Terrorism

The Israeli intelligence community estimates that over 55 Iranians have died fighting for the regime of dictator Syrian Bashar al-Assad, a toll that has undermined domestic Iranian support for continued intervention in Syria, Reuters reported Friday. Speaking to Reuters, a senior Israeli military officer cited Israeli intelligence findings that “55-plus”...

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Sanctions imposed on Iran for violations of the nuclear deal should be used to pay damages to American victims of Iranian-sponsored terror, Daniel Miller, a survivor of a 1997 terror attack in Jerusalem, wrote in an op-ed published Friday in The Orlando Sentinel. According to a prepared testimony (.pdf) that Miller presented at...

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Malian special forces stormed the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako after Islamist terrorists took 170 people hostage on Friday, Reuters reported. Seven hours after the attackers entered the hotel, Malian authorities declared that the siege was over and all hostages were freed. A body count following the rescue effort determined that...

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Ezra Schwartz, a teenager from Sharon, Massachusetts, was identified as the American killed in a terror attack near Alon Shvut in the West Bank on Thursday, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported. Schwartz, 18, was one of three people killed Thursday near the settlement of Alon Shvut. He reportedly was studying for a...

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A video of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind behind the Paris terror attacks last week, showed a clip of him saying that it would be “nice to see … the blood of infidels.” An ISIS-made video, which was uncovered by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), is embedded below. It shows Abaaoud, also...

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After a soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled on Tuesday due to a bomb threat, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency said that his country should respond to terror like Israel does, Ynet reported on Wednesday. Hans-Georg Maassen, president of Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, observed in...

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