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TEL AVIV – Twenty-four Palestinian Authority schools funded by the UK and EU are in flagrant violation of demands that foreign aid be cut if the schools do not put an end to the promotion of violence against Israelis.

BAGHDAD (AFP) – The Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near Mosul it said was carried out by a British suicide bomber, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.

The suicide bomber who struck a Coptic church in Cairo on Sunday, killing 24 Christians, has been identified by the Egyptian government as 22-year-old Mahmoud Shafiq Mohammed Mustafa.

A suicide bomber detonated himself outside a Shiite mosque in Pakistan during prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Tuesday, injuring as many as 13 people.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian prisoner authority said Monday that Israel has agreed to hand over for burial the bodies of Palestinian terrorists killed while carrying out recent attacks on Israelis.

TEL AVIV – Israel orchestrated Muslim infighting between Sunnis and Shiites in order to blow up both groups, or so claims a new cartoon published by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.

Despite that the Ansbach suicide bomber had voiced plans to kill Germans, left wing politicians prevented Daleel from being deported.

JERUSALEM – Ignoring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request not to honor terrorists, the Palestinian Authority erected a monument on Sunday in honor of the mastermind behind the 1976 “refrigerator bombing” in Jerusalem, with Palestinian officials expressing their hope that it will inspire young minds to continue following the path of “legendary martyrs.”

TEL AVIV – Following the release of high school seniors’ final exam results by the Palestinian Authority this week, official Palestinian press clamored to praise those “martyrs” who did not graduate because they were tied up carrying out terror attacks against Israelis but who will nonetheless merit “Paradise.”

TEL AVIV – A Canadian teacher is being investigated after speaking at a rally urging Palestinians to fight back against Israel and praising terrorists, CBC News reported.

TEL AVIV — The family of a Palestinian terrorist who murdered a 13-year-old Israeli teenager asleep in her bed will receive $350 a month from a Palestinian fund for “martyrs,” prompting Israel to deduct the funds from its tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority.

In the aftermath of the terror attack at Tel Aviv’s Sarona complex, a Palestinian columnist writing in the London-based daily Al-Hayat condemns the methods of Palestinian armed resistance, claiming that even though attacks like the one in Tel Aviv have elements of “heroism and sacrifice,” they ultimately do more harm than good in advancing the Palestinian cause.

A “joke” posted on the official Facebook page of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party portrays Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a baby killer.

JERUSALEM – The anniversary of a 2002 suicide bomb carried out by a Palestinian teenager was marked by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction in a special event on Thursday.

The Nigerian army claims to have killed the top bomb-maker for Boko Haram — and not a moment too soon, as the ISIS-affiliated terrorist gang has taken to using kidnapped and drugged women as suicide bombers.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for one of three bombings that hit Baghdad on Tuesday, which killed at least 69 people and wounded over 100 more, according to the Associated Press.

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.

Hospitals in Afghanistan have been overwhelmed after a suicide attack claimed by the Taliban left 28 dead and more than 320 injured in the country’s capital Kabul.

A suicide bomb attack struck a busy shopping district in Istanbul on Saturday, killing 5 and wounding 36 at the time of this writing. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack as of yet, but Turkish officials say the most likely suspects would be either Kurdish militants aligned with the separatist PKK party, or minions of the Islamic State.

The Turkish government has made increasingly confident declarations of responsibility for the deadly Ankara car bomb attack this weekend, which is now said to have killed at least 37 people.

An article at the Long War Journal notes that the recent headline news reports of female suicide bombers striking on behalf of Boko Haram, an affiliate of the Islamic State, are no coincidence. The use of women and girls as suicide bombers in the region is increasing.

Saudi media are reporting that nine Americans were among the 33 terror suspects arrested in the Kingdom over the past week, a week that ended with another suicide bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in the Sunni-ruled country.

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack aimed at the presidential residence in Aden, Yemen, on Thursday. Reports say that up to 11 people were killed in the blast and at least 20 wounded.

The Nigerian government has been saying Boko Haram is defeated, but on Wednesday, a triple bomb attack killed 13 and wounded 30 in the town of Chibok, the scene of Boko Haram’s infamous 2014 mass kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls, source of the utterly ineffective #BringBackOurGirls hashtag campaign.

A suicide bomber who blew himself up during a huge police raid following the jihadist attacks in Paris was a Belgian-Moroccan man also suspected of being one of the gunmen in the November rampage, a prosecutor said Thursday. Chakib Akrouh,

The Islamic State suicide bomber who attacked Istanbul on Tuesday, killing 9 German tourists and a Peruvian as well as injuring at least 15 other people, slipped past border security by posing as a Syrian refugee, according to Turkish officials.

A powerful explosion, allegedly from a suicide bomber, shook a central neighborhood of Istanbul Tuesday morning, killing at least 11 and wounding another 15, including some tourists. The bomb went off around 10:20am local time in the Sultanahmet district, an area

A newly released video captured Kurdish freedom fighters blowing up an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) suicide bomber, who was attempting to drive a Ford pickup truck carrying a ton of TNT across the Kurdish frontline near Mosul in northern Iraq.

The BBC has become embroiled in a race row over plans to show Catherine Tate’s popular comedy character, Nan, accusing a Muslim of being a suicide bomber. In an upcoming Christmas special called ‘Nanger Management’, Catherine Tate’s Joannie Taylor, the foul-mouthed

A high school in one of the largest school districts in the nation, Houston ISD, says that an Islamic State recruiting homework assignment “teaches critical and analytical thinking skills using current events.” The assignment was given to ninth graders one school day after the terrorist attacks in Paris.

The latest in a string of suicide bomber attacks from Boko Haram killed ten people and wounded at least twelve others in the town of Fotokol, Cameroon on Saturday. The UK Metro cites some other sources that say nine were killed, and specifies that the location of the attack was actually a village called Nigue near Fotokol.

PARIS (AP) — The Belgian extremist suspected of masterminding the deadly attacks in Paris died a day ago along with his female cousin in a police raid on a suburban apartment building, French officials said Thursday, adding it was still

Retired Army Captain Florent Groberg was awarded the Medal of Honor on Thursday, in recognition of valiant actions that left him maimed but saved many other lives. Specifically, he tackled a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.

Dozens were killed and around two-hundred wounded in two separate suicide attacks in a Hezbollah stronghold outside of Beirut Thursday night, Lebanese officials said.

ISTANBUL – A Turkish man detained as a suspected would-be suicide bomber in northern Turkey was actually wearing a burqa to disguise himself to meet a secret lover from a dating site, local media reported Sunday. Locals in the Black Sea

A soldier dressed as a suicide bomber for Halloween caused emergency explosive teams to be dispatched when he/she tried to enter the Fort Bragg military base. The soldier has only been identified as “a soldier.”