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August 31, 2015

In the spring of 1995, 20-year-old Brandeis University student Alisa Flatow, who was studying at a women’s seminary in Israel, boarded a bus bound for the beach. She never reached her destination. A suicide bomber from Iranian-sponsored Palestinian...

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August 28, 2015

A 21-year-old British hacker who was a member of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was killed in a U.S. military airstrike earlier this week, the Pentagon confirmed Friday. "We can confirm that Junaid Hussain, an ISIS operative was killed in...

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August 27, 2015

The almost singular focus by the United States and some of its coalition partners on defeating the group known as the Islamic State appears to be giving new life to the group's chief rival. U.S. intelligence officials say despite hitting a low point...

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August 7, 2015

President Obama has seen fit to re-open diplomatic relationships with our most longstanding opponents in order to advance U.S. security interests. To talk with our most egregious adversaries while abandoning imperfect but proven allies like Malaysia...

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July 31, 2015

Key allies in the US and UK led war on Islamic State (IS) are covertly financing the terrorist movement according to senior political sources in the region. US and British oil companies are heavily invested in the murky geopolitical triangle...

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July 29, 2015

Kicking U.S.-based ISIS supporters off social media could provoke them to engage in lone-wolf attacks, according to a report prepared for the Department of Homeland Security and obtained by The Intercept.

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July 21, 2015

When a lone terrorist slaughtered 38 tourists at a Tunisian resort on June 26, the Islamic State turned to social media to claim credit and warn of more attacks on the world's nonbelievers.

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July 18, 2015

U.S. authorities are still investigating whether the Thursday attack on a military recruiting center and a Navy support center is an act of domestic terrorism, but jihadist sympathizers on Twitter wasted little time declaring it one.

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July 16, 2015

When a lone terrorist slaughtered 38 tourists at a Tunisian resort on June 26, the Islamic State turned to one of America’s leading social-media companies to claim responsibility and warn of more attacks on the world’s nonbelievers.

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July 16, 2015

While the world is transfixed on ISIS, its scrutiny dangerously overlooks Iraq’s Shiite militias. The popular mobilization forces (PMF)—a collection of Shiite, Iranian-backed militias—liberated Tikrit in April and are providing the muscle in today’s...

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers. 

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