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Syrian Army Advances in Palmyra, ISIL Militants Flee
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
NSA will destroy millions of American calling records 'as soon as possible'	7 20:39 Besoeker [11131]
Champ denies sacrificing Kurds to gain Turkey's help in Islamic State fight	8 21:25 JosephMendiola [11133]
Iraq Football Pitch Blasts Kill Four	0 [11128]
Good morning	1 04:50 Zenobia Floger6220 [11128]
Æthiopian troops seize new area from Shaboobs	0 [11128]
Yemen fighters take Aden's Tawahi district from Houthis	0 [11128]
YPG/YPJ intensifying operations against ISIS in Rojava	0 [11130]
Sirrin cleared from ISIS gangs	0 [11127]
Fresh deadly fighting in Kufra despite ceasefire promises	0 [11128]
Clashes in west Tripoli between Libya Dawn forces	0 [11126]
IS seizes Khoms judge	0 [11128]
U.S., allies target Islamic State with 26 air strikes in Syria, Iraq	1 08:54 Clyde Borgia7976 [11130]
Mexico search for missing students turns up 129 bodies	2 09:03 AlanC [11131]
Senior ISIL leader arrested along with three others in Istanbul	0 [11131]
Turkey detains ISIS suspects in new police sweep	0 [11129]
Yemen ground fighting rages after airstrikes pause	0 [11133]
ALP commander joins Taliban group along with his 7 men in Sar-e-Pul	1 16:40 Besoeker [11129]
ISIS chief al-Baghdadi approved beheading of a woman as a 'wedding gift'	0 [11131]
Boko Haram Fighters Behead Three in Cameroon Raid	1 14:11 3dc [11130]
Syria: Civilian Killed, Others Injured in Mortar Shells, Bomb Attack	0 [11130]
Syrian Army Advances in Palmyra, ISIL Militants Flee	0 [11131]
Pakistani killed by Indian firing	0 [11131]
Two policemen, woman killed in Quetta	0 [11127]
Gun battle at Indian Punjab police station ends, ten killed	1 07:32 Frank G [11129]
'German-Somali' behind Mogadishu's Jazeera hotel blast	2 20:32 Pappy [11130]
Southern Front kills scores of Syrian regime soldiers in Daraa	1 12:07 lord garth [11134]
Turkish tanks shell Syrian Kurdish village	1 08:02 ed in texas [11127]
ISIS withdraws from last stronghold near Kobani	0 [11128]
Palestinian suspect killed during West Bank arrest operation	0 [11130]
Page 2: WoT Background
Senior Hamas official: No more military assistance from Iran	0 [11126]
Gurdaspur attack: Punjab Police defeat terror again	1 21:53 JosephMendiola [11132]
One Minor a Day Reported for Radicalization in Britain	1 12:52 Bobby [11125]
#BringBackOurRebels: Obama's 50 Man 'Vetted Moderate' Syrian Rebel Army Vanishes After Training	6 19:23 BrerRabbit [11133]
U.S. puts N. Korea among world's worst countries for human trafficking	3 14:20 rjschwarz [11130]
N.Korean Economy 'Improving'	4 19:32 JosephMendiola [11129]
Rescued From ISIS By Kurds, Re-Armed Christians Warn NATO and Turkey	2 15:25 ptah [11125]
UK backpedals on Daesh Libya airstrike threat	1 09:07 AlanC [11129]
Qaddafi collaborator Khuwaildi Al-Hamidi dies of heart attack	0 [11127]
Hezbollah lashes out against Turkish PKK airstrikes	1 22:14 lord garth [11132]
Turkey threatens to scrap jail visits for Ocalan from Kurdish party	1 10:08 Shipman [11128]
Hadi al-Amri: PKK and its affiliates are the spearhead against ISIS in Syria	0 [11125]
Certain countries planning to break up Afghanistan in two parts: Saleh	0 [11126]
Shafqat to be hanged on August 4	0 [11125]
In Pakistan execution drive, militants are a minority	0 [11128]
Drone shot down by Pak army was flown from India, says ISPR	1 11:36 3dc [11129]
Syria's Assad says army consolidating in most important areas	0 [11126]
Syrian Army in Latakia weakens to favor of NDF militia	0 [11128]
Egypt PM extends North Sinai curfew for three months	0 [11130]
Gazans protest cutbacks in UN services	2 08:56 CrazyFool [11128]
Turkey, U.S. aim for safe zone cleared of Islamic State in northern Syria	0 [11130]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Tom Brady's Four Game Suspension Upheld By The NFL	0 [11126]
Boston Sez 'Hell No!' To The 2024 Olympics	3 14:57 Raj [11127]
Stoney Fork, Kentucky fella no longer handling snakes in church.	2 21:36 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [11129]
Obama Sez - “I actually think I’m a pretty good president,"	19 23:11 OldSpook [11132]
Tony Lo Bianco: Just a Common Soldier	1 11:35 Sgt. D.T. [11128]
Rebels say Ukrainian artillery hammers Gorlovka	0 [11129]
Gunfight Kills at least 20 at Afghan Wedding	7 18:41 swksvolFF [11128]
Chinese woman trapped in escalator dies, but saves toddler son	1 08:52 anon1 [11129]
Obama and leaders discuss possible sanctions, force for South Sudan	0 [11129]
Riyadh rover: Saudi car spotted in Jaffa	2 18:00 Ebbang Uluque6305 [11133]
Hasenstab stands firm on Ukraine debt	0 [11127]
Page 4: Opinion
Honor is Whatever You Can Still Betray	0 [11126]
The F-35: Throwing Good Money after Bad	17 19:54 Total War [11131]
Page 6: Politix
Champ stumbles & bumbles thru attack on Huckabee's 'oven' comments	2 20:38 Fillmore2357 [11127]
Traditional marriage believer? Sorry Ambassador, you cannot come to the U.S.	3 14:11 Raj [11127]
Short video: What happended to Hillary ?	3 21:41 JosephMendiola [11128]

    
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                        21:34 CrazyFool

                        21:32 Huperens Peacock6234

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                        21:25 JosephMendiola

                        20:39 Besoeker

                        20:38 Fillmore2357

                        20:32 Pappy

                        20:31 Fillmore2357

                        19:54 Total War

                        19:32 3dc

                        19:32 JosephMendiola

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                        19:23 BrerRabbit

                        18:41 swksvolFF

                        18:39 Alaska Paul

                        18:02 Shipman

                        18:00 Ebbang Uluque6305

                        17:56 Shipman

                        17:55 Shipman

Who's in the News
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14	Islamic State
5	Govt of Pakistan
3	Govt of Syria
2	Houthis
2	Arab Spring
1	Hezbollah
1	Jaish al-Islam
1	Narcos
1	Salafists
1	Taliban
1	al-Shabaab
1	Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis
1	Baloch Liberation Army
1	Boko Haram
1	Hamas

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Mon 2015-07-27
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Sun 2015-07-26
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Sat 2015-07-25
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Fri 2015-07-24
Senior Al-Qaida Leader Killed by US Airstrike in Afghanistan

Thu 2015-07-23
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Wed 2015-07-22
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Tue 2015-07-21
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Mon 2015-07-20
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Sun 2015-07-19
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Sat 2015-07-18
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