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Islamic Terror Sends Shockwaves | 12.15.25

15 Dec 2025

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Chapter 1: What happened during the Hanukkah celebration attack in Australia?

4.418 - 10.544 John Bickley

Over a dozen people are dead and many more injured after terrorists opened fire into an Australian Hanukkah celebration.

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11.105 - 17.251 Unknown

We have two definite offenders. I cannot confirm there is a third offender, but I want to make sure there's no stone left unturned.

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17.712 - 21.856 Tim Pierce

The tragedy follows a deadly attack on American soldiers in Syria.

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22.217 - 31.17 Donald Trump

We had three great patriots terminated by bad people. and not the Syrian government, it was ISIS.

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31.831 - 37.758 John Bickley

I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Monday, December 15th. This is Morning Wire.

44.465 - 51.233 Tim Pierce

The hunt for the gunman continues in the deadly Brown University shooting that killed two and injured several more.

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Chapter 2: How did the attack in Australia relate to recent events in Syria?

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Over a dozen people are dead and many more are injured after a terror attack in Australia targeted a Hanukkah celebration.

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Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has the latest on this horrific scene, as well as a separate attack on American troops in Syria. Hey Cabot, so let's start with this devastating news out of Australia that broke yesterday. What do we know so far? Yeah, on Sunday, hundreds of people, most of them Jewish, had gathered at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia to celebrate the start of Hanukkah.

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That is when two men, reportedly motivated by Islamic extremism, opened fire with rifles. They killed at least 15 people. and wounded more than two dozen others in the largest single attack on Jews since October 7th, 2023. Among the victims were a prominent rabbi in the community, as well as a 12-year-old girl.

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Witnesses said it was clear that the men were not just shooting at everyone, but again, specifically targeting beachgoers who were visibly Jewish. As the gunman poured shot after shot into the crowd, a heroic bystander took matters into his own hands. Stunning video from the scene shows an unarmed man creeping towards the gunman from behind a row of cars.

Chapter 3: What details emerged about the Brown University shooting incident?

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Thankfully, they did not go off, and bomb technicians were able to dispose of them safely. Here's Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reacting to the attack.

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252.16 - 270.969 Anthony Albanese

This is a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah, which should be a day of joy, a celebration of faith, an act of evil anti-Semitism, terrorism that has struck the heart of our nation.

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271.569 - 292.865 John Bickley

For his part, President Trump told Jewish American Sunday that they are safe here and should respond to this attack, quote, by celebrating Hanukkah proudly. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was understandably outraged by the attack and did place some of the blame on Australian leaders, whom he accused of being silent over the last few years amid growing anti-Semitism there.

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Now, according to a number of reports from Israel, authorities there are investigating right now to see whether these gunmen had been coordinating with Iran, or potentially other terrorist organizations, a big part of the story there that they want to get to the bottom of. Indeed. Now, sadly, this wasn't the only Islamic attack this weekend. The U.S. also directly impacted.

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Tell us what happened in Syria. Yeah, on Saturday, a lone gunman ambushed a group of American service members engaged in counterterrorism operations in Syria. The gunman, who the White House says was an ISIS member, killed two American service members and also their American translator. He also wounded five others, including three more Americans.

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And even more disturbing, according to numerous reports, the gunman who was thankfully killed at the scene was a, quote, ISIS infiltrator. He was actually working as part of a government security detail that day. Here's Trump addressing the tragedy from the White House.

347.231 - 358.122 Donald Trump

This was an ISIS attack on us and Syria. And again, we mourn the loss and we pray for them and their parents and their loved ones.

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And that statement was followed up by another Truth Social post in which the president vowed that, quote, there will be very serious retaliation. Obviously, we're still waiting to see what that will look like. But there's a good chance we see targeted airstrikes against ISIS strongholds or ISIS leadership throughout Syria. Keep a very close eye on what that retaliation looks like.

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Trump has not been shy about very aggressive responses to these kinds of situations. Kevin, thanks for reporting. Absolutely.

Chapter 4: What were the community's reactions to the Brown University shooting?

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Two Brown University students are dead after a gunman opened fire inside a classroom on Saturday.

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Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here with the latest on the shooting. So, Tim, this was a harrowing situation that took place over 12 hours on Brown campus on Saturday. Can you walk us through what happened first?

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Yeah, this was a horrifying incident that lasted all throughout Saturday night and into Sunday morning. It began around four in the afternoon on Saturday. A gunman entered Brown University's Barrison-Hawley Engineering Building, killed two students, and injured nine others while they were studying for an economics final. The gunman initially seemed to get away from law enforcement.

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Students sheltered in their dorms and classrooms, wherever they thought that they could find a safe space. Brown tennis player Chloe Chin locked herself in a closet for hours.

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It was just insane. I was playing tennis and I had to hide in literally our ball closet with four other people. It was so scary. We were in there for four hours.

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