The United States announced Wednesday that it was withdrawing troops from Syria after what it described as the “defeat” of the Islamic State terrorist group. The decision, however, is a fatal miscalculation with potentially devastating consequences for Syria and the region. Our enemies are weakened, but by no means defeated....

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The international community must rigorously enforce the United Nations-brokered peace deal between the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and Yemen’s internationally recognized government or risk a permanent “Hezbollahisation” of the conflict, TIP Senior Fellow Julie Lenarz wrote in an op-ed published in the European Union’s The Parliament Magazine on Thursday. “From the conflict’s...

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A Canadian-backed resolution condemning Iran for “severe” human rights violations passed the United Nations General Assembly by a wide margin, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The resolution passed by a margin of 84 to 30, with 67 abstentions. https://twitter.com/CanadaFP/status/1075033990288023552 Iran was “strongly” urged by the resolution to end its...

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Following the boasts of an Iranian general that Iran’s latest ballistic missile has the range of over 2,000 kilometers (1250 miles), United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed the threat in remarks to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday. The secretary noted that a missile tested by Iran...

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An Iranian general called a recent ballistic missile test launch that defied a United Nations Security Council Resolution “significant,” Iran’s PressTV news reported Tuesday. Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Aerospace Division, boasted, “We will continue to conduct our missile tests and...

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The IDF announced the discovery of a third terror tunnel built by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Israel, and fired shots at suspected infiltrators, The Jerusalem Post reported Saturday. On Tuesday of last week, Israel announced the start of Operation Northern Shield, an effort to locate the many tunnels Hezbollah, the...

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Senior United States administration officials expressed their support for Israel’s recently-commenced operation intended to eliminate the threat of Hezbollah’s terror tunnels extending into Israeli territory. The Times of Israel reported Tuesday that National Security Adviser John Bolton said that the U.S. “strongly supports” Israel’s right to “defend its sovereignty,” after...

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The United States on Monday called on European countries to impose sanctions on Iran, after the Islamic Republic test-fired a medium range ballistic missile that can carry multiple warheads in defiance of the United Nations resolution that endorsed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, JNS reported. “We would like to see the...

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Hit squads sent by Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-Quds Force have been targeting Iraqis seeking to distance their country from the Islamic Republic, The Daily Telegraph reported last week. The hit squads, said to have been ordered by Quds Force Commander General Qassem Soleimani, have been charged with...

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The Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah threatened to attack a number of strategic locations in Israel, including the nuclear reactor in Dimona – a threat that constitutes nuclear terrorism – along with a warning, “if you dare attack, you will regret it. The Times of Israel reported that the video appeared...

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