Bombing in Bulgaria: Turning the Tide on Hezbollah
At 5:23 p.m. on July 18, 2012, a deadly explosion rocked Bulgaria’s Sarafavo airport near the Black Sea town of Burgas, killing five Jewish Israeli tourists and their Muslim Bulgarian bus driver....
Tsvetan Tsvetanov
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...
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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...
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Europe’s Assist to Hezbollah
The new Syrian war death toll of over 100,000 coincided last week...
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Europe Has a Serious Hezbollah Problem
After decades of denial, Europe’s leaders may have to face the grim truth about the world’s most sophisticated terror group.
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Iran Agent Monitoring Chabad Arrested in Bulgaria
Bulgarian police officers last summer arrested a Canadian citizen linked to the Iranian government who engaged in surveillance of the local Chabad center in the capital of Sofia, a well-placed an...
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Bulgaria: Bomber Used 3kg. of TNT in Burgas Attack
Bulgarian authorities released new evidence on Tuesday about the amount of explosives used in the alleged Hezbollah bombing of an Israeli tour bus in the Black Sea city of Burgas in July, which r...
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‘Iranian Militia Monitored Bulgarian Synagogue’
US think tank: Qods Forces monitored synagogue in Sofia suggesting it's a possible target for terror attack.
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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...
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Cyprus Criminal Court Convicts Hezbollah Member
A criminal court on Thursday in the city of Limassol convicted Hossam Taleb Yaacoub of membership in a criminal organization. The dual Swedish-Lebanese citizen admitted last month tha...
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US Senator, Treasury Press EU to Blacklist Hezbollah
In an exchange with US Senator Mark Kirk (R-Illinois) on drying up Iranian funds for the financing of its alleged nuclear weapons program, Treasury Under Secretary David Cohen said the US governm...
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Dutch FM: EU May Blacklist Hezbollah After Probe
The Netherlands’ Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans stressed on Monday the Dutch position that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and ought to be banned from European soil....
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Making Sense of Hamas’s Visit to Bulgaria
The arrival of three Hamas representatives in Bulgaria last week – believed to have obtained their visas in Cairo – and...
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Bulgaria’s Problems with “Hamas” and “Hezbollah”
Google translation The arrival of three members of the radical Islamic terrorist organization "Hamas" in Sofia on Wednesday should alarm all Bulgarians fight neo-fascist and ant...
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Why Doesn’t Europe Think Hezbollah Is a Terror Group?
The rift over counterterrorism strategy between the United States and its trans-Atlantic partners will likely be on display next week in Brussels, where European foreign ministers are slated to d...
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Blaming Terrorists for Terrorism
Yesterday the Bulgarian government announced the results of its investigation into...
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Europe’s Hezbollah Problem
In the wake of the Bulgarian bombing investigation, will the European Union finally designate Hezbollah a terrorist group?
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Three Cheers for Bulgaria’s Indictment of Hezbollah’s Terror
Sofia, Bulgaria — Defying substantial German and French pressure to not explicitly name Hezbollah as the terror group behind the bombing of a tour bus that killed one Bu...
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Suicide Bomber Targeted Israeli Tourists in Bulgaria
The blast that killed seven people, including five Israelis, on bus at an airport in Burgas yesterday was carried out by a suicide bomber dressed as a Western tourist, the Bulgarian government sa...