Terrorism

In the wake of a report earlier this week that the Obama administration ended an investigation into Hezbollah’s drug-trafficking operations in the Western Hemisphere in order to secure the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, a former United States Treasury Department official outlined steps that the Trump administration could take to effectively combat...

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Saudi Arabia claims to have intercepted a ballistic missile that was fired at its royal palace by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. According to a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the rebels in Yemen, Saudi air defenses intercepted the Volcano H2 (or Burkan H2)...

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The Obama administration obstructed a campaign by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to monitor and prosecute Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, in order to solidify the 2015 nuclear accord with the Islamic Republic, Politico reported on Sunday. The campaign, called Project Cassandra, launched in 2008, was aimed at disrupting...

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The Israeli army bombed Hamas targets in Gaza in response to missile fire Sunday night. Three missiles were fired from Gaza towards Israel. One exploded in the Ashkelon beach area, damaging the external wall of a house and a family car. A second exploded in open area, causing no damage or...

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A Palestinian wearing what looked like a suicide belt was shot after he stabbed an Israeli Border Police officer near Ramallah, The Times of Israel reported Friday. The belt did not explode, though it isn’t clear if it had explosives. “A terrorist approached Border Police officers who were responding to a...

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A senior White House official said that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s rhetoric “has prevented peace for years,” the Associated Press reported Wednesday, after Abbas said that President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was a “crime,” and threatened to abandon previous agreements reached with Israel. The anonymous senior administration official reiterated...

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