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Notorious hate preacher Abu Walaa, described as the Islamic State group’s de facto leader in Germany, goes on trial Tuesday accused of radicalizing young men and running a jihadist terror network linked to the Berlin Christmas market attacker.

British police are under “unsustainable” pressure due to the nation’s fight against mostly Islamist terror, the head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council has said.

Prosecutors investigating the April slaying of a Jewish woman by her neighbor said for the first time that her killing was an anti-Semitic hate crime.

American computer hardware behemoth IBM Watson is buying Israeli start-up Cloudigo, its founder said on LinkedIn over Rosh Hashana weekend.

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) official TV station this week re-aired a sermon by an imam in an educational position in which he claims that late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would celebrate his birthday by urging Israelis to murder ten Palestinian children “before the end of the day.”

Convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Yousef Odeh was greeted by relatives and radical supporters upon her arrival in Amman, Jordan, last week, and she received a warm send-off from her radical devotees in Chicago, Illinois, before she was deported and barred for life from re-entering the United States.

Widely feared risks of “unrest” expressed by the United States and other countries opposed to the independence referendum held by northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) failed to materialize Monday, the day of the vote.

U.S. Defense Jim Mattis is not planning to visit Pakistan during his ongoing trip to South Asia where he hopes to enhance America’s growing military relationship with India, a decision that is expected to draw the ire of New Delhi’s regional rival Islamabad.

The pharmaceutical industry, which has financially backed Luther Strange’s political career, doesn’t care about whether Americans become addicted to dangerous prescription painkillers, charged Breitbart News reporter Aaron Klein in a radio segment.

As voters at home wait for President Donald Trump to deliver on signature campaign promises, the Kurds – key allies hoping for change from Obama’s disastrous policies – now have a reason for disappointment.

A Brussels police officer has been arrested after authorities caught him handing over information to a terror cell who were under criminal investigation.

TEL AVIV – The normalization of diplomatic relations between Bahrain and Israel may be announced in the near future, Bahraini and Western officials were quoted as saying over the weekend.

TEL AVIV – In a rare move, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu will visit Israel in October and meet with his counterpart Avigdor Lieberman to discuss the Jewish state’s security concerns in Syria.

LONDON (AP) – British police have arrested a 20-year-old man in Wales in connection to the recent bomb attack on the London subway. Police said Monday the suspect is being questioned at a south London police station under the Terrorism

UNITED NATIONS – Syria’s foreign minister told world leaders Saturday that his country is “marching steadily” toward the goal of rooting out terrorism—and “victory is now within reach.”

Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah will travel to the Gaza Strip on October 2 as part of renewed reconciliation efforts with Hamas, which runs the enclave, his government said Monday.

Doctors say an Egyptian once known as “the world’s heaviest woman” has died in a hospital in the United Arab Emirates. She was 37.

If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was handed the public opinion polls that ran in the weekend newspapers when he arrived home from the United Nations General Assembly, he probably had a relatively relaxing holiday.

ZAKA volunteers in Mexico on Saturday found the body of Rabbi Haim Ashkenazi, the Israeli-based rescue and recovery organization confirmed.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday defended his country’s latest ballistic missile test in defiance of Western and Israeli criticism, saying the controversial program served the Islamic Republic’s defensive needs.

Former Palestinian chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said Sunday he is awaiting a lung transplant in the United States, after several years of battling pulmonary fibrosis.

TEL AVIV — Hamas has suffered another embarrassment after three of its members purportedly successfully infiltrated the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday and joined Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State.

NEW YORK — During a period he served as Alabama Attorney General, Luther Strange received more campaign contributions than any other U.S .attorney general from members of a controversial lobby group peddling the dangerous prescription pain medication business amid an ongoing opioid crisis in Alabama.

Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, John Bolton says he thinks President Donald Trump should decertify the Iran nuclear deal prior to the October 15 deadline.

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard has displayed the country’s sophisticated Russian-made S-300 air defense system in central Tehran.

TEL AVIV – An Iraqi cleric recently said Muslims should imitate the Jewish people and praised them for having emerged from the Holocaust to win the “respect of the world through science,” while Muslims are seen as “the world’s headache.”

TEL AVIV – Israel is working to prevent the Palestinian Authority’s latest campaign to become a full member state in international bodies, this time by blocking its lobby to join Interpol.

A Syrian asylum seeker who shared videos of Iraqi soldiers being executed and jihadists preparing for a suicide mission on Facebook was jailed for two years on Friday.

Failed asylum seeker Hussein Yusef, who came to the UK as a child migrant, was jailed for six and half years on Friday after becoming a propagandist for Islamic State.

BEIRUT (AP) — Iran is working to restore a lost link in its network of alliances in the Middle East, trying to bring Hamas fully back into the fold after the Palestinian militant group had a bitter fall-out with Iranian ally Syria over that country’s civil war.

NEW YORK — Iraq’s foreign minister asked nuclear countries for help building a nuclear reactor Saturday, over 35 years after Israeli jets destroyed the country’s first attempt to build a nuclear program.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun has dismissed claims that Hezbollah should be disarmed as long as Israel “fails to respect” UN resolutions and international law.

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Saturday called an Iranian test of a missile that could reach Israel a “provocation” to the United States and a threat to the entire free world.

An Israeli rescue delegation was greeted with spontaneous applause in the streets of a Mexican town Friday, in a show of gratitude for the team’s efforts to aid in the search for survivors following a devastating earthquake Tuesday.

Hundreds of women thronged a sports stadium for the first time to mark Saudi Arabia’s national day Saturday, celebrated across the conservative kingdom with a raucous display of concerts, folk dance and fireworks.

NBC News reports: A private cybersecurity firm has identified what it says is a hacking group sponsored by the Iranian government that has targeted organizations in the U.S., the Middle East and Asia.