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Blames Israel to avoid ISIS Iran is notorious for using proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis to do its dirty work. It was so humiliated during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) that it has cowered from confrontation ever since. Only that explains this: ISIS has claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack in Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution, which has shaken… Read more.
Podcast Episode 85 No, that’s not a typo. Ayman al-Zawahiri was the leader of al-Qaeda, not ISIS But you’d be forgiven for wondering why killing him is even worthy of mention, let alone this episode. After all, every time there’s breaking news these days of a terrorist attack anywhere, it’s invariably the terrorizing deed not… Listen.
President Trump on Sunday announced that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive Islamic State leader, died during an American military operation in Syria, a major breakthrough more than five years after the militant launched the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate. ‘Last night the United States brought the world’s Number One terrorist leader to justice,’ Trump said in a… Read more.
Julia Ioffe apologized immediately for that unfair jibe. But only willful amnesia can explain anyone not remembering that Trump has made many jibes that were far more unfair. And he has yet to apologize for any of them. Donald Trump has deemed a journalist for GQ Magazine a ‘sick woman’ after she made a comment… Read more.
In the deadliest attack on civilians in Egypt’s modern history, Islamist militants detonated a bomb inside a crowded mosque on Friday and then sprayed gunfire on panicked worshipers as they fled the building, killing [305] people and wounding at least 109 others. The scale and ruthlessness of the assault, which occurred in a small town… Read more.
Eight people were killed [and 11 were injured] when a man drove 20 blocks down a bike path beside the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon before he crashed his pickup truck, jumped out with fake guns and was shot by police officer, the authorities said. Federal authorities were treating the incident as… Read more.
Spain was hit by its worst terrorist attack in more than a decade on Thursday, when a van driver plowed into dozens of people enjoying a sunny afternoon on one of Barcelona’s most famous thoroughfares, killing at least 13 people and leaving 80 bloodied on the pavement. Hours later, the Catalan police said they foiled… Read more.
Police have arrested a man in connection with the Manchester Arena bomb attack on Tuesday as [Prime Minister] Theresa May condemned the ‘sickening cowardice’ of the perpetrator. Greater Manchester police, who believe they know the identity of the bomber, detained a 23-year-old man in the south of the city in connection with the attack, which… Read more.
Yesterday, the US military dropped the largest bomb in combat since it dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki during WWII. This explosion had the American media in postcoital delirium. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, or MOAB, was dropped Thursday night on a network of fortified underground tunnels that ISIS had been using to… Read more.
The attacker, [a Muslim who police once had on their radar], stabbed the unarmed officer before being shot dead. Forty other people were injured after a car struck pedestrians on nearby Westminster Bridge, before it crashed. … Speaking in Downing Street after chairing a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergencies committee, Prime Minister Theresa May… Read more.
