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Idlib: Nusra arrest 20 ISIS turbans, Gov’t closes key crossing
Today's Headlines

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Page 1: WoT Operations
Suspected incendiary balloons cause 3 fires	0 [11126]
IDF fires on car speeding toward Jewish worshipers at West Bank shrine	4 14:46 trailing wife [11128]
Police to be deployed along coast amid fears of Hamas infiltration — TV report	1 08:36 Frank G [11125]
Police kill five terrorists in shootout in Upper Egypt: Interior ministry	0 [11126]
France says it kills top Islamic State group official in Mali operation	0 [11128]
Baghdad bombs & bullets bulletin: 5 toes up in 2 kabooms, 1 innocent gunned down	0 [11127]
Good morning	6 11:30 JohnQC [11125]
Bomb attack leaves 3 paramilitary fighters dead, wounded in Salahuddin	0 [11125]
Diyala dead dudes: someone mortared farmland, killed woman, others killed off-duty soldier	0 [11128]
Idlib: Nusra arrest 20 ISIS turbans, Gov’t closes key crossing	0 [11134]
Mosul clearance continues: 29 turbans tied up, 13 more toes up	0 [11126]
US brings cruise missile carriers to Middle East for strikes against Syria	8 16:42 magpie [11128]
Russian military takes over strategic hills near occupied Golan Heights	4 23:53 Fairbanks [11132]
Syrian air defenses reportedly placed on highest alert	1 03:48 Skidmark [11125]
At least 154 ISIS terrorists killed in southern Syria -- monitor	0 [11127]
2 Afghan Air Force personnel shot dead in Kabul city	0 [11124]
6 Taliban militants killed, wounded in U.S. airstrike in Paktia province	0 [11126]
28 militants killed in Ghazni airstrikes	0 [11127]
Tajikistan Air Force carries out airstrikes in Darqad district of Takhar	0 [11128]
Militants suffer casualties during clashes with the Afghan forces in Kunar	0 [11129]
Car Bomb In Mogadishu Wounds A Woman	0 [11125]
Army troops kill three Boko Haram terrorists in northern Nigeria	0 [11128]
Shock after mass attacks against immigrants in Germany	4 19:22 magpie [11130]
Ethiopia arrests former president of restive Somali region	0 [11126]
UAE denies false Houthi media reports regarding Dubai airport	1 13:33 Skidmark [11128]
Page 2: WoT Background
Concentration of Russian ships in the eastern Mediterranean	1 13:38 Skidmark [11126]
French parliament building locked down after death threats to Jewish MP	0 [11128]
Bodyguards assigned to Jewish delegates at UK Labour Party conference	3 14:55 Frank G [11129]
Israel inks deal for precision rockets that can reach ‘anywhere in the region’	3 20:17 These Sinatra3854 [11133]
Court rules sick relatives of Hamas members must be allowed entry to Israel	0 [11128]
Report: Hizbullah to Withdraw from All Non-Northern Syrian Regions	0 [11127]
Moscow Proposes 'Deploying Troops in Lebanon' to Return Refugees	1 18:27 Skidmark [11125]
New Mexico compound suspects allegedly planned to attack Atlanta's Grady Hospital	5 18:37 Frank G [11127]
Mullah Diesel still hopeful Mister Ten Percent 'would reconsider', back him in presidential election	0 [11126]
Muslim countries have failed to tackle matter of blasphemous content, says PM Khan in Senate	1 07:21 Woodrow [11125]
Myanmar military chiefs should be prosecuted for Rohingya genocide: UN investigators	1 18:28 Skidmark [11128]
Aitzaz, Fazl (of all people) emerge as opposition's nominees for president after consensus eludes alliance	0 [11132]
Kenya Plans To Withdraw Its Troops From Somalia, Says Uhuru	1 14:01 Skidmark [11129]
Lawmakers Planning To Unseat HirShabelle State President	0 [11131]
Æthio-Somali Region Assembly Debates Change Of The Flag And Name	1 11:34 NoMoreBS [11129]
Rebels attack army outposts in Chad	0 [11129]
Cameroon army kills 12 separatists in troubled Anglophone region	0 [11125]
‘Boko Haram Have Given Us Their Last Warning’ — Nurses Abducted In Rann Beg Buhari For Help	0 [11126]
Boko Haram: Presidency says 100,000 deaths still hanging on Dasuki’s neck	0 [11124]
NHRC Seeks Deradicalization of Repentant Boko Haram Members	1 18:31 Skidmark [11128]
US seeks to ‘severely’ damage Iran economy, top UN court hears	2 16:52 Vast Right Wing Conspiracy [11127]
Arab Coalition: The UN took ‘wrong stances based on false allegations’	1 18:33 Skidmark [11125]
Iran and Syria sign defense, reconstruction deal	0 [11128]
Page 3: Non-WoT
British intel agencies brushed off Nunes attempt to investigate Steele dossier	8 20:00 trailing wife [11131]
Dan Pipes, WSJ: Venezuela's Tyranny of Bad Ideas	1 12:46 g(r)omgoru [11124]
Follow-on to Fred's Chemnitz piece: Germany: 6 people injured during violent far-right 'migrant crime related' protest	8 22:54 Elmerert Hupens2660 [11130]
30 years on - Remembering Ramstein	0 [11125]
Florida video game shooter had been in nut-house, still purchased guns ?	7 18:05 trailing wife [11125]
Moroccan Star Arrested in France for Another Alleged Rape	0 [11125]
Sexual harassment can't be justified, prohibited in Islam: Egypt's Al-Azhar	8 18:39 Skidmark [11127]
China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus	4 12:13 Dale [11123]
Foxconn pledges $100 million matching gift to UW-Madison to establish new research enterprise	8 23:59 trailing wife [11131]
KP governor orders probe into incident at Agricultural University Peshawar	0 [11127]
Asif Zardari, Faryal Talpur appear before FIA in money laundering probe	0 [11124]
Iran student gets seven years for taking part in protest	0 [11125]
Climate Activists board Ice-strong Boat Aug 23, stuck in ice Aug 24	8 19:36 Silentbrick [11131]
Double Murder of Syrian Mother and daughter in Birmingham.	0 [11125]
Page 4: Opinion
Chicago 1968: The Night the Democratic Party Died	0 [11129]
The Strange Truth About the Pill - Next Stop Gynandromorphville ?	4 19:05 trailing wife [11129]
Mark Levin: 'You cannot impeach a President on events that took place before he was President'	5 21:07 CC Reader [11128]
Kim Strassel - 'When Justice Is Partial'	0 [11123]
Judge rules Nevada pimp can reopen brothel near Las Vegas	2 04:16 Skidmark [11122]
Forget the Permian Basin: This Oil Basin Is Where the Growth Is Right Now	7 22:50 newc [11132]
Page 6: Politix
More to the Story	1 16:22 Besoeker [11127]
A Chinese-owned company penetrated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server	10 22:23 49 Pan [11135]
In the name of ‘externalities’ that go misunderstood.	3 08:02 Bright Pebbles [11127]

    
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                        20:17 These Sinatra3854

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Who's in the News
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5	Govt of Pakistan
4	Moslem Colonists
4	Govt of Syria
4	Taliban
4	Boko Haram (ISIS)
4	Hamas
2	Houthis
2	Govt of Iran
2	al-Shabaab (AQ)
2	Islamic State
1	Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
1	al-Nusra
1	Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army
1	Hezbollah
1	Islamic State in the Greater Sahara
1	Muslim Brotherhood
1	Narcos

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Two weeks of WOT

Tue 2018-08-28
Idlib: Nusra arrest 20 ISIS turbans, Gov’t closes key crossing

Mon 2018-08-27
Elite Army units moving to Idlib for major assault

Sun 2018-08-26
John McCain dies at 81

Sat 2018-08-25
Syrian Army launches powerful assault in northern Hama

Fri 2018-08-24
Arab coalition thwarts Houthi boat bomb targeting commercial ships off Yemen

Thu 2018-08-23
Syrian Army cuts all supply lines to ISIL’s last stronghold in southern Syria

Wed 2018-08-22
‘IS militants’ launch attacks in Chechnya; five killed

Tue 2018-08-21
U.S. Rejects Turkey's Offer to ~~Release~~ Ransom Pastor, Report Says

Mon 2018-08-20
‘Allahu Akbar!': Knife-Man Shot Dead After Attacking Spanish Police

Sun 2018-08-19
Yemeni army inflicts heavy casualties on Houthi militants in Taiz

Sat 2018-08-18
HTS executes 6 people accused of being ISIS members in Idlib

Fri 2018-08-17
American Couple Dies Tragically While Biking Through ISIS Territory Trying to Prove Evil Does Not Exist

Thu 2018-08-16
ISIS Killer Caught in Sacramento

Wed 2018-08-15
101st Airborne, US Special Forces Called Into Ghazni Battle

Tue 2018-08-14
Islamic State member sentenced to death over killing security personnel in Nineveh

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