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Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Palestinian terrorists say their rockets come from Iran

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Hoda Muthana now describes herself as having been brainwashed by the same type of online Islamic State propaganda she later spewed as a jihadi. (Associated Press/File)

Hoda Muthana’s social media messages on MEMRI record

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Ammar Shahin, imam of the Islamic Center of Davis, California, said Friday at a press conference: "To the Jewish community here in Davis and beyond, I say this deeply: I am deeply sorry for the pain I have caused." (YouTube)

Ammar Shahin, Mahmoud Harmoush, U.S. imams, apologize after jihadi translations verified

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Vian Dakhil, the Iraqi parliament's only female Yazidi member, described some of the horrific atrocities committed by Islamic State terrorists against her people in the war-torn region, claiming that one woman who was held captive for days was tricked into eating her own child. (MEMRI).

Vian Dakhil on ISIS horror: Yazidi slave tricked into eating own child, 10-year-old raped to death

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

The Islamic State, also known as ISIL and ISIS, is sending its followers on a money-wasting venture that is not likely to get anybody killed. (Associated Press)

ISIS duped by Besa Mafia ‘dark web’ site offering murder, mayhem for Bitcoins

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they wave the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, on June 16, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

ISIS seeks to destroy Israel, ‘liberate’ Jerusalem with Sinai Peninsula terrorist force

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015 photo, Iraqi security forces raise an Iraqi flag near the provincial council building in central Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad. Iraqi military forces on Monday retook a strategic government complex in the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants who have occupied the city since May. (AP Photo/Osama Sami)

Islamic State loses 40 percent of its Iraqi territory

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Raised stakes: After last week's deadly terror acts in Paris — and the ongoing hunt for the perpetrators — Islamic State operatives have made videos decreeing the U.S. will be the next site of the jihadis' bloodthirsty activities. (Associated Press)

ISIS shows nimble ability to strike multiple Western targets

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Edward Snowden. (Associated Press)

Islamic State, al Qaeda are big fans of Edward Snowden’s tweets

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which tracks Islamic extremists' social media, has quoted some Islamic State fighters as praising Edward Snowden, the self-proclaimed whistleblower who released volumes of documents on how the U.S. tracks and listens to terrorists. (Associated Press)

Islamic State uses downloadable apps to hide attack plans, recruit followers

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In its latest efforts, the terror group Islamic State is using social media to recruit jihadis to its self-styled paradise on earth, hoping to lure trained professionals like doctors and builders to improve the stateless group's infrastructure in Iraq and Syria. (Associated Press)

Islamic State recruits Westerners with promise of Muslim utopia

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Iran's Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami (Associated Press) **FILE**

Islamic militant groups mum on ‘torture report’ detailing CIA interrogation tactics

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this June 16, 2014, file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad. (AP Photo, File) **FILE**

Syrian woman accused of adultery is stoned to death by her father

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Smoke rises after an Israeli strike hit the offices of the Hamas movement's Al-Aqsa satellite TV station, in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Israel said Thursday it has called up another 16,000 reservists, allowing it to potentially widen its Gaza operation against the territory's Hamas rulers in a war that has killed more than 1,300 Palestinians and more than 50 Israelis. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas cleric tells Jews: ‘We will exterminate you’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Palestinian Hamas supporters ride their motorcycles during a rally to support Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike at Israeli jails, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday, May 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Little girl recites poem on Hamas TV: “I shall buy a bullet, at any price’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Two F/A-18E Super Hornets from the Tophatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14 participate in an air power demonstration over the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) in the Pacific Ocean in this April 24, 2013, file photo. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Ignacio D. Perez/Released) ** FILE **

Iran vows to ‘destroy the U.S. Navy’

By Adam Kredo - Washington Free Beacon

FBI agents carry boxes and a computer from the home of Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA director, in the Dilworth neighborhood of Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Feds take little action against U.S. Web companies hosting sites linked to terror

By Sara Carter - Washington Guardian

Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as the blind sheik. (Credit: Associated Press)

Blind sheik’s social media empire grows from behind bars

By Sara Carter - Washington Guardian

Fight against Holocaust denial ‘far from over’

By Marieke van der Vaart - The Washington Times