TEL AVIV — The recent arrest by Hamas security forces recently of one of the Islamic State’s more senior members in Gaza, 27-year-old Nur Issa, will not cause IS to “raise the white flag,” a senior Gaza Salafist associated with IS ideology told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Moroccan intellectual , human rights activist and secularist Ahmed Assid has met with a storm of anger on social media after claiming that there is no proof of the miracles described in the Quran and for criticizing the larger Muslim world for advancing in science or technology.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State terror organization has published what it claims are photos of Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of IS, purporting to show how the murderous group is forcing sharia law over those who live in their areas of control in Sinai, despite the war being waged against them by the Egyptian army.
The British government faces accusations of failing to represent the country’s national interests as it was revealed overnight that a cyber attack launched against parliamentary e-mails, previously blamed on Russia, actually came from the Iranian regime. Around 9,000 parliamentary e-mails
Republicans in the Senate and House praised President Trump’s decision on Friday to decertify the Iran nuclear deal and allow Congress to take on the matter.
The governments of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Yemen quickly expressed support for President Trump’s tough new approach to Iran.
Iran’s response to President Trump’s decertification of the nuclear deal, teased all week and finally made official on Friday, includes a mixture of belligerent rhetoric, ominous threats, and uncertainty about whether the deal can survive.
On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Tom Shillue Show,” Representative Steve King (R-IA) argued President Trump’s decertification of the Iran nuclear deal is a “strong” action that puts Congress in position to shelve the deal altogether. King said Trump’s
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has deployed 6,000 Peshmerga troops to the disputed Kirkuk region in Iraq, as Shiite militias have reportedly approached the city under the auspices of the government in Baghdad, which has rejected the KRG’s independence referendum.
In his keynote speech to the Texas National Security Forum at the University of Texas on Thursday, CIA Director Mike Pompeo called Iran a “thuggish police state” and “despotic theocracy” similar to the Islamic State.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – From its warmongering in Iraq, Syria, and to a degree in Yemen, to its meddling in Lebanon, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian territories and Turkey, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its terrorist proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, have caused chaos in the Middle East region since it came to power in 1979.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu applauded US President Donald Trump on Friday evening for deciding not to recertify the nuclear deal with Iran, which he has been openly opposing since its inception in 2015.
Voice of America reported on Thursday that “some U.S. officials see little downside to decertifying the Iran nuclear deal,” but the tenor of those quoted in the piece might be better described as, “decertifying the deal is not a big deal.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he has authorized the U.S. Department of Treasury to sanction Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization under terrorism Executive Order 13224; a move the leader of the free world said was “long overdue.”
A Baghdad court has reportedly issued arrest warrants for at least three Kurdish officials from northern Iraq’s autonomous region in an apparent attempt to coerce the Kurds to cancel the outcome of the overwhelming “yes” vote for independence.
TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Fatah movement has not demanded that Hamas recognize the state of Israel, Ahmad Guneim, a member of Fatah’s revolutionary council, told Breitbart Jerusalem just hours after it was announced that Hamas and Fatah had reached a reconciliation deal on Thursday.
TEL AVIV — A Coptic clergyman was murdered north of Cairo Thursday by an anonymous assailant.
TEL AVIV — Hamas has decided to hand the Palestinian Authority responsibility over “everything above ground” in the Gaza Strip, according to a report Thursday in the London-based international Saudi newspaper Al Hayat.
Staring imminent defeat in the face has been a turning point for many Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in Iraq and Syria, driving hundreds of them to surrender in the liberated town of Hawija while others continue to strive towards martyrdom as their only acceptable end in the group’s “capital” Raqqa.
Suspected Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists have reportedly carried out a sort of drive-by shooting assault early this month in Niger, killing four American troops and injuring two others in an attack that marks the first American combat casualties in the country, reports the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
PARIS – Two Arab candidates and France’s former culture minister vied to become the new head of the UN’s embattled culture and education agency on Friday, a day after the US quit the body, accusing it of anti-Israel bias.
Segregating boys from girls in a state-funded Muslim secondary school classroom is unlawful sex discrimination, a court has found.
German intelligence services have released a new report claiming that militant fighters from the extremist Hezbollah terrorist organisation were able to hide among asylum seekers during the height of the migrant crisis and smuggle themselves into Germany.
Hamas and Fatah declared December 1 as the deadline for the Palestinian Authority to take over the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
The United States announced Thursday it is pulling out of the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency because of what Washington sees as its anti-Israel bias and a need for “fundamental reform” in the agency. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel plans to follow suit.
Hamas has signed a reconciliation agreement with the Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in order that all Palestinian forces can “work together against the Zionist enterprise,” Saleh al-Arouri, the Hamas deputy political leader, said in Cairo on Thursday.
Turkey’s Culture Minister Numan Kurtulmus reported to his parliament on Tuesday that some 140,000 books have been removed from libraries for “including propaganda of FETO.” FETO stands for Fethullah Terrorist Organization, which is the Turkish government’s name for followers of exiled imam Fethullah Gulen.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which voted to secede from Iraq last month, warned on Twitter Wednesday that Erbil had intelligence that the government in Baghdad was planning a “major attack” on its military, the Peshmerga, in the disputed region of Kirkuk.
With the possibility of President Donald Trump formally designating Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization, the two top Iranian commanders praised their corps as terrorism fighters and accused the United States of providing material support to the Islamic State, including weapons.
The Hungarian government has called together key Christian leaders from the Middle East for a three-day conference in Budapest to discuss targeted assistance to persecuted Christians, in which leaders expressed their disappointment in President Trump’s failure to live up to
A source “familiar with the meeting” described President Trump as “furious” at Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and other advisers for defending the Iran nuclear deal in a July meeting, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
On Thursday, House Foreign Affairs chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) lauded the United States’s decision to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing the move as “unfortunate but appropriate” because of UNESCO’s anti-Israel bias.
The Russian government confirmed Thursday that President Vladimir Putin will visit Iran “before the end of this year” for a “trilateral Iran-Russia-Azerbaijan meeting.”
H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s embattled national security adviser, labeled the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks “mass murder attacks,” instead of calling them acts of terrorism.
The Prime Minister of Hungary has urged EU leaders to protect Christianity in Africa and the Middle East, or risk its destruction in Europe.
American and Turkish diplomats scramble to restore non-immigrant visa services in both nations, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken an aggressive approach. He asserted Thursday that Turkey is “not a tribal state” and told the United States, “We do not need you.”
Various Iranian officials have warned U.S. President Donald Trump against officially designating Iran’s hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, threatening a “crushing” response if he moves forward with the label.
Israeli government hackers have been revealed to be behind the discovery of National Security Agency (NSA) tools on Russian anti-virus company Kaspersky’s network.
The Iraqi government will attempt to reopen an oil pipeline into Turkey which bypasses the autonomous region of Kurdistan, the country’s oil ministry has announced.
NEW YORK – Iran is reportedly working to block the navigation app Waze because it was founded and developed in Israel, a report from the Azerbaijan-based Trend News Agency said.
