ISIS is now training members of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, one of the deadliest terror groups operating out of the Sinai Peninsula, according to the Reuters news agency. Confirmation that the militants are extending its influence to Egypt will sound alarm bells in Cairo, where the authorities are already facing a security...

Yesterday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas blasted Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization currently ruling the Gaza Strip. The New York Times reported: Mr. Abbas started a speech to Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on Sunday discussing the bitter history of his Fatah faction’s fight with Hamas, the Islamist movement that...

The Islamist terror organization the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) executed a second Lebanese soldier, according to photographs posted online on September 6. The mother of a Lebanese soldier held captive by the militant Islamic State (ISIS) group said photographs posted online Saturday purporting to show his beheading appeared to...

The U.N. nuclear watchdog (IAEA) on Friday released its quarterly report (.pdf) on Iran’s obligations to enhance transparency around the country’s nuclear program, concluding – per the description published by Reuters – that Tehran had straightforwardly “failed to address concerns about suspected atomic bomb research by an agreed deadline.” The outlet also tersely...

On Friday, Israel Hayom reported that the Shin Bet security agency informed Israeli political leaders of at least ten Israeli Arabs who had joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Shin Bet security service officials believe that at least 10 Israeli Arabs have joined the Islamic State terrorist group and are...

Doron and Gila Tragerman, parents of four year old Daniel Tragerman who was killed August 22 by shrapnel from a mortar shell that was fired from Gaza, wrote a letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon asking him “to speak out about Hamas war crimes.” According to The Times of Israel,...

The New York Times reported yesterday that the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, “expressed concern on Thursday that Syria’s government might be harboring undeclared chemical weapons.” Syria agreed to get rid of all of its chemical weapons last year after it was implicated in carrying out...

Who knew that slime could be such a pest? Also known as biofilm, that slimy bacteria that builds up on food and in the kitchen makes millions of people sick every year. And not just in developing countries with poor sanitation. Slime is the root cause of many bacterial infections...

A range of outlets and analysts are working to unpack newly revealed evidence – first released by the Israeli military during a Wednesday briefing held at its Tel Aviv headquarters – documenting Israeli and Hamas tactics during the recent 50-day hot conflict fought in the Gaza Strip. Reuters led its...

On Thursday, as part of the deal to extend the P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran past their original July deadline, Japan unfroze $1 billion in Iranian oil money and transferred it to the Central Bank of Iran. According to Iran’s official IRNA news agency: The first and second installments of...