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September 30, 2016

Featured Stories

As ISIS Loses Territory, Foreign Fighters Likely to Bring Jihad Home

by Yaakov Lappin  •  September 28, 2016  •  Special to IPT News FacebookTwitter
ISIS is steadily losing ground, leaders, and financial assets in Syria and Iraq. Growing numbers of frustrated jihadists are fleeing the "caliphate" or are unable to reach it.

How Some Muslim Nations are Forging a Real Peace with Israel

by Abigail R. Esman  •  September 20, 2016  •  Special to IPT News FacebookTwitter
It was a customary political gesture, the welcoming of a foreign leader on Sept. 7 by local dignitaries in The Hague. Benjamin Netanyahu, on a two-day state visit to The Netherlands, was being introduced around the room, shaking hands with Dutch parliamentarians, when he reached Tunahan Kuzu, the Turkish-Dutch founder of the pro-immigration, pro-Islam Denk ("Think") party.

Orlando Terror Attack 'Triggered' by Pentagon Drone Strike

by Bill Gertz  •  September 28, 2016  •  Washington Free Beacon FacebookTwitter
The domestic terrorist behind the Orlando nightclub massacre was motivated by a Pentagon drone strike in Iraq a month before the shooting, according to police transcripts made public last week.

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The IPT Blog

·         CAIR's Awad: Anti-Terror JASTA Bill Part of "War on Islam"
It might be one of the few things on which Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton agree: President Obama was wrong Friday when he vetoed the "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act."
·         Senior U.S. Official Laments Rising Anti-Semitism
Growing extremist threats require critical funding for securing American Jewish communities, Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told a Jewish group in Washington on Wednesday, the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) reports.
·         Palestinian Summer Camps Glorify Terrorists As Attacks Targeting Israelis Surge
Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) continue to brainwash the next generation of Palestinian youth to become terrorists, while attacks against Israelis increased sharply in the last few days.

Also in the News

FPI BULLETIN: NUCLEAR DEAL FUELS SAUDI-IRAN RIVALRY

by Tzvi Kahn  •  September 28, 2016  •  Foreign Policy Institute FacebookTwitter
Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran are escalating. In recent weeks, the two states have traded increasingly strident accusations of apostasy and aggression, portraying each other as the region's dominant threat and chief purveyor of religious extremism.

Senators press FBI director on response to terrorism threat

by Matthew Daly and Eric Tucker  •  September 27, 2016  •  The Associated Press FacebookTwitter
Republican senators pressed FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday about whether anything more could have been done to prevent recent acts of extremist violence, including the Orlando nightclub massacre and the Manhattan bombing this month.

The Disgraceful Gitmo Exodus

by STEPHEN F. HAYES and THOMAS JOSCELYN  •  September 26, 2016  •  The Weekly Standard FacebookTwitter
Closing [Gitmo] had proved much more challenging than Obama had theorized as a candidate trying to win an election and a new president acting on his idealism. It turned out that the jihadists who remained in Guantánamo were there for a reason.
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