On May 16, a jury in Manhattan found Ali Kourani guilty of committing various crimes on behalf of Hizballah’s Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO), which plans terrorist operations around the world. The Department of Justice announced the jury’s verdict the following day.
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Smaller Pro-EU Parties Surge in European Elections; Centrists Lose Seats
Smaller European parties saw a surge of support in continent-wide elections for the European Parliament in what politicians and analysts agree will likely be seen as the most consequential since 1979, when European Union voters first began casting ballots for the bloc’s legislature.
Read More »Libya on verge of civil war, threatening 'permanent division', top UN official warns Security Council
The damage done to Libya will already take “years to mend” but unless fighting around the capital Tripoli stops, the country risks “descending into a civil war which could lead to the permanent division of the country”.
Read More »Russia to Retaliate if US Deploys Radar Facility in Norway's Vardo – FM
The town of Vardo in the Norwegian Arctic near the Russian border is home to a US surveillance radar station dubbed Globus II.
Read More »Taiwan launches construction of missile corvettes, mine-laying ships
The construction of three Tuo Jiang-class missile corvettes and four rapid mine-laying ships began Friday, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) announced during a ceremony at a wharf in the northeastern county of Yilan.
Read More »Emergency Notification of Arms Sales to Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia
Today, I made a determination pursuant to section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act and directed the Department to complete immediately the formal notification of 22 pending arms transfers to Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia totaling approximately $8.1 billion to deter Iranian aggression and build partner …
Read More »Finland: Will the Social Democrats Retain a Pro-Iran Anti-Semitic MP in Its Ranks?
A few days after the Finnish elections, Hussein Al-Taee, the son of the governor of Najaf in Iraq and a pro-Iranian regime advocate, was exposed for having spent eight years posting anti-Semitic, anti-American and homophobic comments on Facebook… For four of these years, Al-Taee served as an adviser on Middle …
Read More »Mali: Gestion de la crise malienne : Le Peuple malien peut-il assurer sa révolte contre la France ? Seydou Diarra Gestion de la crise malienne : Le Peuple malien peut-il assurer sa révolte contre la France ?
Le Mali est un pays souverain et indépendant grâce aux pères fondateurs de la République à savoir l’ancien président Modibo Keïta le père de l’indépendance, les détenteurs des médailles d’or de l’indépendance, le député Mamadou Konaté père de la nation malienne et tous ces anciens militaires qui ont créé l’armée …
Read More »India Test Fires Air Launched Version of BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile
The 2.5-ton air-launched version of the BrahMos (BrahMos-A) missile, named after India’s Brahmaputra River and Russia’s Moskva River, has an operational range of around 300 km. It can be dropped from 500 to 14,000 metres.
Read More »US Tells Syrian Kurds Only Future Is Part of Peaceful Syrian State
The United States is reminding its Syrian Kurdish allies not to get overly ambitious while at the same time trying to allay concerns Washington will abandon them to Turkey or a possibly resurgent Islamic State terror group.
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