Four Grad rockets were fired from southern Lebanon at Israel this morning, triggering renewed concerns that regional instability was spilling over into Israel. One of the rockets was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome system. The Lebanese military quickly restricted access to the launch site, which is inside an area heavily...

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Two car bombings have recently ripped through the Hezbollah-dominated Dahiyeh district of southern Beirut, months after Sunni rebels in Syria began threatening to retaliate against the Iran-backed terror group for providing troops to the Bashar al-Assad regime. Lebanese officials had become increasingly vocal in demanding that Hezbollah untangle itself and Lebanon from the...

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Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah last week gave a fiery speech promising to double the number of troops that the Iran-backed terror group has fighting in Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime. The Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Tuesday slammed the speech: “At the same time that...

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Switzerland has nominated to the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) a candidate who is a vocal defender of Hezbollah, of Holocaust deniers, and of the Gaddafi regime. Tweeting about Jean Ziegler’s nomination, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power did not mince words: .@UNWatch: Indeed. Dr. Ziegler is unfit for...

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Hezbollah has been under increasingly vocal criticism by Lebanese officials for entangling the country in the Syrian war. The leader of one of Lebanon’s largest Christian political parties declared that the Iran-backed terror group was plunging the country “into fire.” A top Hezbollah commander was reportedly killed last week during a battle in Syria outside of...

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Rumors have been circulating all day that Hossam Ali Nisr, a top Hezbollah commander, was killed in Damascus. If confirmed, the incident will be read both as a substantive loss to the Iran-backed terror group and as confirmation of Hezbollah’s deep involvement in the Syrian conflict. Some Lebanese news outlets...

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Senior Hezbollah member Nabil Qaouk bragged today that the Iran-backed terror group is capable of saturation bombing Israeli population centers, bragging that Israeli cities were being targeted with tens of thousands of missiles. Last week a car bomb ripped through the Dahiyeh district in southern Beirut. The area is a...

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Missiles supplied by Saudi Arabia are playing a key role in efforts by Syrian rebels to halt months of advances by the Bashar al-Assad regime. The West, fearing that the opposition has become increasingly controlled by Islamist elements, has been reluctant to send advanced weapons to the rebels. The Saudis have taken...

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CNN reports that the death toll from a car bomb that struck a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut yesterday has risen to 22. Over 200 people were injured. The Dahiyeh district was targeted by another car bomb last July that wounded roughly 50 people. A statement issued yesterday by a previously unknown...

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The Iranian parliament began debate yesterday on the proposed cabinet of newly inaugurated president Hassan Rouhani. A formal vote of confidence is expected to follow. Western analysts had already described the cabinet as stacked with regime insiders drawn from Iran’s security services. Particular concerns are now being raised, however, over Rouhani’s proposed foreign policy...

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