Al Arabiya has reported that Iran's Revolutionary Guard has now deployed 15,000 armed troops to Syria recently in order to help Syria's Bashar Assad against rebel forces. This corroborates a communication I had had from a source of mine on the ground that Assad has had a decent amount of defections from his army, almost entirely among Sunni troops.Hezbollah has also sent trained troops t...

By now, most of you are familiar with the revolt currently going on against the Assad regime in Syria, which is being suppressed with great brutality. Literally thousands have been killed by Assad's forces, beefed up with Hezbollah fighters from next door Lebanon. Recently, a UN Security Council resolution backed by the Arab League that condemned the violence and called for Syrian leader Bash...

Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in journalism – and rarely more so than in the case of Iran. Iran, the dark revolutionary Islamist menace. Shia Iran, protector and manipulator of World Terror, of Syria and Lebanon and Hamas and Hezbollah. Ahmadinejad, the Mad Caliph. And, of course, Nuclear Iran, preparing to destroy Israel in a mushroom cloud of anti-Semitic hatred,...

A Lebanese/Swedish man seized by Thai authorities led them to a warehouse filled with bomb making materials today. The police removed more than 8,800 pounds of urea fertilizer and several gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate from the warehouse, located in Samut Sakhon, a western suburb of Bangkok. Atris Hussein,who was seized by Thai police at the airport denied any association with Hezbollah at fir...

In a long awaited decision, Federal Judge George Daniels in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York ruled that Iran and its Lebanese terrorist proxy Hezbollah, had joint responsibility with al-Qa’eda for the 9/11 attacks. The ruling in the cases of Havlish, et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, et al., and Bingham, et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, et al. was in response...

One afternoon a couple of years ago Christopher Hitchens, Michael Totten and I had gone for a walk along Hamra street in West Beirut when Hitch spotted a signpost put up by a local fascist group called the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. The SSNP is a Hezbollah ally that does a lot of the Assad regime’s dirty work in Lebanon. Totten was in the middle of telling us about the SSNP’s rep...

An excellent video by Bill Whittle that shows exactly how this dynamic works. One small error..he mixes up Hamas and Hezbollah at the 2:25 mark. One slight quibble. To me the Nazis were and are a movement of the Left, so rather than red-brown-green alliance ( the green being Islam) I see it as simply red and green. Important to remember that 'Nazi' is shorthand for the party's offic...

Renowned author and scholar Victor Davis Hanson asks the question in today's National Review, prefacing it with a remark that the country has never been in more danger. Hanson cites the Islamist regimes in Egypt and elsewhere brought on by the Arab Spring and their growing hostility to Israel, the genocidal influence of Iran and its missile armed proxies Hamas and Hezbollah, Erdogan's Is...

The UN-backed special court investigating the former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri's murder yesterday published the 47-page indictment against four members of the Iranian-backed Shia militia Hezbollah for alleged involvement in the truck bombing that killed him in 2005.

A sampling an analysis of commentary on the Middle East by my pal Soccer Dad: 1) Hezbollah escaping justice Not unsurprisingly the Lebanese government has reported back to the tribunal investigating the assassination of Rafiq Hariri that it has been unable to locate the four named suspects. Lebanon informed the U.N.-backed court investigating the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik H...