Report: Israel strikes Syrian army outposts near Damascus

Report: Israel strikes Syrian army outposts near Damascus

Special to WorldTribune.com Israeli rockets struck Syrian army outposts near Damascus on Feb. 17, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. According to the Observatory and a report by Reuters, the outposts south of Damascus were hit by three Israeli rockets. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said recently that Israel “is active from time […]

Hizbullah leader in Iran for cancer treatment, reports say

Hizbullah leader in Iran for cancer treatment, reports say

Special to WorldTribune.com Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah is in Iran for urgent treatment for cancer, according to Lebanese media reports. Nasrallah was evacuated to an Iranian hospital on Feb. 14 after his condition recently deteriorated. He was treated by doctors from Russia and North Korea after cancer cells spread to new parts of his body, […]

Moscow asks Hizbullah to cool it with attacks near Israel

Moscow asks Hizbullah to cool it with attacks near Israel

Special to WorldTribune.com Russia has made a direct plea to Hizbullah for restraint against Israel. The request from Moscow came after a Jan. 4 incident in which Hizbullah terrorists set off an explosive device targeting Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops in the Shebaa Farms area near the Lebanon-Israel border. Hizbullah said the attack on Jan. […]

Son of slain Hizbullah commander was CIA, Israeli mole, report says

Son of slain Hizbullah commander was CIA, Israeli mole, report says

Special to WorldTribune.com The son of Hizbullah’s former operations commander has been detained on allegations he worked as a mole for the CIA and Israeli intelligence. According to Lebanese and Syrian news reports on Dec. 29, Mustafa Mughniyeh was being interrogated by Hizbullah’s counterintelligence apparatus. Related: Israeli air-to-ground missiles kills top Hizbullah commander in Syria’s […]

Kuntar’s track record, Iran ties made him target for assassination by the Israelis

Kuntar’s track record, Iran ties made him target for assassination by the Israelis

Special to WorldTribune.com Israel’s assassination of notorious terrorist Samir Kuntar was carried out as a “response” to his close ties with Iran and his planning of a major terror attack on the Golan Heights, an analyst said. Kuntar, a top commander for Iran terror proxy Hizbullah, was killed in an Israeli air strike in Damascus, […]

Russia seen approving Kuntar ‘assassination’ condemned by Iran, Syria and Hamas

Russia seen approving Kuntar ‘assassination’ condemned by Iran, Syria and Hamas

Special to WorldTribune.com Israel’s killing of terrorist Samir Kuntar was condemned as an “assassination” by Iran, Syria and Hamas while analysts say Russia likely allowed Israel to carry out the strike near Damascus. “The dean of liberated detainees from Israeli prisons, brother Mujahid Samir Kuntar, was martyred along with several Syrian citizens in the strike,” […]

Middle East showdown as chess? Better to view it as poker

Middle East showdown as chess? Better to view it as poker

Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey The chaotic, not to say anarchic situation in much of the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region is often compared in complexity to the game of chess. It is nothing like chess, which has set rules and is governed strictly by rational calculation. No, the situation is much more like […]

Reassessing security threats to Israel: Hizbullah, N. Korea nuke tech, Jihadist coup in Egypt

Reassessing security threats to Israel: Hizbullah, N. Korea nuke tech, Jihadist coup in Egypt

Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey A former director of the Central Intelligence Agency recently stated that the intelligence community in the U.S. has a perfect record on identifying future threats: “We have never been right”. The one thing we know nothing about is the future. Nevertheless we have no choice but to try to […]

White House condemns Beirut blasts, Hizbullah vows revenge

White House condemns Beirut blasts, Hizbullah vows revenge

Special to WorldTribune.com The Obama administration called a double suicide bombing in Beirut that killed 45 people on Nov. 12 a “horrific terrorist” act, while Iranian terror proxy Hizbullah vowed revenge for the bombings that killed one of its senior leaders. “Such acts of terror only reinforce our commitment to support the institutions of the […]

At least 35 dead in blast at Hizbullah stronghold in Beirut

At least 35 dead in blast at Hizbullah stronghold in Beirut

Special to WorldTribune.com A pair of explosions minutes apart ripped through a stronghold of Iranian terror proxy Hizbullah in Beirut on Nov. 12, killing at least 35 people. Sources told Lebanon’s Daily Star and Al Jazeera that two suicide bombers launched the attacks in the Shi’ite-majority area of Ain el Sikkeh in southern Beirut. The explosions were […]