Pro-Hezbollah Lebanese news outlet Al-Akhbar reported on Saturday that a senior German intelligence official met with the second most powerful leader of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, with a view toward stopping attacks from the Iran-backed Shi’ite movement against Israel. The Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) located the Al-Akhbar report and translated … Read more
Three American service members were killed on Saturday in a drone attack in Jordan, the White House said in a statement. The soldiers were killed near the Syrian border. The US is continuing to gather information about the attack, but the White House has blamed “radical Iran-backed militant groups.” The pro-Iranian “Islamic Resistance” in … Read more
A report was circulated on social media on Saturday by a reporter from the Lebanese Al-Manar network, which is affiliated with the terrorist organization Hezbollah, allegedly quoting Israeli media and according to which the Israeli government will declare war with Lebanon within hours, Maariv reported. There is no such report by Israeli media, Maariv … Read more
The Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah, which translates to ‘supporters of God’, are a Yemeni militant group that has been involved in a civil war for a decade. Throughout the conflict, the group have gained control of most parts of Yemen, including the capital city Sana’a. On Friday 12 January, the UK took part … Read more
This weekend, Hojatollah Omidvar, who served as the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force intelligence unit in Syria, was assassinated in the Damascus area, allegedly by Israel. Omidvar’s deputy and three other senior officials were killed in the same strike. Back in June, The Washington Post reported that Omidvar, also … Read more
Commanders from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group are on the ground in Yemen helping to direct and oversee Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, four regional and two Iranian sources told Reuters. Iran – which has armed, trained, and funded the Houthis – stepped up its weapons supplies to … Read more
Iran-backed Hezbollah has rebuffed Washington’s initial ideas for cooling tit-for-tat fighting with neighboring Israel, such as pulling its fighters further from the border, but remains open to US diplomacy to avoid a ruinous war, Lebanese officials said. US envoy Amos Hochstein has been leading a diplomatic outreach to restore security at the Israel-Lebanon frontier … Read more
Iran-backed Hezbollah has rebuffed Washington’s initial ideas for cooling tit-for-tat fighting with neighboring Israel, such as pulling its fighters further from the border, but remains open to US diplomacy to avoid a ruinous war, Lebanese officials said. US envoy Amos Hochstein has been leading a diplomatic outreach to restore security at the Israel-Lebanon frontier … Read more
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they attacked the “spy headquarters” of Israel in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, state media reported late on Monday, while the elite force said they also struck in Syria against the Islamic State. The strikes come amid concerns about the escalation of a conflict that has spread through the Middle East … Read more
Senior White House adviser Amos Hochstein is expected to visit Beirut on Thursday, a US official said late on Wednesday, as part of US efforts to ease tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border. Washington fears Israel’s war in Gaza could spread violence across the region, with armed groups backed by Israel’s arch-rival Iran launching solidarity … Read more
