Islamic State leader threatens Israel, Jews
Jewish Journal
December 28, 2015
The leader of the Islamic State threatened Israel and Jews in a taped message that is said to be from him.
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Iraqi prime minister vows to defeat ISIS in 2016 after army’s first major victory
Jewish Journal
December 28, 2015
A triumphant Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared on Monday that the coming year will see his forces defeat Islamic State, after his military achieved its first major victory since collapsing in the face of the fighters 18 months ago.
Will immigration tip Sheldon’s 2016 scale?
Jewish Journal
December 16, 2015
The stakes were high, and all eyes were on the two 44-year-old Senators, who are rising in the polls and garnering the most attention in the non-Trump coverage of the 2016 election cycle.
Obama: faster progress needed against Islamic State
Jewish Journal
December 14, 2015
President Barack Obama said on Monday that Islamic State militants had lost swaths of territory they once controlled in Iraq and Syria but that progress needed to be made faster against the group.
Turkey Incursion Into Iraq Intensifies
Jewish Journal
December 14, 2015
Turkey’s recent deployment of troops and tanks into northern Iraq has caused a major diplomatic row between Ankara and Baghdad, but experts say Turkish forces are there to stay.
President Donald J. Trump’s State of the Union Address or: ‘The Plot Against America II’
David N. Myers
December 9, 2015
My Fellow Americans, Vice President Palin, distinguished members of Congress, and esteemed guests, I am deeply honored to offer this State of the Union address, my first since being elected your president in November 2016.
At two Inland Empire Mosques, Muslims shocked by attack, disgusted by ISIS
Jared Sichel
December 8, 2015
For the last two years, multiple times each week, Gasser Shehata prayed around lunchtime at the same San Bernardino mosque as Syed Rizwan Farook, the 28-year-old Muslim who, with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, recently carried out the largest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Trump defends proposed Muslim ban from U.S. as outrage mounts
Jewish Journal
December 8, 2015
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, comparing his plan to the World War II detainment of Japanese-Americans and others in dismissing growing outrage from around the world.
Trump dismisses comparisons to Hitler
Jewish Journal
December 8, 2015
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Tuesday brushed off recent comparisons to Adolf Hitler as he doubled down on his call to bar the entry of all foreign-born Muslims into the United States.
Israel arrests five suspected ISIS recruits
Jewish Journal
December 8, 2015
Five Arab-Israeli men suspected of pledging support to the Islamic State terror group have been arrested.
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