Analysts and journalists seeking to explain the lightning advance of fighters loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – the Al Qaeda offshoot that has been steadily consolidating territory across northern Iraq, despite being outnumbered roughly 30 to 1 by the country’s forces – have begun to specifically focus on...

In an op-ed that appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, former U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley argues that the “technocratic” Palestinian unity government is “a transparent trick meant to keep the dollars coming.” In Time for U.S. to Stop Funding Terrorists, Berkley, a Democrat, outlines the dangers that the joint Fatah-Hamas...

The three boys abducted by Hamas terrorists on June 12 were just like all other teenage boys the world over – into the same hobbies and pastimes. Eyal Yifrah’s joy is music. Videos posted to the internet show him performing a song he composed for his cousin’s wedding. Another shows him...

Overnight Israel conducted sweeping arrests of over 80 Hamas operatives as the Israeli army dragnet continues in the search for three teenage students kidnapped by terrorists, with efforts concentrated around the city of Hebron, 16 miles south of Jerusalem, according to reports. The three, Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gil-Ad Shayer, 16, and Naftali Frenkel,...

Gains being made across Iraq by the radical Sunni group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) – Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul on Tuesday, Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit on Wednesday, and what appeared to be further gains aimed at marching on Baghdad on Thursday –...

The Telegraph on Wednesday described the United States and Britain as having expressed deep concerns over the ongoing seizure of Iraqi territory by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), as forces from the Al Qaeda offshoot followed up their Tuesday conquest of Mosul – Iraq’s...