The UN Security Council failed to agree Tuesday on a statement condemning North Korea's launch of a missile that landed near Japan after China sought to include language opposing the US missile defense system in South Korea.
The United States had circulated a draft statement that strongly condemned the August 2 launch and expressed particular concern that the ballistic missile landed near Japan.
China proposed adding that "all relevant parties shall avoid taking any actions which could provoke each other and escalate tensions, and shall not deploy any new anti-ballistic missile stronghold in Northeast Asia with an excuse of dealing with threats of the DPRK nuclear and missile programs," according to a draft obtained by AFP.
US Ambassador Samantha Power called for a "strong, swift response from the Security Council" following an emergency meeting last week to discuss the latest missile test.
Power had said that the US agreement with South Korea to deploy the THAAD missile defense system was "purely defensive" and in response to North Korea's drive to refine its capabilities.
China, Pyongyang's closest ally, had sought to delete from the text a sentence expressing concern that the missile "impacted near Japan."
Diplomats said negotiations on the council statement, which must be agreed by consensus, had reached a dead end.
It was the second time in two months that the council has been unable to agree on condemnation of North Korea, due to objections from China.
This 56 page pdf document entitled From Russia with Money" " Hillary Clinton, the Russian Reset and Cronyism" from the Government Accountability Institute. Very detailed with verifiable references and footnotes. Probably a bit too much for FBI Director Comey to read and comprehend.
EXSUM: A major technology transfer component of the Russian reset overseen by Hillary Clinton substantially enhanced the Russian military's technological capabilities, according to both the FBI and the U.S. Army.
• Russian government officials and American corporations participated in the technology transfer project overseen by Hillary Clinton's State Department that funnelled tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton
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• A Putin-connected Russian government fund transferred $35 million to a small company with Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta on its executive board, which included senior Russian officials.
• John Podesta failed to reveal, as required by law on his federal financial disclosures, his membership on the board of this offshore company.
• Podesta also headed up a think tank which wrote favorably about the Russian reset while apparently receiving millions from Kremlin-linked Russian oligarchs via an offshore LLC.
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This more corrupt than my devious little mind could even IMAGINE.
This stuff gets people put in jail, normally, there has to be an epic stink about this eventually...hopefully Donald can clean all of the Clinton operatives out of DOJ and get this mess prosecuted.
Seriously you little shits, we need to deport your privileged asses to the deep heart of ISIS held territory. You can be with "non-whites" to your heart's content.
Worthless racist fucks. They would make the planet a much better place as plant food.
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I wasn't particularly fond of my first college roommate, but we got along. Part of the college experience, I'd say.
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Don't hire these snowflakes. They'll spend more time complaining in HR than doing productive work
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Segregation, what an idea. Why didn't someone think of it before as a way to keep fractious people apart? Oh wait, we tried that and they thought it was racist! Odd how now it isn't when they do it.
[NYT] WASHINGTON -- A new batch of State Department emails released Tuesday showed the close and sometimes overlapping interests between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.
The documents raised new questions about whether the charitable foundation worked to reward its donors with access and influence at the State Department, a charge that Mrs. Clinton has faced in the past and has always denied.
In one email exchange, for instance, an executive at the Clinton Foundation in 2009 sought to put a billionaire donor in touch with the United States ambassador to Lebanon because of the donor’s interests there.
In another email, the foundation appeared to push aides to Mrs. Clinton to help find a job for a foundation associate. Her aides indicated that the department was working on the request.
Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, which has been shadowed for 17 months by the controversy over the private email server she used exclusively while at the State Department, said that the emails released Tuesday had no bearing on the foundation’s work.
The State Department turned the new emails over to a conservative advocacy group, Judicial Watch, as part of a lawsuit that the group brought under the Freedom of Information Act.
The documents included 44 emails that were not among some 55,000 pages of emails that Mrs. Clinton had previously given to the State Department, which she said represented all her "work-related" emails. The document release centers on discussions between Mrs. Clinton’s aides and Clinton Foundation executives about a number of donors and associates with interests before the State Department.
Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, charged that Mrs. Clinton "hid" the documents from the public because they appeared to contradict her official pledge in 2009 to remove herself from Clinton Foundation business while leading the State Department.
[WAPO] Michael Lucas, 61, was sitting on his front stoop in Chicago’s Burnside neighborhood, watching his 3-year-old great-nephew play in the afternoon sun, when without warning two men ran toward the house and opened fire on him.
One shot struck Lucas. As the men advanced up the sidewalk, they pushed Lucas’s great-nephew out of the way and shot Lucas three more times, family members said. The attackers fled in a red SUV, and Lucas died on the stoop from gunshot wounds to the neck and head.
Lucas was one of 19 people shot on Monday -- nine of them fatally -- in what the Chicago Tribune has called the city’s deadliest day in more than a decade.
Chicago has experienced a surge in violence in the past year, much of it concentrated on the city’s South Side, where Lucas lived. A staggering 2,500 people have been shot in the city since the beginning of the year, more than in any year at this point since the 1990s. There have been at least 426 homicides in 2016, far more than in New York, which has three times Chicago’s population.
Monday marked the most homicides Chicago has seen in a single day since July 5, 2003, when 10 people were killed, according to the Tribune.
[The Mail] Wikileaks is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the death of a Democratic National Committee staffer, reigniting rumors he fed the organization thousands of party emails.
Seth Conrad Rich, 27, was gunned down in the affluent Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington D.C. last month while he was on the phone to his girlfriend.
Wikileaks' announcement Tuesday has added fuel to the flames of conspiracy theories claiming Rich leaked the 20,000 DNC emails that were released at the start of the party's convention.
Rich's body was found covered in bruises on the 2100 block of Flagler Place NW, but he still had his watch, cell phone and wallet on him. So far, police have uncovered no clues to help solve his murder despite offering a $25,000 reward.
D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier said previously that Rich may have been killed in an attempted robbery, but his family insist nothing was taken from him. The trail seems to have gone cold following his death on July 10.
A police report seen by DailyMail.com also states the circumstances surrounding Rich's homicide are 'unknown'. The mystery has sparked a flurry of theories posted online, including claims he leaked DNC emails or that he was on his way to speak to the FBI when he was shot.
Reddit user The_Donald also constructed a timeline that links Rich to the Clintons, as pointed out by Heat Street.
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Folks, walking while talking on your cell phone is just about as dangerous as driving while texting...even more so if you've been too close to the Clintons.
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Already seen some counters on this, that Seth Rich was "A low level staffer involved in voter registration" and "Was shot by muggers who fled when they saw he was on cell-phone with girlfriend".
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"Was shot by muggers who fled when they saw he was on cell-phone with girlfriend"
Who happened to have their cell phones turned off, I'm sure.
[Wash Times] WikiLeaks announced Tuesday it will provide a $20,000 reward for information that helps police solve the fatal shooting of a 27-year-old D.C. man who worked for the Democratic National Committee.
In an announcement made on Twitter, the organization known for publishing secret information offered the reward in exchange for information leading to the conviction of the person who killed Seth Conrad Rich.
Rich was fatally shot in the early morning hours of July 10 while walking to his Bloomingdale apartment in Northwest D.C.
Metropolitan Police Department officials said Rich was shot multiple times and while investigators have not established a motive in the case, they were looking into the possibility that his death could have been related to several recent robberies in the area.
"We are looking into some robberies that have occurred in that area and we will match the lookouts to see if that has anything to do with this murder," acting Capt. Anthony Haythe said at a press conference the day after Rich’s death.
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“We treat threats toward any suspected source of WikiLeaks with extreme gravity. This should not be taken to imply that Seth Rich was a source to WikiLeaks or to imply that his murder is connected to our publications,” the statement said.
Also the leaking has continued since July 10, so look for more. Bill's veiled purge threat. That disrupter at Grandma Hilly's event better watch out or some stairs will make him fall up three stories and fall out of the window.
[Reuters] Vietnam has discreetly fortified several of its islands in the disputed South China Sea with new mobile rocket launchers capable of striking China's runways and military installations across the vital trade route, according to Western officials.
Diplomats and military officers told Reuters that intelligence shows Hanoi has shipped the launchers from the Vietnamese mainland into position on five bases in the Spratly islands in recent months, a move likely to raise tensions with Beijing.
The launchers have been hidden from aerial surveillance and they have yet to be armed, but could be made operational with rocket artillery rounds within two or three days, according to the three sources.
Vietnam's Foreign Ministry said the information was "inaccurate", without elaborating.
Deputy Defence Minister, Senior Lieutenant-General Nguyen Chi Vinh, told Reuters in Singapore in June that Hanoi had no such launchers or weapons ready in the Spratlys but reserved the right to take any such measures.
"It is within our legitimate right to self-defense to move any of our weapons to any area at any time within our sovereign territory," he said.
The move is designed to counter China's build-up on its seven reclaimed islands in the Spratlys archipelago. Vietnam's military strategists fear the building runways, radars and other military installations on those holdings have left Vietnam's southern and island defenses increasingly vulnerable.
Military analysts say it is the most significant defensive move Vietnam has made on its holdings in the South China Sea in decades.
Mahdi Army proxies, no doubt...
A number of refugees who recently returned from Iran claim that Iranian officials are sending Afghan refugees to Syria to fight for Bashar Assad's regime.
The return refugees also said Iran's intelligence ministry promise Afghans money and permanent residency in exchange for them going to Syria to fight.
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"... Iran's intelligence ministry promise Afghans money and permanent residency in exchange for them going to Syria to fight...there are hundreds of unclaimed bodies of Afghans lying in Tehran's mortuary. They said these are the bodies of men who died fighting in Syria..."
so Iran has kept its promise
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Well, Afghans do like to fight, and Iran is willing to pay 'em from the (US taxpayer-provided) money they got from the White House.
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The brute force way to fix the Afghan imbalance between adult males and available jobs... But at least they are fighting far away, instead of at home.
Late last month, the Communist Party USA issued an editorial in which it said in no uncertain terms that party activists need to unite behind Hillary Clinton, perhaps the most evil person ever nominated for the White House by a major party. Moreover, the so-called "mainstream media," also known as the Clinton Propaganda Machine, has been completely silent about it:
Do not underestimate Trump and the Republicans. While the establishment GOP was surprised by the successful insurgency of so-called outsider Trump, they are united in purpose: delivering more inequality, more misery, more instability and violence against working-class people of all races, genders, religions and sexual orientations. They are united with giant corporations and the billionaire class in their drive to lower wages and living conditions and increase their profits and power.
With Senator Bernie Sanders endorsing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the message was loud and clear, "We’re stronger together." That is what it will take to win in November.
"Winning in a landslide" is needed now more than ever, and that landslide for Clinton could swing control of the Senate to Democrats, and other potential positive effects could be felt on the "down ballot" congressional and state races," the editorial adds. "Many things could happen between now and November. Don't count out the American people in seeing with new eyes, what is at stake in November, which is just about everything."
In short, the Communist Party just endorsed the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. And nary a word was uttered in the Democrat-media complex. Wonder why?
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Coveted Communist Party USA Endorsement? Thought the new Democrat Party was the Communist Party and an endorsements are just part of the bona fides for POTUS; kind of like being endorsed by jihadists/radical Islamists.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] German police arrested a 24-year-old Syrian refugee last Friday after receiving a tip that the man was planning a possible Islamic-motivated attack, state officials in North-Rhine Westphalia said on Tuesday.
"Investigations conducted thus far have found no evidence of a concrete threat," the state's interior ministry said in a statement.
The man, who was arrested in the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate, remains in police custody, according to the statement.
A German special police unit has detained an allegedly high-ranking member of 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.... group in the southwestern town of Mutterstadt. The state interior ministry of Rhineland Palatinate, where Mutterstadt is located, could not immediately be reached for comment.
The German news agency dpa reported Tuesday that the man, whose identity was not given, was detained after a tip from a prison inmate in the western city of Gelsenkirchen. Dpa reported the information about the suspect came in connection with alleged threats against the German Bundesliga soccer league. It did not further elaborate the threat.
[Ynet] The arrest in Bulgaria of a French citizen with ties to the attack on the Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... satirical newspaper in Gay Paree followed a tip from his sister, new details showed Tuesday. The arrest warrant issued by a French court for Mourad Hamyd was based on his sister Khadija's report to police that her brother had boarded a train via Hungary and Serbia to Bulgaria, even though he had told her he would travel to Morocco.
"This route corresponds with the route that is usually chosen by the jihadist volunteers that want to join the Islamic State group in Syria or Iraq," said the arrest warrant, which was made available to the AP Tuesday.
[Ynet] A French court has given a convert to Islam the maximum two-year jail term for repeatedly visiting myrmidon websites that incite people to commit attacks and show beheading videos. His lawyer said Tuesday that the court in Chartres, south-west of Gay Paree, set a sentence was double what the prosecutor recommended a day earlier. Yannick Loichot, 31, acknowledged he visited dozens of Islamist websites but claimed he did it just "out of curiosity," his lawyer Gregory Martin-Dit-Neuville said in a phone interview. He won't file appeal.
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RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif chaired a high-level security meeting, following the bombing at Quetta Civil Hospital, and ordered the intelligence agencies to initiate special combing operations to target those involved in terror attacks, said a tweet by military's spokesperson.
The army chief chaired the meeting, with the Balochistan chief minister, provincial chief secretary and commander Southern Command in attendance. More at the link
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special combing operations
"Put Agent Kookie on the job"
[NPR.ORG] Israel indicted an employee of the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Development Programme on Tuesday, alleging that he helped the holy warrior group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
This news comes just days after Israel accused a World Vision employee of funneling millions to Hamas, which controls the Gazoo Strip.
Haaretz reports:
"According to the Shin Bet statement published Tuesday, Wahid Burish, a 38-year-old from the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gazoo, was locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! last month for different activities the agency describes as being supportive of Hamas. ...
"The Shin Bet claims that in 2014 Burish was instructed by Hamas to apply for an engineer position at the UN Development Program in charge of renovating houses damaged during conflict with Israel.
"According to the Shin Bet, Burish abused his power to help Hamas, either by renovating their houses or informing them of such renovations when they held benefit for the group. For example, he allegedly informed Hamas that armaments or tunnel entrances were found in homes under the UNDP's authority so that the group could commandeer the site, in clear contradiction of the UN organization's mandate. The Shin Bet also accuses Burish of creating a makeshift dry dock in Gazoo for Hamas using UN resources."
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports that the UNDP issued a statement saying the agency was "conducting a thorough internal review of the processes and circumstances surrounding the allegation."
During his interrogation, Borsh also gave Israeli security officers information on other employees of international aid organizations with ties to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, along with the locations of "tunnels and military bases which he had been exposed to during his work in Gazoo."
More arrests to come? Not all warfare uses kinetic weapons...
The indictment came on the heels of two other cases of Hamas operatives allegedly infiltrating international aid organizations.
On Thursday, the Shin Bet claimed that Muhammad Halabi, the manager of the World Vision charity’s operations in Gazoo, had funneled millions of dollars to Hamas over the years. And on Monday, the Britannia-based Save the Children organization said it would begin investigating allegations made by Israel that one of its employees had been recruited by Hamas.
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A further 1,500 judges and prosecutors were planned to be suspended over suspected links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization/Parallel State Structure (FETÖ/PDY), believed to be behind the July 15 failed coup attempt.
The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) was preparing a decree to hand out a second wave of suspensions over the failed takeover, daily Habertürk reported on Aug. 9.
Hundreds of judges and prosecutors were suspended after the coup attempt. The HSYK General Assembly initially ended the membership of five members in accordance with the detention decisions of the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. Some 3,000 prosecutors and judges were suspended, which was followed by 64 suspensions from the Constitutional Court, while two members were dismissed.
The HSYK will suspend a further 1,500 judges and prosecutors with a decree that has been kept secret and worked on confidentially, according to the daily. The suspended personnel with links to FETÖ will also be dismissed, which will be determined via a disciplinary procedure.
In addition, special preparations were being made in prisons where FETÖ members were due to serve time in Ankara and Istanbul.
In a similar incident, a total of 2,560 personnel were suspended from the Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) over suspected links to U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, bringing the number of suspensions from Diyanet to 3,672 since the failed takeover.
[Ynet] Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Tuesday 16,000 people have been formally locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! and remanded in jug in connection with last month's failed coup attempt, while another 6,000 detainees were still being processed.
Another 7,668 people were under investigation but were not currently detained, he said in an interview with state-run Anadolu Agency, broadcast live on Turkish television channels.
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What a bunch of bullshit...Gulen and Erdogan are fingers of the same hand...The real target are Kemalists, or non-muslim secularists...the whole fake "coup" was a set up by Erdogan to get rid of non-muslims and to install his version of ISIS-Daesh(that he installed in Syria and Iraq),,,Then his invasion of Europe start...Germany, he already control at will...
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Gulen and Erdogan are fingers of the same hand...
It looks like President Erdogan has decided it's time for the Bolsheviks to clear the Mensheviks from the board, Vernal Panda5274... and the Trotskyites, too.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A local source in Mosul city informed on Monday that ISIS executed those members, who tried to escape the ongoing battles in Khalidiya Island.
Sharing details the source said, “The outfit executed eight of its fighters who tried to flee the ongoing battles from Khalidiya Island. Later, the ISIS Islamic court sentenced their execution.”
“Most of the executed members were Arab and other foreign nationals. The execution occurred in front a group of Mosul denizens,” further added the source seeking anonymity.
[ARA News] MANBIJ – Radical group of the Islamic State (ISIS) is holding hundreds of civilians hostage in a Syrian town north of Aleppo province, where heavy fighting continued Tuesday between the group and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Omar al-Masri, a fighter with the Shams al-Shamal (Northern Sun) Battalions –a rebel group fighting alongside the US-backed SDF– said that their forces have liberated most of Manbij city north of Aleppo from ISIS militants.
“ISIS only holds 3% of the city now, but the group has taken civilians as hostage,” Masri told ARA News in central Manbij.
He said it’s difficult to attack the group’s final position in the city. “After securing the civilian people, we will take all of Manbij within hours,” he said.
Masri pointed out that his family member has been captured by ISIS, and that ISIS threatened to kill her if the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) come closer.
“We will take our town, we promised this to Abu Layla [former rebel leader in Manbij killed by ISIS]. We have taken the security square,” he added.
Estimates suggest that there are still approximately 1,000 civilians left in the last remaining ISIS-held pockets in the city. The huge presence of civilians makes it more difficult for coalition jets to hit ISIS positions.
The ARA News reporter didn’t hear any airstrike on Tuesday.
Furthermore, ISIS is using civilians as human shields and does not allow them to leave. “My brother died after an ISIS sniper shot him in the neck, he was like a flower,” a young girl told ARA News.
“ISIS militants are barbarians, I saw with my own eyes how a baby died, and dogs ate his body. Those are not human,” another child said.
“They used to kill people and tie them in the square and told us to come and record it on video,” another girl said.
The number of ISIS fighters in the city is still limited. But most likely most of them are snipers, SDF fighters say.
“There are only maybe 100 Daesh [ISIS] militants left in the city, together with their families,” al-Masri said.
An eyewitness said that some of ISIS fighters have escaped to Jarabulus.
Omar al Masri showed ARA News around the former headquarters of the Hisba police force inside Manbij market, where there were still many documents of ISIS morality police.
Still chains of ISIS were lying on the ground. “This was used to torture people,” he said.
Moreover, hundreds of civilians escaped on Tuesday, but several of them died due to ISIS snipers and mines.
One baby which was only a few months old died when his family tried to escape ISIS-held district in Manbij.
“They tried to get out, and we finished ISIS, but a child got killed by a mine,” Masri said. “eyewitnesses tell us that they [ISIS] put civilians in the frontline, and snipers use civilians as human shields,” he added.
SDF fighters say they are using explosives to clear out roads from mines.
Nevertheless, civilians still get killed.
“War is dirty,” said heval Sipan, a local SDF commander. “It’s all about interests and money. But the morale of ISIS is broken, they cannot resist anymore,” he told ARA News.
“The Manbij operation is almost finished. Hopefully it’s over soon,” he added.
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[THEWIRE.IN] On the day that Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke his silence on Kashmire and the government agreed to a discussion in the Rajya Sabha, Indian foreign secretary S. Jaishankar has increased bilateral tension by summoning Abdul Basit, the Pakistain high commissioner over a Pak operative of Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... who was tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in Kashmire.
The demarche issued by India stated that 21-year-old Bahadur Ali, a resident of village Jia Bagga, was arrested on July 25 "together with weapons (AK-47 rifle, live rounds, grenades, grenade launcher, etc.) and also sophisticated communication equipment and other material of Pak/international origin".
"Bahadur Ali has confessed to our authorities that after training in Lashkar-e-Taiba camps, he was infiltrated into India. He was thereafter in touch with an ’operations room’ of LeT, receiving instructions to attack Indian security personnel and carry out other terrorist attacks in India," it said.
India "strong[ly] protests against the continued infiltration from Pakistain of trained Lions of Islam with instructions to carry out attacks", which is "contrary to assurances given by the Pak leaders at the highest level", Jaishankar conveyed to Basit.
The demarche also included a letter addressed by Bahadur Ali to the Pakistain high commissioner asking for legal aid as well as assistance to enable him to meet his family.
"We are prepared to grant the Pakistain High Commission consular access to Bahadur Ali," India added.
Last month on July 11, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhary, Pakistain’s foreign secretary summoned the Indian envoy Gautam Bambawale to express "serious concerns over the recent killings of Kashmiri leader Burhan Wani and many other civilians in Kashmire by the Indian military and paramilitary forces." India "rejected" Pakistain’s demarche.
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Are you blind, man? Whaddabout the person on the right? The person on the right is over the net and past the line separating the two contestants! Shirley, that's a foul!
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I'll have to say, I think the foul is on the left.
Cairo- The media bureau of the Operation of “Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous” announced that the forces took over a neighborhood in Sirte and liberated hospitality palaces, previously occupied by ISIS. The bureau said this advancement took place after the government forces had targeted ISIS snipers.
The Libyan National Army in eastern Libya said that the forces are carrying out almost daily operations against extremist groups in Benghazi. The forces accepted to let residents flee the conflict zones, but extremists refused.
“We gave several chances to families and elderlies to escape but ISIS hurdled these pursuits”, Ahmed al-Mesmari, the spokesman for Haftar’s forces, told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.
The American envoy to Libya, Jonathan Winer, expressed his concern over oil fields after news spread on the possibility of the outbreak of war between those fighting to get their hands on them. Winer tweeted that Libyan parties must resort to dialogue and avoid any threats to oil sector and the fragile Libyan economy.
Winer statements coincide with British Ambassador to Libya Peter Millett declaring his country “is willing to assist Libya technically and professionally in the fields of oil and gas production to boost Libyan production and economy.”
National Oil Corporation in Tripoli also seemed worried, in a statement issued on Sunday, over possible conflict between Libyan National Army and Petroleum Facilities Guards (PFG) at Zwetina oil port. The statement called on both opponents to avoid more destruction to the country’s infrastructure.
Mustafa Sanalla, chairman of the National Oil Corporation in Tripoli, called on both PFG and Libyan National Army to refrain from any military action that could damage the facilities at the oil terminal at Zwetina.
The Misratan-led Bunyan Marsous operation against the so-called Islamic State (IS) says the Ouagadougou Centre in Sirte and the Ibn Sina Hospital are now almost within its grasp following yesterday’s capture of the nearby government hospitality buildings. Heavy fighting, however, was reported today in central Sirte’a Shabiya district next to the hospitality buildings, with IS snipers still highly active. One source in the town described the fighting as a “street war” which was going very slowly.
Shabiya district is just north of Ougadougou Centre which, with its network of underground facilities on more than one level, remains the main base for IS operations in the town.
Although Bunyan Marsous continues to say almost nothing about US air strikes, they are seen as the main reason for its advance against IS. The US Africa Command – Africom – said yesterday that it had carried out 20 airstrikes on IS positions since its Operation Odyssey Lightening began on 1 August. On Saturday, it said it hit four IS positions and five on Sunday, including three supply trucks and two rocket launchers. The strikes, it noted, were at the request of “and in coordination with” the Government of National Accord (GNA).
Bunyan Marsous has also stopped giving casualty figures. However, according to Misrata Central Hospital, four soldiers were killed yesterday. A further 47 were reported wounded.
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Via the GWPF: Recent research by Professor Valentina Zharkova (Northumbria University) and colleagues has shed new light on the inner workings of the Sun. If correct, this new discovery means that future solar cycles and variations in the Sun’s activity can be predicted more accurately.
The research suggests that the next three solar cycles will see solar activity reduce significantly into the middle of the century, producing conditions similar to those last seen in the 1600s - during the Maunder Minimum. This may have implications for temperatures here on Earth. Future solar cycles will serve as a test of the astrophysicists' work, but some climate scientists have not welcomed the research and even tried to suppress the new findings. Crap! Just bought a lifetime supply of "Speedos!"
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So, if weather and temperatures are largely dependent upon solar cycles, then man-made temperature effects on the climate are spurious--and carbon taxes are a left-wing scam to make off with hard-earned tax money from citizens.? OhMyGawd (sarc)!
[THEDIPLOMAT] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... ’s oppressive response to July’s failed coup attempt ‐ in which he sacked thousands of government officials and journalists in a sweeping purge ‐ threatens to drive the nominally secular Turkish state further down the path of Islamist totalitarianism. To observers of international affairs, the path is reminiscent of the one traversed almost 40 years ago by another key U.S. ally and strategic partner in the war against terror: Pakistain.
Striking similarities are revealing themselves between the growing authoritarian behavior ‐ bordering on paranoia ‐ of Erdogan and Pakistain’s military dictator General Zia ul Haq
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[Reuters] The Baltimore Police Department has routinely violated the constitutional rights of residents, according to a U.S. Justice Department investigation stemming from the death of black detainee Freddie Gray last year.
The Justice Department probe, which will be officially released at a news conference in Baltimore on Wednesday morning, was launched shortly after Gray's death in April 2015.
Police had arrested Gray, 25, for fleeing unprovoked in a high-crime area. He suffered a neck injury in a police wagon while shackled and handcuffed, and died a week later.
The incident triggered rioting and protests in Baltimore, a majority-black city of about 620,000 people. It fueled a national debate on police tactics and stoked the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Justice Department's 163-page report found that the Baltimore Police Department has routinely made unconstitutional stops, searches and arrests, and these illegal practices have disproportionately affected the city's black residents.
Police have also engaged in a pattern of using excessive force and retaliated against people engaging in constitutionally protected expression, the investigation found.
"This pattern or practice is driven by systemic deficiencies in BPD's policies, training, supervision, and accountability structures that fail to equip officers with the tools they need to police effectively and within the bounds of the federal law," the report said.
A spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Six officers were charged in Gray's death, but four trials ended without a conviction. Prosecutors dropped the remaining charges last month. Nothing at all to do with acquittals and dropped charges of the officers involved in the Freddie Gray case, nothing at all. Why do you ask ?
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I would love to see the same DoJ "investigators" that "probed" the Baltimore Police Department patrol downtown Balt'more on a Saturday night. They would wet their panties. Hypocrites.
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How about Boston? Manchester, NH? Seems rather selective that Baltimore's so close to the centralized power structure, which means these guys may have a point.
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You mean the DOJ really cares about citizen rights and the Constitution. After watching WJC and Lynch's meeting and after watching Comey build the case against Hillary and then pull out at the last minute, I've got serious doubts.
[Gateway Pundit] The Republican elites announced their latest candidate to take out record-setting Republican nominee Donald Trump in the general election.
Evan McCullin, a former GOP staffer who no one has ever heard of, is the latest #NeverTrump candidate for president to take out Donald Trump.
Several media outlets promoted McMullin’s campaign this week.
Journalist Megyn Kelly invited McCullin on her show last night to promote his campaign.
Too bad these elites didn’t check his resume before they started promoting him. Here’s Evan Mcmullen’s Linkedin biography. He says he started working for the CIA in 1999.
Remember. Bill Kristol et al. know everything about what constitutes real conservatism. Everything! This careful vetting proves it. If you don't believe it, they will drum you out of their little club!!
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As the war continues in Helmand, Afghan and U.S forces have intensified their air raids against Taliban in parts of Helmand – including Nad Ali district.
TOLOnews' Wali Arian reporting from the first line of the battle said commando forces took control of Chah Anjir Bazaar in Nad Ali on Monday night, but parts of Nawa district, one of the most secure parts of Helmand, had fallen to the Taliban without a fight.
Basir Andarabi, an army commander in Helmand, said mines placed by Taliban and the use of civilian houses and gardens as shields has made the war challenging for the Afghan commando forces.
"We retook complete control of areas that had fallen and we placed army troops there. We specified the areas that they should maintain," Andarabi said.
The operation was supported by air strikes of Afghan and foreign forces.
"When we entered the area we were under siege. Enemy was all around us. We eliminated eight of them. The air support was very effective for our operation," said Jamshed, an army commando. Video report at the link
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Powerful Islam Army group killed at least 28 regime troops in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus on Tuesday, the group's social media pages said on Tuesday, posting photos for the deaths.
Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... has launched two attacks on regime strongholds in Marj al-Sultan town, a battleground town that witnessed fierce fighting in the recent months.
Photos and footage posted by Islam army and have been circulated by activists showed bodies of the regime soldiers and allied militiamen.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Hezbollah carried out their first drone bombing over the southern Aleppo countryside on Tuesday, targeting Jaish Al-Fateh’s (Army of Conquest) positions at the village of Khalsah.
This drone bombing in southern Aleppo gives a glimpse into Hezbollah’s military capabilities and technological developments.
While not much damage was done to their intended target; these drone bombings will likely be used to harass enemy combatants.
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" In early 2016 reports began coming out of Syria that Israeli UAVs were operating from government bases there. Israel denied that it had sold UAVs to the Assad government and it was soon revealed that these Israeli Searcher 2 UAVs were indeed operating from Syrian military bases but the UAVs were Russian made, under license.
"In March 2014 Russia began licensed production of the Israeli Searcher 2 UAV. ...
" Many of the components were imported from Israel for assembly in Russia. That was revealed in 2015 when Ukrainian forces shot down some Searchers and got to examine the wreckage. There they found Israeli and Russian components.
"Searcher is also used by India, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and Turkey.
"...Israeli Patriot batteries have had more combat experience than anyone else but have shot down more ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and UAVs than manned aircraft. Israel has six Patriot batteries, enough to cover all 1,280 kilometers of land and coastal borders. Patriot is not infallible. Recently Israel admitted that two PAC-2 anti-aircraft missiles missed when fired at a UAV coming out of Syria. An F-16 firing an air-to-air missile missed as well. The Israelis are still trying to figure that out...."
[LONGWARJOURNAL.ORG] A senior Afghan military officer has claimed his forces killed Hafiz Saeed Khan, the emir for the Islamic State’s Khorasan province, during an ongoing military operation in the eastern province of Nangarhar. However, Khan’s death has not been confirmed by the Islamic State.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Sources in the Iraqi Police informed that three persons were killed or and six others injured in a bomb explosion that took place near a popular market at al-Aamel in Baghdad.
Sharing details about the incident Police Major Ali Hussein said, “In a bomb explosion today near a popular market in al-Aamel neighborhood in Baghdad, killed three persons and injured six others.”
“Security forces rushed to the area and carried the injured to a nearby hospital. The forces later cordoned of the area,” Hussein added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior informed that a bomb blast southwest of Baghdad killed one person and injured seven others.
Sharing details the source said, “This evening, a bomb exploded near a car showroom in al-Bayaa area, southwest of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding seven others.”
The source added, “Security forces rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the dead body to the forensic department.”
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] At least 42 regime army troops were killed by 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.... in the eastern countryside of Homs during the past three days, local news hound said on Tuesday.
Te radical groups launched counter attacks on regime forces in Job al-Jarrah region, started by suicide kaboom that killed 5 allied gunnies operated in Fuhood al-Khasa group.
In retaliation, regime warplanes rocked ISIS stronghold in al-Shoumariya mountains and Maksar al-Husan area.
On Monday, ISIS killed 13 soldiers near al-Shandakhiya village and 24 more east of historic Palmyra city.
In Deir Ezzor, regime air strikes on Tuesday killed at least 20 civilians in the ISIS-held town of Mahmida town, activists said.
Regime strikes have also hit Hwaijat al-Saker town and the neighborhoods of al-Sianaa, Sheikh Yasin al-Hwaiqa in the ISIS-held city of Deir Ezzor.
On Monday, the U.S.-led coalition Arclight airstrike destroyed 83 oil tankers used by ISIS over the weekend in Deir Ezzor, the U.S. military announced.
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[Iraq Sun] A Philippine 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.... affiliate has posted a video calling for the Miss Universe pageant set to take place in the Philippines to be targeted, while suggesting that an boom belt or bomb be made especially for the beauty contest, RT reports citing SITE.
Philippines jihadi Telegram channel posted a video for making an boom belt and suggested 'Create bomb for miss universe,'" the group wrote on a Telegram Messenger group called "IS Philippines supporters," according to SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks the online activity of jihadist organizations.
The post reportedly contained a video on how to assemble a suicide belt and a DIY on explosives in English.
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"In Switzerland, the number of forced underage marriages has jumped since 2015 to five times the number reported in the last decade. 119 cases have now been reported. That’s a little over one every three days, and nearly 22% involved girls under 16. The minimum age of marriage is 18 in Switzerland. Most of the girls involved in underage marriages are from Iraq, Syria, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Somalia.
Yet in the UK, another troubling pattern was reported last year: a rise in "Sharia marriages," of which two-thirds were polygamous.
There are reportedly 100,000 such marriages that are unrecognized under UK laws, and the women in them have no rights. But we don’t hear leftist feminists crying foul about that; nor are human rights groups intervening to put a stop to this outrageously abusive practice.
Sharia marriages are very easy to pull off. A lawyer specializing in Sharia law noted: 'people can have a secret Nikah (Islamic ’marriage’ ceremony) and no one will know about it.'
The Afghan National Army (ANA) forces and the Taliban insurgents suffered casualties amid tense situation in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said one Afghan soldier lost his life and five other were wounded in the latest wave of violence in three key districts of the province.
The statement further added that the clashes recently erupted between the Afghan forces and the Taliban insurgents in Nad-e-Ali, Garmsir, and Nawa district.
According to the statement, at least 37 Taliban insurgents including the group’s local commander were killed during the clashes and several others were wounded.
The Taliban militants group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Helmand is among the volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgents are actively operating in a number of its districts and often carry out insurgency activities.
The group launched a major offensive in Helmand province late last month amid reports that the Khanshin district was captured by Taliban militants.
The Afghan commando forces were deployed to Khanshin following attack to push the Taliban insurgents out of the district.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Two leaked records by Hezbollah holy warrior on the battlefields of Aleppo city claimed that the Lebanese militia fighters were the only ones who kept fighting the Syrian resistance forces in the siege-break battles.
Syrian regime forces have low morale and most of them fled their bastions with backed Iranian fighters, according to the audio tape.
The criticism for Syrian army droop and decay was not the first. Two years ago Bashir al-Assad's first adviser, Bouthaina Shaaban, slammed Hezbollah for claims that its forces are the real force fighting Syrian resistance.
On Friday, resistance fighters made a historic gain by breaking one-month-old siege that trapped almost 350,00 people in the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo.
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Hezbollah criticism is understandable but the regular Syrian Army has lost about 50k of its best already and the Iraq and Afghan 'volunteers' are not well armed and trained (I think those latter are what the source means by ''backed Iranian'
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[ARA News] HASAKAH – People in major districts of Syria’s northeastern Hasakah city suffer shortage of water. Most of civilians, especially in the Nashwa area, are obliged to walk long distances everyday in order to get a few battles of drinking water.
People try to survive hard living conditions, and the need for water increases in the summer where it gets over 40 degrees, but the shortage seems unescapable in this part of war-torn Syria.
Munira Abdullah, mother of four, told ARA News in Hasakah that the scarcity of water has depended their suffering beside the deteriorating security conditions.
“There is no water here. We move from one place to another and walk long distances in order to get some drinking water. We hardly get water that could cover our family’s need for a day,” she said.
“It is a daily challenge to get water here. We keep looking for drinkable water everyday. In the past we were being provided with a sufficient amount of water. But since the war broke out five years ago, we’ve been suffering a sharp shortage of water beside other basic supplies,” she told ARA News.
The local Self-Administration, that has been running parts of Hasakah province such as Nashwa since expelling militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) from the area nearly one year ago, tries to help civilians.
According to local sources, the Kurdish administration provides limited aid to the people in accordance with its limited resources.
On the other hand, the Centre for Peace and Civil Society in Hasakah has recently launched a project to found artesian wells in order to support people with water.
Speaking to ARA News, member of the local council of Nashwa district in Hasakah Muhammad al-Salman said: “When ISIS broke into Nashwa, the area lost all kinds of services. Now our council is trying to provide the people with basic services such as electricity, water and health.”
“We are trying to do our best to serve the people, but the capabilities are limited,” he said.
[EURASIAREVIEW] The latest revelation of the Pak Terrorist Bahadur Ali alias Saiffullah, who was captured alive by the Indian security forces in Kupwara sector, that he had met Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... twice in the Muzzafarabad training camp, has dispelled the clouds of uncertainty and suspicion that had till now shrouded the ongoing turmoil in Kashmire. The involvement of Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT), a jihadi terror organization, in the current impasse has now been established beyond doubt.
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[STRIPES] Only about 350 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.... fighters remain in the all-but-abandoned Libyan coastal city of Sirte as the United States finished its eighth day of Arclight airstrikes there, U.S. defense officials said Tuesday.
The United States, as part of Operation Odyssey Dawn, began targeting Islamic State vehicles and fighting positions Aug. 1. Since then, unmanned aircraft launching from undisclosed locations and Marine AV-8B Harrier jets taking off from the nearby USS Wasp, an amphibious assault warship, have conducted 28 strikes against the terrorist group, according to U.S. Africa Command and defense officials who spoke on the condition of not being named.
More than half of the strikes have been conducted from unmanned aircraft, one of the defense officials said.
Sirte, once a city of 80,000 people, has about 1,000 residents remaining, the defense official said. Islamic State snuffies there totaled up to 1,000 fighters at one time. But their numbers have dwindled as well and many of them have moved outside Sirte to the south or blended back into the civilian population, the official said.
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So are they contained and controlled, or have simply moved to another target?
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We have top men out in the field developing these numbers, AlanC. Top men. And it's not like they just pull them out of their butts. They use calculations. And scientific estimates. Top men.
[Iraq Sun] In a message to Swedish Ambassador to Lebanon Peter Semneby, Azzi demanded an explanation over the Lebanese Foreign Ministry's claim that Sweden was preparing to deport around 70 Lebanese families. "Yå, süre! Ðey båne gønna depørt seventy fåmilies øf Svensker refügees!"
"If the deportation was legally unjustified, then Lebanon's Labour Ministry will take similar measures against Swedish workers in Lebanon, whatever their occupation and status are," Azzi said in a statement issued by his press office.
Reports circulated earlier this year that Sweden and Finland had decided to deport up to 100,000 immigrant workers who had been living in their countries for many years to make room for Syrian refugees.
Semneby flatly denied those allegations in June; however, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has continued to bring the issue up.
"Sweden has not deported anyone for the purpose of making room for new Syrian refugees, and will not do so," Semneby said in a letter published in The Daily Star at that time.
"If the Foreign Ministry is responsible for the Lebanese there (in Sweden), then the Labour Ministry is responsible for them when they return to the country, which increases the number of unemployed Lebanese in the country," Azzi said, according to a report by Daily Star, as covered by IRNA.
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London- In light of recent fierce clashes erupting across Syria’s Aleppo front pitting Pro-Bashar al-Assad forces and opposition forces, embattled groups called in for reinforcement.
Hundreds of fighters along with artillery are arriving to Aleppo fronts and northern rural areas, preparing for a massive and decisive battle aiming to restore full control over the city.
Pro-regime forces have registered grave losses in their last Aleppo battle, the losses called for a reassessment leading to the release of Assad’s chief of Aleppo security committee Brig. Gen. Ahmad Adeeb from all duties to be replaced by Deputy Commander of the Republican Guard Brigadier Zaid Saleh.
An estimated 2000 Shi’ite militiamen have arrived to aid pro-regime forces in Aleppo. Footage featuring Iranian and Iraqi Shi’ite militia arriving to Aleppo’s rural areas was circulated online.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard- backed Fars news agency reported that an approximated 2000 fighters who belong to the Iraqi Shi’ite movement, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, have arrived to Aleppo to fight against the Army of Conquest, otherwise known by Jaish al-Fatah.
The anti-regime Army of Conquest managed to break the Assad siege posed against some of Aleppo’s western neighborhoods.
Fars also published that an elite of Lebanon-based Hezbollah mercenaries, named the “Rezwan forces”, have been deployed and arrived to Aleppo’s Hamdania neighborhood. The battalion was sent as reinforcement for pro-regime forces aiming to break into Ramousah area, Aleppo.
Ramousah occurring clashes had cost Iranian militia and pro-regime forces strategic positions.
Fars also allegedly reported that the USN (United States Navy) fleet deployed to the Mediterranean delivers intelligence services to Syria opposition-forces on pro-regime forces and Iranian militia locations.
The Revolutionary Guard news agency also acknowledged the effective advancement the Army of Conquest made across a strategic axis. The opposition group was able to restore control over a major army artillery base in the northern city of Aleppo.
The Army of Conquest had published a voice recording online, in which a member of the so-called ‘Hezbollah’ gunmen in Syria reports the deteriorating morality among pro-regime ranks.
The militant reported that Syrian Assad forces and some Iranians had fled their positions, leaving the Lebanon-based so-called Hezbollah militias abandoned and fighting alone.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A military source in Anbar province announced on Monday that the commander of Rapid Reaction Forces was killed by ISIS sniper, east of Ramadi.
Sharing details the source said, “A regiment of Rapid Reaction Forces, under the command of Maj. Gen. Abdul Amir Hamidi, carried out search operations at the liberated areas in Khalidiya Island, 23 km east of Ramadi.”
“The unit was attacked by ISIS snipers, killing the regiment commander,” further added the source seeking anonymity.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Anbar Operations Command announced today that six ISIS suicide bombers were killed during a security operation in eastern Ramadi.
Commander of Anbar Operations Major General Ismail al-Mahalawi said, “Forces from the army’s 10th brigade during search operations conducted today at areas near Khalidiya Island in eastern Ramadi killed six suicide bombers wearing explosive belts.”
Mahalawi added, “The joint security forces are continuing their operation in Khalidiya Island and are preparing to conduct an operation to liberate Ramadi Island in the coming few days.”
25 percent of Fallujah secured Shadows of 'Nam
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – West of Baghdad Operations Command announced about securing 25 per cent of areas of Fallujah and cleaning it from ISIS remnants, as well as diffusing a number IEDs and booby-trapped houses.
The commander of West of Baghdad Operations Major General Saad Harbeya said, “Security forces managed to clean 25 per cent of Fallujah from ISIS control and secure all areas of the city in preparation for the return of displaced persons to their liberated areas.”
Harbeya added, “Security forces managed to diffuse and detonate 8000 IEDs, 1560 booby-trapped houses and 48 explosives laboratories, in addition to seizing 52 weapons cache and liberating 240 km of main roads in Fallujah.”
“The security force in cooperation with the government committees are working to clean the city and re-operate drinking water stations and rehabilitate services and projects in preparation for the return of displaced persons,” he said.
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When we turned it back over last decade, Fallujah WAS cleared. Great job, Oblahblah.
Legacy
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Russia and Iran agreed to strengthen transport connections, including a potential railway link through Azerbaijan that would aim to grab a share of the cargo now being shipped through the Suez Canal. Always got something cooking, Putin does.
The only country bordering both Russia and Iran, Azerbaijan is seeking to position itself as a major transportation hub. The former Soviet Union’s third-largest crude producer is using oil revenue to build the Caspian region’s biggest seaport 70 kilometers (44 miles) south of the capital. It’s also funding the construction of a railway link that will connect central Asia with Europe via Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. The Russian used a 5'-0" track gage to discourage invasions. Will the Azeri be as clever?
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, discussed the plan during a rare joint visit to Azerbaijan on Monday. The fight against terrorism and maritime boundaries in the Caspian Sea were also among the topics of discussion, according to a statement distributed to journalists in the Azeri capital, Baku. Boundaries of the Caspian Sea? I wonder what Putin has up his sleeve?
"If the rail link to Iran is built, it can take some share of the cargo that’s being transported via Suez," Russian Transport minister Maxim Sokolov said in an interview. Plans for the railroad may be completed next year, he said. Then somebody will have to fund it. Maybe the Clinton Foundation?
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This is a counter to China's proposed New Silk Road which bypasses Russia completely.
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During WWII the allies 'occupied'Iran Persia to keep supplies flowing to Russia. One of those side notes that doesn't get talked about much probably because Uncle Joe was part of the scheme.
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China is believed to have obtained rail-mobile missile technology from Ukraine, which during the Soviet period built the SS-24 rail-based ICBM, according to a report by Georgetown University’s Asian Arms Control Project.
Following reports about Daesh and Taliban's joining forces in Nangarhar province, the U.S Department of State has said that they are monitoring terrorist activity in Afghanistan and that they will not let Daesh and its factions establish safe havens in the country.
They also said they would see to it that the group does not secure material support in the country.
Commander of 201 Selab Corps, General Mohammad Zaman Wazir, recently said the Taliban and Daesh have in the past clashed but in the past two months, no cross-fighting has been recorded.
However, a number of Daesh commanders were recently killed in military operations, Wazir said.
"At least 23 Daesh commanders including the commander of Khurasan faction, Hafiz Saeed, were killed in foreign troops' drone strikes and their bodies all still there," Wazir said.
Commenting on Wazir's statement, the U.S State Department press office director, Elizabeth Trudeau, said in an chat with media that they are aware of the reports and that they are monitoring the terrorist group's activities in the country.
"We're aware of the reports. We're obviously monitoring for the presence of Daesh-affiliated individuals and groups in Afghanistan. We remain actively engaged with the government of Afghanistan, as well as our partners in the region, to deny terrorist organizations such as Daesh or their branches safe havens and material support," she said.
The Zabul provincial council meanwhile said they are concerned about an increase in Daesh activities in parts of the province.
"Daesh rebels are active in Khak Afghan and Arghandab districts [in Zabul] where they have erected over 300 tents and are living," said Ata Jan Haqbayan, a member of the Zabul provincial council.
However, Zabul police chief Mirwais Noorzai said they launched military operations and have eliminated Daesh fighters from the area.
"We carried out military operations in areas where Daesh had activities and we eliminated them, but in some areas they are out of security forces' access," Noorzai added.
The Interior Ministry meanwhile said Daesh is a threat to the country's security, but the alliance with Taliban is not an important matter.
"We believe that the alliance of Taliban and Daesh is a fragile issue and it will not continue. But Daesh is a threat and there is a serious will in government to destroy and uproot all terrorist groups," said Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the interior ministry.
Daesh has reportedly increased its activities in the country's eastern parts – including Nangarhar province. However, the Afghan Defense Ministry this week said they have increased air and ground operations against the insurgent group to end their activities in the eastern regions.
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Maybe, but Obola and the boys will allow them in Virginia,
Florida and the other 55 states.
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"Commenting on Wazir's statement, the U.S State Department press office director, Elizabeth Trudeau, said in an chat with media that they are aware of the reports and that they are monitoring the terrorist group's activities in the country.
"We're aware of the reports. We're obviously monitoring for the presence of Daesh-affiliated individuals and groups in Afghanistan. We remain actively engaged with the government of Afghanistan, as well as our partners in the region, to deny terrorist organizations such as Daesh or their branches safe havens and material support," she said."
Gobbledygook by someone representing folks who thought James Taylor could affect kiss and make up.
[Gateway Pundit] Former Ambassador John Bolton was on with Lou Dobbs on Tuesday to discuss Hillary Clinton’s health concerns.
Lou Dobbs showed video of Hillary’s handler jumping on stage and telling her to speak at her Denver convention.
The former UN Ambassador said "there’s something here we don’t know about" with Hillary Clinton’s fragile health that we’re not being told.
Lou Dobbs: The man, ostensibly a Secret Service agent, we have found out subsequently that he’s a medical doctor who was there apparently attending to the Democratic nominee. Your reaction on what you saw and whether or not it suggests that we need to know far more about her medical condition.
Ambassador John Bolton: Well, I’ve never seen anything like it before. I mean, presidential candidates are confronted with hecklers and demonstrators in their audiences all the time. And quite properly we ask the Secret Service to do what’s necessary to protect them. But I’ve never seen a stage manager come on to a stage like that directing agents around. If he wasn’t Secret Service who was he to tell these people, agents clearly, to move away and let the speech continue. There’s something here we don’t know about and I said I’ve never seen it before.
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The video clearly shows a speaker who is unaccustomed and uncomfortable with being heckled which is strange considering all the clowns she has sent to Trump rallies. I bet it's a whole lotta fun for the hecklers.
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..and I'm pretty sure that's Diazepam Man standing next to her
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So the DNC went all in on a candidate with more health problems than Ramses II's mummy?
First they don't vet youknowwho's experience and background and now they knowingly ignore her conditions.
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Chemicals/toxins can block the thyroid and lead to complications but the neurologic symptoms show she is literally short-circuiting. I don't buy a simple blood clot.
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That someone would knowingly pursue The Presidency possessing the anomalies she exhibits is testament to their total commitment towards succumbing to megalomania -> Narcissistic personality disorder of the Unprincipled variety?.
The Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia yesterday launched airstrikes on crowds of Houthi militias and their stores of weapons in the Al-Hitari Mountain in the Hayfan District (south Taiz). It also carried out raids targeting a Katyusha rocket launcher in Wirzan, south Dimna Khadeer which is located is east Taiz.
Raids on crowds of Houthi militias and their stores of weapons were resumed in the city of Al-Mokha, Muwazza’ah Assahiliyya and Jabal Al-Naar which led to many deaths and military equipment being damaged.
Furthermore, violent clashes in the province of Taiz between the legitimate forces (the national army and the Popular Resistance) on the one hand, and Houthi militias and forces loyal to the deposed president on the other, took place on different battlefronts in Taiz. The clashes were concentrated in the Al-Silw district, southeast Taiz.
The Al-Silw district witnessed fierce battles that were concentrated in the Al-Rassa area in the Al-Silw Mountain. 16 members of the rebel militia were killed and dozens of them were injured as a result. Rebel militias also used various types of weapons to heavily shell sites belonging to the Popular Resistance and the national army in the area of Sharaf in the Al-Silw Mountain.
These clashes came after rebel militias attempted to infiltrate sites belonging to the national army and popular resistance in the region. These areas are now controlled by legitimate forces after rebel militias were previously able to seize all of the national army and Popular Resistance’s strongholds on the fronts of Hayfan, south Taiz. The clashes are a pre-emptive step to prevent the militias from entering and invading the district of Al-Mawasit; a matter which would enable them to reach the main route between the provinces of Aden and Taiz.
[NY Post] The father of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was spotted sitting behind Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally in Florida.
Seddique Mateen, whose son carried out the deadliest mass shooting in US history in June at the Pulse nightclub, looked on as Clinton began her speech on Monday in Kissimmee recalling the terror attack.
"Bill and I were in Orlando about two weeks ago, and we had a chance to sit down with Mayor Dyer, other elected officials, members of the clergy, of the brave police officers who rushed into the Pulse nightclub massacre to save lives," Clinton said, according to a transcript released by her presidential campaign.
"I just have to tell you how grateful I am for the leadership and the people of Orlando and Central Florida for your love and compassion. And I know how many people, loved ones and friends, are still grieving. And I want them to know that we will be with you. We will be with you as you rebuild your lives, as you rebuild hope for the future, because we can’t ever let that kind of hatred and violence break the spirit, break the soul, of any place in America."
Mateen was spotted by local affiliate NewsChannel 5 WPTV of West Palm Beach.
"We’ve been cooperating with the federal government, and that’s about it," the father told the local station in a brief interview. "Thank you."
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With hundreds, possibly thousands in attendance, Seddique Mateen is seated directly behind the Beest and at camera eye level. What an amazing coincidence.
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I'm thinking swillary staffers said "ohh, a Puerto Rican guy! We gotta have him in the pictures!!" At the same time, Secret Service agents were thingking, "This oughta be fun..."
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Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, Sarah Silverman, CPUSA, Khizr Khan and now Seddique Mateen...she has almost all the right people lining up behind her...but I heard Susan Sarandon is still holding out.
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Actor Will Smith thinks Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy is a good thing for America — because now the country can “cleanse” itself of the Republican nominee and his supporters. At a press event in Dubai to promote his latest film Suicide Squad, the 47-year-old actor said he believes it is important to “speak out about the insanity” of the 2016 presidential race.
“As painful as it is to hear Donald Trump talk and as embarrassing as it is as an American to hear him talk, I think it’s good,” Smith said, according to the Associated Press. “We get to know who people are and now we get to cleanse it out of our country.”
Smith also said his appearance in Dubai was itself a rebuke to “Islamophobia” in America.
“In terms of Islamophobia in America, for me that’s why it’s important to show up,” he said.
“The Middle East can’t allow Fox News to be the arbiter of the imagery, you know,” Smith added. “So cinema is a huge way to be able to deliver the truth of the soul of a place to a global audience.”
Smith has increasingly spoken up in opposition to Trump’s candidacy in recent weeks. In an interview with Australian news outlet news.com.au earlier this month, the actor said that a “separatist, non-inclusive, racist, xenophobic wave” is currently sweeping the globe and pulling society further apart.
“For a man to be able to publicly refer to a woman as a fat pig, that makes me teary,” Smith told the news website, referring to Trump’s long-running feud with actress Rosie O’Donnell. “My grandmother would have smacked my teeth out of my head if I had referred to a woman as a fat pig. And I cannot understand how people can clap for that. It’s absolutely collective insanity.”
In an appearance on The Tonight Show last month, Smith expressed hope that the country could undergo a similar “cleansing,” as racist incidents are increasingly captured on film across America.
“When everything gets out, it’s a good thing,” Smith told Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon. “It just sucks bad when the truth is out. But I think everybody can see it now. And I think it’s just a little darkness before the cleansing that we’ll have as we move forward.”
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It seems we are headed for an eruption of intolerance as the left has pushed their agenda too far for too long. Like many, I see the gift of the Republic at risk, the question Franklin asked ..." if you can keep it."
Decades of tolerance by the majority of Americans who were satisfied with their lot in life has been eroded, as has the quality of that life, until the majority of Americans today are very very angry. Not the bubble people in the suburban enclaves of DC, NY, WA, CA, MA, IL, but the real once middle class people who only see stagnation, debt, eroding infrastructure, illegal alien invasion, and minority misbehavior invading their communities.
Unlike the movies, this isn't easy to undo, and after another 4 years of socialist federal government, will be impossible. After that, insurrection seems a likely possibility....or fragmentation after a nasty conflict. Hope I am just a grumpy old coot with bad future vision, but this isn't the way it used to be, and it didn't have to be this way if more patriots had paid attention to the infiltration of the media, the schools and the civil service by the hard left.
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This racist nation made Will Smith the most bankable star for something like a decade. Then he started to shove his kid into movies and picked 'important' uninteresting films, now he's a has-been attacking Trump fans hoping to get attention.
[Indian Express] Maharashtra police on Tuesday submitted its report on controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. The report points out many unlawful activities pertaining to the organization of which Zakir Naik is the leader, according to Fadnavis.
"Government has received a report on Zakir Naik from Commissioner of Police of Mumbai. There are many indictments in the report. Many unlawful activities have been pointed out pertaining to the organization of which Zakir Naik is the leader," said the chief minister.
Fadnavis said that certain activities are attributed to Zakir Naik as well in the report. "Maharashtra Govt is studying the report and will soon share report with MHA. There are certain activities attributed to Zakir Naik as well. In consultation with MHA, we will decide the further course of action which we need to take," said Fadnavis.
The Maharashtra police initiated action against Naik after reports suggested that Bangladeshi faceless myrmidons who hacked to death 20 people at a restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone used to follow Zakir Naik.
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[Libya Observer] The Derna Shura Council issued a statement on Monday saying they are with any initiatives that aim at building the state of institutions not of militias, saying the Dignity Operation violations and attacks have so far killed a lot of women and kiddies, confirming that Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... and his followers will be brought to justice sooner or later.
The statement, dubbed "Revenge for our Children", also said that Dignity Operation’s attacks and siege on Derna aims at cracking the well-knitted social fabric of the city, referring to the attacks on kids’ parks, civilian houses, and civilian cars and so on.
The Derna Shura Council also indicated that the fight against Dignity Operation forces has kicked off to foil their attack and the violation of what it described as "Haftar’s militias", saying that they are still trying an entry into the city through the western entrance and they keep bombing the city to pave the way for that, killing children and other civilians on their way in.
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[REUTERS] A New York City teenager accused last year of conspiring to provide support to 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.... was sentenced on Tuesday to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty to a non-terrorism charge.
Imran Rabbani, 19, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie in Brooklyn after pleading guilty in April to having conspired to impede federal officers by force, intimidation and threat.
Rabbani, who was just 17 when he was tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... , agreed to the plea deal in exchange for dropping an appeal of a ruling that allowed him to be tried as an adult on a prior charge of conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State.
Rabbani, who will receive credit for the time he has served in jug since his June 2015 arrest, was also sentenced to a term of three years of supervised release following his release.
"I think it was a fair and just sentence by a thoughtful and careful judge," said his lawyer, Richard Willstatter.
More than 100 people have been charged since 2014 in U.S. federal cases related to the Islamic State bully boy group, which has seized control of parts of Iraq and Syria.
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[DOTHANEAGLE] The state Court of Criminal Appeals recently upheld a Dothan woman's two dozen voter fraud convictions involving votes cast in a Dothan City Commission race.
According to a statement from Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, the state Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the voter fraud convictions for 67-year-old Olivia Reynolds.
A jury found Reynolds guilty of 24 felony absentee ballot fraud charges in September 2015 in Houston County Circuit Court. Circuit Court Judge Michael Conaway later sentenced Reynolds to a five-year split, with two years to serve. But Conaway allowed Reynolds to apply for probation, which was heard in November 2015. Conaway denied Reynolds' probation, and instead ordered her to serve six months in the Houston County Community Corrections work release program.
But Conaway also granted Reynolds an appeal bond. She posted a $24,000 bail, and has been released from custody since late last year.
A jury determined Reynolds fraudulently obtained absentee voter ballots during the 2013 city commission candidacy of District 2 Commissioner Amos Newsome. Reynolds was one of four people charged who worked on the 2013 campaign for Newsome.
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[UPI] Four Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... Lions of Islam died in a battle with members of the Moro National Liberation Front early Tuesday in the Philippines' southern province of Sulu, military officials said.
The encounter occurred on Jolo Island during ongoing talks between Abu Sayyaf and the one-time rebel group for the release of seven hostages, a military front man said.
Maj. Felimon Tan, front man of the Armed Forces of the Western Mindanao Command, said in a statement that Abu Sayyaf sub-commander Alhabsy Misaya fought with MNLF fighters in Kalingalang Caluang where some hostages are being kept.
Tan said the MNLF operation and its efforts against the Abu Sayyaf were not sanctioned by the military. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... he said, the military backs help maintaining peace in the province.
The MNLF said it killed Jennor Lahab, also known as Cmdr. Jim Dragon, and his son. Other Abu Sayyaf members have yet to be identified.
The four men's bodies were brought to the village of Punjungan for their families to claim.
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Turkey and Russia can rebuild their damaged ties and grow even closer, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, said Aug. 9 in a critical meeting, their first since Ankara seriously strained relations by downing a Russian jet last year.
Putin said both sides would follow a program to restore their economic and trade relations, noting that the priority for Russia and Turkey was that their ties return to their pre-crisis level.
“Your visit today, which you made despite the really complex domestic political situation in Turkey, shows we all want to restart our dialogue and restore our relations,” said Putin, addressing Erdoğan.
Erdoğan’s visit to Russia is his first foreign trip since a July 15 coup attempt, in which more than 240 people were killed.
Putin said Russia would phase out sanctions against Turkey step by step, while adding that the priority was to return to the situation before the jet crisis.
The Russian president also described the talks with Erdoğan as “constructive.”
“The most important point here will be our joint energy projects. We need to take robust political steps so as to realize these projects. The Turkish side has already taken key steps to realize them, yet we put a number of limitations. We will of course need some time to return to the pre-crisis levels in several fields, including tourism. We will, however, resolve the issue of resuming charter flights to Turkey in the near future. We will also enable Turkish construction companies to enter Russia,” said Putin.
Erdoğan underlined the importance of the meeting, a first after months of strained ties.
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Hoping any remaining Incerlik nukes are cardboard mock-ups.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A State Department spokeswoman dodged questions Monday about whether the discussion of Shahram Amiri, an Iranian scientist who was executed by the Iranian government for working with the U.S., in a pair of Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Philander C. Knox ... 's private emails may have played a role in his recent fate.
"We're not going to comment on what may have led to this event," said Elizabeth Trudeau, a State Department spokeswoman.
"I couldn't speak to Iranian judicial procedures related to this specific case," Trudeau said. "We've made our concerns known writ large around Iranian due process." Shahram Amiri's knowledge of the Iranian nuclear program became detrimental to the goals and objectives of the Iranian regime.
Shahram Amiri's knowledge of the Iranian nuclear program became detrimental to the goals and objectives of the....... Obama regime.
Under the bus he goes! Let's not discuss it further, shall we ?
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It's like watching a Stooges short. Except somebody really died.
Quite an army...
As war wages in parts of the country, including in Helmand and Nangarhar, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that over 140,000 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers are fighting insurgents in Afghanistan.
The Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri told TOLOnews on Tuesday that the soldiers will suppress terrorists effectively if they are attacked. He said about three quarters of a total 195,000 soldiers were actively fighting insurgents.
"With our current equipment and facilities on hand, we are able to prevent the enemy from succeeding in Afghanistan. The current troops need more attention paid to their equipment, and if this happens, we can say that the ANA personnel are enough," Waziri said.
According to reports, the war is ongoing between Afghan forces and Taliban in eastern and southern parts of the country and troops are in a defensive mode in other parts – including Baghlan, Kunduz and Badakhshan provinces.
Meanwhile, according to the Interior Ministry, Afghanistan has 157,000 police force members, of which 80 percent (over 125,000) are actively involved in fighting insurgents.
"The ongoing war has kept police force members busy in most of the country's provinces; the war has drawn the police from their main duty (maintaining law and order)" and instead forced them to fight a war, said Najib Danish, the Interior Ministry's deputy spokesman.
Meanwhile, military affairs analysts said that the war strategy has made Afghan forces tired and that their transfer between provinces provides opportunities for militants to take control of areas.
"The reason behind the fall of some areas is that all forces are pulled out of (an area) and transferred to another. This is the fault of corps commanders. They should have a proper plan and should move forward based on that," military affairs commentator Gula Jan Safi said. Video report at the link
[Ynet] Border Police officers thwarted a stabbing at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Tuesday when a Paleostinian woman who arrived at the security checkpoint drew out a knife and threatened them with it. The officers were able to subdue her using only pepper spray. No one was hurt in the incident. The suspect was taken for further questioning.
Since Hebron is Hamas Central in the West Bank, Hamas involvement is assumed.
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The officers were able to subdue her using only pepper spray
Pretty weak Martyrdom Stuff. No Sturgeons for YOU!
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Pepper spray doesn't have the same . . . . . . lasting effect . . . . that hand to hand disarming to get rid of the blade and then breaking the involved arm and wrist does. Nor is it as satisfying.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Local residents informed that in three separate incidents, unidentified gunmen killed 14 ISIS members and injured 20 others in Mosul.
Recollecting the events as they occurred, an eyewitness said, “Unidentified armed men launched three organized attacks at dawn today and targeted three ISIS headquarters at Karamah, the industrial left side and al-Bakr neighborhood.”
“The armed men used light and medium weapons to attack the headquarters. 14 ISIS fighters were killed and 20 others were injured,” the witness added.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A security source in Nineveh province announced on Tuesday that ISIS transferred its important files, which include a database of ISIS members and their plans, from Mosul city to al-Riqqa in Syria.
Sharing details the source said, “ISIS in Mosul city transferred its computers and important files including the database of its members and plans to al-Riqqa city in Syria.”
“ISIS has transferred a number its main headquarters to secret houses in Mosul, after the killing most of the prominent leaders as a result of the bombing of the Iraqi Air Force Flight and International Alliance Aviation,” further added the source seeking anonymity.
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[FOXNEWS] 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.... and the Taliban, after more than a year of fierce combat, have forged a patchwork cease-fire across much of eastern Afghanistan that has helped both insurgencies regroup and counter U.S.-backed efforts to dislodge them.
Until several months ago, Islamic State fought bloody battles with local Taliban units over fighters and territory in several provinces. The long-running Taliban insurgency has sought to stamp out its smaller rival, which only emerged in 2014. Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces took advantage of the conflict, engaging the forces of Evil on multiple fronts to push them back and reclaim territory they held.
But recently, Afghan officials say, the two insurgencies have worked out local deals to stop fighting each other and turn their sights on the government. The upshot is that Islamic State has been able to focus on fighting U.S.- backed Afghan forces in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province and shift north into Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , establishing a new foothold in a longtime Taliban and former al Qaeda stronghold.
"They fought deadly battles with the Taliban before. But over the past two months, there has been no fighting among them," said Gen. Mohammad Zaman Waziri, who commands Afghan troops in the east.
Islamic State’s presence in Afghanistan is still nascent. Even in its stronghold Nangarhar, Afghan officials estimate the group remains several times smaller than the Taliban. And the cease-fire between them could break apart at any time.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] A federal judge today upheld Rod Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence for public corruption, rejecting tearful appeals from the former Illinois governor’s wife and daughters during a resentencing hearing in Chicago. Blagojevich, his signature thick mane of black hair now turned white, appeared via closed-circuit television from the Colorado prison where he has been for four years.
“I think I’m a very different person and I think I’ve become someone who has learned a lot from the mistakes I have made,” he told Judge James Zagel.
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HYDERABAD: An assistant sub-inspector was gunned down in Khosa Mohallah of Sehwan, while an unidentified pedestrian was injured in the incident which took place near the Sehwan police station late Monday night, police said.
The deceased was identified as Niaz Panwhar.
Jamshoro Tariq Vilayat, a senior superintendent of police (SSP), confirmed that the victim, along with a police constable were headed somewhere in the area when four criminals got a hold of him and shot at him. He died instantly.
"The constable accompanying Panwhar was at some distance when the incident occurred," Vilayat said, adding that four suspects have been taken into custody.
Vilayat linked the murder to police action taken against criminals some time ago. He declined to elaborate, saying it would compromise the investigation.
Panhwar was patrolling when he was gunned down. His body has been shifted to Sehwan Taluka Hospital for post-mortem. The pedestrian injured in the incident has also been admitted to the same hospital.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Syrian regime has started re-deploying its forces from Daraa and Palmyra to Aleppo to participate in the battle against the Syrian opposition in regaining control on the strategic sites in the city.
Sources loyalist to regime reported to Zaman al-Wasl that about 1500 members of the Elite Republican Guards have been transferred to Aleppo, besides militias of Sokour al-Sahra sponsored by Ayman Jaber and Fatimyoon Brigade of Afghani majority were transferred from Palmyra to Aleppo.
The source mentioned that total count of forces arrived to Aleppo reached to 9000, while Fars, the Iranian official news agency confirmed that al-Radwan battalions affiliate of Hezbollah militias had arrived Syria beside the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
The source mentioned that a military order has been issued in regard to regaining control of regime's strategic strongholds in Aleppo, coincided with the Russian-Turkish summit between Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... and Recep Tayyib Erdogan in Petersburg today Tuesday.
The regime-loyal source attributed the significant loss of regime’s forces in Aleppo lately to lack of unity in the military decision, as there are Hezbollah militias, regime forces, the Iranian Elite Republican Guards and Paleostinian Quds brigade, subsequently the operations' coordinator among the allied forces in Aleppo has been change.
A commander in one of the opposition military formation expressed in his talk to Zaman Al Wasl that all forces the regime had gathered in Aleppo would not affect their plans.
The commander who talked on condition of anonymity said: "the decision has been taken by all the military formation to completely control Aleppo and outcomes would be seen in hours.
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[NORTHJERSEY] A 62-year-old male was assaulted in a Friendly's parking lot for wearing a Donald Trump T-shirt, Bloomfield police reported Tuesday.
The victim was walking on West Passaic Avenue in Bloomfield at 5:41 p.m. Wednesday when a male in an older gray compact vehicle questioned him about his shirt of the Republican presidential candidate. The suspect directed profanities at the victim as he continued to follow the victim.
The suspect followed the victim to the restaurant at 1243 Broad St. The suspect then approached the victim armed with a crowbar. An altercation occurred, with the suspect striking the victim several times, police said.
The victim sustained injuries to his forearms, hands and thighs. He was treated at the scene.
The suspect fled prior to police arrival, according to authorities.
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Three cheers for Bov, Mike, and JHH, two of whom have met Zenobia F's challenge, and one of whom saw the thing that was needed. Le Tour de Rantburg, indeed. :-)
[KASHMIRDISPATCH] Three days after the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was slain in a brief encounter with the Indian troops, the al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent asked Kashmiri people to follow his example. It is probably the first time al-Qaeda has owned any Kashmiri militant fighting in the valley.
Is it just a ploy from al-Qaeda to show its presence in the valley? But what would they get for playing such a ruse? Was then Burhan Wani an al-Qaeda operative? To understand that, one has to see his modus operandi.
Since he started broadcasting his message on social media, it was clear that a highly intelligent and sophisticated mind is at work. But was he the mind or just a face to propagate a particular message? Burhan joined the armed resistance movement at the age of 16 in 2010.
After his militant cousin Aadil Mir was killed in an encounter, Burhan came to the forefront on social networking sites. From 2015 onwards, Burhan became the face of the resistance movement in Kashmir. Despite probably never travelling outside his town, Burhan’s video messages were profound! He was associated with Hizb ul Mujahideen that believes merger with Pakistan. A few years ago, majority of Hizb militants came from Jamaat-e-Islami background. Importantly, in his video messages, Burhan never mentioned any mendicant All Parties Hurriyat Conference leader.
He, in fact, surprised Kashmiris when in his penultimate message he urged the people of Kashmir to fight for the establishment of Khilifat. He also said in the same video that they are capable of harassing the families of the policemen like they do to their families but cited Sharia laws not allowing it! It was certainly a tectonic shift.
Neither Hizb nor Jamaat-e-Islami has ever talked of establishing Khilifat in Kashmir. Their Khilifat started and ended with the merger of Pakistan.
Then how come a mere 22-year-old youth, who has never been out of Kashmir, thought of fighting for establishing a Khilifat? To understand that one has to look at the US occupation of Afghanistan and the subsequent turmoil in Pakistan. It is no secret that the US is primarily fighting against al-Qaeda to “smoke them out”. Since al-Qaeda believes in establishing Khilifat for Muslims, Kashmir has come under its radar. In 2008, the USA designated Af-Pak Kashmir policy, which meant all the three areas are cobbled together as a single theatre of operations. But the Indian state forced the US to withdraw Kashmir from its policy.
Burhan’s Killing A non-issue has been turned into the subject of debate. Burhan, once he joined the militant ranks, knew he would be killed. It didn’t matter to him how he would be killed. What mattered was the martyrdom. He attained that.
The theories circulating about his death take the focus away from the cause he sacrificed his life for. Since Burhan talked of Khilifat in his penultimate video message, it may have irked the Pakistani intelligence agencies. Together with their counterparts in India, they may have been thinking that the Kashmir movement is slipping away from them.
For India, Pakistani state is the best option to deal with rather than with an enemy that believes in reconquering it, and wave the flag of Islam there. The Indian state cannot negotiate with an organisation as elusive and indefatigable as al-Qaeda. For Pakistan, Kashmir is a place through which they control a large section of religious extremist groups. So both India and Pakistan may have already joined forces to stop the march of al-Qaeda in Kashmir.
It was no surprise that the media in both countries ignored AQIS extolling Burhan. Ideally, the Indian state should have raked this issue to “defame” the Kashmiri movement.
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[COUNTERPUNCH.ORG] The likely next American President, Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William H. Seward ... is fielding an array of foreign policy advisers, a few being sort of table scraps from the Bush administration and others having resigned from Obama’s. They are today preparing white papers on all manner of "adjustments" to what the presumed 45th American President reportedly believes was a weak and wrongheaded Obama Middle East policy, particularly with respect to the Syrian crisis and Hezbollah.
This according to sources at the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) Judicial Council on which this observer served representing his State of Oregon many moons ago. One staffer reports that the Neocon-Zionist lobby has a Middle East Policy deal with the Clinton campaign as a linchpin of her pledge to "eternally cover Israel’s back." The Clinton camp, which appears to be gaining adherents within the CIA, the State Department and the Pentagon, believes that the B.O. regime’s policy toward Russia and Syria is badly flawed partly because, so they claim, Obama wrongly assumes that Russia wants to limit its involvement in Syria. Clinton advisers claim that, on the contrary, Putin’s key objectives include demonstrating that Russia is winning in Syria, that the US has become a paper tiger in the region, and that the Arab states best follow Russia’s lead as it dramatically returns to the region a la the former USSR.
To set the stage for the her administration, some would-be Clinton advisers such as WINEPS Dennis Ross, are counseling that she must increase political pressure now, as the clock runs out on the B.O. regime, to dramatically beef up what they view as Obama’s weak "truce agreement" between Washington and Moscow. This as former Defense Secretary and Clinton adviser, Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... , is advocating that the next president increase US Special Forces in Syria and launch air strikes to shore up ’moderates" fighting the Syrian government.Others are urging that after Clinton is sworn-in the US must ponce on all "truce violations" with drones and cruise missiles and target Syrian airbases and artillery positions, while simultaneously setting up safe areas for civilians, and if deemed necessary, no-fly zones.
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Riiight. She'll crack down on the Hezbies? I don't think so. After all, she shares their dislike of those Joooos
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All Hezbollah needs to change that is a donation to the Clinton Foundation.
[Iraq Sun] Malaysia revoked the passports of 68 citizens, who were suspected of being involved 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.... (IS) terror group and threatened legal action if they returned to the country, officials said on Monday.
"They no longer have travel documents as Malaysian citizens and if they return to our country legal action in line with the Immigration Act will be initiated against them," said Home Minister Ahmad Zahid.
Zahid said the decision was taken by Prime Minister Najib Razak two weeks ago, following intelligence reports.
He added there would be no negotiations with these people as the government does not want "ideological criminals" in the country, The Malaysian Star reported.
Zahid said two Malaysian families had sold off all their property in Malaysia before moving to Syria to join the IS, which employs them as sweepers and cleaners, and now want to return to Malaysia, but the government is unwilling to entertain people who betrayed the country and will not recognise them as Malaysians.
More than 220 jihadis have been detained in Malaysia since February 2013, and 132 Malaysians are still fighting in Iraq and Syrian territory, according to the Malaysian Home Ministry.
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Yes, from the well respected AP who e mails articles to all media attacking Trump. Then sending articles for mass distribution. I review daily the Washington Post local paper, Sun and the USA Today. AP supplies the majority of attack news.
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I see the JournoList members are still operating and working off the same Dem talking points. The fact is the economy sucks no matter how you left wing jerk-offs try to spin it. Joseph Goebbels would be proud of all of you.
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Keep whining Trumpers. Blame the press instead of your candidate who has been an idiot. You knew the press was not going to be fair and yet you put this clown up for election anyways. Stupid
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Tens of millions of voting Americans who had a gut full of the establishment feather merchants and the odious Clinton's years ago, what do they know ?
Again I ask you, what do tens of millions of tax paying Americans know ?
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#5 Keep whining Trumpers. Blame the press instead of your candidate who has been an idiot. You knew the press was not going to be fair and yet you put this clown up for election anyways. Stupid
If only the GOP had renominated Romney! He knew how to handle the press!
[Indian Express] A mysterious group using the name "Base Movement’’, which is the subject of an investigation into three blasts at court complexes in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka since April, has sent at least three mails to authorities since early last year, including one to the French consulate in Bengaluru, to announce its existence and warn of attacks.
The first communication was in the form of a letter sent by post to the office of the then Additional Chief Secretary to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, in January 2015, stating that the group would be beginning its activities that year.
Security sources said the two-line letter contained a map of India, a picture of slain Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones... and the words "Al Qaeda" at the bottom. The sender’s address was given as "Base Moment" (sic) from Kovai (Coimbatore) in Tamil Nadu.
Investigations by agencies in Karnataka revealed that the mail had originated in a town called Singanallur in Coimbatore and the pincode mentioned by the sender did not exist.
A second letter with the same features -- a picture of bin Laden, the Al Qaeda sign-off, a map of India and the title "Base Movement" -- was sent to the French consulate in Bengaluru in January 2016, ahead of the visit of French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... . Sources said the letter was written in incoherent English, and appeared to warn against Hollande’s visit.
"One admonish to the Indian government... As destructing and killing of my bloods... La Belle France president Francois Holland... To stop his advent... Otherwise return to france with his death...," stated the letter received on January 14. Investigations led police to Velachery in Chennai before the trail went cold, sources said.
The third letter from the group was received at the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Commercial Taxes in Andhra’s Chittoor shortly after a blast occurred in the district court complex on April 7. The letter claimed that the blast had been carried out by the "Base Movement" -- as retaliation for the killing of five Moslem youths linked to the proscribed SIMI in a police encounter in Warangal region on April 7, 2015.
The letter appeared to refer to the killing of Vikaruddin Ahmed, SLearned Elders of Islamn, Zakir, Azad and Asif, who were undergoing trial in terrorism cases, while Mystery group linked to blasts at court complexes and Al Qaeda offshoot sent 3 ’warnings’they were being transported to a court hearing. Police had claimed that the men had tried to escape but the families of the dead youths had alleged that it was a "staged encounter".
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Well, it was supposed to be more bombings.... but western tech is tough;
[ARA News] ALEPPO – Major Yasser Abd al-Rahim, Commander of the rebel group of Fatah Halab Operations Chamber in Aleppo, said on Tuesday that they will attack the Kurds in Aleppo, after the mainly Islamist rebels broke the siege of the Syrian regime on Aleppo city. On the other hand, Kurdish officials told ARA News they expect a long war to take place in Syria.
The rebel commander accused the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) of helping the regime, and said that their forces will not leave the al-Castello road under control of either the Kurds or the regime.
Earlier, Syrian regime troops managed to cut off the main supply road for opposition rebels –known as Castello road– and imposed a full siege over the city of Aleppo, however Syrian rebels eventually were be able to break the siege after getting reinforcements from other regions like Idlib.
Abd al-Rahim said that the Syrian opposition militias will take ‘revenge’ for the Syrian rebels that were killed by YPG, after they attacked YPG positions, vowing that Kurds “will not find a place to bury their dead in Aleppo”.
In the meantime, YPG official Siamand Rojava rejected the accusations, suggesting that the ‘radical groups’ of the opposition continue to attack and kill unarmed civilians in the Kurdish neighbourhood of Sheikh Maqsoud by artillery shelling.
“Our forces are trying to keep Kurdish areas safe, we’ve never tried to involve ourselves in the fighting between opposition groups and regime troops,” the YPG official told ARA News.
Kurdish officials see in the changing situation in Aleppo a sign that the war will be ongoing. “Aleppo is very strategic for the regime and the opposition,” said dr. Nasir Haji Mansour, an official in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). He stressed that neither the regime nor the opposition can control all of Aleppo.
“We have two armies: the regime forces on the one hand, and FSA, Nusra, Ahrar as-Sham and Jund as-Sham on the other hand, and the victims are civilians. Violence will not bring a solution,” Mansour told ARA News.
“It is clear that the Syrian war will continue. The only one who can change the situation are the major powers, the United States and Russia; however they cannot agree on Syria,” he said.
“For the Kurds, we don’t believe in radical groups such as Nusra, and we don’t believe in the regime. The regime continues to believe in a military solution. So, these forces are not good for us as Kurds,” he added.
Speaking to ARA News, Kurdish analyst and former official in the Kobane administration Idris Nassan said that the fighting will continue “until there is a Russian-American agreement”.
He suggested that the Western powers have been outraged over the siege imposed by Russia and the Assad regime on Eastern Aleppo, while there was supposed to be a cessation of hostilities.
“Russia may ask for a cessation of hostilities again, because it was clear that the regional and international countries were not informed when Russia and the regime imposed a siege on eastern Aleppo, trapping thousands of civilians,” Nassan said. “But they won’t let the armed groups to fully control Aleppo.”
At least 30 Yemeni civilians have been martyred and many others were injured as Saudi-led coalition intensifies it brutal aggression against the Arab impoverished country.
In a new violation to the UN-brokered ceasefire, in effect since April, Saudi-led warplanes stage several raids in several residential areas across Yemen on Tuesday.
Yemen airstrikeAt least 14 people were martyred when the Saudi fighter jets bombed everal targets in the capital, Sana'a, including a food factory.
Saudi warplanes also bombed an area in the Kushar district of the northwestern Hajjah Province, killing three people and injuring several others.
Elsewhere, the Saudi air raids hit the al-Sama military base in the Arhab district of Sana’a Province as well as the military base of Hamza in the province of Ibb.
Two civilians lost their lives in an airstrike on a fuel station in Ibb.
Saudi military aircraft also carried out five raids on the Taiz airport. Later in the day, they targeted Wazaiyah District in the province, leaving seven people dead.
Riyadh’s jets further launched over a dozen attacks against the districts of Saqayn and Sahar in the northern province of Saada and the headquarters of the 310th Armored Brigade in Amran Province.
At least six civilians died in similar Saudi raids in the Qatabir region of Saada.
Earlier on Saturday, the UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, announced that peace talks to end the country's deadly crisis would go into a one-month recess. The talks, held in Kuwait, have failed to make any tangible headway, and no venue was announced for the talks when they resume.
More from Al-Arabiya:
A Saudi-led military coalition conducted air strikes on the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday for the first time in five months, residents said, after UN-backed peace talks to end the conflict broke down over the weekend.
The Saudi-led coalition is backing Yemeni forces loyal to the exiled government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi who are trying to oust Iran-allied Houthi forces from Sanaa.
The coalition also forced the suspension of flights into Sanaa International Airport for 72 hours from late on Monday, an airport official and aid agency sources said.
The air strikes hit a presidential compound and military base in Sanaa as well as a Republican Guard base in the Arhab area near the airport, residents said. Pro-government forces are trying to advance into the city from the north and east.
In a separate development, residents in Azzan in Yemen's southern Shabwa province said Al Qaeda militants had dismantled their checkpoints and had withdrawn from the city on Tuesday following air strikes - apparently by the Saudi-led coalition forces - targeting their positions there.
The militants took advantage of the country's wartime chaos to seize control of much of southern Yemen, but have suffered military setbacks inflicted by coalition-backed local forces.
Saudi Arabia and its mostly Gulf Arab allies intervened in Yemen's civil war in March 2015 after the armed Houthi movement had pushed the Hadi administration into exile in Saudi Arabia.
The coalition has launched thousands of air attacks on the Houthis and their allies in Yemen's army, but paused the strikes on Sanaa in March after reaching an informal agreement with the Houthis to tamp down combat on the Yemeni-Saudi border.
Imposing a near-blockade aimed at weapons shipments to the Houthis, the coalition had mostly allowed Sanaa airport to operate civilian and humanitarian aid flights since March.
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Imposing a near-blockade aimed at weapons shipments to the Houthis, the coalition had mostly allowed Sanaa airport to operate civilian and humanitarian aid and Iranian arms shipments on civilian airliners flights since March
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
A further 1,500 judges and prosecutors were planned to be suspended over suspected links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization/Parallel State Structure (FETÖ/PDY), believed to be behind the July 15 failed coup attempt. 
[THEWIRE.IN] On the day that Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke his silence on 
Via the GWPF: Recent research by Professor Valentina Zharkova (Northumbria University) and colleagues has shed new light on the inner workings of the Sun. If correct, this new discovery means that future solar cycles and variations in the Sun’s activity can be predicted more accurately.
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
[Iraq Sun] A Philippine 
"In Switzerland, the number of forced underage marriages has jumped since 2015 to five times the number reported in the last decade. 119 cases have now been reported. That’s a little over one every three days, and nearly 22% involved girls under 16. The minimum age of marriage is 18 in Switzerland. Most of the girls involved in underage marriages are from Iraq, Syria, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Somalia.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Two leaked records by Hezbollah
[Iraq Sun] In a message to Swedish Ambassador to Lebanon Peter Semneby, Azzi demanded an explanation over the Lebanese Foreign Ministry's claim that Sweden was preparing to deport around 70 Lebanese families.
Russia and Iran agreed to strengthen transport connections, including a potential railway link through Azerbaijan that would aim to grab a share of the cargo now being shipped through the Suez Canal.
[NY Post] The father of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was spotted sitting behind Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally in Florida.
[UPI] Four 
Hillary Clinton
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
Hillary Clinton
At least 30 Yemeni civilians have been martyred and many others were injured as Saudi-led coalition intensifies it brutal aggression against the Arab impoverished country.
