The parliament of Bahrain has passed legislation declaring that Hezbollah is a terror group and is calling on both the country’s Foreign Ministry and on Bahrain’s Gulf allies to do the same. The move comes as the death toll in Bahrain’s two-year uprising — which the country accuses Iran of helping...

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A Cyprus court has found a confessed Hezbollah member guilty of five terror-related charges, including participation in a criminal organization, acceptance and participation in committing a crime, and money laundering. The conviction of Hossam Taleb Yaacoub marks the second time in two months in which Hezbollah has been formally linked to...

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U.S. President Barack Obama is today visiting the West Bank town of Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority government is housed. The visit is meant to highlights the president’s commitment to the two-state solution and creation of a Palestinian state, but for PA officials – who already had low expectations for the...

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Bulgarian investigators will conduct an experimental reenactment next month of the July 2012 bus bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian. The country’s officials in February linked the terrorist attack to the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah,and noted at the time that they would continue gathering evidence to still-unanswered questions...

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Echoing calls by U.S. officials and Bulgarian diplomats, Israeli President Shimon Peres has called upon the European Union to formally designate Hezbollah as a terror organization. In an historic speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Peres emphasized that the Iran-backed group has engaged in a global terror campaign that...

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Journalist Michael Totten, evaluating the situation from on the ground in Lebanon, reports that the country is “gearing up to explode” due to sectarian tensions ignited by the Syrian conflict across the border. The Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah has long been operating in Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad...

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Al Qaeda-linked fighters in Syria are scouting and filming IDF patrols along Israel’s border with Syria, according to a boastful video uploaded by the jihadists: Members of the al-Furqan group — affiliated with the global al-Qaeda organization which has acted in Yemen and Iraq — were filmed close to Israel’s...

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It was 1974 when a wave of attacks on Israeli civilians by a terrorist organization calling itself the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine rocked the people of Israel and shocked the world’s conscience. In the Israeli city of Ma’alot a three-person terrorist squad that had entered the country from Lebanon seized a...

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Reports that Hamas is somewhere between frustrated and angry with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government – which trickled out of Arabic-language media and were picked up by English-language Western and MidEast outlets – are gaining traction: Hamas condemned Egypt’s decision to flood smuggling tunnels linking Sinai and Gaza, according to a...

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Nigerian officials have arrested three members of Iranian-backed terrorist cell who were gathering intelligence about potential U.S. and Israeli targets in the country and plotting to murder military and religious leaders. The cell’s 50-year old head Abdullahi Mustaphah Berende, a prominent figure in a local Shiite sect, has already confessed...

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