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Daesh suffers devastating defeat as Syrian Army liberates entire Al-Safa region
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-War on Police-
Cop in critical condition following shooting at Chicago hospital
[NYPOST] A gunman shot up a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
hospital on Monday, shooting three people, including a cop.

Police responded to Mercy hospital after reports of shots fired at the location at around 4 p.m., according to Chicago cops.

"A #ChicagoPolice officer has been shot in the active shooter incident at Mercy Hospital," tweeted Chicago Police front man Anthony Guglielmi.

"He is at death's door but receiving excellent care."

Two other victims were shot inside the hospital, according to CBS Chicago.

The gunman was then shot by a police officer.

A witness described how the gunman went on his rampage inside the building.

"I heard shots fired, I turned around to my right and I see a man shooting someone on the ground ‐ shot him multiple times," the witness told CBS Chicago.

"Then almost immediately an officer was already coming in... He exchanged fire with them, and then reloaded, shot the person on the ground again, and then made himself inside the hospital and more shots fired."

Guglielmi, the police front man, later tweeted that the gunman been shot.
Posted by: Fred || 11/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336078 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OF COURSE, a gunfree zone in chitcago.
Posted by: ranture || 11/20/2018 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  He has since passed away.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/20/2018 8:09 Comments || Top||

#3  The obvious answer is stricter gun control!
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/20/2018 8:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Of course one has to go overseas to find out the the Who, What, When, Where and Why.

Four dead, including 28-year-old police officer, after gunman 'shot his ER doctor ex-fiance SIX TIMES in Chicago hospital parking lot and then continued shooting inside'

Dr Tamara O'Neal was killed when Juan Lopez confronted her at Mercy Hospital
Officer Samuel Jimenez, 28, was also killed in the horrific shooting on Monday
Lopez shoot O'Neal three times in hospital's parking lot before she fell to ground
He then stood over her and fired three more times before going into the hospital
Lopez then shot another woman who was pharmaceutical technician at hospital
Jimenez, a father-of-three, had just finished his probationary period at the CPD
O'Neal and Lopez were to wed on October 27 but she called it off in September

Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Chimp9451 || 11/20/2018 14:17 Comments || Top||

#5  This would have been a good time for the officer to fear for his life and empty his magazine into the perp. "He twitched each time I shot him so I was afraid he might still try to kill someone!"
Posted by: gorb || 11/20/2018 14:20 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
ANSF Clears Ghazni’s Malistan, Advancing in Jaghori: MoI
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Sunday said that the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) have cleared Malistan district of Ghazni province of faceless myrmidons and are now advancing in Jaghori district.

"Afghan forces have cleared Malistan district of faceless myrmidons and Afghan commandos, police special forces and NDS units are launching air and ground operations on faceless myrmidons from two directions to clear Jaghori district as well," said MoI front man Najib Danish in a Facebook post.

He said that two units of territorial army forces comprised of 6,000 personnel have been organized to maintain security in these two districts and will be assigned for the security of the areas once they complete their military training.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336095 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Arabia
Yemeni information minister says Houthi militias have broken the truce
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s Information Minister Muammar al-Eryani confirmed that the Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
militias have broken the ceasefire after firing a missile targeting Saudi territories just hours after saying that they were halting drone and missile attacks on Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, the United Arab Emirates and their Yemeni allies.

"Hours after a statement issued by al-Houthi announcing the halt of ballistic missile fire, one of their fighters directed one of its rockets targeting the lands of Saudi Arabia," al-Eryani tweeted.

"The Iranian missile did not achieve its goal and fell in Yemeni territory, confirmed how the militias do not stick with their word."

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors...
the Arab Coalition had confirmed that forces have intercepted and destroyed three ballistic missiles launched by the

Houthi militias at Marib a day earlier on Sunday. The coalition’s air defenses last week had also intercepted two ballistic missiles fired by the militias toward the coalition headquarters in the same province.
Posted by: Fred || 11/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336072 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Down Under
Victoria Police arrest three known wolves planning terror attack in Melbourne
[news.com.au] Three men have been busted allegedly planning a terrorist attack in a crowded place in Melbourne "where they could kill as many as possible".

Police have swooped in on three Victorian men after they were caught allegedly preparing an 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....
-inspired terrorist attack in Melbourne, which officers say was being planned to "kill as many people as possible".
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336080 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  now they will say their religous freedom was persecuted for not being able to carry out the attack.
Posted by: chris || 11/20/2018 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  "three Victorian men" This infestation of islam did not consider itself Australian. Australia was just a conveinient way to gather jizya.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/20/2018 13:40 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
AQIS ‘high-profile militant’ held in Karachi
[DAWN] A ’high-profile’ bully boy linked with the banned Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has been apprehended in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, it emerged on Monday.

A security official who wished not to be named told Dawn that Umar Jalal Chandio alias Kathio was detai­ned from Gulshan-e-Iqbal recently.

Jalal hailed from Mirpurkhas. He shifted to Kotri where he remained neighbour of Tahir Minhas alias Sain. Minhas was one of the main accused in the Safoora bus carnage in which over 47 members of the Shia Ismaili community were rubbed out in 2015.

Minhas along with other holy warriors was placed in durance vile
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
in 2015 by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD).

A joint investigation team (JIT) in its report on the Safoora carnage revealed that Jalal was appointed AQIS’s local emir after the arrest of previous AQIS’s chief Abdul Rehman in 2001 in Karachi.

According to JIT, when Minhas was associated with AQIS, Jalal Chandio asked him to move to Karachi.

During a presser in 2015, Raja Umar Khattab of the CTD had stated: "Jalal was associated with Al Qaeda’s Arab network while Haji Sahib (code name) was active in Karachi and the Wadh area of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
where the group’s mainly Baloch youths were involved in kidnapping for ransom, terrorism and attacks on NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
forces’ containers."

Sources told Dawn that Jalal’s wife was also a high-profile activist of AQIS.
Posted by: Fred || 11/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent


Iraq
Five Iraqi security men killed, wounded in armed attack on police patrol in Diyala
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Five Iraqi coppers were killed and maimed Monday in an armed attack on a police patrol in Diyala province, a provincial source was quoted as saying.

Speaking to Alghad Press website, the source said that a federal policeman was killed and four others were maimed when unidentified button men shot up their police patrol at a village on the outskirts of Khanaqin in northeastern Diyala.

The assailants used explosive charges in the attack, according to the source.

The province has seen months of fighting between Iraqi troops and IS murderous Moslems, especially in the Jalawla and Saadiyah areas in the province’s north and areas near the town of Muqdadiyah.

No group has so far grabbed credit for the attack, but 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) murderous Moslem group, in most cases, is responsible for attacks targeting crowded areas, including markets, cafes and mosques across Iraq.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336077 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Islamic State militants kill two Iraqi policemen in Iraq’s Makhmur
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Two Iraqi federal coppers were killed Monday in an attack by 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....
holy warriors in the disputed district of Makhmur on the border between Erbil and Nineveh provinces, a security source was quoted as saying.

"A group of IS holy warriors launched an armed attack on a checkpoint of the federal police at the entrance to Makhmur district in western djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
," the source told Almaalomah website.

"The attack left two federal coppers dead," the source said, adding that a security force rushed to the scene and carried the bodies to the forensic medicine department.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336089 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hundreds riot along Gaza border; IDF responds with tear gas, live fire
[IsraelTimes] AP cameraman among 25 said injured by military as Paleostinians throw rocks, explosive toward security fence, Israeli troops on other side; 20 boats sail to Israeli naval border in maritime protest.

Hundreds of Paleostinians rioted along the northern border of the Gazoo Strip Monday, throwing rocks and an bomb at Israeli soldiers on the other side of the security fence, the army said.

Israeli troops responded with live fire in some cases, injuring 25 people, including an News Agency that Dare Not be Named cameraman.

A bomb hurled by the Paleostinian rioters fell short of the border and caused no injuries, according to a military spokesperson.

In response, Israeli troops launched containers of tear gas and, in some cases, fired live shots at rioters, the Israel Defense Forces said.

According to the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-run Gazoo Health Ministry, 25 people were maimed to varying degrees by Israeli troops.

Among those hurt was journalist Rashed Rashid, who was shot in his left ankle while filming hundreds of Paleostinians who were protesting on a beach by the border fence near Beit Lahia, a front man for the ministry said.

The cameraman was taken to a hospital. His condition was not immediately known.

An IDF spokesperson said approximately 800 people participated in the riots along the Gazoo border across from the Israeli community of Kibbutz Zikim ‐ a decrease from previous weeks.

In addition, the army said 20 ships set sail from the Paleostinian enclave toward Israel in an apparent attempt to break through the naval blockade Israel has in place around Gazoo. Israel says the blockade is necessary to keep terror groups in the Strip from obtaining weapons and war materiel.

Monday’s riots came days after a Paleostinian was killed and more than a dozen were maimed in similar festivities along the border with Israeli troops and a week after a major flareup between Israel and terror groups in the Strip.

The festivities come days after Israel engaged in the largest battle with Hamas and Paleostinian terror groups in Gazoo since the 2014 war.

Some 500 rockets and mortar shells were fired at southern Israel over the course of last Monday and Tuesday, according to the Israel Defense Forces ‐ more than twice the rate at which they were launched during the 2014 conflict.

The Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted over 100 of them. Most of the rest landed in open fields, but dozens landed inside Israeli cities and towns, killing one person, injuring dozens and causing significant property damage.

In response, the Israeli military said it targeted approximately 160 sites in the Gazoo Strip connected to the Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror groups, including four facilities that the army designated as "key strategic assets."

The fighting ended on Tuesday after a Hamas-announced ceasefire took effect, though this was not officially confirmed by Israel.

Molotov cocktail located in Gaza border communities

[Ynet] Drone affixed with Molotov cocktail was located in the Gazoo border communities on Monday. It appears the drone landed in Israel several days ago.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Palestinian woman caught at checkpoint with knife hidden in Pringles container
[IsraelTimes] A 25-year-old Paleostinian woman was tossed in the slammer
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
on Monday afternoon at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem after guards found a knife in her backpack.

The woman, identified by authorities only as a resident of the West Bank, was passing through the checkpoint into Israel.

The knife was found during a routine check of her bag by border guards. It was hidden inside a Pringles container.

She was taken for questioning by police.

The checkpoint is the largest on Jerusalem’s northern edge, separating metropolitan Jerusalem from the Paleostinian city of Ramallah.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336094 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's probably more dangerous to consume the contents of said container though.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/20/2018 3:31 Comments || Top||

#2  "Bet you can't stab just one..." (Yeah, I know that's actually Lay's but I couldn't stop myself.)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/20/2018 3:50 Comments || Top||

#3  There was a large lady of Dingle
Unable to stop at one Pringle.
No ordinary man
Could contend with her can,
Which is, possibly, why she died single.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/20/2018 19:55 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Rohingya camp in Mynamar on edge after shooting
[DAWN] The UN has called for calm after several Rohingya Muslims were shot and wounded in a Rakhine state camp, in a raid linked to the failed escape of more than 100 of the stateless minority from the grim settlements.

Some 120,000 Rohingya have languished in displacement camps near Rakhine’s capital, Sittwe, since riots in 2012.

Their movement, access to healthcare, work and education is severely restricted in conditions decried as amounting to apartheid by Amnesty International.

Rohingya refugees who fled a military crackdown to Bangladesh refuse to return to Rakhine without equal rights, citizenship and safety — fearing similiar long-term confinement if they do.

Villagers told AFP that four Rohingya were shot and wounded as Myanmar police entered the Ah Nauk Ye camp in central Rakhine state’s Pauktaw township on Sunday morning.

In an emailed statement Knut Ostby, head of the UN office in Myanmar, called for “calm, non-violence and restraint” in an area which can be accessed only with official permission — but is believed to suffer from some of the worst conditions in the displacement camps.

One witness said that officers were trying to arrest two Rohingya suspected of links with a boat carrying 106 Rohingya that was found last week off the coast of Myanmar’s biggest city Yangon.

Posted by: Fred || 11/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336084 views] Top|| File under:

#1  if it's so bad, offer to go back where you came from.
Posted by: chris || 11/20/2018 1:01 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Sochi agreement: Russian jets over Idlib, turbans die while infiltrating, others succeed, killing troops


Russian Air Force begins reconnaissance flights over Idlib as offensive nears (video)

[AlMasdar] (10:30 A.M.) – The Russian Air Force has begun conducting reconnaissance flights over the Idlib province as the Sochi Agreement falls apart.

According to a new Syrian military report, Russian reconnaissance jets have been flying over the jihadist rebel positions and collecting information about the latter’s whereabouts.

In particular, Russian IL-20 surveillance planes were spotted hovering over the the jihadist positions in the designated deescalation zone in northwestern Syria.

As shown in the video released by STEP News Agency, the Russian IL-20 can be seen flying over the jihadist positions in the northern countryside of the Hama Goernorate:

The resumption of Russian reconnaissance flights in the Idlib and Hama provinces comes just days after the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) announced that they would be launching a new military operation in the southeastern part of the deescalation zone.

Islamist rebels attempt to infiltrate Syrian Army lines in northern Hama

[AlMasdar] (1:20 P.M.) – The Islamist rebels of Jaish al-Izza attempted to bypass the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) lines in the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate last night, a military source in Mhardeh city told Al-Masdar News this morning.

According to the military source, Jaysh Al-Izza attempted to infiltrate the Syrian Arab Army’s positions near the town of Al-Zalaqiyat.

However, the Islamist rebels were seen by the pro-government National Defense Forces (NDF) making their way towards the Syrian Army’s posts near the Al-Zalaqiyat Checkpoint.

The Syrian Arab Army then fired on the Islamist rebels with their heavy machine guns; this resulted in the death of several Jaysh Al-Izza fighters.

Due to the heavy casualties sustained by the Islamist rebels, Jaysh Al-Izza was forced to withdraw across the 20km long demilitarized zone.

In photos: Jihadist rebels kill 20 Syrian soldiers and raid base

[AlMasdar] (7:00 A.M.) – The jihadist rebels of Hurras Al-Deen group recently carried out a special operation that targeted a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) base located along the Hama-Latakia axis.

The Hurras Al-Deen raid was reportedly carried out at the large hilltop of Tal Burkan in northeast Latakia; it would result in the death of 23 soldiers.

As shown in the photos released by the group, the jihadist fighters managed to sneak past the Syrian Army’s lines and kill the soldiers during the early morning hours:

Hurras al-Deen is an Al-Qaeda linked jihadist group that is currently participating in the ongoing fight against the Syrian government forces in northwestern Syria.

The Russian and Syrian armed forces consider Hurras Al-Deen a terrorist group and demand that they immediately withdraw from the Idlib buffer zone.

The jihadist group has already rejected the Sochi Agreement and vowed to keep up the fight against the Syrian government forces.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2018 08:41 || Comments || Link || [336104 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Daesh suffers devastating defeat as Syrian Army liberates entire Al-Safa region
[AlMasdar] (11:00 P.M.) ‐ The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was finally able to upend the remaining 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....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) turbans in the al-Safa region of southern Syria on Monday.

Led by their 3rd Corps and 4th Armored Division, the Syrian Arab Army stormed ISIS’s last positions in western al-Safa on Monday morning.

This powerful attack by the Syrian Arab Army would result in ISIS’s full capitulation in southern Syria.

According to a military source in Sweida city, the remaining ISIS turbans in western al-Safa agreed to surrender their last positions after suffering heavy casualties over the last three days.

The source added that some of the ISIS turbans managed to evade capture by fleeing to the Badiya al-Sham region of eastern Homs.

With ISIS’s defeat in al-Safa, the Syrian Arab Army is now in full control of southern Syria for the first time since 2011.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2018 02:22 || Comments || Link || [336093 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  I keep reading that when ISIS - or whoever - is routed in a given place, the US "relocates them." WTF?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/20/2018 7:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Remember MM, for Assad (and Yippy) 'Daesh' can denote Kurds or other western-aligned groups.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/20/2018 10:04 Comments || Top||


Aleppo: Syrian army attacks Turkish myrmidons in west, Turks attack various rebels, killing and capturing scores


Syrian Army launches major assault against Turkish-backed rebels in west Aleppo

[AlMasdar] (12:15 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) launched a powerful assault across the western countryside of Aleppo last night, a military source told Al-Masdar News this morning.

According to the military source, the Syrian Arab Army unleashed a flurry of missiles and artillery shells towards the defenses of the Turkish-backed National Liberation Front (NLF) in several parts of western Aleppo.

The source said that the Syrian Army specifically targeted the NLF’s defenses in the Rashideen 4 and 5 suburbs, along with the Al-Mansourah, Scientific Research Building, Jabal Maarah, and Jazira.

The Syrian Army’s overnight attack was conducted in response to the militant assault on the west Aleppo districts.

These types of attacks by the Turkish-backed rebels and jihadists have become prevalent over the last three months; this has prompted the Syrian military to strengthen their defenses inside of Aleppo city.

Rebel commander killed by Turkish military in northern Syria

[AlMasdar] (2:00 P.M.) – A rebel commander and several of his fighters were killed during an attack by the Turkish military and their allies in northern Syria this past weekend, opposition activists reported on social media.

According to the reports, the commander of the Furqa al-Safawah rebel group, Mahmoud ‘Azazi, was killed during a fierce battle with the Turkish military and their allies near the city of Afrin over the weekend.

Azazi, as known by his nom de guerre “Abu Nawarah”, was the main commander of Furqa al-Safawah; he had previously fought against the Syrian government forces and Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG).

The Turkish military and their allies launched a new assault on Sunday that targeted several rebel groups that were accused of looting and kidnapping in the Afrin region.

Turkish army tanks and military vehicles have entered the battlefield and the Turkish artillery units are pounding the positions of the rebels in Afrin.

At least 25 militant have been killed and tens more have been wounded in the infighting, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

Scores of rebels surrender to Turkish Army after fierce clashes in Aleppo

[AlMasdar] (12:00 A.M.) – Scores of rebel fighters surrendered themselves to the Turkish Army and National Liberation Front (NLF) after a series of intense clashes these last 72 hours.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the rebels from Shuhada al-Sharqiyah agreed to surrender their fighters to the Turkish Army and NLF after their brief fight with the latter in and around Afrin city.

Shuhada Al-Shaqiyah was accused of kidnapping and looting by the Turkish Army and NL; this prompted the recent military operation in Afrin.

Furthermore, the SOHR said that at least 11 rebels were killed and more than 25 others injured during these recent clashes.

Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2018 02:22 || Comments || Link || [336075 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2018-11-20
  Daesh suffers devastating defeat as Syrian Army liberates entire Al-Safa region
Mon 2018-11-19
  Key Taliban commanders among 7 detained by Afghan Commandos in Takhar
Sun 2018-11-18
  43 civilians killed by anti-ISIS coalition strikes in east Syria
Sat 2018-11-17
  Taliban kill 30 policemen in Farah province
Fri 2018-11-16
  Saudi Arabia will BEHEAD Khashoggi killers
Thu 2018-11-15
  Maute brothers' teen cousin surrenders in Mindanao
Wed 2018-11-14
  Ceasefire Goes Into Effect In South Following Unprecedented Rocket Barrage
Tue 2018-11-13
  Gaza factions agree to cease fire if Israel halts attack - Palestinian official
Mon 2018-11-12
  IAF have begun air strikes on Gaza.
Sun 2018-11-11
  Yemeni forces 'seize Hodeidah's main hospital' amid air raids
Sat 2018-11-10
  Yemeni forces, Saudi-led coalition launch 'vast' Hodeidah push
Fri 2018-11-09
  One dead after Melbourne knife attack being treated as terrorism - ISIS claims actions of known wolf
Thu 2018-11-08
  Syrian Man Gets Life in Prison for Making Parts in IEDs Used Against U.S.
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