Specially Designated Global Terrorist

State Department Sanctions Iran-Backed Iraqi Militia

The State Department designated an Iran-backed Iraqi militia — Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya (HAAA) — on June 17 as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group. State also...

Why US terror designation for Iraqi-based terror group matters

Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya is one of many Iranian-backed groups in Iraq that threaten the region

Analysis: Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani becomes a statesman

Khalifa Sirajuddin Haqqani in Hajj. pic.twitter.com/TGlhRiPbR9— Muhammad Jalal (@MJalalAf) June 7, 2024 ...

Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Depicts Palestinian Casualties As ‘Necessary Sacrifices’

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who masterminded Hamas’s October 7 atrocities, portrayed the deaths of Palestinian civilians as a welcome sacrifice in his personal correspondence, The...

Iranian-backed terror group in Bahrain claims to target Israel

Saraya Al-Ashtar confirmed on Thursday, “that it targeted the headquarters of the company responsible for land transportation in the occupation entity...in the city of Umm Al-Rashrash, Eilat..."

Reported US-Iran Talks Explain Saudi Sitting Out Red Sea Operations

Wafic Safa, a top Hezbollah official, is on an unprecedented visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a country that classifies the Iran-backed Lebanese militia as a terrorist organization. The...

White House: Israel Killed Hamas Deputy Chief

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed on March 18 that Israeli forces killed Marwan Issa, deputy chief of Hamas military operations, in an airstrike last week. Issa,...

U.S. official confirms Israeli forces killed senior Hamas military leader Marwan Issa

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed on Monday an Israeli airstrike in the Nuseirat area last week killed senior Hamas military commander Marwan Issa. The targeted strike against...

Israel SitRep: March 11, 2024

Today’s Issue: Israel Police Uncover Terror Plot, Make Arrests in Northern Israel | IDF Holds Multi-Branch Supply-Delivery Exercise to Prepare for Ground Maneuvers in the North | Israel Confirms Targeted...

The U.S. Should Sanction Mohammed Mushanish

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Israel Releases Seized Footage of Bibas Family Kidnapped by Hamas

Israel on FebrIsrael on February 19 released footage from a Gaza street camera of a mother and her two young children being kidnapped by Hamas on October 7. The footage of the Bibas...

Israel attempts to assassinate two high-ranking Hezbollah commanders in south Lebanon

On Thursday evening, at approximately 4:30 PM local time, media outlets began reporting on a possible Israeli drone strike in south Lebanon. The details of the strike were slightly unusual. The strike...

10 Things to Know About the Houthis

The Houthis are an Iran-backed, Shiite Islamist movement that seized control of Yemen’s capital in 2014 and instigated civil war. Driven by an explicitly antisemitic and anti-American ethos, the Houthis...

U.S. Sanctions on Houthis Come With Broad Exceptions

The Biden administration on January 17 designated the Iran-backed Houthi group Ansar Allah as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). However, the designation includes five...

U.S. adds Iranian-backed militia, five commanders, and an IRGC operative to list of designated terrorists

The U.S. government added Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, an Iranian proxy militia, its secretary general, five members of terrorist organization Hezbollah Brigades, and an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps...

Israel Vows to Eliminate Hamas Terror Leader Yahya Sinwar

Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed on November 4 that Israel will target Hamas leaders who were responsible for the October 7 massacre of 1,400 people in Israel. “We will...

How America and Its Allies Can Stop Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran from Evading Sanctions and Financing Terror

U.S. offers $5 million reward for Shabaab’s deputy emir

The U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Abukar Ali Adan, the deputy leader of Shabaab, Al Qaeda’s branch in...

Iraqi Shia militia warns the United States about involvement against Hamas

Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS), one of Iran’s main proxies inside Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs), issued a short warning to the United States about getting involved in the current conflict...

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...