Samir Kuntar, the notorious Hezbollah terrorist who was killed in an airstrike on Saturday night, was preparing forces in the Syrian Golan Heights to orchestrate attacks against Israel before his death, former Israeli national security advisor Gen. Yaacov Amidror said during a press call hosted by The Israel Project on Sunday. While Amidror did...

Hezbollah commander Samir Kuntar and eight other terrorists were killed in a targeted air strike in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana Saturday night. Kuntar spent 29 years in prison for the brutal murder of an Israeli man and his four-year-old daughter in 1979. “At 10:15 p.m. on Saturday December 19,...

In a packed event at New York’s 92d Street Y on Thursday, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s top public intellectuals, called for forces of the liberal Left to unite in confronting the growing threat of violent jihad. In particular, he criticized those who have abandoned internationalist liberalism in favor of opposition to America...

Israeli security officials have confirmed that Iran has withdrawn most of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces from Syria, The Times of Israel reported Friday. The withdrawal is apparently a reaction to the heavy losses the militia has sustained in recent weeks. A senior IRGC commander and 14 lower-ranking personnel were buried on just...

Tehran’s city hall is offering a $50,000 prize for the best cartoon mocking the Holocaust, as part of the 11th Tehran International Cartoon Biennial to be held next June. “We do not mean to approve or deny the Holocaust, however, the main question is that why is there no permission to talk about the...

Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel criticized the administration of President Barack Obama for its failure to develop a clear strategy on Syria in the face of escalating violence and a severe humanitarian catastrophe, in an interview with Foreign Policy published on Friday. Hagel revealed that in August 2013, after...