Major cyberattacks target Iran

Iran’s National Computer Emergency Response Team (Maher) reported a “large-scale” cyberattack on two government institutions in the Islamic Republic, according to Iranian media. Neither of the two official agencies were…

Hezbollah: Israel still enemy despite talks

Hezbollah has declared that Lebanon’s agreement to negotiate maritime borders with Israel is “is not connected to” achieving peace between the two nations, which maintain a formal state of war.…

Israel & Lebanon agree to negotiate borders

Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a framework for talks to end the longtime dispute over borders to be mediated by the United States. The two countries are still in…

Netanyahu targets Hezbollah in UN address

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group of storing weapons near a gas company in the residential Beirut neighborhood of Jnah. During his annual speech…

Macron blames Hezbollah for Lebanon’s woes

Lebanon’s Prime Minister-Designate Mustapha Adib rendered his resignation even before taking office, after being unable to form a government of specialists to implement critically-needed reform. After saying he was “doomed…

Hezbollah arms depot explodes in Lebanon

A weapons cache belonging to the Iranian-proxy Hezbollah exploded in a populated area of Lebanon, at the pre-dominantly Shi’ite Muslim village of Ain-Qana. Security officials reported that at least 7…

US sanctions on Iran face international opposition

The United States is stepping-up its ‘maximum pressure campaign’ against the Islamic Republic of Iran, despite blatant opposition by members of the United Nations Security Council that consequently led UN…

US enacts UN sanctions on Iran

The United States announced that sanctions are being reimposed on Iran pursuant to the snapback process under United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231. The passing of the 30-day requirement since…

US vows to enforce UN sanctions on Iran

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reiterated the Trump Administration’s resolve to thwart Iranian access to weapons ahead of the expiration of the United Nations-imposed arms embargo (as part of…

 Trump discusses US role in Mideast

U.S. President Donald Trump has revealed that yet another country may normalize relations with Israel. During comments about the 15 September ceremony at the White House when Israel and the…