After unrest, Tehran seeks control through ‘halal’ internet

In this file photo from September 17, 2013, Iranians surf the Internet at a cafe in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

With proliferation of smartphones, potential for protests has led regime to create Iranian version of China’s ‘Great Firewall’

Videos show Egypt’s church gunman calmly walking away

A relative of a of a Coptic Christian, who was killed during the attack on Mar Mina church, grieves during the funeral service of the victims in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 29, 2017. At least 10 people, including eight Coptic Christians, were killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire outside a church in a south Cairo suburb, Egypt’s Health Ministry spokesman said Friday. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Islamic State said to threaten terror attacks on Christmas

Image of a poster published online by Islamic State sympathizers threatening attacks during the Christmas holiday in December 2017, obtained online Nov. 21, 2017, by the BlackOps Cyber group. (Screen capture)

Jihadist forum publishes image of Santa Claus being beheaded against backdrop of a London shopping area

Egypt mourns 305 victims of Sinai mosque massacre

Egyptians walk past bodies following a gun and bombing terror attack at the Rawdah mosque, roughly 40 kilometers west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, on November 24, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)

Nationwide prayers planned during 3-day mourning period; president vows to ‘respond with brutal force’ to country’s deadliest terror attack

Taking Saudis’ side, Egypt warns Iran against regional ‘meddling’

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi participates in a meeting with a group of young people from around the world in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on November 7, 2017. (MENA via AP)

Sissi says he does not war, but will not tolerate threats against Arab countries by Tehran or Hezbollah

8 killed in apparent terrorist truck-ramming in New York

In this still image taken from video, police and ambulances respond to report of gunfire a few blocks from the World Trade Center in New York on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017. (AP Photo)

Vehicle mows down cyclists hits a school bus; driver then emerges with fake guns, shouts ‘Allahu akbar’; police shoot, arrest him

Somalia truck bombing toll over 300 as funerals continue

Turkish doctors transport a critically wounded man on a stretcher to a waiting Turkish air ambulance to airlift injured patients for treatment in Turkey, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Oct,16, 2017. The death toll from Saturday’s truck bombing in Somalia’s capital now exceeds 300, the director of an ambulance service said Monday, as the country reeled from the deadliest single attack. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Militants rob bank, attack church in Egypt’s Sinai; 7 dead

Coptic Christian women praying.

Iran tried obtaining missile, nuclear tech 32 times in 2016 — report

In this Dec. 29, 2016 file photo, released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), a long-range S-200 missile is fired in a military drill in the port city of Bushehr, on the northern coast of Persian Gulf, Iran. (Amir Kholousi, ISNA via AP, File)

Fox News cites Germany intelligence assessments that claim Tehran used front companies to bypass international restrictions

Islamic State claims Las Vegas mass shooting

A graphic released Monday, Oct. 2, 2017 by Amaq News Agency, a media arm of the Islamic State group, claiming responsibility for the mass shooting in Las Vegas, saying that the perpetrator was “a soldier” who had converted to Islam months ago. In statements released Monday by its Amaq news agency, the group gave no proof of the claim it was behind the shooting that killed more than 50 people and wounded over 400 at a country music concert Sunday night. (Amaq News Agency via AP)