News has been released that the Israeli Air Force has downed a drone, likely piloted by the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, over the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa today. Hezbollah has previously attempted to penetrate Israeli airspace with drones. A video on the previous attempt is embedded below. Iran recently held...

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is facing criticism after journalists uncovered a post on the group’s official website that counsels families to tell daughters “wash your courtyards and don’t be like the Jews and the Christians.” The story is bound to deepen concerns over Muslim Brotherhood anti-Semitism. It comes a week after...

A little-seen video uploaded to YouTube yesterday claims to depict the funeral of an elite Hezbollah figure killed fighting in Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime. The video comes amid deepening Iran-Hezbollah coordination on Syria. Hezbollah has declared that its participation in the conflict is a national, moral...

Western diplomats are blasting a high-level U.N. official who blamed the Boston terror attacks on “American global domination” and “Tel Aviv.” The United States called for the body to relieve the U.N.’s Human Rights Council (UNHRC) special rapporteur for the Palestinians Richard Falk of his position. U.S. Ambassador to the...

Hamas is hailing the announcement by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he will defy requests from the U.S. not to visit the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in late May. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is celebrating the trip as marking the end of American hegemony: In a brief statement from...

The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday charged Hezbollah with operating like an international drug cartel, alleging that the Iran-backed terrorist organization uses the money that it traffics through the U.S. to fund violence and undermine American interests. The Treasury Department also invoked the Patriot Act to blacklist two Lebanese money-exchange houses for...

The fate of two Syrian bishops kidnapped Monday in the northern part of the country remains unclear. Reports from a church figure claim the pair was released Tuesday night, but a family member of one of the bishops said that as of late Tuesday they were still being held. Government forces...

Iranian media is conveying boasts from the Iranian regime over a total of eight planned military exercises set to take place this year. Included in the count is a “massive drill” to be held in June: On the sidelines of the meeting with foreign military attaches held on the occasion...

The Syrian National Coalition, one of the leading groups in the conglomerate of organizations fighting to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad regime, took to its Facebook page to tell Hezbollah to get out of the country: The Syrian National Coalition — the main Western-backed opposition group — warned that Hezbollah involvement...

Canadian officials Monday arrested two Canadian residents on accusations of plotting a terror attack on a Canadian passenger train. The suspected terrorists are alleged to have been backed by Al Qaeda elements in Iran. The plot will complicate Canadian counter-terrorism efforts and highlights ties between the Shiite terrorist-backing country and the Sunni...