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Pakistan Releases Senior Taliban Jihadi Days After Arrest
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
NYT Update with photos: ISIS Attack in Manbij, Syria Kills 4 Americans	4 15:22 newc [9]
Pakistan Releases Senior Taliban Jihadi Days After Arrest	0 [12]
Hamas frees 3 Italians suspected of being IDF soldiers	1 07:02 Frank G [8]
Egypt police kill five terrorists in North Sinai shootout: Ministry	0 [6]
Italians leave Gaza Strip after Hamas standoff	0 [6]
Special Forces video shows Taliban militants blown into pieces in an airstrike	6 15:45 Besoeker [3]
Terrorist leader Abul Talha and his fighters killed in Faryab operations	0 [4]
15 Taliban, ISIS-K militants killed in Afghan and Coalition Forces operations	0 [1]
FBI arrest 'radicalized' 21-year-old over 'planned suicide attack on Trump's White House using IED and anti-TANK rocket'	4 21:31 trailing wife [10]
Sulaimani security arrest ‘dangerous’ ISIS militant	0 [3]
Death toll in 14 Riverside Drive attack rises to 21	0 [3]
Seven die in terrorist attack in Nangade	0 [11]
Renewed clashes rock southern Tripoli, Interior Ministry and UNSMIL condemn	0 [9]
Sudan police fire tear gas at protesters in Kassala: Witnesses	0 [4]
Kirkuk: 3 turbans airstruck, 3 paramilitaries maimed fighting fed cops	0 [4]
Iraqi troops arrest two Islamic State terrorists in Anbar	0 [5]
Suspected mastermind of Orakzai terror attack killed in Hangu	0 [7]
Iran journalist arrested in US	1 06:34 Frank G [8]
Page 2: WoT Background
Vice-President Pence says IS defeated despite Syria attack (opens to video)	6 11:32 AlanC [7]
Border rancher: 'We've found prayer rugs out here. It's unreal'	11 21:52 Victor Emmanuel Trotsky3550 [5]
Taliban threaten to suspend peace talks with U.S. if refuse to discuss withdrawing troops	2 13:08 Waldemar Tingle3635 [2]
France at UN threatens more sanctions on Mali	0 [2]
American killed in Kenya attack was 9/11 survivor	0 []
Did 'Chapo' really pay Mexico's ex-president $100M?	2 18:25 Abu Uluque [9]
Police warn of safety risks as more Germans get gun licenses	3 12:08 Bright Pebbles [3]
Muslim clerics join other religious leaders to condemn terror attack	0 [8]
Court asked to put 5 Garissa varsity terror suspects on their defence	0 [4]
Wake up call as residents of Banana estate recall how terrorist lived among them	2 09:22 Bright Pebbles [12]
BNP unlikely to sever ties with Jamaat as Fakhrul talks about unity	0 [8]
Russia, Kurdish militants reject US-proposed ‘security zone’ under Turkish control	1 00:56 newc [9]
ATC dismisses bail applications of 13 policemen arrested in Naqeebullah murder case	0 [6]
The Memo That Helped Kill a Half Million People in Syria	2 13:44 trailing wife [9]
Page 3: Non-WoT
VP Pence: US is still waiting for North Korea to take 'concrete steps' toward denuclearization	0 [4]
Principal who banned candy canes won't return to school: superintendent	8 21:20 trailing wife []
Open Source Backgrounder: Russian Strategy In Sub-Saharan Africa, Mil & Industrial Partnerships-What Is Russia Up To?	3 10:23 Procopius2k []
USAA donates $15 million to Coast Guard families	2 06:38 Woodrow [4]
ICC halts release of I.Coast's Gbagbo after new appeal	1 02:29 Chris [7]
Gabon's Bongo returns to Morocco	2 19:18 Spanky Spomoth6164 [3]
Venezuelan court jails rogue agents over detained parliament president	2 06:41 Frank G [3]
Human diet causing 'catastrophic' damage to planet: study	14 20:59 charger [12]
UK opposition leader says ‘zombie government’ should stop ruling UK	2 09:23 Bright Pebbles [5]
UK court jails thrower of remembrance poppies for vandalism	3 20:59 Jusort tse Tung2587 [7]
'Migration isn't going to stop': Salvadorans join new caravans	6 13:12 SteveS [6]
Volcano erupts on Japan's Kuchinoerabu island	0 [7]
Man who raped woman a week after nonprofit bailed him out gets 18 years	8 22:29 USN, Ret. [6]
Ex-NFL player sacks peeping Tom outside daughter’s window	3 15:16 gorb [4]
Teacher gets pre-arrest bail in corporal punishment case in KP	0 [9]
Instead of soft music, PIA to now welcome passengers with Islamic hymn	7 16:36 Chris [5]
UK PM May survives confidence vote after Brexit humiliation	1 09:19 Bright Pebbles [4]
‘Raid’ on house of woman activist triggers protests	0 [7]
Page 4: Opinion
VDH: A License To Hate	1 17:54 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [4]
Beto bombs bigly in long interview with the Washington Post	10 23:39 trailing wife [6]
Ten reasons to immigrate to Iran	2 12:11 Bright Pebbles [9]
Learning from the Folly of Middle Eastern Regime Change	2 12:32 M. Murcek [8]
New plant-focused diet would ‘transform' planet's future, say scientists	5 10:05 g(r)omgoru [4]
Trump's burger fête was a masterpiece	6 22:38 Gravising Whiger8060 [6]
Poll Finds Most People OK With Raising Taxes On Other People	4 11:53 Abu Uluque [2]
We Need To Retoxify Masculinity	1 11:51 746 [3]
Page 6: Politix
Trump ~~shuts down~~ postpones Pelosi's trip after many boarded bus to airport	13 22:10 magpie [6]
'Beam In Thine Own Eye' - House Dem leaders reject harsher punishment for Steve King	0 [5]
Judge won't dismiss libel suit against Fusion GPS over dossier	5 15:08 gorb [2]
President Trump pick to replace Kavanaugh on appeals court under fire	8 10:14 SR-71 [3]
Witness In El Chapo Trial Says Mexican President Took $100 Million Bribe	8 14:10 Ebbavirt Clunk4147 [3]
Geo Papadopoulos Told Congress That FBI Asked Him To Spy On Mystery Prof At Center of Collusion Probe	2 08:34 Bright Pebbles [2]
US court rejects effort to require stricter Pentagon gun checks	0 [8]
NY Post touts actor who ‘uses fashion to fight Trump.’ Responses are worth the price of admission.	5 11:42 JohnQC [5]
Judge orders Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes to answer written Benghazi questions in Clinton email lawsuit	7 22:32 Chuckles McGurque1097 [12]

    
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                        21:52 Victor Emmanuel Trotsky3550

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                        21:49 Victor Emmanuel Trotsky3550

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                        20:59 Jusort tse Tung2587

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                        20:47 Angaise Omeper3483

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                        19:36 Frank G

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                        19:18 Spanky Spomoth6164

                        19:17 Frank G

                        19:14 SteveS

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                        18:33 gorb

                        18:25 Abu Uluque

Who's in the News
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6	al-Shabaab (AQ)
6	Islamic State
4	Govt of Pakistan
3	Taliban
2	Hamas
2	Commies
2	Moslem Colonists
2	Narcos
1	Arab Spring
1	Jamaat-e-Islami
1	al-Qaeda in North Africa
1	TTP
1	Sublime Porte
1	Govt of Sudan
1	Govt of Iran

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Two weeks of WOT

Thu 2019-01-17
Pakistan Releases Senior Taliban Jihadi Days After Arrest

Wed 2019-01-16
Iran launches satellite into space

Tue 2019-01-15
Explosions, gunfire erupt at Kenyan hotel in possible terror attack

Mon 2019-01-14
Sudan Opposition Call for More Protests 'To Shake the Tyrant's Throne'

Sun 2019-01-13
Report: Nasrallah suffers heart attack

Sat 2019-01-12
12 civilians killed in jihadist attack in Burkina Faso

Fri 2019-01-11
Jihadists take control of Idlib province after collapse of Turkish-backed rebels

Thu 2019-01-10
Turkish-backed rebels surrender last positions in southwest Idlib

Wed 2019-01-09
Turkish-backed rebels issue urgent plea for help from available forces in Idlib

Tue 2019-01-08
Israel said to block latest Qatari cash transfer to Gaza

Mon 2019-01-07
SDF troops capture ISIS stronghold east of Euphrates

Sun 2019-01-06
Turkey asks US for help in fighting ISIS in Syria

Sat 2019-01-05
Over 500 militants killed as infighting spreads in Syria: Report

Fri 2019-01-04
Niger troops kill more than 280 Boko Haram fighters this week: Government

Thu 2019-01-03
Turkey’s planned invasion impeded by new jihadist offensive in Aleppo

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