Terrorism

Hezbollah operatives fired Kornet anti-tank missiles at an Israeli army patrol along the Israel-Lebanon border on Wednesday, killing two Israeli soldiers, wounding seven, and prompting Israeli retaliatory artillery fire on southern Lebanon. A Spanish peacekeeper of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was killed in the exchange of...

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After the alleged Israeli attack on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights ten days ago, the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir published an article entitled “More than reaction, less than war“( Arabic link) in which the author explained Hezbollah’s wish to avenge the death of its senior member in southern Syria, but...

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Prominent Lebanese politicians have criticized Hezbollah after the Iran-backed terror organization fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli army convoy, killing two soldiers and wounding seven others. Samir Geagea, a leader of the anti-Hezbollah March 14 movement, today charged that”Hezbollah is more and more expanding its regional schemes against the Lebanese state.” The Daily...

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An Iran-backed Shiite Iraqi militia showed off a captured American tank in a recent video, Bill Riggio and Caleb Weiss reported today at The Long War Journal. A video uploaded to YouTube appears to show a large Hezbollah Brigades convoy transporting weapons, troops, and armored vehicles to the front to...

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Two Israeli soldiers were confirmed dead and seven wounded after terrorists in Lebanon fired an anti-tank missile that hit a military vehicle on the border with Israel, the IDF confirmed. Israel responded to the cross-border attack with artillery fire and a warning to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, which claimed responsibility for the...

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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has suffered losses this week in both Syria and Iraq. In Syria, Kurdish forces were able to regain complete control of the strategic town of Kobane, which is located near the Turkish border.  In Iraq, army forces have liberated the eastern province of Diyala...

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