After 9/11 the Iranian regime scaled back its global terror operations and networks. Those operations and networks, according to the recently published State Department annual report on terrorism, have been restored: “Iran and Hezbollah’s terrorist activity has reached a tempo unseen since the 1990s, with attacks plotted in Southeast Asia,...

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Nigerian authorities have broken up what is believed to be a Hezbollah terror cell that was operating in the country.Three Lebanese nationals were arrested and allegedly confessed to being members of the Iran-backed terror group, and a fourth operative is thought to have escaped the country. Authorities also seized a Hezbollah-linked...

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Hezbollah forces, assisted by Syrian troops, have taken control of most of the strategic border town of Qusayr, marking a massive setback for rebel forces seeking the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime. Both sides have acknowledged the reality in the city, which until recently had been a key opposition...

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The regime is in the midst of an offensive against opposition forces and has been making steady gains in seizing rebel positions. Fighting has been raging around the strategically critical city of Qusayr, and Free Syrian Army chief Salim Idris fears that an atrocity is looming: Gen Idriss made an...

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Hezbollah appears to be shrugging off a 24-hour ultimatum issued yesterday by Free Syrian Army chief Salim Idris instructing the Iran-backed terror group to withdraw from Syria, and is instead pouring extra fighters from Lebanon into the battle raging in the Syrian city of Qusayr: Government fighter jets early Wednesday...

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Hezbollah is attempting to move advanced weapons into civilian areas in Lebanon in preparation for another conflict with Israel. The Iran-backed terror group has an extensive, video-documented history of exploiting Lebanese civilians, and during its 2006 war with Israel successfully created incidents in which human shields were endangered and killed....

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Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut was struck by two missiles on Sunday in the aftermath of a fiery speech by Hassan Nasrallah. The Hezbollah chief committed the Iran-backed terror group to bringing victory to the embattled Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. The New Yorker described Nasrallah’s speech as the formal declaration...

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After having been told by President Barack Obama to rein in Hezbollah, Lebanese President Michel Sleiman blasted the group late last week for dragging Lebanon into the Syrian conflict: “The resistance is more noble and more important than anything, and should not get bogged down in the sands of dissension,...

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Observers are calling attention to additional dimensions of a speech given Wednesday by Israeli Air Force Chief Amir Eshel. Eshel’s statements received wide attention for his evaluation that Russia would soon provide advanced S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Syria, undermining any future Western efforts to degrade the Bashar al-Assad regime. If...

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Israel will hold its seventh annual “Turning Point” civil defense drill next week. Israeli civilians face a unique security environment. When under missile attack by Iranian proxies in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, the most time any Israeli civilian anywhere in the country has to reach a shelter is three...

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