Ali Musa Daqduq

November 23, 2024 | |

Israeli Strike Eliminates Hezbollah Leader Responsible for Killing Americans

Israel Eliminates Daqduq: An IDF airstrike in Syria killed Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior Hezbollah commander who was responsible for the murder of American service personnel during...

October 2, 2024 | David Daoud, Ahmad Sharawi

The impact of Israeli operations on Hezbollah’s organizational structure

Israel seems set on liquidating Hezbollah. Beginning with its assassination of the group’s chief of staff, Fuad Shukr, on July 30, the Israelis have been decimating Hezbollah’s senior leadership in...

June 27, 2024 | Bill Roggio, Janatan Sayeh

Iran-backed Iraqi militia threatens to strike US interests should Israel attack Lebanon

The leader of one of Iraq’s most influential and powerful Iran-backed militias threatened US interests in the Middle East in response to a potential large-scale Israeli military campaign against Hezbollah...

January 20, 2024 | Joe Truzman, Bill Roggio

IRGC intelligence advisor killed by airstrike in Syria

An airstrike in the Syrian capital of Damascus that is thought to have been carried out by Israel, killed at least five officers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – Qods...

October 15, 2023 | Joe Truzman, Bill Roggio

IDF seizes EFPs, RPGs, and other weapons from Hamas

The Israel Defense Forces seized a large cache of weapons, including what appears to be deadly armor piercing explosively formed projectiles, or EFPs, from Hamas during a recent raid in Gaza. The presence...

May 25, 2023 | Joe Truzman, Bill Roggio

Lebanese Hezbollah Making Preparations to Target US Troops in Syria

Lebanese Hezbollah’s “Golan Unit” is conducting military exercises in preparation to attack American troops operating in Syria, two U.S. intelligence officials confirmed to FDD’s Long War...

May 4, 2023 | Bill Roggio |

U.S. State Department officials speak at same conference as dangerous Iran-backed Iraqi terrorist

Senior U.S. State Department officials spoke at the same conference as Qais al Khazali, a known Shia terrorist who is responsible for arming, training and forming the deadly Iranian-backed militias that...

February 21, 2023 | |

IDF Captures Syrian Working for Hezbollah in the Golan

Israeli troops captured two terrorist suspects who crossed into Israel from Syria on January 27, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated on Monday. One of the suspects, identified as...

March 24, 2020 | Bill Roggio |

State designates Iran-backed League of the Righteous as Foreign Terrorist Organization

The U.S. Department of State has added Asaib Ahl al Haq, an Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia terror group also known as “League of the Righteous,” to its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Additionally,...

September 7, 2018 | Bill Roggio

Iraqi Militant Qayis Khazali Warned Us About Iran. We Ignored Him.

Iran has its tentacles all over Iraq, and the United States has no one to blame but itself. It is a bipartisan failure dating back to the March 2003 invasion. Even after the Bush administration a...

February 27, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran Working as Strategic Partner with Hezbollah Against Israel

Co-authored by Jonathan Spyer  All is not quiet on the northern front between Israel and Syria/Lebanon. The recen...

September 29, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Barbarism of Iranian Militias Based in Iraq, Syria Being Seriously Overlooked

The US’s deadly strike on the al-Qaida-linked Khorasan group leader Mohsin al-Fadhli...

September 25, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

ISIS as a Common Enemy not Enough to Make US, Iran Allies, say Critics

The U.S. effort to stem Islamic State’s reign of terror in Syria and Iraq has America and one of its most bitter enemies - Iran - in the same camp, which some experts warn could be a recipe...

September 12, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

No Time to Forget Iran’s Terrorism

To confront America’s enemies, the Obama administration needs to relentlessly confront al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the most potent sponsor of state-sponsored...

December 9, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Why Is the Obama Administration Courting Hezbollah?

Co-authored by Jonathan Spyer Evidence has recently emerged suggesting that the U.S. has opened a line of direct communication with the Lebanese Shia Islamist organiza...

August 5, 2013 | Michael Ledeen

Releasing Prisoners, Appeasing Enemies

Both the Israeli release of more than a hundred Palestinian killers and the American release of five Taliban killers  from Guantanamo are U.S. policy decisions, so it’s fair to treat t...

May 22, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Time for the EU to Outlaw All of Hezbollah

The European Union moved closer on Monday to sanctioning the Lebanese te...

May 8, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Lessons From Israel’s Response to Syria-Hezbollah Aggression

Israel’s military strikes against Syrian weapons facilities and rockets over the last week (and in January) represent a kind of one-two punch against Hezbollah and its main weapons supplier...

April 3, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal National Review Online |

What More Will It Take for the EU to Ban Hezbollah?

Last July, the then–foreign minister of Cyprus, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country held the European Union’s rotating presidency,...

April 1, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal Fox News |

Most of Europe Reluctant to Crack Down on Hezbollah Despite Growing Threat

A House hearing on Hezbollah as a global terrorist threat coupled with Thursday’s prison sentence of a Hezbollah member — the first in a European court — brings into sharp focus...