for all possibilities. We took a...

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Iranian officials today escalated their threats against Israel, with multiple military figures declaring that Israel would be attacked in the event of Western air strikes against the Iranian-allied Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria: “Any military measure against Syria will draw the Zionists deep in the fire [as well],” said Major...

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Though global attention has recently been focused on the crescent formed by Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq – a region that has become a battlefield for warring Sunni and Shiite groups – the area is not the only one in which sectarian factions are battling for control. In May, a joint...

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Iranian media today carried statements by a top Syrian officer declaring that Syria will lash out at Israel in the event of Western strikes against Damascus. A top officer with the Syrian army told the Iranian news agency FARS that should Damascus be attacked, the Syrians will retaliated against Tel Aviv....

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Sectarian violence inside Syrian is cascading across the Middle East. In Lebanon, Shiite Hezbollah and Sunni jihadists are locked in a spiral of violence. In Jordan, King Abdullah II is warning of sectarian “destruction.” Arabic media sources are openly worrying that Turkey will be pulled into a “sectarian swamp.” And...

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Iranian media outlets are bragging that the Iran-backed Syrian army has pacified portions of Homs and the adjacent countryside. The claims come weeks after fierce fighting triggered the detonation of an ammunitions depot in the strategic Syrian city, killing at least 40 people. Rebels were at the time firing rockets...

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Twin car bombings targeted Sunni mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday, killing at least 42 people. A video showing the explosions is embedded below (age-restricted; please observe a strong content warning). The attacks came eight days after a car bomb detonated in Hezbollah’s southern Beirut stronghold...

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Details emerged throughout today regarding the pin-point strike conducted by Israeli Air Force jets overnight against a “terror site” south of Beirut in Lebanon, which occurred less than 24 hours after four rockets had been fired into Israel from Lebanon. Social media accounts and news outlets had quickly narrowed the...

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The U.S. Treasury department on Thursday designated four top members of Hezbollah, noting that they had conducted operations for the Iran-backed organization across the Middle East and North Africa. The department further noted that, inasmuch as those operations had been both global and related to terror, they were difficult to...

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Reports are trickling out of the Middle East that Israeli Air Force jets Friday morning conducted a pin-point strike on a target in southern Lebanon, less than a day after four rockets were fired at Israel out of the Hezbollah-dominated region. A statement by the Israeli Defense Forces described the...

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