The European Union has begun implementing its unanimous decision, made earlier this week, to blacklist Hezbollah’s “military wing” as a terror organization. The E.U.’s Official Journal – a record of the bloc’s decisions and how they are implemented – added the “Hezbollah Military Wing” to its list of individuals and...

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Hezbollah officials are lashing out against the European Union after extensive evidence of terror activities on the Continent – some sufficient to secure criminal convictions – led the bloc to blacklist the Iran-backed group as a terror organization earlier this week. In response Hezbollah international relations official Ammar Moussawi threatened...

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Lebanese and Iranian media outlets are again highlighting cables sent from Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani to Hezbollah, supporting the Iran-backed terror group and praising it for waging “jihad” against Israel. Lebanon’s Al-Nahar characterized the cable as support for Hezbollah’s “jihad.” Iran’s FARS outlet was more effusive: “No doubt, your tireless and dedicated efforts and...

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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday brushed aside a recent European Union decision to blacklist the military wing of his Iran-backed group as a terrorist organization, telling a Hezbollah-controlled television station that he was only surprised that it “had taken so long” for Western leaders to issue the designation. “Hezbollah leaders we...

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France is making a major push to highlight for U.S. officials that the Syrian regime has been using Sarin gas as part of its battle against rebels seeking the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime. English-language French news outlets are reporting that Paris has cleaned out the cupboard: France has...

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The European Union yesterday formally blacklisted the military wing of Hezbollah – the Iran-backed Shiite organization which has been critical in enabling the Bashar al-Assad regime to steadily erode two years of opposition gains – as a terror organization. The Western-backed umbrella group representing the rebels evaluated the decision and...

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Hezbollah and Hezbollah-linked officials are reacting poorly to the European Union’s decision, made yesterday, to blacklist what the E.U. calls the group’s ‘military wing’ as a terrorist organization. Lebanon’s sitting, Hezbollah-affiliated foreign minister, Adnan Mansour, had already pointedly brought up the matter of E.U. contributions to the U.N. peacekeeping force in...

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The European Union on Monday officially designated the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. The blacklisting comes just over a year after the July 2012 bus bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian, and which Bulgarian investigators linked to the Iran-backed terror group. A Cypriot court subsequently convicted...

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Last week saw top U.S. military and intelligence officials openly worrying that the momentum in the Syrian conflict had shifted in favor of the Bashar al-Assad regime. Violence this weekend seemed to grimly confirm that the regime was consolidating gains it had made in recent months, during which support from the Iran-backed...

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During reconfirmation hearing this week, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Martin Dempsey was asked this week to evaluate the current prospects of the Syrian opposition seeking the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. His response was  grim: Dempsey acknowledged in response to a question from Sen. Lindsey Graham,...

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