“Hans Jakob-Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, discusses the situation in Lebanon and the growing fears of an all-out war.”
"Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former senior United Nations counterterrorism official who is a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, a non-governmental organisation, warned it appeared to be getting 'harder and harder to prevent escalation each time'."
Over the past few months, Hezbollah, Iran’s Shiite terrorist proxy in Lebanon, has been making increasingly aggressive moves along the Lebanon-Israel border. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has noted the increased tensions along...
Ahead of the 17th anniversary of Hezbollah’s 2006 cross-border attack on northern Israel that sparked the Second Lebanon War, the Iran-backed group established a tent inside a disputed Israel-held area of the Golan Heights known as the Shebaa Farms.
This week, Israel’s domestic security agency, the Shin Bet, announced indictments against two West Bank Palestinians allegedly recruited by agents of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) through Hezbollah to plan and carry out terror...
Monday marked the anniversaries of the 1994 terrorist attack against the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) community center in Buenos Aires and the 2012 terrorist attack in Burgas, Bulgaria. The Argentina attack killed 85 people and wounded...
On May 15, Lebanon will conclude its first parliamentary election since the country’s economic collapse in 2019 and the deadly explosion at the Port of Beirut in August 2020. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for the vote to be...
On Friday, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic and economic ties with Lebanon by suspending all imports from the country, expelling the Lebanese ambassador from Riyadh, and recalling its own envoy. The move came in response to remarks by...
The U.N. Security Council recently renewed the mandate of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the international peacekeeping force that has been present in Lebanon since 1978. Under pressure from the United States, the Security Council...
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