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Hamas militants have “arrested” a dolphin that the Islamist group claims is armed and was spying on behalf of Israel, becoming the latest example of a non-human that has been arrested by Islamic authorities and charged as a spy for Israel’s Mossad.

Moscow is close to inking an agreement that would expedite the transfer of several of its S-300 missile units to Iran, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said Tuesday, Iran’s state-media reported. The air-defense batteries will help extensively to secure Iran’s military and nuclear sites against airstrikes.

As Europe’s migrant crisis continues to worsen, Turkey has stood out as the country that continues to be targeted as a bridge to the continent, largely due to its geographic location.

CHARLES CITY, VIRGINIA— A campaign led by supporters of the Iran deal was supposed to make its way Monday into the rural Virginia district held by Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), but nobody showed up.

About 100 people participated in a Washington, D.C. rally in front of the White House Saturday in support of the nuclear accord with Iran. The rally brought together a mixture of peaceniks, idealists, and even some extremists.

HuffPostArabi, the new Arabic edition of the Huffington Post, has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. Routinely condemned by both the right and left; the site–led by former Al Jazeera editors and Muslim Brotherhood supporters–has drawn support from the Huffington Post’s Washington Bureau Chief, Ryan Grim, who has taken to explaining “Why We’re in The Middle East.”

Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) told Breitbart News on Friday that he firmly rejects the nuclear accord with Iran, pointing out that proponents of the deal are engaging in character assassination and bully tactics.

Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) announced on Thursday that he will vote against the Iran nuclear deal.

U.S. President Barack Obama is set to host an anti-Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) “countering violent extremism” summit next month in New York, just one year following his vow during a United Nations speech to destroy ISIS.

In the eyes of retiring Army General Raymond Odierno, Russia poses the most “dangerous” threat to the national security interests of the United States, the outgoing Army chief of staff said Wednesday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif met Wednesday in Lebanon with Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah, in which the two discussed how the nuclear deal recently agreed upon between Iran and the United States and world powers creates an opportunity for Tehran’s regional allies to “face threats posed by the Zionist entity,” Hezbollah’s Al Manar media outlet reported.

After visiting Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah earlier in the day, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif touched down in Damascus on Wednesday, where he reunited with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

The Taliban is running wild in Kabul, killing and maiming Afghan soldiers on a daily basis, and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told a national audience Monday night that neighboring Pakistan is partly to blame for the chaos in his country.

A recently-arrested Hamas jihadi has revealed that his U.S.-designated terrorist organization plans to continue to build underground tunnels, while using them to launch clandestine attacks against the State of Israel.

Secretary of State John Kerry warned Tuesday that the U.S. Dollar may “cease” to be the world’s reserve currency should Congress vote to re-apply sanctions to the dictatorial Islamic regime in Tehran.

The two men leading Huffington Post’s new Arabic-language site have in the past been accused of having direct involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and radical clerics; and one has openly expressed disturbing and conspiratorial anti-Semitic views.

A massive wave of assaults carried out by the Taliban in Afghanistan over the weekend–and continuing into Monday–has resulted in hundreds of casualties, including the death of a U.S. Special Forces operator.

Iran’s Friday Prayers Leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani, a radical Shiite cleric whose position grants him enormous influence in Tehran and who is appointed directly by Iran’s Supreme Leader, called on Friday for the Muslim nations of the world to “unite and expel the Zionists from this region.”

After visiting Iran, Left-wing journalist Reese Erlich has concluded in his piece, “Iran’s Jewish community gets behind nuclear deal with the US,” that there is little to no dissent among Iran’s Jews on the supposed positive implications of the Iran nuclear deal.

In blatant violation of the United Nations Security Council restrictions concerning his overseas travel, Iranian General Qasem Soleimani traveled to Russia to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin last month, multiple reports have confirmed.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is expected to announce tomorrow that he opposes the nuclear accord President Obama negotiated with the Ayatollah’s regime in Iran. Schumer, as the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, wields heavy influence over his caucus, whose representatives have been split over the deal thus far.

Carly Fiorina, a Republican candidate for President and former Chief Executive of Hewlett Packard, showed superior prowess on national security issues when compared to her competitors on the debate stage during Thursday’s “happy hour” debate on Fox News.

In direct contrast to the Muslim Brotherhood regime that ruled Egypt just a couple of years ago, the new government in Cairo under Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has built a cordial relationship with the Jewish people and has remained an honest broker in negotiating mutually beneficial agreements with the State of Israel.

Add Hillary Clinton mega-donor and billionaire philanthropist Haim Saban to the list of liberal democrats who oppose the nuclear deal with Iran.

An executive branch official told a Senate panel on Wednesday that the United States would not respond to a “small breach” of the Iranian nuclear agreement, should Tehran decide to forgo its commitment to the accord.

China has made a public appeal to the United States for help in controlling radical Islamic movements in the country’s Xinjiang region, saying that the Islamist groups are connected to the global jihadist network that seek to carry out attacks in the West.

In a meeting with American Jewish leaders on Tuesday, President Obama reportedly predicted that if Congress were to reject the nuclear accord that his administration signed with the Iranian regime, the result would entail Tehran’s proxy, Hezbollah, proxy firing rockets at Tel Aviv, according to multiple reports citing sources from the meeting with the President.

Iranian ‘Supreme Leader,” the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has released a new Persian-language book, titled Palestine, in which he reveals his regime’s plans to conquer America and Israel. On the back cover, Khamenei is described as “the flagbearer of Jihad to liberate Jerusalem,” the New York Post’s Amir Taheri, who obtained a copy of the book, reported this weekend.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the American Jewish community in a live webcast Wednesday, making the case for why the nuclear accord between the Iranian regime and world powers is a deal that dangers Israel’s existence as a sovereign state.

Iran is not only the world’s leading state-sponsor of terrorism, its revolutionary Islamic government also leads the pack when it comes to trafficking boys and girls for sexual exploitation, the U.S. State Department has said in its 2015 “Trafficking in Persons Report.”

In the wake of a tragic terrorist attack that resulted in the death of an Arab infant in the West Bank, the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group has called for suicide attacks against IDF soldiers, Israeli Jewish citizens, and Palestinian “traitors and collaborators.”

U.S. officials announced Sunday that the Pentagon will defend American-trained Syrian rebels against attacks from the Syrian Armed Forces – the military forces controlled by Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Damascus.

Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Qatar late Sunday for talks with the Gulf Cooperation Council–a Sunni Arab bloc consisting of 6 gulf states–that largely focused on the Iran nuclear deal struck between world powers and the regime in Tehran last month.

Javad Zarif, the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, called on Friday for world powers to unilaterally dismantle their nuclear weapons, while specifically demanding that Israel also follow suit.

Samir Kuntar, a Hezbollah commander who became a hero in the Middle East after allegedly murdering a 4-year-old Israeli Jewish girl, has reportedly been killed in an Israeli Air Force strike on his position in Syria.

The U.S. State Department said in a press release Wednesday that it is “deeply concerned” that Israel continues to build apartments in disputed areas of Jerusalem and the West Bank.