Breitbart Jerusalem has gained insider access to an encrypted forum for Islamic State fighters and supporters, finding intense denial of the reports that Orlando terrorist shooter Omar Mateen was gay.
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian intelligence officials have broken up “the biggest terrorist plot” to ever target Tehran and other provinces in the Islamic Republic, the country’s state television reported Monday.
As Iraqi and international forces make preparations ahead of a final offensive on Mosul, the Islamic State’s stronghold in Iraq, and Russian forces continue their assault on Raqqa, IS’s Syrian “capital,” the radical organization’s propaganda apparatus is apparently trying to
The Jerusalem Post reports: Iraqi forces opened a second front on Saturday in preparation for an assault on the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, a day after government troops declared victory over the militants in Falluja. Elite counter-terrorism forces and two
The next war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza will be the last for the Islamist regime, a senior source in the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday, though he stressed that Israel will not be the side to initiate hostilities.
In an English language video posted to Facebook on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the casualties in Sunday’s deadly nightclub shooting in Orlando were victims of homophobia and intolerance and called on people not to give in to “hate and fear.”
TEL AVIV – The U.S. should expect more attacks like the terrorist massacre at the Orlando gay nightclub, according to Abu Bakr al-Maqdisi, an Islamic State fighter who recently returned to the Gaza Strip after being wounded in Mosul, Iraq.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel was ready to share intelligence with NATO to help fight extremist violence, as he met with ambassadors from alliance nations ahead of a summit.
JAFFA, Israel – The Syrian army reportedly reached the edge of the Raqqa region on Saturday, coming within the vicinity of the self-styled capital of the Islamic State’s “caliphate” for the first time since 2014.
Tehran on Sunday dismissed its renewed blacklisting by Washington as a state sponsor of terrorism charging that it was US allies including Riyadh that were the real culprits.
Israel’s crackdown on Arab citizens trying to join Islamic State in Syria or Iraq or to set up cells at home have prevented the threat reaching the scale seen in the West, an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a magazine interview.
TEL AVIV – The Israel Defense Forces on Monday arrested 11 Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus and the surrounding refugee camps on suspicion of illegal possession of firearms, in the latest string of measures against the territory’s militants and one day after Hamas operatives were arrested for masterminding a bus attack in Jerusalem last month, in which 19 Israelis were injured.
TEL AVIV – Gaza radicals have continued to join jihadi movements in Sinai despite Hamas’s efforts to seal the border, a source in the movement told Breitbart Jerusalem. Recently, Hamas reportedly pledged to the Egyptian government that it would do
A Sydney-based man was arrested on Thursday on charges of planning a terrorist attack in Australia, which reportedly involved targeting a naval base close to the capital’s famous opera house, police said.
Iran has officially resumed funding to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization, the London-based newspaper Asharq al Awsat has reported, confirming a Breitbart Jerusalem report last month.
Ynetnews reports: Four residents of the Israeli-Arab town of Jaljulia who were planning to travel to Syria and join ISIS were convicted by the Lod district court on Monday.
The Times of Israel reports: Despite a pairing up of two Islamic State-linked militant groups on Israel’s northern border and a show of boldness by the new alliance, their threat to the Jewish state remains minimal, experts on jihadi groups in Syria told the Times of Israel.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Islamic State threatens Israel in an article in its weekly newsletter this week, saying that unlike Hamas, the “war on Israel will not be limited by geographical boundaries or by international norms.”
TEL AVIV – In the last twenty-four hours, the missing the EgyptAir Airbus A320 that disappeared from radar after leaving Greek airspace had made stops in the hotspots of Tunisia and Eritrea.
TEL AVIV – Gaza Jihadists have published videos attacking Hamas as anti-Islamic in what Breitbart Jerusalem has learned was their latest attempt to persuade the Islamic State to recognize them as a local affiliate.
Fox News reports: Israel, Egypt, and Hamas agree on at least one thing: their mission to prevent the Islamic State terrorist group from expanding its grasp.
The commander of a French anti-jihadist force in Africa’s northern Sahel says Islamist insurgents are hitting soft targets elsewhere after losing the initiative in the region.
The Washington Post reports: CAIRO — The Islamic State’s affiliate in Egypt is staging increasingly sophisticated and daring attacks, officials and analysts say, prompting Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian militant group Hamas to form an unlikely alliance against the terrorist group.
Islamic State earns millions of dollars a month running car dealerships and fish farms in Iraq, making up for lower oil income after its battlefield losses, Iraqi judicial authorities said on Thursday.
The Washington Times reports: Iran has begun to ask its teenage boys to volunteer to fight in Syria in a sign the hard-line Islamic regime’s military is suffering rising casualties in the five-year war and needs a morale boost, an opposition group says.
Israel’s counter-terrorism bureau says the suicide bomber who killed three Israeli tourists in Istanbul last month did not specifically target Israelis but was taking aim at tourism in Turkey in general.
The news of the bombing of a Jerusalem bus that left on Monday 21 people injured, including two critically, was met with jubilant responses in the Gaza Strip.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Islamic State’s revenue has dropped almost 30 percent in the past year and the terrorist organization has resorted to imposing fines to make up the funds, new analysis released Sunday by IHS revealed. In mid-2015, Islamic
TEL AVIV – A Lutheran pastor and former U.S. Senate candidate told Iranian TV that Israel was “the chief player” in the September 11 attacks on the U.S. Mark Dankof, who is also a broadcaster in San Antonio, Texas, was commenting
LONDON (AP) — British police have been given more time to question four people in an investigation that is possibly linked to a key suspect in the deadly attacks in Paris and Brussels. Counterterrorism police on Saturday were given seven
The Jerusalem Post reports: Hamas’s armed wing, Ezzadin al-Qassam, has deployed members of its “Elite Forces” in various parts of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said over the weekend. The sources said that the Hamas forces have replaced the civilian police
Mohamed Abrini, who claims to be “the man in the hat” seen in footage walking into the Brussels airport alongside two suicide bombers, said during recent investigations that his accomplices had made plans to attack travelers at the hub in Belgium who were flying to Tel Aviv among other destinations.
A Belgian government minister has drawn an unlikely parallel between Muslim terrorists who evaded capture in Brussels after the Paris terror attacks and “the Jews who hid here during the Nazi occupation.”
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday admitted that Israel conducted “dozens of attacks” to prevent arms from reaching Hezbollah in Syria. Speaking during a visit to reserve soldiers serving along Israel’s northern border, the prime minister’s comments,
BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group has released most of the 300 cement workers it abducted near Damascus after questioning them to find out who were Muslims and killing four who were members of the minority Druze sect, a
The US embassy in Turkey on Saturday warned of “credible threats” to tourist areas in Istanbul and the resort city of Antalya, intensifying fears in a country hit by four suicide bombings this year. The fresh alert comes a day
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) celebrated on Thursday, at exactly 5:16pm, five years since the first rocket interception by the Iron Dome system. It began with the historic interception of a rocket fired from northern Gaza towards an Ashkelon neighborhood,
Three people were wounded on Thursday when two Katyusha-type rockets fired from an area in Syria controlled by Islamic State (IS) jhadists slammed into the centre of a Turkish town close to the Syrian border, a report said. The rockets
An operator working on Belgium’s federal hotline established after the Brussels terrorist attacks told a Jewish caller that Israel does not exist and is in fact called Palestine. According to a transcript of the exchange posted on the website of Joods Actueel,
TEL AVIV – In the aftermath of the attacks in Brussels, the Egyptian press claimed that European support for the Muslim Brotherhood is the reason terror has struck the continent. The editorial in the official Egyptian daily Al-Ahram asserted that Europe has maintained ties
