An apparent terror attack at the Ammunition Hill (Givat Hatachmoshet) light rail station today in Jerusalem has killed a 3-month-old baby and left eight people injured after a car plowed into passengers who had just disembarked. A video of the attack from a distance is embedded below. The Times of Israel...

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Heavy artillery shells, automatic gunfire and the shouts of Syrian combatants were heard on the Israeli Golan Heights yesterday and today as the civil war raged on just yards across the frontier – clearly visible to Israeli onlookers. The Syrian army launched Operation Earthquake of Quneitra aimed at regaining control of two...

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Ilsa and Lisa Klinghoffer, daughters of Leon Klinghoffer, who was killed by Palestinian terrorists in October 1985, contributed an op-ed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency protesting the Metropolitan Opera’s decision to stage the opera, “The Death of Klinghoffer,” which opens tonight. The controversial opera is centered on the hijacking of the...

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Following recent Hezbollah losses in the Syrian arena and near the Lebanese-Syrian border, there are reports of tensions and divisions inside the organization. The Saudi newspaper al-Youm reported (Arabic link) today that some of the organization’s combatants are threatening to neither fight for the organization nor return to their bases....

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On Wednesday, the Lebanese daily al-Akhbar, affiliated with the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah, reported that a senior Hamas official recently met with Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon. The Hamas official, serving as a representative on behalf of the Sunni terror group currently ruling the Gaza Strip, came for a private, off the...

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The Washington Post reports today that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) publicized that it was selling captured Yazidi women and children  as “spoils of war.” Specifically, ISIS claimed that it sold Yazidi women to its fighters as concubines. The women and children were divided among fighters according to Islamic law, the...

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Just a day after Hezbollah launched a double bomb attack against Israeli soldiers, the leader of Lebanon’s pro-Western March 14 bloc Saad al-Hariri warned that Hezbollah is leading Lebanon into the “unknown”. Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri Wednesday said Hezbollah’s latest operation against Israel in the border area of Shebaa was...

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The Jerusalem Post reported Monday that jihadists are hiding among the Syrian refugees entering Europe. Citing a report in the German newspaper, Bild am Sonntag, which credits the information to American intelligence that had “decod[ed] locked communications of the ISIS leadership,” Benjamin Weinthal writes: The Bild am Sonntag wrote,“In view of the chaotic...

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An article published Monday in The New Republic by Lori Plotkin Boghardt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy examines Qatar’s troubling ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical Islamist movements, including Hamas and ISIS. Boghardt explains that Qatar, a small emirate on the Persian Gulf caught between its more...

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In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic yesterday, a Kurdish intelligence official in the city of Kobani, located in Syria near the border with Turkey, expressed his fears if the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) succeeds in capturing the city. I just got off the phone...

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