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A Pakistani cleric described as an associate of the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to wage jihad against Indian troops in Kashmir, the Times reported Friday.

U.S. participation in peace talks in Afghanistan is a sign that “the time of demise and humiliation of these tyrants has come near,” the Taliban supreme leader declared on Thursday.

Hundreds of people attended Thursday’s funeral of an 18-year-old Israeli soldier who was found dead hours earlier with stab wounds near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.

A Lebanese businessman designated by US authorities as an important financial supporter of Hezbollah was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to forfeit $50 million, the Justice Department said Thursday.

The High Court of England and Wales has rejected an Islamic State volunteer’s bid to overturn a Government decision to deprive him of UK citizenship.

TEL AVIV – Iran has agreed to raise its monthly payments to Palestinian terror group Hamas to $30 million in exchange for intelligence on Israeli missile stockpiles, Israel’s Channel 12 news reported Monday. 

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian man who received death threats because he saved the children of a West Bank rabbi after the latter had been killed in a terror attack was awarded Israeli residency Tuesday. 

The ongoing slaughter of Nigerian Christians by Muslim herders and terrorists is a powder keg waiting to explode, according to an essay Sunday by Christian persecution expert John L. Allen.

Afghan special forces reportedly killed or wounded 31 Taliban jihadis affiliated with al-Qaeda in eastern Afghanistan this week, including Chinese and Chechen militants.

TEL AVIV — Turkey has been working to bring thousands of Islamic State fighters to the region to launch campaigns in Iraq and in the Kurdish regions along the Syria-Iraq border, according to informed Middle Eastern defense officials.

The Islamic State terror group continues to pose a real and present danger, according to the latest United Nations six-month report on jihadist activities.

Militants from the Islamic State terror group killed at least seven Iraqi security forces and injured 16 more in two separate attacks late Wednesday night, Iraqi police have reported.

The Nigerian government insisted on Tuesday the homegrown jihadi group Boko Haram “is defeated” even as the organization continued a killing spree in its birthplace of Borno state that same day.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is a “terrorist supporter” and “terror sympathizer,” said former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik.

Episodes of assassinations, violence, and looting by the Boko Haram terror group have continued virtually unchallenged for many years, said Nigerian cardinal John Onaiyekan, and the government has yet to provide any effective remedy to the problem.

Local politicians and clergy honored the third anniversary of the death of the French priest Father Jacques Hamel, who was murdered by two jihadists while he was celebrating Mass.

Islamic State terrorists should be brought to justice via a system of trials modelled on those used to convict Nazi leaders at Nuremberg in the immedate aftermath of World War II, according to a lead UN investigator.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan this week advocated for “a reset” in his country’s tense relationship with the U.S., vowing to take decisive action against the “30,000 to 40,000” terrorists operating in his country as requested by the United States.

Bishop Laurent Birfuoré Dabiré of Dori has condemned the ongoing, targeted slaughter of Christians by Islamic radicals, warning it could lead to the elimination of a Christian presence in Burkina Faso.

The hundreds of deaths of settled Christian farmers in Nigeria at the hands of nomadic Muslim Fulani herdsmen “extremists” over the last few years have met the standards for “genocide,” a pro-religious minorities NGO recently argued to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Christian Post reported Monday.

A Nigerian general told Boko Haram jihadis over the weekend that surrendering and repenting would render them eligible to vie for the presidency or any other political position in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, largest economy, and biggest democracy.

TEL AVIV – Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri said in Tehran on Sunday that Hamas and Iran are on “the same path” in fighting Israel, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported.

The images speak for themselves. Just look at the horror taking place around the globe: toddlers carrying assault rifles as big as they are, children just old enough to play football strapping on suicide vests.

TEL AVIV – Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday that a delegation of senior officials from the terror group had arrived in Tehran for an unspecified purpose that would lead to “important results.”

Argentina designated the Iranian proxy organization Hezbollah an “Entity Tied to Acts of Terrorism” this week in anticipation of the anniversary of the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) headquarters Thursday, at its time the deadliest terrorist attack in the modern history of the Western Hemisphere.

TEL AVIV – The parents of a 15-year-old girl who was killed in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem in 2001 are calling on Congress to investigate why the terrorist behind the attack – Hamas’ first ever female jihadist – remains free in Jordan with her family and has not been extradited to the U.S.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Hezbollah that Israel would deal a “crushing” blow to Lebanon if it attacks, after the terror group’s chief, Hassan Nasrallah, warned that Israel would be “wiped out” in any conflict between the U.S.

A 13-year-old boy on Friday reportedly detonated a suicide bomb at a wedding party in Nangarhar, eastern Afghanistan, home to the most prominent Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) stronghold in the region, killing at least five people and injuring 14 others, according to local officials.

TEL AVIV – The Mossad together with Israel’s military intelligence thwarted 50 terror attacks by the Islamic State and Iran in 20 countries around the world over the past three years, a TV report said Tuesday. 

TEL AVIV – The IDF on Monday uncovered another attack tunnel from the Gaza Strip into Israel during construction of an underground barrier, the military said in a statement. 

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority is liable for damages potentially reaching NIS 1 billion ($280 million) in a slew of terror attacks carried out against Israelis during the Second Intifada, a Jerusalem District Court ruled in a landmark case Monday.

Peace talks between representatives from the United States and the Taliban continued in Qatar over the weekend as the narco-jihadi group detonated a car bomb outside a government security compound in central Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, killing 14 people and injuring more than 180, including many children.

TEL AVIV – The second son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef has fled the group and exposed it as a “racist terror organization,” following in the footsteps of his brother, the “Green Prince,” who escaped the clutches of the Islamist movement more than a decade ago.

Germany has been asked by the U.S. to step up and join the battle against Islamic State terrorists in Syria, as Washington looks to NATO allies to share the load in the fight against terror.

South Korean authorities are investigating a man who served in the country’s army on charges of stealing a device used in military explosives to potentially carry out an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist attack, the defense ministry announced on Friday.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australia’s government on Thursday proposed new laws that would prevent extremist Australians from returning home for up to two years, as the country prepares for the repatriation of Islamic State group supporters from the Middle East.