Beirut: Saudi Arabia announced on Friday it is halting deals worth $4 billion aimed at equipping and supporting Lebanese security forces, a possible retaliation for the tiny nation’s siding with Iran amid the kingdom’s spat with the country.
A UK foreign minister ex-solider rushed to the aid of the police officer who was stabbed in the wild terrorist attack at the British Houses of Parliament, giving the cop mouth-to-mouth resuscitation before he died.
A U.S. Army soldier on active duty in Hawaii has been charged with providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the FBI said.
Hezbollah chairman Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech on Saturday celebrating the “anniversary of the end of the Second Lebanon War.” Speaking from his bunker, his speech was broadcasted on giant screens in the town of Bint J’beil, located only a few hundred yards away from the border with Israel.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh pushed for Palestinian Arabs to rededicate themselves to resisting the “Zionist Occupation” on Sunday, in a speech in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha.
The Islamist group Hamas publicly acknowledged on Friday that it is holding the remains of two Israeli soldiers and also has in its custody two Israeli nationals who went missing in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli leaders are in Hamas’ crosshairs in a video posted online Wednesday by a news site linked to the terrorist group in Gaza.
Hamas officials have admitted for the first time that they are actively looking to carry out suicide bombings, after numerous warnings from both Israeli and PA security services that the Islamist terror group is doing so.
In a cynical use of the fate of IDF soldiers captured during last summer’s counter-terror Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, Hamas has claimed that Golani Brigade combat soldier First Sergeant Oron Shaul is alive, even though the IDF has officially declared him dead.
A senior figure in Hamas’ military wing in the Gaza Strip was killed and three others were wounded on Wednesday in an explosion at an organization facility in Rafah.
