Bulgaria

March 4, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Government Refuses to Ban Hezbollah, Rebuffs Israel and U.S.

The Merkel administration has also banned the website of the extremist left-wing group Indymedia and right-wing extremists entities over the years.

February 26, 2019 | Matthew Zweig |

U.S. Law Targets Hezbollah in Europe

Winter is coming for Hezbollah in Europe. The Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist organization has been able to operate more openly on the continent than elsewhere because the European Union and most Eu...

January 25, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The unstoppable envoy

Richard Grenell has made a career of confounding expectations. That hasn’t changed since becoming U.S. ambassador to Germany last year. On...

November 19, 2018 | Toby Dershowitz, Serena Frechter

Hezbollah on Trial in Europe

Fifteen Hezbollah-linked defendants accused of laundering millions of euros in South American drug money to Europe and Lebanon...

September 27, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Report: Britain slated to outlaw the entire terrorist entity Hezbollah

Britain banned Hezbollah’s military wing in 2008 because the Lebanese militia attacked UK soldiers in Iraq.

August 6, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

EU report details international web of Hezbollah terror funding

A newly released European Union report on terrorism states that Lebanese nationals worked with organized crime organizations to finance Hezbollah’s terrorist activities. The E...

July 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austrian Jewish community leader slams chancellor for courting Iran

The president of the Jewish community in Vienna blasted Austria’s Chancellor S...

June 14, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Hezbollah to be Outlawed in Britain

UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid plans later this year to outlaw Hezbollah in Britain, according to a report in the London-based Jewish Chronicle. Javid pledged to take “decisive acti...

May 21, 2018 | Mark Dubowitz, Richard Goldberg

Iran, Get Ready for the Battle Rial

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday presented the Islamic Republic of Iran with a stark choice: Either change or face “unprecedented financial pressure” in the form of “the...

March 22, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany Stalls Iran Talks Over Labelling Hezbollah as Terrorists

Germany’s government tossed a wrench into the ongoing Iran nuclear talks with the United States, rejecting a US demand to designate the entire Hezbollah organization as terrorist and blamin...

March 20, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany at odds with US on condemning Hezbollah in Iran talks

Germany’s government has refused to agree to a key U.S. demand to designate the entire Lebanese Islamic militia Hezbollah -- and not just a piece of it -- a terrorist organization as part o...

February 26, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

The Mystery Martyr

Death came suddenly for Samer Ibrahim Atoui, a 48-year-old native of the southern Lebanese village of Khiyam. On October 2, 2017, a Syrian opposition social media account posted photographs showi...

February 23, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

EU Parliament Politicians Call for a Full Ban of Hezbollah

Members of the European Union parliament sent a letter on Thursday to EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, urging her to classify all of the Lebanese organization Hezbollah as a terrorist e...

January 31, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Hezbollah Role Unmentioned in Charges for 2012 Bulgaria Terrorist Attack

The Bulgarian state prosecution has decided not to charge Hezbollah with involvement in the 2012 bomb attack at the Burgas airport that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver and wou...

January 18, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Hezbollah Terrorist Trial in Bulgaria Starts

The trial of two Hezbollah operatives, who allegedly blew up an Israeli tour bus in 2012, killing five Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver, started on Wednesday in Sofia, Bulgaria. T...

January 15, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

British Parliament to Debate Full Ban of Hezbollah as Terrorist Entity

The British House of Commons is slated to debate on January 25 a ban of the entirety of Hezbollah because of the Lebanese group’s terrorist activities. “Hezbollah is a...

December 14, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

EU Parliament Calls On Tehran to End Ballistic Missile Program

The European Parliament, representing 28 member states, on Wednesday urged Tehran not to engage in nuclear missile-related activity that violates Security Council Resolution 2231. The EU...

October 3, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Despite Jewish Alarm, Britain Refuses To Outlaw Pro-Hezbollah Demonstration

he United Kingdom’s home secretary rejected in early September London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s request to ban the annual al-Quds Day march because it is a pro-Hezbollah demonstration that p...

July 21, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

What’s Happening Behind The Scenes Of Bulgaria’s Hezbollah Terror Trial?

Co-written by Yonah Jeremy Bob. Five years have passed since Hezbollah allegedly blew up an Israeli tourist bus in the Bulgarian resort town of Burgas and killed six people, inc...

July 17, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

The EU Needs to Get Tougher on Hezbollah

Exactly five years after terrorists in Bulgaria detonated a bomb on a bus filled with Israeli tourists, Sofia’s special terrorism court is scheduled to begin much-delayed hearings Tuesday o...