Two suspects linked to the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah will be tried in absentia for a deadly July 2012 suicide bombing that targeted Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, prosecutors revealed on Friday. Meliad Farah and Hassan El Hajj Hassan, both natives of Lebanon, will be tried on charges of terrorism over the...

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A decade after fighting the Second Lebanon War against the Islamist terror militia Hezbollah, Israel is once again facing a build-up on its northern border, with the prospect of fresh hostilities looming. The 2006 conflict, waged over a month during the hot summer, was the culmination of six years of...

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A former IDF general warned Israelis on Tuesday that the next war with the Iran-backed Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah would lead to a barrage of rockets into Israel on an order of magnitude higher than anything Israel has yet faced. Major General (res.) Yitzhak Gershon, who served as the head of...

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A semi-official Iranian news agency issued a report threatening Lebanon’s banking sector if it complied with a U.S. sanctions law targeting Hezbollah just hours before a bomb exploded outside a Beirut bank on Sunday, NOW Media news reported on Monday. “In the wake of the US sanctions law against Hezbollah…and after the financial confrontation...

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Two people were injured on Sunday after a bomb exploded outside the headquarters of a Beirut bank that had enforced sanctions on the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah. Blom Bank has recently closed the accounts of individuals suspected of having links to Hezbollah in order to comply with U.S. law, Reuters reported....

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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called on the Lebanese terror group to fight a war of “comprehensive resistance” against Israel in a speech on Tuesday, the 16th anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. On May 24, 2000, Israel withdrew from its security zone in southern Lebanon, bringing it into compliance with United...

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Iran’s continued arming of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah means a large-scale conflict with Israel remains “a genuine possibility,” former State Department official Aaron David Miller wrote in an analysis for CNN on Thursday. Miller, now a vice president and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, prefaced...

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Mustafa Badreddine, a Hezbollah commander who led their operations in Syria and was accused of planning multiple large-scale terror attacks, was killed in a bomb blast, the Iran-backed terror organization confirmed Friday. Badreddine was killed in an explosion near the Damascus airport that also injured several other people, Hezbollah officials...

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IDF jets struck a convoy on the Syria-Lebanon border carrying weapons to the terror group Hezbollah on Tuesday, Israel’s Channel 2 reported. The attack reportedly took place near what Channel 2 described as a “safe haven” for Hezbollah in Syria. In recent years, Israel has targeted a number of Lebanese arms depots believed to be storing...

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The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah and its allies swept to victory in municipal elections in the Bekaa valley region of eastern Lebanon on Sunday. Hezbollah won a “complete victory” in the cities of Baalbek and the town of Brital, which borders Syria, according to its deputy chief, Sheikh Naim Kassem. Hezbollah competed in 80 of the...

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