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Bahrain names Bahraini living in Iran as suspect in foiled attacks
Bahrain has named a Bahraini citizen who lives in Iran as a main suspect in what it called planned "terrorist acts" and said he and his collaborators had received training and other help from Tehran. Bahrain, home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet, said last Monday it had foiled an attempt to...
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Qaeda group says behind Beirut bombing
The al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Saturday claimed responsibility for the suicide car bombing last week in the stronghold of the “criminal” Shiite militant group Hezbollah. ISIL penetrated the “security system of the Party...
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Man behind Beirut suicide bombing identified: official
Lebanon’s army intelligence believes a young man from the north of the country may have detonated himself in a deadly southern Beirut attack, an official in the area said Friday. “The father of young Qutaiba al-Satem has been called in by the army intelligence branch in...
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Israel tests Arrow missile shield over Hezbollah threat
Israel has successfully tested its upgraded Arrow missile interceptor for the second time. The warhead is designed to manoeuvre in space to counter what Israel considers a ballistic threat from Lebanon’s Hezbollah as well as Syria and Iran. The United States and Israel have been...
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