TEL AVIV – Russia’s decision to withdraw some of its forces from Syria was made thanks to reassurances provided by Saudi Arabia, the main sponsor of militias fighting President Bashar Assad’s regime, a senior Arab diplomat told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV, Israel – Sham Maher Assad, Syrian President Bashar Assad’s niece, has claimed on Facebook that Russia’s announced military withdrawal from her war-torn country is not as significant as it seems. On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin unexpectedly ordered the withdrawal of most of his military forces from Syria.
TEL AVIV – Hamas has succumbed to its supporters’ pressure to crack down on the Iran-backed Al Sabireen militia, despite Hamas’ dependence on Tehran’s financial support. Al Sabireen’s members are seen in the predominantly Sunni Gaza Strip not only as Iranian
With little fanfare and almost no news media attention, some of the same radical groups involved in shutting down Donald Trump’s Chicago rally last week are plotting a mass civil disobedience movement to begin next month.
TEL AVIV – Al-Qaeda’s recent gains in Yemen attest to the failure of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy, said an Arab intelligence official who spoke to Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Fatah and Hamas have been engaged in a media war over the perpetrator of Monday’s car-ramming attack in the West Bank that left three Israeli soldiers lightly wounded. Both groups are claiming the attacker as a member.
TEL AVIV – A barrage of rockets was fired at Israel over the weekend and another one was launched on Monday in what seems to be a power struggle between Hamas and Salafi movements. Salafi militants allied with the Islamic State fired the rockets in protest of Hamas’ clampdown on jihadi groups, the Gazan-based Salafi leader Abu Ayna Al-Ansari told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – On Monday, a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip aimed at nearby Israeli communities. At 11:52 Jerusalem time, the Israel Defense Forces sent the following statement to news agencies here, including Breitbart Jerusalem: Moments ago a
One of the radical groups that helped to shut down Donald Trump’s Chicago rally has long maintained a close relationship with Sen. Bernie Sanders.
TEL AVIV, Israel – The Islamic State’s leadership in Syria and Iraq has criticized ties between its affiliate in Sinai and the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, Salafi jihadist sources in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – An Islamic State faction in Sinai has been making gains against the Egyptian army and setting up autonomous enclaves in the peninsula, a Salafi militant source in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem. He claimed that the Arab and international media collude with the Egyptian army to downplay IS victories. IS, said the source, has driven troops out of the strategic Sinai towns of Sheik Zweid and Al Arish.
In recent months, hysterical opponents of Donald Trump have stoked fears about his candidacy by likening the billionaire to Hitler, raising questions about his mental health, attempting to tie him to the Ku Klux Klan, claiming he may pose a nuclear threat, and warning that a Trump presidency will disrupt international diplomacy and the world order.
TEL AVIV – Hamas is facing accusations of cronyism for giving preference to its own members during the very limited periods the Rafah Crossing, the Gaza Strip’s only gateway to the outside world, is open. In 2015, the crossing was open for 26 days
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj.-Gen. Yoav Morechai, warned in an interview with the Palestinian news media this past week that Hamas and the Islamic State are cooperating, with Hamas fighters engaging in jihad in the Egyptian Sinai and IS sending their wounded to receive medical treatment in Gaza.
TEL AVIV – U.S. citizens visiting Israel should maintain a heightened sense of alert, the U.S. diplomatic missions in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem warned in a statement “During the last few months, and in particular over the past several days,
TEL AVIV – In exclusive interviews, Islamic extremists in Gaza welcomed Tuesday’s stabbing rampage in Jaffa that left one American tourist dead and at least eleven people wounded, some seriously. The American victim was identified as Vanderbilt graduate student Taylor Force, 29, a U.S. military veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
TEL AVIV – Superintendent Micky Rosenfeld, foreign press spokesman for the Israel Police, says he does not believe there is any connection between the increase in attacks in the last 24 hours and Vice President Joe Biden’s visit here at the same
TEL AVIV – With U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visiting Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Wednesday that the Jewish state will complete construction of the country’s security barrier in Jerusalem and the southern West Bank.
TEL AVIV – Russia has exploited the United States’ near-complete absence in Syria to wield its influence beyond President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, including to the heretofore Western-backed Syrian opposition, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem. The Russian-controlled Hmeimim airbase,
The Jerusalem Post reports: Vanderbilt graduate student Taylor Force, 29, was killed Tuesday evening by a Palestinian terrorist who went on a stabbing rampage in Jaffa in which 12 other people were wounded. “This horrific act of violence has robbed
Citing defense officials here, the Jerusalem Post reported Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel “may have served as the trigger for Palestinian assailants to commit attacks against Israelis on Tuesday.” The Post provided no further information on the matter. An
TEL AVIV – An American tourist was killed and at least eight others wounded, three seriously, in terrorist stabbing attacks perpetrated by the same individual at two locations in Jaffa, the port city located just south of Tel Aviv. The attacks took place as U.S. President Joe Biden was in Jaffa, speaking at the Peres Center for Peace, Breitbart Jerusalem has confirmed.
Speaking yesterday on “Fox News Sunday,” Washington Post columnist George Will observed that Donald Trump has been doing well in “open” primary contests and he argued the Republican Party is “going to have to rethink the business of having open primaries and caucuses.”
TEL AVIV – Behind the scenes, Hamas has told Hezbollah that it rejects a resolution passed last week by a panel of Gulf states that designated the Lebanese militia a terrorist organization, a Hamas source told Breitbart Jerusalem. Unlike other Palestinian
TEL AVIV – An immensely influential Saudi columnist ranked the US presidential candidates on his Twitter account, offering insight into how this year’s election season may be perceived by Sunni Muslim elites across the Arab world. Khaled Eldakhil, a columnist for the London-based Al Hayat pan-Arab newspaper and a sociology professor at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia, tweeted: “For the Arabs, the worst candidates are first and foremost Donald Trump, who is a racist demagogue, and then Ted Cruz, one of the most radical neoconservatives in the Republican Party.”
TEL AVIV – The last batch of Hillary Clinton’s private emails, released on Monday and reviewed in full by this reporter, evidences a close personal and professional relationship with the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress, or CAP. The organization
TEL AVIV – In perhaps one of the most ironic Hillary Clinton emails to be publicly released, Clinton expressed surprise that a State Department employee would be using a personal email account for work-related correspondence.
TEL AVIV – Jordanian authorities are looking into an alleged plan by Islamic State militants to conquer the Jordanian town of Irbid near the Syrian border, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem. Four jihadi militants and a Jordanian security officer were killed early on Wednesday when troops clashed with gunmen in the kingdom’s second-largest city.
TEL AVIV – An alarming exchange between Hillary Clinton and one of her top deputies reveals Clinton’s private email server may have had significant technical or security-related issues. The exchange with former US Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and
TEL AVIV – James Stavridis, who led the 2011 intervention in Libya as NATO’s 16th Supreme Allied Commander, used unusual terminology to express his hope that the United Arab Emirates would step up its involvement in the Libya war. In an email
TEL AVIV – An email sent to Hillary Clinton’s private server was clearly marked “Sensitive Security Information,” a designation that allows information to be sent to private email accounts only “under unique and urgent circumstances,” Breitbart Jerusalem has found.
TEL AVIV – Ongoing violence in the West Bank combined with recent initiatives by Iran and its proxy terrorist group Hezbollah may motivate Fatah members to resume their armed struggle against Israel, a senior Palestinian security source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – During a military parade last week, Hamas unveiled an antiaircraft weapon and this week it published images of the Soviet-made, twin-barreled 23 mm autocannon.
TEL AVIV – Internal messages obtained by Breitbart Jerusalem show Islamic State supporters celebrated the deadly suicide attacks carried out by the organization’s operatives in a Shi’ite part of Baghdad on Sunday, rejoicing in the death and injury of “more than 100 infidels.”
The New York Times reports Democratic groups supporting Hillary Clinton are preparing a several-point plan to defeat Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions.
An email containing the whereabouts and plans of murdered U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens passed through Hillary Clinton’s private server, dispatches released Monday in the final group of messages from Clinton’s emails reveal. The email was actually first released last May but was
TEL AVIV, Israel – Turkey fears that Russia’s growing involvement in the Syrian civil war on behalf of Bashar al-Assad’s regime may push the Syrian president to claim the disputed border region of Iskenderun, a senior Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has turned to yet another Israel critic for foreign policy advice, this time a former U.S. official who espoused the conspiracy theory that Israel may have carried out chemical attacks in Syria as a false-flag operation against the Assad regime.
TEL AVIV – As a presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton has been making great efforts to distance herself from the disastrous consequences of the U.S.-NATO intervention in Libya in 2011. A lengthy article published on the cover of Sunday’s New York Times details Clinton’s central role in convincing President Obama to join the effort to topple Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, leaving Libya, as the Times puts it, a “failed state and a terrorist haven.”
TEL AVIV – 1,500 pages of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails provide insight into the level of support the U.S. was considering in 2012 for Egypt’s newly elected Muslim Brotherhood government.
