Forty-nine U.S. lawmakers have signed a letter praising the European Union for its decision last month to partially blacklist Hezbollah. There is, however, one significant caveat: A letter signed by 49 members of Congress thanked the European Union for designating Hezbollah’s military wing as a terrorist organization but strongly urged the EU...

Gulf nations will impose sanctions on Hezbollah, with diplomats making a point of telling journalists that their approach will be harsher than the sanctions imposed by the European Union, which earlier this month blacklisted the so-called military wing of the Iran-backed terror group. Saudi Arabian paper Al-Watan, which cited an...

Hezbollah officials are lashing out against the European Union after extensive evidence of terror activities on the Continent – some sufficient to secure criminal convictions – led the bloc to blacklist the Iran-backed group as a terror organization earlier this week. In response Hezbollah international relations official Ammar Moussawi threatened...

Hezbollah and Hezbollah-linked officials are reacting poorly to the European Union’s decision, made yesterday, to blacklist what the E.U. calls the group’s ‘military wing’ as a terrorist organization. Lebanon’s sitting, Hezbollah-affiliated foreign minister, Adnan Mansour, had already pointedly brought up the matter of E.U. contributions to the U.N. peacekeeping force in...

The European Union on Monday officially designated the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. The blacklisting comes just over a year after the July 2012 bus bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian, and which Bulgarian investigators linked to the Iran-backed terror group. A Cypriot court subsequently convicted...

Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev today emphasized that Sofia had in recent months uncovered additional evidence implicating Hezbollah in the July 2012 bus bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. There has been some doubt about Sofia’s position regarding the bombing, and Yovchev sought to be as explicit...