Middle East / Levant

A Russian military helicopter is shot down by ground forces, killing five people over Idlib.

Between the release of this issue of Dabiq and the next slaughter to be executed against them by the hidden soldiers of the Caliphate... the Crusaders can read into why Muslims hate and fight them.

Egyptian Air Force fighter pilots struck an ISIS terrorist installation in northern Sinai, killing 46 people.

Some 7,000 police armed with rifles in heavy armored TOMA vehicles surrounded the Incirlik air base

"A terrible poison is spreading," the French PM cautions. "Slowly, insidiously, against the background of influences from abroad ... developed against a model of society which contradicts the Republic and its values."

Erekat has raised the flame under his attacks on Israel for its audacious killing of Arab terrorists, looking to link it in the Europeans' minds the horror Arab terrorists are inflicting on their civilian population.

One entire battalion, according to reports, took on the role of the local civilian Arab population, in an attempt to isolate them from the fighting.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister said his country is offering Russia a substantial bribe in return for pulling its support for the Assad regime.

Abu Mohammad al-Julani is the nom de guerre of this mysterious man, whose real name is only known to the Al Qaeda leadership.

France declares a bloodthirsty terrorist to be 'honorary citizen' 48 hours after a priest is slaughtered by ISIS in Normandy.

Israeli and American military forces drilled together on urban warfare and counter terrorism methods in 'Noble Shirley 2016.'

“Taboos of civilization are being broken," Merkel said. “These acts happened in places where any of us could have been."

News outlets in Turkey reported on Wednesday that the Turkish government had ordered the closing of 45 newspapers, 23 radio stations, 16 TV channels and three news agencies.

The Israel Air Force launched an air strike against a target in Syria after gunfire aimed at the Israeli side of the border.

"By arresting a prominent journalist, lawyer and human rights defender, the Turkish government has seriously compromised its claim to be defending democracy and the rule of law."

Israeli security and high-tech firms are working with the 10,000 military and police officers who secure the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.

A Syrian refugee who was denied asylum but allowed to stay in Germany temporarily turns out to be a suicide bomber.

The mortar was from fighting from the Syrian civil war.

Hazor is the largest biblical-era site in Israel, covering some 200 acres, and has been recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

The annual Arab League summit's agenda includes combating terrorism and the ongoing civil wars in Libya and Syria.

"I looked from my balcony and saw him reloading his pistol. I threw my beer bottle at him. It broke on the roof.”

Kaine would be a bonanza to leftwing Israeli Jews, very much like the folks who are currently in the White House.

A member of the NY chapter of 'American Jews for Trump' says he will stay true to Israel after he's elected president.

Imagine that every conspiracy theory you've heard, from the Communists taking over America, to Obama conspiring with the deans of Al Azhar University to bring Islam to the US, to the CIA blowing up the World Trade Center, was, if not true, at least plausible.

Demonstrators in Cairo again have burned the Israeli flag but this time they were contained by Egyptian government forces.

Turkish lawmakers endorsed a 3-month state of emergency declared by the government July 20.

A budding terror cell was arrested in Brazil in a crackdown to stop ISIS terror attack before they are launched.

Meanwile, President Erdogan has announced that the death penalty could be restored in Turkey following the failed military coup, as part of his efforts to enhance democratic values.

Shin Bet and the Israel Police seized 20 nine- millimeter handguns, five M-16 assault rifles, various parts for automatic weapons, and optical equipment during a smuggling attempt on July 20, 2016.

The purge of civil service workers and officials by the Turkish government continues in the wake of last week's attempted coup.