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The Israeli air force carried out strikes on Hamas sites in Gaza early Thursday in response to a rocket attack targeting the Jewish state, the army and Palestinian officials said.

After months of relying on child and female suicide bombers to continue to wage jihad in northeast Nigeria, Boko Haram has conducted a series of raids of five communities in Borno state, the home of the movement, leaving at least 13 dead and razing their homes to the ground.

A French court on Tuesday ordered the chief suspect in a deadly attack on a Paris synagogue in 1980 to be sent back to jail, ten days after he was released on bail.

GAZA CITY – Authorities in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip are planning to carry out a series of public executions, the attorney general in the Palestinian enclave said on Sunday. Islamist movement Hamas has carried out previous executions in Gaza, although

The Washington Times reports: With a media blitz, the Islamic State has set its sights on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula as the next shot at expanding its empire and establishing a base from which to attack neighboring Israel.

Nohemi Gonzalez became the first person in her family to graduate college on Thursday morning as her mother and stepfather accepted the Cal State University Long Beach (CSULB) diploma on behalf of the young woman — who was murdered in the November 13 Islamic terror attacks in Paris.

The Times of Israel reports: Security forces thwarted a terror attack in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon, when they arrested a Palestinian minor in possession of a knife who admitted during interrogation that he planned to carry out a stabbing, Israel Police said in a statement.

The Times of Israel reports: Israeli police on Wednesday captured a shipment of 60,000 hand-grenade springs on their way to the Gaza Strip.

An EgyptAir flight carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo went down into the Mediterranean Sea during the night in a mysterious crash that the Egyptian Prime Minister says may have been due to a terrorist attack.

The Jerusalem Post reports: The Israeli navy is in the midst of intensive preparations to deal with a growing rocket and missile threat posed by Hamas and Hezbollah, a senior IDF officer revealed on Wednesday.

The Jerusalem Post reports: The anti-rocket warning sirens that were activated in Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip frontier on Wednesday evening proved to be a false alarm, the IDF said.

A former Muslim prisoner has declared London’s Belmarsh Prison to be nothing short of a “jihadi training camp” where Islamic State celebration parties are freely held. In an opinion column in the Evening Standard, former inmate and Muslim student “Jamal” –

PARIS (AFP) – The chief suspect in a deadly attack on a Paris synagogue in 1980 has been released on bail after being held for 18 months, judicial and investigation sources told AFP Tuesday.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Hezbollah appointed Mustafa Mughniyeh military commander following the death of his uncle Mustafa Badreddine last weekend in a shelling at Damascus airport, the London based Asharq al-Awsatreported Tuesday morning.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Hezbollah asked western journalists not to report that Israel was behind the assassination of Mustafa Badreddine, Hezbollah’s military chief, a prominent French journalist has alleged.

Choosing his words carefully, Pope Francis recognized that the idea of conquest is integral to Islam as a religion, though he was quick to add that some might interpret Christianity in the same way.

The Times of Israel reports: The Israeli Navy arrested off the coast of Gaza last month a Hamas-affiliated smuggler who is accused of bringing weapons and illegal building materials into the Strip, the Shin Bet revealed Monday

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police says a Palestinian assailant has stabbed an Israeli man in Jerusalem, lightly wounding him.

ADEN (AFP) – A suicide bomber killed at least 25 Yemeni police recruits in the southeastern port city of Mukalla on Sunday, medics said, the second attack this week claimed by the Islamic State group.

The Islamic State has launched a mobile phone app for children, in which they are taught the Arabic alphabet, Islamist ideology, and a useful vocabulary of words such as “tank,” “gun,” and “rocket.”

Israel is bracing for a possible Hezbollah response following the announcement on Friday that one of its top commanders, arch terrorist Mustafa Badreddine, was eliminated in an explosion.

The Times of Israel reports: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday that the Islamic State was carrying out a new “Nakba” in the Middle East, employing the Arabic word for catastrophe traditionally used by the Palestinians and the Arab world to refer to the 1948 creation of the State of Israel.

According to German federal crime office, a number of Islamic terrorists have entered Germany by hiding amongst recent flows of migrants from the Middle East, and since last year 369 people with suspected ties to the Islamic State have come into the country in this way.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was heckled at a terror victims’ memorial on Wednesday by an Israeli stabbed in 2000, whose brother was badly hurt in an ax attack in February.

The Times of Israel reports: Two suspected jihadists were killed on Wednesday during a security operation near the Tunisian capital, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

A man named Elia Yasin, a member of the Uighur ethnic minority, has been sentenced to seven years in prison by Chinese authorities for watching a film about Muslim migration that was deemed politically “sensitive.”

The Times of Israel reports: An IDF officer was seriously injured Tuesday night when four pipe bombs detonated near him at a West Bank checkpoint outside of the Palestinian village of Hizme, north of Jerusalem.

Arutz Sheva reports: The Israel Security Agency (ISA, also known as the Shin Bet or Shabak) has announced that a young terrorist affiliated with Hamas’s military wing was arrested and is now being questioned by authorities.

As ongoing operations have left the Islamic State-affiliated terror group Boko Haram significantly depleted of ammunition and members, the group is now offering business loans to poor Nigerians in exchange for spying on local soldiers, conversion to Islam, or joining the Boko Haram jihad entirely.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police says two masked attackers have stabbed two Israeli women in Jerusalem, setting off a manhunt that led to the arrest of the assailants.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Israelis should stay away from the annual Lag B’Omer pilgrimage to the Tunisian island of Djerba because of concrete terrorist threats, the PMO’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau warned on Monday.

JAFFA (ISRAEL) (AFP) – The trial opened on Monday of an Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter for shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head while he was lying on his back.

Ynetnews reports: Hamas has agreed and committed itself again to a de-escalation on the border of Israel and Gaza, Ynet learned on Sunday morning.

The Times of Israel reports: Israeli officials said Saturday they would continue operations to uncover and destroy cross-border attack tunnels in the Gaza Strip over the coming weeks, even as Israel and Hamas sought to calm tensions along the frontier.

The London Daily Telegraph reports: Three Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria some 10 months ago have been freed, the Spanish Press Federation (FAPE) and government said on Saturday.

As part of a coordinated Islamic State offensive in western Libya Thursday, a Tunisian suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a checkpoint near the coastal city of Misrata, killing five people.