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-Lurid Crime Tales-
AntiFa Threatens Violence If Portland Oregon GOP And Trump Supporters Don’t Pull Out Of Annual Parade
[CSCMEDIAGROUPUS] AntiFa scare tactics seem to be working in Portland Oregon.

The Multnomah County GOP released a statement on Tuesday announcing that they have been directly threatened by AntiFa.

They were sent an email (which you can see below) that stated if they actually participate in the parade, AntiFa will have 200 or more people rush the parade and forcibly remove the GOP and Trump supporters from the parade.

The group known as Direct Action Alliance, as well as smaller offshoots, have even created Facebook event specifically for this violence!

Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sack Comey.
Posted by: Blackbeard Sninert3200 || 04/27/2017 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Appears the second civil war has begun.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2017 2:02 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm sure facebook will get right on deleting that group.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 04/27/2017 2:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Gee, a red, black and white flag. Where have I seen that color combination before?
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 04/27/2017 6:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Appears so Besoeker. Now, will the GOP and Trump supporters go ahead and march?

If they do I expect that at least some will be armed. This could turn seriously ugly. What will the cops do?
Posted by: AlanC || 04/27/2017 7:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Something stupid I'm sure.
Posted by: gorb || 04/27/2017 7:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Someone might just take the AntiFa Fa's banner in the pic seriously and decide that is a good idea.

Posted by: JohnQC || 04/27/2017 8:32 Comments || Top||

#8  I would pay to bust one of their heads.
Posted by: chris || 04/27/2017 8:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Stay in the parade, go armed, kill antifa.

Posted by: DarthVader || 04/27/2017 9:19 Comments || Top||

#10  What will the cops do?

Arrest the Trump supporters, of course.

So remember to pay your tax dollars like good citizens.

How else can we pay for vital services such as cops standing around while you get beaten, and judges who don't think we have a right to control our borders?
Posted by: charger || 04/27/2017 9:20 Comments || Top||

#11  The organizers just upped and cancelled the parade.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/27/2017 9:25 Comments || Top||

#12  We're returning to Berkeley today, 2:00 pm. Following the parade fiasco, Portland is next. Antifa is being given free reign to act as terrorists. When they silence our voices, all we have left are our fists. So be it.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/27/2017 9:57 Comments || Top||

#13  Wish I could be there Rex. Stay safe, keep you head on a swivel and get some good pics for us!
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/27/2017 10:05 Comments || Top||

#14  Roger that, Vader
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/27/2017 10:15 Comments || Top||

#15  Be your age Rex, and observe from a distance.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/27/2017 11:05 Comments || Top||

#16  Those are my orders - nearly word for word. I'll be observing and assisting those hit with pepper spray and any wounded.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/27/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||

#17 
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/27/2017 11:51 Comments || Top||

#18  :-)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/27/2017 12:35 Comments || Top||

#19 
Posted by: 3dc || 04/27/2017 23:08 Comments || Top||

#20  and this:
Posted by: 3dc || 04/27/2017 23:34 Comments || Top||


Antifa Activist Punches Journalist on Camera, Then Claims Self-Defense
[PJMEDIA]
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Sack Comey.
Posted by: Blackbeard Sninert3200 || 04/27/2017 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  I've said it before and I will keep saying it. These are the new brownshirts
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 04/27/2017 6:09 Comments || Top||

#3  These are the new brownshirts.

Yep. They can call themselves whatever they want and they can hide their swastikas but it's pretty clear who they are.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/27/2017 13:15 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
The Pentagon Has a ‘Ghost Soldiers' Problem (Video)
[Daily Signal] Since 2002, billions of U.S. tax dollars have been spent rebuilding Afghanistan after decades of war. A big chunk of that money pays Afghan soldiers and police.

But it turns out a lot of those troops may not, in fact, exist. On "Full Measure," we investigate how your tax money is being wasted on "ghost soldiers."

Here’s my interview with John Sopko, who is the inspector general watching over the U.S. taxpayer billions spent to rebuild Afghanistan.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Solomon Johnson8830 || 04/27/2017 8:08 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/27/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  But it turns out a lot of those troops may not, in fact, exist. On "Full Measure," we investigate how your tax money is being wasted on "ghost soldiers."

Been going on literally for ages. One of the reasons the office of Inspector General was created by monarchs who couldn't print money on paper and in effect ignore the problem (cause something would need to be done about it).

Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/27/2017 10:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Sure, that's why Contract Management is one of the most coveted positions in the DoD, and US Generals have the biggest houses.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/27/2017 11:46 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Crinegum Ulaigum2776 || 04/27/2017 19:00 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Suspected Somali pirates on trial in India
[SHABELLENEWS] Sixteen Somali pirates tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
during anti-piracy operations in 2011 today told a sessions court that they committed a crime but want to go home now and meet their families.

The court recorded the statements of the pirates who were arrested by the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard in 2011.

"The court recorded their plea under the provisions of section 313 of Criminal Procedure Code," said special public prosecutor Ranjeet Sangle.

Under the section 313, an accused is given an opportunity to personally explain any circumstances appearing in the evidence against him.

During recording of their statements, they said that they wanted to go home and meet their families. Some of them said that they have to be near their old parents as they need them now.

Two of the accused told the court that they took to the crime as the administration had collapsed in Somalia.

"I committed the mistake as there was no government in my country and I have realised it now. My wife is waiting for me there (in Somalia)," said Ali Afrah.

Echoing Afrah, another accused Mussa Rehman said that he took to the crime because of the collapse of government in his country.

"It (taking to crime) was because of the situation prevalent there (in Somalia) at that time. I wanted to meet my children now," he added.

Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Pirates

#1  India still got yard arms?
Posted by: AlanC || 04/27/2017 7:28 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Shake-Up Strengthens King's Powerful Son
[An Nahar] A recent Saudi government and security shake-up aims to strengthen King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians....
's increasingly powerful son against a royal rival and to bolster ties with Washington, analysts and diplomats say.

Royal decrees at the weekend saw a number of allies of Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman moved into key positions and another son of the king named as ambassador to Washington.

The goal, a foreign diplomat told AFP, is "to strengthen MBS (Mohammed bin Salman) and the Salman branch" of the al-Saud family which has ruled Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
since the country's founding.

Mohammed bin Salman, 31, has risen to prominence since he was named deputy crown prince two years ago, a few months after his father took the throne following the death of King Abdullah.

The king's nephew Mohammed bin Nayef, now 57, was at the same time named crown prince and is the heir apparent.
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Saudi-led coalition warned against assault on Yemen’s lifeline port
[DAWN] United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
and Russian officials warned on Tuesday against any attack by Saudi-led coalition forces on the Houthi-held Yemeni port of Hodeidah, the aid lifeline for a country where millions of people are in desperate need of food.

The warring factions must ensure deliveries of food and medical aid to starving people, senior UN officials said at a donor conference in Geneva.

Nearly $1.1 billion has now been pledged towards a United Nations appeal of $2.1 billion for Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
this year, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced, calling it a "remarkable success".

"Across Yemen, hunger and malnutrition have reached unprecedented levels and the threat of famine looms large. The country is on the brink of catastrophe," said David Beasley, executive director of the UN’s World Food Programme.

The government, backed by Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and the West, have been fighting the 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 ...
movement aligned with Iran for over two years in a war that has killed at least 10,000 people.

A Saudi-led military coalition is preparing an assault on Hodeidah, which lies on the Red Sea and is the point of entry for nearly 80 per cent of Yemen’s food imports. "The Hodeidah port is a critical lifeline," Beasley told the conference. "Any disruption to the port would gravely hamper efforts to prevent famine." Yemeni officials said earlier this month the government and its allies had positioned two brigades for a possible attack, one of them 230 km north of Hodeidah and the other 130 km to the south.

Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  The warring factions must ensure deliveries of food and medical aid arms and military supplies to starving people their Houthi puppets, senior UN officials said at a donor conference in Geneva.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/27/2017 12:18 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
AQIS statement confirms top Bangaldeshi jihadist’s death
Ululululululululululululu!
[Dhaka Tribune] The Bangladesh-born jihadist, identified as Tariq alias Sohel by al-Qaeda, was killed in a battle in Kandahar, Afganistan

The leadership structure of Ansar al-Islam, al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent’s local proxy, remains hazy as AQIS Wednesday claimed its Bangladesh unit chief died in a suicide operation in Afghanistan.

The Bangladesh-born jihadist, identified as Tariq alias Sohel, was killed in a battle in Kandahar, according to a statement issued by AQIS chief Asim Umar
...chief of al-Qaeda's Sharia Committee for Pakistain, named head of al-Qaeda in India. His video appearances are frequently accompanied by clips of al Qaeda's senior propagandist in Pakistan, Ahmad Farooq. Umar the author of The Army of Anti-Christ: Blackwater, Documentation of the Dreadful Terrorist Activities of America's Blackwater in Islamic Countries...
The original audio message titled "Verily, the help of Allah is near" was released in different formats on Telegram early Wednesday. It does not mention the date of the incident when Sohel carried out the suicide kaboom.

"Our beloved brother who made hijrah to Wazoo, after bidding farewell to the sparkles of Dhaka, Tariq Bhai (Sohel), head of Bangladesh Affairs, passed away irrigating the desert of Qandahar [Kandahar] in hopes that the spring of Islamic system [of governance] shall come back to the land of Bangladesh," Asim Umar said.

Al-Qaeda supremo Ayman al-Zawahiri
... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodx al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...
issued a separate statement Tuesday.

Sohel’s aides who had "embraced martyrdom" with him were Qari Abdul Aziz alias Abdul Halim, Yaqub alias Saddam Hossain, Asadullah alias Nazimuddin Maimoon, Abu Ibrahim alias Saiful Islam Hasan and Abu Bakr alias Anuj Hasib, the statement said.

The Dhaka Tribune could not independently verify their identities.

News of Sohel’s death was first aired in a video released by al-Qaeda’s As-Sahab Media last month, as mentioned by Ansar al-Islam members in the Dawahilallah online forum.

Swedish-Bangladeshi journalist Tasneem Khalil told the Dhaka Tribune he believed Sohel was the handler of Bangladeshi affairs in Afghanistan, not the Bangladesh chief of AQIS. He said it was likely that the others killed during the same operation were also Bangladeshis.

Ashiqur Rahman Sulaiman, who also supported Hefajat-e-Islam
...a madrassa-based false nose and mustache of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, formed in 2010 to protest against secular education. In 2011 demonstrated violentyly against women's rights and in 2013 held large rallies demanding capital punishment of Shahbag Square protesters and banning women working outside the home...
, was the first Bangladeshi to have been killed in Afghanistan fighting for al-Qaeda in recent years. An al-Qaeda video from March 2015 described him as a martyr.
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent


Britain
London Tube bomb accused Damon Smith claims it was a prank
[BBC] A student has admitted building a bomb and leaving it on a Tube train but said it was for a prank, a court heard.
Rantburg's report of the gentleman's arrest can be found here.
Damon Smith denies making or possessing an explosive substance with intent to endanger life but at the Old Bailey he admitted perpetrating a bomb hoax.

The prosecution said Mr Smith intended the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) to explode and endanger the lives of people on the Jubilee Line train.

Prosecutors said the IED contained ball bearings to act as shrapnel.

Jonathan Rees QC, for the prosecution, said this was to "increase the destructive effect of the device".

'Lost property'
At the start of the trial, Mr Rees said the defendant told police he had built a device which when activated was intended only to produce smoke.

However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
the defendant added the ball bearings because he wanted to make it look like a real bomb so the train would be stopped and it would be reported on the news, Mr Rees added.

The court heard the device was found by two passengers when Mr Smith got off the train at London Bridge station last October.

They handed it to a driver, Adrian Clarke, who initially thought it was for lost property but then, as he drove to North Greenwich, realised it contained two wires coming out of the back of a clock, the court heard.

The court heard the student had moved to Rotherhithe in south-east London with his mother from Newton Abbot, Devon, when he started a computer forensics degree at London Metropolitan University.

The defendant has Asperger's syndrome, or Autism Spectrum Disorder
*sigh* Yes, another one.
as it was known, and has a keen interest in guns and other weapons that may have been a function of the condition, the court heard.

The prosecution said officers had found:
  • A blank self-loading pistol purchased in September 2016

  • A carbon-dioxide powered revolver designed to fire ball-bearings, a knife in a sheath and a knuckleduster

  • An examination of an iPad contained an image of the defendant standing in front of a TV screen showing a photograph of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, alleged to have criminal masterminded the attacks in Gay Paree in November 2015

  • This also contained images of him posing with guns and a shopping list for "pressure cooker bomb materials"

  • Shredded paper which when reconstructed was identified as being an article from an al-Qaeda online publication called Inspire first which gave details on how to build a pipe bomb

The court heard Mr Smith told police he had been brought up a Christian but was interested in Islam which he thought was "more true".

He did not really practise Islam, although he read the Koran and sometimes prayed in the morning when it was convenient but did not hold extreme views, the court heard.

Mr Rees said that on the day of the incident the defendant had started a timing mechanism on the device while he was at Southwark station, changing trains.

Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco...
Mr Smith went to his university campus at Holloway and searched for news articles on the incident when he got home later, the court heard.

The trial continues.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2017 01:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ass-burgers isn't a defense. Execute him.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/27/2017 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Fire - crowded theater. No defense.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/27/2017 10:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Stick him in jail for 20 years as a prank.
Posted by: gorb || 04/27/2017 14:51 Comments || Top||


Europe
Continuing saga of Facebook Swedish rapists
[FoxNews] Two Afghan migrants who raped a woman for three hours while their mate filmed it on Facebook Live have been jailed for just two years.

The three were arrested after cops stormed the room from which the vile attack was being broadcast live to a closed Facebook group with 60,000 members.

Horrified members had alerted cops after seeing the woman who was “close to unconscious” being assaulted in the town of Uppsala northwest of Stockholm on January 22.

The film was removed from Facebook but not before it had been circulated on the internet.

Today a Swedish court sentenced Reza Mohammed Ahmadi, 21, to two years and four months in prison for rape and accessory to rape, while Maysam Afshar, 18, was sentenced to one year in prison for rape – a reduced sentence due to his age.

Both are Afghan citizens who have been granted residency in Sweden.

Emil Khodagholi, a 21-year-old Swedish citizen, was sentenced to six months in prison for posting the recording to Facebook.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Okay feminists, what do you have to say about that?
Posted by: AlanC || 04/27/2017 7:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Okay feminists, what do you have to say about that?

"Shut up racist! Islamophobe!"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/27/2017 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  It would be a shame if something happened to them.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/27/2017 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  I hope da Sveeedish prisons have some of da hard boyz common to, say, Alcatraz.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/27/2017 16:55 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Amjad Sabri's murder case recommended for trial before military court
[DAWN] The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Sindh police on Wednesday recommended that the murder case of famed qawwal Amjad Sabri be presented before a military court for trial, Sindh CTD Additional Inspector General (AIG) Dr Sanaullah Abbasi said.

Amjad Sabri was bumped off in 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...
on June 22, 2016, after unknown assailants fired at his vehicle in the city's Liaquatabad area, critically injuring him. He was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed hospital immediately, where the renowned singer departed this vale of tears.

Following murder investigations, CTD officials in November 2016 locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
two suspects, Ishaq alias Bobby and Asim alias Capri, from the same neighbourhood. Both the accused were affiliated with the proscribed 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 ...
's Naeem Bukhari group, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah had told the media at the time the arrests were made. Asim alias Capri was also found to be Sabri's neighbour.

The CTD AIG further told Dawn that eight additional cases involving murders of army soldiers, Rangers personnel and police officials were also recommended for trial before military courts.

The accused in all of the eight cases, as well as the suspects in Sabri's murder, admitted to the joint investigation teams that they were affiliated with the banned holy warrior Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group.

Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Jhangvi


Former TTP, JuA spox claims terrorist organisations being 'used' by India, Afghanistan
[DAWN] The Army on Wednesday released the confessional statement of Liaquat Ali, infamously known as Ehsanullah Ehsan
...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency...
, a former spokesperson of the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) and Tehrik-e-Taliban
...the Pashtun equiovalent of men...
Pakistain (TTP).

The video brought forth some startling revelations, including the claim that the TTP and JuA have been coordinating with Indian and Afghan security agencies to move freely in Afghanistan and have been guided by the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW
... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man...
), India's apex spy agency, in infiltrating into Pakistain.

Ehsan, who seemed disgruntled by what he termed the self-serving agenda of big shots of the TTP and JuA, also said that these organizations have twisted Islam to suit their own ends and are actively looking to recruit young men and women through propaganda and false interpretations of Islam spread through social media.

The Army's front man, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, tweeted the following soon after the video was made public:

"RuF [Raddul Fasaad]. Ehsan Ullah Ehsan exposes hostile foreign agenda & their designs to destabilise Pak. Our youth is our strength, shall never fall prey."
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat ul-Ahrar


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
French Intelligence Blames Syrian Regime for 'Chemical Attack'
[An Nahar] A report by French intelligence services blames Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
's regime for a suspected chemical attack in rebel-held Syria that killed 87 people, Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Wednesday.

He said the analysis of samples taken at the scene of the April 4 attack in Khan Sheikhun showed "there is no doubt that sarin gas was used".

"There is also no doubt about the responsibility of the Syrian regime given the way that the sarin used was produced," Ayrault told journalists after presenting a report compiled by French intelligence services.

"This (production) method bears the regime's hallmarks and allows us to determine its responsibility for this attack," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Government
Mexican Drug Lord's Assets Could Pay for Trump's Border Wall – US Senator Cruz
Posted by: Flarong Grolusing5445 || 04/27/2017 12:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos



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1Lashkar e-Jhangvi
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1Narcos
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Thu 2017-04-27
  Damascus airport rocked after 'Israel air strike' on arms depot
Wed 2017-04-26
  Abu Sayyaf beheads captive Philippine soldier
Tue 2017-04-25
  Sweden arrests second suspect over deadly truck attack
Mon 2017-04-24
  Drone strike kills 5 Qaeda suspects in Yemen
Sun 2017-04-23
  5 terrorist suspects arrested in Brussels after arms, ammo & drugs seized in police raids
Sat 2017-04-22
  Dozens of About 140 Afghan troops dead in Taliban base attack
Fri 2017-04-21
  ISIS Media Chief dies in airstrike
Thu 2017-04-20
  Paris - cops shot, 1 killed. Suspect dead, Suspicious package left
Wed 2017-04-19
  US: Man screams 'Allahu akbar!' and kills three civilians
Tue 2017-04-18
  Pakistani Taliban leader Ehsanullah Ehsan 'surrenders'
Mon 2017-04-17
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Sun 2017-04-16
  At least 43 killed as car bomb hits Syria evacuees
Sat 2017-04-15
  Islamic State mufti killed in Mosul air strike, Iraqi forces say
Fri 2017-04-14
  Iraqi command says controls 60% of western Mosul
Thu 2017-04-13
  US drops MOAB on ISIS tunnel complex in Afghanistan

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