by Tyler | Aug 25, 2020 | Beirut, Beirut explosion, Hezbollah, Israel / Middle East, Lebanon, National Security, Trending
The German newspaper Der Spiegel published a report this weekend claiming that the ship suspected of bringing 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate to the Port of Beirut in 2013 had ties to a bank involved in laundering money for Hezbollah, the Iran-backed...
by Tyler | Aug 7, 2020 | Beirut, Beirut explosion, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel / Middle East, Lebanon, National Security, Politics, Trending, U.S.
The U.S. “should lift sanctions imposed against Lebanese people” following the port explosion in Beirut on Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
by Tyler | Jan 1, 2020 | Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Haider al-Abadi, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Israel / Middle East, National Security, Popular Mobilization Forces, radical islam, Trending
Iranian militia leader Hadi al-Amiri, one of several identified as leading an attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, reportedly visited the White House in 2011 during the presidency of Barack Obama.
by Tyler | Oct 21, 2019 | Hezbollah, Iran, Israel / Middle East, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Lebanon, National Security, Politics, Trending
With anti-establishment protests rocking his country, Walid Jumblatt, the longtime leader of Lebanon’s Druze community, said he supports dialogue with the protesters and the enactment of “appropriate economic reform.”
by Tyler | Jul 14, 2019 | Asia, Belt and Road Initiative, China, Economy, Hezbollah, Iran, National Security, Trending, U.S. sanctions, United States
Some advisers within U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration are allegedly urging secondary economic restrictions on Beijing for continuing to import Iranian oil despite American sanctions against the purchase, Politico reported this week, citing anonymous U.S....
by Tyler | Jul 11, 2019 | Africa, Hezbollah, Iran, Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), National Security, Nigeria, Shiite, Sunni, Trending
Hundreds of terrorists from the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) this week reportedly attacked the national assembly in the Sunni-dominated African country, triggering a violent confrontation with authorities that left at least two militants dead and some...
