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Iraq forces recapture city of Tal Afar from ISIS
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Afghanistan
COAS urges trust-based Pak-Afghan response to terrorism
[DAWN] Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa said on Friday that Death Eaters were common enemies of Pakistain and Afghanistan and a trust-based coordinated response was needed against them rather than a blame game.

He said that Pakistain had undertaken operations against Death Eaters of all hue and colour and there were no safe havens inside Pakistain being used against Afghanistan.

Talking to a nine-member Afghan media delegation at the General Headquarters, the army chief said that Afghanistan was Pakistain’s brotherly neighbour. He was of the view that media could play a vital role in mitigating the negativity created by inimical forces, according to an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement.

Emphasising the need for an effective border management along the border, Gen Bajwa said that Pakistain had taken measures on its side of the border, including fencing and establishment of border forts and posts.

Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Like that one fool said: "It (rape) is gonna happen, so you may as well lay back and enjoy it"
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2017 9:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Another saying is "Watch the hands - not the mouth."
Posted by: Pappy || 08/27/2017 16:47 Comments || Top||


Arabia
What role do women play in Bahrain terror groups?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In the footsteps of al-Qaeda, ISIS and other radical Islamic groups, it was recently uncovered that many murderous Moslem Khomeinist cells were exploiting women in Bahrain.

The Bahraini Interior Ministry announced that it had uncovered a 10-member terrorist cell, including a woman suspected of involvement in terrorist acts.

The cell is headed by Hussein Ali Ahmed Dawood, 31, who is wanted and is leader of the terrorist organization Saraya al-Ashtar, and a runaway to Iran.

Dawood has been sentenced to life imprisonment in three terrorist cases and for his involvement in the formation of terrorist cells.

Among the detainees for being a member of the cell is Zainab Makki Abbas, 34, who helped the group use her house as a hideout containing explosives and a Kalashnikov weapon belonging to her brother, Hassan Makki Abbas.

According to the Bahraini interior ministry, Zainab later asked her husband, Amin Habib, who was also enjugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
later, to take the bags from the house and hand them over to Hussein Mohammed Hussein for concealment.

Zainab was not the first woman to be listed in the Khomeini terrorist cells in Bahrain. In March 2017, Bahraini security services arrested a "terrorist cell linked to Iran, consisting of 20 people, including four women".

The four women were Amira Mohammed Abdul Jalil, 35, Faten Abdul Hussein Ali Nasser, 41, Hamida Juma Abdullah, 40, and Mona Habib Saleh, 46, involved in prisoner smuggling operation, and in providing cover to fleeing murderous Moslems.

Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Target bombed in Sanaa was a Houthi militia command center
That's ok, then.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The front man for the Arab Coalition forces for the support of legitimacy in Yemen, Colonel Turki al-Malki, on Saturday said that a review has been completed of an alleged targeting of a house in a residential district of the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

The air raid that was conducted on Friday at dawn was found to have targeted a "legitimate military objective".

The investigation by the Coalition’s joint command, Col al-Maliki said, showed that the target was a Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
militia communications command and control center that was located in the middle of a residential area to utilize civilians as human shields.

He added that all documents and procedures related to operational planning and implementation were reviewed and no faults were found. However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
a technical fault resulted in an unintentional incident resulting in collateral damage to civilians.

He added that the review further revealed that the strike did not directly target the civilian house.

Colonel al-Maliki expressed, on behalf of the coalition, his deepest sorrows over the occurrence of this unintentional incident resulting in collateral damage to civilians while also stating his sincerest condolences to the relatives of the victims.

He confirmed that the coalition leadership has started the procedures of referring the incident to a team to assess the damages and complete all procedures.

Al-Maliki stressed the coalition’s full commitment to apply the provisions of international humanitarian law, especially on the protection of civilians and the application of the highest standards of targeting as well as its legal and ethical commitment to the principle of transparency in incidental cases.

Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
Leaked recordings of Libyan imam provoke outrage in Switzerland
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Swiss state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
has accused a holy man of Libyan origin, Salah Ramadan al-Fituri ben Salem, nicknamed "Abu Ramadan", of inciting hatred against other religions through his sermons at a mosque in Bern.

The report on Friday also said that that "Abu Ramadan" takes part in programs broadcasted by the Libyan channel "Altnasah".

In one of the leaked passages of a sermon, the imam says: "Oh Allah, I beg you to destroy the enemies of our religion. Destroy the Jews, the hateful Christians, the Hindus, the Russians and the disobedient Shiites."

The issue became even more complicated when state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
revealed that Abu Ramadan was receiving welfare from Swiss taxpayers, amounting to $600,000, for 13 years.

"Abu Ramadan" was born in the Libyan city of Derna, and was detained since 1998 in the era of Muammar Qadaffy
...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland...
on charges of inciting violence and his alleged involvement in a terrorist organization before moving to Britannia and Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
as a refugee.
The Local - Switzerland adds:
The 64-year-old is an occasional volunteer preacher at the Ar’Rahman mosque in Biel/Bienne, said the paper.

The preacher came to Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
as a refugee in 1998 and was in 2001 granted asylum, claiming he was persecuted by the regime of Colonel Gadaffi. He now has a C permit granting permanent residence.

According to the Tages Anzeiger he has hardly worked during his time in Switzerland and has received nearly 600,000 francs in benefits over the past 13 years.
Because as a member of the Master Religion he is entitled to live off the work of the kaffirs.
The town of Nidau, where the Libyan lives, confirmed to the media including news agency ATS that he was a long-term client of the social services and that it supported an "immediate investigation of the serious accusations".

However it added that as a matter of principle social assistance is given irrespective of personal convictions "as long as these convictions are not relevant to criminal law".

On Wednesday ATS reported that the authorities in Biel/Bienne are considering making a criminal complaint against the preacher for his suspected hate speech.
On August 3rd the man’s refugee status was withdrawn by the Swiss migration office (SEM) since he had several times travelled to Libya and had a Libyan passport, said ATS.
How amusing, though perhaps not for Old Abu.
Since he no longer has the right to asylum, he is now subject to the provisions of the foreigners’ law, meaning he could have his C permit withdrawn under certain conditions.

However he still has the right to appeal the change in his asylum status.
How many years will that take, during which he will continue to draw benefits at the same rate as before?
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Europe will soon be sucked dry by the Moslem colonists. its not only the social benefits accrued by the lazy moslem A**holes but the burden they put on law enforcement and security forces.
It seems the Euro-cowards(TM) have indeed decided to collectively "go silently into the night".
Posted by: Elder of Zion || 08/27/2017 3:14 Comments || Top||


Finland police release man held in fatal knife rampage
[Ynet] Finnish police say they have released a man in connection with the Aug. 18 stabbing attack in the western city of Turku that left two people dead and eight injured.

The National Bureau of Investigation said Saturday the man who was tossed in the slammer
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
Wednesday together with another suspect "is no longer suspected of any crime."

Abderrahman Mechkah, an 18-year-old Moroccan asylum-seeker, is suspected of the rampage which police say deliberately targeted women and is currently being investigated as murder with possible terrorist intent.

Mechkah has acknowledged the stabbings, but denies the deaths they caused were murders. Police in Finland say they think he is using a false identity.

Three others are being held on suspicion they helped plan the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Euro-cowards(TM), the colonists will rape your women and kill your children and after they finish with them you (male Euro-Eunuchs) will be the next target.
This is because you willingly and blindly give "asylum" to people who regard you as "Kafirs" and as such justified target of "islamic Law" under which you deserve your Dhimmitude.
Wake up - the only solution may be legislation of mass expulsion of ALL MOSLEMS back to their respective countries of origin.
Democracy must quickly evolve new ways to handle the new colonisation of Europe if it wants to survive.
Posted by: Elder of Zion || 08/27/2017 3:30 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
SHC asked to revoke bail of three jail officials in LJ militants’ escape case
[DAWN] The investigation officer of the case against former chief of the Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Central Prison and his two deputies pertaining to the escape of two suspected snuffies on Friday informed the Sindh High Court that the case of prosecution would badly suffer if the bail granted to the jail officials by an antiterrorism court was not cancelled.

The prosecution had on Wednesday moved the SHC against the decision of the ATC-VIII to grant bail to former jail superintendent Ghulam Murtaza Sheikh, deputy superintendent Faheem Anwar Memon and assistant superintendent Abdul Rehman Sheikh in a case against them for allegedly facilitating the suspected snuffies in their escape from the heavily-guarded penitentiary.

The department in its appeal said that the escape of ’hardcore terrorists’ from the heavily-guarded prison was a very serious issue. It said that the escape of alleged snuffies from the prison could not be overlooked or ignored.

The three jail officials along with 12 other personnel had been incarcerated
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
for their negligence in the escape of the two suspected snuffies belonging to the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
-- Sheikh Mumtaz alias Firaun alias Sher Khan and Mohammad Ahmed Khan alias Munna -- from prison on June 13.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Jhangvi


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Report: US delegation tells Abbas settlement freeze could ruin Netanyahu, refuses to set borders on 1967 lines
[Ynet] Al-Hayat quotes Western sources saying no significant progress made in Ramallah meeting; Americans refuse to set borders of Paleostinian state based on 1967 lines, clarify settlement construction halt not possible.

A US delegation led by President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has reportedly told Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
that a halt in settlement construction in the West Bank is impossible, because it could bring about the collapse of Benjamin Netanyahu's government, Western diplomatic sources told the London-based al-Hayat newspaper.

The Western sources also told the paper the delegation had not made significant progress in the negotiations between Israel and the Paleostinians during the official visit to Ramallah.

The US delegation told Abbas that it would work to consolidate economic, security and diplomatic relations between Israel and the Paleostinians before the talks begin. The Paleostinians, for their part, sought economic freedom in Area C and a change in economic agreements.

In addition, the newspaper reported the American delegation expressed willingness to reach a two-state solution, despite the clarification that a settlement construction halt was not possible.

Al-Haya further reported the Americans refused to set the borders of the future Paleostinian state based on the 1967 lines, and decided to leave this issue open to discussion by the two sides.

The US delegation, headed by Kushner and Trump's envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt, met separately on Thursday with Netanyahu and with Abbas in an effort to promote Israeli-Paleostinian peace, something Trump referred to as "the ultimate deal."

A statement by the US Consulate General in Jerusalem called the meeting between the American delegation and the Paleostinians "productive," noting that "Both sides agreed to continue with the US-led conversations as the best way to reach a comprehensive peace deal."

However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
Paleostinian officials were frustrated by the fact the American delegation refrained from committing to a two-state solution, telling the Washington Post that "negotiations without any set parameters would benefit only the Israeli side."

Ashraf Khatib, a front man for the PLO's Negotiations Affairs Department, told the Post, "We have clearly emphasized to the Americans the importance of having a public statement that has a commitment to the two-state solution. There hasn't been any."

Khatib further warned that "Without a vision, it will be negotiations for negotiations’ sake."

On Friday evening, Abbas spoke on the phone with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and updated him on his meeting with the American delegation.

The Paleostinian state news agency Wafa reported the phone call was part of ongoing consultations between the Paleostinians and the Saudis, and that the two agreed to continue these consultations.

Earlier in the day, Abbas spoke to the Emir of Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, also updating him on the talks with the American delegation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


UN gives $2.5 million to Gaza for fuel and water crisis
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Thanks!
Tunnels, armaments, and select bank accounts will be the only beneficiaries, but the donors get to feel good, so that's ok.
[Jpost] The United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
on Thursday gave Gazoo $2.5 million in humanitarian aid to help with their water and fuel crisis.

The funds come as Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
is threatening to gradually cut funding to Gazoo if Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, fails to allow Fatah to return to the Strip.

Some 2 million Paleostinians living in Gazoo have been hostage for the last four months to the power play between Fatah and Hamas, as Abbas seek to regain control of the Strip 10 years after Hamas ousted his party in a bloody coup.

In July the UN issued an urgent appeal for $25 million, but to date only 30% of that sum has bene funded.

In July the UN issued an urgent appeal for $25 million, but to date only 30% of that sum has bene funded.
There is a "serious decline in living conditions in Gazoo continues" said UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities, Robert Piper. "The humanitarian plight and the human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
of Gazoo’s civilian population - over half of them children ‐ appear to have disappeared from view" he added.

Some of the UN funds will pay for fuel for the generators that are helping run 190 health, water and sanitation installations. It will also provide for medical equipment and supplies, solar panels, cash assistance and agriculture supplies.

The Paleostinians in Gazoo have suffered in particular from an electricity crisis in which they are surviving on only about four hours of power a day. Israel has reduced its supply of electricity to Gazoo at the request of the Paleostinian Authority, who said it only planned to pay a small portion of the bill.

The PA also imposed an onerous tax on the diesel fuel needed to run Gazoo only power plant, as a result it has only been operational for intermittent periods.

"The Gazoo strip is into its fourth month of a serious energy crisis. Power supply to households and services has barely covered 25% of needs over the last 6 weeks. Hospitals and other facilities are operating almost 24/7 on generators that are not designed for continuous use in this way. The last bulk shipment of essential drugs from the West Bank was in March 2017; an estimated 40% of essential drugs are at zero stock. There is a large backlog of patients requiring urgent medical referral to hospitals outside the Strip," the UN said in a statement it issued on the funding.

The $2.5 million came Euoprean countries who had donated to the Humanitarian Fund run by the Office for Humanitarian Affairs in the Paleostinian territories. Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italia, Malta, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
were among the donor countries.

On Tuesday Miroslav Jenca, the UN’s Assistant Secretary General spoke of the Gazoo Crisis before the UN Security Council in New York.

"I call on Paleostinian leaders to address the destructive consequences of the divisions. I encourage them to reach agreement that would allow the legitimate Paleostinian authorities to take up their responsibilities in Gazoo, as a step towards the formation of a united, democratically elected Paleostinian government on the basis of the PLO principles," Jenca asid.

Hamas must also ensure that calm is maintained by stopping myrmidon buildup against Israel and by doing its utmost to sustain security at the border with Egypt. Israel should step-up measures to lift the closures and facilitate development in Gazoo as overall calm persists in the Strip, in line with Security Council resolution 1860," Jencal said.

She then urged donor countries to contribute to the Gazoo appeal.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  "gave Gazoo $2.5 million in humanitarian aid to help with their water and fuel crisis"


And that aid will be used for storage of said items in new 'Warehousing Tunnels' built with the funds.

Some are so large that they'll extend under the border, but no worry.

Oh, and new ammunition and explosives to 'protect' the water and fuel.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/27/2017 9:02 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Follow-up: Indonesian Islamic State Militants Captured While Building Radioactive ‘Dirty Bomb’
[Breitbart] A raid conducted against Islamist bully boyz by Indonesian police in West Java last week assumed new significance, as sources in the Indonesian government revealed to Rooters that the bully boyz were working on building a radioactive "dirty bomb."

The original police report about the arrest of five suspects claimed they were building conventional chemical bombs, but now Rooters’ sources say the gang was extracting thorium-232 from household items and hoping to "cook" it into deadly uranium-233 with microwave ovens or a medical X-ray machine. The radioactive material would then be mixed with the current terrorist explosive of choice, TATP or "Mother of Satan," creating a "dirty bomb" that would spray the blast area with radioactive material.

According to Indonesian police, the bully boyz believed it would take about three weeks to produce a dirty bomb. They were about one week into the project at the time of the raid.
Fortunate timing.
Contemporaneous reports on the August 15 raid that broke up the bomb plot identified the suspects as members of JAD, or Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, a group allied with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
. The suspects reportedly aspired to bomb the presidential palace in Jakarta and a police headquarters building, among other targets.

The U.S. State Department’s official terrorist designation of JAD describes it as an umbrella organization formed in 2015 from "almost two dozen Indonesian Death Eater groups that pledged allegiance to ISIS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
." They have carried out deadly attacks in the past.

Rooters notes that the leader of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah is an Indonesian national named Bahrun Naim who is currently believed to be working from Syria. Naim is listed as the author of an Indonesian-language bomb manual that was literally named "Nuclear for Dummies" (misspelled "Nuclear for Dummy" in the version distributed by Naim’s now-defunct blog).
A future best seller, no doubt, despite the blog being defunct.
The book describes a process for creating dirty bombs that is very similar to what the West Java ring was attempting. Indonesian police stated last week that the suspects they took into custody were working from a bomb-making manual written by Naim, but they did not reveal its title or contents.

"Mastering weaponry is essentially every Moslem’s duty. This paper, we hope, also can motivate the Moslem mujahideen to learn nuclear science easily and apply it," reads the introduction to the manual, according to Rooters.
If learning nuclear science were easy, we'd all have done it.
Rooters took the precaution of interviewing an expert in radiological devices, Peter Hayes of the Nautilus Institute, who said it was very unlikely the process laid out in Naim’s manual would work the way he described because medical X-ray machines and microwave ovens aren’t powerful enough to convert thorium into uranium.

Hayes also speculated that efforts to "cook" thorium-232 in a microwave might produce enough radioactive byproducts to inflict "painful and rapid death" upon the bomb-makers,
Think what the arresting officers might have found had they waited a week or two longer...
which will not sound very comforting to those unlucky enough to live next door to aspiring dirty bomb makers.

Also not comforting: Rooters reports two of the suspects tossed in the calaboose
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
by Indonesian police were migrant workers who were recently deported from Singapore and Hong Kong for posting radical Islamist material online. They evidently spent about a month in a "deradicalization shelter" before hooking up with the other turbans involved in the dirty bomb plot.
Mujahideen gotta mu, jihadis gotta di.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2017 11:18 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Cooking smoke detectors in a microwave.
Must have been watching Bill Nye.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2017 20:00 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
More tribes join Syrian rebels
[ARA News] A group of Arab rebel fighters from the Baggara and Shaitat tribes in rural Deir ez-Zor have left the Ahmad Jarba’s Syrian Elite Forces and joined the Deir ez-Zor military council, according to military sources.

The Deir ez-Zor Military Council has been established recently by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to combat ISIS in eastern Syria.

The seven battalions of the two tribes said in a statement on Friday they initially joined the opposition-led Elite Forces to participate in battles to free cities and villages from ISIS.

“Unfortunately, many problems accompanied our work and many vague questions surfaced, such as the absence of a project, or a clear work program of these forces and lack of seriousness in the revolutionary work,” the groups said in a joint statement.

“We, the seven battalions of Baggara and Shaitat tribes, split from the Elite Forces and joined the Deir ez-Zor military council and consider the Syrian Democratic Forces [SDF] as our reference and military leadership and we are working under its banner to liberate our city from the Daesh [ISIS] terrorist abomination,” the groups said.

“We thank also the leadership of the Syrian Democratic Forces for receiving us and giving us the opportunity to join their ranks to fight terrorism. We pledge to our martyrs and people, that we will spare no efforts to defend them,” the battalions said.

Nicholas A. Heras, a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), working in the Middle East Security Program, told ARA News: “SDF is now the vehicle, cutting down on groups outside of it. This is a big win for the SDF, and the Coalition. It makes the Deir al-Zoir Military Council more capable of being the foundation of a hold force if the Coalition decides to engage in a campaign to seize Deir al-Zor.”
Posted by: badanov || 08/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2017-08-27
  Iraq forces recapture city of Tal Afar from ISIS
Sat 2017-08-26
  'Terror attack’ in Brussels: Machete-waving ‘terrorist’ is shot dead as he attacks soldiers shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ near street where ISIS called for vehicle attacks
Fri 2017-08-25
  'Islamist terror cell' with a hoard of bombs blow themselves up rather than surrender to Russian police
Thu 2017-08-24
  Iraqi forces recapture more of Tal Afar, the last refuge
Wed 2017-08-23
  Yemen: At least 30 dead as air strike hits hotel
Tue 2017-08-22
  Somali extremist group confirms killing of senior commander
Mon 2017-08-21
  It's over-ish: Las Ramblas van terrorist shot dead wearing explosive belt 'and screaming Allahu Akbar' west of Barcelona
Sun 2017-08-20
  Kenya Says Police Killed Most Wanted Al Shabaab Commander
Sat 2017-08-19
  War crimes suspect Mahmoud Warfali arrested on Hafter’s orders
Fri 2017-08-18
  Finland attack – ‘Several people injured after multiple knifemen rampage through city of Turku' amid reports of shots fired
Thu 2017-08-17
  Breaking: Barcelona Van Attack on Pedestrians.
Wed 2017-08-16
  Tunisia says IS plot to seize territory foiled
Tue 2017-08-15
  Russia foils two ISIS suicide bombers who planned to blow themselves up on the subway in Moscow
Mon 2017-08-14
  At least 17 killed in attack on restaurant in Burkina Faso
Sun 2017-08-13
  IS executes its Legal Judge in Hawija for attempting to secede


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