MidEast

Two key figures in Hezbollah’s money-laundering network were hit with sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday. The department officially designated Mohamad Noureddine and Hamdi Zaher El Dine for sanctions due to their financial support and money-laundering for the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, which has been designated as a terrorist organization...

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The Obama administration’s plan to issue visa waivers to a broad range of visitors to the United States, including those who have traveled to Iran, was sharply criticized by House leaders Thursday, who said in a letter to the White House that doing so “renders both the terms ‘national security’ and ‘law enforcement’...

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Newly released videos from the cellphone of the Arab-Israeli gunman who killed three people during a New Year’s Day rampage in Tel Aviv show the man denigrating “enemies of Islam” and using rhetoric similar to that used by the Islamic State, JNS.org reported Thursday. Nashat Milhem killed two men and injured seven...

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As Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met with French President Francois Hollande and signed major business deals in Paris, thousands marched in protest of human rights abuses carried out by Tehran, Reuters reported on Thursday. Rouhani’s visit to France was the first by an Iranian president since 1999. While the countries...

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Your preschooler wakes up with an earache and fever. You tell your boss you’ll be late to work, wrangle a pediatrician appointment, bundle up the sick kid, sit in a waiting room full of other sick kids, spend five minutes with the doctor, and leave with a prescription and orders...

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The nuclear deal with Iran “will neither make the Middle East safer nor fundamentally change the nature of the Iranian regime and its conduct in the region,” former Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Maria Terzi wrote in an op-ed for Politico Europe on Wednesday. Terzi, who also served as Italy’s ambassador to...

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