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Lebanon’s military tribunal has issued an arrest warrant for the commander of the al-Qaeda-linked group behind the November bomb attacks outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut. The warrant was issued for Jamal Daftar-Dar, the commander of Abdullah Azzam Brigades. On November 19, two bomb attacks outside the Iranian embassy in …

Three al-Qaeda-affiliated militant groups have declared war on Lebanon. In a single day, the trio delivered the opening salvo of their Lebanese campaign, issuing threats in what appeared to be coordinated statements. Three prominent terrorist groups, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, al-Nusra Front in Lebanon, and the Islamic State of Iraq …

Deputy general-secretary of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has raised alarms about the threat of “Takfiri terrorism” and its potential spread across the globe. “This peril [of Takfiri terrorism] does not only threaten Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, rather it threatens the entire world,” Sheikh Naim Qassem emphasized during a ceremony …

On 2 January, after a car bomb exploded in the Haret Hreik neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs killing five people, Maria Jawhari, an 18-year-old resident of the area, posted on her Facebook page: “This is the third bombing I escaped from, I don’t know if I’ll die in the fourth.” …