Foreign Sunni fighters continue to pour into Syria, and are carving out areas that are being used as havens by jihadists: As foreign fighters pour into Syria at an increasing clip, extremist groups are carving out pockets of territory that are becoming havens for Islamist militants, posing what United States and...

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Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forces party, last week became the latest in an increasingly diverse group of Lebanese political leaders to blast Hezbollah for undermining the country’s stability. Domestic critics of the Iran-backed terror group have become open in demanding that it untangle itself from the Syrian...

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Hezbollah has taken more than one diplomatic hit for the critical support that it has provided to the Bashar al-Assad regime, which has allowed Syrian forces to erode two years of rebel gains. Militarily, however, the Syrian war has disciplined the group and hardened its fighters. The result – for...

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Open and even virulent criticism of Hezbollah for providing critical assistance to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime has become a mainstay of Arab discourse. Now that sentiment is taking hold in the group’s home country of Lebanon. Former Lebanese president and current Phalangist leader Amin Gemayal called this week for Hezbollah...

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Forty-nine U.S. lawmakers have signed a letter praising the European Union for its decision last month to partially blacklist Hezbollah. There is, however, one significant caveat: A letter signed by 49 members of Congress thanked the European Union for designating Hezbollah’s military wing as a terrorist organization but strongly urged the EU...

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Hezbollah’s intervention into Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime has triggered a severe deterioration in the group’s stature in the Middle East, to the point where the anti-Israel rhetoric that has traditionally rallied support to the group is falling flat in the Arab world. Shiite Hezbollah has proven...

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Recent months have seen a percipitous decline in Hamas’s strategic and diplomatic standing. The Arab Spring and the Islamist governments that it empowered were seen as a boon to the Iran-backed terror group, but various dynamics in the region – including the Syrian conflict and the deterioration of security in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula...

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President Barack Obama on Monday extended a freeze on the assets of individuals who are linked to activities that undermine Lebanese stability. The extension lasts for one more year. The president’s reasoning was candid: In a letter addressed to the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president of the...

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Gulf nations will impose sanctions on Hezbollah, with diplomats making a point of telling journalists that their approach will be harsher than the sanctions imposed by the European Union, which earlier this month blacklisted the so-called military wing of the Iran-backed terror group. Saudi Arabian paper Al-Watan, which cited an...

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Observers are calling on the United Nations to mobilize sanctions against Hezbollah, after a European Union decision earlier this month saw the bloc blacklist the Iran-backed terror group. The move was broadly criticized for creating an untenable distinction between the group’s military wing and its so-called political wing. The Wall Street...

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