The Al Arabiya news website reported yesterday that its Qatar-based rival Al Jazeera removed a story alleging that American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff were not really beheaded by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The move to scrap the piece followed a report by Al Arabiya...

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Former Israeli President Shimon Peres opened the 14th annual Conference of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism by calling on the world to join Israel in its fight against terror. Peres further pinpointed Qatar and Turkey as two major state sponsors of terrorist organizations, and demanded proper action be taken against both.  The Jerusalem Post reported on Peres’ comments: “Terror...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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In an op-ed published in The New York Daily News on Thursday, Matthew Levitt, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), argued that the United States must step up its military attacks against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) if it hopes to defeat the terrorist...

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Two Norwegians have been identified as leading commanders within the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), operating under the direct charge of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to Israeli press reports Thursday. The Times of Israel reported: The two Norwegians were named by the broadcaster as Bastian Vasquez from Skien, southwest of...

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Gaza’s Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas, deliberately portrayed terrorists killed in fighting as non-combatants, and sometimes even as children, according to a report disclosed by the news site Israel Today. Israel Today’s reporting is based on a systematic review of casualties performed by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information...

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Top figures from the U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday lashed out against Hamas, criticizing the Palestinian terror organization for what now appears to have been a deliberate series of escalatory gambits in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, which ultimately triggered, respectively, Israel’s Operation Protective Edge and Operation Brother’s...

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