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Guatemalan Raúl Arturo Contreras, known as “dead” or “skeleton” in his country’s slang, will soon be a free man after serving 18 months and paying a $100 fine for being part of cocaine trafficking network linked to Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah.

WASHINGTON – The socialist government of Venezuela has been allowing drug traffickers, including the notorious Mexican Sinaloa and Zeta cartels, as well as potential terrorists and other unsavory individuals, to freely operate inside the South American country unabated without fear of reprisal, according to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

TEL AVIV – Reverting to psychological warfare, Hezbollah recently erected a giant sign on the Israel-Lebanon border with images of “Hezbollah heroes” alongside the threatening inscription: “This account is not settled.”

TEL AVIV – The leader of a Palestinian terrorist group in Lebanon called for an “all-out war” with Israel and Jordan, in which Iranian soldiers would fight to “liberate Palestine.”

TEL AVIV – The IDF is working “under the radar” to prevent Hezbollah from getting any stronger, the military’s Chief of Staff said at a closed-door meeting at the Knesset following reports of an air force strike on a weapons shipment bound for the Shiite group in Syria.

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot downplayed the chances for a fresh war with either the Hezbollah or Hamas terror groups in the near future, saying they were both uninterested in a new conflict and, in the Lebanese group’s case, demoralized as well.

The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps warned America would receive a “strong slap in the face” if it did “anything stupid” against the Shiite nation.

TEHRAN — Everything was in place on Tuesday for a gala celebration at Iran’s annual conference in support of Palestinians. Awaiting the hundreds of guests was a table piled high with cakes and fruit, with plenty of tea to wash it all down and a placard saying, “Netanyahu: Go to Hell.”

A Syrian official vowed to back Hezbollah in any future conflict that the Lebanese terror group may have with Israel, in an interview with Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai on Monday.

TEL AVIV – Israel has reportedly warned Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah that it would respond forcefully if attacked from Syria or Lebanon, the London-based Al Hayat newspaper reported on Sunday.

TEL AVIV – The United Nations Security Council must “publicly condemn” Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s threat to strike nuclear plants and other sites in Israel, the country’s UN ambassador said over the weekend.

TEL AVIV — There is fear that further advances by the Syrian army, assisted by the Iran-backed Hezbollah and elite Iranian troops, may turn the Israel-Jordan-Syria border area into an Iranian proxy base, an Arab intelligence officer said.

TEL AVIV — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned on Thursday that his organization has the capacity to strike anywhere in Israel, including the nuclear reactor in Dimona.

TEL AVIV – Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah is stronger than ever before with “game-changing” weapons provided by Iran and an ongoing partnership with Hamas’ military wing, Lebanese reports in the last month have claimed.

The socialist government of Venezuela has prohibited CNN en Español from broadcasting nationwide following a report exposing a Venezuelan plot to grant passports to Hezbollah terrorists. CNN International, which broadcasts more left-leaning programming, remains available. Local newspaper El Nacional reported Wednesday

The Hezbollah terrorist organization warned Israel it could strike anywhere in the country, and threatened to hit the nuclear reactor in Dimona in southern Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with senior congressional figures on a range of Middle East security issues Wednesday, hours after meeting with US President Donald Trump.

Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro demanded an official, public apology from the United States Department of the Treasury after its announcement of a sanction on Vice President Tareck el Aissami, whom the Treasury accused of having known ties to a variety of terrorist and drug trafficking outfits.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will visit Lebanon next week for talks with leaders of Paris’s former mandate territory, a Lebanese government source said Wednesday.

The United States Department of Treasury has designated Venezuela’s vice president, Tareck el Aissami, a “Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker” for engaging in drug deals throughout the Western Hemisphere. Multiple reports in the past decade have tied El Aissami to groups as varied as the Mexican Zetas cartel and Hezbollah.

“CNN better not stick its nose in Venezuela… I want CNN very far away from here,” Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro told the audience during his regular television program on Sunday. CNN recently published a report accusing Maduro of allowing the fabrication of government documents for non-Venezuelan Hezbollah terrorists.

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah stated Sunday that he is unperturbed by US President Donald Trump’s political positions, stating that he has merely “exposed the true face of the American government, the ugly, oppressive, and racist one.”

Iran’s terror poxy Hezbollah has launched a “crowdfunding” campaign online to raise funds to purchase military equipment and clothing for its jihadists.

In a report this week, CNN en Español catches up with a Venezuelan embassy whistleblower who revealed a long-running scheme to sell official Venezuelan identification documents to Middle Eastern citizens, including many suspected of ties to Hezbollah.

Contents: Russia, Iran, Turkey sign farcical Syria peace agreement; Syria peace conference sees a return to ‘proximity talks’; The aftermath of the destruction of Aleppo

Israel will fight its next war “with full force,” Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Tuesday, adding that the Israeli army will not stop fighting the next conflict until its enemy surrenders completely.

A former Fatah terrorist told Breitbart Jerusalem that the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah’s so-called military wing, may return to violence if the United States follows up on its pledge to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Thousands gathered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday to commemorate the second anniversary of the killing of Alberto Nisman, a high-level prosecutor who was found lying in a pool of his own blood the night before he was to accuse former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of aiding Iranian terrorists.

The Obama administration has linked U.S. law enforcement with their Cuban counterparts in a partnership “on counternarcotics, counterterrorism, legal cooperation, and money laundering,” according to a Statement from the U.S. embassy in Havana.

BEIRUT – The Lebanese group Hezbollah has located an Israeli drone that crashed in Lebanese territory and has taken it to a secure location for inspection, a source in Hezbollah said on Tuesday.

A small Israeli drone crashed in southern Lebanon on Monday afternoon for as yet unknown reasons, the army said.

Contents: Syria says that Israel bombed al-Mazzeh military airport near Damascus; Israel’s motive was probably to prevent weapons from reaching Hezbollah

Syria on Friday called on the international community to “punish” Israel for an apparent missile attack on a major military airport west of Damascus, and accused the US, Britain and France of supporting the assault.

The Syrian army said on Friday that Israeli missile strikes caused a series of explosions at an airbase outside Damascus before dawn.

Critics of the Iranian nuclear deal charged that the Obama administration was not sufficiently concerned with how Iran would spend the money from its post-sanctions windfall. Evidently, departing President Obama and his team thought domestic political pressures would oblige the Iranian government to invest more heavily in constructive economic pursuits.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to retake an area that supplies Damascus with water and rejected any negotiations on his departure at upcoming talks in Kazakhstan.