Café de L’Avenue on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, the unlikely setting of an FBI sting to ensnare a Hezbollah operative. (The National) By Paul Peachey December 17, 2020 On a clear, crisp spring day in Paris, a couple sat down at the popular Cafe de L’Avenue on the broad, tree-lined Boulevard Haussmann. For the [...]
Bulgaria bus bombing which targeted Israelis in July 2012. (REUTERS) By Paul Peachey December 17, 2020 A worldwide search is under way for Hezbollah assets to retrieve $100 million in court-ordered compensation for families of victims and survivors of a suicide bus bombing in Bulgaria that killed six people, The National can reveal. Lawyers instructed by [...]
A Lebanese soldier stands beside posters of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez in Beirut, Dec. 1, 2006. (Reuters) By Ximena Herrera December 10, 2020 Cooperation between the Venezuelan and Iranian regimes has notably strengthened over the past 10 to 15 years – not always with the best of intentions. [...]
Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah. (AFP) December 4, 2020 Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah plans to move to Iran and may have already made the move, an informed source told the Kuwaiti Al-Jarida newspaper on Wednesday. The source told the paper that intelligence services in Lebanon and neighboring countries have monitored extensive, encrypted communications between the Iranian [...]
A French U.N. peacekeepers Leclerc tank passes a billboard showing Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrullah. (AFP) November 30, 2020 Concerns have been heightened over the eruption of a new war between Lebanon and Israel in wake of the Iranian threats to retaliate for the assassination of nuclear scientist [...]
Israeli soldiers stand atop tanks overlooking the border between Israel and Syria. (REUTERS) November 30, 2020 State-run Syrian news agency (SANA) reported Tuesday night that the Israeli military launched airstrikes against southern Syria shortly before midnight. “At 23:50 on the night of 11/24, the Zionist enemy launched an airstrike from the direction of [...]
Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general (AFP) November 28, 2020 The deputy leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said on Friday that the response for the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was in Iran’s hands. “We condemn this heinous attack and see that the response to this crime is in the hands of [...]
A Yemeni delegation carrying posters of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Houthi leader Abdulmalik Al-Houthi in a southern Beirut suburb on October 12, 2016. (AFP) November 12, 2020 Arab coalition warplanes killed two Hezbollah military experts in Yemen during airstrikes on a training camp outside Houthi-held Sanaa last week, Yemen’s defense ministry said. Along [...]
Hezbollah flags have often been waved at the annual al-Quds rally in Berlin. (Getty) October 24, 2020 The Estonian government imposed on Thursday sanctions in response to terrorist acts of Hezbollah militant group, according to a report published by "Estonian World". “Hezbollah poses a considerable threat to international – and thereby Estonian – [...]
A Shi'ite cleric wearing military uniform stands with Hezbollah members in south Lebanon, Jan 21, 2015. (REUTERS) October 23, 2020 The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned two high-ranking Hezbollah officials, including a former military commander in the country’s south. The sanctioned officials are Nabil Qaouk and Hassan al-Baghdadi, both members of Hezbollah’s Central Council. The [...]
