Terrorism

Though recognized as a terrorist entity by among others the United States, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and Israel, Hezbollah is allowed to operate freely in the European Union. The Iran-backed group has gone so far as to set up a network of mosques on German soil to fundraise: According to...

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Bulgarian officials have reemphasized findings first announced in February linking Hezbollah to the July 2012 bus bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed one Bulgarian and five Israeli citizens. Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin met Monday with Israel’s ambassador to Bulgaria and explicitly rejected media reports suggesting that Sofia had reassessed its declaration that...

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After 9/11 the Iranian regime scaled back its global terror operations and networks. Those operations and networks, according to the recently published State Department annual report on terrorism, have been restored: “Iran and Hezbollah’s terrorist activity has reached a tempo unseen since the 1990s, with attacks plotted in Southeast Asia,...

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Nigerian authorities have broken up what is believed to be a Hezbollah terror cell that was operating in the country.Three Lebanese nationals were arrested and allegedly confessed to being members of the Iran-backed terror group, and a fourth operative is thought to have escaped the country. Authorities also seized a Hezbollah-linked...

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Israel will hold its seventh annual “Turning Point” civil defense drill next week. Israeli civilians face a unique security environment. When under missile attack by Iranian proxies in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, the most time any Israeli civilian anywhere in the country has to reach a shelter is three...

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Following the October 2011 deal between Israel and Hamas to free kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from captivity, there were fears that the precedent of swapping hostages for terrorists would encourage the Iran-backed terror group to attempt more kidnappings. The effect that the exchange had on Hamas’s decision calculus is...

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