In August 2016 and during Hezbollah celebration which marked the tenth anniversary of July victory, the Resistance leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah stressed the importance of defeating the terrorist groups in Syria’s Aleppo, maintaining that the victory in the northern city is game-changing. Scores of analysts wondered why Hezbollah selects Aleppo, ...
Read More »Abadi slams US congress bill to split Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has denounced a controversial US Congress bill aimed at dividing the Arab country into three states. In a phone conversation with US Vice President Joe Biden, Abadi expressed concern over the bill, a statement by the premier’s office said. The prime minister told Biden that ...
Read More »US Senate sets $225 million for Israel’s Iron Dome
US Democrats in the Senate have included $225 million for Israel’s Iron Dome missile system in a bill amid Tel Aviv’s attacks against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee Senator Barbara Mikulski said the Democrats wanted the budget in an emergency funding bill on Tuesday, ...
Read More »US blacklists companies accused of Hezbollah ties
The United States moved Thursday to blacklist a group of companies it claimed covertly helped Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah movement acquire components for surveillance drones. The US Treasury placed sanctions on Beirut-based Stars Group Holding, which it said purchased electronics and other technology via offices in China and Dubai to support ...
Read More »Israeli court orders house arrest for brutally beaten US-Palestinian teen
A Jerusalem court ordered Sunday that a Palestinian-American teenager, who was severely beaten in police custody, be released to house arrest for nine days pending an investigation into stone-throwing allegations. Tareq Abu Khudair, 15, who holds US citizenship and lives in Florida, is a cousin of Mohammed Abu Khudair, a ...
Read More »ISIL militants threaten US, UK with terror attacks
Terror alerts, 9/11-style bombings and murders of British citizens will soon come to London’s streets, according to chilling threats from UK citizens fighting alongside with the so-called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the most violent terrorist group operating in Syria and Iraq. The threat comes from ...
Read More »Diplomacy vs US double standards
Today my four years at the Lebanese American University were summed up with a one-hour event hosting the American ambassador in Lebanon, David Hale. As I was sitting in the event questions were going backward and forward about how the US will carry out the tasks on its agenda in ...
Read More »Ayatollah Janati: Islam is the real reason for hatred of the enemy against the Islamic Republic
Yesterday, Ayatollah Janati, in a large gathering of the forces of the Islamic revolution in Isfahan, spoke about the effects of the Islamic revolution and the true reason for the animosity of the enemy. “After the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran, America had been hit by a tsunami ...
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