Israeli food products with Hebrew labeling have been delivered to a displaced persons camp near the rebel-controlled Syrian city of Quneitra, the Syrian news website Zaman al-Wasl reported Thursday. The food was distributed via Jordan, the report said, adding that this was not the first time this had occurred. The extreme need for aid in...

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The latest reported use of chemical weapons by the Iran-backed regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad represents a “milestone” in global tolerance of their deployment, a top expert on Middle Eastern biological and chemical warfare warned on Tuesday. Assad’s forces used proscribed weapons — likely including Sarin nerve gas — to...

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The State Department’s annual report on global terrorist activity, which was released on Thursday, stated that Iran “remains the foremost state sponsor of terrorism in 2015.” The report noted that Iran provides “a range of support, including financial, training, and equipment, to groups around the world.” Iran continued to be deeply involved in...

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The announcement that a spokeswoman for the Iran-backed regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will be participating in a meeting sponsored by an anti-ISIS group in Washington D.C. on Thursday has provoked outrage on social media. Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, who was designated by the Treasury department since August 2011 for being one of three “principal defenders of...

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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 defense minister claimed that conflicts in Iraq and Syria are the result of a “deep-seated U.S.-Zionist conspiracy” during a memorial service for Mustafa Baddredine, a Hezbollah commander who was responsible for bombing the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, Iranian media reported on Wednesday. “Zionists are supporting terrorists and equipping them,...

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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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Iran is propping up the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in order to ensure that Hezbollah, which both countries support, has the continued capability to wage war against Israel, expert witnesses told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing Tuesday. “The gains made by the Assad regime (with Russian and Iranian help)...

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The aid provided by Israeli humanitarian groups to displaced Syrians can serve as a lesson for how people from different countries, religions, and political perspectives can work together to ease their plight, a Syrian refugee said at a congressional briefing Tuesday. Shadi Martini, a native of Aleppo who today serves as a senior...

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Mustafa Badreddine, the Hezbollah commander who was killed in an explosion in Syria last week, will be replaced by his nephew, who is also the son of another killed Hezbollah commander, the London-based Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Tuesday. Mustafa Mughniyeh, the son of the late Imad Mughniyeh, has been appointed as the...

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