Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Hizbullah has been using the Lebanese Army to threaten Israel. Military sources said Hizbullah was sending Lebanese soldiers to the Israeli border in an effort to stage a provocation. The sources said Hizbullah was also deploying plainclothes and uniformed fighters to test Israel’s defenses. “They are trying to escalate […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The Lebanese Army has battled Islamic State of Iraq and Levant in what resulted in scores of casualties and injuries in the Bekaa Valley. Officials said at least 40 Islamic fighters and Lebanese soldiers were killed in an army raid of a Syrian refugee camp on Sept. 29. They said […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah has launched an unmanned aerial vehicle strike in Syria. Iran said several armed UAVs targeted Al Qaida’s Nusra Front for the Defense of the Levant along the Syrian border with Lebanon. The UAV strike is said to have killed or injured Nusra fighters around the northeastern border […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has escalated its military campaign in Lebanon. Officials said ISIL along with its rival Nusra Front for the Defense of the Levant has been operating squads along the Lebanese border with Syria and attacking Lebanese Army units. The officials said the squads, usually […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s intelligence community has determined that the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah built a huge long-range rocket arsenal. The intelligence community has assessed that Hizbullah was focusing on the procurement of rockets with a range of more than 100 kilometers. In a recent assessment to the government of Prime Minister Benjamin […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Syria has halted an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant convoy meant to target Hizbullah strongholds in Lebanon. Hizbullah said the Syrian Army destroyed several vehicles sent by ISIL and Nusra Front for the Defense of Levant to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. On Sept. 3, Hizbullah said the convoy, which […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel and Syria have been exchanging fire along the Golan Heights, mostly controlled by Syrian rebels. On March 19, the Israel Air Force, in its biggest operation of the three-year civil war, attacked several Syrian military targets around Quneitra after a bomb injured four Israeli soldiers on the Golan. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Lebanon has been bracing for a suicide bombing campaign. Security sources said Lebanon’s military and police were on alert for daily suicide strikes similar to those in Iraq and Syria. They said the attacks would pit Al Qaida-aligned militias against the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah in what could include the assassination of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s military has determined that Lebanon established thousands of weapons bases in Lebanon. Officials said Hizbullah has set up weapons caches in at least 200 communities in southern Lebanon. They said Hizbullah was storing rockets and missiles in thousands of apartment buildings in an effort to evade Israeli air […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA ― Another Hizbullah commander has been killed. Lebanese sources said Hussein Salah Habib was killed in Syria and buried in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley on Jan. 1. The sources said Habib was abducted and tortured to death by Al Qaida-aligned rebels. “He went missing for eight months and was found a week […]