Europe

Arabic media sources report that France is ready to add Hezbollah’s military wing to the European Union’s list of terror organizations. Al-Hayat, a pan-Arab daily based in London, describes a meeting earlier this week between French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Secretary of State John Kerry, in which Fabius informed Kerry...

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Bulgaria’s interim prime minister Marin Raikov announced today that his government will present new evidence linking Hezbollah to the July 2012 in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. Bulgarian government officials announced in February that they had found proof that two of the suspects in the bombing had ties...

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Turkey is reiterating warnings and objections — which were already explicitly issued by Ankara last week — against Cypriot moves to leverage the country’s offshore energy reserves as part of Nicosia’s efforts to stave off an economic collapse. Cyprus used its offshore natural gas reserves as a last-ditch guarantee to secure bailout...

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Concerned by the increasing extremism of some religious leaders in the remotest parts of the country, Algeria has decided to create a national syndicate of imams. The idea is for a regulated system of mosques to clamp down on extremism and calls to commit acts of terror. The type of...

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A Cyprus court has found a confessed Hezbollah member guilty of five terror-related charges, including participation in a criminal organization, acceptance and participation in committing a crime, and money laundering. The conviction of Hossam Taleb Yaacoub marks the second time in two months in which Hezbollah has been formally linked to...

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Bulgarian investigators will conduct an experimental reenactment next month of the July 2012 bus bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian. The country’s officials in February linked the terrorist attack to the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah,and noted at the time that they would continue gathering evidence to still-unanswered questions...

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