July 25, 2016
5:28 pm

Undated file image posted on a militant website on January 14, 2014, shows Islamic State fighters marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP/Militant Website)

Californian who tried to join Islamic State to be sentenced

Man faces maximum of 25 years; defense claims psychological issues and PTSD due to abusive childhood

By Amy Taxin

March 14, 2016
1:55 pm

File: Syrian President Bashar Assad listening to a question during an interview with AFP in the capital Damascus, February 11, 2016. (AFP/JOSEPH EID)

Assad says Russia to draw down, not pull out

Syrian president praises cooperation with Moscow for ‘returning security to the country’; French envoy for Mideast peace confab meeting Israeli officials; Western Wall rabbi pulls support for egalitarian prayer space

By Raoul Wootliff

February 1, 2016
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, speaks during a meeting with Hasan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran, on June 16, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Why Iran really, truly doesn’t want the bomb… for now

Tehran can wreak much more havoc as a non-nuclear power, says proliferation expert François Heisbourg

By Raphael Ahren

February 21, 2015
6:43 pm

A military exhibition displays the Shahab-3 missile under a picture of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, in 2008. (photo credit: AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

Would a nuclear Iran truly pose an existential threat to Israel?

Netanyahu fears a second Holocaust, but even top security officials say Tehran is unlikely to use a bomb if it had one. Yet the emboldening of the ayatollahs, and a likely regional arms race, are worrying enough

By Raphael Ahren

December 24, 2014
11:28 pm

The December 24, 2014 Gaza funeral of Tayseir Smeiry, a Hamas operative, who was killed by Israeli troops after gunmen from Gaza opened fire on an IDF force within Israel (photo credit: AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Can Israeli deterrence succeed where God’s failed?

A flare up on the Gaza border shows that Israel’s enemies aren’t afraid to challenge it, calling into question a time-tested defense strategy

By Mitch Ginsburg

December 1, 2014
12:31 pm

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, November 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/UdL Digital)

Germany to put 300 on trial for joining Islamic State

Justice Minister Haas says success in apprehending jihadists shows there is no need to tighten anti-terror laws

By Stuart Winer and AFP

January 6, 2014
9:55 pm

This June 26, 1997, file booking photo provided by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, shows Colleen R. LaRose, also known as 'Jihad Jane.' (AP/Tom Green County Jail, File)

‘Jihad Jane’ sentenced to 10 years for terror plot

Pennsylvania woman claims she planned to kill Swedish artist while under a jihad-induced trance

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

August 10, 2013
2:46 am

Police stop cars at a checkpoint near the US embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, in August 2013 (photo credit: AP/Hani Mohammed)

After terror threat, US to reopen 18 diplomatic missions

Embassy in Yemen to remain closed

January 20, 2013
7:10 pm

A demolished house in an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev, December 2010 (photo credit: Jorge Novominsky/Flash90)

Shin Bet, police foil Israeli Bedouin terror plots

Four men arrested, including an IDF soldier; suspects confess planning to plant bombs, fire rockets at major Israeli cities

By Adiv Sterman

April 3, 2012
8:18 am

Students run by a bomb shelter in an elementary school in the coastal city of Ashkelon (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Defense officials: 300 dead in event of coordinated missile attack on Israel

From the web Haaretz: Ministers hear reports that a three-week combined barrage from Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah would leave hundreds dead and injured

March 23, 2012
7:53 pm

Hundreds gather in Toulouse to pay their respects to the victims of Toulouse terrorist Mohamed Merah, March 23, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Thibault Camus)

Europe wakes up to danger of Islamist terror

Europol chief: ‘We have a different kind of jihadist threat emerging and it’s getting stronger’

February 14, 2012
1:45 pm

Indian officials examine a car belonging to the Israeli embassy, after Monday's attack wounded one person. (photo credit: AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)

More than mere revenge

Iran and Hezbollah, the alleged architects of the terror plots in Georgia, India and Thailand, may be seeking to achieve a new balance of power