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The Hunt: Israeli intelligence penetrates Hezbollah

Iran, which backs both Hezbollah and the Hamas militants who run the Gaza Strip, launched dozens of missiles into Israel on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, Israel intelligence pressed forward, vowing to retaliate for Iran’s ballistic missile attack a day earlier, the region braced for further escalation, The Associated Press reported.

On this episode of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,”, Fred Burton, former deputy chief of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service, says the way they did it was shocking.


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The Hunt: Suspected Russian attacks in Europe indicate Ukraine war is spreading

This week, Russia launched one of its deadliest attacks on Kyiv in months using missiles and drones. At least 17 people were killed and more than 40 wounded, but 800 miles away in Germany, Russia is suspected of launching an attack on an airport, possibly expanding the war. On this episode of "The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green," Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, discusses what happened.
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