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Iran state-media outlets are reporting that Iran has begun to blockade imports from the United States.

Terrorists from the Abu Sayyaf Philippines-based jihadi group, an affiliate of the Islamic State, have demanded over $60 million dollars for three Western hostages who were kidnapped at the country’s resort island of Samal.

As Western intelligence agencies consider the possibility that ISIS destroyed a Russian airliner over Egypt, killing 224 civilians, the Islamic State seems eager to take credit for the deed.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) are introducing legislation calling for the government to label the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.

As Iranian Dictator Ali Khamenei led the commonly-heard “Death To America” chants in Tehran on Tuesday, he argued that “Death to America” does not really mean what it sounds like.

10 Downing Street issued a statement suggesting a bomb might have caused the destruction of a Russian plane that crashed over the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.

The editor-in-chief of the Communist Party’s largest publication in western Xinjiang province, China, was dismissed from his job and will be prosecuted for “serious discipline breaches” that include questioning China’s policy to combat Islamist Uyghur terrorism in the region.

On Monday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) applauded the House of Representatives for passing a bipartisan resolution condemning the Palestinian Authority (PA) for incitement.

The office of Iranian ‘Supreme Leader’ Ali Khamenei has released a new video titled “Satan’s Confessions,” a threatening propaganda film that highlights a series of supposed faults of the United States.

If the Palestinian Ministry of Health is to be believed, Israeli forces are now harvesting the corneas of dead terrorists.

Days after Metrojet’s Airbus A321 crashed in Egypt over the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, officials from the airline are now saying the plane was taken down by an “external influence.” The plane, which carried mostly Russian passengers, was flying from a Red Sea resort to St. Petersburg, Russia.

Publishers, writers, and bloggers in Bangladesh have had enough of their colleagues being executed simply for expressing secular beliefs and critiquing Islam.

The Federal Bureau Of Investigation has suspended the unveiling of a new counter-radicalization website designed for kids after fringe Islamic advocacy organizations said the anti-terror programming discriminates against Muslims.

The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization published a new video Sunday in its latest anti-Jewish propaganda series of clips, threatening to go to war against Israel and Jews as a whole.

Alan Dershowitz, a famed Harvard Law School professor and Middle East expert, won over Oxford University’s Oxford Union on Sunday in a debate over the Boycott Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the state of Israel, defeating his opponent 137-101 in the heart of liberal academia.

Syrian-born San Diego resident and naturalized U.S. citizen Mohamad Saeed Kodaimati pleaded guilty this week to lying to federal officials about knowing members of ISIS. He admitted to being involved with another terror group, and lying about engaging in combat or firing a weapon in Syria during a March terrorism-related interview at the U.S. Embassy in Turkey.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terror group says it is responsible for downing a Russian passenger jet that crashed Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.

Sky News has declared a day of “celebration” following the news that Saudi citizen and former UK resident Shaker Aamer has returned to British soil following 13 years in Guantanamo Bay.  As part of the package on Mr. Aamer’s return,

Among the most recent transferred detainees from Guantanamo Bay was 45-year-old Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz, sent home to Mauritania after 13 years in U.S. custody.

One of the factors spurring Russia to action in Syria was the success of ISIS recruitment in certain parts of Russia. A notable example of this is the province of Dagestan, which has a large and impoverished Muslim population, a history of unrest, some hot spots of radical Salafist Islam, and lingering resentment against heavy-handed police tactics.

A new poll shows that, despite public support for a peace deal with the FARC terrorist group, a significant portion of the population of Colombia remains uncomfortable with the idea of FARC terrorists abandoning the guerrilla lifestyle and settling into civilian life.

While the Obama administration deals with the fallout from bombing a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, the Saudis have a similar situation on their hands in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthi insurgents.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Iran increased its nefarious activities in the Middle East in the months after it reached a nuclear deal with U.S.-led world powers, suggested a top State Department official.

Almost 200,000 people have attempted to illegally cross from Turkey into Syria over the past year, and many of those individuals are seeking to join terrorist groups such as the Islamic State, Turkish intelligence announced in a report Wednesday.

Supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) have released a new propaganda manual, titled Oh Media Correspondent, You Are the Mujahid, in an effort to amp up their already well-known social media and Internet presence.

Though Palestinian leadership has continued to make unproven allegations related to Muslims being mistreated at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount compound, where the Al Aqsa mosque stands, Palestinian leaders have continued to reject measures–such as the installation of cameras at holy sites–that could provide proof for their claims.

Turkish police are hunting for an ISIS operative who certainly seems to break the mold: 20-year-old Walentina Slobodjanuk, originally from Kazakhstan, who has been described as “the beautiful terrorist with a Mona Lisa smile.”

A 23-year-old Israeli-Arab utilized his paraglider from a high-point in Israel to make his way across the border into Syria, where officials suspect he has joined a terrorist organization that is engaged in holy war in the country, Israeli media censors cleared for publication over the weekend.

An article in Monday’s Hurriyet Daily News pinpoints an unassuming tea house called “Islam,” in the eastern Adiyaman province, as a pivotal location in the Islamic State’s assault on Turkey.

In an interview with the Jerusalem Post published on Friday, Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke about the current wave of violence in Israel and its connection to the Iranian nuclear deal, which Cruz remains determined to halt.

A move to improve surveillance capabilities on the Temple Mount compound that hosts the Al-Aqsa mosque is “a new trap,” the Palestinian foreign minister has claimed.

The Russian government wants Syria to hold presidential and parliamentary elections. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has allegedly stated he would rather wait until “terrorism” is eradicated from the country to hold elections again.

In a meeting with Chaldean bishops from Iraq and Syria Monday, Pope Francis used some of his strongest language to date to condemn what he called the “fanatical hatred” of Islamic terrorists that has provoked a “hemorrhage” of Christian faithful out of the Middle East.

The Lebanese army reports the arrest of three Palestinians linked to the Islamic State, who were building an ISIS cell in the refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh.

Addressing intelligence officials on Friday, FBI Director James Comey delivered a stunning estimate of 900 investigations currently in progress against suspected ISIS operatives, recruits, and individuals “inspired” by the Islamic State, and the number of investigations is slowly growing.

A dispute has arisen in Syria over the disposition of a fifty-ton ammunition shipment from the United States, supposedly intended for Syrian Arab rebel groups. The munitions were instead taken by the Kurdish YPG militia, according to both Arab and Kurdish commanders, although the Pentagon officially insists the shipment reached its intended recipients.