Israeli personnel joined the efforts of Kenyan officials seeking throughout the day to end a bloody three-day jihadist assault on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. Early news reports were conflicted as to the level of Israeli involvement: According to a Kenyan security source, Israeli forces entered the mall, where a...

A Thai court today convicted a Lebanese national allegedly linked to Hezbollah for possessing bomb-making materials. The conviction comes a month after a different Thai court sentenced two Iranians to lengthy jail sentences for their roles in the attempted February 2012 attack on Israeli diplomats. The convict blames Israel for...

The Bulgarian investigation into the July 2012 Burgas bus bombing is entering its final phase. Bulgarian officials had long ago linked – and then piled on more evidence – implicating Hezbollah operativs in the attack, which killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. Now Sofia is signalling that it’s time for...

Hezbollah has for the last several months attempted to interfere with the work of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which is expected to enter its trial phase in January 2014. The tribunal will try four Hezbollah members in absentia on charges related to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister...

A grenade attack on a military checkpoint in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula Monday left one soldier dead and two others injured, as insurgents sought to push back against an ongoing, widespread campaign by the army to uproot jihadist infrastructure in the increasingly anarchic territory. Scores of security officials have been killed in recent clashes across Egypt, with...

Egypt has expanded an ongoing anti-terrorism campaign in the Sinai Peninsula targeting jihadist networks that have in recent months deepened and consolidated efforts to foment instability and violence in the territory and beyond: The Egyptian army is continuing its crackdown on terror in northern Sinai. The Maan news agency reported that military forces moved...