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The chief of staff to the Iranian regime’s “supreme leader” said on Tuesday that a US-Israeli “plot” to create a “second Israel” in Iraqi Kurdistan had been thwarted through the seizure of Kurdish territory by Iranian-backed forces over the last week.

TEL AVIV — An advisor to Iran’s foreign minister has promised to deliver anything requested by Hamas in the Gaza Strip during an interview with the pro-Iranian Lebanese television station Al Mayadeen.

More evidence gathered Tuesday that the Trump administration will pressure allies in the Middle East to close the Taliban’s “political office” in Doha, Qatar.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK), a leading member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Intelligence Committee, warned on Monday that the Iranian regime’s threats against Israel are growing through the expansion of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)’s political and military footprint across the Middle East.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s special Middle East negotiator Jason Greenblatt slammed Gaza-ruling terror group Hamas on Monday for bringing “ruin and misery” to the Palestinian people.

The Qatar blockade is working. It must remain crystal clear to the men of Doha that only real change, and not paid campaigns, will ever serve to rescue them.

Robert O’Neill, former Navy SEAL and author, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Tuesday regarding his new book, The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior.

Fresh reports claim that captured Swedish jihadis in Raqqa, Syria, may face execution, and according to a terrorism expert, it is unlikely the Swedish government will try to intervene.

TEL AVIV – An Iranian official lauded Hamas for vowing to continue its efforts toward the destruction of Israel during a meeting between officials of the Islamic Republic and the terror group in Tehran on Sunday.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s judiciary said a court sentenced an alleged agent for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency to death.

Riyadh – Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday vowed to restore “moderate, open” Islam in a kingdom known for its ultra-conservative rule.

Authorities in Germany are struggling to cope with the threat posed by Islamist terrorism, with police warning that the nation houses hundreds of extremists willing to carry out attacks.

ROME — Racist chants at every opportunity. A Lazio banner in the intra-city derby nearly 20 years ago aimed at Roma supporters that read: “Auschwitz Is Your Homeland; The Ovens Are Your Homes.”

An anti-terror training exercise drew the ire of Palestine’s most senior diplomat in Australia after vision was released showing mock terrorists in Palestinian-style garb pretending to stab commuters at a major railway station.

An Israeli defense expert has told a US news outlet the position of both US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran was “not shared by their professional advisers and intelligence communities.”

A Hezbollah-aligned Al-Mahdi Muslim center in Germany heard its leader urge supporters to wage “resistance” against the “enemy” state of Israel on Saturday.

JERUSALEM — Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews from a radical sect are again blocking roads in Jerusalem bringing traffic to a standstill and scuffling with police and passers-by.

Isis has killed at least 128 people in a Syrian town deep inside regime-held territory, a human rights monitor has said.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) spoke to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) on Friday about the danger posed by Iran and accused the U.S. State Department of listening to that dictatorship more than to those who seek a free and democratic Iran.

At least 10 members of a small jihadist faction linked to the Islamic State terror group were killed Monday in air strikes in southern Syria, a monitor said, blaming Israel but offering no evidence.

Steve Bannon told a Hudson Institute audience Monday that Trump’s “America First” stance does not mean that he is an isolationist.

A senior leader within the Iran-backed Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah has described the invasion of Kurdish-held Kirkuk, Iraq, as “a victory over the U.S. and Israel,” referring to the attack as “our victory” specifically.

Several gay dating apps have issued warnings and tips to users in majority-Muslim Egypt, where the LGBT community is currently facing persecution.

Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate for December’s Senate special election in Alabama, found himself at the center of the hot-button issue of transgender people and the use of bathrooms and locker rooms in public schools after a video emerged Monday in which Jones discussed the topic.

Breitbart News Executive Chairman and former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon will address countering violent extremism at a Hudson Institute counterterrorism conference in Washington, DC, Monday.

“Iranian militias that are in Iraq, now that the fight against Daesh and ISIS is coming to a close, those militias need to go home. The foreign fighters in Iraq need to go home and allow the Iraqi people to regain control,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday.

The only LGBT club in majority-Muslim nation Kyrgyzstan has closed following an increase in anti-LGBT abuse.

The Islamic State (ISIS) killed at least 128 people in a Syrian town deep inside territory controlled by the Assad regime, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Monday.

U.S.-allied fighters in Syria have begun the arduous work of documenting the devastation in Raqqa, the former Islamic State “capital” that the jihadist group has left in near-total destruction.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-Arab coalition supported by the U.S. government, captured Syria’s largest oil field from the Islamic State on Sunday.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived outside Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday for an unannounced visit.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem has for the first time recognized an Arab for the title of “Righteous Among the Nations” over his bravery in rescuing Jews in Nazi Berlin.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s standing at the United Nations is slowly improving as that of the Palestinians is on the wane, the country’s envoy to the world body said in an interview published by the Hebrew newspaper Makor Rishon on Friday.

BERLIN — The German government says it’s ready to sign an agreement on three new submarines for Israel that would go into service starting in 2027.

Three Palestinians went missing from a tunnel between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in mysterious circumstances on Monday, authorities in the Islamist Hamas-run territory said.

Authorities in Austria discovered a number of radical Islamist “hate books” in a prison library leading to fears Muslim inmates are being actively radicalised by hate preachers.