Terrorism

The latest Hamas kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers included another American citizen, Naftali Fraenkel, 16, one of many foreign citizens murdered by the terrorist organization that rules Gaza with an iron Islamic fist and is increasingly imposing its influence on the West Bank. Since its founding in 1987,...

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Reports surfaced over the weekend that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) had announced it had reformed the caliphate – an Islamic state stretching across the region – headed by ISIS chief Abu Bakr al Baghdadi: In the statement—released in Arabic, English, German, French, and Russian—ISIS claimed...

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Israeli officials announced Monday evening that the bodies of three Israeli teenagers – kidnapped earlier this month by terrorists affiliated with Hamas – had been found north of the West Bank town of Hebron. Searches for the boys had been ongoing for weeks, and the developments opened up a flood...

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Despite the promise from Palestinian Authority President Mahmnoud Abbas that the new government he created with Hamas would reject violence, some 56 rockets have been fired from Hamas’ Gaza stronghold in the two weeks since three Israeli teens were abducted. The latest barrage on Saturday night led to the destruction...

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On Wednesday the the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014. The Jerusalem Post reports: The Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014, introduced by US Representatives Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), includes a provision to sanction foreign financial institutions that knowingly...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized on Monday the Palestinian Authority’s continued granting of substantial monthly salaries and grants upon the release of incarcerated terrorists. These monthly salaries range from $3,500 to $25,000. The terrorists’ salaries and grants are determined by the number of years that they spent in an Israeli prison for their...

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