The Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah is gaining valuable experience while “learning to fight on a large scale” in Syria, a former Shin Bet chief told a visiting delegation of U.S. congressional advisers on Monday, Israel Hayom reported. The warning came just days after Israel uncovered a bag of explosives near the Lebanese border, which...

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Iran-backed Shi’ite militias “detained, tortured and abused far more Sunni civilians” during the Iraqi government’s effort to recapture of the city of Fallujah than American officials have previously been willing to acknowledge, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Based on interviews with a combination of twenty survivors, tribal leaders, Iraqi politicians, and Western diplomats, Reuters...

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A rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip landed between two houses in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Sunday, prompting the IDF to carry out airstrikes against Hamas targets in Gaza. The rocket, which was claimed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, fell in a residential area beside...

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A Palestinian man named Sufian Abdu has been re-arrested for incitement on Thursday, just three days after being released from an Israeli prison after completing a 14-year sentence. Israeli public radio said he was taken back into custody for “waving Hamas flags” and “voicing calls to violence and incitement against Israel.”...

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is kicking off a six nation tour of Latin America on Sunday amid increasing fears of Tehran’s influence over the region. Zarif will begin his visit in Cuba on Sunday, then travel to Nicaragua, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Venezuela, according to Iranian media. More than 60 Iranian business leaders will...

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The timing of the $400 million payment to Iran for the release of three American hostages “suggests” that the Obama administration was already talking to officials of Iran Air, which delivered the cash home from Geneva, while it was still listed as a terrorist organization, a former Treasury official said on...

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A Jewish man wearing religious garb was stabbed by an attacker shouting “Allahu Akhbar” in the French city of Strasbourg on Friday, Agence France-Presse reported. French Chief Rabbi Rene Gutman told AFP that witnesses heard the assailant shout the Arabic phrase as the man was stabbed in the abdomen outside his home....

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A co-founder of Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has denounced the Islamist terrorist organization for causing “destruction and devastation” and apologized to the Palestinian people, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. Muhammad Nazami Nasser wrote a Facebook post apologizing to nearly every Palestinian faction for stirring up disunity within Palestinian society. He...

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The commander of the West Bank wing of Hamas expressed concern that Iran’s growing financial and military support of the Palestinian terrorist group will turn it into “an Iranian executive tool,” the London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported on Wednesday. Saleh al-Arouri, who lives in Turkey, said in a closed session that the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force,...

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Two West Bank terror cells created by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah have been broken up by Israeli security over the past few months, the Shin Bet revealed Tuesday. Members were recruited via Facebook and other social media by members of Hezbollah’s foreign operations unit operating out of both Lebanon...

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