August 1, 2016- Hamas’s burgeoning ties to Islamic State
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“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Yemeni govt gives Houthis deadline to sign UN deal
Headline: Four killed in Saudi Arabia in cross-border shelling from Yemen
The foreign minister of Yemen’s internationally recognized government on Monday gave Iran-backed Houthi militias and their allies a deadline till Aug. 7 to sign a UN peace proposal aimed at ending the country’s civil war. The Yemeni government has already accepted the UN peace proposal on Sunday after more than a year of armed conflict. “If they want peace, they have to sign the peace deal and we were patient,” Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi, who is also Yemen’s deputy prime minister, told reporters. Mekhlafi’s deadline also comes after the delegation of Yemen’s government decided to leave Kuwait on Monday after the Houthis side rejected the UN peace proposal. The foreign minister, meanwhile, said: “We’ll return at any moment, even an hour after our departure, if the other side agrees to sign this document which the [UN] envoy presented.” Mekhlafi also warned that the Yemeni people will challenge the Houthis who “are working against legitimacy” especially if they continued to be “hurdles” to peace in the country, which he warned to be on the verge of an economic collapse.
August 1, 2016
Egypt
Headline: Egypt rankled by Hamas’s burgeoning ties to Islamic State
Cairo is fuming over increasing cooperation between the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, and Islamic State-affiliated forces in the neighboring Sinai Peninsula, The Times of Israel has learned, despite attempts in recent months to alleviate the tension between Egypt and Gaza. This highly worrying development for the Egyptians began a few months ago, when prominent members of Hamas’s military wing crossed over from Gaza into Sinai to help IS set up its military infrastructure there. Several of them took their families with them, and were involved in training IS activists in the art of planting IEDs and firing missiles at tanks. Several even joined the IS-affiliated Sinai Province group, including Muhammad Abu Shawish and Abed Al Wahad. Another senior activist in Hamas, Nasser Judah, also originally of Gaza, was killed fighting with IS in Sinai. In May, The Times of Israel identified two more activists who crossed into Sinai as Mohammed Sami and Mahmoud Zinet. Egyptian sources say that whenever Cairo brings up the issue with Hamas’s leadership, it receives the same evasive answer: the activists assisting IS are all former members of the Palestinian organization. But the dissembling doesn’t end there: Hamas military wing commanders in Rafah regularly host commanders of Sinai Province. One of the most prominent of these is Suleiman Al-Sawarka, whose Al-Sawarka tribe was among the founders of Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, which went on to pledge allegiance to IS and become Sinai Province.
August 1, 2016
http://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-rankled-by-hamass-burgeoning-ties-to-islamic-state/
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Russian helicopter shot down, killing five on board
A Russian military helicopter has been shot down in Syria killing all five on board – the deadliest single incident for Russia’s military since its air campaign began last September. The Mi-8 transporter was brought down by rebels, Russia says, in northern Idlib province. It was returning from delivering humanitarian aid to the besieged city of Aleppo, the defence ministry said. It is not clear which group brought the helicopter down. An alliance of forces, including hardline jihadist factions, is the dominant power in Idlib. Jabhat Fateh al-Sham – formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra – is among those active in the province, and so-called Islamic State has vowed to carry out jihad against Russian forces.
August 1, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36939137
Syria Headline: Battle for Aleppo City heats up as the Syrian Army counters
Jaysh Al-Fateh (Army of Conquest) launched a large-scale offensive inside Aleppo City on Sunday morning that targeted the southern and northern districts under the government’s control. The purpose of this massive jihadist offensive was to lift the two-week long siege on the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo City; however, this has not been achieved as of yet. Jaysh Al-Fateh did make a considerable number of gains on Sunday, capturing the 1070 Al-Hamdaniyah Housing Project, Al-‘Amariyah District, and the Hikmah School after a violent battle with the Syrian Armed Forces. On Monday morning, the Syrian Armed Forces struck back against the jihadist rebels, firing a barrage of artillery shells and missiles towards their positions, while also attempting to recover the sites they lost yesterday. Meanwhile, at the Sabiqiyah District, the Syrian Armed Forces repelled a major attack by the jihadist rebels, killing a large number of enemy combatants before securing all flanks. The Russian Air Force is working overtime today, carrying out a significant number of airstrikes on the southern districts of Aleppo city.
August 1, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/battle-aleppo-city-heats-syrian-army-counters/
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: Iraqi Army liberated last ISIS bastion in east Anbar
The Iraqi Army’s 10th Division, backed by the Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd Al-Sha’abi), liberated the last Islamic State (ISIS) bastion in the Al-Anbar Governorate on Sunday after a two-week long battle along the Euphrates River. Jazirat Al-Khalidiyah (Khalidiyah Island) was under the Islamic State’s control for over two years before the Iraqi Armed Forces finally pushed back the terrorist group to the Nineveh Governorate. The capture of Al-Khalidiyah on Sunday has opened the highway between the two strategic cities of Fallujah and Al-Ramadi, leaving the Islamic State with no presence between them.
August 1, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iraqi-army-liberated-last-isis-bastion-east-anbar/
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: 311 soldiers still at large after failed coup in Turkey
Headline: Partial Assessment of Turkey’s Post-Coup Attempt Military Purge
Turkey’s defence minister said Monday that 311 soldiers including nine generals are still at large after this month’s failed coup. The Defence Minister Fikri Isik told CNN Turk television in an interview that the soldiers and generals were believed to still be in Turkey. On Monday, Turkish Special Forces also captured 11 fugitive commandos who were involved in a bid to seize President Tayyip Erdogan during the failed coup. Meanwhile, Isik said expulsions from the military are not entirely over and more personnel will be dismissed if necessary. Thousands of soldiers were dismissed following the failed coup on July 15-16. A faction of the military commandeered tanks, helicopters and fighter jets attempted to topple the government during the coup. Meanwhile, the defence ministry has also changed the jobs of 167 generals within the army, Reuters reported on Monday. The changes took place after Erdogan on Sunday issued a new presidential decree that introduced sweeping changes to Turkey’s military, bringing the armed forces further under civilian authority. The decree, the third issued under a three-month state of emergency declared after the coup, gives the president and prime minister the authority to issue direct orders to the commanders of the army, air force and navy.
August 1, 2016
Headline: 5 killed in car bombing of Turkish police vehicle in southeast: sources
Five police officers were killed and four others were wounded when a car bomb exploded as a police vehicle passed in southeastern Turkey on Monday in an attack that appeared to have been carried out by Kurdish militants, security sources said. Members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) carried out the attack in Bingol province, the sources said. Two of those injured were in serious condition.
August 1, 2016
Iran
Headline: Khamenei: Talks broken off with US for “violations” of nuclear deal
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Monday accused the US of continuing to thwart Iran’s economic relations with other countries despite the landmark [nuclear] accord. He said Tehran will not accept any further talks with Washington due to what he described as US “violations” of the deal. “The average Iranians have not seen any benefit from the nuclear deal with world powers,” he said. “Weren’t the supposed sanctions lifted to change the life of the people? Is any tangible effect seen in people’s life after six months?” In an interview with Fox News Sunday night, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stressed that as secretary of state she had helped delay Iran’s attainment of a nuclear weapon “without a single shot fired.”
August 1, 2016
Afghanistan
Headline: Taliban truck bomb rocks hotel for foreigners in Kabul
Headline: Afghan official: Taliban attacks kill 24 police in 2 days
A Taliban truck bomb blasted through a hotel for foreigners in Kabul early Monday, killing at least one policeman just days after the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for 15 years. The powerful bombing, which rattled windows several kilometres (miles) away, paved the way for armed insurgents to enter the heavily guarded facility, close to Kabul’s international airport. The attack on Northgate, a compound for foreign contractors which was previously attacked in July 2013, underscores the worsening security situation as the Taliban ramp up their annual summer offensive. “A truck bomb packed with explosives struck the outer wall of the hotel,” Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi told AFP. “Afghan special forces subsequently entered the compound, killing two armed attackers. One policeman also lost his life and three others were wounded.” Rahimi did not reveal the exact number of attackers, saying clearance operations were still ongoing more than six hours after the attack started. Afghan commandos cordoned off all arterial roads leading to Northgate, with erratic grenade explosions and gunfire coming from the scene after daybreak.
July 31, 2016
https://www.yahoo.com/news/taliban-truck-bomb-strikes-foreign-guesthouse-kabul-230755835.html
Sudan
Headline: Fighting continues in South Sudan
Fierce fighting shook the surroundings of the capital Juba over the weekend, killing people and driving terrified residents from their homes, local media reported. “Heavy fighting has been going on for the past three days,” rebel spokesman Peter Gadet told the Sudan Tribune website. Details about the weekend’s clashes are still not clear, and it was impossible to verify whether the fighting was started by rebels aligned to former Vice President Riek Machar or President Salva Kiir’s troops. The rebels were ready to attack the capital Juba if they were given orders to do so, Gadet added. South Sudan’s goverment however was undeterred by the threats. “Machar’s group has no capacity to attack Juba. If it was possible for them, they would have done so long time ago,” President Salva Kiir’s spokesman, Ateny Wek Ateny, told Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper.
August 1, 2016
http://www.dw.com/en/fighting-continues-in-south-sudan/a-19442192
Libya
Headline: US hits Daesh in Libya after official request
Libya’s government requested US air strikes against Daesh in Sirte, and the first strikes were carried out on Monday, Prime Minster Fayez Seraj said. The Pentagon also announced in a statement that Daesh targets had been hit in Libya. “the United States military conducted precision air strikes against [Daesh] targets in Sirte, Libya, to support GNA-affiliated forces seeking to defeat [Daesh] in its primary stronghold in Libya,” Pentagon said. PM Seraj said, “The first air strikes were carried out at specific locations in Sirte today causing severe losses to enemy ranks,” he said in a statement broadcast on state TV.”
August 1, 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/node/963071/middle-east
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/08/01/us-launches-airstrikes-targeting-isis-in-libya.html
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: Brazil sends 1,200 troops to city of Natal after gangs start all-out war on govt
The Brazilian government authorized sending 1,200 troops to the Rio Grande do Norte capital, Natal, to quell gang uprisings, now in their third day. Urban unrest exploded when the government decided to jam cellular coverage in a local prison. So far 52 arrests have been made of people suspected of involvement in the attacks. According to Portalnoar, a total of 53 cases of debauchery and destruction of property were reported by Sunday night. Government and other buildings also sustained heavy gunfire. Unrest was experienced in 20 municipalities, according to the Secretariat of Security. According to Brazilian users familiar with the situation, things got underway on Friday, with 15 buses burned by Saturday, along with local landmark, the Morro do Careca. Public transport was halted, curfews were imposed and shots were heard, according to locals
August 1, 2016
https://www.rt.com/news/354152-brazil-natal-prison-riots/
Headline: 13 killed in twin car bombings near police headquarters in Somalia
At least 13 people have been killed, including seven attackers, in an assault on a Somali police compound in Mogadishu Sunday. Somali internal security Minister Abdirizak Omar Mohamed told VOA Somali that the target was the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters. “Two suicide bombers speed toward the main gate of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters, one exploded at the front gate and the other one in the middle of the road and then five heavily armed militants tried to enter the building, three of them were killed outside and two as they passed the main gate.” Omar said. Omar siad at least 10 people were wounded. Abdikamil Mo’alin Shukri, who is the spokesman of the internal security ministry of Somalia said the 13 killed included: seven attackers, a government soldier, and five civilians. Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 31, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/content/somalia-attack/3442848.html
Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8 “ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass Destruction Zechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”
Headline: Major Chinese state paper calls for a military strike on Australian ships that enter the South China Sea
China’s state-run Global Times has published an editorial attacking Australia for supporting the recent international ruling on China’s activities in the South China Sea and called for strikes on any Australian ships which might undertake “freedom-of-navigation” activities in the region. The editorial said Australia “is not even a ‘paper tiger,’ it’s only a ‘paper cat’ at best.” It says that even though “Australia calls itself a principled country … when it needs to please Washington, it demonstrates willingness of doing anything in a show of allegiance.” As a result, the Global Times says (our emphasis): “China must take revenge and let it know it’s wrong. Australia’s power means nothing compared to the security of China. If Australia steps into the South China Sea waters, it will be an ideal target for China to warn and strike.”
August 1, 2016
Headline: 10 new Zika cases in Miami; governor to feds: Send in emergency team
A Zika outbreak in Miami has led to 10 more local cases spread by mosquitoes in the same neighborhood north of downtown and identified last week as having been the source of the nation’s first locally transmitted cases, Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced on Monday. Scott said he called on the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to dispatch an emergency response team to Miami to help the state’s health department in their investigation of the local cases, believed to have been spread in a one-square-mile area in early July. “Florida has a proven track record of success when it comes to managing similar mosquito-borne viruses,” Scott said in a written statement. “We will continue to keep our residents and visitors safe utilizing constant surveillance and aggressive strategies, such as increased mosquito spraying, that have allowed our state to fight similar viruses.”
August 1, 2016
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article93057392.html
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
Headline: Earthquake hits northwestern Iran, one person killed
An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted north-western Iran on Monday. The Geophysics Institute Seismology center at Tehran University said the tremor was registered at 09:16 local time in Parsabad in the north-western Ardabil province. One person was reportedly killed and two others were injured in the quake, according to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency.
August 1, 2016
http://www.libyanexpress.com/earthquake-hits-northwestern-iran-one-person-killed/
Headline: Typhoon heading toward southern China, Hong Kong with 90 mph winds
Hong Kong on Monday canceled more than 180 flights as Typhoon Nida, which is generating winds up to 93 miles per hour, approached its shores. Nida, also called Tropical Storm Carina, is one of the most powerful typhoons of the year. The Hong Kong International Airport canceled flights scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. The Hong Kong Observatory on Monday issued a Tropical Cyclone Signal 3 at noon, closing all kindergarten schools and special needs classes. The observatory later increased its advisory to the third highest warning, Tropical Cyclone Signal 8.
August 1, 2016
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