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November 26, 2012 EU Ignores Most of Hezbollah Terror in Ban Decision The 27-member European Union has largely circled the wagons around the investigation into Hezbollah’s role in the July... November 26, 2012 France Slated to Open First Gay Mosque Muhammad Ludovic Lütfi Zahed, a gay French-Algerian man, is slated to open the first gay mosque at the end of November. The Turkish daily newspaper... November 26, 2012 Iran: Nuclear Moment of Truth Nears In September, when Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, famously showed the United Nations General Assembly a crude picture of a bomb to highlight Iran’s proximity to nuclear... November 26, 2012 Another IMU ‘Weapons Facilitator’ Captured in Northern Afghanistan Afghan and Coalition forces captured a "weapons facilitator" from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan during an operation in Kwajah district in Afghanistan's Takhar province y... November 26, 2012 Taliban, Tribal Leaders Work Together in North Waziristan This article in Dawn highlights the close links between the local tribes in North... November 26, 2012 Boko Haram Suicide Bombs Kill 11 at Nigerian Military Church Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist terror group that has been linked to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Shabaab, killed 11 people in an attack today on a church at a military base in Kaduna. T... November 26, 2012 Tawhid and Jihad Official Praises Fellow Gazan Jihadists and Calls for Unity By David Barnett On Nov. 21, an audio speech from Abdullah Jihad al Ashqar (Abu al Muhtasib al Maqdisi), a media official for Tawhid and Jihad Group in Jerusalem, was released t... November 26, 2012 Al Nusrah Front Claims Suicide Attack at Hospital, Joint Operation with Chechen Fighters The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, has claimed credit for yet another suicide attack as w... November 26, 2012 Taliban Claim Attacks Against Shia Worshipers in Pakistan The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed credit for a suicide attack in Rawalpindi that killed 12 people... November 26, 2012 Syrian Jihadist Groups Reject Rebel Council, Call for Islamic State Fourteen jihadist groups based in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a hub of fighting during the nearly two-year old rebellion against the regime of President Bashir al Assad, have banded together to re... November 26, 2012 US Adds Pakistani Hawala, 2 Taliban Financiers to Terrorism List The US Treasury Department added a Pakistani hawala, or money exchange, and two of its owners, to the lists of global terrorists and entities. Rahat Ltd., a Pakistan-based hawala, and it... November 23, 2012 How Gaza Changes the Game Seven days ago, Israel embarked on Operation Pillar of Defense, the second time it’s gone to war against Hamas in the past four years. The proximate cause of this campaign, according to Isr... November 23, 2012 Letters of Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Security Council Now that Israel is fighting back against the rocket-launching Iranian-backed terrorists of Gaza, the United Nations has swung into a frenzy of activity, calling for immediate measures to stop the... November 23, 2012 Ground to a Halt It’s been twenty months since the Syrian people rose up against the regime of Bashar Assad. During this time, large swathes of land in northwestern Syria have fallen out of government contr... November 23, 2012 Winners And Losers A ceasefire was announced between Isra... November 23, 2012 China’s Iran Oil Imports Drop Further China's imports of Iranian crude oil are down by about one-fifth so far this year, a drop that puts the country in good position to avoid U.S. sanctions and head off a diplomatic row with Wa... November 23, 2012 A Sudan Surprise Sudan has played a key role in arming Hamas militants with sophisticated Iranian-made rockets, experts said. The Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) principal objective in Gaza is to rid... November 22, 2012 What If Iran Had Had Nukes? Israel — as its friends and enemies never forget — is a “one-bomb country.” One nuclear weapon is all it would take to wipe out a nation whose te... November 21, 2012 From al Qaeda in Italy to Ansar al Sharia Tunisia Two convicted members of an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group in Italy are now senior members of Ansar al Sharia Tunisia. The pair, Sami Ben Khemais Essid and Mehdi Kammoun, were arrested in 20... November 21, 2012 Hamas Rockets Shower on Southern Israel Sderot, Israel — The radical Islamic organization Hamas continued throughout today, Tuesday, with its barrage of rockets into Israel. The number of Hamas missiles fired today... November 21, 2012 Israel’s Just War This is the third time the world has seen this tragedy performed. Act I was in 2006, during Israel’s Lebanon War with Hezbollah. Act II played out in 2008 and early 2009, with the first Gaz... November 21, 2012 The Myth of a ‘Pragmatic’ Hamas The ongoing conflagration in the Gaza Strip makes one wonder if some have forgotten the very basics of the English language. Whether or not a ceasefire is reached between the two parties... November 21, 2012 Intervention in Syria In the run up to the elections, America’s Middle East allies were convinced that President Obama was too consumed with domestic politics to pursue a more muscular approach to Syria. O... November 20, 2012 Israeli Conflict with Hamas Brings Grim Reality of Terror Home TEL AVIV — The explosion rang out high above the office where I was working. On a Saturday morning when most of the world was resting, or waking up to coffee and cartoons, Is... November 20, 2012 Ansar al Sharia Egypt Releases Founding Statement Ansar al Sharia Egypt has published its founding statement online. The group says that "preaching and jihad are two wings that are indispensable to the spread of Islam," according to a translatio... November 20, 2012 The U.N. Tilt to Terrorists Nowhere in the charter of the United Nations is there any mandate for the U.N. to stack the deck in favor of terrorists. Yet that is exactly the effect of the current U.... November 20, 2012 How Israel’s Iron Dome Won the War Egypt, the United States, the UN and various other international actors have been pushing hard for a... November 20, 2012 Clinton in the Mideast, Facing a War with No Decisive Victories Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has... November 20, 2012 Are Gaza Strikes a Dress Rehearsal for Potential Israeli Assault on Iran? Israel may be targeting more than Hamas as it escalates its bombing campaign in Gaza and tries to eliminate the threat of increasingly lethal stockpiled rockets. Israel's real target may be... November 20, 2012 Hamas’s Political Wartime Gains Many people have questioned what Hamas has to gain in its recent escalation of violence with Israel. In the political arena, both domestically and abroad, the conflict with Israel presents many s... November 20, 2012 Obama Warns Egyptian President Morsi to Rein in Terrorists in Gaza President Obama on Monday warned Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi that he must get the violence in Gaza under control. Frustration in the U.S. over rocket attacks on Israel from Hamas mi... November 20, 2012 Egypt President Says Peace May be Close in Gaza-Israel Egypt's president said a cease-fire agreement was close to stopping "Israeli aggression" as Palestinians fired more rockets at Israel on Tuesday, including one toward Jerusalem that exploded... November 19, 2012 A Pillar of Problems Israel's Operation Pillar of Defense, after six days of air strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza, could be entering into a new phase of a larger ground invasion. While the war has been diss... November 19, 2012 The ‘Hybrid View’ of Benghazi The Washington Post... November 19, 2012 Who Politicized Intelligence on Benghazi? During... November 19, 2012 Perceptions of the “Arab Spring” Within the Salafi-Jihadi Movement Co-authored by Tara Vassefi “The popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain have not only shaken the foundation of the authoritarian order in the... November 19, 2012 Pro-Taliban Pakistani Islamist Leader Targeted in Suicide Attack The former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a political party that supports the Taliban, was the target of a female suicide bomber in Pakistan's violence-ridden northwest. Qazi Hussai... November 19, 2012 Brigades That Fire on Israel Are Showing a New Discipline From the time he was a boy, Ali al-Manama dreamed of joining the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic... November 19, 2012 Israel-Hamas Fight More Risky in a Changed Mideast When Israel launched retaliatory air and ground attacks against Palestinians in 2008, Egypt's president at the time showed no sympathy for the Palestinian cause. He closed the border with th... November 19, 2012 Israel Weighs its Options The New York Times has figured ou... November 19, 2012 “I Raid Elimineranno i Qassam: Non Serve L’attaccodi Terra” L’Egitto ha tentato di risolvere la crisima non c’è riuscito ed a rafforzarsi è stato l'Iran»: così Jonathan Schanzer, l’ex analista di Intellige... November 16, 2012 The World Watches Israel Under Fire As Patrick noted below, the past couple days’ attacks have now reached Tel Aviv. Palestini... November 16, 2012 Iraq Frees Hezbollah Commander Who Helped Mold Shia Terror Groups Iraq has freed Musa Ali Daduq, the senior Hezbollah commander who was tasked by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) to mold Shia terror groups into a Hezbollah-lik... November 16, 2012 Morsi Seeks Direction Israel’s latest campaign in Gaza against Hamas has left Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in a bind. His rivals, both on the left and more significantly those on the right, the Salafis, have... November 16, 2012 Obama Must Deal with Egypt and Iran President Obama has quite a problem with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. At the State Department briefing Thursday afternoon, deputy press secretary Mark Toner danced around repeated questions... November 15, 2012 Oliver Stone’s Party Line In the 1930s, quite a few people failed to recognize the threat posed by Nazi ideology. In their eyes, Hitler was simply restoring Germany’s wounded pride and rebu... November 15, 2012 Why Israel Attacked Gaza In a surgical air strike on Wednesday, Israel eliminated the terrorist leader who masterminded the capture of Israeli soldier Gilat Shalit in 2006. Yesterday’s attack killed Ahmed... November 15, 2012 Is Iran Resorting To An Insurance Scam To Keep Oil Exports Going? Europe’s oil embargo against Iran, reinforced by U.S. extraterritorial measures, is having a serious impact on Iran’s oil exports. Ira... November 15, 2012 Ambassador Rice, Designated Non-Expert on Benghazi Finally, during his first press conference in eight months, President Obama has confirmed it was specifically “at the request of the White House” that on the Sunday after the Sept. 11... November 15, 2012 Israel’s Pillar of Self-Defense Early this Wednesday morning, Israel responded to Hamas’s ongoing attacks, in which the terrorist group has launched over 100 rockets into southern Israeli cities since Saturday. A surgical...

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