The Lebanese army is threatening to retaliate against future Syrian attacks on Lebanese territory. The pointedly explicit warning comes after Damascus launched a helicopter gunship attack on the Lebanese border town of Arsal and injured two: The Lebanese army has warned it will immediately respond to any future cross-border attacks...

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The Treasury Department this week designated four Lebanese nationals for conducting operations on behalf of Hezbollah in western Africa. The Iran-backed terror group is part and parcel of a network in Africa responsible for that the New York Times describes as “spectacular” state and non-state violence. Treasury’s statement on the...

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Analysts are warning that Hezbollah’s sustained involvement in Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime risks pulling Lebanon into a sectarian civil war similar to the country’s devastating 15-year conflict. It is sectarianism, Shi’ism, but not Lebanonism. In the moment of truth the Hezbollah chose sect and religion over state,...

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Hamas officials are scrambling to shore up ties with Iran, which have been strained by the role that Iran and its Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah have been playing in bolstering the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria: “I cannot say the relationship with Iran was severed, but it was affected,” Salah...

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Bulgarian officials have reemphasized findings first announced in February linking Hezbollah to the July 2012 bus bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed one Bulgarian and five Israeli citizens. Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin met Monday with Israel’s ambassador to Bulgaria and explicitly rejected media reports suggesting that Sofia had reassessed its declaration that...

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A new study by the Intelligence and Terrorism Center, which is part of the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center, estimates that at least a hundred Hezbollah fighters have been killed in the battles in Syria. The study draws its information from open sources, mainly the Arab media. It provides...

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Iran and its terrorist allies, Hezbollah and Hamas, are carrying “non-stop” cyber attacks against Israel’s central computer systems, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Sunday in his address to an international conference on cyber warfare at Tel Aviv University. Without elaborating, Netanyahu said that “vital national systems” had been targeted. Suspected...

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Arab media outlets are waging a war of words against Hezbollah. The Iran-backed terror group has committed the group to battling on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime until it defeats the largely Sunni rebels who have been seeking the regime’s overthrow. The group was instrumental in the Syrian army’s successful campaign to wrest...

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Lebanese Christians have joined just about everybody else in the region in blasting Hezbollah for its role in the Syrian conflict, and for dragging Lebanon into the now two and a half year conflict. Veteran Lebanese politician Samir Geagea made the point a few weeks ago: The LF leader said...

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Syrian rebels seized the Syrian side of the Quneitra border crossing yesterday. Even if they only held it temporarily, their achievement testifies to how far the Syrian civil war remains from resolution. Just a day earlier, Syrian officials said their army had succeeded in reconquering the key border town of...

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