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Hundreds of German police officers raided the properties of Hamas members and followers of the terrorist group on Thursday morning in the wake of a formal ban on any action by or in support of the anti-Israel activists. The German government implemented the ban on Nov. 2 and dissolved Samidoun, an Islamist group behind a celebration in Berlin of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel that claimed approximately 1,200 lives. The pre-dawn strike came just hours after Switzerland announced it is readying legislation to ban the Palestinian group plus its followers, as Breitbart News reported. AP reports Germany’s domestic...

Early Friday morning in Iraq, U.S. forces struck a target at the Baghdad International Airport, killing murderous strongman Qasem Soleimani, head of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Quds Force (or Iran's “most revered military leader” if you believe the Washington Post). There were a lot of really bad hot-takes on the death of Soleimani, including the aforementioned from the Washington Post, but certainly one of the worst had to be that of "award-winning" BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet, who called the action against Soleimani "murder." During Thursday night's live BBC new broadcast the anchor asked if Doucet thought...

Good job defending the homestead and for the parents teaching him how to handle a gun. A brave 13-year-old Ladson boy fended off two hardened felons who were attempting to break into his house by using his mother’s gun to protect himself while home alone. The boy saw the men breaking into the back of his home, “at which time he feared for his safety” and grabbed his mother’s gun, the document states. He began firing at them, and the Sheriff’s office reported that they returned fire. In a heated shootout, he shot Brown three times, and Bennett drove him...

KABUL -- A NATO air strike destroyed a Taliban command post in southern Afghanistan, killing a suspected senior militant leader, the alliance said yesterday. Also yesterday, an assailant gunned down an Afghan legislator who, under the former Taliban regime, oversaw the destruction of two Buddha statues carved into a cliff. Maulavi Mohammed Islam Mohammadi, who was the Taliban's governor of Bamiyan province when the fifth-century Buddha statues were blown up March 2001, was killed on his way to Friday prayers in Kabul, deputy police chief Zulmai Khan said. Mohammadi was elected in 2005 to represent the northern province of Samangan...