The terrorist who in July 2012 blew up an Israeli tourist bus in the Black Sea resort town of Burgas was an Algerian who trained in southern Lebanese camps, according to security sources quoted by the Bulgarian daily Presa and conveyed on Monday by Lebanon’s Daily Star. “The assailant was born in...

Lebanon’s Daily Star on Friday reported that religious and political figures from the Lebanese city of Sidon have been traveling to Hezbollah’s offices in Beirut to try to convince Hezbollah leaders to reverse their recent decision to reactivate and boost the activities of the organization’s Resistance Brigades inside Sidon: The decision risks...

The British parliament added three more Islamic terrorist groups to its blacklist of organizations and individuals. The opposition voted with the government to approve the addition of Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, Al Murabitun and Ansar al Sharia to the groups banned under the UK’s Terrorism Act. Britain’s war against terrorism...

The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) has begun taking over Hezbollah checkpoints in the Bekaa Valley in northeastern Lebanon, close to the border with Syria. This move offers considerable advantages to Hezbollah, which gets the benefits of containment of blowback from Syria in the former of Sunni rebel fighters crossing over...

Jordan’s State Security Court sentenced six people to life in jail on April 2 for their role in a truck-bombing plot. In a 128-page decision issued on Wednesday, the tribunal sentenced Kataeb Al Tawheed leader Azmi Al Jayousi and five other terrorists to life for “conspiracy to commit terrorist acts” and...

Spokesmen for Hamas hailed the apparent victory of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in municipal elections. One Hamas official, Salah Al-Bardawil, said: The reason behind our happiness at the victory of [Turkish premier Recep] Erdogan and his party is his closeness to the Palestinian cause because our assessment of...