Hezbollah’s popularity in the Arab and Muslim world – already crumbling due to its critical role in helping the Bashar al-Assad regime expel rebels from the strategically critical city of Qusayr – is at risk of further erosion as Hezbollah-backed Syrian forces prepare to mount an offensive against Syria’s largest...

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Syrian rebels Thursday morning seized control of the Syrian side of Quneitra border crossing, just a few hundred meters from Israeli territory on the Golan Heights. Later reports, however, indicated that the Syrian army had retaken the crossing. The battle for Quneitra raged on throughout the day. A high-level official...

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Ireland is reportedly blocking efforts inside the European Union to formally blacklist Hezbollah as a terror organization. Britain recently initiated procedures to add the Iran-backed terror group to the E.U. blacklist, after Bulgarian officials linked Hezbollah to the July 2012 Burgas bombing that killed six civilians and a Cypriot court convicted...

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South Korea is seriously considering purchasing the Israeli made Iron Dome systems, which intercepts and kills short range rockets and missiles. The Tower has learned that advanced negotiations took place between the two countries during a private visit to Israel by Brigadier General Lee Hee Woo, President of a Chungnam...

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Hezbollah and the Syrian army have reportedly completed their takeover of the strategically critical Syrian city of Qusayr. The claim was more or less confirmed by rebel sources. In recent months the city had served as a stronghold for opposition forces battling to bring down the Bashar al-Assad regime. Rebels first...

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In addition to damanging Hezbollah’s popularity across the Middle East, the Iran-backed terror group’s support for the Syrian regime is also more directly undercutting the pretexts that it uses for usurping Lebanese sovereignty and maintaining its arsenal of tens of thousands of weapons. Hezbollah has justified its military control of...

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The Lebanese army today deployed into Tripoli and vowed to impose calm on the city, which has been roiled by days of intense fighting. Fighting between forces alinged with and against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria had left at least six dead and 38 wounded. At least 29 people...

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Hezbollah’s critical role in bolstering the Bashar al-Assad regime is costing the Shiite organization support across the Arab world. The Iran backed group has been critical in helping the Syrian government reverse months of Sunni rebel gains. An Al-Jazeera online survey that drew almost half a million votes saw 72%...

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The Middle East, model 2013, is returning with surprising speed to its old habits. Sunnis and Shiites are again at war in three Arab states. In Iraq, a thousand people were killed in sectarian fighting last month. In Syria, Shiite Hezbollah is fighting in the Alawite regime’s war of survival...

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Analysts continue to unpack the implications of an interview given last week by Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad to Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV. On some issues – Assad was vague on whether advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles had yet been delivered from Russia to Syria. Regarding his desire to have the Arab world...

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