Tag: Isis
Russia says it thwarted ISIS attack on Moscow shul
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it thwarted a planned ISIS terrorist attack on a synagogue in Moscow.
The Islamic State cell, based in Kaluga, 93 miles southwest of the capital, planned to attack...
ISIS: Kill Jews ‘wherever you find them’
Islamic State spokesman Abu Huthaifa al-Ansari, in a speech published by the terror group’s media arm Al-Furqan on Thursday evening, called on ISIS supporters around the world to attack Jews and avenge the killing by the...
IDF demolishes Samaria home of Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri
The Israel Defense Forces demolished the Samaria home of top Hamas commander Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday morning.
Al-Arouri, the commander of Hamas operations in Judea and Samaria and the deputy of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, is currently...
Beersheva terrorist ‘acted in line with ISIS manuals’
Muhammad Abu Al-Kiyan, an Israeli man in his mid-30s from the Bedouin town of Houra who murdered four Israelis in a combined car-ramming and knife-stabbing attack in Beersheva on Tuesday, appeared to have acted...
ISIS conducted 2,700-plus attacks worldwide in 2021
The Islamic States (ISIS) terror organization conducted 2,705 attacks worldwide in 2021, roughly the same number it conducted in 2020 (2,781), according to a new report by an Israeli research center.
The Meir Amit Terrorism...
Israel and region continue to feel reverberations of 9/11 two decades later
As the world marks 20 years since Al-Qaeda’s terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the unprecedented events and their aftereffects continue to reverberate throughout the region and beyond.
The events in the two decades that...
Counter-terrorism expert: ‘Taliban has alliances with Islamist forces in Syria’
Propaganda messaging by Al-Qaeda has risen dramatically in recent weeks, in line with the takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban fundamentalist forces, an Israeli counter-terrorist expert has warned.
Michael Barak, a senior researcher at the Institute...
Report: Jordanian intelligence foils ISIS attack on IDF troops
Jordanian intelligence agents have thwarted a potential Islamic State attack on Israeli troops on the border the two countries share, Jordanian daily Al Ra’i reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, Jordanian intelligence agents uncovered the plot...
Jordan is ‘the eastern security zone against Iran’
As the fallout from the latest Israeli conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip continues, Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz has spoken repeatedly in recent days of the need to strengthen a “coalition of...
Vienna terror suspect was jailed in 2019 for trying to join ISIS
The main suspect in Monday’s deadly terror attack in Vienna had been convicted on terror-related charges in April 2019 but secured an early release in December.
The suspect, identified as Kujtim Fejzulai, 20, was sentenced...