The United Nations Relief and Works Agency announced this morning, regretfully, that an annual marathon conducted in the Gaza Strip to raise money for U.N. children’s summer camps would have to be cancelled. The statement issued by the organization linked the decision to a Hamas prohibition on the participation of...

Nigerian officials have arrested three members of Iranian-backed terrorist cell who were gathering intelligence about potential U.S. and Israeli targets in the country and plotting to murder military and religious leaders. The cell’s 50-year old head Abdullahi Mustaphah Berende, a prominent figure in a local Shiite sect, has already confessed...

Israeli media outlets are reporting statements by Israeli Home Front Command Minister Avi Dichter calling on the European Union to formally blacklist Hezbollah as a terror organization. Speaking to lawmakers in France – where fears of Hezbollah retaliation have driven officials to resist E.U. designation of the Iran-backed group –...

A defendant on trial in Cyprus for plotting terror attacks against Israeli tourists has admitted to being a member of Hezbollah, a confession that promises to deepen pressure on the European Union to heed U.S. calls and formally designate the Iran-backed group a terrorist organization. The admission by Hossam Taleb...

Indications are growing that Hezbollah has made a series of tactical blunders, in Lebanon and beyond in Syria, which have the group scrambling to recover. In Syria the Iran-backed group finds itself engaged in a deepening sectarian war with Al Qaeda-linked Sunni rebels who see Hezbollah as complete infidels, full stop. Just...

An Al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly bombings that killed 21 people and wounded more than 100 last Sunday in Baghdad. The group, calling itself The Islamic State of Iraq, described the attack as a sectarian strike: “The operation was in response to the repression...