US intelligence officials intercepted calls between ISIS members in the Sinai Peninsula and their superiors in Syria, in which the terrorists bragged about downing a Russian plane, NBC reports. The officials added that an additional message preceded the crash and stated that there would be "something big in the area," though it did not
ISIS released 37 Syrian Christians Saturday, most of them women, who were among more than 200 people kidnapped in February, an NGO said. The group of Assyrian Christians consisted of 27 women and 10 men, most of them elderly, the Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights. They arrived on Saturday morning in the town
Hamas politburo leader Khaled Mashaal has called to establish a "Palestinian leadership united on the ground," so as to manage the current terror wave and use it to achieve an end of "the occupation and the Israeli settlement." In a press conference with journalists from Gaza, Mashaal said the true goals of the current
A coalition including Syrian Arab groups regained a swath of territory in northeastern Syria from Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists, a US military spokesman said Wednesday, calling it an encouraging success. The fighters, who are from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and its Syrian Arab Coalition subgroup, regained 87 square miles (255 square kilometers) near
The Editor-in-Chief of a major Palestinian news network, Maan News Agency, has delivered an astonishing monologue in which he denies Jewish rights to an independent state and declares that Jews will only ever be secure under Arab rule. Dr. Nasser al-Laham delivered his three-minute-long statement last Wednesday on Maan Network Online, which has since
A picture from Gaza is creating a stir online, providing a chilling insight into the degree to which popular Palestinian Arab society and culture, particularly in the Islamist-ruled enclave, has become saturated with violent incitement. The photo, purportedly taken in Gaza City, was first published by the pro-Hamas Shehab News Agency Facebook page. It
A senior officer in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards unit has been killed in Syria, the fourth Iranian commander to die there in the last month, state media said Tuesday. Colonel Ezzatollah Soleimani died during an "advisory mission" near the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, according to Fars news agency. Iranian media have since
Hamas is demanding that Britain apologize for the 1917 Balfour Declaration, in which then-UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour declared that Britain would support the establishment of a national homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel. In an official statement to mark 98 years since the declaration, Hamas' refugee affairs department said
Russia's air force has struck the area around the Islamic State-held ancient city of Palmyra, the defense ministry said on Monday, as Moscow pressed on with its bombing campaign in Syria. "Su-25 jets hit a fortified ISIS position in the Tadmur area of Homs province," Moscow's defense ministry said, according to the AFP news
More details are emerging about the audio recording released Sunday by Ayman Al-Zawahiri, leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization. According to additional excerpts released on Monday, Zawahiri welcomed the latest terrorist attacks in Israel and called for Muslims to work to “liberate” Jerusalem. Zawahiri says that “Muslims everywhere” are upset by the “Jews’
