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Hamas Features 5-Year-Old Soldier on Facebook

In March, an Israeli documentary exposed Hamas’s use of trained child soldiers, which is against international law. Now, one month later, the Hamas Interior Ministry itself proudly displayed a picture of a 5-year-old soldier on their Facebook page.

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Senator Flake Embraces WH Removal of Cuba from Terror List

Republican Senator Jeff Flake wasted no time in enthusiastically embracing a White House declaration Tuesday removing Cuba from a United States State Department list of state sponsors of terror, despite the communist country’s ongoing harboring of terrorists and ties to terrorist organizations.

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Obama Removes FARC-, Hezbollah-Tied Cuban Regime from State Dept Terror List

The White House announced today that Cuba will be removed from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism, despite its ties to Marxist, jihadist, and other separatist terrorist organizations. The removal of the state sponsor of terror label is believed to be the beginning of diplomatic relations with Cuba that can lead to the potential establishment of a U.S. embassy in Havana.

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On Anniversary of Boko Haram Kidnapping, 85% of Chibok Girls Still Missing

On April 14, 2014, the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram abducted more than 300 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok, cementing their international reputation as one of the most ruthless and dangerous terror groups in the world. One year later, more than 200 of those girls remain missing, and Nigeria’s president-elect is making no promises to find them.

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Kenyan Police Official: Garissa Attack Victims Died ‘Like Cockroaches’

Senior Kenyan police official Pius Masai Mwachi has become the target of national disgust this week after implying that victims of the Garissa University terror attack that left 148 dead had not fought back sufficiently against the Al-Shabaab terrorists storming the campus. “Free yourself as soon as possible. Get out. Don’t just be killed like cockroaches,” he said.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Verdict: Guilty, Guilty, Guilty

The verdict in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial for the Boston Marathon bombings began unrolling shortly after 2:00 PM Eastern time, and it was guilty, guilty, guilty right down the line. The first ten charges he was found guilty on all carry a potential death penalty, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death.

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Florida College Suspends Student for Exposing Their Radical Islamic Support

A couple of weeks back, Project Veritas released an undercover video they shot at Cornell University in upstate New York, where one the assistant deans of students agreed with the undercover operative that it would be acceptable to have an ISIS “freedom fighter” address the student body, as well as agreeing that sending care packages to the terrorist organization was also aboveboard at the school.

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Report: Obama to ‘Act Quickly’ on Cuba’s State Sponsor of Terror Designation

Reuters reports today that President Barack Obama is preparing to “act quickly” upon the State Department’s recommendation regarding whether Cuba will remain on its State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Cuba, which has for decades aiding Marxist terror groups like the FARC and ETA, has demanded their status be amended as a condition of reestablishing diplomatic relations with the United States.

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