The New York Times reported late on Thursday that a bomb had exploded near Egypt’s Suez Canal, with one person being killed and dozens being wounded. Egypt has been hit with a string of car bombs and suicide attacks since July 3, when the military ousted President Mohamed Morsi. The military has pursued...

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Egypt may be preparing to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, amid escalating efforts by the Islamist group and its supporters to derail passage of a new constitution aimed at facilitating a political transition from the current interim army-backed government to an elected one. The Brotherhood rejected the new constitution, which...

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The New York Times today outlined the range of motives for, and the potential cascade effects of, the overnight assassination of Haj Hassan Hilu Laqis, a top Hezbollah figure who the outlet noted was “variously described as running the group’s sophisticated telecommunications network and working to procure strategic weapons.” The Times emphasized both...

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The Associated Press reported this weekend that Hamas had cancelled the terror group’s previously scheduled 26th anniversary rally, with the terror group citing what the outlet described as ‘deep economic woes’ in the Gaza Strip territory that it rules: The decision illustrated just how hard the Gaza economy has been hit since...

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The Jerusalem Post, conveying a report from the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai, today described statements by senior British diplomatic sources revealing that London has been facilitating secret indirect talks between the Obama administration and Hezbollah, a group that is designated as a terrorist organization under U.S. law: Senior British diplomatic sources, quoted in...

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Egypt has for months moved to degrade Hamas’s infrastructure and weaponry. Cairo blamed Hamas for facilitating the movement of personnel and materials used by jihadist groups operating in the Sinai – groups which target both Egyptian and Israeli targets – and has sought to close off both the Palestinian terror...

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The government of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced overnight Sunday that it was proceeding with the second of four goodwill releases of Palestinian terrorism convicts, part of a package of concessions that Jerusalem is offering the Palestinian Authority (PA) in order to entice PA officials to continue engaging in...

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Last summer the Lebanese army, backed by Hezbollah, stormed a Sunni mosque where a radical cleric and his followers had holed up. The cleric was seeking to exploit sectarian tensions generated by Hezbollah’s involvement in the Syrian conflict, and the Iran-backed terror group – was widely blamed the unrest that...

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Last Wednesday, Hoover Institute fellow Fouad Ajami criticized how some diplomats and journalists have “… isolated the nuclear issue from the broader context of Iran’s behavior in the region.” On the same day Washington Institute fellow Matthew Levitt described three decades of Iranian terrorism, including terrorism targeting American overseas and...

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A Hamas terror cell was in the advanced stages of a plot to explosives-laden unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at Israel before Palestinian Authority (PA) officials uncovered and broke up the cell, according to PA officials who spoke to The Times of Israel. During intensive activities near Hebron, in which PA...

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