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TEL AVIV – A Palestinian jihadi militant has been killed while fighting for the Islamic State in Libya, the organization said. Mufleh Abu Azra, a senior member of the Palestinian jihadi group calling itself Jund Ansar Allah, or “Soldiers of the Followers of Allah” in the Gaza Strip, was allegedly killed in Tripoli.

JAFFA, Israel – An Egyptian teenager committed suicide on Valentine’s Day after a night out with her boyfriend, the Egyptian media reported. The young woman jumped to her death from her parents’ 12-floor window after her boyfriend’s stinginess frustrated her

TEL AVIV – A Saudi teacher who was filmed physically abusing a student has been suspended, winning both sympathy and condemnation on Arabic social media. In the video that went viral the teacher is seen addressing his class at Jeddah’s Alfaysaliya school for gifted children. A student named Hassan then asks a question, and the teacher becomes angry and starts slapping him on his head and pushing him into a corner.

JAFFA, Israel – PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat (pictured) has called on the British government to discontinue its punitive measures against universities and public associations that support boycotting Israel. Erekat condemned the British policy in a meeting with the British Secretary of

JAFFA, Israel – An article arguing that gender segregation causes homosexuality has sparked an uproar in Saudi Arabia.  In the article, entitled “Puberty, Gender Segregation, and Homosexuality,” Saudi author and researcher Suaad Alureifi wrote that her studies show that sexual orientation

JAFFA, Israel – A top Fatah official wrote on Facebook that the jailing of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert attests to the strength of the rule of law in Israel. “Today, Ehud Olmert became a prisoner after a court

JAFFA, Israel – Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan (pictured) has condemned the Palestinian Authority for continuing its security cooperation with Israel after a top member of the movement was arrested by the Israeli army. Dahlan publicly rebuked Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas,

TEL AVIV, Israel – A Hamas government decision to buy 36 new cars for senior public servants has caused a backlash on social media, with Gaza residents criticizing the ruling Islamist group for splurging during times of economic distress.

JAFFA, Israel – The former Grand Mufti of Egypt has weighed in on a question that has troubled Islamic theologians for some time. He controversially ruled that a martyr is “a man who loved a woman” in secret “and took

JAFFA, Israel – Against Terror, a new satirical Arabic-language website lampooning the Islamic State, has become the talk of the day on Arab social networks. The site, which seems to be Iraq-themed, is run by anonymous bloggers. The website has

JAFFA, Israel – The Islamic State released photos of the public punishment of a Syrian man convicted of theft, which included chopping off his hand with a machete. The punishment was carried out in Raqqa, Syria, the so-called Syrian capital

JAFFA, Israel – A new study has shown a sharp increase in drug use among Saudi teenagers, with one in three middle school students and one in four girls of the same age group saying they have used drugs. The

JAFFA, Israel – The Jordanian authorities have launched an investigation into Arab migrant parents who allegedly imposed no less than 20 arranged marriages on their daughter, who was a minor.

TEL AVIV – Screenshots obtained by Breitbart Jerusalem of an Egyptian suicide bomber’s online chat with another jihadist provide a rare inside glimpse into the Islamic State’s suicide operations.

TEL AVIV – Top Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk met with Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam (pictured above) and other officials in Beirut on Wednesday, Hamas announced in an online statement.

JAFFA, Israel – A Saudi man sentenced to four year’s imprisonment on terror charges surprised authorities with the copious amounts of pornography found on his personal computer alongside bomb-making instructions.

JAFFA, Israel – A Bahraini court was asked to okay sex reassignment surgery for a man who claimed that his manhood was “extinguished” after his wife spilled boiling oil on his genitals. The man, who is in his thirties, was

JAFFA, Israel – A Saudi government adviser has warned that even when the Islamic State is vanquished, many other “Islamic States” will follow. “Organizations like IS will always exist, because they distort the interpretations [of the scriptures] to their own

JAFFA, Israel – Hamas forces on Tuesday arrested a Shi’ite cleric, a representative of a newly arrived and as of yet incipient Muslim denomination in the Gaza Strip. The detainee, Mithqal Salmi, a resident of Shati refugee camp and neighbor

JAFFA, Israel – An adviser to the Grand Mufti of Egypt warned against the availability of the Islamic State’s propaganda radio network one week after the terrorist group launched an Android application to access the online radio stream. The Mufti’s adviser, Ibrahim Nijem,

JAFFA, Israel – Turkey will replace 50 male immigration officers with women to “cater to Saudi visitors,” an Ankara government official told the London-based Al Hayat newspaper. The decision was made “out of respect for the sensitivities and privacy of

TEL AVIV – A Saudi court sentenced six women and five men to imprisonment and flogging on charges of “obscenity” after they were caught together in a villa in the city of Jedda. The Jedda Police’s vice squad raided the

JAFFA, Israel – Islamic State militants in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula have burned large quantities of cigarettes slated for the Gaza Strip, a video released by the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency shows.

TEL AVIV – The Islamic State has published pictures of what the group says are dozens of new recruits training in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, warning that the terrorist group would soon confront the Egyptian army.

JAFFA, Israel – Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Saturday ordered his government to review religious education in the country, in an attempt to curtail the spread of terrorist groups like the Islamic State. The government was instructed to “review religious education in state

TEL AVIV – Hamas has drafted an “emergency” plan to be implemented in another conflict with Israel, a top Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – The Islamic State has released photos and videos showing officials working for the “Islamic Caliphate” in Nineveh, Iraq, carrying out infrastructure repair work. The images are the latest chapter in an ongoing propaganda effort to show that

JAFFA, Israel – A predominantly Islamic international conference was held in Istanbul over the weekend under the banner “together we will liberate Jerusalem.” Delegates from 30 Muslim countries participated in the meeting that was organized by the International Coalition of

TEL AVIV – Utilizing critical Iranian funds, Hamas has pressed on with completing the restoration of its network of tunnels, including those reaching into Israeli territory, a top Hamas diplomatic source told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – A pro-Hamas journalist has launched a highly unusual attack on the “boastful” statements made by some of the Islamist movement’s leaders regarding the network of terror tunnels along the border with Israel. “The public statements of our leaders are detrimental to

TEL AVIV – Islamic State supporters welcomed Wednesday’s attack in Jerusalem, calling the three terrorist perpetrators of the mayhem “martyrs” who acted in the name of Islam despite their Western looks and behavior.

TEL AVIV – The Huffington Post’s Arab world edition posted a headline hailing “Muslim adversary” Donald Trump’s loss to Sen. Ted Cruz in the Iowa Caucus on Monday.

JAFFA, Israel – Saudi Arabia has ways to influence Russia’s Middle East policy other than oil, a high-profile Saudi journalist with close ties to the royal family suggested on Wednesday. In an article published in the London-based Asharq al Awsat, Mshari Elzaydi

TEL AVIV – The presence of the Islamic State in Libya is a fait accompli, a top Jordanian intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem against the backdrop of an anti-IS summit held in Rome on Tuesday. IS is maintaining alliances with local

TEL AVIV – Donald Trump’s so-called loss to Sen. Ted Cruz in the Iowa Caucus on Monday was welcomed by Palestinians across the board, including members of terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip who spoke to Breitbart Jerusalem. Gazans expressed mild relief

TEL AVIV – The Islamic State organization has published pictures of its militants executing an Iraqi man who was accused of “cursing” Allah. The middle-aged “defendant” was beheaded in front of a live audience after his verdict was read out