Foreign banks must cease any business dealings with the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah or its proxies to avoid being blocked from the American financial system, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The restrictions stem from a new law, which unanimously passed both houses of Congress at the end of last year. The Hezbollah...

Defeating ISIS requires fighting against Iran first, Lee Smith, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and senior editor at The Weekly Standard, argued in a lecture to the Middle East Forum, which was published on their website Tuesday. A recording of the talk is available at the link. Smith began his talk by explaining why...

Two people were killed and seven wounded in a shooting at a crowded commercial area of central Tel Aviv on Friday. Police are currently conducting a manhunt for the assailant and trying to ascertain his motives. The shooter’s identity is currently the subject of a gag order, but he is...

Hamas plans to escalate the current terror campaign against Israel with suicide bombings, sources within the Iran-backed terror organization have told Arab media. Members of West Bank sleeper cells have been instructed to seek out targets in Israel such as senior government and defense officials, Ynet reported on Thursday. A cell that had built an...

All five of the Hamas terrorists who guarded kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit are now known to be dead. Hamas admitted on Tuesday that Abd al-Rahman al-Mubasar, the last living captor, was killed by a collapsed smuggling tunnel in Gaza on Monday. The others who guarded Shalit were identified as Sami...

New bills are being introduced in Congress with bipartisan support that would target the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran’s powerful extraterritorial militia, preventing it from benefiting from the sanctions relief that was allowed as part of the nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic. Proposals like the IRGC Sanctions Act,...