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Julian Assange: WikiLeaks Will Publish More Hildebeest emails
[Daily Caller] During a Sunday interview with ITV's Robert Peston, Julian Assange stated that WikiLeaks is preparing to release another massive dump of undisclosed emails Hillary Clinton sent through a private server during her tenure as secretary of state.

"We have upcoming leaks in relation to Hillary Clinton, which is great," Assange stated. "WikiLeaks has a very big year ahead."

Despite the growing mountain of evidence, Assange stated he doesn’t think Clinton will be indicted by the Obama administration.

"We could proceed to an indictment, but Loretta Lynch as the head of the DOJ in the United States, she’s not going to indict Hillary Clinton."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/15/2016 07:41 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hmm. I wonder where WL is getting them. Russia?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 06/15/2016 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I wouldn't be surprised if it was some disgruntled FBI agents that are watching their hard work go to waste and a criminal not even get a slap on the wrist.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/15/2016 10:18 Comments || Top||

#3  "Leak" implies a pipe, up in the ceiling or down under the floor. When a cesspool is involved, I believe the word is "breakout."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/15/2016 10:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Assange has even prepared a searchable database of her emails for journalistic ease....but all her emails to O seem to be missing so far.
Posted by: Thor Lumumba3940 || 06/15/2016 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  18 U.S.C. § 793 : US Code - Section 793: Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information -

(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer - Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
Posted by: OldSpook || 06/15/2016 13:27 Comments || Top||

#6  but all her emails to O seem to be missing so far

Flushed down the toilet next to the server?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/15/2016 14:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Faster, faster!
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/15/2016 22:15 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Rumor that Russia may publish Hillary Emails
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Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Talk about a reset. I can just imagine swillary's head going around and around like Linda Blair's while she screeches "Lies! All lies!!!"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/15/2016 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Rumor that Russia may publish Hillary Emails

Shrillary has put herself into a position where she can be blackmailed. Shrillary has put the US government into a position where policy can be influenced by the whim of a foreign government. Shrillary has given away intel that people may have died for, or may well die for in the future because we no longer have the element of secrecy.

Yeah, I'm good with that.
Posted by: gorb || 06/15/2016 3:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Shrillary has put herself into a position where she can be blackmailed.

The entire country is being blackmailed. I suspect Kerry, with purse in hand, will be visiting Moscow very soon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/15/2016 4:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Shrillary has put herself into a position where she can be blackmailed.

You cannot be blackmailed if you have no shame and, based on experience, no fear of consequences.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/15/2016 4:29 Comments || Top||

#5  A Kasparov move by the RU. Very predictable actually. There should only be one mob boss. Vlad is the undisputed boss.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/15/2016 4:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Hilly and O have created this mess. I certainly believe this shows how out of their depth they have been played. I believe the Chinese are just as aware of these Emails. So how would you play this game when you have the inside information. Looking back it seems this administration has failed at everything they've started internationally. Domestically they have been very effective attacking everything American. Perhaps; I would suggest, we have a mole or several placed in key positions to orchestrate things. Either that or shear pea brained idiocy. OR a little of this- courious
Posted by: Dale || 06/15/2016 5:18 Comments || Top||

#7  The fix seems to be in for Shrillary. In order to have some impact, how is Russia/Putin going bypass the MSM/Democrat firewall set up to protect Shrillary and reach the American voter? Interesting times we live in.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/15/2016 7:21 Comments || Top||

#8  since many of the email have been published, how would we know that Russia had hacked into the email file or whether they are just copying something that is public record

the only way to assure this is for Russia to publish something that hasn't been made public yet, like a part of an email for which the public version was redacted
Posted by: lord garth || 06/15/2016 7:45 Comments || Top||

#9  There was a report earlier this year about a Russian spy trial using Hillary's top secret emails. The opening paragraph explains it as well as anything: A Federal Security Services (FSB) report on the trial of Ukrainian spy Nadiya Savchenko says that beyond top secret emails belonging to Hillary Clinton must be allowed into the sentencing phase of the case in a Russian court, due to their critical relevance.
The purported crime occurred as early as 2014. Trial. Of course this could be propaganda/disinformation by the Rooskies.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/15/2016 8:14 Comments || Top||

#10  I believe the Chinese are just as aware of these Emails.

I believe the Swiss, the Zambians, the Esquimaux and the Ruritanians are just as aware of these emails...
Posted by: Steve White || 06/15/2016 8:56 Comments || Top||

#11  Well, I know that my wife's kindergarten class hasn't read them yet.........oh yeah, they can't read.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/15/2016 13:10 Comments || Top||

#12  oh yeah, they can't read

And in a public school, they'll never learn about them.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/15/2016 14:34 Comments || Top||

#13  Problem for the Donks is Vlad can make stuff up and pass them for 'real' emails and get away with it since Shillery and co. keep covering up.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/15/2016 17:31 Comments || Top||

#14  Vlad the kingmaker.

Does this mean Vlad prefers Trump rather than Hillary? Word has it that Vlad also stole Trump's op-reasearch file.
Posted by: Black John Smith || 06/15/2016 19:17 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
California's cap-and-trade program faces daunting hurdles to avoid collapse

The linchpin of California's climate change agenda, a program known as cap and trade, has become mired in legal, financial and political troubles that threaten to derail the state's plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

The program has been a symbol of the state's leadership in the fight against global warming and a key source of funding, most notably for the high-speed rail project connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles.
which has no feasible business plan and is violating every promise made to get voter approval
But the legality of cap and trade is being challenged in court by a business group, and questions are growing about whether state law allows it to operate past 2020. With the end of the legislative session in August, Gov. Jerry Brown, lawmakers and interest groups of all stripes are laying the groundwork for what could become a battle royal over the future of California's climate change programs.

Unless the state acts, "the whole system could fail," said Senate leader Kevin de LeĂłn (D-Los Angeles). "If that happens, we could lose an entire stream of revenue to make our communities more sustainable."

California received an unwelcome reminder of cap and trade's precarious situation last month.

The program functions by capping how much greenhouse gas can be emitted into the atmosphere and requiring companies to obtain permits, each allowing 1 metric ton of emissions. Those permits can be purchased at auctions or traded in a market, a system intended to provide a financial incentive for businesses such as power plants, oil refineries and manufacturers to reduce emissions.

By selling the permits, the state generates revenue that can be spent on other initiatives that reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, such as weatherizing homes and helping low-income residents buy cleaner cars. The bullet train is the biggest recipient, getting 25% of the cap-and-trade funds.

During the most recent auction in May, only 11% of the permits offered for sale were purchased.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/15/2016 10:56 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...we could lose an entire stream of revenue to make our communities more sustainable.

As always, it isn't about climate change, but the money and graft.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/15/2016 11:06 Comments || Top||

#2  The program has been a symbol of the state's leadership in the fight against global warming

Except that there's been no 'warming' for the past eighteen years.
Posted by: Raj || 06/15/2016 11:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Selling indulgences.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/15/2016 13:54 Comments || Top||

#4  also see this article from reuters by way of yahoo

apparently, in May 2016, the sales came in far, far below projectd
Posted by: lord garth || 06/15/2016 15:40 Comments || Top||

#5  POTHINUS [bitterly] Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?

CAESAR. My friend: taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
Posted by: james || 06/15/2016 22:39 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 ya must mean ATTILA THE HUN + OTHER in a past life.

NOSTRADAMUS' "HE OF MANY NAMES", THE SWORD OF BOTH GREAT GOOD AS WELL OF GREAT EVIL, "THE WITNESS TO THE BEGINNING + ALSO THE END/LAST", ETC. IN PAST, CURRENT, FUTURE, + ALTERNATE MAHA-RUSHIAN WORLD HISTOIRE'.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/15/2016 22:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Donald Trump says he would ban Afghan and Pakistani immigrants from US
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Following a deadly attack on a gay nightclub in Florida, the US Presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he would ban the immigrants colonists from Afghanistan, Pakistain, and Syria.

He was speaking a day after an ISIS sympathizer killed at least 50 people by attacking the night club in Florida.

Trump said he would use the executive authority of the presidency to temporarily ban the entry of foreign Moslems from countries "where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe, or our allies until we fully understand how to end these threats."

He also added that the immigration ban would would last until "we are in a position to properly screen these people coming into our country. They’re pouring in, and we don’t know what we’re doing."

According to Trump, the parents of the Florida gunman, Omar Mateen, 29, were born in Afghanistan while the parents of last year’s San Bernardino shooter, also an IS sympathizer, were from Pakistain while his wife and co-shooter was from 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...
Trump indicated that all of those countries -- which are allies of the United States -- would be subject to his proposed immigration ban.

"Immigration from Afghanistan into the United States has increased nearly five-fold in just one year. According to Pew Research, 99 percent of people in Afghanistan support oppressive Shari’a law," he added.

He said "We admit many more from other countries in the region who share these same oppressive views. If we want to remain a free and open society, then we have to control our borders."

Posted by: Fred || 06/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That should open some cab and quickie-mart jobs.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/15/2016 7:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Hold on here now. Trump's original proposal was a travel ban on ALL Muslims. What next...a call for enhanced border security instead of the Great Wall of Trump? Friggin Poesour.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 06/15/2016 9:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, DepotGuy. The primaries are over and Trump won. He kicked Bush's ass. He kicked Marco's butt and he did the same for Cruz and Kasich. He has roused his base. But now he's campaigning for the general election and apparently there are people in this country who are so inhibited by the cult of political correctness that Trump now feels the need to sound more "presidential". Anybody who knows anything understood all along that his proposals would have to be tempered by layers of lawyers and politicians. But he's the same guy and his policies will have the same effect, which we desperately need.

What? You want more Pakis and Afghans coming to America? More Syrians and Nigerians? More Yemenis and Somalis? You want more massacres? Didn't think so.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/15/2016 11:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Hold on here now. Trump's original proposal was a travel ban on ALL Muslims. What next...a call for enhanced border security instead of the Great Wall of Trump? Friggin Poesour.

I happen to think Trump is a despicable and untrustworthy major league slimeball. But he might overturn some of Obama's policies. The alternative is Hillary, whose victory would extend Obama's policies for a third term. He might be a scumbag, but he might be our scumbag.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 06/15/2016 11:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Hold on here now. Trump's original proposal was a travel ban on ALL Muslims. What next...a call for enhanced border security instead of the Great Wall of Trump? Friggin Poesour.

Think John Gotti vs Osama bin Laden. Not because Clinton is Osama bin Laden, but because she will probably let in enough Muslims for a thousand bin Laden to grow up on American soil.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 06/15/2016 11:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Geeze folks...don't get so defensive. I was just pointing out that Trump is full of shit and the people that bought into his most provocative proposals are a bunch simple rubes.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 06/15/2016 12:24 Comments || Top||

#7  He's also come out for more gun control.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/15/2016 12:24 Comments || Top||

#8  OK. I'm a rube. I want a wall. I wanted one even before Trump did. I do not believe I'm a racist just because I want to keep drugs and criminals out of my country. I want to keep Muslims out of my country. I said so before Trump did. That's because Islam is not compatible with Western Civilization and I happen to enjoy Western Civilization. Is Trump brash, arrogant, vulgar, loud and crude? Yeah. I wish he was as classy as Reagan. But I'll take what I can get.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/15/2016 12:39 Comments || Top||

#9  OK. I'm a rube. I want a wall. I wanted one even before Trump did. I do not believe I'm a racist just because I want to keep drugs and criminals out of my country. I want to keep Muslims out of my country. I said so before Trump did. That's because Islam is not compatible with Western Civilization and I happen to enjoy Western Civilization. Is Trump brash, arrogant, vulgar, loud and crude? Yeah. I wish he was as classy as Reagan. But I'll take what I can get.

I agree with Trump on most of the conservative things he's said. The problem is that he's also said a lot of liberal things. But the principal reason he was at the bottom of my list of GOP candidates was the fact he is a scumbag in his personal and business conduct, and this kind of stuff comes out in political campaigns. He is unelectable in the general. Most people are not political junkies (i.e. caucus/primary voters). It matters whether someone is a scumbag. The GOP is on the verge of being crushed in November because we nominated a scumbag to be our Presidential candidate. I suppose it's a cleansing process. Primary voters need to be reminded every so often that electability is important.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 06/15/2016 12:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Bigger scumbag than Hillary?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/15/2016 12:54 Comments || Top||

#11  Even if he was a bigger scumbag than Hillary (unsure - but it's close), at least the press and the rest of the political system would provide some opposition to his abuses. I do not see that as the case if Clinton is President. In any case it will be interesting to see who the candidates select for the VP slot - someone their worst/most violent enemies hate or fear more than them?
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/15/2016 12:59 Comments || Top||

#12  Bigger scumbag than Hillary?

Not even close. Trump operated csainos. This is essentially legal drug dealing - taking money from rubes and compulsive gamblers. It's legal, but definitely not ethical. Then there's the vtiamin scam and Trump U. Hillary is a liberal who cuts corners.

I've been following his antics since the 80's, and I've never thought he was a good person. I support Trump despite hating his guts because we have common goals (at least if he's being truthful about supporting conservative positions). However, I have no illusions about this sleazebag. He is who he is - the scum of the earth, as non-criminals go.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 06/15/2016 13:29 Comments || Top||

#13  Note that I see Trump as a scumbag, but my scumbag, because I follow politics closely. The average voter will just see a scumbag.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 06/15/2016 13:32 Comments || Top||

#14  Hillary is a liberal who cuts corners.

Just like Josef Stalin.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/15/2016 13:32 Comments || Top||

#15  The average voter will just see a scumbag

I believe what the average voter sees is "somebody who tells it as it is"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/15/2016 13:35 Comments || Top||

#16  Even if he was a bigger scumbag than Hillary (unsure - but it's close), at least the press and the rest of the political system would provide some opposition to his abuses. I do not see that as the case if Clinton is President. In any case it will be interesting to see who the candidates select for the VP slot - someone their worst/most violent enemies hate or fear more than them?

At this stage I don't give a damn if he abuses his power in favor of right wing interests. What I fear is that he'll do it for left wing interests (i.e. a gun ban, with Democrats in tow) or for his personal pecuniary interests, thereby tarnishing the GOP brand for decades. I was against Trump as the nominee because he's always struck me as being too self-interested. But now that he is, I'll hold my nose to vote for him. But the fact is that most people who are repelled by this man will just save themselves a half-hour wait at the local poll location and experience a frisson of self-satisfaction from the look on Trump's face as he gets shellacked at the polls. I know that'll be my consolation prize.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 06/15/2016 13:43 Comments || Top||

#17  The major problem with Trump is that he'll depress GOP and conservative turnout in a year that women voters will be out in force to put one of their own in the White House. The resulting blowout could make the Obama victory in 2008 look like a close election. If he doesn't do whatever it takes to get endorsements from GOP pols, he will be remembered as a modern-day Barry Goldwater, reborn as a sleazy, compulsive liar.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 06/15/2016 13:56 Comments || Top||

#18  People call Trump a lot of different names; Hitler, Nazi, jerk, scumbag, racist, etc., etc. I've heard it all. What I have not heard are the facts to back up these assertions.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/15/2016 14:26 Comments || Top||

#19  People call Trump a lot of different names; Hitler, Nazi, jerk, scumbag, racist, etc., etc. I've heard it all. What I have not heard are the facts to back up these assertions.

That's because you have to read long articles to get at those facts. Some people don't have the patience. To each his own.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 06/15/2016 14:29 Comments || Top||

#20  ZF, gives us an example?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/15/2016 14:40 Comments || Top||

#21  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-said-university-was-all-about-education-actually-its-goal-was-sell-sell-sell/2016/06/04/5b6545d0-2819-11e6-ae4a-3cdd5fe74204_story.html

I doubt you'll get much out of it. If you don't consider the fact that he's a csaino operator makes him sleazy (along with other GOP benefactors like Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson), then very little will change your mind. Not criminal - sleazy.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 06/15/2016 14:54 Comments || Top||

#22  So, you're just a Puritan, ZF?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/15/2016 14:57 Comments || Top||

#23  Sorry, but its silly to pretend that women will be coming out in droves to vote for Hillary--she's not liked by them in any more significant numbers than she is any other demographic. The (D) party voters will turn out because she has a (D) next to her name, but nobody seriously goes to sleep at night pretending that Hillary is a magical champion of women.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/15/2016 15:40 Comments || Top||

#24  Thanks for that link, ZF. I looked at it and, in typical WAPO/MSM style, it is long on verbiage and short on facts. Yes, yes, it quotes a lot of people saying a lot of bad things about Trump but the case is still in litigation and I'll wait for the final judgement. There is no doubt, of course, that the mainstream media is in a full court press about what a horrible scam the university was.
You have to dig a little deeper to find this:

Judge in Trump University Case Tied to Radical La Raza Organization

or this:

Earlier this month, a group of senators sent a letter to Inspector General Kathleen Tighe raising concerns that the Dept. of Education’s probe into its student loans servicer’s compliance with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) was riddled with problems.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/15/2016 16:19 Comments || Top||

#25  Most people will spend less than 90 seconds deciding whom to vote for. Most of those people have already decided.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/15/2016 16:21 Comments || Top||

#26  Re: 24

It doesn't matter that the Judge is a member of that legal organization, the article you provided even admits that "...Though the California organization is not officially affiliated with National Council of La Raza..."

There is a great explanation of why the judge isn't required to recuse himself at this link:

Posted by: Crusader || 06/15/2016 16:30 Comments || Top||

#27  This link: https://popehat.com/2016/06/06/lawsplainer-when-must-federal-judges-recuse-themselves-anyway/
Posted by: Crusader || 06/15/2016 16:31 Comments || Top||

#28  The judge may not be legally required to recuse himself but if you look into La Raza the decision to appoint him to the bench in the first place appears sketchy. IIRC it was Obama who appointed the guy.

And then there is this:

Law Firm Behind Trump University Lawsuit Gave Big Money to the Clintons.

You put two and two together and it begins to look like a setup ala Michele Fields. Funny timing too...just before the election. Hmmmm.

Now, let's not get into the subject of Bill Clinton taking kickbacks from another scam university. I don't have time this afternoon.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/15/2016 17:53 Comments || Top||

#29  "... it begins to look like a setup ala Michele Fields..."

Trump botched the handling of Fields. It doesn't matter whether it was or wasn't a "flop" on her part. Your team says "Sorry, Miss" and everybody moves on. Instead he took unnecessary heat for nothing.

Between "conservatives" pretending they might vote Hillary and "conservatives" bringing up *badly* handled incidents from MONTHS ago, Trump certainly has his work cut out for him.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/15/2016 22:04 Comments || Top||

#30  I keep telling you the republic is long over. It's an oligarchy. You pick which SOB is going to be your patron or just roll over and die at the hands of the other faction, speed is variable but the end is inevitable if you just wash your hands of it all.
You got this because the 'opposition' really isn't and hasn't been for a while. The 'opposition' brought this on itself and us because it was deaf and already bought.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/15/2016 22:22 Comments || Top||

#31  Google Laureate International Universities (Formerly Sylvan Learning Centers) and Bill Clinton Foundation. Clinton got $16.5 million for some BS honorary chancellor's job. About the time Bill got appointed, Hillary as SoS made Laureate part of her Global Partnership in the DoS. Check Swhweizer's Clinton Cash--Chapter 7. The Clinton Foundation has done very little charitable work. Bill, Hillary and Chelsey seems to have benefitted the most in what seems to be a series of quid pro Quo relationship with other countries and individuals. Much of it is hard to prove but then again legal authorities have not taken a hard look. The Clinton Foundation is probably as big a scandal as Hillary's emails--probably the two are entwined. It will be interesting to see if the FBI comes up with anything. If one starts to look at all the left wing organizations and individuals and the Clintons and it is like a frigging octopus--lots of connecting tentacles.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/15/2016 22:24 Comments || Top||



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  Man ‘claiming IS allegiance’ kills cop, woman in Paris
Mon 2016-06-13
  Orlando Terrorist Worked For Firm with DHS Contracts
Sun 2016-06-12
  Approx 20 50 dead inside Florida gay nightclub after mass shooting - possible Islamic connection
Sat 2016-06-11
  Libya unity forces bombard ISIS in bastion Sirte
Fri 2016-06-10
  Rumour: Iraqi news site indicates IS supremo may have been hit by coalition force strike
Thu 2016-06-09
  Daesh blows up ancient monuments in Iraq
Wed 2016-06-08
  Five dead, eleven maimed in Karbala kaboom
Tue 2016-06-07
  US-backed Syria force closes in on Manbij
Mon 2016-06-06
  Attack on Logar Appellate Court leaves 7 dead, over 20 wounded
Sun 2016-06-05
  Iraqi forces say they have secured southern edge of Falluja
Sat 2016-06-04
  Syrian army opens new front against ISIS, edges towards Raqqa province
Fri 2016-06-03
  48 militants killed, 36 wounded in Paktika airstrikes
Thu 2016-06-02
  Air Strikes in North Syria Kill at Least 42 Civilians
Wed 2016-06-01
  Taliban kill 17 passengers after kidnapping around 185 in Kunduz


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