Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz spoke at the annual Herzliya Conference Monday evening, outlining a broad array of threats facing Israel and the region. In between highlighting ongoing efforts by the Iran-backed terror groups Hezbollah and Hamas to penetrate Israel and attack Israeli civilians, Gantz in particular...

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Journalist Michael Totten, evaluating the situation from on the ground in Lebanon, reports that the country is “gearing up to explode” due to sectarian tensions ignited by the Syrian conflict across the border. The Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah has long been operating in Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad...

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Seeking to overcome French and German objections reportedly linked to those countries’ fears that Hezbollah will target their interests, the U.S. government is continuing to push the European Union to blacklist the Iran-backed group Hezbollah as a terrorist organization: [Treasury Under Secretary David] Cohen said, “One, the designation of Hezbollah...

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Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor is stressing the need to enhance security along the Israeli-Syrian border, after three mortars launched from Syria landed deep inside Israeli territory this weekend. In a letter to the U.N. Security Council calling for action, Prosor stressed that Israel would be forced to take...

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A long-feared full-blown sectarian war in Syria and Lebanon is inching closer to becoming a reality, with Syrian opposition forces threatening to make a border area “a graveyard” for Hezbollah. The Shiite group and the largely Sunni Free Syrian Army (FSA) exchanged rhetorical and actual blows this week, in the...

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Speculation continues to swirly in Israel over reports that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has been taken to Iran for medical treatment, possibly for cancer. Reports of Nasrallah’s ill health – which appeared on the front pages of Israel’s leading dailies Yedioth Ahronoth and Maariv earlier today – were first aired Tuesday...

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Fighting between the Free Syrian Army and the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah appears to have escalated. The organization, which has gone all-in on propping up Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, now finds itself entangled on behalf of Iran in the regional proxy war raging inside Syria. A YouTube channel known to...

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Sources in the Free Syrian Army, the main armed group fighting to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad, are announcing that its soldiers have bombed two Hezbollah compounds, one in Syria and another in the Lebanese town of Hermel. If confirmed the development may mark a critical turn in Syria’s...

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Nigerian officials have arrested three members of Iranian-backed terrorist cell who were gathering intelligence about potential U.S. and Israeli targets in the country and plotting to murder military and religious leaders. The cell’s 50-year old head Abdullahi Mustaphah Berende, a prominent figure in a local Shiite sect, has already confessed...

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Israeli media outlets are reporting statements by Israeli Home Front Command Minister Avi Dichter calling on the European Union to formally blacklist Hezbollah as a terror organization. Speaking to lawmakers in France – where fears of Hezbollah retaliation have driven officials to resist E.U. designation of the Iran-backed group –...

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