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Eine Untersuchung zeigt, dass rund 45 Prozent aller islamistischen Terroranschläge in Europa von Migranten geplant und/oder durchgeführt wurden. Die knappe Mehrheit der daran beteiligten Moslems ist in Europa aufgewachsen. Es gibt also doch ein Problem mit dem importierten Dschihadismus.
Die anhaltende Massenzuwanderung von Moslems nach Europa macht den Kontinent nicht sicherer. Dies verdeutlicht auch eine Auswertung der konservativen ungarischen Denkfabrik Danube Institute. Demnach stammen etwa 45 Prozent aller Dschihadisten, die an einem islamistischen Terroranschlag zwischen Mai 2015 und Mai 2025 beteiligt waren, aus dem Ausland. Als „migrantischer Attentatsplaner“ wird in dem Bericht jeder der Beteiligten kategorisiert, der entweder im außereuropäischen Ausland geboren wurde und seine Kindheit dort verbracht hat.
In diesem Bericht untersuchte der Autor, der Kriminologe Simon Cottee, insgesamt 221 solcher islamistischen Terrorpläne aus diesem Zeitraum. Er stellte fest, dass 100 davon mindestens einen Migranten einschlossen, wobei insgesamt 137 migrantische Tatplaner identifiziert wurden. Die überwiegende Mehrheit dieser Pläne war von der Terrororganisation Islamischer Staat (ISIS) inspiriert. Die Tatverdächtigen stammten aus mehr als 20 Ländern, am häufigsten aus Syrien, Irak und Marokko. Fast alle waren Männer im Alter zwischen 20 und 39 Jahren.
Laut dem Bericht von Cottee kamen bei Anschlägen mit Beteiligung von Migranten 279 Menschen ums Leben, verglichen mit 107 Todesopfern bei Anschlägen ohne migrantische Beteiligung. Cottee weist jedoch darauf hin, dass zwei besonders schwere Anschläge – die Pariser Anschläge vom November 2015 und der Anschlag von Nizza im Juli 2016 – allein für 216 dieser Todesfälle verantwortlich waren. Bei beiden dieser Anschläge wurden zudem zusammen weit mehr als 800 Menschen (teils schwer) verletzt.
Allerdings war Angela Merkels „Wir schaffen das“-Deutschland das häufigste Ziel solcher Anschlagspläne und verzeichnete demnach beinahe die Hälfte aller Anschlagspläne mit Migranten-Beteiligung. Auf den Plätzen folgen Frankreich mit 21 und das Vereinigte Königreich mit 10 Fällen. In jüngerer Zeit, insbesondere in Deutschland, richteten sich dschihadistische Anschlagspläne zunehmend gegen jüdische und israelische Einrichtungen. Der Bericht bringt diese Entwicklung mit dem Krieg zwischen Israel und der Hamas in Verbindung, der im Oktober 2023 begann.
Cottees Ergebnisse stehen damit im Widerspruch zu anderen Untersuchungen, die den Dschihadismus in Europa überwiegend als hausgemachtes Problem betrachten. Eine Studie von 2025 der Forscher Thomas Renard und Méryl Demuynck für das International Centre for Counter-Terrorism kam zu dem Schluss, dass Terrorismus in Europa größtenteils ein innenpolitisches beziehungsweise innerhalb Europas entstandenes Problem sei und Befürchtungen über Terrorismus durch Asylforderer häufig übertrieben würden.
Allerdings stellte Cottee auch fest, dass ganze 79 Prozent der aus dem Ausland stammenden Tatplaner sogenannte „Selbststarter“ gewesen seien. Sie hätten ihre Sympathien für den Islamischen Staat erst nach ihrer Ankunft in Europa entwickelt. Fast die Hälfte verfügte zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Tatplanung über einen Asyl- oder Aufenthaltsstatus. Während dies von Kritikern als Hinweis darauf betrachtet wird, dass die Radikalisierung der jungen Moslems vor allem in Europa stattfinden würde, argumentiert der Kriminologe, diese Leute seien ja nicht als „unbeschriebenes Blatt“ zugewandert.
Doch wie man es auch dreht und wendet – an importiertem Islam-Terrorismus mangelt es in Europa nicht. Und selbst der „hausgemachte“ Dschihadisten-Terrorismus wäre ohne die jahrzehntelange Zuwanderung von Moslems nach Europa nur ein Randproblem. Doch dies anzusprechen, gilt in diesen Tagen bereits als „islamophob“. Dabei zeigen die Daten aus den östlichen EU-Ländern, in denen es faktisch kaum moslemische Zuwanderer gibt, dass es dort auch kaum zu irgendwelchen islamistischen Terroranschlägen kommt.
Soldier overpowers would-be stabber outside Western Galilee police station; troops seek remaining suspects after shooting 18-year-old hurling Molotov cocktails on West Bank highway
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Fighters from an insurgent group linked to the Islamic State killed 16 civilians in the eastern Congo, the area of the Ebola outbreak.
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War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said the United States remains committed to helping defend Bolivia's fragile government amid ongoing warnings of a coup d’état.
In a post on X, Hegseth said the War Department and the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C), a recently established multinational military and political alliance, reject all attempts to overthrow the government of Rodrigo Paz Pereira a mere six months into his term.
"The United States is watching. Bolivia must not allow itself to fall prey to the old status quo of narco-terrorist dominance in the region," Hegseth wrote. "We will continue to support our A3C partners like Bolivia to ensure that narco-terrorists are deterred from profiting on death and destruction in our hemisphere."
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Bolivia's capital, La Paz, has been rocked by weeks of social unrest as mass protests have blocked streets in major cities amid economic inflation and rising fuel prices.
Bolivian Defense Minister Marcelo Salinas resigned Tuesday.
Upon taking office, Paz supported a land reform bill to boost agribusiness that Indigenous farmers said put them at risk of eviction. He further scrapped fuel subsidies, sending prices surging by nearly 90%. Motorists complained that the gasoline was contaminated and ruined their cars.
The Trump administration has said drug traffickers are responsible for inciting the mass unrest.
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"Let there be no mistake: the United States stands squarely in support of Bolivia's legitimate constitutional government," Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote Wednesday on X. "We will not allow criminals and drug traffickers to overthrow democratically elected leaders in our hemisphere."
"Let us not make any mistake about that; it is a coup financed by this perverse alliance between politics and organized crime across the region," Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said Tuesday, stating that the protests were part of an ongoing "coup d’état."
Meanwhile, former President Evo Morales, the country's first Indigenous president who ruled for an unprecedented 14 years, is calling for early elections. "Paz only has two paths left: a suicidal decision like militarization or ... an election in the next 90 days," he wrote on X.
For almost two years now, Morales has been hiding out in Bolivia's central coca-growing Chapare region, evading an arrest warrant on human trafficking charges relating to allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl. He rejects the allegations as politically motivated.
Two days after another ceasefire was announced between Israel and U.S. terrorist designated group Hezbollah, Yulia Bar-Dan was standing outside her temporary home in Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel when the familiar sound of an interceptor echoed overhead.
"There will probably be another siren soon," she told Fox News Digital.
Minutes later, an alert appeared on her phone warning residents in northern Israel to take shelter.
For Bar-Dan, the scene captured the reality of life on Israel's northern border nearly two years after Hezbollah joined the war against Israel on Oct. 8, 2023.
After Hezbollah entered the recent war in support of Iran, Washington launched a diplomatic effort aimed at turning the ceasefire into a broader arrangement for Lebanon.
Multiple rounds of talks between Israeli and Lebanese officials have taken place in Washington, and President Donald Trum repeatedly has announced ceasefire understandings aimed at restoring calm along the border. Residents of communities like Manara, Israel, say the rockets, drones and uncertainty never really stopped.
"A ceasefire is supposed to be on both sides," she said. "Not that Hezbollah keeps shooting at us and we just keep absorbing it."
When Fox News Digital first spoke to Bar-Dan in December 2024 during the war, she and her husband had fled Manara, Israel, with their three children and were living out of a single hotel room, unsure whether they would ever return home.
Today, roughly 200 of the kibbutz's 280 residents have returned, Bar-Dan said. But many, including Bar-Dan's family, still cannot live in their original homes because of war damage.
Despite repeated ceasefire announcements, residents say normal life remains elusive.
"There hasn't really been a routine or a quiet day since February," she said.
Schools officially reopened in early June, but Bar-Dan decided not to send her children.
"They take the bus to school," she said. "What if there's a siren on the way? I can't take that chance."
Her frustration is not directed at Hezbollah alone.
Like many residents interviewed by Fox News Digital, Bar-Dan says there is a growing disconnect between the reality experienced on the border and the reality described by politicians.
"It doesn't really matter where the decisions are being made," she said. "The decisions just need to match reality. Right now there is a decision, but the reality is completely different."
A year and a half after most of Manara's residents were evacuated amid fears of a Hezbollah invasion, community leader Yochai Wolfin says residents have developed their own name for the current situation.
"We call it 'the ceasefire war,'" he said.
The phrase has become common in the community.
First came a year and a half of evacuation. Then came the return home. Then came what Wolfin describes as three months of "fire within a ceasefire."
The uncertainty has become part of daily life.
Children study inside shelters. Parts of the kibbutz still lack protected rooms. Construction projects remain unfinished because contractors are reluctant to work so close to the border.
He said many residents increasingly feel that the decisions determining their future are being made far from the communities that bear the consequences.
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"Who knows what tomorrow will bring?" Wolfin said. "We know who is calling the shots. We saw it a few days ago when Trump announced another ceasefire. But for us, the reality on the ground hasn't changed."
The comments come as Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem warned Thursday that northern Israel would remain unsafe as long as Israeli strikes continue in Lebanon, according to Reuters.
In a written statement broadcast on June 4, 2026, Qassem condemned the Washington-mediated framework as "absurd, humiliating, and insulting," calling it a roadmap for surrender.
For residents of Israel's northern border communities, the statements reinforced what many say they have been experiencing for months: a ceasefire that exists on paper but not in daily life.
Naor Shamia, who heads Manara's emergency response team, says residents increasingly worry that temporary emergency measures are becoming permanent.
"The fear isn't today," he said. "The fear is that this becomes years. We are in a deadlock."
Across the border region, similar concerns are heard.
In the community of Adamit, resident Yael Cohen-Arazi described the contrast between the beauty surrounding her and the reality of living under constant threat.
"Every morning I wake up and think I'm living in paradise," she said in footage provided to Fox News Digital by the Israeli news agency TPS-IL. "Then there are the explosions that shake my soul."
Her children, she said, have spent so much of their lives under fire that they no longer know what normal looks like.
"I tell them there are children who don't live like this," she said.
Back in Manara, Israel, another alert interrupted the afternoon.
Bar-Dan says she is not angry anymore. Mostly, she is tired and sad.
"I feel bad for the soldiers," she said. "Every day there is another casualty, and there is still no solution."
Yet she insists she is staying.
"This is our home," she said. "Someone has to live on the borders of this country."
Then another explosion sounded in the distance.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday announced sanctions against four Iranian digital asset exchanges, including Nobitex, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Iran.
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Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister accused the European Union of weaponizing a "socially acceptable mask" of anti-Zionism to target Israel— after it sanctioned Israeli civil society groups that oppose a Palestinian state. It also sanctioned several individuals.
"We are witnessing a deeply troubling trend where traditional antisemitism has simply put on a new, socially acceptable mask: anti-Zionism," Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel told Fox News Digital. "Where prejudice once targeted the individual Jew, it is now directed at the collective Jewish state and our fundamental right to live in our ancestral homeland. But make no mistake, the political targeting of Israel always bleeds into an assault on Jewish life itself," Haskel added.
The European Union imposed the sanctions on four Israeli civil society organizations and three of their senior figures, alleging support for "settler violence" and claiming they undermine prospects for a Palestinian state — a move that Regavim, one of the groups targeted, described as an infringement on Israeli sovereignty.
"Our entire activity consists of legal and parliamentary work. We collect and analyze information and policies and go to court and the legislature to highlight areas where Israel’s policy is either lacking or misguided," Naomi Kahn, Regavim’s Director of International Division, told Fox News Digital.
"The European Union is trying to control the internal political system and policies of an independent state that is supposed to be an ally. When we point out the absurdity of the situation, they don’t like it," she said.
In its announcement, the European External Action Service (EEAS) stated that "extremist settlers and the organizations supporting them contribute directly to violence, forced displacement and dispossession across the West Bank."
The sanctions, according to the EEAS, "target entities and individuals that facilitate, finance or support activities contributing to settler violence and serious human rights abuses against Palestinians."
The statement also accused Regavim of lobbying for "the demolition of Palestinian property" and referenced an EU-funded school in Jabbet al-Dhib near Bethlehem.
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Kahn said the school was constructed illegally on Israeli state land in Area C, within a nature reserve connected to the Herodian complex. She said legal proceedings were carried out regarding the structure and that it was ultimately demolished.
Under the 1993 Oslo Accords, negotiated during the Clinton administration, the West Bank was divided into three areas: Area A, under full Palestinian control; Area B, under Palestinian civil authority with Israeli security control; and Area C, under full Israeli administrative and security control.
Kahn added that an engineering assessment found the school unsafe for use, arguing that placing students and teachers inside it posed "downright dangerous" conditions.
"We pointed out that the E.U. and the Palestinian Authority are simply violating the law in a very purposeful, systematic way to take control of Area C using structures like schools, sometimes mosques, and homes of innocent people that they push into those areas," she added.
Regavim has published a report claiming there are 100 illegal schools in Area C that it says are being used by the P.A. as part of a broader strategy of de facto annexation.
Separately, a 2023 mapping study by Regavim estimated that roughly 103,000 unauthorized Arab-built structures exist across the West Bank, asserting that the P.A.—often with external support — has facilitated extensive illegal construction activity.
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In response, Israel’s cabinet last month approved a set of broad measures aimed at countering efforts by the P.A. to establish de facto control over disputed territories.
Under the resolution, initiatives attributed to Ramallah to create a parallel land registry in Area C were declared to have no legal validity or standing.
"The real target here is not violence, but legitimate political opposition. The sanctioned organizations do not support violent action; rather, they have consistently challenged the concept of a two-state solution and exposed how the EU actively builds illegal structures in Judea and Samaria," Haskel said, referring to the biblical names of the territories," Haskel said.
She accused the EU of disregarding the Oslo Accords and "attempting to unilaterally alter facts on the ground to steal Israeli land."
Haskel acknowledged there was an issue, as in any society, "with some individuals who break the law, but emphasized they represent a small minority and that Israel investigates and prosecutes them. She said grouping hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Israeli residents in the West Bank together with Hamas — a genocidal terror organization responsible for mass murder — distorts moral distinctions."
She said, "This creates a false and dangerous symmetry that minimizes the exceptional threat of global terrorism while politically targeting individual Israelis. It is an unacceptable moral equivalence that blurs the line between a sovereign democracy defending its people and the savage terror apparatus trying to destroy it."
Following several requests for comment, European External Action Service (EEAS) referred Fox News Digitial to its original sanctions statement.
Amid President Donald Trump’s Monday announcement that a deal with Iran’s clerical regime is imminent to re-open the Strait of Hormuz and negotiate an end to Tehran’s illicit nuclear weapons program, Iranians who hoped U.S. pressure would force a decisive outcome now fear it may survive while ordinary people absorb the costs.
"Inside Iran, the mood has shifted from early-war optimism to a kind of exhausted resignation, but there is still some hope that this is the moment President Trump will use his leverage to do the right thing. The Iranian people understand this unusually narrow but strategic window," Lisa Daftari, editor-in-chief of The Foreign Desk who keeps in contact with Iranians on the ground, told Fox News Digital.
She continued that ,"The regime is fiscally strained and politically brittle, while the broader population has been disillusioned by years of repression and economic collapse. Iranians do see this as a one‑time opportunity for Washington — and President Trump in particular — to translate military and economic leverage into the potential collapse of an irrefromable regime. If the outcome is a shallow agreement that props up the system without changing its trajectory, that window will likely close for years."
She continued, "If instead, the U.S. holds firm on sanctions and nuclear red lines, it can weaken the regime’s hand without punishing the Iranian people, who have already paid the highest price."
Daftari, the Iran expert, shared recent correspondence from two Iranians from Tabriz and Tehran.
The resident from Tabriz said, "From my perspective, decades of political tension between Iran and the United States have had their greatest impact on ordinary people rather than those in power. Many families feel their voices are not being heard in international discussions about Iran." Adding, "I respectfully ask whether you might consider sharing or highlighting the human side of this situation, so that the experiences of ordinary Iranian families are not overlooked in political discussions and media coverage."
The Tehran resident said, "Today, the people of Iran believe in the future. On days when economic pressure makes the faces of the Iranian people sad, the word ‘unity’ brings a smile to their lips. Our situation is not good, but we are motivated."
Fox News Digital surveyed a few Iranians and agreed to use only their first names because the clerical regime has declared the use of Starlink to bypass the censor a criminal act. A sophisticated clandestine network has managed to smuggle some satellite internet technology into Iran to allow people to communicate with the world outside the Islamist state.
Hassan, who lives in Tehran, pleaded with President Trump to keep strong in his dealings with the regime, saying that "Things have gotten so bad that even if you wanted to give up and leave Iran and just focus on your own life and work, it feels like there’s nowhere left to turn. Mr. Trump, through these deals and arrangements, has left people feeling trapped, with no road left open."
Mehdi, who resides in Tehran, expressed confusion about the existence of an agreement. He said, "So what exactly are they agreeing on? Are they saying they’re close to a deal or are there other discussions too? Every minute there is a new piece of news, everyone has a new analysis, everything changes every minute. It’s strange. This war achieved nothing. We’re the only ones left paying the price," he complained.
Hassan from Tehran said that "Mr. Trump, if until yesterday most Iranians thought they were on the same path as America, you caused them all to become disappointed. "Mr. Trump, if you wanted this government to remain in power, why did you blow up factories? Now workers are being laid off, and inflation is out of control. Even with a salary of 18 million tomans, you cannot feed yourself."
Mahsa, from the Caspian Sea city of Rasht, told Fox News Digital that the system [Islamic Republic of Iran] is still fully intact. They don’t care how many people died. If anything, they seem more emboldened now and even take pride in martyrdom. Yesterday I argued with a regime supporter [who] said: "Our leader didn’t give away a single meter of land, didn’t take a step backward, unlike previous kings who gave away Bahrain, Baku, Nakhchivan, and others."
The concerns among many Iranians revolve around the proposed memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran’s regime. The MOU does not address the overthrow of the clerical regime or human rights violations, according to media reports. Large numbers of Iranians within Iran and among the Iranian diaspora want the Trump administration to topple the Islamist dictatorship in Tehran.
The MOU reportedly involves a 60-day ceasefire extension. Israel and the U.S. launched a joint attack on Iran on February 28. The MOU would also see the reopening the Strait of Hormuz and new talks over Iran's illicit nuclear weapons program.
The leaked elements of the MOU have not been confirmed by the Trump administration.
When asked about the concern among Iranians about a deal with the Islamic Republic, Anna Kelly, a spokeswoman for the White House, told Fox News Digital that "For 47 years, American Presidents and countless other world leaders talked about the threat posed by Iran, but no one had the courage to address it. President Trump took decisive action to ensure that Iran could never harm our homeland, our troops, or our allies again. Once Iran’s nuclear threat is removed for good, the entire region and its people will be safer and more stable."
IRAN REGIME ESCALATES REPRESSION TOWARD 'NORTH KOREA-STYLE MODEL OF ISOLATION AND CONTROL'
However, Trump said last week during his cabinet meeting, "We didn’t set out for regime change," adding, "But by the fact that we’re dealing with a totally different group of people than we were at the beginning … This is regime change."
Reza Farnood, an Iranian American who supports the Trump administration and is a researcher, writer and activist, urged that President Trump continue with his maximum pressure campaign against Tehran.
Farnood told Fox News Digital, "We welcome the bombing and attacking the regime because we are aiming to overthrow the regime." He urged that Trump continue the blockade of Iran’s vessels and deny money to the regime. He said sanctions relief will be used by Iran "against the U.S. and Israel and their allies and innocent Iranians."
Farnood stressed that the clerical regime is holding the Iranian people "hostage."
Kianoosh, who lives in the northern city of Karaj, the capital of Alborz province, said about Trump’s proposed deal: "You threw six months of our lives into hell. What answer are "you going to give to the mothers of all those children who were killed? Why did you give people false hope? Why did you hand down a death sentence to everything so many people believed in?"
Leading U.S. Senators well-versed in foreign policy have praised Trump’s approach to the Islamic Republic. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC., recently told Fox News’ Sean Hannity "On Trump’s watch, they’re [Iran’s regime] becoming poorer and weaker. That’s the difference."
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Graham juxtaposed Trump’s Iran policy with his predecessors. "Obama and Biden screwed Iran up, and Donald Trump is fixing it. On Obama and Biden’s watch, Iran became rich and lethal," he said. "On Trump’s watch, they’re becoming poorer and weaker. That’s the difference."
Iran is running dangerously low on oil storage capacity and could face a severe economic breaking point if forced to halt production, former U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette recently told Fox News.
Trump has said that Iran’s regime murdered as many as 45,000 Iranian demonstrators in January 2026. He urged just days after the mass murder that protesters keep going and promised them that "help is on its way."
Lawdan Bazargan, a prominent Iranian-American activist who the regime imprisoned in its infamous Evin Prison in Tehran in the 1980s for political dissent, told Fox News Digital that the Iranians she’s spoken with are discouraged by Trump’s dealings. "He was one of the few world leaders who repeatedly spoke about the thousands of Iranians killed in January 2026 and expressed disgust at the sheer brutality of the Islamic Republic. He had promised support for the Iranian people and raised expectations that meaningful change might finally come."
She continued: "Now, 88 days later, many people feel they are left facing the same regime, one that appears more emboldened, more ideological, and still willing to repress, execute, and arrest people. The economy has been devastated, and many feel trapped between a government with no mercy and a future with no clear path forward.
For years, 90 million Iranians have lived as hostages of the Islamic Republic. Now, many fear that the consequences no longer stop at Iran’s borders, through threats to global energy routes, regional stability, and even digital infrastructure."
According to Bazargan, "The question many ordinary Iranians are asking is simple: How are people expected to fight a system that feels victorious, controls the weapons, controls the narrative through a massive propaganda machine, and possesses countless tools of repression?"
Ali, who is also from the sprawling capital city of Tehran, complained about the spiraling prices and inflation and disappointment that the regime is still in place.
"For a government with state-provided housing and billions in patronage and privileges, what difference did any of this make for its supporters?"
Ali added: "We’re the ones who are paying the price and getting crushed. How are our children ever supposed to afford these housing and car prices, and how are they supposed to get married?"
The U.S. State Department referred Fox News Digital to the White House for a comment.
The Israel Defense Forces announced Tuesday that it eliminated a Hamas terrorist who helped abduct American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who ultimately was murdered in the Gaza Strip.
The IDF said Yousef Ayesh Awad Ramadan, a deputy commander of a Hamas Nukhba terrorist cell, was killed in the central Gaza Strip on Monday. Nukhba, which is Arabic for elite, is the special forces for the Al-Qassam Brigades, which is Hamas' military wing.
"Ramadan infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7th massacre and took part in the abduction of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eliya Cohen, Alon Ohel, and Or Levy from the bomb shelter at the Re’im Junction," the IDF said Tuesday.
"In addition, throughout the war, and in recent weeks, the terrorist advanced attack plans against IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians. As such, he posed an immediate threat to IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip," it continued.
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Goldberg-Polin survived almost 11 months in underground tunnels following his capture but was killed alongside other hostages in August 2024, while still in captivity. He was 23 at the time of his death.
"According to our initial assessment, they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists shortly before we reached them," then- IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said.
Goldberg-Polin was abducted at a music festival in southern Israel during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack against the Jewish State.
He lost part of his left arm to a grenade in the attack.
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Eliya Cohen survived 505 days in captivity. He faced extreme starvation, was kept chained in tunnels, and had surgery for a gunshot wound without anesthesia. He was released in February 2025 as part of a negotiated deal.
Or Levy survived 491 days in captivity. He endured harsh conditions and only learned after his release that his wife, Einav, had been killed in the Oct. 7 attack. He has since reunited with his young son.
Alon Ohel spent more than two years as a hostage in Gaza until his release in October last year.
A talented pianist, he endured starvation, torture and serious eye injuries from a grenade. He was freed on Oct. 13, 2025, through a U.S.-brokered deal and returned home to recover. He now performs with Israeli artists.
Fox News’ Yonat Friling, Robert McGreevy and Landon Mion contributed to this report.
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Den Amerikanern wurde ein beruhigendes Märchen über islamischen Terrorismus erzählt. Radikale Dschihadisten greifen den Westen an, weil sie Freiheit, Demokratie und den amerikanischen Lebensstil verachten. Diese Erzählung schmeichelt der heimischen Öffentlichkeit und verschleiert gleichzeitig eine weitaus beunruhigendere Realität. Jahrzehntelang haben die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, das Vereinigte Königreich und Israel sunnitische islamistische Extremisten bewaffnet, finanziert, toleriert und als geopolitische Werkzeuge zur Destabilisierung ihrer Rivalen eingesetzt. Die Beweise dafür finden sich in verschiedenen Konfliktgebieten und basieren auf freigegebenen Dokumenten, Kongressuntersuchungen und glaubwürdigen investigativen Journalistenberichten.
Der am besten dokumentierte Fall ist die Operation Cyclone, das CIA-Programm zur Bewaffnung und Finanzierung der afghanischen Mudschaheddin von 1979 bis 1992. In einem Interview mit Le Nouvel Observateur aus dem Jahr 1998 bestätigte der ehemalige Nationale Sicherheitsberater Zbigniew Brzezinski, dass die CIA sechs Monate vor dem Einmarsch der Sowjetunion begann, die Mudschaheddin-Gegner der prosowjetischen Regierung in Kabul zu unterstützen – eine kalkulierte Provokation, die Moskau in einen aussichtslosen Krieg hineinziehen sollte. Auf die Frage, ob er die Unterstützung des islamischen Fundamentalismus bereue, der „zukünftigen Terroristen Waffen und Ratschläge“ gegeben habe, antwortete Brzezinski:
„Was ist wichtiger in der Weltgeschichte? Die Taliban oder der Zusammenbruch des Sowjetimperiums? Einige aufgebrachte Muslime oder die Befreiung Mitteleuropas und das Ende des Kalten Krieges?“
Mehrere Geheimdienste waren an dieser Operation beteiligt. Der MI6 führte verdeckte Operationen zur Unterstützung radikaler Kommandeure durch. Der pakistanische Geheimdienst ISI fungierte als entscheidender finanzieller und logistischer Kanal – unter der Leitung des pakistanischen Präsidenten Zia ul-Haq, der die ISI-Politik während des gesamten Krieges bestimmte. Saudi-Arabien verpflichtete sich, die CIA-Beiträge eins zu eins zu verdoppeln – eine Zusage, die bei Brzezinskis Besuch in Riad im Februar 1980 getroffen wurde und deren Einhaltung CIA-Offizier Gust Avrakotos und der Kongressabgeordnete Charlie Wilson (Demokrat aus Texas) bei ausbleibenden saudischen Zahlungen persönlich in Riad überwachten. Der Historiker Steve Coll dokumentierte in seinem Buch „Ghost Wars“, dass Osama bin Laden informell mit vom ISI betriebenen Guerilla-Trainingslagern für neu angekommene arabische Dschihadisten kooperierte und enge Verbindungen zu dem von der CIA unterstützten Kommandanten Jalaluddin Haqqani unterhielt. Das globale Dschihadistennetzwerk, aus dem al-Qaida hervorging, entwickelte sich direkt aus dieser Infrastruktur.
Der Afghanistan-Kriegsschauplatz war kein isoliertes Experiment, sondern der Auftakt einer längeren Geschichte. Dieselben Netzwerke, die dort entstanden, breiteten sich rasch auf die nächste Front aus. Der tschetschenische Aufstand der 1990er Jahre wurde von arabischen und zentralasiatischen Dschihadisten unterstützt, die ihre ersten Erfahrungen in Afghanistan gesammelt hatten. Der prominenteste unter ihnen war Ibn Khattab, ein in Saudi-Arabien geborener Mudschaheddin-Veteran, der 1969 in Ar’ar, Saudi-Arabien, geboren wurde und sich mit 18 Jahren dem afghanischen Dschihad anschloss, bevor er 1995 nach Tschetschenien ging. Von Saudi-Arabien unterstützte Organisationen leiteten Gelder weiter, und während des afghanischen Dschihads entstandene Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen der Golfstaaten unterstützten – teils wissentlich, teils unwissentlich – al-Qaida-nahe Gruppen während des gesamten Jahrzehnts. Mehrere der späteren Attentäter vom 11. September – darunter Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Ziad Jarrah und Ramzi bin al-Shibh – versuchten laut dem Bericht der 9/11-Kommission ursprünglich, 1999 nach Tschetschenien zu reisen, bevor sie in al-Qaida-Lager in Afghanistan umgeleitet wurden.
Während der Tschetschenienkrieg verdeutlichte, wie westlich geprägte Netzwerke außer Kontrolle geraten können, wandte Washington andernorts bereits ähnliche Strategien in neuen Variationen an. Der investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh dokumentierte in seinem 2007 im New Yorker erschienenen Artikel „The Redirection“, dass die Regierung von George W. Bush in Zusammenarbeit mit Saudi-Arabien verdeckte Operationen durchführte, um die Hisbollah und den Iran durch die Stärkung sunnitischer Gruppierungen zu schwächen. Laut Hershs Geheimdienstquellen war „ein Nebeneffekt dieser Aktivitäten die Stärkung sunnitischer Extremistengruppen, die eine militante Auslegung des Islam vertreten, Amerika feindlich gesinnt sind und Al-Qaida nahestehen.“
Auch Israel führte im selben Zeitraum eigene, parallele Operationen gegen den Iran durch. Das Magazin Foreign Policy veröffentlichte 2012 einen Bericht des Journalisten Mark Perry, der auf CIA-Memoranden basierte und beschrieb, wie israelische Mossad-Offiziere sich als CIA-Agenten ausgaben, um Mitglieder von Jundallah zu rekrutieren, einer in Pakistan ansässigen sunnitisch-salafistischen Organisation, die für zahlreiche Bombenanschläge im Iran verantwortlich war. Ein Geheimdienstmitarbeiter sagte gegenüber Perry:
„Es ist erstaunlich, was die Israelis sich alles erlaubt haben. Ihre Rekrutierungsaktivitäten fanden fast ganz offen statt.“
Dieselbe strukturelle Logik, die Afghanistan, Tschetschenien und den Nahen Osten geprägt hat, wirkt sich auch in Zentralasien aus. Die chinesische Regierung wirft den USA vor, uigurische islamistische Netzwerke zur Destabilisierung Xinjiangs zu nutzen. Der Sprecher des chinesischen Außenministeriums, Zhao Lijian, behauptete wiederholt, die USA hätten uigurische militante Organisationen in den Jahren 2020 und 2021 unterstützt. Die US-finanzierte Stiftung National Endowment for Democracy (NED) hat uigurischen Exilorganisationen Zuschüsse gewährt. NED-Mitbegründer Allen Weinstein räumte 1991 in einem Artikel von David Ignatius in der Washington Post ein: „Vieles von dem, was wir heute tun, wurde vor 25 Jahren verdeckt von der CIA durchgeführt.“ Im Oktober 2020 hob US-Außenminister Mike Pompeo die Einstufung der Ostturkestanischen Islamischen Bewegung als Terrororganisation auf – ein Schritt, den Peking als Beweis für westliche Unterstützung des uigurischen Extremismus wertete.
In Afghanistan, Tschetschenien, dem Nahen Osten und Xinjiang wiederholen sich dieselben Strukturmerkmale. Westliche strategische Interessen überschneiden sich mit dem kurzfristigen Nutzen sunnitisch-islamistischer Netzwerke. Operationen laufen über Mittelsmänner wie Saudi-Arabien, den pakistanischen Geheimdienst ISI oder Golfstaaten, wodurch Washington offizielle Distanz wahren kann. Die Folgen zeigen sich schließlich Jahre später – bezahlt mit amerikanischem Blut.
Die naive Erzählung vom Hass der Terroristen auf die Freiheit dient der innenpolitischen Propaganda und verschleiert eine weitaus düsterere Wahrheit: Westliche Geheimdienste haben als Architekten des Chaos agiert und im Streben nach amerikanischer Vorherrschaft Instabilität im Ausland geschürt. Wenn die Welt echte Stabilität will, muss sie dieses Muster zunächst anerkennen und fordern, dass diese Geheimdienste für das von ihnen über Jahrzehnte angerichtete Chaos zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden.
Im Mai 2025 wird eine fröhliche Fußball-Feier in Bielefeld zum Albtraum: Der Syrer Mahmoud M. sticht wahllos auf Menschen ein, verletzt vier lebensgefährlich. Jetzt muss der Islamist lebenslang in Haft.
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30-year-old Palestinian attacker shot dead at scene; MDA says victims are 17 and 15; army says soldier who shot terrorist also provided emergency care for wounded at scene
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JOHANNESBURG — An estimated 30,000 mostly Muslim Fulani militants are operating in Nigeria, causing "worsening insecurity and religious freedom violations," according to an influential new report.
The report, by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), states "violence by Fulani militants caused the highest number of deaths among all religious communities in Nigeria over the last year, as compared to attacks by organized insurgent groups and criminal gangs."
The Fulanis, so-called herders of livestock, have, according to the USCIRF report, "targeted Christian (farming) communities in the Middle Belt and, increasingly, the South, burning homes and churches as well as kidnapping, raping, and murdering."
CHRISTIANS TARGETED IN SYSTEMATIC KIDNAPPING CAMPAIGN IN NIGERIA BY JIHADI HERDSMEN, EXPERTS SAY
But a former counterterrorism expert at the State Department told Fox News Digital that the kind of strikes the U.S., working with Nigerian government forces, have recently carried out in Nigeria’s North against Islamist terrorist organizations such as Boko Haram and Islamic State, wouldn’t work against the Fulanis in the predominantly Christian central areas of the country.
Sterling Tilley, former acting director within the Bureau of Counterterrorism, who has worked in Nigeria for the State Department, said that the U.S. "militarily dealing with the farmer-herder conflict is not advisable because it is likely to bring more instability in the country." Tilley, now director of the Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship at Howard University, added, "There are some steps that can be taken to quell the violence, but there must be Nigerian political will to do so."
This week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth commented on the recent strikes ordered by President Donald Trump on Nigeria, saying, "Maybe a year ago, [the president] heard the call of Nigerian Christians who were being targeted and killed by ISIS. And he said, 'Pete, I want the War Department to focus on ensuring that we do everything we can to protect those Christians.'"
NIGERIA NAMED EPICENTER OF GLOBAL KILLINGS OF CHRISTIANS OVER FAITH IN 2025, REPORT SAYS
Christians make up approximately 48%, and the Fulanis, the report says, represent around 6%, or 14.5 million of Nigeria’s population. Fulani militants, the USCIRF report stated, "have often carried out operations during Christian holidays such as Christmas or Easter to further maximize the psychological impact, terrifying those communities from gathering to celebrate or worship. During attacks, assailants sometimes utter slogans with religious connotations, such as "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is great").
But, according to the report, Muslims are being attacked too. "Fulani assailants have not spared Muslims, raiding herders’ cattle and violently attacking non-Fulani Muslim communities," the report added.
"Violence at the hands of militants from the Fulani tribe far outnumbers violence from all other militant groups such as Boko Haram or ISWAP (Islamic State West African Province)," Henrietta Blyth, CEO of Open Doors UK & Ireland, an organization that highlights the persecution of Christians, told Fox News Digital.
While her organization was not part of the report, she said, "My heart has been broken as I have heard stories from women and men who have seen their beloved family members butchered in front of them or carried off into a life of slavery."
AFRICAN UNION CHIEF DENIES GENOCIDE CLAIMS AGAINST CHRISTIANS AS CRUZ WARNS NIGERIAN OFFICIALS
Blyth added: "The situation is complicated, and as the report concludes, it is too simplistic to say all perpetrators are religiously motivated. What is undisputable is that Christians are highly vulnerable and often the victims, paying the price in blood. They desperately need protection and, for hundreds of thousands driven from their homes, the chance to heal and rebuild their lives."
The USCIRF report also stated, "Criticism of responses to Fulani militant violence from federal and state authorities has often described their responses as unsatisfactory at best and complicit at worst."
Tilley told Fox News Digital that elections are to be held in Nigeria next year, and "the Fulani do have considerable political influence as a voting bloc. Thus, the Nigerian government seems reluctant to take actions necessary to quell the violence for fear that they could lose their base of support in the North and Middle Belt."
Fox News Digital reached out to the Nigerian government for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.
Just before celebrations for Eid al-Adha, a major Muslim holiday, began in Gaza, an Israeli airstrike hit a building in Gaza City, killing Mohammed Odeh, the newly appointed head of Hamas’ military wing, according to Israeli officials and later confirmed by Hamas.
Reports from regional media said members of Odeh’s family were also killed in the strike. Two hours later, Gaza’s markets were full.
Fox News Digital reviewed video filmed in Gaza showing crowded Eid streets, children shopping and families gathering, with little visible reaction to the killing of the Hamas commander Israel described as one of the architects of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.
The contrast underscored what many Gazans and analysts describe as a growing disconnect between Hamas leaders and civilians exhausted by nearly three years of war, which has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry — figures that do not distinguish between civilians and combatants — and displaced most of Gaza’s population.
ISRAEL ANNOUNCES IT KILLED ONE OF THE ARCHITECTS OF THE OCT. 7 ATTACKS
Hadeel Oueis, editor-in-chief of Jusoor News, told Fox News Digital the assassinations are creating "a clear vacuum" inside Hamas and weakening coordination between leaders in Gaza and abroad.
"With the deaths of its leaders and the collapse of strong centralized command, Hamas is turning into a smaller militia competing with other armed groups operating in Gaza," Oueis said. "Hamas is now fighting for survival."
In a joint statement issued Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said Odeh, who had replaced senior commander Izz al-Din al-Haddad only days earlier, was "one of the architects of the October 7 massacre."
"Sooner or later, Israel will reach all of them," Netanyahu and Katz said.
Inside Gaza, several residents interviewed by Jusoor News said they no longer viewed the deaths of Hamas leaders as personal losses.
"Of course we didn’t feel anything when Haddad, Sinwar, or others were killed," one Gazan activist and former political prisoner told Jusoor News in an on-camera interview, speaking with his face blurred for safety reasons.
The activist was referring to Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the Hamas military commander Israel said it killed earlier in May, and Yahya Sinwar, the former Hamas leader and chief architect of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, who was killed by Israeli forces in southern Gaza in October 2024.
"Ordinary people are the ones who paid the price, not the leaders who made reckless decisions without thinking," the activist said.
"As a result, Gaza today is almost completely destroyed," the activist said. "There are families who have lost everything, while the remaining leaders abroad and inside continue to gamble with our lives constantly."
GRASSROOTS PUSH FOR FREEDOM GROWS IN GAZA AS HAMAS TIGHTENS ITS DEADLY GRIP
A Gaza-based journalist echoed the frustration.
"When we heard about the killing of Izz al-Din Haddad or others, we were not affected," the journalist said. "What is even more painful is that the children of the leaders live outside Gaza, in Turkey and Qatar, driving luxury cars and living comfortable lives, while people here have almost gone back to the Stone Age."
Another Gaza journalist and human rights advocate told Jusoor Hamas had harmed Palestinians as much as Israelis.
"I do not see the deaths of the leaders as losses for the Palestinians, because we ordinary people are the ones who paid the price," the advocate said. "Honestly, Hamas did not only hurt the Israelis — they hurt us as well."
At the same time, Israeli analysts caution that the repeated assassinations do not necessarily mean Hamas is close to collapse.
Michael Milshtein, an expert on the Palestinian arena, told Fox News Digital that Hamas unquestionably has suffered severe damage since Oct. 7, 2023, particularly with the deaths of veteran commanders who helped build the organization’s military structure and doctrine.
ISRAEL, HAMAS CEASEFIRE DEAL COULD ENABLE REARMING OF GAZA TERRORISTS
"Almost nobody remains from the core group that planned and led the October 7 attack," he said.
But he noted that Odeh himself had been viewed largely as a second-tier figure before the war rather than an obvious successor to Hamas’ historic military leadership.
"The people replacing them are far less experienced, less capable and far less charismatic," Milshtein said.
Still, he argued, Hamas continues to maintain functioning chains of command and ideological cohesion despite the losses.
"People know they are likely going to die, and they still compete for these leadership positions," he said.
The debate over Hamas’ future comes as international efforts to shape a postwar political framework for Gaza accelerate.
Nickolay Mladenov, who was appointed High Representative for Gaza under the Board of Peace initiative, published the core elements of a proposed 15-point "Roadmap to Complete the Implementation of President Trump’s Gaza Comprehensive Peace Plan."
The proposal includes a phased Hamas disarmament process, internationally supervised security reforms and the establishment of "one authority, one law, one weapon" inside Gaza.
"Gaza cannot recover while armed groups simultaneously operate as governing authorities," Mladenov wrote while outlining the proposal on social media.
For many Gazans exhausted by years of war, displacement and destruction, the deaths of Hamas leaders now appear to carry less emotional weight than the hope that the conflict itself could finally end.
"Gaza cannot remain hostage to the idea of permanent war while civilians alone pay the entire price," one activist said.
A drone struck an apartment building Friday in Romania, a NATO member, causing an explosion and fire that injured multiple people, local authorities said.
According to Romania’s Ministry of Defense, the incident occurred as Russia carried out an overnight drone attack in neighboring Ukraine near the Romanian border.
"A drone entered Romanian airspace, was tracked by radar systems as far as the Southern area of Galați municipality, and crashed onto the roof of a residential apartment building," the ministry said.
Romania — a member of both NATO and the European Union — has reported more than two dozen incidents involving Russian drones entering its airspace since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine.
NATO SCRAMBLES WARPLANES AS RUSSIA HITS NEAR ROMANIAN BORDER IN UKRAINE
Friday’s incident marked the first time a drone struck a populated area in Romania, resulting in injuries.
Romania’s state news agency reported that a woman and her child were hospitalized with minor injuries, while two other people were treated at the scene for panic attacks.
Following the incident, Romania requested additional anti-drone capabilities from NATO and described the drone’s flight path as a serious violation of international law, according to The Associated Press.
RUSSIAN DRONES TEST NATO'S ARTICLE 5 DEFENSE GUARANTEE AHEAD OF FRIDAY SANCTIONS DEADLINE
Romania’s emergency response agency said the drone struck the apartment building and exploded, sparking a fire on the 10th floor.
The agency said the drone’s entire explosive payload detonated upon impact.
Seventy people were evacuated from the building, authorities said. The fire has since been brought under control.
NEW ROMANIAN LAW MAY HAVE AVERTED NATO CLASH WITH RUSSIA AFTER BORDER STRIKES
The defense ministry said two F-16 fighter jets and a military helicopter were deployed to monitor the Russian attack. The pilots were authorized to shoot down any drones that posed a threat.
The incident came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier this week that he was pressing the United States to provide additional Patriot air defense missiles to help counter Russian attacks.
He warned that deliveries to Ukraine were falling dangerously short as the conflict with Iran strains U.S. military resources and stockpiles.
"I believe [the U.S.] must act quicker. We are being very persistent," Zelenskyy told reporters during a visit to Sweden.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Beran A. will ein Taylor-Swift-Konzert in Wien zum Terrorziel machen und so viele Fans des Superstars töten, wie möglich. Vor Gericht wird deutlich: Der 21jährige ist Teil eines größeren IS-Netzwerks.
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