Rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel continued Thursday. Israel Hayom reports: At around 8:30 in the morning, the early warning alarm sounded in Sderot followed by a salvo of three rockets. One of the rockets penetrated the wall of the second story of a building. On the first floor...

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The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the Kurds are expanding and fortifying their semi-autonomous area in northern Iraq. According to the AP, the Kurds are creating barriers as both a defensive measure and as “a bid for greater autonomy or outright independence.” The emerging frontier of sand berms, trenches and roadblocks...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the murder of 16-year-old Muhammed Abu Khdeir yesterday, calling for an investigation. A statement released by the Prime Minister’s office said: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today spoke with Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch and asked that law-enforcement elements work as quickly as possible in order...

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A July 1 poll from Pew Research suggests that worries about the spread of violent Islamist extremism are increasing throughout the Middle East: …from civil war to suicide bombings, plague the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, concern about Islamic extremism is high among countries with substantial Muslim populations… in the Middle East,...

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An analysis published Tuesday by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy identifies last month’s Fatah-Hamas unity agreement as a factor that enabled the abductions and murders of Gil-ad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrach. After noting that  Hamas publicly took credit for the kidnappings despite doubts expressed in some quarters...

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Nine Islamist rebel groups on Monday rejected an announcement made the day before by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) that the Al Qaeda offshoot was reforming a caliphate extending the group’s influence across the region: “The terms of the caliphate have not been realized at present,...

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State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf on Tuesday linked Hamas to the murders of three Israeli teenagers whose bodies were discovered Monday. Hamas’s involvement in the murders promises to problematize relations between the terror group and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, which formed a unity government just weeks before...

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Tens of thousands of people of every religious and political orientation came together yesterday to bury Gil-ad Shaar (age 16), Naftali Fraenkel (16), and Eyal Yifrach (19), who were murdered by Hamas terrorists. Buses lined the roads to the Modi’in municipal cemetery hours before the funeral ceremony began. After separate ceremonies...

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The murder of three Israeli teenagers—Gil-Ad Shaar,  Naftali Fraenkel (both 16) and Eyal Yifrah (19)—by Hamas terrorists was just the latest in some three thousand attacks during the past two years comprising of rockets, bombings, shootings, knifings, firebombs and rock attacks. Analysts believe these figures will only rise as Hamas continues to...

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The latest Hamas kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers included another American citizen, Naftali Fraenkel, 16, one of many foreign citizens murdered by the terrorist organization that rules Gaza with an iron Islamic fist and is increasingly imposing its influence on the West Bank. Since its founding in 1987,...

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