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Senior IS Leader Returned to Iraq from Turkey
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Ghani Bans Pakistani Trucks From Entering Afghanistan	2 18:40 Frank G [11135]
4 Soldiers Injured in Roadside Bomb Detonated at Gaza Strip Border Fence	0 [11128]
Good morning	2 11:21 Bobby [11127]
Morocco Acquits ex-Guantanamo Detainee	0 [11123]
Syria Troops Find Mass Grave West of Raqa	0 [11125]
Desperate to Come Home, Syrians Brave IS Mines in Raqa	0 [11123]
Senior IS Leader Returned to Iraq from Turkey	1 07:51 Frank G [11136]
Rantburg Exclusive: 2/16/2018 SDF Battlefield Combat Report Afrin, Syria	5 09:19 Clurong Peacock9529 [11126]
Radical Imam's Widow Jailed over Kenyan Attack	0 [11123]
Al-Qaida fighter, absent from court, gets life in prison	0 [11129]
Iraq jails Turkish woman, Syrian for life over IS ties	0 [11132]
Operation Sinai 2018, Day 7: Egyptian army kills 3 'takfiris', arrests 224 'criminal elements'	0 [11127]
Police: Momena was in contact with foreign fighters in Syria	0 [11126]
Local Taliban leader among 6 killed in US airstrike in Uruzgan	0 [11127]
Over 7 civilians killed in 41 aggression air strikes over 24 hours	3 11:41 Procopius2k [11127]
Paramilitaries kill Islamic State members attempting attack against borders from Syria	0 [11124]
Islamic State doctor arrested in an offensive, northwest Mosul: Military intelligence	0 [11128]
Al-Qaeda readies for war of revenge after assassination of commander by rival rebel faction in northwest Syria	2 15:23 g(r)omgoru [11128]
Top ISIS commander eliminated by Syrian airstrike in rural Hama	1 08:58 Frank G [11125]
Turkish-backed rebels expand control over southern Afrin, Kurds invite Assad to join the fun	0 [11128]
ISIS scores big advance in Yarmouk Camp, entire district nearly captured	0 [11128]
Turkey: Six journalists given life sentences over coup	0 [11127]
Suspected Al-Shabaab Militants Kill 3 In Kenyan School Attack	0 [11131]
Somali Troops Recapture Town From Al-Shabaab	0 [11128]
Roadside Bomb Blast Kills Puntland Soldiers In Galgala Mountains	0 [11126]
Gang leader eliminated, 1 officer killed in anti-terrorist op in southern Russia	0 [11126]
Four arrested with 25 firearms in Bandarban	0 [11129]
Indian troops kill two Kashmiri people in Poonch	0 [11129]
Page 2: WoT Background
3 men accused of trying to export drone parts to Hezbollah	1 01:32 Besoeker [11134]
Egypt halts deliveries of diesel into Gaza	0 [11124]
Yemeni Red Crescent organizes Cholera's training course	0 [11123]
US considers sanctioning Turkey over latest disputes: State Dept.	1 08:35 Besoeker [11127]
Hezbollah chief threatens Israel’s offshore oil in TV address	0 [11125]
US aims to separate part of Syria to create Kurdish-dominated autonomy -- Lavrov	2 08:17 Besoeker [11127]
Currency devaluation against US dollar rattles Iran	0 [11127]
Tillerson says US-Turkish relations at 'crisis point'	6 20:38 Elmerert Hupens2660 [11132]
ISIS is almost gone but the fighting continues: Who’s still in Syria?	4 12:27 trailing wife [11128]
Briton arrested on terrorism charges... because he fought against ISIS	1 14:58 Bright Pebbles [11127]
Political crisis in the Maldives	0 [11127]
War on terror nondiscriminatory, Talal clarifies after Pashtun dress controversy	0 [11125]
Govt to punish accusers who falsely allege blasphemy, IHC told	0 [11130]
USA should accept Taliban’s talks offer: JI chief	1 14:26 Mike Kozlowski [11131]
Top Iranians Laud Dead Hezbollah Terrorist, Call for Israel’s Destruction	3 17:05 newc [11125]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Mueller Confirms: Russia Used Anti-Trump Resistance To Stoke Division	10 18:00 JohnQC [11129]
General Kelley Overhauls White House Security Clearance Procedure	3 11:17 trailing wife [11133]
Indian woman arrested after posing as man & marrying 2 females for dowries	3 17:39 Glenmore [11130]
Copycats: Teen arrested over Snapchat post threatening ‘Round 2 of Florida’	2 07:50 Besoeker [11127]
Deputies called to suspected shooter’s home 39 times over seven years	0 [11133]
‘New dawn’ for South Africa, says new president Ramaphosa	5 09:02 Besoeker [11129]
SC issues contempt notice to Rao Anwar for failing to show up in court	0 [11131]
Germany to US: we’ll spend more on defence, you stay involved	7 19:18 Anomalous Sources [11133]
Man who killed wife with acid sentenced to death in UAE	3 11:55 AlanC [11134]
Man kills wife, her ‘lover’ for honour in Dera Murad Jamali	0 [11126]
EU must break up Google and Facebook's 'damaging' dominance over society warns George Soros	7 17:00 newc [11127]
Soros Backed Pro-Mass Migration NGO Has Funds Frozen Amidst Sex Abuse, Fraud Claims	0 [11128]
Page 4: Opinion
Where Is the Democratic Outrage Over Spying on Americans?	5 17:03 Clem [11129]
Democrats have moved far to the nation's left on abortion	2 21:11 rjschwarz [11127]
Townhall's George Mano: John Bolton for Special Prosecutor	3 08:59 Besoeker [11127]
Black Panther film fuels calls for release of jailed political activists	4 16:23 Zhang Fei [11130]
Victor Davis Hansen - The Fifth American War	8 21:20 JohnQC [11128]
Where were James Clapper and John Brennan when the Kremlin was meddling?	9 21:25 JohnQC [11130]
USS Ford: Sigh...	8 18:45 Claique and Company3404 [11127]
This Week in Guns, February 17th, 2018	3 09:25 badanov [11134]
Told Ya So - Too weak to throw a 1 pound hand grenade (redux)	10 17:21 newc [11127]
Monsters Inc	3 09:04 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [11132]
Islam and Modernity in Pakistan-II	0 [11128]
Page 6: Politix
Democrats assail $120 billion in stock buybacks in 2018 as new 'GOP tax scam'	5 15:02 ClemKadiddlehopper9000 [11130]
Florida governor calls for FBI director’s resignation over missed Parkland tip-off	13 22:15 Regular joe [11128]
Republican Mitt Romney announces US Senate bid	5 17:37 newc [11130]
DNC Fundraises Off Florida Shooting	6 16:47 newc [11129]
Jeff Sessions: We Are Ending ‘Executive Branch Legal Activism’	4 11:05 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [11128]
Mueller: Russians conducted 'information warfare' against US during election	20 20:52 rjschwarz [11128]

    
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                        21:25 JohnQC

                        21:20 JohnQC

                        21:17 JohnQC

                        21:11 rjschwarz

                        20:53 rjschwarz

                        20:52 rjschwarz

                        20:38 Elmerert Hupens2660

                        20:25 Rob Crawford

                        20:22 Rob Crawford

                        19:26 Frank G

                        19:23 Frank G

                        19:18 Anomalous Sources

                        18:45 Claique and Company3404

                        18:40 Frank G

                        18:37 Rambler in Virginia

                        18:30 JohnQC

                        18:14 JohnQC

                        18:00 JohnQC

                        17:58 magpie

                        17:46 JohnQC

                        17:39 Glenmore

                        17:37 newc

                        17:21 newc

Who's in the News
30	[untagged]
10	Islamic State
5	Sublime Porte
4	Govt of Pakistan
3	al-Shabaab (AQ)
3	Hezbollah
2	al-Qaeda
2	Houthis
1	Hamas
1	Islamic Emirate of Caucasus
1	Islamic Jihad (Palestian)
1	Jamaat-e-Islami
1	Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (IS)
1	Taliban
1	al-Nusra
1	Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (IS)
1	Antifa
1	Commies
1	Govt of Iran
1	Govt of Pakistain Proxies
1	Govt of Syria

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Two weeks of WOT

Sat 2018-02-17
Senior IS Leader Returned to Iraq from Turkey

Fri 2018-02-16
Syria's Idlib IS-Free after 'Surrender' Tuesday

Thu 2018-02-15
Rebels strike western Syria’s primary power grid to leave millions without electricity

Wed 2018-02-14
'White powder' sent to Pres.Obama's DC office just 24 hours after Don & Vanessa Trump got similar package

Tue 2018-02-13
Drone strike kills six Al Qaeda suspects in Yemen

Mon 2018-02-12
Sword-wielding man injures 4 worshipers at Indonesian church

Sun 2018-02-11
Jaish-e-Mohammad targets sleeping families at Sunjuwan Army camp, kills two soldiers

Sat 2018-02-10
TTP splinter group chief Khan Said ‘Sajna’ reported killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan

Fri 2018-02-09
Houthi leader killed in precision strike along with 35 others

Thu 2018-02-08
US kills more than 100 Assad regime fighters in largest deliberate strike against Syrian government forces

Wed 2018-02-07
Israelis kill Ahmad Nasser Jarrar, terrorist behind murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevah

Tue 2018-02-06
Chlorine gas dropped in rebel-held territory of Idlib, Syria

Mon 2018-02-05
Russian, Syrian warplanes unleash all-out attack on ISIS in northeast Hama as army prepares to eliminate pocket

Sun 2018-02-04
Bomb blast kills top military commander in S. Yemen Zoom

Sat 2018-02-03
Ahrar Al-Sham’s top commander in northern Idlib has been assassinated

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