Israeli media have reported that the Syrian regime is preparing to expand its area of control in the south of the country near the border with Israel. Amos Harel, writing in Haaretz, concludes that the regime’s conquest of Aleppo, Dir a-Zur and al-Raqqa has freed up the army and Shi’ite militias...

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Iranian state television broadcasted what it claimed was the confession of Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian academic, who was sentenced to death for espionage in October, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL) reported Sunday. According to the “confession” that was aired, Djalali had been approached by a foreign intelligence service, apparently the Mossad,...

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Saudi Arabia claims to have intercepted a ballistic missile that was fired at its royal palace by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. According to a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the rebels in Yemen, Saudi air defenses intercepted the Volcano H2 (or Burkan H2)...

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The German government is funding a radical pro-Iranian regime Shi’ite umbrella organization with €283,150 ($334,800) as part of a strategy to promote “deradicalization” and “prevent extremism,” Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. The money, which comes from the EU’s Internal Security Fund, will finance the activities of...

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In his speech on Monday, outlining America’s national security strategy, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his commitments to supporting peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians as well as fighting Iran’s “malign influence.” The President highlighted that regional dynamics have overtaken the peace process. “For generations, the conflict between Israel...

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In his scheduled speech outlining his national security strategy, President Donald Trump is expected to say that the main sources of instability and violence in the Middle East are “radical jihadist terrorist organizations and the threat from Iran” rather than from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Associated Press reported Monday. The AP report is...

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The Obama administration obstructed a campaign by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to monitor and prosecute Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, in order to solidify the 2015 nuclear accord with the Islamic Republic, Politico reported on Sunday. The campaign, called Project Cassandra, launched in 2008, was aimed at disrupting...

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Contrary to assertions made by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that his nation is “[putting] out fires” in the Middle East in an op-ed published earlier this week, a recent United Nations report shows that Iran is the “arsonist” in the region, the United States Ambassador to the United...

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In an op-ed published in The New York Times on Monday, Mark Dubowitz and Toby Dershowitz argued that the treason charge sought against Argentinian ex-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and a number of her top aides, vindicates the late Alberto Nisman’s investigation into the 1994 AMIA bombing. Last Thursday, Argentinians woke up...

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In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday, Daniel Schwammenthal, the director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute, has warned that failure to confront Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah over its violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 will make a future war between Israel and Lebanon more likely....

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