Israeli media outlets are reporting statements by Israeli Home Front Command Minister Avi Dichter calling on the European Union to formally blacklist Hezbollah as a terror organization. Speaking to lawmakers in France – where fears of Hezbollah retaliation have driven officials to resist E.U. designation of the Iran-backed group –...

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A defendant on trial in Cyprus for plotting terror attacks against Israeli tourists has admitted to being a member of Hezbollah, a confession that promises to deepen pressure on the European Union to heed U.S. calls and formally designate the Iran-backed group a terrorist organization. The admission by Hossam Taleb...

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An Al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly bombings that killed 21 people and wounded more than 100 last Sunday in Baghdad. The group, calling itself The Islamic State of Iraq, described the attack as a sectarian strike: “The operation was in response to the repression...

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Both incoming Secretary of State John Kerry and CIA chief nominee John Brennan have in recent months called on the European Union to formally designate the Iran-backed group Hezbollah as a terror organization. Daniel Benjamin, who until recently was the U.S. State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism, has said that the...

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Lebanon has received a report detailing Bulgaria’s investigation into the July 2012 bus bombing at the Black Sea resort city of Burgas, Bulgaria that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. Last week Bulgarian authorities linked the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, which holds cabinet-level positions in the sitting Lebanese government, to the...

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European leaders appear to be taking halting steps toward designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in the aftermath of a Bulgarian announcement that investigators had discovered links between the Iran-backed terror group and the July 2012 bus bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria. German officials released a statement late yesterday emphasizing that...

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A suicide bomber from a far-left Turkish group opposed to U.S.-Turkish ties detonated himself in front of the US embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a Turkish security guard. The attacker managed to enter American property and the U.S. State Department described the attack as a “terrorist blast.” Turkey’s government has been...

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Iran and Argentina will set a joint commission to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and injured more than 100. Israeli officials expressed surprise at the decision inasmuch as Iran has been widely linked to the attack, and in fact Argentinean...

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Senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) official Khader Habeeb is praising Iran for its support of Palestinian terrorism, declaring that Tehran has “adopted” terror groups since the Iranian revolution. The declarations can be considered reciprocation for statements made last week by Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani in which he expressed support...

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Iran is attempting to expand its influence into impoverished African nations by funneling ammunition and supplies to state actors and terror-linked rebel groups throughout the continent, fueling ethnic conflict and government repression. A recently published expose in The New York Times reporting on a global Iranian arms network stretching from Afghanistan to...

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