TEL AVIV — Writing in an encrypted message service, Islamic State militants and supporters have celebrated the news of deadly twin suicide bombings at two Coptic churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday.
TEL AVIV — Pro-Hamas Palestinians have taken to social media to fail the move by Hamas to hang three Palestinians last week who were allegedly convicted for collaborating with Israel.
TEL AVIV – Arab detractors of Iran have taken to social media to celebrate President Donald Trump’s “correction” of his predecessor’s Middle East policy by carrying out U.S. airstrikes Thursday night targeting a Syrian regime airbase allegedly utilized to launch a deadly chemical weapons attack
TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Authority has decided to freeze salary payments to tens of thousands of its employees in Gaza.
Hamas has started investigating its own officials in an attempt to establish the security malfunctions that gave way to the assassination of top militant Mazen Faqha last week, a senior official in the movement told Breitbat Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Hamas has completed the investigation of dozens of expats in Gaza, including American nationals, and found no evidence connecting them to the assassination of a senior militant in its military wing, a senior official in the movement told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – President Abdel Fatah Sisi’s visit to the United States later this month will be an opportunity to undermine the Muslim Brotherhood’s standing in Washington, former Egyptian ambassador to the US has said.
TEL AVIV — There is the potential for a series clash between Hezbollah and Israel, a senior Arab intelligence official said.
The Islamic State organization recently published pictures of the “sentencing” of a man suspected of homosexuality.
Hamas has beefed up security around its top leadership following the assassination of Mazen Faqha, a senior member of the movement’s so-called military wing, according to an informed Hamas militant.
TEL AVIV — Hamas has questioned American and European expats in Gaza in relation to last week’s assassination of one of its top militants, a senior Hamas source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Mazen Faqha, the senior Hamas terrorist who was assassinated outside his Gaza home over the weekend, had been engaged in planning a series of terrorist attacks against Israeli targets in the West Bank during the upcoming Jewish holiday season, a Palestinian security source close to Hamas’ military wing told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – A months-long financial crisis impacting Hamas has led to calls from within the Islamic terrorist group to renew its relationship with Iran in hopes of securing future financing, a top Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem
The Islamic State’s latest golden boy is a 65-year-old Iraqi suicide bomber who attacked Iraqi troops in Mosul, where the Iraqi army, supported by the US-led international coalition, is making last-ditch efforts to liberate from IS.
TEL AVIV – Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Sisi’s meeting with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas failed to yield a breakthrough in mending the sour relations between the two, a senior Egyptian Foreign Ministry official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Egypt’s First Lady Entissar El-sisi has come under fire for wearing ostentatious jewelry on Mother’s Day amid her husband’s efforts to encourage charity to the poor among the citizens.
TEL AVIV – Syria was most likely pressured by Iran to fire surface-to-air missiles at Israeli aircraft carrying out incursions into Syrian territory over the weekend, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
An imam was arrested earlier this week in Saudi Arabia on charges of performing sexual acts and operating a prostitution network from within a mosque, the Saudi media reported.
TEL AVIV – Hamas security forces have uncovered a rocket workshop run by a pro-Islamic State organization in Gaza, according to a jihadist in the coastal enclave.
TEL AVIV — Abu Baker Almaqdesi, a radical Islamist who returned to his native Gaza after fighting for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, claimed in an interview that IS-linked groups in Gaza and the Sinai made a strategic decision to turn their arms against Israel.
The Islamic State organization has pressed on with its propaganda effort while fending off counteroffensives on Mosul and Raqqa, its capitals in Iraq and Syria, respectively.
Christian dignitaries in the Egyptian city of Ismailia have been absorbing a wave of refugees from across the Sinai Peninsula after at least seven Coptic Christians were murdered by militants affiliated with the Islamic State.
Hamas has started court-martialing detainee jihadists accused of associations with the Islamic State as well as the relatives of accused militants, according to jihadi sources in Gaza affiliated with IS ideology.
Islamic State militants and supporters claim to be energized in their fight against the Iraqi counteroffensives in the IS stronghold of Mosul, according to messages contained in the organization’s internal communications and obtained by Breitbart Jerusalem.
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah came under fire this week for remaining defiant in the wake of reports of possible reductions in international aid.
Lionel Messi, one of the world’s most celebrated footballers, arrived in Egypt this week as part of a government campaign to resurrect the medical tourism industry, a vital source of revenue that has dwindled since the 2011 Arab Spring revolution and the political instability that ensued.
Hamas has raided weapons repositories of Islamic State-affiliated groups in the Gaza Strip in the wake of several rockets fired from Sinai into Israel, a top jihadi militant affiliated with IS ideology told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Hamas is drafting a new political and ideological charter in the wake of top militant Yehiyeh Sinwar’s recent election as party leader, a member of Egypt’s liaison team to Hamas told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — One of the five Islamic State militants allegedly killed in a drone strike in Sinai on Sunday was a former top Hamas operative who defected to join jihadist ranks in Egypt, according to Gaza jihadist sources speaking to Breitbart Jerusalem.
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Sisi met with Jewish-American leaders in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the Middle East and the political and economic challenges his country faces.
Hamas has decided to penalize more than fifty of its own militants who have expressed support for the Islamic State organization and its extremist ideology, in a bid to expunge IS-supporting elements from its ranks, according to a senior Hamas source.
Islamists worldwide have taken to social media to mourn the passing of the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdelrahman in US prison.
The Islamic State’s Zakat charity center in Raqqa, Syria, has handed out more than $500,000 in the last month, the pro-IS Aamaq news agency claimed.
Hamas has arrested owners of cross-border tunnels along the Egyptian border on suspicion of having allowed jihadists to cross into Egypt, jihadi sources in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — There is fear that further advances by the Syrian army, assisted by the Iran-backed Hezbollah and elite Iranian troops, may turn the Israel-Jordan-Syria border area into an Iranian proxy base, an Arab intelligence officer said.
TEL AVIV — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned on Thursday that his organization has the capacity to strike anywhere in Israel, including the nuclear reactor in Dimona.
Elements in Hamas’ political leadership have expressed concern that the election of a hardline militant as leader of the Islamic movement may jeopardize its recent diplomatic efforts to thaw relations with Egypt and could precipitate a more extremist approach toward the region.
Hamas has started arresting relatives of Gaza Salafists in an attempt to coerce the suspects to turn themselves in, Salafi propaganda arms are reported.
Hamas has offered Waliyat Sinai, the Islamic State’s Egyptian affiliate, to release some senior jihadi militants it has detained in exchange for facilitating the passage of Gaza-bound weapons shipments it has held up, according to a top Hamas source.
Hamas forces on Sunday demolished a half-built mosque that belonged to Islamic Jihad activists, claiming it was constructed on Hamas-owned land without the required permits.
