The terrorist organization Hamas misused international law during Operation Protective Edge last summer “to undermine Israel’s perceived moral standing and international support,” according to a report commissioned by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and released this week. The report (.pdf), which was written by a task force headed by five retired American generals,...

Two recent reports in major publications have documented the growing discontent within the ranks of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that is beginning to threaten the group’s cohesion, even as it seeks to expand upon the territory it controls. The Washington Post reported on Sunday: Reports of rising tensions between foreign...

Iraqi forces, substantially bolstered by Iranian-backed Shiite militias, launched an offensive last week to capture the Iraqi city of Tikrit from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Tikrit is a predominantly Sunni city and the hometown of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. It is reported that 30,000 fighters are...

Boko Haram, an Islamist terrorist organization based in northeast Nigeria, has pledged allegiance to ISIS, the Islamist terrorist organization that rules a self-declared caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, according to an audio statement released online Saturday. “We announce our allegiance to the Caliph … and will hear and...

The PLO central council voted on Thursday to suspect security cooperation with Israel. The Times of Israel reports: The PLO council decided “to stop security cooperation in all its forms with the occupying power” which it urged to “take over full responsibility for the Palestinian people in the occupied State...

At least five people were injured today in Jerusalem when a car plowed into a group of pedestrians in an apparent terror attack. The Times of Israel reported: A Palestinian man in a private vehicle hit the five, who included a bicycle rider and a pedestrian, as they stood on...