A Palestinian terrorist today stabbed to death an Israeli father of five at a hitchhiking post in the West Bank. The attacker had been released from Israeli custody six months ago, after serving a three year prison sentence for trying to injure and kill Israelis with rocks. The victim was...

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Canadian officials Monday arrested two Canadian residents on accusations of plotting a terror attack on a Canadian passenger train. The suspected terrorists are alleged to have been backed by Al Qaeda elements in Iran. The plot will complicate Canadian counter-terrorism efforts and highlights ties between the Shiite terrorist-backing country and the Sunni...

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A suspected Iranian agent has been arrested for “scouting” the Israeli Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal “with a harmful intention.” Embassy officials arrested the man and transferred him to local authorities after noticing suspicious behavior. The English-language Himalayan Times reported Saturday that Nepalese police investigators have opened an inquiry into Mohsin...

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The Jerusalem Post reports that Bulgarian police last summer arrested an Iranian agent who was monitoring the Chabad Jewish center in Sofia. The agent carried a Canadian passport and reportedly entered Bulgaria from Turkey several weeks after the July 2012 Burgas bus bombing that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian....

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In the corridors of power in Jerusalem and Cairo, this week’s fire of two Grad rockets on Eilat came as a surprise to no one. Last week Israel deployed an Iron Dome battery to the Red Sea resort city after intelligence warnings of impending rocket attacks from Sinai. An additional...

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Rockets fired from the Sinai Peninsula slammed into Israel today and were claimed by a jihadi Salafist group operating in the territory. Hard-line Islamist groups have increasingly infiltrated the Sinai Peninsula since the 2011 overthrow of then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Most of the rockets were fired from Sinai, which has become increasingly...

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Analysts and observers are struggling to unravel reports that Egyptian security officials seized a ship — currently of unknown origin and destination — carrying tens of thousands of weapons. Turkish media outlets identified the ship as an Iranian fishing vessel named the ““Sawit 1” and reported that it was carrying...

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Gaza-based Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar lashed out earlier this week at unnamed “Palestinian security institutions” that have been transferring “fabricated information” to Egyptian media in order to undermine relations between the Iran-backed terror group and Cairo. The declaration is the latest in a series of moves by Hamas leaders, who...

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Bulgaria’s interim prime minister Marin Raikov announced today that his government will present new evidence linking Hezbollah to the July 2012 in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. Bulgarian government officials announced in February that they had found proof that two of the suspects in the bombing had ties...

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Saudi officials have announced that they have evidence directly linking 18 people arrested last week on espionage charges to Iranian intelligence services. Among those arrested were 16 Saudis, an Iranian, and a Lebanese. The public declaration – even more than the capture itself – is bound to increase tensions between...

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