Today’s operation marks at least the fourth time since 2002 that Israel has publicly announced that its forces had intercepted a sea-based Iranian weapons smuggling attempt.

Syria: Hezbollah recruitment surge as sectarian conflict spreads

Hezbollah reshaping battle strategy

Israel suspects Hezbollah will target top Israeli officials

More than 170 Islamist fighters from the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front are reported to have been killed in an ambush outside of Damascus. “Most of them [were] Saudis, Qataris and Chechens,” Syrian television claimed.

Abdullah Azzam Brigades alive and well, despite key arrests

Residents quietly flee Beirut’s southern suburbs

The al Qaeda-linked group threatened further attacks against Iran and Hezbollah if their forces are not withdrawn from Syria and jihadists are not freed from Lebanese prisons.

The group announced the joint operation the same day that al Qaeda denounced the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham.

The Al Nusrah Front, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham continue to target Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Hezbollah expanding drone use to Syria and Lebanon

Israeli Soldiers Confront Hezbollah Terrorists in Lifelike Simulation

Terror groups taking cut as drug money is laundered

Lebanon Special Tribunal defense to link Abu Adass to Al Qaeda

The Al Nusrah Front, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, all al Qaeda affiliates, have carried out four suicide attacks in Lebanon since November 2013.

Hezbollah digs in for more conflict with Israel

Hezbollah at War in Syria: Forces, Operations, Effects and Implications

AL Qaeda-affiliated groups are stepping up attacks on Hezbollah and Iranian interests in Lebanon as the Syrian civil war rages.

Prosecutors build Hariri bomb plot case on cellphone logs

Justice or Peace? Hariri Trial Could Spark Further Unrest in Lebanon

Defending Israel’s Natural Gas

A Report on Suicide Bombings in 2013

Mystery in Hezbollah Operative’s Life and Death

Hezbollah Upgrades Missile Threat to Israel

Chatah’s assassination marks rise of extremism in Lebanon

Israeli study of foreign fighters in Syria suggests Shiites may outnumber Sunnis

Majid bin Muhammad al Majid, a Saudi jihadist who leads the al Qaeda-associated Abdullah Azzam Brigades, is thought to have been captured last month.

Fallout from Syrian conflict in Lebanon

Hezbollah financing evolves beyond Colombia’s Muslim communities

Dragged off the bus in Tripoli and shot: the latest spillover from Syria’s brutal civil war
