President Trump might remove Syria from US's list of state sponsors of terrorism

Trump Eyes Syria Terror List Removal: “Guy’s Crushing It, Folks” POTUS said, referring to Syria's POS.

In a move that has foreign policy experts clutching their pearls and reaching for their smelling salts, President Donald J. Trump announced Wednesday that he’s strongly considering yanking Syria off America’s official “State Sponsors of Terrorism” list, because, in his words, the new Syrian leader is “doing a great job.” [And had probably told "The Donald" that he likes him.]

The announcement came during a press gaggle in Turkey as Trump met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a man whose résumé apparently now reads “Reformed Bad Boy” instead of whatever it said last week when he was the "Be-header in Charge."

“Are you going to remove Syria from the state sponsor of terrorism list?” a brave reporter asked, bravely risking a brave follow-up question.

“I think I will, yeah,” Trump replied with the breezy confidence of a man ordering a well-done steak. “Why wouldn’t I? He’s done a great job. Maybe he would have brought that up in a little while. That’s a good question. Yeah. Any problems that I think we should? Yeah, I will.

”Translation: Syria went from “Axis of Evil Adjacent” to “Model Student” faster than you can say “Art of the Deal.” The country, which until recently was starring in “Failed State: The Sequel,” now gets the Trump stamp of approval.

For context, Syria currently shares the prestigious terrorism sponsor list with such luminaries as Iran, North Korea, and Cuba, the geopolitical equivalent of the island of misfit toys.

Trump seems ready to hand Syria a diploma and a participation trophy just for showing up and not blowing anything up this week. 

At press time, State Department bureaucrats were reportedly seen wandering the halls muttering, “But we have a process,” while Trump was already sketching out potential Trump Tower Damascus on a napkin. Because if there’s one thing the Middle East needs, it’s more winning. And Donald Trump is, as always, happy to oblige.

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Second in Command ISIS Scumcrumpet Got His Goats

President Donald Trump announces the top ISIS terrorist member responsible for killing 13 American troops during the Afghanistan withdrawal is in U.S. custody? Wait, no. Scratch that. The latest update is even better: the savage is dead and has gone to meet his farm animals.

The President announced late Friday that U.S. and Nigerian forces carried out an operation that killed a global ISIS leader and first class scumcrumpet. He identified the terrorist as Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, whom he described as ISIS’s second-in-command globally.

"Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

"Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally, thought he could hide in Africa, but little did he know we had sources who kept us informed on what he was doing," Trump continued. "He will no longer terrorize the people of Africa, or help plan operations to target Americans."

Trump also thanked the Nigerian government for its cooperation in the mission."With his removal, ISIS’s global operation is greatly diminished," he added.

In a Saturday morning X post, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed U.S. forces, in coordination with the Armed Forces of Nigeria, killed al-Minuki and other ISIS leaders and provided more details about al-Minuki's role within ISIS.

"Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was the senior ISIS General Directorate of Provinces Emir — the number two for ISIS globally — responsible for overseeing the planning of attacks, directing hostage-taking and managing financial operations," Hegseth wrote. "The removal of him and other ISIS personnel makes Americans safer by further degrading ISIS’s ability to plan and carry out attacks that threaten the U.S. homeland, American citizens, and innocent civilians."

"Operations like last night’s demonstrate the exceptional lethality, patience and skill of U.S. forces, amplified alongside willing and capable partners, to address shared threats," Hegseth wrote. "This should serve as a reminder that we will hunt down those who wish to harm Americans or innocent Christians, wherever they are."

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth leaves a state banquet hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People on May 14, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Hegseth said U.S. Africa Command carried out the "precise operation to remove this terrorist" at Trump's direction and in conjunction with Nigeria's president.

The secretary reiterated how Trump in November "declared to the world that we will help protect Christians in Nigeria and instructed the Department of War to prepare for action.""So, for months, we hunted this top ISIS leader in Nigeria who was killing Christians, and we killed him — and his entire posse," Hegseth wrote.

The announcement comes after U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said it carried out multiple strikes against more than 30 ISIS targets in Syria in February as part of a joint military effort to "sustain relentless military pressure on remnants from the terrorist network."

CENTCOM said U.S. forces struck ISIS infrastructure and weapons-storage targets using fixed-wing, rotary-wing and unmanned aircraft.

The U.S. military carried out ten strikes against more than 30 ISIS targets in Syria following a December ambush that killed U.S. troops. (CENTCOM)

Trump told reporters on Jan. 27 that he had a "great conversation" with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

"All of the things having to do with Syria in that area are working out very, very well," he said at the time. "So, we are very happy about it."

CENTCOM announced in February that more than 50 ISIS terrorists had been killed or captured and more than 100 ISIS infrastructure targets struck during two months of targeted operations in Syria.

The U.S. launched Operation Hawkeye Strike in response to an ISIS ambush that killed two U.S. service members and an American interpreter Dec. 13, 2025, in Palmyra, Syria.

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The Junior Ayatollah dead or gravely injured as succession is Iran's next crisis, expert says

Iran regime power players may eye Russia in Assad-style escape as US talks falter: expert
Expert says top commanders like Ghalibaf might head to Moscow while lower figures seek shelter in Iraq or Afghanistan

The apparent collapse of high-stakes U.S.-Iran negotiations has intensified fears that senior figures inside Tehran’s leadership could flee to Russia, seeking refuge to "continue their insurgency and undermine any new regime," an analyst warns.

The breakdown in talks comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also told CBS’ "60 Minutes" that toppling Iran’s regime could now even be a realistic outcome.

Netanyahu noted that any collapse would dismantle the "scaffolding" of Tehran's global terror proxy network, also potentially ending Hezbollah's influence in the region.

"The whole scaffolding of the terrorist proxy network that Iran built collapses if the regime in Iran collapses," Netanyahu said.

President Donald Trump said U.S. military strikes on Iran were so effective they eliminated much of the regime’s anticipated leadership succession bench, raising questions about who will lead the Islamic Republic. (Mohsen Ganji/AP:Office of Supreme Leader of Iran)

"I think you can’t predict when that will happen. Is it possible? Yes. Is it guaranteed? No," he warned.

With diplomatic options perhaps exhausted and the regime's stability in question, an expert suggests the exit strategy any leadership may be eyeing might be similar to that of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who fled Syria in 2024.

"If the situation deteriorates further, some senior figures could potentially follow a path like Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle and seek refuge in Russia," Middle East expert Saeid Golkar told Fox News Digital.

While top commanders would possibly be Moscow-bound, lower-ranking figures would more likely head for Iraq or Afghanistan, Middle East expert Saeid Golkar told Fox News Digital. 

Golkar, a senior adviser at United Against Nuclear Iran, noted that flight destinations would likely depend on rank.

While top commanders like Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf might head to Moscow, lower-ranking figures would more likely seek shelter in Iraq or Afghanistan, where the IRGC maintains operational connections, he clarified.

"For the most senior figures, Russia would probably be the most likely destination, again as we saw with Bashar al-Assad," Golkar said, noting many officials have already moved wealth into "financial networks outside Iran."

The current crisis started following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier in 2026 during the onset of Operation Epic Fury.

While his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, was named successor, reports continue to indicate he was severely injured in the strikes and has been absent from recent negotiations.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader of Iran and second son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is "either dead or in bad condition," according to Golkar. (Hamed Jafarnejad/ISNA/WANA/Reuters)

Golkar explained that the "invisible state," or Bayt-e Rahbari, was designed to survive decapitation, while the ideological cost of fleeing for leaders would be high.

"Inside the regime’s ideological culture, leaving the country during the collapse would look like desertion," Golkar noted.

However, as military fractures deepen and succession remains uncertain, the "Assad model" of seeking Russian protection appears increasingly attractive to those at the top.

Mojtaba, however, is "either dead or in bad condition, that he cannot send any video or voice message," Golkar added.

"If he had died from his injuries, there was no clear natural successor. He was the continuation of the regime."

"Still, the system was designed for continuity during a crisis," Golkar said, adding that the goal is to "make sure the regime could survive even if formal institutions were damaged, leaders were killed, or civilian government stopped functioning."

"I would describe it as a regime designed not just to govern, but always to try and survive decapitation," Golkar added.

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ISIS Remnants Just Ambushed and Killed American Troops in Syria

A year after the Assad regime finally collapsed Syria is still a mess. The new government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa (his ISIS name being Abu Mohammad al-Julani) is trying to get its act together, but pockets of chaos remain, especially where these Islamist holdouts like ISIS are lurking, for some reason. And unfortunately, that instability just claimed American lives.

[Al-Sharaa became President of Syria in January 2025 after a period leading to the rebel offensive that overthrew Bashar al-Assad's regime in December 2024.]

Two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in an ambush in the central Syrian town of Palmyra over the weekend, with three others wounded. The Pentagon confirmed it, and it's a grim reminder that our counter-terrorism mission there isn't over yet, and al Sharaa is a terrorist who cannot be trusted.

"Today in Palmyra, Syria, two United States Army soldiers and one civilian U.S. interpreter were killed, and three were wounded," Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote on X. "The attack occurred as the soldiers were conducting a key leader engagement. Their mission was in support of ongoing counter-ISIS/counter-terrorism operations in the region," he added, noting that "The soldiers’ names, as well as identifying information about their units, are being withheld until 24 hours after the next of kin notification."

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth praised the response and sent a clear message to any jihadist scum thinking about targeting Americans. "The savage who perpetrated this attack was killed by partner forces."

"Let it be known, if you target Americans — anywhere in the world — you will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you," Hegseth also posted on X.

The attack occurred in an area where Sharaa's government doesn't have full control, and early signs point to ISIS as the culprits, what a shocker--these rats never go away. The Pentagon is investigating, and the wounded were sent via MEDEVAC to the al-Tanf base near the Iraq-Jordan border.

This comes as U.S. forces are drawing down to about 1,500 troops as of mid-year, with plans to drop to a few hundred by year's end. We've closed or handed over some of our eight bases that were keeping tabs on ISIS since we went in back in 2014 to stop their caliphate nonsense.

Meanwhile, "The United States, CIA and military forces are reportedly deeply involved in securing and stabilizing the situation in Syria," as Dan Diker from the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs told Fox News Digital.

And just this week, Syrians were celebrating in Damascus streets marking the one-year anniversary of Assad's ouster—that lightning rebel offensive that ended half a century of his family's brutal rule. It's a new chapter, but as this attack shows, the threats aren't gone. Former U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford has been warning about the challenges ahead for the new government.

Our troops are still out there doing the dirty work to keep ISIS down. This ambush is a gut punch, but Hegseth's warning is spot on: mess with Americans, and you'll regret it—briefly.

Will it? We shall see.

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Syrian President shows his true hatred of Israel

One is almost tempted to feel a pang of sympathy for the new Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa. After all, the man has only just finished overthrowing one of the Middle East's most durable dictatorships, and already he finds himself on the conference circuit, dispensing wisdom to the assembled worthies at the Doha Forum. Yet any such sympathy evaporates the moment the Jew hating scumcrumpet opens his mouth.

Al-Sharaa, formerly known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, was the leader of al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra. In other words, he is a jihadi terrorist commander in the Syrian Civil War, and now wears a suit and meets with world leaders.

"Israel has become a country that is in a fight against ghosts," Sharaa told the Qataris, with all the confidence of a man who has never had to worry about rockets falling on his own cities. 

"Israelis," he continued, use "their security concerns, and they take October 7 and extrapolate it to everything happening around them." One cannot imagine a more tone-deaf formulation. The events of October 7 were not some collective hallucination cooked up in a Tel Aviv focus group; they were the largest single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust and for this thug to call it an hallucination is an obvious lie. To describe Israel's perfectly rational determination never to let it happen again as "fighting ghosts" is the sort of moral inversion that has become the regional specialty of the Jew haters.

But Sharaa was just warming up. 

Israel, he informed his admiring audience, "often brings its crises to other countries and tries to evade taking responsibility for the 'horrifying massacres it committed in Gaza'." This from the leader of a regime whose forces have, in the mere blink of an eye since seizing power, been accused by the United Nations and Syria's own minorities of targeting Druze in Sweida and Alawites in Latakia. 

Naturally, the Syrian president presented himself as a paragon of peaceable intent, much like the scorpion convincing the frog to carry him across the pond. Since toppling Assad, he has sent a "positive message regarding regional peace and stability," and his regime "does not seek conflict, including with Israel." How unfortunate, then, that Israel has repaid this olive branch with "extreme violence," a thousand air strikes, four hundred incursions, and so forth. 

One might ask why, if Damascus is so very peaceful, Israel feels compelled to treat Syrian airspace as its own private highway. Perhaps because the new Syrian authorities have shown no particular eagerness to evict the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah remnants, or any of the other charming guests who made Syria such a delightful neighborhood under the previous management.

The Doha Forum, of course, is laughably billed as a "neutral platform." Its Qatari hosts insist it exists to promote dialogue on everything from conflict resolution to economic inequality. This year's theme, "Justice in Action: Beyond Promises to Progress" has a pleasantly earnest ring to it. Yet when the star speakers include a Syrian warlord lecturing the region's sole democracy on "horrifying massacres," a Turkish foreign minister pondering how best to separate Israelis and Palestinians "along the border," and a Qatari prime minister explaining that the current pause in Gaza is not a ceasefire because Israeli forces have not yet withdrawn completely, one begins to suspect that "neutrality" in Doha is rather like "peace" in Damascus: a word with highly elastic meaning.

Qatar's Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani was particularly instructive. "We are at a critical moment," he intoned. "We cannot consider it yet a ceasefire. A ceasefire cannot be completed unless there is a full withdrawal of the Israeli forces, (until) there is stability back in Gaza, people can go in and out, which is not the case today." 

In other words, Hamas may fire rockets and bullets whenever it pleases, but Israel must retreat unconditionally, or the whole thing is invalid. The same Qatar, let it never be forgotten, that has bankrolled Hamas for years, housed its leaders in five-star hotels, and now presides over a conference where Israel is ritually denounced by every speaker who matters.

And yet, in a final touch of surrealism, this same gathering, funded by a state that remains Hamas's principal financial and diplomatic sponsor is playing host to prominent American conservatives, including Tucker [Tuck You] Carlson. For many in Israel and the Jewish world, the spectacle of Western figures lending their presence to an event staged by a regime that has October 7's blood on its checkbook is simply incomprehensible. Senator Ted Cruz's sardonic “#QatarFirst” hashtag rather said it all.

One leaves the Doha Forum with the distinct impression that "justice in action" means something very specific in that part of the world: the continued demonization of the Middle East's only liberal democracy, the rehabilitation of its enemies, and the polite preterence that none of this has anything to do with the pogrom of October 7, 2023. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose – only now with better canapés and a more expensive backdrop.

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U.S. Troops Smoke Senior ISIS Bigwig in Syria Raid

ATMEH, Syria — Before the sun even thought about rising Wednesday, U.S. forces swooped into northwestern Syria and sent a top-tier Islamic State honcho to meet his maker, a U.S. official spilled to Reuters.

This marks the second time since Bashar al-Assad got the boot in December that U.S. troops have stormed northern Syria. The new Islamist-led crew running the show has sworn to keep ISIS from clawing back, and they're cozy with the U.S.-led coalition still pounding the terror group.

The official, keeping it low-key and anonymous, said the raid took out a heavy-hitting ISIS member who was in the running to be the group's top dog in Syria.

"No U.S. troops were killed or injured in the raid," the official added, cool as you like. A Syrian security source and Syria's state-run Al-Ikhbariya said the target bit the dust while trying to make a break for it.

Another Syrian source dropped that the guy was Iraqi, hitched to a French woman. No word yet on what happened to her.

The Pentagon's lips were sealed, no comment for now. The op kicked off around 2 a.m. (1100 GMT), according to Syrian security folks and locals in Atmeh, Idlib province. Helicopters and drones buzzed overhead, providing cover, while local Syrian forces locked down the neighborhood. U.S. troops, though, handled the dirty work, a second security source confirmed.

Abdelqader al-Sheikh, a local who was up late with his kid, heard some racket in the yard next door. "I called out, 'Who are you?' and they started speaking to me in English, telling me to put my hands up," Sheikh told Reuters.

He said the armed crew posted up on nearby rooftops for two hours, and he caught someone close by barking Arabic with an Iraqi accent.

Back in July, the Pentagon bragged about a raid in Aleppo province that dusted a senior ISIS leader and his two grown sons, both tied to the group.

Idlib's been a rat's nest for ISIS big shots for years. U.S. forces took out ISIS head honcho Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Barisha, Idlib, back in 2019, and his successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, got the same treatment in Atmeh in 2022.

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Joy Reid goes full Iran apologist on CNN but then this happened

Joy[less] Reid, the miserable ex-MSNBC leftist, just took a wild swing on CNN, defending Iran of all places after Trump dropped a weekend surprise on their nuclear sites. Yeah, that Iran. The one with a rap sheet longer than a Costco receipt for sponsoring terror and chaos.

Things got spicy fast on CNN’s Newsnight Tuesday, and Reid was serving up takes hotter than a Legionnaire's butt on the Sahara in the middle of summer.

CNN contributor Brad Todd came out swinging, laying it down plain: “Iran-backed militias that attacked the United States forces 170 times in Syria, in Jordan and in Iraq. You know who said that? Joe Biden said that. That’s why he authorized F-15 strikes against Iran.”

Bahdahboom! Facts on the table.

But Reid? She a dolt and wasn’t having it. Brushing off Biden like he’s yesterday’s news, she sneered, “I don’t look to former President Joe Biden as a moral authority because he has allowed Israel in an unrestrained manner to slaughter Palestinians in Gaza.”

Oh, we’re going there, eh? Reid doubled down, spinning a yarn about why Iran’s chasing nukes: “The bottom line here is the way that we know that Iran did not have nuclear weapons is that if they had nuclear weapons, Israel would not attack them. The reason they’re trying to get nukes, and probably Saudi Arabia is trying to get them, is because an expansionist power in their region keeps threatening them and actually bombs them.”

She's putting the cart before the horse, in a sense. The obvious truth is what Iran has said all along, and that's a little chant calling for death to Israel, and yes, America too.

Then Reid went full bird-brain: “I don’t think it’s okay that Israel has nukes either. And so the bottom line is, Israel does not even subject its nuclear weapons to the IAEA. And so my question is, should anyone in the region have nukes?”

Alright, Joy, slow down. You’re out here sounding like you’re auditioning for a UN debate club and didn't even bring your notes.

Host Abby Phillips wasn’t letting that slide, stepping in with a reality check: “Joy, this is not just about nukes. It’s also about Iran being a state sponsor of terrorism and chaos and violence and death around the world. So, I mean, there’s that too.”

Then Arthur Aidala piled on, calling out Reid for stanning a regime that “slaughters gay people and kills others for their religious beliefs.” Reid, too stupid to back down, fired back: “LGBTQ people can't even serve in the military under the president you prefer.”

Aidala wasn’t having it, clapping back, “We're not killing them!”

Reid kept digging: “They’re allowed to live, but they’re not allowed to serve in the United States military. They’re being persecuted. They can’t have their stories told in school. The United States is not exactly a beacon of rights for gay people.” Okay, Joy, comparing the U.S. to Iran’s death squads? That’s a stretch even for you. Aidala called her out for the false equivalence, and the panel was basically a cage match at this point.

And yes, LGBTQ people can openly serve in the military, but don't expect the military to do the genital mutilation for them. The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was repealed in 2011 and since then openly gay, lesbian and bisexual people can serve. In 2021, the Department of Defense lifted the ban on transgender individuals serving openly, allowing them to serve in their identified gender, provided they meet military standards.

This wasn’t the first time we’ve heard this tune. Just last week, The View’s Whoopi Goldberg tried a similar flex, claiming the U.S. in 2025 is basically Iran for Black folks. “Not if you're Black,” she insisted when co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back, with Sunny Hostin chiming in, “not for everybody.” 

The hyperbole is strong with this mentally challenged crew.

Reid’s still stinging from MSNBC canning her show earlier this year, and she has a theory: her Gaza coverage and relentless Trump-bashing got her the boot. Shocker, right? The far-left flamethrower thinks speaking “truth to power” cost her the gig. Maybe, Joy, it’s just that people got tired of the hot takes that sound like they’re scripted by a Reddit thread.

So, there you have it—Reid out here caping for Iran, sparring with CNN’s finest, and leaving us all wondering: what’s next, a fan letter to the ayatollah? Stay tuned, because this drama’s far from over.

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Trump meets with former ISIS leader now identifies as Syrian president after getting rid of Assad

President Trump and Syrian Islamist President cum ISIS terrorist Ahmed al-Sharaa

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, a major U.S. policy shift ahead of an expected meeting with Syria’s Islamist President Ahmed al-Sharaa. He met with the terrorist on Wednesday.

Can I get an 'allahu akbar.'

The U.S. is exploring the possibility of normalizing relations with Syria, Trump said. Hopefully, if this happens, Trump will make it conditional, specifically, recognizing Israel's statehood.

“We are currently exploring normalizing relations with Syria’s new government, as you know, beginning with my meeting with President Ahmed al-Sharaa,” he said at a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council. 

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was also present and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, joined by phone. The readout said both leaders schmoozed Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Syria, where Sharaa became president/dictator in January after the fall of the longtime chinless dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Trump told the former terrorist leader that he had “a tremendous opportunity to do something historic in his country,” the readout said. He urged Sharaa to sign on to the Abraham Accords, a framework for Arab states to recognize Israeli sovereignty that the U.S. mediated during Trump’s first term.

He also advised Sharaa to tell foreign terrorists to leave Syria, deport Palestinian terrorists, help the U.S. prevent the resurgence of the Islamic State and assume responsibility for Islamic State detention centers in Syria’s northeast.

Sharaa, not to be trusted, affirmed his commitment to Syria’s 1974 disengagement with Israel and invited American companies to invest in Syrian oil and gas, the readout said.

We need to semi-trust Middle East leaders and verify the crap out of them.

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Turkish fighter jets confront Israeli fighters over Syria

In the skies above the Mediterranean, on April 19, 2018, Israeli F-35s sliced through the air, a gleaming display of martial prowess marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding—an image captured with stark clarity by Reuters’ Amir Cohen. 

Now fast forward to a more turbulent scene, reported this Sunday by i24 News, where the heavens over Syria became a stage for a dangerous aerial ballet. Turkish opposition outlet Sözcü claims that Turkish F-16s, those blunt instruments of Ankara’s ambition, breached Syrian airspace over the weekend, barking “warning messages” at Israeli jets as they unleashed a barrage of strikes.

 
The Israel Defense Forces, with their characteristic cool composure, dismissed these reports as fiction. Yet Sözcü persists, framing the clash as part of Israel’s most ferocious campaign since the Assad regime’s collapse—a campaign that, per Turkish accounts, bloodied pro-Ankara militias like the Sultan Murad and Suleyman Shah brigades. 

These groups, tethered to Turkey’s geopolitical leash, found themselves in the crosshairs of Israeli firepower.

 
Turkey, it seems, is not content to watch from the sidelines. Reuters and various Turkish sources paint a picture of Ankara’s designs: a bold bid to cement its military footprint in Syria’s post-Assad chaos. Strategic airbases—T4 in Homs, another in Hama—are now targets for Turkish drones and air defense systems, a move to etch permanent lines of influence in the region’s shifting sands. 

But Israel, ever vigilant, allegedly struck T4 mere hours before a Turkish delegation arrived to survey it, reducing runways and control towers to rubble.

 
Ankara’s indignation is palpable. President Erdogan, never one to mince words, accuses Israel of upending the region’s fragile equilibrium, declaring that “Israeli attacks compromise the balance in the region since the fall of the Syrian regime.” 

One might ask: what balance? The Middle East has long been a cauldron of competing powers, and Turkey’s own maneuvers—muscling into Syria’s north, cozying up to militias—hardly scream restraint. Yet here we are, with Turkish F-16s and Israeli jets trading barbs in the sky, each side asserting dominance in a land that has known little but strife. 

The question is not who blinked first, but whether either can afford to blink at all.

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IDF hooks up three terrorists to 216 goats

South Lebanon got lit up like a cheap firecracker on Thursday when a pickup truck took a direct hit, blamed on Israel, between the dusty villages of Mis al-Jabal and Laida. 

Three unwashed guys—two Syrian civilians and a Lebanese local—were turned to ash in the blast. No confetti, no parade, just another day in the war zone.

Meanwhile, over in Gaza, the Israeli air show kept rolling with three strikes that left seven Palestinians dead and a bunch more nursing wounds, per local sources. The bombs dropped near Khan Yunis and Shuja'iya, where the ground’s already soaked with blood and bad decisions. 

Just another Thursday in the land of the slaves of Allah.

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Columbia U. leader Mahmoud Khalil forgot to mention something important on his visa application as per feds

In a plot twist wilder than a Babylon Bee headline, the Trump administration has accused Mahmoud Khalil—a Columbia University student and anti-Israel, anti-Semitic protest ringleader—of hiding his gig with a United Nations Palestinian relief agency on his visa application. The feds say this sneaky omission is grounds to boot him out of the country faster than you can say "deportation hearing."

Khalil, a 30-year-old green card holder married to an American Muslima, got nabbed by ICE agents on March 8. 

In a court brief dated Sunday, the U.S. government laid out its case to keep Khalil behind bars while they figure out how to ship him back to wherever he came from. Spoiler: it’s complicated—he’s a Syrian native and Algerian citizen who rolled into the U.S. on a student visa in 2022 before angling for permanent residency in 2024.

The Department of Justice claims Khalil pulled a fast one when he applied to tweak his immigration status, conveniently forgetting to mention his "membership in certain organizations." Among those? The United Nation's Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which lost tens of millions in U.S. funding after Israel accused 12 of its members of joining Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack. 

The DOJ says Khalil was a political officer for UNRWA from June to November 2023 but kept it hush-hush on his paperwork. I wonder why.

But wait, there’s more! 

Khalil also allegedly failed to disclose he was working at the Syria office in the British embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, while applying for his visa. Oh, and he didn’t mention his membership in Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), the Ivy League’s premier anti-Israel protest club. Sneaky, sneaky.

That's about as bad as Hunter Biden lying about not using drugs on his federal gun application.

The DOJ doubled down Sunday, arguing that Khalil’s alleged lies on his application are an "independent basis" for deportation, trumping any free speech whining he might try. 

"Regardless of his allegations concerning political speech, Khalil withheld membership in certain organizations and failed to disclose continuing employment by the Syria Office in the British Embassy in Beirut when he submitted his adjustment of status application," they said. "It is black-letter law that misrepresentations in this context are not protected speech."

"Thus, Khalil’s First Amendment allegations are a red herring, and there is an independent basis to justify removal sufficient to foreclose Khalil’s constitutional claim here," they added, probably while sipping coffee and high-fiving.

Khalil’s the first scalp in the Trump admin’s quest to revoke student visas for protest-happy foreigners, a crusade sparked by the chaos of anti-Israel campus meltdowns after the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks. 

During his campaign, Trump vowed to crack down, and he’s not messing around. "To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you," Trump declared in a White House fact sheet. "I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before."

So, will Khalil get the boot? Stay tuned—unless you’re him, in which case, maybe start packing.

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IAF strikes Palestinian Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus

The Israeli Air Force dropped hell on a Palestinian Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus Thursday, turning a quiet corner of the Dummar Project into a smoking crater. Senior jihadis—guys allegedly sketching out attacks on Israeli troops up along the northern border—were in the crosshairs, according to the suits in Jerusalem and whispers from Syrian street sources. 

This wasn’t a polite knock on the door; it was a message delivered in fire and steel.

A Syrian security guy, probably sweating through his knockoff Ray-Bans, told Reuters the bulls-eye was some “Palestinian figure.” Al-Hadath, the Saudi-backed news outfit, doubled down, saying a big-shot Palestinian official got the express ticket to paradise. 

Pictures from the scene? Think apocalyptic postcard—rubble, twisted metal, and smoke thick enough to choke a camel. Syrian press pegged the body count at eight but clammed up on the details. No names, no tears—just numbers. Jannah, here they come--get the goats ready.

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz didn’t blink. “We ain’t letting these terror clowns set up shop in Syria,” he said, or something close enough. 

The IDF backed him up with their official line: “A short while ago, the IAF conducted an intelligence-based strike on a terrorist command center belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organization in Damascus. The command center was used to plan and direct terrorist activities by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad against the State of Israel.”

They didn’t stop there. “The IDF will not allow terrorist organizations to entrench themselves in Syrian territory and operate against the State of Israel, and will respond forcefully to any such entrenchment,” the statement growled. “The IDF will continue to act against Palestinian terrorist organizations wherever necessary and will continue to operate to protect the citizens of the State of Israel.” 

Translation? Mess with the bull, get the horns—anywhere, anytime.

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This isn't a one-off. Ever since Bashar Assad’s house of cards folded in December, Israel’s been playing whack-a-mole with Syria’s new jihadi overlords and their pals. Under President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s shiny new jihadist regime, Palestinian terror crews have been sniffing around for a foothold. Israel’s response? Bombs, not brunch invites. Thursday’s strike was just the latest chapter in a book that’s all blood, no happy endings.

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NJ Mayor declares his city it "the capital of Palestine in the US"

The main street of Paterson, New Jersey, was renamed Palestine Way by the anti-Semitic Mayor of the town, Andre "Allahu Akbar" Sayegh. This schmuck declared the city to be the "capital of Palestine in the U.S." while at a ceremony marking the start of the Ramadan bomb-a-thon.

Sayegh also stated that the city was one of the four holiest in the world, after Jerusalem, Mecca, and Medina. [Of course, this is blasphemy because everyone knows the fourth holiest city is Philadelphia since the Eagles won the Super Bowl, at least until next year.]

The mayor referred to Paterson as “The Mecca of New Jersey,” which is an insult to all non Muslims who live there, especially the Jewish residents. He probably has plans to raze the town's synagogues and churches.

Sayegh was born in New Jerseysthan to a Syrian mother and a Lebanese father and hopes to make America a caliphate.  

Paterson's Muslim presence is evident through its many Palestinian flags, injured Jews, and signs in Arabic that may be signs of things to come.

The city enforces Islamic policies, such as closing schools on Muslim holidays, serving halal food in public schools, and broadcasting the Adhan (the Muslim call to prayer) on very loudspeakers throughout the city. 

The main street in the city was also renamed “Palestine Way,” and the city government actively promotes anti-Israel BDS legislation.

The Hilal lighting ceremony, where Sayegh made these remarks, was supported by the Palestinian American Community Center (PACC) and the Islamic Center of Passaic County (ICPC), two organizations that have faced criticism for anti-Israel rhetoric.

Last spring, a poll showed that half of American Muslims supported Hamas’s murders, tortures, kidnappings, mutilations, immolations and beheadings on October 7, 2023. 

The survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center among 12,693 respondents, found that 49% of American Muslims believe Hamas’s reasons for fighting against the Jewish state are valid, such as the fact that in spite of historical proof that the Jewish people inhabited Israel long before Mohammad was bumping sandals with young girls, somehow they have the right to the land. As they grow in number in the UK, they are also acting as if they have the right to the land there as well, and France, we cannot forget France.

In contrast, just 18% of American Muslims believe Israel is justified in its fight against Hamas, because science tells us that only 18% of Muslims don't follow their so called 'holy' book, the koran.

Twenty-one percent of American Muslims said the October 7th invasion of Israel and massacre of Jews were acceptable, compared to 5% or less among all other religious groups surveyed.

Sick. Just freaking sick.

Americans, as a whole, were far more likely to say Israel’s reasons for fighting were legitimate, compared to Hamas, with 58% of all respondents saying the Jewish state’s war on Hamas is valid, compared to 15% who disagreed.

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Anyone who knows what happen on Oct. 7 and still believe that it's justified to kill babies, rape women, slaughter children in front of their parents and vice-versa, has absolutely no decency and a dirty heart.

Nevertheless, Am Yisrael Chai.

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IAF conducts largest airstrike in Syria since January

Israel recently launched its biggest airstrike in Syria since January 8th of this year. 

From Monday night into early Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attacked dozens of military targets tied to Syria’s new leader, Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa. The IDF hit radar stations, air defense systems, weapons storage sites, and military bases in southern Syria. They said these targets belonged to the new government and were a danger to Israel.

The IDF explained, "the presence of these systems in southern Syria poses a threat to Israel and to IDF operations. These targets were struck to eliminate future threats." This was the largest Israeli military operation in Syria in a while, aimed at stopping the new Syrian government from growing stronger.

Syrian news reported that the strikes hit military posts near Damascus, including the towns of Sa’sa and Qatana, as well as old bases in the Daraa region and the 90th Brigade in Quneitra. More attacks happened near Homs and by the Lebanese border. At least 41 airstrikes were counted just around Damascus.

Ron Ben-Yishai, a security expert from Ynet, said a recent attack by al-Sharaa’s forces on Alawite cities in western Syria made Israel see the new government as a growing problem. Israel worries not just about jihadist groups in Syria but also about the country becoming unstable, which could let Turkey increase its military power there.

A big concern for Israel is that groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad might use Syria to attack Israeli towns in the Golan Heights and Upper Galilee. Forces loyal to al-Sharaa have freed senior terrorists from these groups, who were jailed by the old leader, Bashar Assad, to stop them from targeting Israel. Now, there’s fear these terrorists are planning new attacks. Another worry is that Turkey might start arming and training jihadist fighters who support al-Sharaa.

To deal with these risks, Israel is trying to control what happens in southern Syria so the new government can’t get too strong near its border. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have said they won’t let regime-backed fighters or armed Sunni jihadists get close to the Syrian Golan. Many empty Syrian military bases in the area still have weapons, which could end up with dangerous groups.

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Meanwhile, al-Sharaa is working to solidify his power. On Monday night, he made a deal with the leader of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to bring Kurdish fighters into Syria’s government and army. This came after a meeting with SDF leaders, who are supported by the United States.

The deal happened because the Kurds were left out of last month’s "National Dialogue Conference," which was meant to plan Syria’s future. Al-Sharaa’s office said the agreement shows "the unity of Syrian territory and the rejection of its division." The SDF promised to help Syria fight leftover Assad forces and other threats. This deal ends any chance of the Kurds creating their own country in Syria, since they agreed to keep Syria whole.

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Days of fighting and revenge killings in Syria leave about 1,000 dead

The overall death toll including civilians in Syria between loyalists of chinless ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and security forces has now exceeded 1,000, with the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) reporting a total of 1,311 deaths by March 10th. Specifically, security forces at 231; Assad loyalists at 250; and civilians up to 750, many killed in revenge attacks. 

Exact numbers depend on the source.

The clashes began Thursday and marked a major escalation in the challenge to the new government in Damascus, three months after insurgents took authority after removing Assad from power and had him fleeing to Russia for refuge.

The government has said that they were responding to attacks from remnants of Assad’s forces and blamed “individual actions” for the rampant violence. MSNBC and "The View" blamed it on Trump.

The revenge killings that started Friday by Sunni Muslim gunmen loyal to the government against members of Assad’s minority Alawite sect are a major blow to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the faction that led the overthrow of the former government. Alawites made up a large part of Assad’s support base for decades.

Residents of Alawite villages and towns spoke to the Associated Press about killings whereby gunmen belonging to the "religion of peace" shot Alawites, mostly men, in the streets or at the gates of their homes. Many homes of Alawites were looted and then set on fire in different areas, two residents of Syria’s coastal region told the AP from their hideouts. These acts of terror appeared to resemble those of whoat Hamas did to Israelis on October 7, 2023, but without the rapes, beheadings, kidnappings, and immolation of women and children. 

Maybe it's a jihad thing.

Those in hiding asked that their names not be made public out of fear of being killed by gunmen, adding that thousands of people have fled to nearby mountains for safety.

Residents of Baniyas, one of the towns worst hit by the violence, reported that bodies were strewn on the streets or left unburied in homes and on the roofs of buildings, making it impossible to collect them. One resident said that the gunmen prevented residents for hours from removing the bodies of five of their neighbors killed Friday at close range.

Ali Sheha, a 57-year-old resident of Baniyas who fled with his family and neighbors hours after the violence broke out Friday, told the AP that at least 20 of his neighbors and colleagues in one neighborhood of Baniyas where Alawites lived, were killed, some of them in their shops, or in their homes.

Sheha called the attacks “revenge killings” of the Alawite minority for the crimes committed by Assad’s government. Other residents said the gunmen included foreign fighters, and militants from neighboring villages and towns.

SOHR said that 428 Alawites were killed in revenge attacks in addition to 120 pro-Assad fighters and 89 from security forces. The Observatory’s chief Rami Abdurrahman said that revenge killings stopped early Saturday.

“This was one of the biggest massacres during the Syrian conflict,” Abdurrahman said about the killings of Alawite civilians.

If they aren't killing Christians and Jews, they're killing each other.

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IDF conducts "targeted raids" in Syria finding ammo, missiles and equipment

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out raids in Syria over the past week, locating, confiscating and dismantling numerous weapons, the Israeli military said on Saturday. Among the cache were missiles, ammunition and other equipment the IDF said.

The “targeted raids,” under the command of the 474th “Golan” Territorial Brigade, were based on intelligence gathering and involved troops of the Paratroopers Brigade, the Armored Corps and the Yahalom special operations engineering unit.

The troops are “deployed at strategic points in Syria” and will “continue operations to eliminate any threat and strengthen the defense of the State of Israel and its citizens,” the IDF added, keeping the actual location of the raids classified.

On Monday, Israeli Air Force (IAF) fighter jets struck a military site of Syria’s former Assad regime near Qardaha, which overlooks Latakia in northwestern Syria. The sorties were in response to “recent developments in the area,” the Israeli military said.

The attack targeted “a military site where weapons belonging to the previous Syrian regime were stored,” the statement added. It did not specify which developments prompted the strike but nevertheless, Israel refuses to remain passive when a potential for enemy attack looms large.

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Since the fall of the Iranian- and Russian-backed Assad regime on Dec. 8, Israel has taken up positions inside and beyond the Golan Heights buffer zone, including on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, a military strategic position. The Israeli Air Force has conducted hundreds of strikes on former Assad military assets to prevent them from falling into the hands of hostile forces.

With the fall of the 'chinless' Assad regime and the rise of the rebels significantly undermining Iran’s regional axis, Iran’s Mehr news agency announced on Wednesday the establishment of a new terrorist organization named “The Islamic Resistance in Syria.”

The organization was founded “in light of the recent developments Syria has witnessed,” according to the report.

In a statement released by the group, it said, “This step is a natural and legitimate response to confront the attempts at division and displacement that the country has endured.”

The statement was accompanied by a logo resembling those of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah, featuring a raised hand holding a rifle.

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Bibi and Katz order IDF to protect Syrian Druze

The Druze, with the support of Israel, now fully control the southern Syrian region of Sweida, the first overwhelming majority non-Muslim state in the Middle East since Israel, as the Jewish state is partnering with other minorities under the violent rule of Muslims in the region. The goal is to defeat the jihad armies and live in peace.

The Druze, with the support of Israel, now fully control the southern Syrian region of Sweida with its nearly half a million people. Of these, more than 85% are Druze and nearly 10% are Christian. This is undoubtedly the safest land for Druze and Christians in Syria.

Sweida would become the first overwhelmingly non-Muslim state in the Middle East since Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have instructed the IDF to prepare to protect the Druze village of Jaramana, Syria, following an attack by Syrian government forces on the area. Jaramana is approximately three kilometers southeast of Damascus, Syria’s capital.

In a strongly worded statement, Netanyahu and Katz said that Israel will not allow harm to the Druze in Syria.

“We will not allow the extreme Islamist terror regime in Syria to harm the Druze,” they said. “If the regime harms the Druze – it will be harmed by us.”

In accordance with Netanyahu and Katz’s instruction, the IDF was instructed to send a harsh warning message to the Syrian regime, and prepare to respond in case of an additional attack against the Druze in Jaramana.

“We are committed to our brothers, the Druze in Israel, to do everything in order to prevent harm to their brothers, the Druze in Syria,” they stressed. “We will take all of the necessary steps to protect their security.”

This comes after a military escalation in southern Syria as reports say there is increasing fighting between the Syrian regime forces and the Druze residents who oppose the Assad regime. 

Israel is closely watching what happens, due to concerns for the civilian population and the disruption of stability on Israel’s northern border.

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IDF will stay in parts of Lebanon and Syria indefinitely says Netanyahu

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) will remain stationed in key areas of Lebanon and Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu said Sunday. He stated that Israel demands full demilitarization of southern Syria and refuses to tolerate any threat to the Druze community in the region.

Bibi spoke at a graduate ceremony of IDF combat officer's course and said,  “In Syria, IDF forces will remain in the Mount Hermon area and the buffer zone for an indefinite period to protect our communities and counter any threats. We will not allow forces from HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, led by Syria’s new ruler Abu Mohammad al-Julani) or the New Syrian Army to enter areas south of Damascus.”

He said regarding Lebanon, that the IDF would maintain control over strategic areas on the northern border inside of Lebanon territory until the Lebanese government and military totally uphold their commitments under the ceasefire agreement.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said that “[O]ur eyes are on the entire region today, especially Syria. We are committed to ensuring that October 7 never happens again. As the prime minister said, there is a new reality in southern Syria. The IDF will not allow hostile forces to establish a presence in the security zone from here to Damascus, and we will act against any threat.”

Katz also highlighted Israel’s commitment to strengthening ties with friendly populations in the region, particularly the Druze, whom he called “brothers in arms.” He reassured that Israel is dedicated to ensuring their safety and preserving their historical connections, thus reinforcing Netanyahu's statement.

Israeli troops entered the Syrian buffer zone immediately after the fall of Bashar "The Chin" Assad's regime came to a crashing end. The troops were concerned about armed groups moving into the area and put soldiers in key positions to protect Israeli communities in the Golan Heights, while stressing that Israel will not interfere with Syrian affairs, but will operate as needed to secure the buffer zone to safeguard Israel.

After the Syrian rebels took control of the Golan and removed Assad from power, the IDF warned them not to cross the Alpha Line, marking the start of the demilitarized zone. The Northern Command raised its alert level and activated emergency defense plans in anticipation of a potential invasion from the east.

Now with almost six months after the start of what has become the Third Lebanon War, Israel is reestablishing a partial presence inside Lebanese territory. This is the first time in 25 years it has done so and five outposts will be established several hundred meters beyond the border fence. Each outpost will be manned by hundreds of IDF soldiers and they will maintain this presence until a new political directive is issued.

A similar forward defense strategy is being implemented along the Gaza border, with ongoing coordination between the Southern and Northern Commands to apply lessons from recent operations.

Netanyahu, love him or hate him, means it when he implies that never again means never again.

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Syria's new textbooks still crazy after all these centuries

Note the arm gesture

Let us cast an unflinching eye upon the new schoolbooks emerging from Syria, shall we? There is something deeply troubling afoot. "In the new schoolbooks, the role of women in Arab history is being deliberately downplayed; Islam relegates women to a lower rank than men." 

So it is written, and so it appears to be. 

Figures such as Nazik al-Abid—once hailed as the “Joan of Arc of the Arabs” for her courageous stand for women’s rights—are now scrubbed from the pages. Queen Zenobia, that towering figure of the 3rd century, is dismissed as a relic of the Jahaliyya, the Time of Ignorance, unworthy of emulation. And Khawla bint al-Azwar, the fierce warrior of the Rashidun era who dared to believe Ali was the first rightful caliph, finds no favor in the uber-Sunni sanctum of Damascus. A Shia in all but name, she is cast out of this new pedagogical pantheon.

The excision does not stop there. 

The Assad dynasty, both father and son, has been predictably erased from any hint of praise, direct or oblique. Yet when it comes to Israel and the Jews, the venom remains untouched. 

"Multiple maps in a geography textbook for 14 – 15-year-olds present all of Israel’s internationally recognized territory as Palestine." The Golan Heights, firmly under Israeli control, are brazenly claimed as Syrian, while the cover flaunts an image of the Sea of Galilee—nestled within Israel’s borders—as though to whisper that it, too, might belong to Syria. 

Does Israel exist within its 1949 armistice lines in these texts, or has it been obliterated entirely? The answer is murky, but what is crystal clear is this: the Israel of today finds no reflection in these maps.

And then there is the matter of science—or its absence. 

"An entire chapter in a biology textbook for 13 – 14-year-olds on evolution has been removed." Why? Because evolution, we are told, is merely a “theory,” one that clashes with the immutable truths of Islamic doctrine. Best to shield the young minds from its seductive heresies until they can be sufficiently armored with faith. Secularism, it seems, is an unwelcome guest in this new scholastic order.

But it is in the reframing of “martyrdom” that the shift becomes most chilling. 

"‘Martyrdom’ will be reframed in the new textbooks from a national to a religious perspective." Out goes the notion of “a person giving away his soul to defend his homeland”; in its place, 10 grade pupils will now be taught of “a person giving away his soul for the sake of Allah.” The homeland of Syria fades into irrelevance; the call is now to martyrdom for Islam itself—to expand the umma, to strike down the infidels. 

Take Dalia al-Mughrabi, for instance, enshrined in these pages as a paragon of virtue. She, who in 1978 helped slaughter 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, in the Coastal Road Massacre, is held aloft as a model to emulate. 

If this is the education of the young, what future can we expect?

Behind this lurks the shadow of Turkey, Erdogan’s hand guiding the rise of HTS and its leader, al-Jolani, in their war against Assad. Ankara remains the principal foreign patron of this new Damascus regime—though one wonders how long that alliance will hold if Turkey insists on lingering in northern Syria to keep the Kurds in check. 

For now, the Ottoman legacy is gently rebranded: what was once an “occupation” in Assad’s textbooks is now a neutral “regime,” a semantic sleight of hand to appease a friend. Syria itself, as a nation, recedes from view; the spotlight falls instead on Islam and the global umma. The old hatreds endure—Jews and Western powers, those “warmongers and exploiters who suck the ‘blood of the innocents,’” remain the perennial enemies.

Al-Jolani may speak soothing words, pledging to disarm militias and forge a national army, disavowing any intent to challenge Israel’s recent gains on the Syrian Golan. And yet here are these textbooks, freshly minted, steeped ever deeper in an Islamic fervor that will shape the next generation. "Statements against Jews remain, as do those against all the Western powers." Many of these children, fed this diet of piety and prejudice, will surely emerge as jihadis—foot soldiers in a war without end.

The Israelis, wisely, keep their distance, unmoved by al-Jolani’s supposed overtures. They are right to hesitate. 

If you seek the reason, look no further than these schoolbooks. Impact-se has laid it bare: what has been kept, what has been altered, and what has worsened. This is not a curriculum of peace; it is a blueprint for something far darker. We would do well to take note and stay strong.

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BREAKING: Jihad attack in France: "Allah akbar" shouted the attacker

France knife attack: One dead and two injured in horror stabbing with suspect on 'terror prevention watchlist' which is as useful as a cloth Covid mask.

One person has died and at least two 'police officers' have been seriously injured in a stabbing in a picturesque French town.

The attack took place at a market in the eastern city of Mulhouse, on the border of Germany, on Saturday afternoon.

The suspect, a 37-year-old man, possibly from Syria, was arrested at the scene. He reportedly yelled "Allahu akbar," which means Allah is greater [although many will deny that exact translation] during the stabbing spree. 

One person has died and at least two have been seriously injured in a stabbing. The seriously injured is believed to be police officers.

The watchlist, called terrorism and radicalization prevention file (FSPRT), uses data from numerous authorities on individuals in the hopes of preventing "terrorist" radicalization, which once again proves that it's as useful as in-line skates for a blowfish.

The list was launched in 2015 following a series of attacks on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's offices, as well as a Jewish supermarket where Jews were targeted by the anti-Semitic 'religion of peace.'

The suspect also reportedly has a previous conviction related to advocating terrorism, according to Le Parisien, so this is further proof of how Europe has looked the other way by releasing potential terrorists rather than deporting them in order to protect your own citizens.

Three additional officers were lightly injured in the attack, which occurred during a demonstration, the local prosecutor said.

Mulhouse mayor Michele Lutz said on Facebook: "Horror has seized our city."

She said that the incident was being investigated as a terror attack, though added "this must obviously still be confirmed by the judiciary".


France's useless President Emmanuel Macron reacts after having a phone call with France's Interior Minister about a knife attack in Mulhouse. One can suspect that his heart goes out to the slain victim's family.

Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau is expected to travel to the scene of the attack later today.

France’s national anti-terror prosecutors unit (PNAT) said it was taking charge of the investigation.

Does anyone have doubt about what inspired this latest attack?

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