Experts on the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah discussed its increased dominance in Lebanon at a House hearing on Tuesday, including how the group’s activities and strategies increase the likelihood of a future, more deadly war with Israel. “Hezbollah has made Lebanon complicit both financially and economically, as well as militarily because of all...

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A Palestinian sheikh called Jews “the most despicable of Allah’s creatures” and urged their annihilation during an address at the al-Aqsa Mosque that was posted to the internet last week. Sheikh Ali Abu Ahmad began by slamming a Jordanian plan to install security cameras at al-Aqsa this week. Jordan’s Islamic Affairs...

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The Israel-developed Facebook app Safety Check helped users let friends and family know that they were safe following the deadly attacks in Belgium on Tuesday. At least 30 people were murdered and scores of others wounded in back-to-back bombings of the Brussels airport and subway. The current version of the social network tool, which was also...

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At least 30 people were killed and over 230 wounded in Brussels after the city was hit by a series of terrorist attacks claimed by the Islamic State on Tuesday. Twin explosions ripped through Brussels’ international airport—believed to have been set off by suicide bombers—shortly before 8:00 AM, while a third struck...

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Newly-elected Argentine President Mauricio Macri said that his government is determined to “make headway” into the investigation of the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Wednesday. “We are fully committed to contribute in any way we can to make headway with this investigation,”...

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A U.S. District Court in New York ordered Iran last Wednesday to pay approximately $10.5 billion total to the families of 9/11 victims and to insurance companies who paid claims resulting from damages incurred during the attacks. Documents related to the lawsuit allege that some of the 9/11 hijackers visited Iran prior...

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A top leader of the Lebanese Shi’a militia Hezbollah criticized the Arab League after the body designated them as a terrorist organization, saying that the move was part of a Saudi “declaration of aggression.” “Saudi Arabia is trying to affirm that Hezbollah is a terrorist group in all the forums that allow it...

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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) said that an Iranian cyber-attack on a dam near New York City was a “shot across the bow” of the United States, which should be answered with harsher sanctions, the Associated Press reported on Friday. “Now it looks clear that the Iranians did it,” Schumer said during...

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The latest wave of terror in Israel may not be conducted by “lone wolves,” as is commonly believed, but guided by the hidden hand of Hamas, a leading terror researcher has reported. Shaul Bartal of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies wrote that obscuring the genesis and motivations of such attacks...

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A tunnel near the Israeli border in eastern Gaza caved in on Monday, killing a Hamas commander who was working inside, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. Hamas officials identified the man as Al-Salam Al-Batniji, 36, and described the collapse of the underground passageway, which is located in the Shujaiyyeh neighborhood, as a “work...

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