Iran and its terrorist proxy Hezbollah are coordinating to seize control of large swaths of Syria in the aftermath of Bashar al-Assad’s expected downfall, according to analysis published today by Israeli Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira: Suleimani… now appeared to be prepared to extend Iran’s control to all of Syria....

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Hezbollah is tightening its grip on southern Lebanon, with Lebanese armed forces withdrawing from the area and U.N. peacekeepers finding themselves paralyzed and humiliated: UNIFIL patrols are finding paths blocked and former temporary observation points suddenly out of bounds in what is being interpreted as Hezbollah seeking to flex its...

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The Syrian army has begun transfering portions of the country’s chemical weapons arsenal to the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, according to an Israeli opposition figure. If confirmed – and Israeli defense officials quoted by the Associated Press and by Israeli sources considered the assessment premature – the development would mark...

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The news site EUobserver conveyed this morning a new Europol report that seems to confirm that the joint police body has adopted the findings of Bulgarian investigators linking the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah to the July 2012 Burgas bus bombing that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. The announcement comes on...

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Hezbollah’s decision to launch a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) toward Israel today is not straightforward to understand. In that sense it’s similar to the decision to kidnap two Israeli soldiers in July 2006, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, which triggered a war. Many analysts will conclude that the organization’s...

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News has been released that the Israeli Air Force has downed a drone, likely piloted by the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, over the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa today. Hezbollah has previously attempted to penetrate Israeli airspace with drones. A video on the previous attempt is embedded below. Iran recently held...

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A little-seen video uploaded to YouTube yesterday claims to depict the funeral of an elite Hezbollah figure killed fighting in Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime. The video comes amid deepening Iran-Hezbollah coordination on Syria. Hezbollah has declared that its participation in the conflict is a national, moral...

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The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday charged Hezbollah with operating like an international drug cartel, alleging that the Iran-backed terrorist organization uses the money that it traffics through the U.S. to fund violence and undermine American interests. The Treasury Department also invoked the Patriot Act to blacklist two Lebanese money-exchange houses for...

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The Syrian National Coalition, one of the leading groups in the conglomerate of organizations fighting to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad regime, took to its Facebook page to tell Hezbollah to get out of the country: The Syrian National Coalition — the main Western-backed opposition group — warned that Hezbollah involvement...

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The Jerusalem Post reports that Bulgarian police last summer arrested an Iranian agent who was monitoring the Chabad Jewish center in Sofia. The agent carried a Canadian passport and reportedly entered Bulgaria from Turkey several weeks after the July 2012 Burgas bus bombing that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian....

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