Families of 9/11 victims say it “is a slap in the face” for President Obama to lobby against a bill that would hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding and abetting the jihadists who carried out the terror attack in 2001.
Paul Sperry writes that the “highest levels” of the U.S. government are implicated in a cover-up of Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks, all to preserve diplomatic relations with the oil-rich Islamist nation.
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TEL AVIV – A Lutheran pastor and former U.S. Senate candidate told Iranian TV that Israel was “the chief player” in the September 11 attacks on the U.S. Mark Dankof, who is also a broadcaster in San Antonio, Texas, was commenting
Iran is our external enemy of the moment. Saudi Arabia is our enduring internal enemy, already within our borders and permitted to poison American Muslims with its Wahhabi cult.
The Saudi Arabian government told the United States it will sell $750 billion of American assets if Congress sues the kingdom for 9/11.
The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift stated that because of the Iran nuclear deal, Saudi Arabia feels “that the US is starting to tilt towards Iran” and is “not so sure” the US has its back on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Clift
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The fragile Syrian ceasefire is “tenuous,” and has been breached repeatedly by the Russian-backed Bashar al-Assad regime, said President Barack Obama.
The Sunni Islamic State terrorist group, in the latest edition of its propaganda magazine Dabiq, criticizes the Muslim Brotherhood organization for its alleged support of Shiite-led nations and the “pagan democratic religion.”
Fox News reports that President Obama will make a decision on declassifying 28 pages of sealed 9/11 documents – considered by both the Obama and Bush administrations as potentially threatening to national security – within 60 days.
The CIA believes that Mideast rebels have already obtained man-portable air-defense systems, or MANPADs, and the agency fears the weaponry could be attained by terrorist groups and utilized against civilian aircraft.
The Jordanian headquarters of the Islamist movement known as the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has been shut down by law enforcement, various news outlets report.
JAFFA, Israel – Saudi Arabia has announced that the Friday prayers delivered at Mecca’s Great Mosque will be translated into Farsi, in what seems to be the latest chapter in an ongoing media war with Iran. A journalist for a
TEL AVIV – Israel and Saudi Arabia are engaged in covert ties – the result of mutual interests between the countries – according to an analysis in the Jerusalem Post. The article, published Tuesday, cited a series of events that
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz at the airport in Ankara on Monday, as the Saudi monarch is en route to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation meeting in Istanbul later this week.
Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin-Abdullah al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia’s top Islamic cleric, defended the kingdom’s ban on female drivers by alleging that women will be exposed to new evils behind the wheel.
The Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen, backed by the United States, has helped al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) grow stronger than ever, reveals a recent investigation by Reuters.
A United Nations-brokered ceasefire in Yemen between Iran-allied Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led military coalition has reportedly started amid allegations of fighting among the warring sides.
Breitbart News National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, author of Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, appeared on Breitbart News Sunday to answer host Stephen K. Bannon’s challenge that, contrary to the title, his book doesn’t make the war against jihad sound very “winnable” at all.
JAFFA, Israel – The Saudi Ministry of Labor has published a list of professions from which women are banned. A ministry official told Al Arabiya Online that the list is meant to protect women’s rights and prevent them from practicing
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A teenage wedding in Saudi Arabia that followed a bet became on Tuesday the latest chapter in an ongoing debate on traditional marriage practices. Ali Alqubeisi, a 16-year-old high school student in the city of Tabouq, proposed to his cousin after he
TEL AVIV – Iran is exploiting America’s rift with Saudi Arabia to increase its support to Yemen’s Houthi rebels, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem. Case in point is the region of Taiz, a Houthi stronghold and a strategic location
A leading Arab satellite operator cut transmission of Hezbollah’s television channel Al-Manar on Wednesday amid soaring tensions between the Lebanese Shiite group’s backer Iran and Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia. “Nilesat informed the (Lebanese) telecommunications ministry of the need to stop
The U.S. Navy interdicted an enormous Iranian vessel in the Arabian Sea and seized more than 2,000 illicit weapons onboard, which were believed to be en route to the Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen, various news agencies report.
Both the United States and Saudi Arabia have announced sanctions against four individuals, and two groups they are associated with, based on allegations they have provided financial support to global terrorism.
AMMAN, Jordan – Islamic State militants on Sunday claimed responsibility for two bombings at a police station near the capital of Saudi Arabia, the Amaq news agency reported. “Three police cars caught fire following the attack, but it remains unknown whether any policemen have been hurt,” the pro-IS agency said.
TEL AVIV – In the wake of the Brussels attacks, the Arab press has been awash with explosive articles acknowledging the Muslim world’s responsibility for global terror. The views expressed by writers from Kuwait to Jordan to Saudi Arabia represent a brutal reckoning
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that “”I don’t want more nuclear weapons” but that the world would be better off if South Korea, Japan, and Saudi Arabia had nuclear weapons on CNN’s Republican Town Hall on Tuesday. Trump was
Saudi Arabia has sentenced a journalist to five years in prison after he insulted the kingdom’s rulers on Twitter while supporting the right of women to drive.
JAFFA, Israel – A picture has emerged on Saudi social media (above) showing a man hiding his wife behind a cloth in a restaurant booth. The image shows the couple dining in a restaurant while hidden from public view behind a tinted glass
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump told the New York Times he would consider stopping U.S. oil purchases from Saudi Arabia unless the Saudi government provide troops to fight Islamic State.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is expected to visit Pakistan this week to discuss how to improve relations between the two nations and strengthen economic ties, Islamabad’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced.
At least 50 members of the resurgent al-Qaeda branch in Yemen were killed in a U.S. airstrike in the mountains of southern Yemen, Reuters reports, citing medics and a local official.
The internationally recognized government of Yemen and Shiite Houthi rebels have agreed on a ceasefire, Yemeni officials have reportedly said on condition of anonymity.
Saudi Arabia’s notoriously high execution rate has created a culture of fear in the Mideast nation, where public beheadings and hanging bodies for days in the hot sun are common sights.
The sharia-compliant Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is facing a spike in interest in birth control and family planning, as the nation grows in wealth and women seek work outside the home.
Major Saudi-led combat operations against Shiite Houthi rebels and their allies in Yemen, which began nearly a year ago, are “coming to an end,” the spokesman for the military coalition reportedly said.
