Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov has announced that Bulgaria will push for sanctions against Hezbollah after Bulgarian investigators linked the Iran-backed terror group to the July 2012 bombing in Burgas that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. Meanwhile, Bulgarian officials will present details of the investigation to European counterparts in the coming...

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The air strikes on a weapons convoy in the Lebanon-Syria border area and on a suspected weapons facility northwest of Damascus underscore the complexity of the new security situation Israel will confront in 2013. It seems that in the Middle East, despite the euphoria of the “Arab Spring,” it’s more...

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Syria’s ambassador to Lebanon has reserved for Damascus the ability to launch a “surprise retaliation” against Israel, a day after reports emerged of multiple Israeli Air Force operations designed to bolster Israel’s “red line” against the transfer of Syria’s nonconventional arsenal. Reports first emerged early Wednesday that Jerusalem had struck...

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Al Qaeda is infiltrating Lebanon, building on the momentum and successes of Al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria. A new report names Majid al-Majid as the terrorist group’s new emir in the country, and suggests that Al Qaeda has a “roadmap” for a Lebanon takeover that includes targeting political figures, religious...

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Israeli Air Force jets conducted an overnight strike against a convoy of advanced weapons being transferred from Syria to Damascus’s Lebanese ally Hezbollah, according to reports that emerged early Wednesday. Israeli officials and international analysts have been expressing increasingly pointed concerns regarding the security of Syria’s nonconventional arsenal, which is...

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The European Union may not designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization, even if it turns out that the Iran-backed Lebanese group committed a terrorist attack against EU nationals on EU soil, according to the EU’s top counter-terrorism official. Gilles de Kerchove was quoted Monday on the news site EUobserver making the statement,...

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Eight people were killed Thursday when a car bomb exploded in the Syrian town of Saasa, the latest mass casualty incident in an ongoing Syrian civil war. That the incident happened in Saasa, located in the Syrian Golan just 14 miles from the Israel-Syria border, increases concerns that the now two-year war...

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Israel is the only Middle Eastern country to rate as “free,” according to the latest annual report by Freedom House, a top U.S.-based pro-democracy NGO. Israel is an anomaly in its region, with many of its neighbors receiving negative ratings, and Syria – until recently advocated by many foreign policy analysts...

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Two car bombs in southern Syria were responsible for the deaths of at least 12 people Friday. The attack comes at the end of a week which saw a spike in violence in the war-torn country, and just days after attacks on Aleppo University in the country’s north left 87...

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Iran’s 24th fleet will begin a new three-month tour of duty next week that will take the warship and submarine into the Mediterranean Sea to “block threats to the Islamic republic.” Similar deployments have been used as symbolic moves channeled into domestic propaganda channels, but have also been used to deliver...

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