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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A report that a Jewish family has been smuggled out of Syria and brought to Israel was cleared for publication on Thursday. Ynet reports: This was the first time in over three years of the Syrian civil war that a Jewish family has left the war-torn country for Israel. They...

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Earlier this week, Reuters reported on a surprising consequence of Syria’s civil war: trade between Europe and the Arab world is increasingly passing through Israel. A Romanian truck driver, Ismail Hamad, explained that after 30 years of driving through Syria, he no longer does so because of  “[t]oo much problems,...

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Nine Islamist rebel groups on Monday rejected an announcement made the day before by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) that the Al Qaeda offshoot was reforming a caliphate extending the group’s influence across the region: “The terms of the caliphate have not been realized at present,...

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The murder of three Israeli teenagers—Gil-Ad Shaar,  Naftali Fraenkel (both 16) and Eyal Yifrah (19)—by Hamas terrorists was just the latest in some three thousand attacks during the past two years comprising of rockets, bombings, shootings, knifings, firebombs and rock attacks. Analysts believe these figures will only rise as Hamas continues to...

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Reports emerged Thursday afternoon that President Barack Obama is seeking $500 million to, per the Associated Press (AP), “train and arm vetted members of the Syrian opposition” as rebel forces struggle to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad regime. The aid, should it be approved by Congress, would according to the Washington Post...

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Reports surfaced Wednesday morning of Syrian airstrikes against targets in western Iraq that killed scores of people and left more than 100 injured, reigniting concerns that spillover from the Syrian conflict is serving as a destabilizing force in the region. State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf on Wednesday slammed Damascus for...

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Israeli officials on Tuesday doubled down on claims made earlier this week that the Bashar al-Assad regime was responsible for a weekend attack near the Israel-Syria border that killed an Israeli boy. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said it was “clear” that forces loyal to the Assad regime were behind...

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The Times of Israel reported Monday that Israel is actively seeking to dampen escalatory tensions along the Israel-Syria border: A senior military official noted Monday, however, that Israel had no interest in military escalation along its northern borders, as the IDF was focused on an operation in the West Bank...

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Jordan is facing threats on three fronts: from Syria, ISIS in Iraq and potentially from Hamas in the West Bank, former head of the Israel Defense Forces Operations Branch Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Israel Ziv told a news conference of The Israel Project on June 24. The threat to Jordan from ISIS,...

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