Extremists have attacked Mali’s Kati military base on the outskirts of the capital city Bamako, the ruling junta confirmed Friday.
It’s the first time Kati, Mali’s largest military base, has been hit by extremists in their more than 10-year insurgency in the West African country.
Two vehicles loaded with explosives detonated at the camp at about 5 a.m., according to a statement issued by the military.
“The Malian Armed Forces vigorously repelled a terrorist attack on the Kati barracks,” said the statement, which said that seven attackers were killed and eight arrested.
“The terrorists first blew up the vehicles at the entrance to the military camp, then shells were fired at the camp,” said a military official, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
Another group of extremists entered the camp on foot and “began burning vehicles parked in the camp, and then the attackers stole two army vehicles,” he said.
Friday’s attack on the Kati barracks base follows a coordinated series of insurgent attacks Thursday. In one of those incidents, the extremists attacked a police base in Kolokani, 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Bamako and two Malian soldiers were killed, said the military in an earlier statement.
The leader of Mali’s ruling junta Lt. Col. Assimi Goita frequently stays at the Kati camp, where he launched the 2020 coup that brought him to power.
Extremists linked to al-Qaeda and the ISIS terrorist group have been gaining ground in their decade-long insurgency. Their attacks have mostly been in northern Mali but recently the extremists have moved into central Mali. This month they’ve moved closer to the capital.
Last week gunmen attacked an army checkpoint about 60 kilometers (37 miles) outside Bamako, killing at least six people and wounding several others, officials said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but they appear to be by the al-Qaeda-linked group known as JNIM.
The attacks show “how the al-Qaeda affiliate Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin continues to expand its operations outside its traditional strongholds in northern and central Mali,” said Héni Nsaibia, a senior researcher at The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
“As in other Sahelian countries such as Burkina Faso and Niger ... major cities including the capitals themselves, are increasingly surrounded by a steady spread of Islamist militancy that poses an ever-increasing risk and challenge to the security environment.”
Mali has struggled to contain the “Islamic extremist insurgency” since 2012. Extremist rebels took control of Mali’s northern cities but were then forced out with the help of a French-led military operation. The extremists regrouped in the desert and began attacking the Malian army and its allies.
Insecurity has worsened with attacks in the northern and central regions on military targets, civilians and UN peacekeepers.
The UN force has said more than 250 of its peacekeepers and personnel have died since 2013, making Mali the deadliest of the UN’s dozen peacekeeping missions worldwide.
Last week the United Nations mission in Mali announced that Egypt will suspend its participation in the peacekeeping force by mid-August, citing deadly attacks. Seven Egyptian peacekeepers have been killed in Mali so far this year, according to officials. Tensions have grown between Mali’s junta and the UN peacekeeping force. Earlier this month the government told the UN mission to suspend all flights to move its forces in the country.
The government also detained 49 Ivorian soldiers who flew in to help with security for a company contracted by the UN mission. Separately, a European military force that helped fight extremists withdrew from Mali at the end of June. The French military, which spearheaded the Takuba task force, announced the end of its deployment in Mali. The move was tied to France’s decision earlier this year to withdraw troops from Mali after nine years helping Malian forces fight the extremists.
The European force was composed of several hundred special forces troops from 10 countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden. It aimed at training and protecting Malian combat forces.
The exit of the European troops and tensions with the UN peacekeeping force come as Mali’s junta has grown closer to Russia with the Wagner Group, a private Russian mercenary force, sending fighters to Mali.
In Nigeria, Ansaru is a splinter of Boko Haram. In Mali, Ansaru has been associated with JNIM, the local branch of Al Qaeda in North Africa. There are other Ansarus and Ansar ul Islams scattered around the world — it’s a popular name. For some reason the Nigerian one has something against the local bandits.
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#SaudiArabia has seized nearly 15 million #captagon pills through the Red Sea port of Jeddah, an amphetamine that seeks to wreak havoc in the Kingdom as well as across the region.https://t.co/JBNxuz09fH
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I was curious.
Saudi Arabia regularly announces seizures of captagon. The drug is known to come from Syria and transits through Lebanon in cargo such as fruit and vegetables.
The vast majority of captagon, which derives its name from a once legal drug against narcolepsy, is produced in Syria and Lebanon and smuggled to its main consumer market in the Gulf.
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amphetamine/speed
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An early version of Speed, no less.
It’s made everywhere in the Middle East by everyone who needs money — the process is about as complicated as meth, I believe. So ISIS, the Syrian opposition, drug lords, etc. They all use their own product and sell the excess. ISIS fighters lived on the stuff, believing it gives fearless courage and prevents hunger. As far as I can tell, it’s as common over there as beer is here.
[BBC] Cyber-attacks on one of the world's busiest ports have nearly doubled since the start of the Covid pandemic.
The number of monthly attacks targeting the Port of Los Angeles is now around 40 million, the port's executive director Gene Seroka told the BBC.
Los Angeles is the busiest port in the western hemisphere, handling more than $250bn (£210bn) of cargo every year.
The threats are believed to come mainly from Europe and Russia, and aim to disrupt the US economy, Mr Seroka said.
"Our intelligence shows the threats are coming from Russia and parts of Europe. We have to stay steps ahead of those who want to hurt international commerce," he told the BBC's World Service.
They face daily ransomware, malware, spear phishing and credential harvesting attacks, with the aim of causing as much disruption as possible and slowing down economies.
Teaming up with the FBI
The Port of Los Angeles is now working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's cyber-crime team to prevent attacks and improve cyber-security.
The port has invested millions of dollars in cyber-protection, developing one of the world's first Cyber Resilience Centres, which is part of the FBI.
"We must take every precaution against potential cyber-incidents, particularly those that could threaten or disrupt the flow of cargo," said Mr Seroka.
The Cyber Resilience Centre provides enhanced intelligence gathering and heightened protection against cyber-threats within the maritime supply chain.
It is a hub for the port to receive, analyse and share information with those who operate on the dock, such as cargo handlers and shipping lines.
Supply chain blockages
During the pandemic global supply chains slowed down as lockdowns closed factories and workers were forced to stay at home.
The strain on supply chains has since eased, Mr Seroka said. In January 2022 there were 109 container ships queuing for more than two days to get into the Port of Los Angeles. Today there are around 20 waiting to dock.
But Mr Seroka believes the blockages won't clear completely until 2023. "There's so much cargo coming in and not enough space," he said.
"The past two years have proven the vital role that ports hold to our nation's critical infrastructure, supply chains and economy. It's paramount we keep the systems as secure as possible," he added.
[IsraelTimes] Anti-regime group MEK axes annual conference after security warning from Albanian government; US embassy in Tirana urges citizens to stay away
Iranian dissidents in Albania on Friday said they had canceled a summit aimed at regime change in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... following warnings from local authorities of a possible terrorist threat.
Some 3,000 Iranian dissidents from the group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, also known as the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, or MEK, live at a site called Ashraf 3 in Manez, 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of Albania’s capital, Tirana.
They had planned to hold the Free Iran World Summit at the site on July 23-24 to "call on the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra) ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... to adopt a decisive policy against the Tehran regime."
The event was supposed to be attended or joined online by various high-profile political delegations, including hundreds of politicians from six continents, organizers said.
A statement from the group said the summit was "postponed until further notice upon recommendations by the Albanian government, for security reasons, and due to terrorist threats and conspiracies."
Albanian authorities did not respond to questions on the threat.
The US Embassy in Tirana warned its citizens that it was "aware of a potential threat targeting the Free Iran World Summit" and called on its citizens "to avoid this event."
According to local media, prosecutors have opened investigations into a possible spy ring, ordered check-ups of the venue and questioned some former members of the group.
Shahin Gobadi, the dissident group’s Gay Paree-based spokesperson, also mentioned "the plot to bomb the grand gathering of Free Iran on June 30, 2018, in Gay Paree by one of [Iran’s] active diplomats, Assadollah Assadi."
Last year, Assadi was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Belgium for criminal masterminding a thwarted kaboom against MEK in La Belle France.
MEK began as a Marxist group opposing the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It supported the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but soon had a falling out with Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and turned against his holy manal government, carrying out a series of liquidations and bombings in the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The group later fled to Iraq and backed dictator Saddam Hussein during his bloody eight-year war with Iran in the 1980s, leading many people in Iran to oppose the group. Although now primarily based in Albania, the group claims to operate a network inside Iran.
The annual summit has been hosted in Albania after the Balkan country agreed to take in members of the group at the request of Washington and 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... in 2013.
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The mujjaheddin e khalq, rebels against the Iranian regime. Khalq meaning 'the masses'. Pushing for a more reformed kind of i-slam, which is neither here nor there really, just a lesser dangerous rabies you ask me.
Referred to by the Ayatollah and the rest of the Iranian regime as monafiqeen, meaning cursed 'hypocrites'. I think Israel could really use them, just as we do the balochis, Tehreek and others. Probably does.
Judge Tony Hunt said Moslem convert Lisa Smith, 40, from Dundalk on Ireland's east coast, was a low risk for reoffending.
[AlAhram] An Irish former soldier was locked away You have the right to remain silent... for 15 months on Friday for joining the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group in Syria, despite appeals for leniency.
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[Post Millenial] This should turn out well. *popcorn*
An Antifa direct action broke out in Oregon on Saturday, where members of the far-left violent extremist movement suffered a humiliating defeat after the group was confronted by a group of women and bikers protecting a Salem bar hosting a family barbecue event.
The confrontation appears to have now ignited a feud between Antifa and members of various Oregon motorcycle clubs.
Breaking: #Antifa members including Clifford Eiffler-Rodriguez (in blue top & hat) gathered for a direct action to shut down the Honky Tonk bar in Salem, Ore. but were met by a group of bikers. One of the Antifa begins macing people before retreating. pic.twitter.com/08i6D89Oza
Among the members of Antifa at the failed direct action included Clifford Eiffler-Rodriguez, who was previously arrested for allegedly assaulting a female police officer at a violent Salem protest on Aug. 10, 2021, when Antifa gathered to attack participants of a street church protest outside Planned Parenthood. Eiffler-Rodriguez was wearing a blue top and shouting from a bullhorn at Saturday's direct action.
Antifa member Anthony A. Amoss was also one of the militants at the Antifa direct action in Salem, Ore. on Saturday. He pleaded guilty last week in federal court for doing over $164k in damages to a federal courthouse.
In live stream footage, a group of bikers can be seen approaching a group of Antifa that were gathered across the street from Honky Tonk bar, with their identities concealed behind face masks, hats, and other gear. Yelling and eventually shoving breaks out between the two groups.
"Get off my f—ng car, c—nt," a woman yells before a scuffle and pepper spraying breaks out.
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...they'll also find out that bikers do not work on shifts or a schedule and have no problem in off the clock anytime or anywhere once you start this stuff.
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Often, biker clubs give the job of dealing with troublesome non-bikers to their "prospects," people who are trying to prove they belong in the club. These people have an incentive to be vigorous in "making their bones."
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Just rip off their masks and \make sure to video their exposed faces.
When the idiots realize that they cannot hide behind their anonymizes, they might stop pulling this crap.
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I'm with you besoeker, exposing your face is useless when you are a useless member of society.
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"You can't shame a deviant. You can't effectively penalize it. It doesn't understand your laws or your problem with it. All it knows is it likes your misery. So it understands misery. And that's how to communicate with it." - Judge Dredd, 2000AD
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The police always come to the rescue of the POS.
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This is a bad move on Antifa's part. Why not just go ahead and pick a fight with the Cartels or the Yakuza while they're at it? It would make as much sense.
You see, Antifa and the Proud Boys are operating on sort of the same "wavelength" as enemies, with agreed upon (if unspoken) do's and don'ts. Not so with 1% bikers, who can only be properly, fully understood by other 1% bikers. (I've known a few in my day.) They have their own... "ways" of dealing with problems. Nasty, unpleasant ways. So if I were one Clifford Rodriguez or Anthony Amoss, I would be going to my FBI handler right now and asking for protection.
[NPASYRIA] Unidentified drones targeted on Friday a Ottoman Turkish military base in Duhok in Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). It is the second attack within 48 hours.
The Emirati newspaper al-Ain cited an Iraqi security source as saying that the two drones targeted the Ottoman TurkishBamarni base in Dohuk.
Explosions were heard at the base, which is the largest Ottoman Turkish base equipped with an airstrip. No casualties were reported, according to the same source.
It is likely that the attacks came in response to the Ottoman Turkish attack on a resort in Dohuk, which killed nine civilians and injured 23 others including children.
There are 11 Ottoman Turkish military bases in the KRI, according to statements by Ottoman Turkish military officials, but intersecting sources indicate that 27 Ottoman Turkish bases, as well as intelligence headquarters deploy in Amadiyah, Batufa, Zakho and Dohuk.
[IsraelTimes] Nasser al-Shaer hospitalized with bullet wounds to legs after attack by unknown assailants in Nablus; terror group accuses rival Fatah of being behind shooting
Paleostinian police said unknown assailants on Friday shot and maimed an official affiliated with Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, rulers in the West Bank.
Nasser al-Shaer, who served as deputy Hamas prime minister for a year and a half after the terror group won the last Paleostinian elections in 2006, was admitted to a hospital with gunshot wounds to his legs.
Photos on social media showed a car he had reportedly been riding in riddled with bullet holes in the driver’s side door.
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... condemned the shooting and ordered an investigation.
He also phoned al-Shaer and wished him a speedy recovery, according to the official Paleostinian news agency Wafa.
Hamas, which in 2007 routed pro-Abbas forces in the Gaza Strip, denounced the shooting as an "liquidation attempt," calling on its rival Fatah movement to stop inciting against Hamas.
Repeated efforts to reconcile Abbas’ Paleostinian Authority, which holds sway in parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Gaza’s Death Eater Hamas rulers have failed.
Al-Shaer also works as an academic at An-Najah University in Nablus city
Civilians and militants are injured due to clashes among Turkish-backed #SNA factions in #Syria's Sere Kaniye, as insecurity and chaos continue to unrest residents. https://t.co/W8Ofu415RX
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) July 22, 2022
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[NPASYRIA] Three Syrian government soldiers were killed and seven were maimed Thursday in an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on the outskirts of Syria’s capital, Damascus.
State-run news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying, "At about 12:32 a.m. on Friday, the Israeli enemy launched an aerial act of aggression with bursts of missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, some sites in the vicinity of Damascus."
"Syrian air defenses intercepted the missiles and downed some of them," the source said.
In addition, media outlets reported that the Israeli bombing targeted the Air Force Intelligence offices at the Mezzeh Military Airport vicinity, and a weapons depot for Iranian forces in the vicinity of Sayyidah Zaynab area.
And now we know what was there.
On July 2, Israel targeted sites south of the Syrian coastal governorate of Tartus, wounding two civilians.
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes inside Syria over the past few years targeting what it says Iranian-backed militia’s strongholds.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) July 22, 2022
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It ain't a russophobic post. It's good news. The 'children' were probably 17 year old jihadis with RPGs. And if not they'd grow up to become that. ZFG and good hit.
[NPASYRIA] On Friday, government forces raided a number of houses in the village of al-Yadudah in the western countryside of Daraa, south Syria.
A military group, consisting of nine cars and armored vehicles, led by Brigadier General Lo’ay al-Ali, head of the Military Security Branch, and Mustafa al-Masalma, nicknamed al-Kassem, arrived this morning in the town, local sources told North Press.
The government forces raided several houses in the town and clashed with a number of local button men, including Obeida al-Diri and Iyad Ja’ara, who are former leaders of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... ).
Al-Diri was seriously maimed, and a number of civilians were maimed too. They were all transferred to the National Hospital in the town of Tafas.
The fate of al-Diri is still unknown.
The government forces set fire to a house, belonging to a Syrian refugee family in Jordan, after raiding it on the pretext that Ja’ara and al-Diri lived in the same house.
Since the government forces re-captured Daraa in 2018, the governorate has been living in a state of security chaos, as it witnesses murders and thefts on a daily basis, despite the government’s intensive presence in its towns and villages.
In 2021, Daraa Governorate went through an 80-day-seige. After that, a number of Daraa’s notables and government forces, with mediation of Russian officers, reached a ceasefire agreement on September 5, 2021, including handing over weapons and deploying governmental security posts in the towns of the governorate.
Four former forces of Evil of Syrian opposition armed factions were rubbed out on Monday by Obeida al-Diri, in the western countryside of Daraa, southern Syria.
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[NPASYRIA] Combined Special Ops Joint Task Force-Levant (SOJTF_Levant) said on Friday that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) arrested 19 suspects of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Organization (ISIS) in Hawl southeast of Hasakah, a city northeast Syria.
"SDF and Asayish conducted another successful joint Defeat ISIS clearance operation in AlHol," the SOJTF_Levant, which is affiliated with the US-led Global Coalition, tweeted.
The operation resulted in the arrest of "19 suspected ISIS controllers."
"Operations like these continually root out ISIS wherever they threaten the security in the region NE Syria," it added.
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De-escalation zone in #Syria's northwest witnesses an unprecedented shelling between government forces and opposition factions since signing Russian-Turkish ceasefire agreement. #Turkey#Russia#SNAhttps://t.co/koxYfbtAQr
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[NPASYRIA] On Friday, three individuals bit the dust in a Ottoman Turkish drone attack on a car in the eastern countryside of Qamishli, a city northeast Syria.
A local source told North Press, "At about 07:00 pm, a Ottoman Turkish drone targeted a car in the village of Shorek east of Qamishli."
"Three individuals were killed in the attack, and the car was completely burnt," the source added.
The source went further saying that the targeting caused some shrapnel to reach schools in the village, resulting in material losses.
Following Tehran’s summit, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... has intensified its attacks using drones against civilians, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and Syrian government forces amidst successive statements by Ottoman Turkish officials, threatening to launch a new military operation against Syria’s north.
Turkey’s President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... has recently announced plans to carry out another major military cross-border incursion into northern Syria. Erdogan specified his targets in the two northern Syrian cities of Manbij and Tel Rifaat.
On July 1, Erdogan said that Ankara’s new military operation in northern Syria could begin at any moment.
"The time has come to clear these lands from the terrorist organizations," Erdogan threatened during Tehran Summit.
Tehran’s Summit brought presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey together on July 19 with Syrian issue on the top of its agenda.
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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 theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
Antifa member 
^Then we may be treated to the spectacle of FBI assets fighting it out with ATF assets in the streets of Oregon. Oh Joy! 
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...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
