The CIA and other intelligence services have estimated the fighting strength of Islamic State (ISIS) to be no more than 31,500 terrorists - but according to a senior Kurdish officer, that number is actually at least 200,000. Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff of Iraqi Kurdish Region President Massoud Barzani, told the Britain's The
Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar declared on Sunday that the terrorist movement is planning to develop its capabilities to carry out terror attacks against Israel from Judea and Samaria, and that it intends to continue to lead the Palestinian camp which advocates for armed struggle until Israel is destroyed. Al-Zahar, who spoke in Gaza,
A leading Iranian cleric has threatened to "raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground" if Israel attacks the country over its nuclear program. Speaking in a televised public sermon in the capital Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Movahedi-Kermani boasted that "the Sejjil ballistic missile can hit and raise to the ground any place in Israel,
Islamic State (ISIS) has beheaded US citizen and aid worker Peter Kassig, according to video footage posted on social media - even though the hostage converted to Islam. Kassig, who had converted and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman Kassig, is the fifth Western hostage to be murdered in ISIS's brutal social media campaign against
Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis, Egypt's deadliest terrorist group which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), claimed responsibility for a suicide attack last month that killed 30 soldiers, AFP reported on Saturday. The group made the claim in a video posted on social media, according to the report. Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis has killed scores of
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood and local affiliates as terrorist groups, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing state news agency WAM. The Gulf Arab state has also designated the Syrian based Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State (ISIS), whose fighters are battling Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, as terrorist organizations,
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus claimed the discovery in the name of Spain. "Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus," the
The Islamic State's Sinai Peninsula terror organization, which was named Ansar Bayt al-Makdas until it swore allegiance to Islamic State (aka ISIS), has blown up the pipeline carrying gas from Egypt to Jordan. The pipeline, which is 1,200 km long, and was built at a cost of $1.2 billion, is used for exporting natural gas to
A 35 year-old man was stabbed by an Arab terrorist in Jerusalem on Sunday night, on Haneviim street. A team of Magen David Adom medics at the scene gave him medical treatment and took the victim, while fully conscious, to Shaarei Tzedek Medical Center in the capital. The perpetrator, a 32-year-old Arab
Britain on Thursday condemned the two terrorist attacks that took place in Israel a day earlier. In a statement, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond condemned the attacks, which he called “appalling”, adding, “My thoughts are with everyone affected.” At the same time, Hammond also said he is “deeply concerned” by the tensions in the
