The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has labeled Al Jazeera’s Islamabad bureau chief as an al-Qaeda terrorist, according to files leaked by former NSA contractor-turned-defector Edward Snowden.
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a jihadist group formally affiliated with the Islamic State, has claimed responsibility for two mortar shells launched at Hamas targets in Gaza. The attack follows a growing war of words triggered by mass arrests of ISIS supporters by the Palestinian terror group.
An Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate accused Hamas of destroying one of its mosques in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the Jerusalem Post reports.
A group calling itself Supporters of the Islamic State in Jerusalem has continued to challenge the Gaza-ruling Palestinian entity Hamas. The ISIS-linked Salafists are attempting to stir enough discontent in the Palestinian territory to pose a challenge to the rival jihadi outfit.
Jimmy Carter blames Netanyahu for failure of Mideast peace negotiations; European Union in disarray over big surge in migrants this weekend; Saudi Arabia denies reports of Saudi ground troops in Yemen
The UK Taxpayer is to fund the British tour of a play which sympathetically portrays the actions of Palestinian terrorists who killed Israeli citizens. Jewish leaders have reacted angrily, saying that they are “extremely concerned” that the play promotes “terrorism
TEL AVIV, Jerusalem — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter visited Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas this weekend at his headquarters in Ramallah, and declared that Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal is not a “terrorist.” Carter said that he would not meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because it was a “waste of time,” and that Meshaal not only wanted a “peace process,” but would commit to recognizing Israel as part of a deal brokered by Saudi Arabia.
Hamas, the radical Islamist entity which rules the Gaza Strip, carried out mass beatings and arrests to shut down a protest on Wednesday.
The State Department announced Monday that the U.S. is providing an immediate $6 million dollars of funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), an organization that has been accused of aiding and abetting Palestinian terrorist groups.
Former U.S. Democratic President Jimmy Carter will travel to the Gaza Strip on Thursday and meet with officials from Hamas, the Jihadist terror organization that rules the Palestinian territory.
Israeli tanks fired upon a “terror site” in north Gaza in retaliation for an unprovoked rocket attack from the Palestinian territory into southern Israel late Thursday.
A “global education” workshop for high school students given by a Boston University group and reportedly compliant with the Common Core standards encourages Jewish students to empathize with Hamas and teaches that the United States’ use of military drones is terrorism.
Iran has sought to take advantage of a discord between the military and political wings of Hamas, with hopes to further expand Tehran’s sphere of influence into the thick of battles between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group.
A pro-Hamas conference is slated to take place in Germany next weekend, just days after Israel celebrated its 67th year of independence as a Jewish state. The Berlin conference has come under fire from human rights supporters because Hamas, which openly seeks the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people, shares anti-Semitic goals that were also commonly expressed by Nazi Germany.
Palestinian factions ‘unity’ talks in crisis, near collapse; ISIS and Yemen force yet another realignment of the Mideast
Pamela Geller, the president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), won a major victory on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge John Koeltl ruled that New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) must allow AFDI’s new ad that quotes Hamas TV saying “Killing Jews is Worship that draws us close to Allah” to run on its subway cars and buses.
Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin have declined a request to meet former Democratic President Jimmy Carter when he is due to visit Israel in the next few weeks.
Continuing its tradition of providing a propaganda platform for America’s enemies, the New York Times has published an op-ed by Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif in which he demands that the United States choose “between cooperation and confrontation, between negotiations and grandstanding, and between agreement and coercion.” Enjoying the freedom of expression his government denies to its opponents, Zarif argues that the West should work with it toward regional peace.
Hamas, the terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip, has taken to using sophisticated machinery to rapidly build up its tunnel network into Israel, according to sources who told the Times of Israel.
In March, an Israeli documentary exposed Hamas’s use of trained child soldiers, which is against international law. Now, one month later, the Hamas Interior Ministry itself proudly displayed a picture of a 5-year-old soldier on their Facebook page.
The Hamas leadership in Gaza has been unable to rebuild any of the homes destroyed in last summer’s war with Israel, but the terrorist group has had little trouble using heavy machinery to restore its vast tunnel networks that can be used in future attacks.
Gaza prepares for all-out war with Israel; Iran and Qatar give Hamas money and weapons to fight Israel; Israel prepares for war with Hamas in Gaza; Greece denies reports that it’s preparing for a default
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that his forces are readying for war against Israel in an interview with Syrian state-television on Monday.
Members of a Palestinian faction linked to the terror group Hamas, backed by Syrian rebels, were able to retake large parts of a refugee camp in Syria that had been seized by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists, according to a monitoring group.
Once, Robert Malley was too radical for the Obama campaign, or for the White House. The Middle East scholar, widely seen as anti-Israel, reportedly met with the terrorist group Hamas and encouraged the United States to do the same. Then, in February, President Barack Obama appointed Malley as a senior director at the National Security Council. Today, Malley is advising Secretary of State John Kerry in Lausanne, Switzerland as he negotiates with Iran over a nuclear deal.
