Two Israeli soldiers were killed by Palestinians in recent days, renewing criticism of Palestinian leaders accused of inciting violence and failing to prepare the Palestinian public for co-existence with the Jewish state and rattling U.S.-backed peace negotiations: In a statement concerning both attacks, the United States said such incidents “undermine efforts to establish...

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A Thai court last week sentenced two Iranians on Thursday to between 15 years and life in prison for an attempted 2012 terror attack against Israeli diplomats stationed in Bangkok. The bombing attempt was one of at least 10 global terror plots that year, part of what the State Department...

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The U.S. Treasury department on Thursday designated four top members of Hezbollah, noting that they had conducted operations for the Iran-backed organization across the Middle East and North Africa. The department further noted that, inasmuch as those operations had been both global and related to terror, they were difficult to...

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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have deployed one battery of the Iron Dome anti-missile system to Israel’s Red Sea port of Eilat. The decision was made by the Chief of Staff Lt.General Benny Gantz, after consultations with other commanders of the military and with an eye toward the increased threat...

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Dozens of terrorists linked to Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups have entered the Sinai Peninsula from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip with the intention of clashing with the Egyptian army, according to a senior Egyptian official. The official told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that Egyptian authorities have observed the entry of 150 Izz al-Din al-Qassam...

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Nigerian officials have leveled new terrorism charges against three Lebanese men accused of conducting terror-related activities in the African country on behalf of Hezbollah. The May arrests yielded a cache of advanced weapons, including rifles, anti-tank weapons, and an RPG Nigeria’s secret service outlined that the weapons were acquired by the...

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After 9/11 the Iranian regime scaled back its global terror operations and networks. Those operations and networks, according to the recently published State Department annual report on terrorism, have been restored: “Iran and Hezbollah’s terrorist activity has reached a tempo unseen since the 1990s, with attacks plotted in Southeast Asia,...

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It is far from certain the Iran-backed Assad regime in Syria or the Lebanese based Iran-backed terrorist army Hezbollah will clear the fog surrounding the air strike that struck Syria between Thursday night and Friday. One might expect decision-makers in Damascus or Hezbollah’s south Beirut headquarters to respond to U.S....

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Hamas’s recent campaign to be removed from the European Union’s terror list is unlikely to succeed given its stance toward Israel, according to statements provided to The Tower by France’s ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot. Bigot told The Tower that “France’s position on Hamas is clear.” The Iran-backed terror group...

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Today’s events in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip portend the start of what may be a hot summer on Israel’s Palestinian front – and perhaps several other ones. In the West Bank a Palestinian terrorist stabbed to death 32-year-old Evyatar Borovsky. He was the first Israeli victim of...

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