Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry announced that it had thwarted a car bomb attack against the American embassy in Riyadh, and had arrested 93 people, mostly Saudi nationals, for ties to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The New York Times reported yesterday. The ministry said in an statement that the suspects...
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Terrorists based in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets at Israel’s southern district late on Thursday as the state was celebrating its 67th Independence Day. One rocket exploded in an open, uninhabited area near Sderot while another fell short and landed within the Strip. While no casualties were reported, and...
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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released a 29-minute-long video on Sunday showing the executions of two different groups of Ethiopian Christians in Libya, where the organization continues to entrench itself. One group, wearing orange jumpsuits, was marched and then beheaded on a beach, believed to be along the Mediterranean coast....
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi approved (Arabic link) a new law that could impose a maximum penalty of life in jail for anyone convicted of digging smuggling tunnels under the Egyptian border with Gaza. The sentence also targets anybody who uses the tunnels, has contact with foreign parties connected to the...
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed by a number of American news shows yesterday explaining why the understandings reached last week about Iran’s nuclear program would constitute a bad deal. He told Martha Raddatz of ABC’s This Week: Well, I’m — I’m sure they think it’s a good deal, but we...
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On Thursday, Israel facilitated the entry of 1,000 tons of cement into the Gaza Strip, which remains the stronghold of terrorist group Hamas, according to a report by AFP. The cement entered Gaza in 175 truckloads through the Kerem Shalom border crossing and was paid for by Qatar, a strong...
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At least 21 people, most of them foreign tourists, were killed and dozens more injured when gunmen reportedly sympathetic to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) attacked a museum Wednesday located in the parliamentary compound in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. It was the deadliest terror attack on...
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Barely minutes after the news broke of yesterday’s terrorist attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis, in which 22 people, the vast majority of them foreign tourists, were murdered, jihadi sympathizers were taking to Twitter to crow about their latest success. “Tunisia is contributing the most number of mujahideen to...
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A video released Tuesday by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shows the killing of an Arab-Israeli recruit, who had left his home to join ISIS, for purportedly being a spy. The Times of Israel reports: In the video, Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam, 20, was seen kneeling in...
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Boko Haram, an Islamist terrorist organization based in northeast Nigeria, has pledged allegiance to ISIS, the Islamist terrorist organization that rules a self-declared caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, according to an audio statement released online Saturday. “We announce our allegiance to the Caliph … and will hear and...
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