JAFFA, Israel – Iranian conservatives have started promoting a top Revolutionary Guards commander as a potential successor of President Hassan Rouhani, the London-based Al Quds al Arabi newspaper reported.
Despite its very public military setbacks in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State has persisted with iron fist policies toward the subjects of its “caliphate.” The global terror group’s propaganda organ has recently published photos purporting to show “verdicts” on people charged with prostitution, blasphemy, and treason.
There were many more Christians in history who beheaded Muslims than vice-versa while the Islamic State has nothing against Christianity, a Palestinian jihadi clearly ignorant of his religion’s own bloody history claimed to Breitbart Jerusalem on Tuesday in response to the beheading of a priest in a church in France on Tuesday.
Nusra Front, the Syrian affiliate of Al Qaeda, has decided to go independent, the Arabi21 website reported citing several source.
JAFFA, Israel – Former Saudi general Anwar Eshki’s visit to Israel last week has stirred controversy among opinion makers on Arab social media, earning him the hashtag #Eshki_in_Israel and leading many to accuse Riyadh of collusion with the “Zionist enemy.”
JAFFA, Israel – Several injuries have been reported in a scuffle between Christians and Muslim in central Egypt.
Hamas is likely to win the Palestinian municipal elections scheduled for October, Fatah and Palestinian Authority officials fear.
Turkey and Egypt have been engaged in an all-out media war after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Cairo of being instrumental in last week’s failed attempt to overthrow him.
JAFFA, Israel – The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday raided an arms cache near Nablus, in the West Bank, arresting 13 suspects in trade and illegal possession of firearms, including the head of security at the city’s Al Najjah University.
The Islamic State’s propaganda apparatus has suffered a setback in recent weeks, loyalists in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem, admitting that the decline in the organization’s online presence came as it experienced a series of defeats on the battlefield.
Three young men have been arrested in south-western Saudi Arabia on suspicion of entering a section of the Jizan regional airport grounds without authorization, allegedly searching for Pokemon Go.
Firearms prices in the West Bank have increased exponentially, a Palestinian security official told Breitbart Jerusalem, a testament to a decline in law and order in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
The turmoil in Turkey following the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is likely to benefit Bashar al Assad’s regime in Syria, according to the analysis of an Arab intelligence official speaking to Breitbart Jerusalem.
JAFFA, Israel – Christians in Egypt have protested their government’s foot-dragging on passing a new law regulating church building in the country.
The Hamas leadership “panicked” as news of the military operation to oust Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came in on Friday, a top official in the movement told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority leaders, jockeying for power, have started arming loyalist groups as President Mahmoud Abbas is estimated to step down at some point in the near future, a Palestinian security source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Turkey is convinced Arab countries were involved in Friday night’s failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem. The source said that Ankara believes the UAE and Egypt, two of the bitterest enemies
JAFFA, Israel – Reactions to the truck-ramming terror attack in Nice on Thursday, which left more than 80 people dead and 100 injured, dominated Arab social media.
It is yet unclear whether the “Tunisian brother” who carried out the truck-ramming massacre in Nice on Thursday was commissioned by the Islamic State (IS) leadership or acted on his own, a top Salafi jihadist leader allied with IS ideology in the Gaza Strip told Breitbart Jerusalem.
JAFFA, Israel – The Saudi government has reportedly issued a directive banning its diplomats from wearing suits in favor of the traditional garb.
TEL AVIV – Hezbollah has renewed its efforts to mediate between Hamas and Iran after a Revolutionary Guard official accused the movement of seeking a truce with Israel brokered by Turkey. Hasro Aruj, a top commander in Iran’s elite unit, said that
Thirteen Gazans have been arrested in Turkey over the last month on suspicion of supporting the Islamic State organization, jihadi sources and the relative of one of the suspects in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem.
A Saudi imam risks losing his job after a video of an animated end of Ramadan celebration he organized inside a mosque has sparked a controversy in the ultraconservative kingdom.
TEL AVIV – Hamas has foiled a large-scale attack on the Gaza government institutions, facilities and people that was planned by Islamic State loyalists, a senior official in the movement told Breitbart Jerusalem.
JAFFA, Israel – The massacre of five policemen in Dallas, Texas, has stirred a commotion on Arab social media, with many users gloating at America’s misfortune.
JAFFA, Israel – Israel has allowed tens of tons to humanitarian aid into Gaza for Eid al Fitr festival, as per the provisions of its normalization pact with Turkey, signed last week. Forty-two truckloads of Turkish provisions have entered the
A women-only mobile phone shopping center is slated to open in Saudi Arabia, a part of a nationwide plan to “renationalize” the kingdom’s cellular communications market that relies almost entirely on a foreign workforce.
Egypt’s former Culture Minister Jaber Asfur faced backlash after he demanded that the government remove pro-Jihad verses from the state curriculum.
TEL AVIV – Hamas arrested six jihadi fighters this week shortly after their return to their native Gaza after fighting for the Islamic State in Egypt. They planned to establish an IS cell in Gaza, a top Hamas official told
JAFFA, Israel – Saudi public opinion has been reeling from Monday’s deadly bombing at the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, considered the second-holiest site for Muslims.
TEL AVIV – Islamic State has faced significant difficulties in enlisting Western recruits, an Arab intelligence official has told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The Islamic State organization has published pictures taken at an “execution ceremony” for an Iraqi man the terror group says was convicted of engaging in witchcraft and fortune telling.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s security services foiled a large-scale terrorist attack in Jerusalem on Friday, a Palestinian security official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – As the anti-Islamic State coalition forces prepared to strike the terrorist group’s strongholds in Mosul, Iraq and Raqqa, the Islamic State’s propaganda apparatus continued to release gory photos of so-called justice from areas under its control.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s Fatah movement has called on the public to rally at Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque to prevent the “occupation government” from allowing “settlers” into the holy site during Ramadan. The Temple Mount is considered the
Pressure within Hamas’ military wing to restore strategic relations with Iran is mounting in the wake of Israel’s reconciliation pact with Turkey, a top Hamas source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
An Arab intelligence source warned against getting excited by the reported retreats of the Islamic State across the region, revealing Al-Qaeda is moving in to fill the void.
Two Palestinian security officers were killed late Wednesday night while clashing with gunmen in Nablus, sending the long since touted incipient anarchy in the West Bank on a downward spiral.
JAFFA, Israel – Several hashtags have been launched on Arab social media, including the popular #Turkey_is_not_alone, as tens of thousands have reacted to Tuesday’s attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport.
TEL AVIV – The Islamic State has not claimed official responsibility for Tuesday’s deadly Istanbul airport attack as if this writing, but users in an encrypted messaging forum for Islamic State fighters and supporters are praising the triple assaults and hoping IS was behind the carnage that left 41 people dead and wounded more than 239.
