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Syria’s ousted dictator Bashar Assad fled to Moscow when he was driven from power and has reportedly settled into a new life as a celebrity ophthalmologist since his usefulness to the Russian government has come to an end.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. “will retaliate” for the murder of three Americans in Syria, which he described as an “ISIS attack.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blames Australian PM Anthony Albanese for encouraging antisemitism.

The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday announced the elimination of Ra’ad Sa’ad, a Hamas official who planned the October 7 attack.

The suspected father and son terrorist duo who allegedly killed at least 15 during a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration on Sunday were previously investigated by Australian intelligence for ties to the so-called Islamic State, and ISIS flags were reportedly found in their car after the apparent antisemitic attack.

Leading Australian Jewish advocate Dionne Taylor declares Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “has blood on his hands” after the Bondi Beach massacre targeting Jewish locals celebrating Hanukkah. She described the terrorist attack as “a transformational watershed moment” for the country, while urging the left-wing PM to “call President Trump” to learn how to lead with strength in protecting citizens and countering rising threats, citing Trump’s success in combating antisemitism “on campuses and elsewhere.”

Australian Senator Pauline Hanson warned the nation’s leaders Monday of the impacts of unrestrained mass immigration, Islam, and multiculturalism. She believes the combination of those three elements is destroying the nation and the Bondi Beach terrorist attack is emblematic of what lies ahead.

Top Israeli officials accused the leftist government in Australia of failing to meaningfully confront antisemitism before the deadly terror attack against the Sydney Jewish community in Bondi on Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday the mass-casualty terrorist shooting that killed at least 11 people at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney came after he warned left-wing Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese months ago that Canberra’s policies were “promoting and encouraging antisemitism.” He further charged that Australia “replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement” as Jewish blood was spilled.

In the same week Syrians were celebrating a new chapter in their country, an ambush has killed two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter in Syria, the Pentagon announced.

President Donald Trump declared that “Israel has never had a better friend in the White House” as the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) honored him last week at its annual Chairman’s Gala in Washington, D.C., recognizing what the organization described as his historic leadership on Israel — from Jerusalem and the Golan Heights to confronting Iran and brokering the Gaza ceasefire that secured the release of the final remaining hostages.

Shirley Manson, the lead singer for the band Garbage, went off in a curse-filled tirade at fans from the stage during a concert in Melbourne.

In an interview with Al Jazeera News on Wednesday, Hamas Abroad leader Khaled Mashaal claimed that “fifty-one percent of American youth are supportive not only of the Palestinian cause, but of Hamas.”

Syria has approved the first Jewish organization to be officially recognized since Syria became an independent nation in the 1940s.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday in Turkmenistan to discuss the war in Ukraine. Their meeting was unexpectedly interrupted by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who demanded an audience with Putin to secure his support against India and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

The father of murdered IDF Cpl. Noa Marciano has revealed his daughter’s death in Hamas terrorist captivity came through the malicious actions of a civilian doctor with the moment she was killed documented in a video he was sent.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization and arm of the Iranian military, seized a oil vessel allegedly carrying “smuggled diesel” in the Persian Gulf, Tehran revealed on Thursday.

The Islamist terror state of Iran accused the United States of “piracy” on Thursday in response to President Donald Trump revealing that U.S. authorities had seized a crude oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea accused of transporting sanctioned oil from Iran and its ally Venezuela.

Pro-Palestine activists suspected of involvement in acts of sabotage against military infrastructure in the UK are on hunger strike.

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder warned Wednesday that surging antisemitism in the West amounts to a “full-scale assault on the truth, on democracy, and on the safety of the Jewish people,” urging Jews and their Christian allies to confront it on campuses, in classrooms, and across social media.

The Southern Transitional Council (STC), a secessionist group in Yemen, has seized control of the oil-rich provinces of Hadramout and Mahra, threatening to re-ignite the stalemated Yemeni civil war and potentially destabilize the region.

Israel’s Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday unveiled what they called a first-of-its-kind global parliamentary bid to nominate President Donald J. Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, declaring that “no one has ever deserved that honor more” and that “no person in the world has done more for peace over the past year.”

Federal officials are looking for a woman accused in a massive California fraud scheme wherein she allegedly posed as an heiress and got her hands on millions of dollars.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated his Syrian counterpart, former al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed al-Sharaa, on Monday on the occasion of the anniversary of the fall of former Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

On Monday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” NPR International Correspondent Aya Batrawy discussed her interview with Hamas leadership member Bassem Naim and stated that, in Hamas’ view, “the world witnessed these Israeli attacks in Gaza and that it turned

On Monday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” NPR International Correspondent Aya Batrawy discussed her interview with Hamas leadership member Bassem Naim and stated that the group is shifting its position on being armed “due to pressure from Israel’s continued

Former Miss Slovakia Miriam Mattova says a Toronto Uber driver slammed on the brakes and ordered her out of the car after overhearing her talk about a recent visit to Israel, telling her, “we don’t drive Jewish people,” in what she calls a “blatant act of antisemitism” that must carry real consequences.

“Fifty Shades of Grey” star Dakota Johnson said the art of cinema in the United States “feels really grim right now” while attending the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, believing a possible deal between Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery could lead to a “rebirth.”

Comedian, actor, and podcaster Michael Rapaport is infuriated by the Hollywood celebrities who signed onto a letter demanding that Israel release a convicted terrorist who is serving five life sentences for Second Intifada murders.

Multiple reports surfacing this weekend indicated that the government of Saudi Arabia has expanded access to alcohol sales, for decades banned as haram, to foreigners who can prove they make over $13,300 a month.

Israel and Hamas are “very shortly expected to move into the second phase of the ceasefire” after the terrorist group returns the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza. That was the confident prediction Sunday of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who acknowledged the opening step of President Donald Trump’s comprehensive 20-point ceasefire plan is close to fruition.

DOHA, Qatar — A top adviser to the highest levels of the Qatari government told Breitbart News on Sunday evening here at the Doha Forum it was a Breitbart News interview with the Prime Minister of Qatar at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) back in September that helped President Donald Trump land the deal that produced the ceasefire in Gaza that brought home the remaining living Israeli hostages from Hamas.

Hamas leader Khaled Mashal declared that “the resistance and its weapons are our honor and glory” and that “the battle is not over,” boasting that rights are won “at the recruitment office, not the U.N. Security Council” — a declaration that directly contradicts President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan and celebrates the October 7 “Al-Aqsa Flood” massacre as a turning point to push Israel off “our homeland” and the international stage.

Freed American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander returned this week to the Gaza border in IDF uniform and warned the Hamas terrorists who held him underground for 584 days that “you gave me hell — I’ll give you hell back,” saying his story “does not end with survival; it continues with service.”

U.S. Central Command has launched a new task force deploying America’s first one-way “suicide drone” squadron in the Middle East, saying the move “sets the conditions for using innovation as a deterrent” as Iran and its proxies escalate low-cost attacks across the region.