A Palestinian driver rammed his car into a crowd of pedestrians at a Jerusalem bus stop on Monday, injuring 14 people, including a 15-month-old baby and an elderly woman, The Times of Israel reported. Three bystanders– a civilian, a security guard, and a soldier– opened fire on the driver as...

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Hamas, the Iran-sponsored terror organization that rules the Gaza Strip, has been funding the ISIS affiliate in the Sinai region of Egypt with tens of thousands of dollars per month in weapons sales, Ynet reported Monday. Hamas is paying the Islamic State militants in Egypt to secure weapons shipments being smuggled...

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Argentina’s new justice minister, Germán Garavano, announced that he will not renew a controversial agreement with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 AMIA community center bombing, The New York Times reported on Saturday. The deal was originally signed by the government of former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Although a court last...

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Iran has been bolstering the beleaguered regime of its ally, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, by recruiting Pakistani Shiites to fight against anti-Assad insurgents, Reuters reported Friday. Two men from the Zeinabiyoun, a unit of Pakistani Shiite fighters, were killed fighting in Syria last month. A Twitter account associated with the group has posted pictures of...

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A senior U.S. treasury official revealed that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has been the biggest buyer of oil from ISIS, with the terror group making over $500 million from oil sales to his regime and others, Reuters reported on Thursday. “[ISIS] is selling a great deal of oil to the Assad regime,” Adam Szubin, the acting...

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Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the couple who killed 14 people last week at a San Bernardino social services center, communicated with each other using encrypted devices, ABC News reported Wednesday. The senior officials who talked to ABC about the San Bernardino attack said that Farook and Malik both had...

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The recent wave of Iranian cyber-attacks against officials in the Obama administration is part of the Islamic Republic’s broader asymmetric warfare campaign against the U.S., Benjamin Runkle, a former Defense Department official, wrote in a column published by the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday. Runkle disputed a commonly stated belief...

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Five members of an Israeli-Arab family from Nazareth were arrested over suspicions that they support ISIS and were planning to carry out terror attacks in Israel, The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday. The cell’s members, all reportedly members of the same family, were arrested in October and November in...

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Egypt announced the destruction of some 20 recently discovered smuggling tunnels along its border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The Egyptian military, which shared the news on its official Facebook page, claimed that the tunnels were uncovered and destroyed last month. While no further...

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Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was instrumental in engineering the rise of ISIS, and his continued support of the terror group makes him a poor ally in the fight against it, David Blair, the chief foreign correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, argued in an analysis published Monday. Blair noted that in...

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