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Lebanon marked the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Saturday, bracing from the effects of numerous political and security challenges stemming from the Syrian conflict, infiltration by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and Iranian meddling. All of Lebanon’s political factions took part in the...

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The Syrian army, aided by Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces, has for the past several days been conducting an intensive military campaign in southern Syria. These forces are trying to regain control of areas controlled by the Syrian rebels and radical Islamist groups, some of whom are close to the border...

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After chiding members of Congress for planning to boycott next month’s scheduled speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Congress, an editorial published Saturday in The New York Daily News urged politicians to “put global security and solidarity ahead of petty, partisan one-upmanship.” In the words of the editorial:...

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The current proposal for the number of centrifuges Iran could keep under a final nuclear deal would not give the West enough to react in case Iran chose to develop a nuclear bomb, according to an analysis written this past Thursday by Dr. Dore Gold, Israel’s former ambassador to the...

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A report by the Geneva-based NGO Small Arms Survey reveals that Iran is one of the top suppliers of arms to the government of Sudan, Business Insider reported Thursday. Most of these weapons were likely in the possession of the regime in Khartoum at some point. As the Small Arms Survey...

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Iran used an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to send a satellite into space earlier this month, Israeli Minister of Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz revealed in an interview yesterday. Steinitz contended that the use of an ICBM to launch the satellite was the means by which Iran could test the efficacy of its missiles. “It’s...

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