TEL AVIV – Al-Qaeda’s recent gains in Yemen attest to the failure of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy, said an Arab intelligence official who spoke to Breitbart Jerusalem.
JAFFA, Israel – Egypt has given Hamas a list of its members accused of collaborating with jihadi groups on the Egyptian side of the Gaza border, Cairo’s Misr Journal newspaper reported on Tuesday. The list contained the names of Hamas activists who
TEL AVIV – Fatah and Hamas have been engaged in a media war over the perpetrator of Monday’s car-ramming attack in the West Bank that left three Israeli soldiers lightly wounded. Both groups are claiming the attacker as a member.
TEL AVIV – A barrage of rockets was fired at Israel over the weekend and another one was launched on Monday in what seems to be a power struggle between Hamas and Salafi movements. Salafi militants allied with the Islamic State fired the rockets in protest of Hamas’ clampdown on jihadi groups, the Gazan-based Salafi leader Abu Ayna Al-Ansari told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV, Israel – The Islamic State’s leadership in Syria and Iraq has criticized ties between its affiliate in Sinai and the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, Salafi jihadist sources in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem.
JAFFA, Israel – The trailer for Tom Hanks’ latest film, A Hologram for the King, has raised the ire of some Saudi filmgoers for what they claim is an unflattering portrayal of their country. The film tells the story of a
TEL AVIV – An Islamic State faction in Sinai has been making gains against the Egyptian army and setting up autonomous enclaves in the peninsula, a Salafi militant source in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem. He claimed that the Arab and international media collude with the Egyptian army to downplay IS victories. IS, said the source, has driven troops out of the strategic Sinai towns of Sheik Zweid and Al Arish.
TEL AVIV – Hamas is facing accusations of cronyism for giving preference to its own members during the very limited periods the Rafah Crossing, the Gaza Strip’s only gateway to the outside world, is open. In 2015, the crossing was open for 26 days
JAFFA, Israel – No less than 50 armed militias are currently operating in the Gaza Strip, possessing around one million weapons of various kinds, an Egyptian newspaper claimed on Thursday. According to an investigative report in the Seventh Day daily newspaper, the leading militia is Hamas’ military wing, the Azz a-Din al-Qassam brigades, which is 18,000-24,000 troops strong.
JAFFA, Israel – A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a man to four years’ imprisonment and 1,000 lashes for “acting like a woman.” The defendant, a migrant from an unknown Arab country, was convicted of “inappropriate behavior” – an attempt to masquerade
JAFFA, Israel – Saudi Arabia is planning to “nationalize” its economy due to the country’s mounting deficit, which is the result of plummeting oil prices, structural problems in the economy, and the Saudis’ ongoing involvement in the conflict in Yemen. Last year, Riyadh registered a $100
TEL AVIV – In exclusive interviews, Islamic extremists in Gaza welcomed Tuesday’s stabbing rampage in Jaffa that left one American tourist dead and at least eleven people wounded, some seriously. The American victim was identified as Vanderbilt graduate student Taylor Force, 29, a U.S. military veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
TEL AVIV – Russia has exploited the United States’ near-complete absence in Syria to wield its influence beyond President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, including to the heretofore Western-backed Syrian opposition, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem. The Russian-controlled Hmeimim airbase,
JAFFA, Israel – The Saudi-led Muslim anti-terror coalition, boasting more than 20 member states, is about to complete Exercise North Thunder, its biggest military maneuver so far. The exercise was held in Hafr-el-Batin in northern Saudi Arabia and was intended to ensure Arab
JAFFA, Israel – Ahead of Tuesday’s International Women’s Day, Arab social media has been abuzz with discussions about the troublesome phenomenon of “aness” (spinsters) – single women older than 35, and in some countries 30. The stigmatized phenomenon is seen as a
TEL AVIV – Behind the scenes, Hamas has told Hezbollah that it rejects a resolution passed last week by a panel of Gulf states that designated the Lebanese militia a terrorist organization, a Hamas source told Breitbart Jerusalem. Unlike other Palestinian
TEL AVIV – An immensely influential Saudi columnist ranked the US presidential candidates on his Twitter account, offering insight into how this year’s election season may be perceived by Sunni Muslim elites across the Arab world. Khaled Eldakhil, a columnist for the London-based Al Hayat pan-Arab newspaper and a sociology professor at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia, tweeted: “For the Arabs, the worst candidates are first and foremost Donald Trump, who is a racist demagogue, and then Ted Cruz, one of the most radical neoconservatives in the Republican Party.”
JAFFA, Israel – The former Grand Mufti of Egypt has said that a woman can divorce her husband if he makes noises while eating. This is the latest in a series of outlandish remarks that have subjected the man who until recently was the
JAFFA, Israel – A female Egyptian lawmaker is supporting a bill that would ban women from wearing a face-covering veil, a custom increasingly common in hardline Islamist circles. Dr. Amneh Nusseir, a philosophy and religious studies professor at Cairo’s Al Azhar University, welcomed
JAFFA, Israel – The Islamic State published pictures showing its operatives exhibiting “judgement and compassion” against a man who confessed to prostitution, one of Sharia law’s most punishable offenses. Instead of stoning and whipping the defendant, the organization decided to spare him, citing his celibacy, and making do with censuring him in public.
TEL AVIV – Jordanian authorities are looking into an alleged plan by Islamic State militants to conquer the Jordanian town of Irbid near the Syrian border, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem. Four jihadi militants and a Jordanian security officer were killed early on Wednesday when troops clashed with gunmen in the kingdom’s second-largest city.
JAFFA, Israel – A Turkish supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted by a hardline, pro-Erdogan newspaper as saying that his country is “ready to invade Russia if the President [Erdogan] orders us to” in a testament to continuing tensions
JAFFA, Israel – Saudi Arabia’s Academy of Education and Public Consultation sparked controversy on Arabic social media when it scheduled a workshop under the title “Are women human beings?” Numerous Twitter users criticized the organizers of the workshop, who publicized it
JAFFA Israel – Russia is about to augment its economic and commercial ties to the Arab world, Russia Today’s Arabic-language channel reported. According to the network’s website, the Tunisian ambassador to Moscow told a local news agency that his country would
JAFFA, Israel – Driving schools in Gaza have complained after Hamas authorities imposed a new regulation whereby female students will have to be accompanied by a “lawful” male companion. Jaber Radwan, chairman of the driving schools’ association in the Strip, said
TEL AVIV – Ongoing violence in the West Bank combined with recent initiatives by Iran and its proxy terrorist group Hezbollah may motivate Fatah members to resume their armed struggle against Israel, a senior Palestinian security source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – During a military parade last week, Hamas unveiled an antiaircraft weapon and this week it published images of the Soviet-made, twin-barreled 23 mm autocannon.
TEL AVIV – Internal messages obtained by Breitbart Jerusalem show Islamic State supporters celebrated the deadly suicide attacks carried out by the organization’s operatives in a Shi’ite part of Baghdad on Sunday, rejoicing in the death and injury of “more than 100 infidels.”
TEL AVIV, Israel – Turkey fears that Russia’s growing involvement in the Syrian civil war on behalf of Bashar al-Assad’s regime may push the Syrian president to claim the disputed border region of Iskenderun, a senior Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
JAFFA, Israel – The Palestinian Authority will oppose an EU-brokered proposal to create a maritime route between Gaza and Cyprus, a PA official has said. Azzam Elahmad, head of the Fatah negotiating team with Hamas, said that the PA ruled out a proposal
JAFFA, Israel – Egypt will spend $1.5 million renovating Alexandria’s old synagogue after part of the ceiling collapsed in a rainstorm a few weeks ago, the head of Egypt’s National Jewish Antiquities Authority, Muhammad Mahran, said. Mahran stated that a comprehensive review of
The Islamic State has published pictures of a newly opened, state-of-the-art snack factory in Raqqa, its self-declared capital in Syria. Pictures of modern assembly lines, where snacks are being produced and packaged for the benefit of the so-called caliphate’s children, have been flaunted across the terrorist group’s propaganda platforms. The snacks look strikingly similar to Bamba, one of the leading Israeli-produced snack foods.
JAFFA, Israel – An Islamic group in Gaza raised the ire of Islamic State supporters after it published a manual entitled The Suspicious Story of IS and Ways to Deal With It. The publication, written by the Islamic theologian Imad
JAFFA, Israel – Kuwait police have published new “modesty rules” for its female officers following a recent surge in complaints. While on duty, female officers must not “wear tight clothes, conspicuous hairpins, bracelets and earrings,” the new regulations dictate. Nor
JAFFA, Israel – A Turkish foundation has launched a public photo exhibition on the Istanbul Metro in a bid to raise awareness of “Jerusalem and the plight of its Palestinian residents.” The exhibition, entitled “Dear Passenger, Please Stand Up and Look
TEL AVIV – Hamas police on Tuesday arrested a government official who openly criticized the Islamist movement’s decision to buy new vehicles for its leaders. As Breitbart Jerusalem reported last week, the decision to buy 36 new cars for Hamas’ top officials during
JAFFA, Israel – An officer in the Saudi army has sparked controversy in the kingdom after he said he intended to recruit women into his special security unit. Saad Elijabry, commander of the Unit for Protection of Special Facilities, said at
TEL AVIV – With little fanfare, the Treasury Department earlier this month imposed financial sanctions on three Islamic State leaders, including a jihadist from the Gaza Strip it said was central to recruiting and deploying foreign fighters and establishing an IS base inside Gaza.
JAFFA, Israel – A Saudi documentary film about Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has sparked controversy in the kingdom. Some Saudis believe that “Hassan’s Story,” produced by the local Al Arabiya network, depicted one of the chief allies of Iran, Saudi Arabia’s great
JAFFA, Israel- Men will be banned from working in women’s shops, the Saudi Ministry of Labor has announced. It is imperative that “the staff in shops whose main clientele are women – like lingerie, cosmetics, and baby shops – will
