Israel filed charges against three men who attempted to smuggle materials for weapons manufacturing into Gaza by sea, Israel Hayom reported today. The Israeli military says a boat carrying materials for making weapons was intercepted by the Israeli Navy last month en route to the Gaza Strip from the Sinai...

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Administration spokespeople were caught flat-footed after defending President Barack Obama’s characterization of the shootings at a Paris kosher market as “random,” only to back down after criticism later in the day. In a interview yesterday with Vox.com, President Obama referred to the terrorist who killed four Jews at the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Paris as “a...

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Egyptian sources claim that the large scale counter-terrorism operation carried out by the Egyptian army against insurgents in the northern Sinai Peninsula is achieving positive results. The operation has intensified since the Islamist terrorist group called Sinai Province carried out a series of coordinated attacks that killed more than 30...

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An Iranian diplomat was expelled from Uruguay two weeks ago after a bomb detonated near the Israeli embassy there, according to a report published in Ha’aretz today. Investigations carried out by Uruguay’s intelligence services after the discovery of the device yielded information pointing to a possible involvement of someone at the...

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Arab world experts and commentators predict that the execution of the Jordanian pilot by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will prompt Jordan to intensify the activity of its military in the international coalition fighting the terror organization in Iraq and Syria. The pilot, Moath Al-Kasasbeh, is the latest captive...

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) aim to enhance its control over two of its proxies in the Middle East, an Arabic magazine reported. The new strategic plan of the IRGC includes plans to transfer the decision-making from local figures in each area to the IRGC’s elite Quds Force. Al-Watan Al-Arabi reported (Arabic link)...

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Egypt became on Sunday the first Arab country to designate the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a faction of Hamas, as a terrorist group. The court that made the designation accused the Hamas branch of launching terrorist attacks to support the Muslim Brotherhood and executing a bombing that killed 33 security personnel in...

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A video released today shows the execution by burning of a Jordanian pilot, Moaz al-Kasasbeh, who was captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) when his plane was shot down in December near Raqqa in Syria. The BBC reports: Jordan has confirmed the death of pilot Moaz...

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Both Iran and Hezbollah are threatening worldwide retaliation against Israel after the January 18 deaths of a number of Hezbollah terrorists and Iranian military officers, according to a report by Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs that was published Sunday. Shapira noted that in many news reports, Hezbollah was...

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Documents found in the garbage of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s apartment show that he had intended to ask a judge to arrest Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman, according to a report (Spanish link) yesterday in Clarin, a Spanish-language newspaper in Argentina. Nisman died of a gunshot...

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