Terrorism

The White House said on Tuesday that the United States is working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. The decision will bring harsh sanctions against the world’s oldest Islamist movement, which has more than a million members across the Middle East. “The President has consulted with...

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Israeli leaders have condemned the terrorist attack at a Chabad synagogue in Poway, north of San Diego, in which one woman was killed and three people were wounded. Congregant Lori Gilbert-Kaye died as she shielded Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein from the gunman, who stormed into the building and opened fire on...

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Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization in complete political and military control of the Gaza Strip, has developed a pilot program that uses a complex cryptocurrency system to avoid international measures against terrorist funding, Reuters reported Friday. The Izz ad-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the terrorist group’s military arm, launched on its website...

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Several global payment providers have cut ties with the BDS organization Samidoun over its alleged links to a Palestinian terrorist group. In an email obtained by JNS, PayPal said it would “thoroughly review” Samidoun’s account after the online payment giant was alerted to the group’s purported links to a designated...

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The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) confirmed on Thursday that a tunnel discovered by Israel earlier this year had crossed the Lebanese-Israeli border, in the third such breach of a ceasefire resolution. “UNIFIL’s independent assessment confirms that this tunnel crosses the Blue Line in violation of Resolution 1701,”...

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The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on several individuals and entities that Washington said are involved in schemes to help the Iranian-sponsored terrorist organization, Hezbollah, evade U.S. sanctions. Two individuals – a Lebanese man and a Belgian national – and three entities, including one based in Britain and two...

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