Terrorism

Hamas’s admission this week that it was responsible for the construction of a tunnel built between the Gaza Strip and Israel – and that the tunnel was to be used in attacks – has sharpened concerns that the group is trying to launch a spectacular terror attack in order to...

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With half a dozen people already confirmed dead from starvation and the situation likely to worsen as winter takes hold, the Bashar al-Assad regime is engaged in what journalists are describing as a “terror-famine.” Children in Syria are now eating leaves for nutrition. Residents of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp are baking...

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Two young girls were among the four people killed outside a church Sunday in the Egyptian city of Giza, the latest in what the Associated Press described in early August as a “stepped-up hate campaign” against the country’s Coptic Christian community. Samuel Tadros, a Research Fellow at Hudson Institute’s Center...

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The launch of a new website may reignite a smoldering media controversy over how Palestinian rock throwing – a common tactic directed at Israeli civilians and police forces – is portrayed. Last August the New York Times was blasted by media outlets and watchdog groups for what they described as...

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At least 59 people were killed in what Reuters describes as a “spate of attacks” on mainly Shiite communities across Iraq on Thursday, the latest in a spike in violence driven both directly and indirectly by fighting in neighboring Syria. The conflict, which has gone on for more than two...

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The IDF has announced the discovery and destruction of a second tunnel dug underneath Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, following one disclosed earlier this week that had been built to open up near a kindergarten which authorities believe Palestinian terrorists intended to target. The new tunnel stretched dozens of yards into Israel,...

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