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Syria is willing to take part in an international coalition against terrorism but only if the United States will work with Damascus in a way it has not done so far, the Syrian envoy to Geneva peace talks said on

JAFFA, Israel – “Our beautiful religion has been hijacked by some Muslims, who turned it into a faith of violence, extremism, and terror,” a high-profile columnist has written in the prominent Egyptian daily Shourouk. “Islam is a religion of peace,

Israel urged its citizens in Turkey on Monday to leave “as soon as possible” in an upgraded travel advisory predicting possible follow-up attacks to the March 19 suicide bombing in Istanbul blamed on Islamic State. Three Israeli tourists and an

TEL AVIV, Israel – The Syrian army’s recent victories over the Islamic State will foster cooperation between Syria and the U.S., despite the latter’s reticence, a Damascus official told Breitbart Jerusalem. Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad succeeded in pushing IS

TEL AVIV – The Islamic State has agents working in Western airports, metro stations and “very sensitive facilities in the world,” a leading Islamic State-allied militant claimed in an exclusive interview. Abu al-Ayna al-Ansari, a Salafist movement senior official in the Gaza Strip, made the claim in a pre-recorded, hour-long interview to air in full on Sunday on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” the popular weekend talk radio program. Klein doubles as Breitbart’s senior investigative reporter and Jerusalem bureau chief.

JAFFA, Israel – Based on interrogations of hundreds of militants who were arrested in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and Europe, the Islamic State’s next step after the Brussels bombings is probably to carry out attacks in Russia and ultimately the United States, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Thursday that the deadly bombings in Brussels are evidence of a new world war, which the Jewish state and other countries must fight together. “We’re in the same boat,” he told Israeli army radio

Two Palestinians who attacked an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday were shot dead by troops at the scene, the military said in a statement. Footage filmed by a bystander moments after the attack

TEL AVIV – In the aftermath of the attacks in Brussels, the Egyptian press claimed that European support for the Muslim Brotherhood is the reason terror has struck the continent. The editorial in the official Egyptian daily Al-Ahram asserted that Europe has maintained ties

Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that President Obama’s declaration that fighting terrorism is “a top priority” is “a farce. He doesn’t believe a word of it” and to the president, “Everything is more important than ISIS” on Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton presented a speech on counterterrorism at Stanford University on Wednesday in response to the devastating attacks in Brussels, Belgium the day before.

TEL AVIV – In the wake of the Brussels terrorist attacks, which a former security chief at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport termed a “colossal failure” of Belgian security, the world is looking to Israel as a model. Authorities in Europe and across the world are tightening security at airports, railway stations, government buildings, and other critical sites after the deadly attacks Tuesday on the Brussels airport and metro that killed 34 people.

Hamas staged major military exercises Tuesday to test its readiness in the event of another Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has been ravaged by three wars since 2008. The exercises involving 1,000 police and emergency services personnel were

Sen. Ted Cruz is praising one of his security advisors who is being attacked by a jihad-linked advocacy group in Washington.

TEL AVIV – Jubilant Islamic State sympathizers and militants have welcomed Tuesday’s wave of terrorist bombings that killed at least 30 people in Brussels, warning “the Crusader infidels” in the West to brace for more such attacks.

The federal government issued 680,000 green cards to migrants from majority-Muslim countries from 2009 to 2013, according to the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest. Federal data from the Department of Homeland Security shows that the U.S. issued

TEL AVIV – The terrorist attacks in Brussels, Paris, San Bernardino, Istanbul and the daily attacks by Palestinians in Israel are part of the same assault, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address to the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Tuesday.

Just four months after the Paris terror attacks, explosions rocked Brussels Tuesday morning, killing at least 34 people and wounding more than 100. In the hours after two explosions ripped through the airport and another shook Maelbeek metro station — just minutes

After years of Muslim immigration to Europe, nations including France, Germany, the UK, and Belgium are seeing the effects of radical Islamic terrorism.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz is responding to the massive terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium.

Islamic State fighters killed 26 Syrian soldiers on Monday west of Palmyra, a monitoring group said, after days of advances by government forces backed by Syrian and Russian air cover. Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that the Syrian

BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has warned Israel against attacking Lebanon, saying it will fight any new war with the Jewish state without any red lines. In an interview with the Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen station Monday, Sayyed Hassan

TEL AVIV – Hamas’ military wing suffered a blow last week as two of its top commanders crossed the Gaza-Egypt border and joined Islamic State in Sinai, senior militant sources in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM – The Governor of Ramallah met with the family of the Palestinian murderer of an Israeli teenager, telling them that she is “counting the days until …Abd Al-Fattah [is] a free man,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.

Ynetnews reports: Mehmet Ozturk, the suicide bomber who killed three Israelis in Istanbul, followed a group of Israeli tourists from their hotel before detonating, according to Turkish TV station HaberTurk. The report was not officially confirmed. The station claimed its

TEL AVIV – TIME magazine on Sunday corrected an article depicting a Palestinian terrorist who murdered three Israelis as a victim of Israeli security forces, the Times of Israel reported. The article, titled “The Desperation Driving Young Palestinians to Violence,” included a report on an October 13 terror attack in Jerusalem in which two Palestinian terrorists boarded an Egged bus and began shooting and stabbing passengers.

TEL AVIV – Israel is investigating whether the suicide bombing that killed three Israeli tourists in Istanbul specifically targeted the Israelis, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday night. “We are of course trying to get intelligence on whether the terror attack

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say a Palestinian stabbed a paramilitary officer in the West Bank city of Hebron before being shot dead. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says officers asked the 17-year-old Palestinian to identify himself Saturday and then he

Dozens of people were killed in a series of air strikes on the city of Raqqa in northern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group and activists said, as Damascus and Moscow waged attacks on areas controlled by Islamic State. A

TEL AVIV – Psychological disorders are a recurring phenomenon behind attacks by Palestinian “lone wolf” terrorists – many of whom enter Israel legally using a family reunification law, Israeli security agency Shin Bet said on Wednesday.

Ynetnews reports: Two attackers stabbed and moderately-to-seriously wounded a female IDF soldier on Thursday morning near Ariel. The attack occurred next to the transportation station at the square at the entrance to Ariel, which is used by hundreds of Palestinians and

TEL AVIV – Colonel Allen West compared President Barack Obama to Israeli left-wing NGO head Yariv Oppenheimer, saying, “Oppenheimer and Obama are the reason why we have ISIS beheading, crucifying, slaughtering, enslaving, raping, and committing acts of genocide.”

JAFFA, Israel – Egypt has given Hamas a list of its members accused of collaborating with jihadi groups on the Egyptian side of the Gaza border, Cairo’s Misr Journal newspaper reported on Tuesday. The list contained the names of Hamas activists who

TEL AVIV – Fatah and Hamas have been engaged in a media war over the perpetrator of Monday’s car-ramming attack in the West Bank that left three Israeli soldiers lightly wounded. Both groups are claiming the attacker as a member.

The Times of Israel reports:  A soldier said he narrowly escaped a stabbing attempt at the entrance to an airport in northern Tel Aviv on Tuesday, according to police. The alleged stabber is said to have escaped the scene in