The international community must use diplomatic and economic efforts to confront Hezbollah before it instigates another conflict with Israel, one that is likely to be much worse than the 2006 Lebanon War, a retired Israeli general said Monday. “Nowadays, with effective diplomatic and economic means, you can reach a point...

Just a week after Iran’s foreign minister boasted of a previously secret document detailing Iran’s plan to restore its full uranium enrichment capacity on year 10 of the nuclear deal, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said that his country would officially protest the leak to the International Atomic...

Hezbollah has embedded its rocket arsenal in villages across Lebanon, ensuring that any Israeli strike on the Iran-backed terrorist group’s military assets will lead to mass civilian casualties, a former Treasury official said on Monday. Hezbollah has “turned the Shiite villages … into essentially missile silos,” Jonathan Schanzer, now the vice...

Israeli officials believe that a future war with Hezbollah, with its advanced Iranian-supplied rocket arsenal, could lead to “thousands of civilian deaths,” a white paper published by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies revealed. The paper, authored by Jonathan Schanzer, Tony Badran, and David Daoud, explores the history of Hezbollah’s...

Authorities in Bahrain have announced that they have broken up an Iran-backed terror cell, Reuters reported on Friday. Bahrain is an important American ally in the Persian Gulf and hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet. It is ruled by the Sunni al-Khalifa royal family, but has a majority Shiite population. According to authorities, five men,...

The speaker of Iran’s parliament said that his nation must confront the United States and prepare “a plan for the launch of a nuclear plant for enrichment,” Iranian media reported on Wednesday. Speaker Ali Larijani said that his parliament “is warning the US administration and its House of Representatives and...