Iranian cyber-attackers have been targeting the U.S. electrical grid’s networks and stealing highly sensitive data, an Associated Press investigation revealed on Monday. Brian Wallace, a researcher at the cyber-security firm Cylance, discovered that critical files from Calpine Coroporation, which operates 82 power plants in 18 states and Canada, were stolen in a breach that began around August 2013 and may...

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Samir Kuntar, the notorious Hezbollah terrorist who was killed in an airstrike on Saturday night, was preparing forces in the Syrian Golan Heights to orchestrate attacks against Israel before his death, former Israeli national security advisor Gen. Yaacov Amidror said during a press call hosted by The Israel Project on Sunday. While Amidror did...

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JNS.org – The most recent Republican presidential debate was a breath of fresh air on the terrorism challenge that is front and center in American politics right now. To begin with, it was heartening to see Jeb Bush, whose quest to secure the nomination is all but over, remind Americans...

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Former Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman knew that Iran was responsible for the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires even as he negotiated with the regime in Tehran, secretly-recorded telephone conversations released on Friday reveal. The previously unknown recordings of conversations between Timerman and leaders of...

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Hezbollah commander Samir Kuntar and eight other terrorists were killed in a targeted air strike in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana Saturday night. Kuntar spent 29 years in prison for the brutal murder of an Israeli man and his four-year-old daughter in 1979. “At 10:15 p.m. on Saturday December 19,...

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In a packed event at New York’s 92d Street Y on Thursday, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s top public intellectuals, called for forces of the liberal Left to unite in confronting the growing threat of violent jihad. In particular, he criticized those who have abandoned internationalist liberalism in favor of opposition to America...

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Two German-born men of Palestinian descent have been charged with plotting to bomb a synagogue and the Israeli embassy in Berlin, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported Wednesday in The Jerusalem Post. The suspects were accused of “planning a massive act of violence”...

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A recent public opinion poll revealed that two-thirds of Palestinians support knife attacks against Israelis, while 54% oppose a two-state solution, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. In the survey, consisting of 1397 adults throughout the West Bank and Gaza, 67 percent of respondents said they supported the use of knife terror attacks...

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Recent reports that Iran is supporting ISIS through its funding of Hamas are a reminder that the Islamic Republic has long backed the powerful jihadist group and its predecessors in a variety of ways. In 2012, the United States Treasury Department exposed the extensive financial ties between Iran and al-Qaeda...

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A report published Monday in Ynet that documents ties between Hamas and the Sinai-based branch of ISIS also shows Iran’s role in supporting ISIS. Israel’s security establishment has pointed out a clear paradox in this dangerous collaboration: the bulk of Hamas’ financial support comes from Iran, which is persistently fighting ISIS...

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