Bulgaria has presented new evidence to the E.U. implicating Hezbollah in the July 2012 Burgas, Bulgaria bus bombing that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. The disclosure comes during a meeting convened at the request of the U.K. to decide whether the E.U. will blacklist the Iran-backed group: A Bulgarian...

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Al-Monitor, an online news site that conveys and translates news from the Middle East, is facing questions about perceptions that it has been conveying the line of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime. It is also facing questions about its founder and owner, Syrian-born businessman Jamal Daniel, who has made large investments in...

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Saudi Arabia is set to expel all Hezbollah supporters from the Gulf nation, the country’s ambassador to Lebanon said Wednesday, after Qatar already deported 18 Lebanese citizens with ties to the terrorist organization. “We will deport all those who support Hezbollah, the party that wronged itself, its sect and Lebanon,” Asiri told...

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Hezbollah has brought Lebanon to the brink of outright disintegration, according to former Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora: “Hezbollah is serving Syria and Iran at the expense of the Lebanese,” ex-Prime Minister Fouad Siniora told reporters. He said President Michel Suleiman should launch an initiative “to stop the state’s collapse...

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Members of Congress from both parties are calling on the European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Technically the statement is a formal congratulations regarding the formal process initiated by the United Kingdom to blacklist the Iran-backed group. More pointedly, it’s a call to go through with the designation: “It...

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A columnist for a Saudi website argues that Hezbollah hasn’t simply exacerbated tensions between Shi’ites and Sunnis, but has also opened a rift within Shi’ism. The opinion editor of Asharq Al-Awsat, Mshari Al-Zaydi observes in This repulsive war has just begun: Now, Sheikh Qaradawi, who once described Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah as heroes, describes...

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Though the U.N. has asked the parties backing the various entities in the Syrian conflict to stop injecting weapons into the violent war. The parties backing the various entities in the Syrian conflict seem to have declined to acede to the U.N.’s request: Heavy fighting resumed around the northern Syrian...

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A G8 meeting today between President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the Syrian conflict ended without apparent progress. Reuters conveys the mood awkward: Both leaders looked tense and uncomfortable as they addressed reporters after about two hours of talks, with Putin staring mostly at the floor as he...

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The six member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council agreed on earlier this week to take action against Hezbollah loyalists who reside within their borders. The decision was made public in a joint GCC statement: The GCC will take measures against [those] in the GCC countries affiliated with Hezbollah in...

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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah today committed his Lebanon-based Shiite terror group to further fighting in Syria: The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group vowed Friday to keep fighting in Syria “wherever needed” and said his Shiite Muslim group has made a “calculated” decision to defend the Syrian regime no matter what the...

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