To the tune of $2 billion: The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a judgment allowing families of victims of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut and other terrorist attacks to collect nearly $2 billion in frozen Iranian funds. The court on Wednesday ruled 6-2 in favor of more than 1,300 relatives of the 241 […]
It is a heroic tale of a Lebanese father, Adel Termos, who not only spared the life of his daughter, but many other people in the open-air market where two suicide bombers struck. It’s worth a read.
Hezbollah was the target of the bombings in Beirut: Upwards of 43 people were killed and 240 wounded Thursday in two suicide bomb attacks in Beirut that appeared to target a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon’s capital. Reuters reported that the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the twin bombings in a statement circulated online. The blasts occurred close […]
Bombs away! Israel reportedly bombed a missile base used by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria near the country’s border with Lebanon on Sunday, destroying multiple missile warehouses. “Israeli planes breached Lebanese and Syrian airspace and bombed the Syrian regime’s 155th Brigade [base] in the Qutayfa area, destroying a number of missile warehouses,” sources told a […]
As the Washington Free Beacon said: “A series of missions by the Israeli Air Force struck targets related to the Syrian army and Hezbollah located on the border between Syria and Lebanon, according to multiple reports.” “One strike hit what a report in the Times of Israel refers to as “Syrian missile depots” on Wednesday. Another […]
This is an escalation between Israel and Hezbollah, paramount to war, and we hope that the 9 Israeli soldiers will recover from their serious injuries.
Lebanese officials, who work with Hezbollah, said a limited strike will be a direct response to an alleged Israeli strike that killed several Hezbollah operatives.
WASHINGTON — Lebanon, which has seen an uptick in sectarian violence since the start of the Syrian civil war, has reopened a road close to the Lebanon-Syria border. The road was reopened because opposing Islamic sects are at odds over the Syrian civil war and how the Syrian government is trying to clamp down on […]