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JAFFA, Israel – Two Saudi women married to the same man have reportedly asked a younger woman to be his third wife, in what they say was a gesture of love to their man. Awad Elzuweibi, who is in his

JAFFA, Israel – One of the slain perpetrators of Friday’s deadly shooting attack in the Egyptian resort town of Hurghada made fierce anti-Christian remarks on Facebook shortly before the attack, the Egyptian media reported on Sunday.

JAFFA, Israel – A Saudi-based French engineer’s conversion to Islam has been celebrated in the kingdom’s media. The 57-year-old engineer, known as Gilbert, has worked for one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest construction companies for the past 15 years. He joined

JAFFA, Israel – The twentieth anniversary of the targeted assassination of top Hamas explosives expert Yahya Ayyash was marked in the Palestinian Territories on Tuesday. It was also marked on Twitter, with a #Ayyash_is_coming hashtag that reached more than 26

TEL AVIV – The United States has been promoting former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as a potential successor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a source in the Palestinian president’s office told Breitbart Jerusalem. The source said Abbas’ aides

JAFFA, Israel – The ongoing crisis in Saudi-Iranian relations has trickled into the Saudi Arabia’s predominantly Shi’ite, oil-rich eastern region, Arab media outlets have reported. Saudi police launched an inquiry into an attack on a bus taking government officials to

JAFFA, Israel – A Saudi bus driver was reportedly sentenced to imprisonment and flogging for allowing women to smoke, sing and dance in his vehicle, the Saidi-based SABQ news site reported on Wednesday.  The male driver, who drove female students from

JAFFA, Israel – Recently heightened tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have been unfolding in the media as well as the political and military realms. The first victory on that front has been scored by the Saudis, after an Iranian

JAFFA, Israel – Hamas security forces fixed surveillance cameras near the Gaza-Egypt border after Egyptian troops shot dead a young Gazan who swam into the country’s territorial waters.  The cameras are meant to “document the Egyptian forces’ human rights violations,”

JAFFA, Israel – The Egyptian government and media have stepped up efforts to quell potential riots on the fifth anniversary of the 2011 revolution. President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi fears that the Muslim Brotherhood will exploit today’s anniversary to stage riots against

TEL AVIV – An al-Qaeda affiliate in the Gaza Strip has claimed responsibility for Friday’s rocket attack on Israel.

JAFFA, Israel – Saudi Arabia and Iran have been fighting proxy wars in Syria and Yemen for quite some time, but the execution of a Saudi Shi’ite cleric over the weekend threatens to increase tensions even further.

TEL AVIV – Amid concerns that Jews might purchase property in Jordan, the head of the country’s lands administration affirmed that current law bars Israelis from doing so.

JAFFA, Israel – The Saudi authorities executed 47 terror suspects over the weekend, including a Shi’ite cleric whose death sentence raised the ire of Iran and its supporters. Since Nimr Baqr al-Nimr’s execution, Iran and Saudi Arabia have traded accusations, the

TEL AVIV – Friday’s shooting attack in Tel Aviv has fascinated Gaza’s Salafi jihadists, with one top Islamic State-aligned militant rejoicing at the possibility that the perpetrator was inspired by IS ideology.  “We hope it will emerge that the brother who carried out the

JAFFA, Israel – The former Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa, a controversial figure in the country, seems to have angered his conservative detractors even more than usual.

TEL AVIV – Hamas police in Gaza have banned New Year’s parties in restaurants and hotels throughout the Strip.

Salafi militants in Gaza have released a video under the banner “prepare us,” in which they call on Islamic State sympathizers and other jihadists to help them “get ready for war in the Holy Land.” The video is the latest

JAFFA, Israel – A Saudi man was arrested in a shopping mall in the city of Taeef while dressed in a niqab, a traditional women’s garb. The man, who is in his twenties, aroused the suspicion of a passer-by. He

A Cairo court has extended the remand of a leading Egyptian importer after he was allegedly involved in a homosexual relationship. The defendant, A.A., is charged with “sodomy,” the court wrote in the injunction. The man is also accused of

TEL AVIV – The Pentagon has reportedly denied Russian media claims that a top Islamic State commander was captured by American troops, while Kurdish security officials told the Al Hayat newspaper the commander was indeed seized over the weekend.

JAFFA, Israel – Twenty-three Saudi women have been indicted for membership of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, Al Arabiya website reported on Tuesday.

JAFFA, Israel – Thousands of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood activists have declared themselves supporters of the Islamic State, according to a Muslim Brotherhood member and a diplomatic source in Egypt. In light of Cairo’s repression of the country’s largest opposition group,

JAFFA, Israel – The Islamic State is an “army of terrorists” and its fighters are “soldiers for Israel,” the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abd al Aziz bin Abdullah el-Sheik, said on Monday. “IS were set up against Muslims and at

TEL AVIV – Hamas sources told Breitbart Jerusalem that the group’s chief, Khaled Mashaal, has been invited to Tehran by the Iranian government for the first time since 2011.

TEL AVIV – Breitbart Jerusalem conducted an exclusive interview with a leader of the up-and-coming Iran-backed militia in the Gaza Strip, calling itself Al-Sabireen.

JAFFA, Israel – The Saudi authorities have banned a controversial woman poet from participating in cultural events for 15 years, the Qatari-British Al Quds newspaper reported on Sunday. Hind Al-Mutairi (pictured), a critic of patriarchy and polygamy, was precluded at

Tunisia admitted that around 3,000 of its nationals have left for Syria and Iraq to fight in the ranks of the Islamic State, more than three times the number previously estimated. Walid Elwekeine, a spokesperson for the Tunisian Ministry of

TEL AVIV – Islamic Jihad sources told Breitbart Jerusalem that the movement has been suspending payments to its activists for three months.

JAFFA, Israel – A 9-year-old boy got engaged to an 8-year-old girl in the Egyptian town of Shirbin, Egyptian news media reported.

JAFFA, Israel – A young Saudi woman driver came under fire this week after a video of her driving a car in the city of Tabuk has gone viral on social media in the kingdom.

JERUSALEM – Hamas leader Khaled Mashal was denied entry to Jordan, a diplomatic source in Amman told Breitbart Jerusalem. Mashal made an official request earlier this month to visit the country and meet with King Abdullah, which was recently declined,

JAFFA, Israel – A member of the Fatah Central Committee pledged on Wednesday that the killing of a top Hezbollah operative “will not go unaccounted for.”  Al Ahmad, a loyalist of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, called Sunday’s assassination of Samir

JERUSALEM – In addition to an up-front bonus of $4,000, the Islamic State is promising new recruits free housing and even matchmaking assistance for those interested in getting married, Breitbart Jerusalem has learned.

JAFFA, Israel – Although some member states are not aware of its existence, the ideology behind a Saudi-led anti-Islamic State coalition is challenging the jihadi organization’s theological underpinnings, the Mufti of Egypt told Asharq Al Awsat newspaper. Shawki Alam, the religious leader

Jaffa, Israel – Palestinian social media has been abuzz with references to Hassan Nasrallah’s speech in the wake of the elimination of a top Hezbollah operative earlier this week, allegedly by Israel.