Terrorism

A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority’s security forces wrote a Facebook post after Tuesday’s attacks in Belgium blaming the United States and Europe for the rise of global terror. “Those who prepare the poison will taste it themselves, and today Europe is having a taste of what it prepared with its...

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A three judge panel unanimously referred the investigation into the death of Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman to a federal court, where political murder cases are handled, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Tuesday. Two of the three judges explained in the decision that “it is plausible to give credit to the hypothesis suggested by the...

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At least 30 people were killed and over 230 wounded in Brussels after the city was hit by a series of terrorist attacks claimed by the Islamic State on Tuesday. Twin explosions ripped through Brussels’ international airport—believed to have been set off by suicide bombers—shortly before 8:00 AM, while a third struck...

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The Middle East, as we know it, is crumbling. Civil wars rage across the region, millions have become refugees, and hundreds of thousands are dead. Borders that have existed for over a century are ripe for reshaping. All of this has given rise to a major threat to Western democracies: The Islamic State. ISIS has filled...

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The U.S. House of Representatives this week overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Iran-backed regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and its allies, and calling for the establishment of a war crimes tribunal to investigate these violations. The non-binding measure, which passed 392-3, denounced a litany of crimes perpetrated...

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Newly-elected Argentine President Mauricio Macri said that his government is determined to “make headway” into the investigation of the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Wednesday. “We are fully committed to contribute in any way we can to make headway with this investigation,”...

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