Middle East / Levant

Only the military wing of Hezbollah has been designated as such.

In addition to those killed Sunday, a number of others were wounded, including a number in critical condition and seriously injured.

The Hemmat Missile factory is part of Iran's precision missile program, with annexes in Syria and Lebanon. for Hezbollah's missile program.

The reason for refraining from doing reforms is that they touch the clientelism and nepotism widespread throughout the Lebanese political system.

The State Dept. has removed Saudi Arabia from its list of the worst offenders on human trafficking.

Although Israel and the UAE don’t have formal diplomatic relations, the two nations have grown closer amid the Iranian threat.

The Lebanese Army is reportedly holding exercises with UNIFIL near Rosh Hanikra.

Iran's cybersecurity chief threatened Israel, if they discover that Israel was behind the explosion.

Speculation is rife as to the cause and exact location of the explosions.

“The Iranian regime and its proxies continued to plot and commit terrorist attacks on a global scale,” states the report’s foreword.

Jordan’s monarch has expressed intense opposition to the plan and threatened to possibly sever relations with Israel over the issue.

It apparently would assist in combating pirates and foreign vessels, and could be finished by March 2021.

Not a fish tale.

Israel has been blamed for multiple air strikes that have targeted Iranian military sites on Syrian territory over the past months.

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog called on Iran to “fully cooperate” with it in implementing its Weapons Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol and “satisfy the IAEA’s requests without further delay.”

Egypt's absence is a message to Ramallah as to how much they actually care if Israel applies Israeli law over Jewish communities.

The new head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media is expected to make sweeping changes at VOA, which has been plagued by allegations of corruption, mismanagement, liberal bias and other issues.

The US's Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act sanctions Syrian regime leaders for war crimes against the Syrian population.

Israeli officials believe Qatar is delaying the funds transfer for fear of being accused by the international community of supporting a terrorist organization and facing subsequent sanctions.

In a televised address to the Lebanese people on Tuesday, Hassan Nasrallah threatens that those in Lebanon who try to use the economic unrest in Lebanon to weaken his organization will be killed.

The message seems to be that while Abu Dhabi disagrees with Jerusalem on Israeli sovereignty, it won't be a roadblock to building relations with Israel.

In the end, the authors say, the US must make up it mind whether it wants to stay in the Middle East and block hostile players such as Iran from tipping the balance against Western interests.

"We see here an almost exact repetition of the steps that took place at the beginning of the 2010 wave of infiltration from Egypt."

“The United States has multiple options and different types of leverage to secure Ahlam Aref Ahmad al-Tamimi’s extradition."

Ahead of IAEA meeting, Tehran says relations with the U.N. nuclear agency will “become difficult” if it continues to pursue “anti-Iranian claims” founded upon documents provided by Israel.

The king ordered the royal court not to set a date for a meeting with Gantz, who requested a coordination meeting to negotiate Israeli coordination of the sovereignty plan with Jordan.

On Sunday, a bundle of balloons with an attached suspicious package was discovered in Moshav Tidhar near Ofakim in southern Israel.

Israel has remained silent on the reports.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat tweeted that it is “a nice surprise reading a tweet in Hebrew” by a UAE official.

Over 4,000 Syrian refugees had been quietly brought to Israel to receive medical treatment.