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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has defended Iran from having any responsibility over three Americans who disappeared from Baghdad last week.

The Jerusalem Post reports: “Jihadi John,” the nom de guerre of Mohammed Emwazi, the executioner featured in the ghastly beheading videos of James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Haines, Alan Henning, Peter Kassig, Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto is dead. Emwazi was

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) has claimed responsibility for a bombing attack that resulted in the deaths of nine people, which occurred in Egypt’s capital city of Cairo.

Four rich Pakistani Muslim men allegedly killed a Christian girl after she shrugged off their sexual advances.

Mirna Hana, 12, fled the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) for Lebanon months ago. She took her talents to the national program The Voice Kids, where she stunned the judges with her breathtaking renditions of “Yesterday in a Dream” and “Let It Go.”

The grand mufti of Sunni Saudi Arabia has ruled that Islam prohibits chess because it leads to gambling in addition to a squandering of time and money.

A Wisconsin manufacturing plant made a policy announcement affecting prayer time for its 53 Muslims employees, prompting the Muslim employees to claim “discrimination.”

Ali Muhammad Brown, who has been accused of killing four individuals in New Jersey and Washington State, was inspired to do so by the Islamic State terrorist organization, state prosecutors in New Jersey said Wednesday, noting he kept a journal that expressed such thoughts. Notably, the Islamic State’s rise to infamy occurred within the same time frame as Brown’s alleged murders.

“Two Corinthians 3:17,” said Donald Trump, misstating the traditional way American Christians most commonly refer to the Apostle Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians.

Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah and Abd Al Aziz Abduh Abdallah Ali Al Suwaydi have been released from Guantánamo Bay detention camp, bringing the detainee total at the facility down to 91 individuals.

Christians in Cameroon gathered around mosques to protect Muslims near the Nigerian border from Boko Haram attacks.

A former marketing executive for textbook publishing giant Pearson Education reveals the anti-American agenda behind Common Core and the Advanced Placement U.S. History framework in the third video of a series produced by Project Veritas and focused on the corporate cronyism behind the education reform known as Common Core.

TEL AVIV – The head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church declared that Christians love Muslims and no one defends Islam more than Arab Christians, MEMRI reported.  In an interview earlier this month with the official Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, Gregory

Survivors at Bacha Khan University have called Professor Syed Hamid Hussain a “martyr” after he fired back at Taliban jihadists storming the school, allowing his students to flee to safety.

Several pages in the 13th issue of the Islamic State’s (IS) Dabiq propaganda monthly magazine are devoted to calling for the killing of Shia Muslims.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) released a report estimating the slave population of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) in Iraq at 3,500.

A tenured Kent State University professor is under federal investigation for alleged involvement with the Islamic State terrorist organization. Both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are investigating the matter.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)’s latest issue of Dabiq does not disregard its female readers, publishing a piece with advice for widows of jihadists. Various female jihadists write the article for the section “To Our Sisters.” The author of this issue provides the article with a more tame voice than previous issues.

With Iran set to receive tens of billions of dollars as part of its reported compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreed upon in July, the regime will use its newly-obtained cash to fund “nefarious activities,” Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir warned on Tuesday.

Taliban members in Pakistan have claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on a university in the northern region.

Egypt’s Prime Minister Sherif Ismail revoked the Egyptian citizenship of 22-year-old Dina Ovadia because she moved to Israel and joined the IDF, Ynet reported.  Born and raised in the city of Alexandria in Egypt, Ovadia moved to Jerusalem following an

TEL AVIV – The mother-in-law of a pregnant woman stabbed and wounded by a teenage Palestinian terrorist on Monday said hours after the attack that Israel was “mishandling” relations with the Palestinians.  The stabbing victim’s father-in-law was the late Rabbi Menachem Froman, who

The Jerusalem Post reported: Vandals spray-painted hate graffiti on the Istipol Synagogue in Istanbul just days after a one time prayer service was held, the first to be held in 65 years, the Turkish publication Today’s Zaman reported Tuesday. Following a

An Afghan man fled to seek the support of the Taliban after he chopped off his wife’s nose in northern Faryab province.

A 15-year-old boy in the Pakistani village of Hujra Shah Muqeem has cut off his own hand after the local imam called him a “blasphemer” during a sermon. Even more horrifying, the boy’s neighbors, and even his own father, are hailing him as a hero for mutilating himself in the name of Islam.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has started auctioning off property belonging to Christians in Mosul, Iraq, as a way to raise funds.

Deja-vu. It is not an English word, but French. However, the word immediately springs to mind when hearing about yet another Western politician or Islam critic, whom some British politicians want to ban from entering their country. Welcome, Donald Trump, in the company of Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and myself.

David Cameron has backed rules that would allow public officials to ban women from wearing full face veils in certain venues where identity and personal recognition are important. “Proper and sensible,” says the prime minister regarding a proposal that would see Muslim

Beloved American missionary Michael Riddering, 45, from Florida, perished in the al-Qaeda attack in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

An “investigative journalist” on Iran’s state-run PressTV Monday claimed to have discovered why the Obama Administration is both offering sanctions relief to the Ayatollah’s Islamic Republic while also imposing a new round of sanctions on Tehran: “Jewish neocons.”

Long known for its indifference to religion, Britain continues to become less and less religious, with a record 46 per cent of the UK adult population now espousing no religion whatsoever. A new survey by researchers at Lancaster University reveals

Reports have emerged from Syria that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has abducted at least 400 civilians from Deir ez-Zor, Syria, after a mass beheading that took more than 100 lives.

It was perhaps inevitable, when you note the wilful and lazy underreporting by Britain’s mainstream media of issues pertaining to radical Islam, that when a vocal critic came along, people’s first instincts would be to call him a “racist” and

Turkey has an official directorate in charge of interpreting Islamic law, popularly known as the Diyanet. It has a website where people ask questions about various aspects of Islamic law. The website recently stirred up controversy by issuing a fatwa, or religious ruling, which asserted that fathers having lustful feelings toward their own daughters are not necessarily violating religious law, provided the girl is over nine years of age.

TEL AVIV – In a horrific scene, a Palestinian terrorist broke into a civilian home and murdered an Israeli woman in front of her children. The terrorist attack took place in the West Bank Jewish community of Otniel, in the South Hebron Hills region.

Mystery still surrounds the couple that carried out the Islamic terror attacks in San Bernardino that killed 14, and the FBI is still haunted by questions. Were there accomplices and what was planned for unused bombs found in the couple’s apartment?