Pressed in Iraq and Syria, Islamic State Lashes out in Egypt
The twin bombings of churches in Egypt suggest that Islamic State group jihadists are lashing out as they find themselves coming under increasing pressure in Iraq and Syria, analysts say.

The twin bombings of churches in Egypt suggest that Islamic State group jihadists are lashing out as they find themselves coming under increasing pressure in Iraq and Syria, analysts say.

One Israeli was killed and another lightly wounded in a car ramming attack on Thursday morning near at a bus stop on Route 60, just outside of the Ofra settlement, according to initial reports.

Palestinian collaborators with Israel will be executed in “the coming days”, Hamas-appointed Attorney General Ismail Jaber said on Wednesday, two weeks after Hamas blamed Israel and collaborators of assassinating Mazen Fukaha.

Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) talked with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam regarding Susan Rice, the Gorsuch nomination, and terrorism on Wednesday.

A video of a woman has surfaced on an anonymous YouTube channel claiming not only to be the lover of former Hezbollah military leader Mustafa Badreddine, but also that the terrorist leader was murdered by his own terror organization.

Hamas has started investigating its own officials in an attempt to establish the security malfunctions that gave way to the assassination of top militant Mazen Faqha last week, a senior official in the movement told Breitbat Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Hamas has completed the investigation of dozens of expats in Gaza, including American nationals, and found no evidence connecting them to the assassination of a senior militant in its military wing, a senior official in the movement told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Hamas’ prime minister in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh vowed “divine punishment”on Saturday for the assassins of military wing operative Mazen Faqha last week, and said his group was preparing “radical measures” against Palestinians caught collaborating with Israel.

While Hamas’s terror tunnels and its reportedly refilled and upgraded rocket arsenal garner attention, the Israeli Navy is keeping a watchful eye on the terror group’s growing maritime capabilities and is investing its resources in preventing attacks “at sea and from the sea,” a naval officer said.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on world powers to increase aid to help people fleeing the Iraqi city of Mosul which government forces have been battling to retake from Islamic State.

TEL AVIV — There is the potential for a series clash between Hezbollah and Israel, a senior Arab intelligence official said.

Between a collection of concrete buildings with Arabic graffiti that are designed to simulate a typical Lebanese village, dozens of Israeli officers are gearing up for their next battle with Hezbollah guerrillas.

Residents of the northern Syrian city of Raqqa live in terror, trapped as a massive human shield in the Islamic State’s de facto capital ahead of the final battle with US-backed opposition forces for the militant group’s last major urban stronghold.

Hamas has produced several dozen short-range rockets that can carry a relatively heavy explosive load, Army Radio reported Tuesday.

Hamas has beefed up security around its top leadership following the assassination of Mazen Faqha, a senior member of the movement’s so-called military wing, according to an informed Hamas militant.

TEL AVIV — Hamas has questioned American and European expats in Gaza in relation to last week’s assassination of one of its top militants, a senior Hamas source told Breitbart Jerusalem.

The gunmen who killed Hamas military leader Mazen Faqha Friday night had broken into his garage, and lain in wait for hours, before carrying out the assassination, which left no trace but the dead body, a Palestinian daily reported on Sunday.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Sunday dismissed a recent report saying there are 15 Hamas attack tunnels reaching into Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Mazen Faqha, the senior Hamas terrorist who was assassinated outside his Gaza home over the weekend, had been engaged in planning a series of terrorist attacks against Israeli targets in the West Bank during the upcoming Jewish holiday season, a Palestinian security source close to Hamas’ military wing told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Iran’s central bank said Sunday it will appeal Luxembourg’s decision to freeze $1.6 billion of its assets, which the US is claiming as compensation for victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah on Saturday condemned the assassination of Mazen Faqha, a senior Hamas official, and accused Israel of masterminding the killing.

TEL AVIV – A months-long financial crisis impacting Hamas has led to calls from within the Islamic terrorist group to renew its relationship with Iran in hopes of securing future financing, a top Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem

The Islamic State’s latest golden boy is a 65-year-old Iraqi suicide bomber who attacked Iraqi troops in Mosul, where the Iraqi army, supported by the US-led international coalition, is making last-ditch efforts to liberate from IS.

Labor MP Joan Ryan said that Iran is attempting to pose a new threat on Israel by funding Hezbollah terrorists and creating a “second front in southern Syria with which to threaten Israel.”

Israeli educator Miriam Peretz — a bereaved mother of two fallen IDF soldiers — was an eyewitness on Wednesday to the aftermath of the deadly terrorist rampage next to the British Parliament building in central London, the Hebrew news site nrg reported.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, deputy adviser to President Donald Trump and former National Security editor for Breitbart News, discussed the London terror attack with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily.

SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam welcomed former Department of Homeland Security official Philip Haney, author of See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad, back to Breitbart News Daily on Thursday morning. Naturally, the terrorist attack in London was the primary topic of conversation.

Whenever I’m trying to work out what I really think about another terrorist incident involving the Religion of Peace, the first place I always turn to is the BBC.

On Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily, Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney warned there is a “campaign of vilification” aimed at his organization and other supporters of President Donald Trump, which is part of an overall campaign to destroy the legitimacy of the Trump presidency.

If Islamic militants in Gaza or Lebanon go to war with Israel, they could find their usual targets empty.

The Hamas terror group requested better quality maps from a Turkish charity in order to gain more accuracy when firing rockets, according to Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency.

Some 2,000 reserve soldiers were called up this week to simulate war in the Gaza Strip, as part of the military’s largest planned exercise of 2017, the army said.

The chief of Israel’s armed forces said on Tuesday the death last year of the top Hezbollah military commander was an assassination by the Iranian-backed Lebanese group itself.

Ahlam Tamimi—the convicted terrorist who helped carry out a suicide bombing at a Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem in 2001—will not be extradited to the United States, a Jordanian court ruled on Monday in response to the extradition order issued by the US Justice Department last week.

An Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-affiliated group, Ahwaal Ummat Media Center, has disseminated a graphic on the Internet threatening attacks in India and identifying the Taj Mahal as a potential target, reports the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi websites.

TEL AVIV – Hamas security forces have uncovered a rocket workshop run by a pro-Islamic State organization in Gaza, according to a jihadist in the coastal enclave.

Israeli jets bombed Islamic State targets in the Sinai Peninsula Thursday, killing several people, including two children, the jihadist group’s official news outlet claimed Saturday.

A rocket fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip slammed into southern Israel on Saturday, prompting retaliatory Israeli tank fire, sources on both sides said.

The army confirmed that a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel Wednesday night. There was no damage or injuries and no siren sounded as the rocket landed in open territory in the Negev, the IDF spokesperson’s unit said.

German police have raided and subsequently banned a Salafist organisation which had links to the December Christmas Market terror attacker Anis Amri.
