Iran was ranked as the world’s top global money laundering threat by the Basel Institute on Governance this week, marking the third straight year that the Islamic Republic held the position. The 2016 Basel Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Index identified Iran as the highest money laundering risk out of 149 countries surveyed, The...

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Hamas is building six miles of tunnels every month, Israeli officials told Israel’s Channel 2 on Wednesday. The unnamed defense and diplomatic officials also said that Israel has “no perfect solution” to the tunnel threat, adding that “neither does any other country.” Since the end of the 2014 Gaza war, the...

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Jordanian border guards arrested a man who was trying to enter Israel in a truck that was equipped with firebombs, Jordanian military officials said Tuesday. The driver had ignored orders to stop and have his car searched at the checkpoint, instead trying to drive through the roadblocks separating the two countries. “Materials used to...

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A Palestinian terrorist who shot an Israeli rabbi to death was killed after engaging in a firefight with Israeli security forces in the West Bank overnight Tuesday. Mohammed Jabarah al-Fakih, who killed Rabbi Miki Mark and injured his wife and two of his children on July 1, refused calls to surrender...

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Two terrorists with ties to the Islamic State killed a priest in his mid-80s in an attack on a church in northern France on Tuesday. The two men, who The Wall Street Journal reported had pledged allegiance to ISIS, used knives to take five hostages during morning mass, including Father Jacques Hamel, an auxiliary...

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Israeli officials believe that a future war with Hezbollah, with its advanced Iranian-supplied rocket arsenal, could lead to “thousands of civilian deaths,” a white paper published by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies revealed. The paper, authored by Jonathan Schanzer, Tony Badran, and David Daoud, explores the history of Hezbollah’s...

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Authorities in Bahrain have announced that they have broken up an Iran-backed terror cell, Reuters reported on Friday. Bahrain is an important American ally in the Persian Gulf and hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet. It is ruled by the Sunni al-Khalifa royal family, but has a majority Shiite population. According to authorities, five men,...

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The European Union is looking into the use of Israeli anti-terror technologies to deal with a wave of Islamic State-inspired “lone wolf” terror attacks on the continent, a senior EU official told Reuters on Tuesday. Gilles de Kerchove, the European Union’s counter-terror coordinator, attended the IDF’s second annual Intelligence and Special...

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The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas has created a summer tourist destination out of one of its tunnels, which have frequently been used to infiltrate Israel and attack Israelis. A posted by the the pro-Hamas media outlet Afaq shows a group of boys running through a tunnel. “Afaq media enters a tunnel created by the Qassam Brigades during...

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ISIS supporters have praised the terrorist who used his truck to kill 84 people in Nice, France last week, hailing the Palestinians for developing the car ramming method. “Killing by ramming using civilian cars and trucks is an idea born from the Maqdisi [Palestinian] mind, which has an innovative nature of...

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