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Iran has a new demand for US diplomats as they conclude what will hopefully be the final round of negotiations for a new nuclear deal later this month: Remove the 2019 US Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation on the Islamic…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A leading Iranian resistance group warns that any move to remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the United States' Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list will "aggravate terrorism…

Vikram Mansharamani lives in Lincoln and is the author of “THINK FOR YOURSELF: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence.”While the world has rightly focused its attention on Russia's invasion of Ukraine,…

By Louay Fatoohi youAMAZING, News of Russian aggression against Ukraine dominates the news. It is also understandable that the suffering of the innocent victims and civilians of this war has been at the center of the reports.…

Reports pouring in from Vienna seem to indicate that a new nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 will be signed within days. This presents new Israeli leaders with a serious political and diplomatic challenge. Prime Minister Naftali…

PARIS/ BRUSSELS- The withdrawal of French troops from historic ally Mali marks a loss of influence for Paris and Europe as a whole in Africa, clearing the way for other powers to expand their footprint there, experts say. The French do…

The UAE's oldest private banking institution, Mashreq Bank PSC, has tapped Israeli fintech company ThetaRay, a developer of software that mimics human intuitive decision-making to detect financial fraud, to secure money transfers…

(MENAFN-Asia Times) A nighttime raid by US special forces in Syria led to the death of the leader of the Islamic State terrorist group. Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed as he detonated…

AMMAN, Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. special forces carried out a successful counter-terrorism mission in northwestern Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said, in a raid that Syrian sources said targeted a jihadist leader.Helicopters landed and heavy…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: On Tuesday, Amnesty International released a report concluding that the State of Israel has "perpetrated the international wrong of apartheid" against the Palestinians. The…

A Christian priest was shot dead and another injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on them as they were returning home from Sunday mass in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, it said. the!-->…

(January 27, 2022 / JNS) A week before a Muslim terrorist attacked a Texas temple in an effort to free CAIR's favorite terrorist, "Lady Al-Qaeda", aka Aafia Siddiqui, the hate group released another of its reports on "the increasingly…

U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures rose on Tuesday on possible supply distribution issues after attacks in the Middle East Gulf added to an already tight supply outlook. The market is also supported by easing concerns over…

The international jihadist terrorist threat against the United States has been on the decline since the al-Qaeda attacks 20 years ago. Not through war or other uses of organized violence, but through cooperation, the use of legal and…

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Fitch Ratings, a global credit rating agency since 1913, shared their views on the emerging cryptocurrency industry. Monsur Hussain, director of the Pitch Financial Institution Research Institute, oversees thematic research on global…

Israel and Australia face rapidly changing security environments with increasing militarization in their regions. Both are the target of terrorist attacks and attempt to meet the challenges of a more belligerent China. Faced with this…

It is quite clear that Egypt approaches its relations with Israel differently today than it did during most of Benjamin Netanyahu's tenure as prime minister. Then-President Hosni Mubarak met with Netanyahu openly in 2011, but his…

When her child found the leaflet on the ground, Mohammed, who is illiterate, could not read it. Instead, he put the piece of paper in his pocket, only showing it to a friend in the middle of the…

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(La Vergne, Tenn.) The annual La Vergne Veterans Day ceremony is scheduled for November 11 at 11 a.m. at Veterans Memorial Park, located at 115 Floyd Mayfield Drive. This year's…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScHBEInpmQY WASHINGTON, DC - US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered remarks on Senate floor this week, detonating President Biden's candidate…

by Nicholas Dawson, Forecast International. Algeria & Morocco. Image: Mangostar, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In recent months, North African neighbors, Algeria and Morocco, have suffered a virtual breakdown in diplomatic…

Sunni ultra-conservatism is having a blast. Barely three months after the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the second most populous Muslim majority state, is preparing to join Kabul to become an outpost of religious…

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A bomb explodes in a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second largest city, killing 62 people. A week ago, before this explosion, another mosque was destroyed by a bomb in Kunduz, killing more than 100 people. What…

WASHINGTON - Twenty years ago White House officials were worried about China and tensions were mounting.On April 1, 2001, a Chinese fighter jet collided with an American EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft off the coast of China, forcing the…

A far-right Israeli activist and the racist organization he heads are both blacklisted as banned entities by Facebook's social media platform, along with a wide range of terrorist and hate groups, according to a list published by The…

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OTTAWA - A Canadian admitted in court on Friday that he made up stories about his service as an Islamic State fighter and executioner in Syria. In return, Canadian authorities dropped criminal charges against him for carrying out a hoax…

October 7, 2021WASHINGTON DCDRONES WERE a sight running in the skies over Afghanistan, but one had seldom laid eyes on the capital, Kabul. On August 29, as America was hastily withdrawing its last Afghan soldiers and refugees through the…

Wed Oct 6, 2021 Why Israeli gas and Syrian sanctions relief could turn on the lights of Lebanon Source MENA through…

Two US officials, along with Representative Ken Calvert, a California Republican who said he had been briefed by national security officials, said the suicide bomber was released from Parwan prison at Bagram Air Force Base. The United…

Islamabad played a "double game" during the US-led war in Afghanistan by aiding the NATO military mission while secretly aiding the Taliban insurgency. US pundits and politicians grew increasingly furious at the alleged Pakistani…

Lotfollah Dezhkam, the representative of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Khamenei in Fars province, called for the elimination of the Jewish state in a Friday sermon in the city of Shiraz.The Islamic…

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan has made its Kurdish allies in eastern Syria nervous. The White House was quick to reassure the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that they would not initiate a similar withdrawal from Syria,…

America's intelligence needs have evolved considerably since September 11, an event that galvanized and united the American people in the face of a common enemy: al-Qaeda. The U.S. intelligence community (IC) expanded its ability to…

(Editor's note: This is one in a series of new stories marking the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. A story starring two current veteran students and tThe personal story of a WVU law professor who…

Published on: 08/28/2021 - 20:05 Speaking at a regional summit in Iraq, French President Emmanuel Macron said his…

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Saeed Ara Jani, UAV command chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was behind the attack on the Mercer Street ship, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny…

Iraqi officials announced Tuesday that the United States is finally returning more than 17,000 ancient objects looted and smuggled out of the country after the American invasion in 2003, including a 3,500-year-old clay…

During a military parade in Baghdad at the end of June, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi saluted the Popular Mobilization Forces, a coordination group of militias largely supported by Iran. Smiling broadly, he had put his…

Sometimes an enemy of an enemy is an even greater enemy. For Iran, the humiliation of the United States in Afghanistan highlights a more fierce enemy. While the threat of the Taliban is not as existential to the Islamic Republic as the…

The global terrorist influx into Africa with Nigeria as one of its epicenters is attracting renewed international attention. The expert assessment of the recent jihadist expansion in sub-Saharan Africa coincided with a summit of the…

It is not without reason that Afghanistan is known as the "imperial cemetery". The ancient Greeks, Mongols, Mughals, British, Soviet Union and more recently the United States all launched various invasions which saw their ambitions and…

WASHINGTON (AP) - As the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks approaches, relatives of the victims are lobbying the courts to respond to what they see as lingering questions about the Saudi government's role in the attacks. A…

Egypt's highest court ruled on June 14 to uphold the death sentences of 12 senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders prosecuted for organizing the 2013 sit-ins. In March, as talks between foreign ministers and Egyptian and Turkish intelligence…

Welcome to The Undark Podcast, which will deliver — once a month from September to May — a feature-length exploration of a single topic at the intersection of science and society. In this episode, join freelance reporter Malia…

Lebanon's economic situation faces an "immediate catastrophe," according to a senior US diplomat, who said the country's leaders must demonstrate their commitment to reform before foreign aid can take place.David Hale, who most recently…