Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces Party, has announced his candidacy for president of that strife-torn country. According to a newspaper report, he wants to treat all Lebanese equally and wants to strengthen the state but “not weaken Hezbollah.” The website Ya Libnan reports: Addressing his presidential program, the...

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The House of Representatives today passed a bill denying admission to anyone “who has engaged in espionage activities against the United States, poses a threat to United States national security interests, or has engaged in a terrorist activity against the United States,” to serve as representatives to the United Nations. Though...

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Germany’s Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere, announced that his ministry has banned a Hezbollah front organization that was acting as a charity to gather millions of dollars for Hezbollah’s Shahid Foundation, which opposes “Israel’s right to exist.” AFP reported that Germany’s investigation has been ongoing since 2009. De Maiziere said German investigators...

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The former head of Israel’s navy told a conference yesterday that Iran was the leading arms smuggler to the Middle East, and that Israel was engaged in an “ongoing secret war between Israel and terrorist organizations and the evil axis led by Iran,” to fight that threat. Vice Admiral Eliezer...

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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah boasted in an interview published Monday that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime was no longer in danger of being overthrown by opposition elements, as U.S. lawmakers moved to target the Iran-backed terror group over its critical support for Damascus: Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whose fighters have been supporting Assad...

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The terrorist who in July 2012 blew up an Israeli tourist bus in the Black Sea resort town of Burgas was an Algerian who trained in southern Lebanese camps, according to security sources quoted by the Bulgarian daily Presa and conveyed on Monday by Lebanon’s Daily Star. “The assailant was born in...

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Coming after terrorists launched rockets into Israel late last week and Israel retaliated, Monday, IDF soldiers prevented an attack at Israel’s border with Gaza. The Times of Israel reported: The soldiers spotted two suspects carrying a suspicious object near the fence, and chased them away by firing warning shots, according to...

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The British parliament added three more Islamic terrorist groups to its blacklist of organizations and individuals. The opposition voted with the government to approve the addition of Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, Al Murabitun and Ansar al Sharia to the groups banned under the UK’s Terrorism Act. Britain’s war against terrorism...

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The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) has begun taking over Hezbollah checkpoints in the Bekaa Valley in northeastern Lebanon, close to the border with Syria. This move offers considerable advantages to Hezbollah, which gets the benefits of containment of blowback from Syria in the former of Sunni rebel fighters crossing over...

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Jordan’s State Security Court sentenced six people to life in jail on April 2 for their role in a truck-bombing plot. In a 128-page decision issued on Wednesday, the tribunal sentenced Kataeb Al Tawheed leader Azmi Al Jayousi and five other terrorists to life for “conspiracy to commit terrorist acts” and...

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