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US blacklists Hezbollah-affiliated companies

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US adds host of Lebanese individuals and entities linked to Hezbollah-affiliated Martyrs Foundation to its terror blacklist. Elad Benari, 27/02/20 The United States on Wednesday added a host of Lebanese individuals and entities it said were linked to the Martyrs Foundation to its designated list of “global terrorists”, Reuters reports. US officials have previously targeted […]

The massive – but reversible – defeats of Iran and Turkey

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With our attention focused on other things – Israel’s elections, the legal fraternity’s aggressive lawfare against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump’s peace plan, to name just a few – profound strategic shifts have upended the strategic balance in the Middle East. Israel’s two most formidable adversaries – Iran and Turkey – both came […]

If Russia can’t curb Iran in Syria, the Saudis ask: How can Israel?

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Feb 16, 2020 @ 13:04 The Saudi paper Sharq al-Awsat reported on Feb. 15 that the Russians had given up on curbing Iran’s military presence in Syria. It cited Saudi intelligence sources in eastern Syria where the Saudis took control of Syria’s eastern oil region in December under the US aegis. Those sources wonder how […]

Tehran-Backed Hezbollah Steps in to Guide Iraqi Militias in Soleimani’s Wake

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Shortly after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq, the Tehran-backed Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders, seeking to unite them in the face of a huge void left by their powerful mentor’s death, two sources with knowledge of the meetings told Reuters. The meetings were […]

Lebanon Poses Acute Threat to Israel With Hezbollah, Iran Controlling Its Government

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JNS.org – The last several months have not been good one for Lebanon, as it’s been wracked by economic and political instability. Protesters upset over years of government mismanagement, sectarianism and deep-rooted corruption forced the resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in October, which led to more political paralysis and put the country on […]

Hezbollah’s popularity seen waning as Lebanese protests continue

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One critic says that with so much poverty, few today talk about ‘resistance’ against Israel, the Iran-backed Shi’ite group’s primary raison d’etre DIMA ABUMARIA/ THE MEDIA LINE Anti-government protestors continued to take to the streets of Beirut over the weekend, declaring their lack of confidence in the country’s new prime minister, Hassan Diab, and his […]