January 3, 2020 Donate  Featured Stories Black on Jewish Violence Marks the New New Anti-Semitism by Abigail R. Esman  •  January 3, 2020  •  Special to IPT News   On the Upper East Side, strangers talk to one another: on grocery lines, in restaurants, leaning over tables. Click here to read the full story Israel Leads Operations Against Iran From the Levant to Iraq January 2, 2020  •  IPT News   The United States confirmed Sunday that it carried out airstrikes along the Syria-Iraq border against military positions belonging to Kataib Hizballah, a Shi'a militia affiliated with Iran. The strike comes shortly after Friday's deadly rocket attack on a Kirkuk-based installation killed an American contractor and injured several other U.S. soldiers and Iraqis. Click here to read the full story Monsey Attacker Praised Black Hebrew Israelite Movement by Patrick Dunleavy  •  December 31, 2019  •  IPT News   Grafton Thomas, the alleged terrorist who attacked a Hanukkah celebration Saturday night in Monsey, N.Y., has been charged with five counts of obstruction of the free exercise of religious beliefs involving an attempt to kill with a dangerous weapon. If convicted, Thomas faces up to 100 years in federal prison. He is accused of using a machete to stab and slash five people in Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg's home. One victim lost a finger, while another is in critical condition with a skull fracture. Click here to read the full story Is Europe Facing Another Decade of Jihad? by Abigail R. Esman  •  December 30, 2019  •  Special to IPT News   For most of Europe, the end of 2019 marks the close of a decade of jihad, of terrorist attacks in the streets, of bombers, shooters, and knife-wielding self-styled warriors rampaging restaurants and theaters, stadiums and concert halls, Christmas markets and kosher markets, trains, museums, magazine offices, and airports. Click here to read the full story  Featured Videos Watch Video Embassy Unrest in Iraq Highlights Escalating U.S.-Iran Tensions Watch Video ISIS Kills 11 Christians in Nigeria as Retaliation for Baghdadi Death  Also in the News US Says It Killed Top Iranian Commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad Air Strike January 2, 2020  •  The Algemeiner   Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, was killed early on Friday in a US air strike on his convoy at Baghdad International Airport, the Pentagon said. Click here to read the full story Family of Man Stabbed at Monsey Hanukkah Party Says His 'Prognosis is Not Good' January 2, 2020  •  USA Today   The family of the 72-year-old man who suffered the most serious harm of the five victims in a machete attack at a Hanukkah party said his "prognosis is not good." Click here to read the full story Kenyan Officials Say Extremist Attack on Bus Convoy Kills 4 January 2, 2020  •  The Associated Press   Kenyan officials say four people were killed on Thursday when a convoy of passenger buses was fired on by Islamic extremists in the country's eastern coastal area. Click here to read the full story Palestinian NGOs Refuse EU Funds After Being Told Not to Fund Terror January 2, 2020  •  The Jerusalem Post   The EU must not give in to Palestinian organizations' demands that it allow aid to go to groups with ties to designated terrorist groups, Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan wrote in a letter to the EU's new Foreign Minister Josep Borrell. Click here to read the full story Twin Cities Man Convicted in Terror Case Says Attorney Gave Poor Counsel, Asks for Reduced Sentence December 30, 2019  •  The Star Tribune   One of the Twin Cities men convicted in the 2016 landmark terror trial is asking a federal judge to drop or reduce his sentence, arguing his attorney didn't allow him to fulfill his wish to plead guilty, resulting in a harsher punishment. Click here to read the full story The IPT accepts no funding from outside the United States, or from any governmental agency or political or religious institutions. Your support of The Investigative Project on Terrorism is critical in winning a battle we cannot afford to lose. All donations are tax-deductible. Click here to donate online. The Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation is a recognized 501(c)3 organization.