Clashes along the Syria-Lebanon border on Monday killed more than a dozen people, less than a week after Washington leveled sanctions against a Beirut-based network of companies believed to be supplying resources to the terror group: Seven fighters from the Lebanese group Hezbollah were killed in fighting with Sunni Islamist insurgents in...

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The Treasury Department on Thursday leveled sanctions against a Beirut-based network of companies spanning the Middle East and China: Hezbollah relies heavily on front companies such as Stars Group Holding, which continue to procure dual-use material for the organization to enhance its military capabilities. Stars Group Holding has covertly purchased...

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Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) believes a couple of extremist Islamist groups are preparing for multiple attacks within Lebanon, with the main threat coming from ISIS. A military court charged 28 people with membership of ISIS on July 7. Seven others are already in custody. The charges leveled against the...

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The Associated Press reported on a suicide bombing in a Beirut hotel Wednesday: The bombing is the latest in a string of attacks and security scares in Lebanon over the past week that have sparked fears of renewed violence in a country that has been deeply affected by the civil...

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Back-to-back car bombings on Friday and Monday – which targeted military officials and civilians in areas of Lebanon critical to Hezbollah – have renewed worries that blowback generated by the Iran-backed terror group’s participation in regional Sunni-Shiite conflicts may end up dragging Lebanon into those conflicts. The incidents were the...

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The Daily Star reported Monday that new batches of Hezbollah fighters were preparing to deploy into Syria as Iraqi Shiite militias – which had been battling on behalf of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime – were recalled back across the Syrian-Iraqi border to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...

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This week the Iraqi cities of Mosul – the second largest city in the country – and Tikrit – Saddam Hussein’s birthplace – fell to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a terror group that broke away from al-Qaeda. The Guardian reported that some 30,000 Iraqi troops fled an...

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Lebanon’s former head of General Security Jamil al-Sayyed, who spent four years in jail because of his alleged role in the killing of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, has launched a campaign to end the power-sharing arrangement between Shi’ites, Sunnis and Druze. This would effectively pave the way for Hezbollah...

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The Lebanese parliament on Monday failed for a sixth time in a row to elect a new president – parties linked to Hezbollah’s March 8 movement again boycotted the session and denied the body a necessary quorum: Lebanese parliamentarians failed on Monday in their sixth attempt to elect a new...

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Former Lebanese Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri declared yesterday that Tuesday’s re-election of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad was a “farce.” The Daily Star reported on the politician’s remarks: “This election was a farce. It was dark, fabricated, bloody, abhorrent and all of the things that senior officials have described it as,”...

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