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A Lebanese-based newspaper aligned with Syria released details Monday morning of the assassination of a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist near Damascus Sunday morning. On Sunday, the terror group announced that Ali Ramzi al-Aswad, 31, an engineer, was shot and killed by an "agent of the Zionist enemy" near Damascus, calling the killing a “cowardly assassination bearing the fingerprints of the Zionist enemy.” Islamic Jihad stated "we hold the Zionist enemy responsible for this crime" and vowed to respond to the assassination. A day later, the pro-Assad Al-Akhbar published a report with details of the assassination. At 8:00 a.m. Sunday morning,...

On Thursday, The Washington Post’s blog ran a list that names children who were killed in recent Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. The blog post, written by Ishaan Tharoor, list the names and the causes of death of 83 people including 21 children who were killed in the recent bombing. However, Tharoor’s source may not be all that credible. The names were first published in a virulently anti-Israeli newspaper called Al-Akhbar—the editor of which, Nour Samaha, makes not even the slightest effort to hide her ideological bent and anti-Israel agenda. …