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The U.S. government has added three senior al-Qaeda leaders based in Iran to the Treasury Department list of “Specially Designated Global Terrorists,” which means they will be subject to sanctions even as President Obama’s nuclear deal pours billions of dollars into Iran’s coffers.

A little more than a month ago, Libyan forces claimed they had all but driven the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) out of their stronghold in Sirte, birthplace of Muammar Gaddafi. “We think that Sirte will be liberated within days, not weeks,” a military spokesman said, saying the only real problem remaining was an infestation of ISIS snipers.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has been able to attract foreign fighters from various corners across the world, including northwest China’s volatile and predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang, home to the ethnic Uighur population.

The Russian military on June 16 bombed a “secret base” near the Jordanian border in Syria used by “elite American and British forces” as part of efforts to strong arm the Obama administration into agreeing to cooperate with Moscow, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

A woman accused of funneling money to the al Qaeda-linked group al Shabaab willingly admitted that she is an ardent supporter of the Somalia-based terrorist organization on the first day of her trial.

The New York Post’s Paul Sperry discussed his analysis of the declassified “28 Pages” from the 9/11 report on Breitbart News Sunday with host Stephen K. Bannon. As the title of Sperry’s article puts it: “Yes, the Saudi Government Helped the 9/11 Terrorists.”

The expanded military authorization granted by President Barack Obama last month, which allows American troops supporting their Afghan counterparts to offensively target the Taliban rather than waiting for the terrorist group to attack first, is leading to progress on the battlefield, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan told USA Today.

After many years of lobbying, the so-called “28 pages,” a classified section of the Congressional 9/11 report, have been declassified and released to the public.

TEL AVIV – London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published a column last week calling for the Arab and Muslim world to follow post-WWII Germany’s lead and purge itself of extremist elements in much the same way Germany uprooted Nazism – “with an iron fist.”

A Tunisian man living in France plowed a large truck through the ultimate “soft target” — thousands of Bastille Day revelers who had gathered to watch fireworks in an open venue at the French resort city of Nice — quickly killing at least 84 people and wounding another 202 during a national holiday akin to America’s Fourth of July.

Breitbart News National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, author of the bestselling book Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, appeared on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon to discuss Thursday’s massacre in Nice, France.

While the Obama administration continues to allow the Muslim Brotherhood to direct American foreign policy and, therefore, to implement “strategies” that render America defenseless in the face of Jihad and stealth Jihad, there are some alternative strategies that have the potential to turn this catastrophic situation around completely in America’s favor.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda have praised the Dallas attack that killed five police officers and wounded another nine last week, urging black Americans, in race-baiting messages posted online, to carry out more violence.

The son of Osama bin Laden has vowed that al Qaeda will take revenge against the United Sates for assassinating his father, reveals an audio message posted online by the global jihadist group.

Bangladeshi authorities failed to heed online warnings of an imminent attack in the capital of Dhaka on July 1, reports Reuters.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in Bangladesh that killed at least 20 hostages, but some officials doubt the jihadist group carried out the massacre.

The U.S. Department of State deemed al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) a “foreign terrorist organization” (FTO) and its leader Asim Umar a “specially designated global terrorist” the day before the attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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.

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has released a video message warning the United States that it will face the “gravest consequences” if Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is executed. Tsarnaev, 21, was sentenced to death by lethal injection last year.

Breitbart News National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka took a look at the House Benghazi Committee’s report on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon.

Two dozen men charged with supporting ISIS are squeezed into a cage in Jordan’s state security court. After brief questioning from a judge, they file back out, and guards usher in the next group of accused militants.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) core in Iraq and Syria is losing territory, fighters, leaders, and financial resources, while its Syrian rival Jabhat al-Nusra flourishes, becoming the “largest” al Qaeda affiliate “in history,” President Barack Obama’s special envoy for the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS told lawmakers.

A U.S. Green Beret in Afghanistan recently declared that America is “not at war with the Taliban,” reflecting the rules of engagement implemented by President Barack Obama, which allow lawyers to dictate when military force is justified, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Militants from the al-Shabaab jihadist group attacked a police vehicle in northern Kenya Monday morning, firing a rocket propelled grenade that killed five officers, leaving two of them burnt beyond recognition.

The number of CIA drone strikes have plummeted to a low single digit so far in 2016, President Barack Obama’s last full year in office, reports The Washington Post (WaPo), citing unnamed current and former U.S. officials.

One of the most painful lessons we learned from the Iraq war is that nation-building in the Middle East rarely works out as planned.

TEL AVIV – Intelligence indicates there will most likely be more attempted terror attacks in the West in the coming weeks and that IS is focusing its current recruitment efforts on women, a knowledgeable Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Boko Haram – one of 34 ISIS affiliates and among the world’s deadliest terror groups – in 2014 notoriously kidnapped more than 200 school girls in Chibok, Nigeria. The administration responded with a memorable Twitter campaign featuring First Lady Michelle Obama holding a placard with the

The hot new meme about Orlando jihadi Omar Mateen is that he became “self-radicalized.”

“We have to acknowledge that we’re in a war against Islamic fascism,” Blackwater CEO and former Navy SEAL Erik Prince told SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Tuesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily. “It is Islamic Sunni fascism, or Shia fascism, but it is fascism — that which seeks to force its own adherence, to live a certain way, and to force that way of life onto anyone it contacts.”

Police in Bangladesh arrested over 8,000 people this week in connection to a wave of hacking murders by radical Islamists, targeting secular bloggers, professors, and LGBT advocates.

The retired CIA officer, who was in Afghanistan working against Al Qaeda more than a year before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, told Breitbart News reporter Tom Trento Americans must ignore false media-hyped narratives that the Orlando massacre was about gay rights or too many gun owners.

Contents: Al-Qaeda leader swears allegiance to Taliban’s new leader; ISIS losing ground may have led to Orlando terror attack

TEL AVIV – A top Islamic State-tied jihadist in the Gaza Strip claimed in an interview on Sunday that he “knows” that Omar Mateen, the Orlando club shooter, was a member of a terrorist organization. Abu al-Ayna al-Ansari, a Salafist

The U.S. State Department insists that the “cessation of hostilities” in Syria is doing great, even as dictator Bashar Assad vowed the “bloodshed won’t come to an end” until all rebel forces have been destroyed.

70-year-old Hindu priest Anando Gopal Ganguly was riding his bicycle to a temple on Tuesday morning in the Jhenaidah district of Bangladesh when three men on motorbikes shot him then slashed him with bladed weapons, nearly decapitating him. His body was found in a field near the temple.