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An assistant professor at Brown University’s Medical School has been deported to Lebanon despite a judge blocking her immediate removal from the country.

Thousands of terrified Alawite Muslims fled across the border from Syria into Lebanon over the weekend as Syria’s new jihadi rulers began hunting them down and murdering them for allegedly collaborating with the regime of deposed dictator Bashar Assad.

Massive crowds assembled on the outskirts of Beirut on Sunday for the delayed funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization and political party, who was killed in September by an Israeli airstrike after his forces attacked Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) buzzed the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on Sunday as crowds chanted “Death to Israel,” reminding the Iran-backed terror group that Israeli warplanes killed Nasrallah in September.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will hold five strategic posts inside southern Lebanon to maintain security and surveillance even after withdrawing from the region on Tuesday in accordance with the ceasefire with Hezbollah.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel would “finish the job” of ending the threat of a nuclear Iran, as he stood next to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on his first visit to the Middle East in his new role.

USAID materials were found among weapons used by Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, according to a newly-released photograph.

Lebanon’s newly-installed President Joseph Aoun on Monday named the sitting head of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Nawaf Salam, as prime minister on Monday.

A Lebanese legislator lodged a protest vote in his country’s presidential election on Thursday by choosing American Jewish socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

The Lebanese legislature on Thursday elected army commander Gen. Joseph Aoun as president, filling an office that has been vacant since President Michel Aoun (no relation) ended his term in October 2022.

The Iranian theocracy on Thursday commemorated the fifth anniversary of the death of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the chief terrorist mastermind of the world’s worst state sponsors of terrorism.

Israel is planning to establish military outposts in southern Lebanon and southwestern Syria as a means of defending Israeli communities from being attacked by Hezbollah or other terror groups, according to a report in Israeli media.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Wednesday that it had seized over 85,000 weapons that had been amassed by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization along Lebanon’s southern border with Israel.

Syrian insurgent leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani when he was a high-ranking al-Qaeda member, on Sunday repeated his promise that the new Syria would be inclusive and respectful of minority groups.

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urged Syrians on Sunday to rise up against the insurgents who toppled Tehran’s puppet dictator, Bashar Assad. Khamenei claimed the rebel assault that ended five decades of rule by the Assad dynasty was organized and directed by the United States and Israel.

The president of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides told Breitbart News exclusively on Sunday that he is appointing a new “Special Representative” of his government for religious freedoms to focus on protecting Christians and other religious minorities throughout the Middle East.

Villages in southern Lebanon that were taken over by Hezbollah in recent years and used to stockpile weapons and fire projectiles at Israeli communities were flattened in the recent war that ended with a ceasefire last month.

Three young men arrested in Germany for allegedly holding strong sympathies with the Islamic State and making preparations for an attack.

Christians in parts of Lebanon celebrated the downfall of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad over the weekend, gathering in town squares to launch celebratory fireworks and gleefully tearing down pictures of Assad from border crossings.

The regime in Iran is scrambling to explain why it was unable to protect its client Bashar Assad in Syria from being overthrown by a lightning-fast jihadi offensive that accomplished in less than two weeks what a decade of civil war could not.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told journalists on Monday evening local time that Israel had destroyed in 14 months what it had taken Iran 45 years to build: a network of terrorist groups on the borders of the Jewish state.

Christians in Lebanon are celebrating the release of several prisoners who were abducted by the Syrian regime over several decades of occupation and who are now, finally, free after the sudden collapse of the Assad regime on Sunday.

A senior Iranian official said on Friday that his country will send missiles, drones, and more “military advisers” to Syria.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) personnel on Tuesday accused peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) of ignoring ceasefire violations by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The ceasefire in Lebanon, barely five days old, is near collapse as of Monday after Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel, following the Biden-Harris administration’s erroneous claim that Israeli surveillance drones violated the agreement.

The Biden-Harris administration continues to undermine Israel’s security on its way out the door, joining France in claiming that Israel is violating the new ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon by flying surveillance drones over Beirut.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) forced an Iranian cargo plane full of weapons for Hezbollah to turn around mid-flight on Sunday after intercepting it in Syrian airspace, according to media reports.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” host and NBC News Correspondent Katy Tur asked Israeli Government Spokesman David Mencer if it would be a violation of the ceasefire deal if Israel “re-arms itself and resets for a possible

Christians in southern Lebanon welcomed the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) on Wednesday as part of a ceasefire in which Hezbollah agreed to withdraw from the area, and Israel insisted Lebanon had to use its military to keep it out. The

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Wednesday that it had arrested four Hezbollah terrorists who were sneaking south among civilians returning to their homes in southern Lebanon following the onset of a ceasefire agreement.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the administration’s success in negotiating a ceasefire in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah would inspire the White House to press for a ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas in Gaza.

Hamas, the Iran-backed terrorist organization that started the ongoing war in the Middle East on October 7, 2023, and still holds 101 Israeli hostages, said Wednesday that it also wants a ceasefire, as a deal in Lebanon took effect.

The U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror organization has officially taken effect as of 10:00 a.m. local time.

The Lebanon ceasefire is the fulfillment of a key campaign promise by President-elect Donald Trump.

Israel’s security cabinet approved a U.S. proposal Tuesday for a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon, following a speech in which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the achievements of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

An Israeli official said on Monday that a potential ceasefire with Lebanon would mean only a temporary “cessation of hostilities,” not an end to Israel’s war against the terrorists of Hezbollah.