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TEL AVIV – Palestinian terror groups have come out in praise of the “heroic” West Bank car-ramming attack in which two IDF soldiers were killed on Friday afternoon
byDeborah Danan18 Mar 2018, 3:31 PM PDT0
Republicans who opposed President Donald Trump’s announced tariffs on steel and aluminum imports now signal openness to a narrower package of duties levied solely on America’s strategic competitor, China.
byBreitbart News18 Mar 2018, 3:14 PM PDT0
A U.S. military HH-60 Black Hawk chopper participating in the anti-Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) war in the Middle East crashed in western Iraq near the country’s border with Syria this week, killing all seven American service members on board, according to the Pentagon.
byEdwin Mora18 Mar 2018, 11:08 AM PDT0
President Donald Trump dismissed the Robert Mueller special investigation into whether his political campaign colluded with Russia to help him beat Hillary Clinton.
byCharlie Spiering18 Mar 2018, 10:01 AM PDT0
Contents: Malaysia’s Najib Razak condemns Myanmar’s (Burma’s) genocide of Rohingyas at ASEAN summit; Cambodia’s Hun Sen threatens violence at protesters at ASEAN meeting
byJohn J. Xenakis18 Mar 2018, 9:45 AM PDT0
A Turkish tourist stabbed and seriously injured an Israeli security guard in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday, medics said.
byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Mar 2018, 8:27 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV – Israel will demolish the home of the Palestinian terrorist who on Friday afternoon ran over and killed two IDF soldiers and wounded two others, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Saturday night.
byDeborah Danan18 Mar 2018, 8:24 AM PDT0
South Australia has ousted the left-wing, eco-loon government responsible for the disastrous green energy policy which has often plunged the state into darkness, hamstrung industry and driven electricity prices to stratospheric highs.
byJames Delingpole18 Mar 2018, 7:25 AM PDT0
Former CIA Director John Brennan reacted to the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — and President Donald Trump’s celebration of it — by tweeting a strident attack against Trump:
byJoel B. Pollak18 Mar 2018, 7:22 AM PDT0
The Vatican has released the full text of a letter from emeritus Pope Benedict XVI it had previously altered, but the contents of the letter have turned out to be worse than anyone suspected.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.18 Mar 2018, 7:15 AM PDT0
The US administration is delaying the announcement of its Middle East peace plan because it believes the proposal would have a greater chance of success after a new leader replaces long-time Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a senior Palestinian official was quoted as saying Saturday.
byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Mar 2018, 3:13 AM PDT0
Police are seeking another round of questioning of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara on Monday in the Bezeq graft probe, for the first time since a former adviser turned state’s witness in the high profile corruption case, Hadashot TV news reported Friday.
byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Mar 2018, 2:49 AM PDT0
In the presidential office in Ramallah on March 14, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas met with Rajaei Haddad, a terrorist from eastern Jerusalem released from prison after serving a 20-year term for his 1998 conviction of complicity in the murder of an Israeli in Jerusalem’s Old City.
byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Mar 2018, 1:06 AM PDT0
NEW YORK — James Comey took to Twitter on Saturday to respond to an earlier tweet by President Trump about the Russia probe, with the former FBI director exclaiming that the “American people will hear my story very soon.”
byAaron Klein17 Mar 2018, 6:43 PM PDT0
The authorities have uncovered an Antifa-linked hoard of chemicals, high-explosives, and a mobile bomb factory in Thuringia, Germany, according to local media.
byJack Montgomery17 Mar 2018, 11:44 AM PDT0
Three quarters of Germans said that Islam does not belong to Germany in a new poll, in direct opposition to recent comments by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.17 Mar 2018, 10:26 AM PDT0
Contents: Ireland border issue continues to confound Brexit negotiations; Despite warnings from China, Trump signs the Taiwan Travel Act
byJohn J. Xenakis17 Mar 2018, 10:04 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV — Recent reports of a deterioration in the health of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas set off fears of a political war of succession that could work to the advantage of Hamas, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
byAli Waked17 Mar 2018, 8:45 AM PDT0
JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party this week marked the 40th anniversary of The Coastal Road massacre – the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in which 37 Israelis, including 13 children, were murdered – by honoring the “thunderous souls” of the Palestinian murderers and asserting that the infamous Dalal Mughrabi, who orchestrated the attack, died in a “most spectacular way” by first killing as many Israelis as possible.
byDeborah Danan17 Mar 2018, 8:44 AM PDT0
The Islamic State terrorist group published photos on its Telegram account showing “child soldiers” executing Afghani soldiers who were purportedly captured by IS during fighting in the Nanajahar region in Afghanistan.
byAli Waked17 Mar 2018, 8:43 AM PDT0
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Saturday announced it is expelling 23 British diplomats and threatened further measures in retaliation in a growing diplomatic dispute over a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain.
byBreitbart London17 Mar 2018, 3:14 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV – A prominent Shiite Iraqi interfaith activist told BBC Arabic earlier this month that the Islamic State terror group’s violence, including beheadings, is “deeply rooted in Islam” and that that makes it “a hundred times more evil.”
byDeborah Danan16 Mar 2018, 11:07 PM PDT0
The United States Army is developing compact weapons platforms “optimized for fighting in dense urban terrain.”
byNate Church16 Mar 2018, 5:49 PM PDT0
In advance of his book release, former FBI director James Comey is promoting a coast-to-coast speaking tour about “good, ethical leadership.”
byNate Church16 Mar 2018, 5:13 PM PDT0
A report surfacing this week claims Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), 31, has blocked his father, King Salman, from seeing his mother for more than two years and has worked to keep them apart throughout his rise to power.
byAdelle Nazarian16 Mar 2018, 5:03 PM PDT0
The chancellor of northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has reportedly called on U.S. rival China to “play a greater role” in bringing stability to the Middle East.
byEdwin Mora16 Mar 2018, 4:21 PM PDT0
Communist China is covertly intensifying its military footprint across Africa, reports Voice of America (VOA), echoing recent comments from the top U.S. commander on the continent.
byEdwin Mora16 Mar 2018, 4:03 PM PDT0
Preparations for the still-unconfirmed meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un are moving ahead, as the South Korean government said on Friday it is working to expedite both a summit with North Korea and a meeting between Trump and President Moon Jae-in. Meanwhile, North Korea’s Foreign Minister was spotted in Sweden, prompting speculation that he was doing advance work for Trump and Kim to meet there.
byJohn Hayward16 Mar 2018, 3:27 PM PDT0
Despite a frenzied over-reaction that practically nuked Liang Xiangyi off the Internet, the tyrants of Beijing cannot quite make the exasperated reporter in the blue dress disappear.
byJohn Hayward16 Mar 2018, 3:15 PM PDT0
China is set to exact consequences for individuals who score low in its long-planned “social credit system,” announcing this week that it would begin to ban Chinese citizens from traveling if their social credit score was too low.
byFrances Martel16 Mar 2018, 2:46 PM PDT0
Turkish troops fighting to conquer the Kurdish-held region of Afrin in Syria are committing “war crimes” against Yazidis and Christians that mirror the “ethnic cleansing and genocide” in the region at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), declared a top United Nations envoy.
byEdwin Mora16 Mar 2018, 2:16 PM PDT0
The semi-autonomous government of Hong Kong on Friday announced plans to impose a three-year jail sentence on anyone who disrespects the Chinese national anthem.
byJohn Hayward16 Mar 2018, 1:56 PM PDT0
A Palestinian driver hit four Israeli soldiers with his car Friday afternoon, killing an officer and a soldier and seriously injuring the others, outside the Mevo Dotan settlement in the northern West Bank.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 1:49 PM PDT0
A dissident reggaetón artist imprisoned after a Cuban government agent attacked him while using the internet has been placed in solitary confinement in prison and refused to eat or drink water for one week, his mother told the Miami-based news outlet Martí Noticias this week.
byFrances Martel16 Mar 2018, 1:43 PM PDT0
Amid widespread reports National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is expected to lose his job within days, it is instructive to recall the troubling ideology and concerning connections of the man who has been serving in one of the most powerful U.S. national security positions.
byAaron Klein16 Mar 2018, 1:34 PM PDT0
A Filipino senator is facing sedition charges for a speech criticizing the country’s strongman, President Rodrigo Duterte.
byBen Kew16 Mar 2018, 12:10 PM PDT0
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan railed on Thursday against the modern Turkish language, lamenting that “unpleasant, dull and soulless words” had entered it when Turkish Republic founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ordered reforms to formalize the Ottoman dialects.
byFrances Martel16 Mar 2018, 10:58 AM PDT0
94-year-old dictator Robert Mugabe returned to the spotlight on Thursday, four months after he was removed from the office he held for four decades. Despite an extravagant exit package that guaranteed Mugabe a lifetime of luxury in exchange for his graceful departure, he bitterly criticized the “coup” that swept him from power, denounced his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa as a “disgrace,” and suggested his ouster should be reversed.
byJohn Hayward16 Mar 2018, 10:49 AM PDT0
With the US announcing cuts in aid money to the Palestinians, one might think the Palestinian Authority would try to cut expenses, but an invoice from a hotel stay by top Palestinian officials this month indicates the exact opposite.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 10:35 AM PDT0
The Vatican under Pope Francis is consolidating its opposition to “gender theory,” the notion that maleness and femaleness can be separated from biological sex, according to veteran Vatican analyst John L. Allen, Jr.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.16 Mar 2018, 10:28 AM PDT0
A Honduran migrant has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a plan to blow up a shopping mall in Miami on behalf of the Islamic State
byBen Kew16 Mar 2018, 10:11 AM PDT0
BEIRUT — Syrian government and Russian airstrikes killed at least 46 people in a besieged town outside of Damascus on Friday, while Turkish shelling and attacks on a Kurdish-held town in northern Syria left at least 22 dead there, monitors and officials said.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 9:31 AM PDT0
Internet services in Bali, Indonesia, will be switched off for 24 hours on Saturday to mark Nyepi, an annual “sacred day of reflection,” according to the Guardian.
byCharlie Nash16 Mar 2018, 8:53 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV — A security delegation from the Palestinian Authority is set to arrive in the Gaza Strip at the orders of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in order to follow the investigation into an explosion that recently targeted a convoy that included the prime minister and intelligence chief Majed Faraj, a Palestinian source from the Interior Ministry said.
byAli Waked16 Mar 2018, 8:52 AM PDT0
India’s state-run carrier Air India said Friday it will fly over Saudi airspace to Tel Aviv, a move that ends a decades-long Saudi ban on the use of its airspace for flights to Israel.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 8:48 AM PDT0
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