MidEast

A semi-official Iranian news agency issued a report threatening Lebanon’s banking sector if it complied with a U.S. sanctions law targeting Hezbollah just hours before a bomb exploded outside a Beirut bank on Sunday, NOW Media news reported on Monday. “In the wake of the US sanctions law against Hezbollah…and after the financial confrontation...

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A senior Hamas official with extensive knowledge of the terrorist organization’s network of tunnels has surrendered to Israel, Haaretz reported Tuesday, citing reports from Fatah-affiliated websites. Bassam Mahmoud Baraka, the son of a Hamas-affiliated religious judge, is said to have turned himself in to Israeli authorities at the border fence between Gaza...

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Israel’s experience fighting terrorism has made its pavilion at Eurosatory 2016, the world’s largest defense and security exhibition, a popular destination for nations looking to upgrade their anti-terror capabilities, especially in light of major terror attacks in Orlando and Paris, Globes reported Monday. Thirty Israeli defense and security companies are being...

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Israel was selected on Monday to lead a permanent committee of the United Nations General Assembly for the first time in its history. “This is a historic achievement for the State of Israel. We broke the glass ceiling,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said. While Israel has headed some minor...

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While human rights are violated worldwide and thousands have been killed in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, only Israel “has its record inspected at every single session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC),” the Associated Press reported Monday. From all the nations in the world, only Israel is subject to a permanent agenda...

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A man who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State fatally stabbed a French police commander and later killed his partner, a policewoman, at their home near Paris on Monday evening, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The assault, which was denounced by the French government as “an abject act of terrorism,” comes just days after ISIS claimed responsibility for...

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