September 10, 2016
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U.S. kills 85
suspected militants in Afghanistan:
Two drone strikes and a commando
operation were conducted against
alledged, insurgents in the restive
town last week, Khost police chief
Brig. Gen. Faizullah Ghairat told
Pajhwok Afghan News.
37 killed in
Afghanistan clashes:
Head of Uruzgan Provincial Council
says the dead include seven troops
and thirty militants.
13 IS
militants killed in air strikes in
Afghanistan:
About 13 militants loyal to the
Islamic State (IS) group have been
killed during air raids in
Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar
province over the past 24 hours,
Silab 201 Corps stationed in the
eastern region said in a statement
released here Saturday.
Pentagon: US
forces failed hostage-rescue in
Afghanistan:
“Unfortunately, the hostages were
not at the location we suspected.
During the mission, US forces
engaged and killed a number of
hostile forces.”
2 Killed, 25
Injured in Protests in Indian
Kashmir:
Two people died and at least 25
others were injured Saturday as
government forces fired tear gas and
clashed with protesters demanding
freedom from Indian control in
Kashmir.
35 killed, 40
wounded in twin car bomb attacks in
Baghdad:
Friday midnight a car rigged with
explosives was detonated at the car
park of al-Nakheel Mall in Palestine
Street in eastern Baghdad. An
assailant blew up his
explosive-laden car at the busy
street outside the mall
About 450
More US Troops Arrive in Iraq to
Back Mosul Drive;
About 450 more U.S. troops have
arrived in Iraq in the past week to
support the imminent offensive to
drive ISIS from Mosul, the chief
U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad
said Thursday.
Iraq expels
Islamic State families from local
communities:
Iraqi authorities are expelling the
families of suspected Islamic State
members from their homes as the
jihadist group loses ground, raising
fears of communal violence if people
seek to settle old scores.
7 Killed in
Syria’s Aleppo:
Seven people were
killed in the north of the Syrian
city of Aleppo and at least two
dozen others were injured as a
result of terrorist rocket attacks,
Syrian media report.
Three
soldiers killed in ISIL attack on
Turkish tank in Syria:
The attack marks the seventh Turkish
casualty so far in the Euphrates
Shield operation, on the 17th day of
the operation.
Kerry &
Lavrov agree new Syria ceasefire
plan
: New ceasefire plan on Syria that
includes a ban on government
airstrikes in certain areas and
cooperation on strikes against
jihadists, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov
announced after the marathon talks
with the US’s John Kerry
Syrian army
secures road to Aleppo
: The
Syrian army secured a road into the
government-held side of Aleppo that
was captured by rebels last month
and was expected to open it soon for
civilians, state-owned al-Ikhbariya
TV reported on Friday.
Turkey's
Erdogan Announces 'Largest Operation
in History' Against Kurds:
Turkey is waging the largest
operation in its history against
Kurdish militants and the removal of
civil servants linked to them is a
key part of the fight, President
Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday
Propaganda alert:
NATO welcomes
Turkey's invasion of Syria:
"It is a very complex and very
difficult situation in Syria, but
there is no alternative to just stay
outside. We have to try to find a
solution and also to fight ISIL in
Syria."
NATO Builds
Up Air Forces, Missile Defense,
Naval Presence in Turkey: Secretary
General
"NATO stands with Turkey. We have
increased our military presence in
Turkey with more assets in the air,
naval assets and also defensive
missile defense systems deployed in
Turkey,"
Saudi attack
kills 10 civilians north Yemen's
: At least
ten civilians were killed and dozens
injured when the Saudi warplanes
launched a series of strikes against
residents' houses and farms in Arhab
district on Saturday, a local
security official told Saba.
Starving
child reduced to just skin and bone
as war ravages around him:
Shocking image of helpless tot
emerges from Yemen as UN pleads for
peace
Iran sticking
to nuclear deal. UN:
Iran has kept to a nuclear deal it
agreed with six world powers last
year limiting its stockpiles of
substances that could be used to
make atomic weapons, a report by the
U.N. nuclear agency found.
Netanyahu:
(Illegal) Settlements no obstacle to
peace:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu on Friday claimed that
Jewish settlements built on occupied
Arab land in the West Bank did not
constitute “obstacles” to an
eventual peace settlement with the
Palestinians.
'Israeli Jews
prefer Clinton, but say Trump is
better for Israel policy’:
43% of Israeli Jews prefer Clinton
as president, compared to 34% who
want Trump, according to latest
Israel Democracy Institute survey.
Clinton Warns
Israel Cannot Trust Flip-flopping
Trump:
"He has said that we should be
neutral on Israel on Monday. Then on
Tuesday he has said that, oh he’s
really supportive of Israel.
Wednesday he might say Israel should
pay back the defense aid it’s
received over the years,"
Gunmen kill 3
soldiers, injure 2 in central Mali
‘ambush’:
Northern Mali fell under the control
of Islamic extremists in 2012,
prompting a French-led intervention
that drove them from cities and
towns.
North Korea's
fifth nuclear test prompts U.S.
calls for more sanctions:
The United States said it would work
with partners to impose new
sanctions, and called on China to
use its influence - as North Korea's
main ally - to pressure Pyongyang to
end its nuclear program.
Lavrov Calls
for More ‘Creative’ Ways of Dealing
With North Korean Nuclear Issue:
"The current situation shows that,
probably, diplomats should be a
little more creative than just
reacting with sanctions, sanctions
and more sanctions to any escalation
of the situation," Lavrov said
Putin On The
Future Of Europe And The Coming U.S.
Election:
I think all sober-minded people who
really are involved in politics
understand that the idea of a
Russian threat to, for example, the
Baltics is complete madness. Are we
really about to fight NATO?
France:
Female Paris attack plotters
'directed by ISIL':
French prosecutor says the three
women arrested for planning an
attack in Paris were being directed
by ISIL in Syria.
German
Military, Police to Team Up Amid
Fears of ISIS Attack:
The potential for large-scale
attacks have made the use of German
military assets "conceivable, even
probable," according to Lt. Gen.
Martin Schelleis
Congress
passes Saudi 9/11 lawsuits bill:
President Obama vowed again to
reject the measure, but lawmakers
could overturn one of his vetoes for
the first time if they secure enough
votes.
US airlines
becoming a no-fly zone for Muslims:
: Airlines in the United States are
being accused of racial profiling
and pandering to Islamophobia by
ejecting a number of Muslim
passengers from flights.
In case you missd it:
TSA Nabs
Suspected Al Queda Terrorist At
Chicago Airport, A toddler in a
wheelchair:
Video
The Dark
Prison: Legacy of the CIA Torture
Programme:
Victims of the CIA's brutal
interrogation programme speak out
about torture and its effect on
their lives.
Inside the
fight to reveal the CIA's torture
secrets:
a senior official had destroyed
videotapes that recorded infamously
brutal interrogations.
Prison
inmates strike in prisons nationwide
over 'slave labor' working
conditions:
A nationwide prison strike over
conditions and wages behind bars,
which organizers tipped to be the
biggest of its kind in US history,
was under way in at least several
correctional facilities across the
country on Friday
North Dakota
becomes first US state to legalise
use of armed drones by police:
While they will be limited to “less
than lethal” weapons, tear gas,
tasers, rubber bullets and pepper
spray could all be used in theory by
the remote controlled flying
machines.
Outrage grows
as Wells Fargo executives are spared
the chopping block:
A customer fraud probe cost 5,300
Wells Fargo employees their jobs -
but regulators stopped short of
pointing any fingers at the bank's
executives.
Real reason
Wells Fargo scandal should scare you:
It's not hackers breaking into your
bank account that should scare you;
it's the banks themselves.
Greasing the
Outstretched Palms of the Candidates:
Two reports underline the
suffocating influence of corporate
America on politics and the tricks
banks play on taxpayers.
Jill Stein
charged after environmental protest:What
Dr. Stein did was a deliberate act
of nonviolent civil disobedience.
And nonviolent civil disobedience is
an important, useful, and sometimes
necessary tactic when we’re fighting
injustice.
Trump leads
Ohio in 4-way presidential race:—
In a four-way race, the latest
Quinnipiac University Poll shows the
New York real estate mogul with a
4-point lead over the former
secretary of state.
Clinton Says
Terrorists Are Praying for a Trump
Victory:
Hillary Clinton suggested in a
television interview in Israel,
broadcast on Thursday, that the
Islamic State is “rooting for Donald
Trump’s victory” and terrorists are
praying, “Please, Allah, make Trump
president of America.” |
September 09, 2016
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Airstrike
kills 10 in area of suspected gas
attack in Syria:
An airstrike in the rebel-held part
of Syria’s contested city of Aleppo
killed 10 civilians on Wednesday,
activists said, an attack that hit
in the same neighborhood where a
suspected chlorine gas attack
happened the day before.
Claims of
Syria's chlorine-gas use to be
investigated:
Probe announcement by
chemical-weapons watchdog comes as
bombing kills at least 29 people in
Tadif and al-Sukkari.
At least five
killed in explosion in Syria's
Jarablus:
Turkish security sources; At least
five people were killed and 12
wounded in an Islamic State attack
in the Syrian border town of
Jarablus, Wounded people were taken
to hospitals in Turkey's southern
province of Gaziantep
Turkish
shelling kills six members of
Kurdish force in Syria:
Observatory:
Turkish army shelling killed six
members of the Kurdish security
forces in an area of northwestern
Syria controlled by Kurdish groups
overnight
Who is behind
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights?:
Many western media outlets have been
heavily relying on information from
'the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights' that is run by one man -
Rami Abdul Rahman
Turkey-backed
forces may go deeper into Syria,
Deputy PM says:
Speaking to reporters in Ankara
after a cabinet meeting, Canikli
also said that a total of 110
Islamic State and Kurdish militia
fighters have been killed since
Turkey began its military campaign
in Syria on Aug.24.
No transition
process in Syria with al-Assad:
Turkish FM:
Speaking at a joint press conference
with Saudi counterpart Adil Al-Jubeir,
Çavusoglu said chaos in Syria would
continue if al-Assad remained in
power during the transition process,
Iran says 12
‘armed bandits killed,’ day after
Kurdish fighters report clashes:
Iran claimed it killed “12 armed
bandits” in the predominantly
Kurdish province of West Azerbaijan
province on Wednesday, shortly after
the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iran
said at least two of its Peshmerga
fighter
Coalition
airstrikes near Anbar kills 7 ISIS
members:
“Today, the international coalition
aircraft conducted a number of air
strikes on ISIS headquarters and
strongholds in al-Bakr neighborhood
in Heet Island and al-Kusairat area
in Haditha district, killing 7 ISIS
members.”
Iraq militia
fighters join battle for Syria's
Aleppo;
An Iraqi Shi'ite militia said on
Wednesday it had dispatched more
than 1,000 fighters to the frontline
in neighboring Syria, escalating
foreign involvement in the battle
for Aleppo,
US-trained
sniper now ‘minister of war’ for
ISIS:
An American-trained sniper has been
promoted to a top position in the
Islamic State war machine.
ISIS bans
burqa and face veil inside its Mosul
security centers?:
Official sources in Mosul revealed
that ISIS has released an order,
based on which no woman is allowed
to be wearing niqab or burqa when
entering the security and military
centers.
CIA chief doubts Syria and
Iraq 'can be put back together
again':
"I question whether we will see, in
my lifetime, the creation of a
central government in both of those
countries that's going to have the
ability to govern fairly," he added
Saudi-led
coalition kills 9 Yemeni civilians,
four of them children:
Residents said the building was
struck three times while an adjacent
but empty school was hit twice.
Obama
administration arms sales offers to
Saudi top $115 billion - report:
U.S. President Barack Obama's
administration has offered Saudi
Arabia more than $115 billion (86
billion pounds) in weapons, other
military equipment and training, the
most of any U.S. administration in
the 71-year U.S.-Saudi alliance
War is a racket:
Britain is
now the second biggest arms dealer
in the world:
Exclusive: Two-thirds of UK weapons
have been sold to Middle Eastern
countries since 2010
Israel Police
Shot Palestinian in occupied, East
Jerusalem
: Israel Police officers shot and
killed Palestinian Mustafa Nimr in
East Jerusalem this week continued
to fire their weapons, even after
Nimr's vehicle stopped and posed no
threat to them.
Russia:
Netanyahu and Abbas Agree to Meet,
but No Date Set:
'We are pleased with how our
initiative was received,' Russian
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says,
noting that further attempts will be
made to renew Israeli-Palestinian
peace process.
Taliban
militants enter Afghan city:
“The Taliban have entered the city
and are fighting to take over police
and NDS (intelligence agency)
headquarters, and we fear they will
storm the prison to free captured
insurgents
Duterte,
Obama shake hands and chat after
rift over insult;
U.S. President Barack Obama and
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
shook hands and had a brief chat on
Wednesday, officials said, easing a
standoff after Duterte called Obama
a "son of a bitch"
Propaganda Alert:
Ash Carter:
Russia Sowing Seeds of Global
Instability:
Video: U.S. Defense Secretary Ash
Carter accused Russia on Wednesday
of sowing seeds of global
instability and questioned whether
Moscow genuinely wants a viable
cease-fire in Syria.
US spy planes
intercepted near Russian border had
transponders off – Russian MoD
: US spy planes have twice tried to
approach the Russian border over the
Black Sea with their transponders
off, the Russian Defense Ministry
said, adding that SU-27 fighter jets
were scrambled in response.
Russia
defends intercepting U.S. spy planes
over Black Sea:
The Russian defence ministry said it
had sent Su-27 fighter planes on
Wednesday to intercept a U.S.
aircraft approaching its border over
the Black Sea because the American
planes had turned off their
transponders, which are needed for
identification.
UK spies
murdered runaway tycoon over Prince
Philip ‘porn pics’:
Russian business tycoon Boris
Berezovsky was assassinated by
British spies after threatening to
hand over scandalous photos of
Prince Philip to Moscow, a Russian
intelligence expert and author has
said.
German,
French foreign minister to head to
Ukraine next week:
Russian President Vladimir Putin
said on Monday that Russia would
continue to support fresh talks
among the four leaders aimed at
ending the fighting.
The NSA’s
British Base at the Heart of U.S.
Targeted Killing:
How the NSA has used the British
base to aid “a significant number of
capture-kill operations” across the
Middle East and North Africa
Hanjin
Shipping’s Troubles Leave $14
Billion in Cargo Stranded at Sea:
The financial woes of one of the
world’s biggest shipping lines have
left as much as $14 billion worth of
cargo stranded at sea, sending its
owners scurrying to try to recover
their goods and get them to
customers
Suspect Sales
at Fiat Chrysler Could Be Bad News
for Its Rising Star:
Bigland, the 49-year-old head of
U.S. sales and chief executive
officer of Fiat Chrysler Canada, is
at the center of U.S. criminal and
regulatory investigations into
whether the company fraudulently
hyped its monthly sales numbers
McKinsey
Study Shows 81% of US Worse off Than
in 2005, France 63%, Italy 97%:
The McKinsey study Poorer than Their
Parents? offers a new perspective on
income inequality over the period
2005-2014.,
Wells Fargo
fined $185M for ‘widespread illegal
practices’:
Wells Fargo will pay $185 million to
settle allegations of “widespread
illegal practices” in which
employees secretly opened accounts
to meet sales targets and receive
bonuses, federal regulators
announced Thursday
Native
Americans 'disappointed' at judge’s
ruling on Dakota pipeline:
Clashes erupted between protesters
and security officers near the
construction site over the weekend
after bulldozers destroyed sacred
tribal sites whose locations had
been identified in court documents
Mexico
president replaces finance minister
after damaging Trump visit:
President Enrique Pena Nieto on
Wednesday replaced his close ally
and finance minister, Luis Videgaray,
after the two were heavily
criticized for Republican U.S
presidential candidate Donald
Trump's controversial visit to
Mexico
Trump crushes
Hillary by 19 points in poll of
active and former military members:
The news comes on the day Trump is
set to deliver a speech about
military policy, and as the two
candidates are sparring over which
has the support of more retired
generals and admirals.
Donald Trump
Praises Putin, Hillary Clinton
Defends Email:
Wednesday's Commander-in-Chief Forum
will be remembered as the time
Donald Trump offered more praise for
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin
than America's own military
leadership, which he described as
"embarrassing."
From his office in
cloud cuckoo land:
Trump Says Israel Will Be Destroyed
Unless He Is Elected President:
Iranians 'highly threatening to the
State of Israel, they’re so bad for
Israel,' Republican candidate says,
calling nuclear deal 'one of the
worst negotiated deals I have ever
seen.'
Trump pledges
big US military expansion:
Republican presidential nominee
Donald Trump has said he will expand
all areas of the US military if he
wins November's election. Mr Trump
called for more troops, more planes
and more boats at a rally in
Philadelphia.
Assange
proves Clinton 'LIED' to Americans
and reveals the 'FBI are playing
along with it';
The incredible claim comes as the
notorious hacker promised to leak
"significant" information about Mrs
Clinton that would change the tide
of the looming US election.
'Hacking
Hillary': Clinton's cough becomes
latest flash point in US
presidential election;
Mrs Clinton was afflicted by the
uncontrollable cough for several
minutes, forcing her to stop
speaking as her voice faltered
during a rally in Cleveland, Ohio.
Obama:
Americans Too ‘Lazy’ to Know
Anything About the Rest of the World:
President Barack Obama said
Americans can be “lazy” because we
are so big we think “We don’t have
to know anything about other
people.” |
September 07, 2016
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18 killed in
Syria bombings:
In Hama province, at least 10
workers, who included women, were
killed in a mine explosion on a road
between Hajazi Zalin and al-Musasana
areas.
Who is behind
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights?:
Many western media outlets have been
heavily relying on information from
'the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights' that is run by one man -
Rami Abdul Rahman
Turkish
soldiers killed in ISIL rocket
attack in Syria:
Turkish army says three of its
soldiers were killed in an attack by
ISIL near the town of al-Rai in
northern Syria.
Islamic State group: Turkey
and US 'ready to invade capital'":
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has suggested he and the US
are ready to drive so-called Islamic
State (IS) from its Syrian
stronghold of Raqqa.
Airstrike
kills 15 ISIS members and destroys
12 car bombs in central Mosul:
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
announced that 15 ISIS members were
killed and 12 booby-trapped vehicles
were destroyed by coalition
airstrike in central Mosul.
ISIL car bomb
kills 12 civilians in Iraqi capital:
The explosives-laden pick-up truck
was left in a parking lot in the
Shiite district of Karradah, near a
hospital and shops, a police officer
said. Up to 28 people were wounded
when the bomb detonated late on
Monday, he said.
5 killed in
separate bombings in N. Iraq: Local
sources:
At least five civilians fleeing the
fighting between Iraqi forces and
the Daesh terrorist group were
killed in two separate bombings on
Tuesday in Iraq’s northern Saladin
province, according to local
security sources.
U.S. Kills 13
People in Yemen
: All three of the strikes against
the al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula targets were conducted in
central Yemen's Shabwah Governorate,
U.S. Central Command said in a
statemen
8 Kurdish
rebels killed in northwest Iran:
state media:
Border guards fought the group
overnight and into Wednesday morning
in the northwestern province of West
Azerbaijan, the IRNA news agency
said.
Top Saudi
cleric calls Iranians ‘not Muslims’:
Top cleric of Saudi Arabia on
Tuesday said that the Iranians were
not Muslims, after Iran’s leader
launched a fresh outburst over the
kingdom’s handling of the Hajj
pilgrimage, a newspaper reported.
Army kills
'20 extremists' in northeastern Congo:
Congolese army has said it killed 20
insurgents, six of whom were
Rwandans since the last one month
during an operation in northeastern
Congo.
Rebels say
kill 12 Angolan soldiers in oil
region clash:
The Front for the Liberation of the
Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) said it
ambushed the troops in the northern
Buco-Zau region, near the border
with the Republic of Congo on
Sunday.
US military
killed 4 alledged Somalia’s al
Shabaab rebels;
The US military conducted two
strikes in southern Somalia early
this week that killed four alledged,
al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants
involved in attacks on Somali
government troops,
Up to 100
killed in Gabon's post-poll violence:
Opposition leader who claims victory
in presidential race says 'people in
power' carrying out killings
While ISIS
Loses Libya's Sirte, Tunisia Fears
Fleeing Fighters:
North African countries should
cooperate to stop ISIS fighters who
are fleeing Sirte from returning to
their homelands and causing trouble
there, Tunisia's defense minister
says.
Battles
Resume in Libya’s Sirte:
Forces loyal to the Government of
National Accord (GNA) have announced
that battles against ISIS have
resumed in Sirte, Libya, after a
two-day suspension.
Afghanistan:
Taliban Bombings in Kabul Kill 35:
In Afghanistan, at least 35 people
have been killed in a series of
bombings in Kabul Monday. The
Taliban has claimed responsibility
for two of the bombings, both
targeting the area around the Afghan
Defense Ministry.
Laos: Barack
Obama regrets 'biggest bombing in
history':
He referred to America's secret and
devastating bombing of Laos during
the Vietnam War in the 1960s and
70s. Some $90m (£68m) will be spent
over three years for the removal of
cluster bombs and other unexploded
ordnance.
Obama’s
‘Rebalancing’ to Asia Falters in
Sleepy Laos:
U.S. forces covertly dropped 2
million tons of ordnance here during
the Vietnam War, making this
communist backwater of barely 7
million people the world’s most
heavily bombed country.
Barack Obama
cancels meeting after Philippines
president calls him 'son of a whore':
Rodrigo Duterte further strains
diplomatic ties with Washington as
he warns US leader not to question
him on extrajudicial killings
Maldives
president's corruption revealed:
Al Jazeera investigation exposes a
$1.5bn money-laundering plot,
bribery, theft and fraud in
paradise.
US Will
Maintain Presence In Region Amid
Territorial Dispute, Obama Says:
“America’s treaty allies must know
our commitment to your defense is a
solemn obligation that will never
waiver.
Leader of
armed group among six killed
militants in Dagestan:
The leader of an armed group and
five militants tied to the murders
of law enforcers have been killed in
Russia’s North Caucasus republic of
Dagestan
Swedish
prosecutors to hold news conference
on Assange case progress:
Swedish prosecutors Marianne Ny and
Ingrid Isgren are to hold a joint
news conference today on the latest
developments in the Julian Assange
case, who is now into his fifth year
of refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy
How NSA used
Iraq War as springboard for global
intel gathering:
Newly published documents from the
beginning of the Iraq invasion
reveal how the NSA used the “war on
terror” to develop its global
intelligence capabilities and
strengthen the surveillance network
exposed by Edward Snowden.
Poland seeks
US approval for $5bn Patriot missile
purchase:
The Polish government says it will
seek Washington’s approval to
purchase eight Patriot missile
defense systems from US defense
manufacturer Raytheon in order to
carry out a planned upgrade of its
national air and missile defense
shield.
Children Made
Up About Half of All World's
Refugees in 2015:
The report found that 45 percent of
all child refugees came from Syria
and Afghanistan. It also showed that
as many as 17 million children
displaced by conflict remained
within their country's borders.
Trumped!
Massive concrete wall planned for
Calais to keep migrants out of
Britain
: Britain will soon begin building a
“big, new wall” at a cost of £2
million ($2.6 million) in an attempt
to halt the flow of migrants and
refugees crossing the English
Channel
Obama
Unlikely to Vow No First Use of
Nuclear Weapons:
Top national security advisers
argued that it could undermine
allies and embolden Russia and
China, according to several senior
administration officials.
America's New
Nuclear-Armed Missile Could Cost $85
Billion:
New Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing
Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. are
all competing to build the new
ICBMs.U.S. nuclear-armed missile
seen costing US $85 billion:
'Hardball'
Pentagon memo creates firestorm:
Republicans are livid after a leaked
Pentagon memo revealed the
department’s plan to “play hardball”
against the House’s proposed defense
funding method.
Pentagon:
'Play hardball' against Ryan plan:
An internal memo spells out tactics
for using the Senate and even fellow
House Republicans to undermine the
speaker's defense spending
proposals.
Wall Street
banks eat their words on Brexit:
Humiliating U-turn as they admit
recession forecasts were wrong |
September 05, 2016
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Airstrike in
Anbar kills 18 ISIS members:
“The international coalition
aircraft conducted an airstrike on
ISIS hideout in Albu Assaf area,
which killed 18 ISIS members, as
well as destroyed an armed vehicle
in Albu Ali al-Jassim area.”
7 ISIS
members killed, booby-trap cars lab
destroyed in Tal Afar:
“International coalition aviation at
noon today launched an airstrike
targeting a factory of making car
bombs belonging to ISIS in Tall
Afar, west of Mosul, killing seven
ISIS members. ”
ISIS shelling
near Ramadi kills three women:
“This morning, ISIS shelled Hayy al-Moalemeen
area in central Heet with ‘Hell
Cannons’ from Khalidiyah Island,
killing three women and wounding
three men.”
Syrian
government forces recapture areas in
southwest Aleppo:
: Syrian government forces and their
allies recaptured areas in
southwestern Aleppo on Sunday which
rebels seized last month, after
heavy bombardments and repeated
attempts to drive the insurgents
back
Turkey sends
more tanks into Syria:
The tanks crossed the border near
the Turkish town of Kilis and
journalists later heard firing and
saw plumes of smoke rising on Syrian
territory. Civilians were seen
fleeing as the Turkish military
advanced.
Turkey will
never allow 'artificial state' in
northern Syria, PM says:
Turkey and its allies opened a new
line of attack in northern Syria on
Saturday, as Turkish tanks rolled
across the border and Syrian
fighters swept in from the west to
take villages held by Islamic State
and check the advance of the
U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish YPG.
15 Yemen
soldiers killed in rebel attacks:
At least 15 pro-government Yemeni
soldiers were killed in rebel
attacks in the north and in a
suspected militant bombing in Aden
on Sunday, military and security
sources said.
Yemen
cross-border shelling kills Saudi
woman;
The shelling at 2:00am local time
(1100 GMT) in the southern Jazan
region killed a woman and wounded a
man and his son, according to the
agency's spokesman Major Yehia al-Qahtani.
A calamity is unfolding in
Yemen and it is time world woke up:
Op-Ed:
Homes flattened by air strikes. Boys
killed by discarded cluster bombs.
Babies dying in incubators. This is
Yemen in 2016. MEE sent Peter Oborne
to survey the devastation
Who are the
hackers who cracked the iPhone?:
An Israeli-based but American-owned
company, specialises in creating
what it calls tools against crime
and terrorism. But the security
researchers call them something
else: a cyber arms dealer.
Libya: 11
govt troops killed in Sirte clashes:
“More than 30 injured soldiers were
also rushed to the hospital,” he
told Anadolu Agency on Sunday.
Libya:
‘Fierce’ ISIS resistance could slow
down full recapture of Sirte:
- Libyan pro-government forces are
facing "fierce resistance" from
Islamic State group holdouts in
Sirte and it could take several days
to gain full control of the city, a
spokesman said Sunday.
At least 14
killed, 52 wounded in suicide blast
at Mardan district courts;
The Pakistani Taliban faction
Jamaat-ur-Ahrar on Friday claimed
responsibility for a suicide attack
at Mardan’s district courts in which
at least 14 people were killed and
52 others injured.
Youth killed
in Kashmir violence:
A youth was killed on Saturday in
clashes between protesters and
security forces in Qazigund area of
South Kashmir, taking the death toll
in the ongoing unrest to 71 even as
curfew continued in parts of
Srinagar
Another
district in eastern Afghanistan
falls to the Taliban:
The district is the second in the
east to fall to the Taliban in the
past week as the group continues to
press operations in all areas of the
country.
US and China
ratify Paris climate deal:
China and US, together responsible
for 40 percent of the world's CO2
emissions, urge other nations to
follow suit.
Barack Obama
'deliberately snubbed' by Chinese in
chaotic arrival at G20:
The US president was denied the
usual red carpet welcome and forced
to ‘go out of the ass’ of Air Force
One, observers say
Row on tarmac
an awkward G20 start for U.S., China:
The altercation occurred out of
sight of Obama, who greeted
ambassadors and other officials
before the presidential motorcade
pulled away with Rice.
Watch:
Chinese official shouts an awkward
G20 start for U S , China
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‘By 2050 half
the forms of life we know will be
gone’ – conservation biologist:
Humans have changed the Earth so
much that some scientists think we
have entered a new geological age.
Modern life
is killing our children:
Cancer rate in young people up 40
per cent in 16 years
Venezuelan
President Is Chased by Angry
Protesters: Video
- President Nicolás Maduro was
chased at a routine political event
by a crowd of angry protesters
banging on pots and yelling that
they were hungry
Hillary
Clinton couldn't remember the name
of her dead ambassador to Libya:
Hillary Clinton's emails indicate
she may have been confused,
exhausted or careless on the
September 2012 night when four
Americans died in a Benghazi, Libya
terror attack.
Hillary
Signed She Received Briefing on
Classified Info, But Told FBI She
Hadn't:
Either Hillary Clinton lied to the
FBI or she lied on a State
Department form as she began her
tenure as Secretary of State. This
conclusion appears inescapable after
Friday's FBI document release
The 12
juiciest bits from the FBI's Clinton
report:
From smashing phones to Colin
Powell's warning to 'be very
careful,' here are the most
revealing portions of the FBI's
investigation notes.
Hillary
Clinton email investigation: FBI
notes reveal laptop and thumb drive
missing;
A Clinton Foundation laptop and a
thumb drive used to archive Hillary
Clinton’s emails from her time as
secretary of state are missing,
according to FBI notes released on
Friday.
Bill Clinton
Collected Donations, Then US Missile
Tech Shipped To China:
Bill Clinton approved the sale of
sensitive U.S. missile technology to
China following donations from a key
missile manufacturer to his
campaign.
Trump catches
up to Clinton, latest Reuters/Ipsos
poll finds:
Donald Trump has pulled into an
effective tie with Democratic rival
Hillary Clinton, erasing a
substantial deficit as he
consolidated support among his
party’s likely voters in recent
weeks
The Big Lie
About Donald Trump’s Tax Returns:
When Trump and his campaign staff
say they are not releasing his taxes
because they are under audit, that’s
not true. |
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Syria strikes
kill 25 as Damascus suburb yields:
Syria’s government secured a deal to
restore its authority over another
rebellious Damascus suburb on
Thursday while Syrian rebels
captured new ground in a lightning
advance on the central city of Hama
and suspected government airstrikes
killed 25 civilians in the
surrounding province.
Rebels wage
big attack in Hama province:
The attack that began on Tuesday is
the biggest coordinated rebel
offensive in Hama province since
2014, according to the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights
monitoring group.
Syria: Fear
rises as Moadamiyeh evacuation
begins:
Buses carrying more than 300 Syrians
left the besieged Damascus suburb of
Moadamiyeh on Friday, in the first
stage of a deal that will enable the
government to retake control of the
rebel-held area.
Outrage as
two Syrian officers accused of
Tripoli blasts;
A military court issued indictments
against two Syrian intelligence
officers accused of carrying out the
2013 Tripoli mosque bombings Friday,
prompting politicians to attack the
Syrian government, with some calling
for the cutting off diplomatic ties
with Syria.
Lavrov: US,
Russia increasingly cooperating in
Syria:
Lavrov added that “virtually all
components of this task are already
clear, an understanding has been
reached on most issues.”
20 policemen
killed in N. Iraq clash with Daesh:
Terrorist group remains in firm
control of several parts of war-torn
Iraq, including northern city of
Mosul
Attacks
across Iraqi capital kill 15 people,
wound over 50:
A series of attacks across Baghdad,
including an explosion at a weapons
warehouse that set off munitions and
sent a huge plume of smoke over the
Iraqi capital, killed 15 people and
wounded over 50 Friday
Nine Iraq
forces killed in clashes with ISIS
north of Baghdad:
The clashes broke out when ISIS
fighters based in the mountain range
attacked army and police forces in
an area called Mutaibijah, 110
kilometers (70 miles) north of
Baghdad.
Apocalyptic
scenes as fleeing ISIS fighters bomb
Iraqi town's pipelines:
Fleeing ISIS fighters tried to raze
an Iraqi town to the ground by
flooding the streets with oil and
setting it alight.
Yemen rebels
say coalition air raid killed 9
civilians:
Huthi rebels in Yemen said Friday an
air raid by Saudi-led coalition
warplanes on a house northeast of
the capital Sanaa killed nine
civilians including women and
children.
3 killed in
Somali attack blamed on al-Shabaab:
Reports from southern Somalia said
three people were killed when al-Shabaab
militants attacked a home in the
Middle Shebelle region Thursday
night.
Gabon
violence: Two killed amid protests
over re-election of Ali Bongo:
Two people have been killed in
overnight clashes between
demonstrators and security forces in
Gabon's capital Libreville after
disputed elections.
Pakistan: 11
killed as militants attack Christian
colony, courthouse:
Gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed
a Christian colony near the town of
Peshawar, killing one civilian, and
a suicide bomb attack on a district
court in the town of Mardan killed
10 people and wounded 41 others.
5 killed in
Peshawar firing near
Pakistan-Afghanistan border:
At least one civilian and four
suicide bombers were killed on
Friday after terrorists attacked
Peshawar's Christian Colony,
Pakistani security sources said.
Seven
militants killed in Afghanistan
Source
: "A group of Taliban rebels stormed
Burka district but police resisted,
forcing the militants to flee,"
Xinhua news agency quoted the police
as saying.
Blast kills
12 as Philippine president visits
hometown:
The blast tore through a street
market outside the high-end Marco
Polo hotel, a frequent haunt of
Duterte, who was in the southern
city of Davao at the time but was
not hurt.
Retailers
Seek U.S. Help With Shipping Crisis:
Rates soar as Hanjin Shipping’s
bankruptcy filing strands goods,
causes confusion at ports
Australia
must choose between United States
and China: U.S. Army official;
- A senior U.S. soldier said on
Thursday Australia must choose
between a stronger U.S. alliance or
closer ties with China, and urged
Canberra to take a tougher stance
against Chinese claims in the South
China Sea.
Uzbekistan's
President Islam Karimov dead:
Karimov, who dominated the Central
Asian most populous nation for over
25 years, has died at the age of 78.
U.S. imposes
sanctions on 'Putin's bridge' to
Crimea:
Companies building a multi-billion
dollar bridge to link the Russian
mainland with Crimea, a project
close to the heart President
Vladimir Putin, were targeted by the
United States in an updated
sanctions blacklist on Thursday.
Putin pushes
for oil-freeze deal with OPEC,
exemption for Iran:
Putin said he’d like OPEC and
Russia, producers of half of the
world’s oil, to reach a deal to
freeze supply and expects the
dispute over Iran’s participation
can be resolved.
The horrors
of finding drowning families in the
Med:
Startling pictures show rescue
crew's desperate bid to save
thousands of refugees
Islamic
State’s target to crush the West,
the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba in
Spain:
A new ISIS video issued last month
has marked the city, and its most
revered World Heritage listed
mosque-cathedral site, as a crown
jewel for attack and re-conquer
No doubt that
Gülen was behind Turkey’s coup
attempt:
Former Swedish PM Bildt: “When I saw
the coup attempt on television, the
first suspect that came to my mind
regarding who could have done this
was Gülen. Developments since that
day have clearly revealed that Gülen
and the organization he leads were
at the center of this attempt
Ex-soldiers
sentenced for 1985 massacre of
villagers in Peru:
— A court in Peru has found a
retired general and nine other
former soldiers guilty of killing 71
peasant farmers in a
counterinsurgency operation three
decades ago.
Coca-Cola
Accused of Funding Colombian Death
Squad:
Coca-Cola was accused of hiring
hitmen from a prominent paramilitary
group between 1990 and 2002 to kill
at least 10 trade union leaders.
Obama’s
pledge of additional aid for
Colombia peace deal is in doubt:
Colombians may not be able to count
on the Obama administration’s pledge
of millions in additional aid to
help implement their country’s peace
deal.
After huge
Venezuela protest march, government
says foils coup:
"We have
frustrated the intended coup d'etat,"
Interior Minister Nestor Reverol
told the diplomatic corps. Foreign
Minister Delcy Rodriguez added:
"Yesterday, we stopped a massacre."
August U.S.
auto sales fall; carmakers say
industry has peaked:
U.S. auto sales fell 4.2 percent in
August as some major automakers said
a long-expected decline due to
softer consumer demand had begun,
possibly sparking a shift to juicer
customer incentives and slower
production.
The
Pentagon’s Not-So-Secret Commando
Army:
Thousands of elite U.S. troops
operate around in the world and
largely in secret. To help manage
these soldiers and their missions,
the Pentagon has established a
network of small command posts
around the world.
Clinton says
could not recall all briefings due
to concussion: FBI report:
"In December of 2012, Clinton
suffered a concussion and then
around the New Year had a blood
clot," the FBI's summary said.
"Based on her doctor's advice, she
could only work at State for a few
hours a day and could not recall
every briefing she received."
FBI Releases
Documents in Hillary Clinton E-Mail
Investigation:
View documents on The Vault: We are
making these materials available to
the public in the interest of
transparency and in response to
numerous Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) requests.
Romanian
hacker 'Guccifer' sentenced to 52
months in U.S. prison:
A Romanian hacker nicknamed "Guccifer"
who helped expose the existence of a
private email domain Hillary Clinton
used when she was U.S. secretary of
state was sentenced on Thursday to
52 months in prison
President
Putin on hacking allegations :
Video -
Hacked Pelosi
Memo: Obama helped create ISIS:
“When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003
we triggered a massive insurgency
against our presence,” the memo
says. “Around this time, a Jordanian
ex-convict named Zarqawi travelled
to Iraq with one goal: to establish
a religious state just for Sunni
Muslims.”
Mexico
president blasts Trump’s policies as
‘huge threat’ after meeting:
“His policy stances could represent
a huge threat to Mexico, and I am
not prepared to keep my arms crossed
and do nothing,” Pena Nieto said.
“That risk, that threat, must be
confronted.
George Soros
stated that Western Civilization is
doomed
Donald Trump will win the popular
vote in the next general election,
but Hillary Clinton already is a
"done deal".
Where Is
Media Coverage Of George Soros
Meddling In U.S. Internal Affairs?:
Soros is named as the architect and
sponsor of almost every revolution
and coup around the world for the
last 25 years.
Someone using
Tor breached email account on
Clinton server:
An unknown individual using the
encrypted privacy tool Tor to hide
their tracks accessed an email
account on a Clinton family server,
the FBI revealed Friday.
Hillary
Signed She Received Briefing on
Classified Info, But Told FBI She
Hadn't: Either
Hillary Clinton lied to the FBI or
she lied on a State Department form
as she began her tenure as Secretary
of State. This conclusion appears
inescapable after Friday's FBI
document release related to the
Clinton email investigation.
Jill Stein
Caricatured By Washington Post:
Media institutions like the Post are
hard-wired to act as gatekeepers for
establishment politics.
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September 01, 2016
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By Gareth Porter |
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Obama
officials were aware
from 2012 that a war to
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US, Russia
claim credit as IS spokesman killed
in Syria:
Russia's military said one of its
air strikes had killed Adnani in a
bombing raid Tuesday that left up to
40 IS jihadists dead -- a claim
dismissed by US officials as "a
joke".
Clashes
subside in Syria between Turkish,
Kurdish forces:
Western officials had expressed
alarm that the fighting between the
two sides, both backed by the U.S.
in Syria's 5-year-old civil war, has
diverted their attention from the
fight against the extremist group.
Turkey denies
reaching ceasefire with Kurdish
forces:
Minister rejects US announcement of
ceasefire deal between Turkish
military and Syrian partners with
Kurdish YPG forces.
Made in
America: State Dept. Offers $3Mln
For Daesh Leader Trained in US
: The US has offered a $3 million
reward for any information leading
to the arrest of Gulmurod Khalimov.
While the press release labels him
as a terrorist, it fails to mention
that it was the US who actually
trained him.
Gülen
movement ‘founded by CIA like the
Mormons and Scientologists,’ says
Turkish prosecutor:
The CIA organizes these sects as
non-governmental organizations in
order “to make changes to society,”
read the indictment prepared Zafer
Dur, a prosecutor in the Aegean
province of Izmir.
Iraq: ISIS
beaheads 13 civilians accused of
helping families to escape from
Hawija:
– A security source in Kirkuk
province announced on Tuesday that
the ISIS executed 13 civilians on
charges of facilitating the escape
of the families from Hawija.
ISIS slices
nine youths with chainsaw in Mosul:
“The death sentence pronounced by
ISIS sharia court stated that the
men should be tied to an iron pole
in the center of Tal Afar Square in
Mosul and then sliced into two with
an electric chainsaw,” further added
the source seeking anonymity.
Baghdad: 2
killed and 10 wounded in a bomb
attacks:
At least two people were killed and
10 others injured on Tuesday in two
bomb attacks, including a suicide
bombing, in the Iraqi capital of
Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source
said.
AP documents
72 mass graves left by IS militants:
The five graves arranged at the foot
of Sinjar mountain hold the bodies
of dozens of minority Yazidis killed
in the Islamic State group's bloody
onslaught in August 2014.
Yemeni:
Saudi-Led Airstrikes Kill 16
Civilians:
Airstrikes by the Saudi-led
coalition hit a house in the
northern Yemeni city of Saada in the
early hours of Wednesday, killing at
least 16 civilians,
US kills 3
Qaeda "suspects" in Yemen:
The
strike hit a vehicle carrying the
three alleged militants in the
eastern suburbs of Ataq, the capital
of Shabwa province, the official
said.
Drone strike
in Egypt reportedly kills Sinai
Province leader:
The leader of Egypt’s "Welayat
Sinai" (Sinai Province) militant
group -- which is said to have sworn
allegiance to Daesh -- was killed on
Tuesday by a drone strike carried
out by the Egyptian military in the
Sinai Peninsula
Ex Mossad
chief: Israel's biggest threat is
potential civil war, not Iran:
The most pressing threat to Israel
is not Iran, but rather the
increased polarization within
Israeli society, former Mossad chief
Tamir Pardo said in his first public
appearance since leaving office in
June.
President
Erdogan approves Turkey-Israel
normalization deal:
The deal is expected to restore
diplomatic relations between the two
countries, which will exchange
ambassadors in the next few weeks.
US finds
Israel’s retroactive approval of
illegal settlements ‘particularly
troubling’:
Washington has criticized Israel’s
announced settlement expansion in
the occupied territories
Tunisia
police kill two militants, seize
bomb belt in raid:
Tunisian police killed two Islamist
militants on Wednesday and seized
arms and an explosive belt prepared
for suicide attacks during a dawn
raid in a central province following
an earlier ambush on an army patrol,
the interior ministry said.
Obama extends
Libya bombing mission against ISIS,
officials say:
President Obama has extended the
U.S. military’s combat mission in
Libya for another month at the
request of senior military leaders,
two defense officials with knowledge
of the order told Fox News.
Gabon: Ali
Bongo wins re-election as president:
Protests erupt as supporters of
presidential challenger Jean Ping
say the vote was "stolen"
US Air
Strikes Kill Four Alledged Haqqani
Commanders in Afghanistan:
US air strikes in Afghanistan have
killed four commanders of the
Haqqani network, a militant group
affiliated with the Taliban, as
government forces try to retake a
district captured by insurgents last
week, Afghan officials said on
Tuesday.
Afghan Opium
Production 40 Times Higher Since
US-NATO Invasion:
“Afghan heroin has killed more than
one million people worldwide since
the ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’
began and over a trillion dollars
has been invested into transnational
organized crime from drug sales,”
US Marines on
the Black Sea
: Watch US Marines perform their
first ever amphibious landing in
Ukraine alongside their Ukrainian
allies in the Black Sea.
German
Chancellor Calls Out European
Countries That Shut Out Muslim
Refugees:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
lambasted nations that refuse to
accept refugees who are Muslim, one
year to the day after she opened her
country’s borders to over 1 million
refugees.
Ireland gave
illegal tax benefits to Apple worth
up to €13 billion:
The European Commission has
concluded that Ireland granted undue
tax benefits of up to €13 billion to
Apple. This is illegal under EU
state aid rules. Ireland must now
recover the illegal aid.
Apple holds
Europe to ransom?:
Tech giant threatens to cut jobs in
EU after Brussels orders it to pay
back £11BILLION in tax over
'illegal' sweetheart deal with Irish
government
Apple is
making life terrible in its
factories – labor rights warriors:
"Working conditions are terrible,
and workers are subject to terrible
treatment," China Labor Watch
writes.
We should
collect Apple’s €13 billion and
change Ireland: Op-Ed:
Our decades old economic strategy
based on low corporation tax is
probably doomed anyway
Thousands to
receive basic income in Finland:
a trial that could lead to the
greatest societal transformation of
our time
Brazil
President Dilma Rousseff impeached
by Senate:
Sixty-one senators voted in favour
of her impeachment and 20 against,
meeting the two-thirds majority
needed to remove her from the
presidency.
Bolivia,
Venezuela & Ecuador recall
ambassadors over Rousseff
impeachment
: Venezuela condemned
Rousseff’s impeachment saying it
will not pursue relations with a
government that stemmed from a
“parliamentary coup d'etat.”
The Brazilian
Economic Collapse Reaches
Unprecedented Proportions:
The labor market continues to
implode: the unemployment rate
surged to 11.6% with the ranks of
the unemployed topping 11.8 million
(up from 8.6 mn a year ago)
Propaganda alert:
Harry Reid
Cites Evidence of Russian Tampering
in U.S. Vote, and Seeks F.B.I.
Inquiry:
The Senate minority leader, Harry
Reid of Nevada, asked the F.B.I. on
Monday to investigate evidence
suggesting that Russia may try to
manipulate voting results in
November.
Department of
Homeland Security eyes special
declaration to take charge of
elections:
The latest admissions of attacks
could speed up that effort possibly
including the upcoming presidential
election, according to officials.
The political
ties of the Trump campaign team in
Israel:
A background check on some of the
key figures running the Trump
campaign in Israel reveals a very
strong affinity with one particular
side of the local political map.
Poll: Donald
Trump Chips Away at Hillary
Clinton's National Lead:
Hillary Clinton's national lead over
Donald Trump has narrowed slightly
to 6 points. Clinton now enjoys 48
percent support, while Trump holds
steady with 42 percent.
Donald
Trump's visit to Mexico is greeted
with hostility online:
Donald Trump’s surprise decision to
visit Mexico, the country he wants
to seal off from the US with a
security wall, has not been warmly
received south of the border.
Donald Trump
and Mexico's Former President
Vicente Fox Spar on Twitter Ahead of
Visit:
Donald Trump and Mexico’s former
President Vicente Fox are engaged in
a bitter back-and-forth just hours
before the Republican presidential
nominee is scheduled to visit the
country.
Trump reveals
how he would force Mexico to pay for
border wall:
Donald Trump says he would force
Mexico to pay for a border wall as
president by threatening to cut off
the flow of billions of dollars in
payments that immigrants send home
to the country,
FBI recovers
30 Clinton emails possibly linked to
Benghazi attack — State Dept.
: The department’s lawyers told US
District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta
that some of the 30 emails were not
among the 55,000 emails that the
Democratic presidential nominee
handed over to the investigation.
Hillary
Clinton Hits Trump for 'Dropping In'
on Mexico:
Hillary Clinton today used her first
public event in nearly a week to
bash Donald Trump for “dropping in”
on Mexico, saying building
relationships takes more than “a
photo op.”
Clinton
emailed classified information after
leaving State Dept.:
Hillary Clinton continued sending
classified information even after
leaving the State Department, The
Post has exclusively learned. |
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By Robert Fisk |
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time we attack one side
in this war, we are
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By Chris Hedges and
Sabah Alnasseri
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ISIS’s
colonialist strategies
and those of the Israeli
independence movement in
Palestine.
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IS-claimed
bombing against Yemen recruits kills
60:
An Islamic State group militant
rammed his explosives-laden car into
an army ecruitment centre in Aden on
Monday, killing 60 people in the
deadliest jihadist attack to hit the
city in over a year.
3 Saudi
children killed by Yemen shelling:
Saudi-Yemeni border sees rising
clashes between Saudi troops, Houthi
militants
Turkish air
strikes ‘kill at least 40 civilians
in Syria’:
Turkey's official press agency said
Turkish air strikes killed 25
Kurdish “terrorists” and destroyed
five buildings used by the fighters
in the Jarabulus area.
35 killed in
Syria as rebel groups battle:
Rebels backed by Turkey made major
gains Sunday in northern Syria,
expelling Kurdish-led forces from
towns and villages as part of a
determined campaign by Ankara to
push the militants east of the
Euphrates River.
US slams
Turkey over ‘unacceptable clashes’
with Syria opposition, says they aid
ISIS
: Turkey reacted angrily to the
American rebuke, with its minister
for European Union affairs, Omer
Celik, saying no one could tell
Ankara which terrorist group it was
allowed to target.
Obama to meet
Turkey's Erdogan in China on
September 4:
Obama wants to talk with Erdogan
about events in Turkey after July's
attempted coup, the military
campaign against Islamic State, and
how to promote stability in Syria
Two Turkish
soldiers killed in clashes in
southeast
; Two Turkish
soldiers were killed in clashes in
the largely Kurdish southeastern
Hakkari province near the border
with Iraq on Monday, Dogan news
agency said.
23 Turkish
soldiers killed near Iraqi border:
PKK’s armed wing announced on Monday
that 23 Turkish soldiers were killed
near the Iraqi border. In total
three attacks were carried out and
these were made when Turkish Army
carried out an operation at Hmazinan
IS-claimed
attack kills 18 in Iraq oasis town:
Attackers
armed with suicide vests, rifles and
grenades killed 18 people in the
Iraqi oasis town of Ain al-Tamer,
many of them guests at a wedding
party, officials said Monday.
15 killed as
Islamic State claims suicide bombing
at Iraqi wedding:
- Islamic State has claimed a
suicide bombing that killed at least
15 people and injured 16 at a
wedding party near the holy Shi'ite
city of Kerbala
12 killed in
Daesh attack on Anbar province:
Daesh militants attacked a police
headquarters in al-Ratba city,
triggering clashes with security
forces, “Five soldiers and seven
militants were killed in ensuing
clashes,”
Oil wells
burn days after Iraq’s Qayara
retaken:
The skies above this small northern
Iraqi town are black with smoke and
ash rains down from around a half
dozen oil wells that Daesh (ISIS)
fighters set ablaze as Iraqi troops
moved.
Iran deploys
S-300 missiles at Fordow nuclear
facility - report:
“Today, Iran's sky is one of the
most secure in the Middle East.”
Battles in
Libya's Sirte kill 34 fighters:
At least 34 Libyan fighters were
killed and more than 180 wounded as
they closed in on the last Islamic
State militant holdouts in the
coastal city of Sirte, according to
a field hospital.
Militants
kill 3 Tunisian soldiers in ambush
near Algerian border:
Islamist militants killed three
Tunisian soldiers and wounded seven
others on Monday, opening fire on
them with rifles and rocket
propelled grenades after their
patrol hit anti-tank landmines
Drone strikes
kill 120 "rebels" in SE Afghanistan:
At least 120 Taliban rebels have
been killed and many others wounded
in two drone strikes in
Afghanistan's southeastern Paktia
province, a police official said
Monday
Roadside
bombs kill 9 civilians in
Afghanistan:
At least nine civilians have lost
their lives and several others
sustained injuries in two separate
roadside bomb attacks in
Afghanistan.
Curfew lifted
in parts of Indian-administered
Kashmir:
More than 60 people, mostly young
men, have been since killed in
clashes between protesters and
security forces and thousands more
have been injured.
US, India
sign major military pact amid
Chinese concerns
:The deal allows the US navy to use
India’s bases to re-supply during
military exercises and humanitarian
missions as well as disaster
operations. The same rules would
apply to India but in reverse.
Philippine
soldiers killed in clashes with Abu
Sayyaf:
Twelve soldiers were killed in
fierce clashes with the armed group
on the southern island of Jolo.
6,500
refugees rescued off Libyan coast in
one day:
"The command center coordinated 40
rescue operations" that included
vessels from the EU's border agency
Frontex and humanitarian
organizations, the coastguard said
on its official Twitter account.
French
interior minister slams burkini ban,
meets Muslim leaders:
Speaking to Catholic newspaper "La
Croix," Interior Minister Bernard
Cazeneuve said the ban was
"unconstitutional, ineffective and
would evoke antagonisms and
irreparable tensions."
Controversial
Saudi school in Bonn to close:
Many Germans were wary of the
school, which has been suspected of
attracting Islamists to Germany.
Bank to pay
customers €15,000 to take out
€500,000 loan:
Bank of Ireland will give 3%
cashback as mortgage competition
heats up
The
challenges facing Britain’s housing
market after Brexit:
Estate agents reported a sharp drop
in buyer interest, while real-estate
funds, facing collapse, had to
freeze withdrawals
Canada facing
massive mortgage crisis
: Hit by the sharp decline in oil
prices the Canadian economy is
struggling with a property market
approaching the peak of a massive
bubble
Venezuela
Accuses US, Opposition of Planning
Coup:
Venezuela is accusing the United
States and the country's political
opposition of planning a coup for
Thursday, the day that government
opponents have called for a march to
demand a recall vote against
President Nicolas Maduro.
FBI: Election
Systems Were Infiltrated By Foreign
Hackers:
The FBI says these actions may have
been carried out by either Russian
government hackers, or
cybercriminals who are seeking to
find and use protected tax
information.
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