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Fighters of the Al Nusra Front, Al Qaida’s affiliate in Syria, or as the group now calls itself, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, have recently been posing a serious challenge to Hezbollah in the border area between Lebanon and Syria, a senior Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri urged the UN Friday to help his Lebanon reach a permanent ceasefire with Israel to end the Jewish state’s “continuous violations.”

Hezbollah forces have begun to evacuate territory near Syria’s Golan region, not far from the Israeli border, after the US State Department demanded that the Lebanese terror organization immediately leave the area, Syrian news agency Al-Ittihad reported Thursday.

TEL AVIV – An anonymous online campaign is demanding Hezbollah leaders provide answers to charges that the Shiite terror group was behind the assassination of its own commander, Mustafa Badreddine.

Iran has established rocket factories in Lebanon that are under the full control of the Hezbollah terror group, a top Iranian general told a Kuwaiti newspaper.

Fox News delivers an astonishing report about the extent of Iran’s smuggling network.

TEL AVIV – Iran is responding to President Donald Trump’s threats against the regime by strengthening Hezbollah and Gaza-based terror groups as well as allying itself with Russia in exchange for economic and military privileges, an Iranian military source said.

Director Ava DuVernay celebrated her decision to wear a gown to the 2017 Oscars by a designer from Lebanon, which she proudly described as predominantly Muslim country. Lebanon was founded as a Christian “sanctuary” state in the Middle East, and its religious makeup is so controversial the nation has not held a census since 1932.

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 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.

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.

The leader of France’s National Front, Marine Le Pen, has opted to cancel a meeting with Lebanon’s Grand Mufti rather than wear an Islamic veil.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Monday doubled down on his recent saber-rattling against Israel and warned that his terror group would not hold back from attacking sensitive Israeli targets if the Jewish state goes to war with Lebanon.

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.

BEIRUT (AP) — French populist-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has met with the president of Lebanon, saying their two countries should be “pillars” in organizing the fight against Islamic fundamentalism. After the half-hour meeting on Monday with Michel Aoun,

BEIRUT (AP) — The far-right French leader Marine Le Pen has arrived in Beirut to meet with the Lebanese head of state and leading Christian figures. The National Front leader is hoping to burnish her credentials as a defender of

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time, on Tuesday, a group of Iranian dissidents revealed an intelligence report specifying the scope of terrorist training camps run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Quds Forces within Iran, and called on the Trump administration to designate the group as a terrorist organization.

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.

Contents: Hezbollah keeps on fighting, but says it will honor Syria ceasefire; Tensions grow over the future of Bashar al-Assad

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

Officials in Damascus have denied a flurry of regional news reports suggesting that dictator Bashar al-Assad is in serious condition, with some reports claiming he suffered a stroke while others suggesting an assassination attempt occurred.

Five people in Lebanon were arrested on Wednesday on claims they allegedly were spying for Israel, according to Lebanese security services.

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

Lebanese security forces foiled an attempted suicide bombing at a cafe in Beirut’s busy al-Hamra district late on Saturday, a security source said.

Israel is boosting spending on its navy to better protect offshore oil and gas deposits and secure a large maritime zone that abuts that of its neighbour and enemy, Lebanon.

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

Lebanese President Michel Aoun suggested on Wednesday that Israel was responsible for the assassination of a Lebanese businessman in Angola.

The painful lesson that Israelis — including those in the “peace” camp — have learned is that compromise leads to war. Now, President Barack Obama has taught them a new lesson: namely, that they cannot trust the guarantees on which compromises are made.

TEL AVIV – A Lebanese columnist slammed the Arab world for its misogyny and blatant discrimination of women, calling out a Lebanese MP for saying that women’s only role is to “give a rapist a reason to rape them.”

TEL AVIV – Syria’s state-run news agency on Wednesday reported Israeli warplanes carried out two airstrikes near Damascus early Wednesday morning.

Egypt’s Foreign Ministry has denied what it said were Arab media reports about an Egyptian military presence in Syria.

The number 2 leader of Shiite Iran narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah, echoing other jihadist groups, has denounced President-elect Donald Trump as “racist.”

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating a Kansas-based international food company that owns a 50 percent stake in Butterball, one of the largest turkey producers in the United States, for alleged ties to Shiite Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has learned.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon sent a letter to the UN Security Council revealing newly released intelligence indicating that Tehran is transporting arms and ammunition Hezbollah in Lebanon via civilian flights.