U.S. officials have evaluated Hezbollah’s deepening involvement in the Syrian conflict, and find themselves concerned: Hezbollah fighters joined Syrian government forces in the siege of a rebel-held town inside the war-torn country on Monday, local residents said, deepening the Iran-backed group’s involvement in Syria’s civil war and raising alarm among...

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Israel is moving quickly to dampen regional tensions in the aftermath of Friday and Sunday air strikes which the Jewish state conducted against military assets in Syria. The air strikes were conducted by Israeli Air Force (IAF) jets hovering in Lebanese airspace, and targeted mostly Iranian and Hezbollah assets. Analysts...

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Explosions in Syria tonight are being read against the backdrop of ongoing deterioration in the region, with Damascus publicly blaming Israel for what appear to be a second round of air strikes against advanced Syrian weaponry and military infrastructure. Preventing Hezbollah or al Qaeda from laying their hands on chemical...

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CNN reported tonight that Israel’s air force recently attacked a Syrian chemicals weapon cache, probably on Thursday or Friday and probably from within Lebanese airspace. The report cited Western intelligence sources, likely based on radar evidence. The CNN report comes days after Syrian opposition forces reported that IAF strikes had...

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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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Israeli officials have confirmed that a drone that tried to penetrate Israeli air space today was launched from Lebanon, even as the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah rushes to deny responsibility. Hezbollah has in the past boasted about launching drones against Israel. Lebanese leaders responded by blasting the group for risking...

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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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