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Footage of IDF Strikes on Gazan Terror Sites
In response to the renewal of rocket fire by Gaza terrorists after the 72-hour-cease that began on August 5th, IDF aircraft targeted a number of terror sites throughout the Gaza Strip.
“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.”
Israel’s Operation Protective Edge entered its 32nd day on Friday
Headline: Hamas resumes rocket attacks on Israel, after ultimatum demanding open seaport for Gaza or war
Headline: Two Wounded from Rocket Fire; IAF Retaliates
Headline: 14:04 – 40 rockets fired into Israel since 8 a.m.
Two people have been injured from shrapnel falling in the Sdot HaNegev region, it was announced Friday afternoon. The IDF confirmed that one soldier was lightly injured and a civilian – Sapir College director Dr. Nachmi Paz – was moderately wounded. Dr. Paz is being treated for his injuries in Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva for shrapnel wounds to his leg. Earlier, a senior government officials stated to Arutz Sheva that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon had authorized the IDF to retaliate with force to a barrage of over 18 rockets on Israeli civilians Friday morning. The report surfaces less than one hour after Palestinian media sources reported possible airstrikes in northern Gaza. IDF Spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner confirmed both reports close to 11:00 am Friday. “The IDF remains alert and maintains a high level of preparedness with both defensive capabilities, and striking capabilities in order to address the renewed aggression,” the IDF added, in a press release. “The IDF is determined to defend the civilians of the state of Israel.” A military spokeswoman told AFP that no Israeli soldiers entered Gaza to carry out the strikes. There has been “no change on the ground,” she said.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183852#.U-T3UmPfVeA
Headline: Israeli delegation leaves Egypt; Gazans flee eastern neighborhoods, again
Headline: Palestinians press on with Cairo talks despite end of Gaza truce
The Israeli delegation has left Egypt following the end of a 72-hour cease-fire brokered by Cairo and the renewal of hostilities by Hamas. The delegation arrived at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel shortly before the truce expired. A diplomatic source in Egypt said the Israeli visit had lasted nine hours, longer than the previous two visits this week. There was no immediate comment from Egypt, which has positioned itself as mediator but has struggled to clinch a deal. Israel has stated repeatedly that it will not negotiate terms of a longer-term cease fire under rocket attack. Meanwhile, Palestinian factions will remain in Cairo and press on with Egyptian-mediated talks despite the end of the ceasefire in Gaza, the head of the delegation, Fatah official Azzam Ahmed, said on Friday. “We are not for escalation. We are ready to continue through our Egyptian brothers in negotiating to reach a final agreement that would return the rights to their owners,” Ahmed said. “I mean here lifting the blockade of Gaza.”
Aug. 8, 2014
Pictures of clashes Beit Furik (near Nablus West Bank) following Friday prayers today
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli border guards (background) following a demonstration in support of Gaza after Friday prayers in the West Bank town of Bethlehem
Headline: Soldier lightly hurt in West Bank riots
An IDF soldier is lightly wounded in clashes with rioters in Nabi Salah, a village near Ramallah. In Bethlehem, rioters hurl rocks at a procession of 400 people by Rachel’s Tomb, Israel Radio reports. Elsewhere in the West Bank, riots also take place in Hebron, Qaddoum and Beytounia.
Aug. 8, 2014
Headline: Fatah Official Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Israelis, Jews
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has called for ethnic cleansing against Jewish Israelis, after an official posted on Facebook to “drive the occupier out from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.” Fatah Central Committee Member Tawfiq Tirawi posted a message to his official Facebook page reading, “O our free people of resolve and sacrifice in Gaza, you are more honored than us all… We remain committed to the promise: freedom, independence, and driving out the occupier from the entire pure land, from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea.” “Long live free Gaza!” he added. The post was translated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). Tirwai has long been a proponent of violence against Israel, calling on Palestinians to take up arms shortly after the Hamas-Fatah “unity government” was declared in April. In recent weeks, Fatah has called for violent “revolution” against Israel, and threatened the Jewish state by telling it to “prepare the body bags.”
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183854#.U-T30WPfVeB
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=12268
Headline: Israeli minister urges Germany and EU to send inspectors to Gaza
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has urged Germany to help find a solution to the conflict in Gaza and send inspectors to Gaza’s borders along with other European Union countries. Lieberman told Thursday’s mass-selling German daily Bild that Germany had a “very significant” role to play in preventing an economic and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, where Israel and Egypt maintain tight restrictions on the movement of goods and people to try to prevent arms reaching Islamist militants. He said Germany should bring together EU leaders to help find a lasting settlement for Gaza. Lieberman said he was not suggesting the despatch of troops or police. “But Germany and the EU need to send inspectors to Gaza to control the trade the Palestinians conduct with neighboring states.” Germany, France and Britain have proposed reactivating a European Union mission on the Egypt-Gaza border to help stabilize the enclave, a German diplomatic source said on Wednesday.
Aug. 7, 2014
*****See Germany Below
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/07/us-mideast-gaza-germany-idUKKBN0G71AE20140807
Headline: Europe offers to establish Gaza-Cyprus sea route
A European source told Palestinian media outlets on Friday that Europe was willing to establish a sea route between the Gaza Strip and Larnaca, Cyprus – meant for both people and merchandise. According to the initiative, European observers would be present both in Gaza and Larnaca in order to prevent security violations. The source noted that Europe was interested in finding a comprehensive, permanent solution in order to save from having to rehabilitate the Strip every few years. “We want to find a solution to the Gaza problem by reactivating the 2005 agreement on the crossings – including the crossing between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.” The source said that Europe has consulted with all relevant parties on the matter – including the Palestinian Authority, Israel, and Egypt – and is still waiting for their response.
Aug. 8, 2014
*****See Jordan Below
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4556538,00.html
Headline: Former Hamas Spokesman Found Dead in Gaza City
Headline: Hamas Admits Executing Palestinians Suspected of Spying for Israel During Gaza War
Ayman Taha, a former spokesman for Hamas was found dead Thursday in Gaza City, but there were conflicting reports as to the cause of his death. According to AFP, Hamas said Taha’s body was found in a neighborhood of the city that was heavily bombed by Israel and accused the Jewish state of being responsible for his death. Taha was killed when Israeli forces “targeted him in the apartment where he was with several others in Gaza City” in the Shejaiya neighborhood, the group claimed in a statement quoted by the news agency. He was severely wounded and died later, the statement said. Some Arab media outlets, however, reported that Taha was executed by Hamas over charges of spying for Egypt. Taha, the son of one of the group’s founders, was a well known spokesman for Hamas before his arrest in February. Hamas’s security apparatus detained him as part of an investigation into the possible “abuse of funds” and other allegations. If Taha was indeed executed by Hamas over spying or collaboration charges, that would not be a first for Hamas.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183841#.U-T5R2PfVeA
Headline: Hamas claims Israel closed gates to Al-Aqsa Mosque Friday
Director of al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani has warned of the serious repercussions to be generated by the closure of the Aqsa Mosque’s gates by the Israeli occupation police., dubbing it a dangerous procedure that would step up tension at the Mosque. “We consider the following two measures very dangerous: First Banning Muslims, particularly women, entry into the Mosque and second shutting down four gates of al-Aqsa without any legitimate reason.” Sheikh Omar slammed Israel’s enforcement of a spatio-temporal division of holy al-Aqsa mosque as the most flagrant of all violations issued since 1967 and put into effect by the Israeli police. Hamas then issued a statement: Hamas said in a press statement Friday (8/8): “We warn the occupation of the consequences of these actions of aggression against Al-Aqsa and our people in the occupied Jerusalem, and promise closure occupation four gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque aggression Zionist new and flagrant violation of the sanctity of the maximum freedom of worship in it.” The movement in its statement that the occupation attempts singling not translated and stationed in it and the people of Jerusalem will not succeed, and that his plans to divide the maximum temporally and spatially will not pass, Valoqsy was blessed and will remain purely Islamic does not accept division. The movement called the masses of the Palestinian people to decamp to the maximum and stationed in it and confront all attempts Zionism seeking to impose a new reality in the light of collusion and international silence and inaction of the Arab and Islamic world.
Aug. 8, 2014
https://www.facebook.com/PalinfoEN/posts/830467350306068
Headline: UN Chief Condemns Rocket Attacks, Calls for Ceasefire
Headline: Israeli envoy to UN calls on Ban Ki-Moon, Security Council to condemn Hamas
United Nations (UN) chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned the latest rocket attacks on Israel and called for a return to a ceasefire in Gaza. The secretary general expressed his “deep disappointment” over the failure to extend the 72-hour truce that expired Friday and said peace talks in Cairo should continue, according to AFP. Ban “condemns the renewed rocket fire towards Israel. More suffering and death of civilians caught up in this conflict is intolerable,” said a statement from his spokesman. “The extension of the ceasefire is absolutely essential for talks to progress,” he declared. Ban “firmly” called on the Palestinians and Israel “not to resort to further military action that can only exacerbate the already appalling humanitarian in Gaza.”
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183860#.U-UrdGPfVeA
Jordan
Headline: King, Ashton discuss Gaza truce
His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday discussed efforts seeking to uphold the ceasefire and end the Israeli aggression on Gaza with Catherine Ashton, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy and first vice president of the European Commission. In a telephone call with Ashton, the King stressed the pivotal role of the international community and the EU in ensuring a complete halt of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and addressing the catastrophic humanitarian situation it has caused and the destruction of infrastructure. His Majesty also mentioned the draft resolution on Gaza prepared by Jordan as a non-permanent UN Security Council member, in coordination with Palestine and on behalf of the Arab group, a Royal Court statement said. The resolution seeks to lift the blockade imposed on Gaza and proposes a plan to rebuild the coastal enclave, he said. Discussions also covered the latest regional developments, especially the situation in Syria and Iraq, with the King highlighting Jordan’s increasing burdens resulting from hosting large numbers of Syrian refugees.
Aug. 7, 2014
http://jordantimes.com/king-ashton-discuss-gaza-truce
Headline: Thousand rally for Hamas in Jordan
More than 15,000 Muslim Brotherhood supporters gathered at a pro-Hamas rally in Jordan’s capital on Friday, with many chanting “death to Israel” and urging the militant Palestinian group to step up rocket salvos against Israeli towns and cities. The evening rally, the largest such protest in Amman in years, saw scores of masked youths dressed in the uniform of Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, stage a mock military parade to the cheers of a flag-waving crowd. The Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological counterpart to Hamas and Jordan’s largest political group, is seeking to take advantage of a rise in anti-Israeli sentiment arising from the Jewish state’s month-long offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.609649
Headline: Jordan may have just put itself in the line of fire
Islamic State Media is reporting: Jordan: Mwaffaq Air Base in Azraq being used to conduct air attacks on the Caliphate
Lebanon
Headline: Militants say seeking prisoner swap with Lebanon
Islamist militants holding 19 Lebanese soldiers seized during an incursion into Lebanon said on Friday they had demanded the release of Islamist prisoners in exchange for letting their captives go. Two commanders close to the group holding the soldiers, speaking by telephone, said the demands had been sent to the Lebanese government and army, which drove the gunmen from the border town of Arsal on Thursday after five days of fighting. It raises the prospect of a potentially lengthy hostage crisis for the Lebanese authorities. A security source said the militants had put forward the names of around 20 Islamist detainees they wanted released.One of the militants, speaking to Reuters, said: “It is simple: their soldiers for the Islamic hostages.”
Aug. 8, 2014
http://newsdaily.com/2014/08/08/militants-say-seeking-prisoner-swap-with-lebanon/
Headline: Lebanese army enters Arsal after jihadist clashes
Headline: How will the Lebanese military deal with Arsal?
Lebanese troops have started to enter the town of Arsal on the Syrian border, after days of clashes with jihadists there, a military source told AFP on Friday. “We have started to enter, we’ve set up a checkpoint on the western side of the city, and we’re advancing bit-by-bit,” the source said. “We haven’t entered all of the town yet, so we can’t say if the gunmen have completely withdrawn,” he added. Municipal council member Wafiq Khalaf confirmed that troops were entering the edge of the town, but had not yet spread throughout. “They are entering from the outskirts, the situation is quiet. There is no shooting or fighting,” he told AFP. The army advance comes after a truce that saw many of the jihadists who entered the town on Saturday withdraw to the surrounding mountains.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/lebanese-army-enters-arsal-jihadist-clashes-144613023.html
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/08/arsal-no-military-settlement-hostages-release.html
Headline:Syrian envoy calls for Syrian-Lebanese coordination
Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel-Karim Ali Thursday called for greater coordination between his nation’s army and Lebanon’s, urging the implementation of agreements organizing the relationship between the two states. “I don’t differentiate between the battle in Syria and the battle in Arsal,” he said in a television interview, adding that Lebanese-Syrian efforts should be united to fight terrorism. The Syrian ambassador said he was sure the Lebanese Army would be victorious, urging domestic political factions to dissolve all barriers standing in the face of Lebanese-Syrian cooperation so that “losses would be less and victory greater and swifter.”
Aug. 8, 2014
Headline:Hundreds return to Syria after Lebanon clashes
Several hundred Syrian refugees who had been sheltering in a Lebanese town where the army and jihadists have been fighting crossed back into Syria on Friday, a nun assisting them said. Sister Agnes, a nun based in Syria, said a first group of 350 of some 1,700 refugees who left the town of Arsal passed through the Masnaa border crossing back into Syria on Friday. The group set out from Arsal on Wednesday after a ceasefire between militants and the Lebanese military, following clashes that began on Saturday and have killed 17 soldiers and, reportedly, dozens of civilians. The departure appeared to be the first time a group of refugees has left Lebanon en masse to return to Syria.
Aug. 8, 2014
Egypt
Headline: Islamist protester killed in Egypt clashes
An Islamist protester was killed during a clash on Friday with Egyptian police who arrested 40 demonstrators, the interior ministry said. The ministry accused the protesters, supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, of confronting civilian opponents during a march and then firing birdshot and throwing petrol bombs at policemen, wounding an officer. Members of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement and their allies have held near daily protests since his overthrow by the military in July 2013, despite a deadly crackdown on the group. At least 1,400 activists, mostly Islamists, have been killed in street clashes and hundreds sentenced to death, although none of the sentences has been carried out so far.
Aug. 8, 2014
Syria
YESTERDAY’S Headlines:
FSA rebels seize areas in Syria’s Hama after clashes with pro-Assad forces
Opposition fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) seized on Thursday two of the regime-held checkpoints in the vicinity of Mihardeh city in the western countryside of Hama in central Syria, local sources reported. Speaking to ARA News, Mohammed Barazi, media activist from the city of Hama, reported that FSA fighters supported by Islamic battalions took control of the regime-held checkpoints of Bijo and Majdal in the vicinity of Mihardeh city.
http://aranews.net/2014/08/fsa-rebels-seize-areas-syrias-hama-clashes-pro-assad-forces/
Islamic State storms last headquarter of pro-Assad army in Raqqa
Islamic State militants stormed one of the Syrian government’s last outposts in the northern province of Raqqa in an overnight attack and battled troops holed up in the area on Thursday, killing dozens of soldiers, activists said. A monitoring group said over 40 people were killed in multiple suicide car bombings carried out by Islamic State fighters and in ensuing clashes. Raqqa is a major stronghold of the Islamic State, which took control of the provincial capital and expelled rival Syrian rebel groups at the start of the year. Syrian warplanes carried out air strikes north of Raqqa city and in the area of Tabqa, the Observatory said. Tabqa’s military airbase would be the only major remaining government outpost in the province with the fall of the 93rd Brigade base.
http://aranews.net/2014/08/islamic-state-storms-last-headquarter-pro-assad-army-raqqa/
TODAY’S Headlines: Islamic State Seize Tanks in New Victory [GRAPHIC IMAGES]
This week’s battle, between Islamic State militants and Brigade 93 of the Syrian Army in Northern Syria, began on Wednesday [6 August] at 10pm, and raged for seven hours without a pause. Three truck bombs were detonated by suicide bombers; witnesses claimed two of the bombers were Syrian, and a third was Saudi. The combatants fired large numbers of lightweight ‘Grad’ missiles, which can be fired from portable rocket launchers, as well as over 300 mortar shells and heavy artillery. Over 70 regime troops died, as well as 30 people from the Islamic State (formerly known as Isis).
Syrian Army Storms Militants’ Gatherings Near Damascus
The Syrian government forces targeted the rebels’ positions at the hills of towns of Buhairan, Saber, Bala’a and other towns in Damascus’ countryside, which resulted in killing and wounding of rebels, SANA reported. Clashes in the countryside of Damascus have been incessant lately as the sound of shelling has become common. Meantime, a long convoy of rebels’ vehicle, loaded with weapons and ammunition, was targeted by the Syrian soldiers in the war-hit region.
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http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930517000309
From China to Spain…. here is a better understanding
Today I’m going to put Iraq news ahead of the rest of the Ezekiel countries, so we can concentrate on what we’re seeing
Iraq
Headline: Iraqi Airstrikes kill 130 IS Militants in Mosul
Iraqi Military planes has started air strikes against IS insurgents in Mosul a city in Northern Iraq. Airstrikes made by the Iraqi Army on Thursday night have left 130 IS militants dead and many others wounded in Gwier town, outside of Mosul. Based on the information obtained by BasNews from Iraqi security, three well-known leaders of the Islamic State were among the Sunni militant casualties. Eyewitnesses in Gwier town told BasNews that in the airstrike carried out by the US took out a significant percentage of IS troops, as well as destroyed six of the militants’ previously-stolen humvees. The death toll of IS militants had reached over 1000, giving a heavy blow to the group and allowing Iraqi Army, Kurdish Peshmerga and US Army to push their brutality back.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/Iraqi-Airstrikes-kill-130-IS-Militants-in-Mosul/29656
Headline: US military launches airstrikes on terror targets in Iraq
Headline: White House says once Iraq forms inclusive govt, US ready to deploy forces to help fight ISIS
Headline: Hundreds Reported Killed After U.S. Bombs ISIS Position in Iraq
U.S. fighter jets launched a “targeted” airstrike on Friday against Islamic militants in Iraq, just hours after President Obama authorized military action to protect U.S. personnel and Iraqi civilians. Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said Friday that two F/A-18 jets dropped 500-pound bombs on a piece of artillery and the truck towing it. The Pentagon said the military conducted the strike at 6:45 a.m. ET, against terrorists with the Islamic State (IS), the group formerly known as ISIS. “As the president made clear, the United States military will continue to take direct action against [IS] when they threaten our personnel and facilities,” Kirby said. The strike took place near the city of Irbil, after IS used the artillery to shell Kurdish forces defending the city where U.S. personnel are located, the Pentagon said.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.infowars.com/hundreds-reported-killed-after-u-s-bombs-isis-position-in-iraq/
Headline: American Carriers Are Now Banned From Flying Over Iraq
The Federal Aviation Administration has banned U.S. carriers from flying over Iraq, the agency announced Friday. The ban was handed down just hours after the U.S. launched airstrikes in the country for the first time since U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq in December 2011. The American strikes were targeting forces from militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) which were endangering Erbil, a city that’s home to a U.S. consulate and several American advisors.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://time.com/3092876/faa-ban-iraq/
Headline: ISIS Threatens America: ‘We Will Raise The Flag Of Allah In The White House’
Headline: Jihadists React to U.S. Airstrikes, Warn of Sleeper Cell Attacks in West
The terror group President Barack Obama threatened to strike in Iraq Thursday evening is itself threatening to strike the American homeland. “I say to America that the Islamic Caliphate has been established,” Abu Mosa, a spokesman for the terror group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), told VICE Media in a video interview posted online Thursday. “Don’t be cowards and attack us with drones. Instead send your soldiers, the ones we humiliated in Iraq.” “We will humiliate them everywhere, God willing, and we will raise the flag of Allah in the White House,” he added.
Aug. 8, 2014
Headline: The Battle for Baghdad: Scenarios
http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/isis-battle-plan-baghdad
Headline: ‘When ISIS takes Baghdad…’
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/05/when-isis-takes-baghdad/
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 Russian invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Russia.
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 Germany.
Beth Togarmah is Turkey and Armenia.
Russia
Headline: Russian nuclear-capable bombers ‘tested’ US air defenses 16 times in last 10 days
Russian strategic nuclear bombers and other military aircraft entered US air defense identification zones (ADIZs) at least 16 times over the past ten days, American defense officials confirmed on Thursday. “Over the past week, NORAD has visually identified Russian aircraft operating in and around the US air defense identification zones,” said Maj. Beth Smith, spokeswoman for US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Smith sought to downplay the incursions that she called “a spike in activity,” telling the Washington Free Beacon’s Bill Gertz that the flights were assessed as routine training missions and exercises. But an unnamed defense official familiar with the incursion reports disagreed with Smith’s assessment. “These are not just training missions,” the official told Gertz, saying that Russian strategic nuclear forces appear to be “trying to test our air defense reactions, or our command and control systems.” NORAD scrambled fighter jets several times when Russian strategic aircraft flew along US ADIZs. The planes included a mix of Tu-95 Bear H heavy bombers and Tu-142 Bear F maritime reconnaissance aircraft, as well as one IL-20 intelligence collection aircraft, Smith said. The bomber flights took place mainly along the Alaskan air defense identification zone that covers the Aleutian Islands and the continental part of the state, and one incursion involved entry into Canada’s air defense zone, she added.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://rt.com/usa/178820-russia-military-flights-us-airspace/
Headline: Russia arrests Ukrainian officers for ‘war crimes’
Headline: Ukraine troops break out of encirclement, 15 troops killed
Headline: Ukraine ready to impose sanctions on Russia
Investigators in Russia have announced the arrest of five Ukrainian army officers for alleged war crimes as fighting rages in eastern Ukraine. The officers from Ukraine’s 72nd Mechanised Brigade are apparently among hundreds of soldiers who crossed into Russia to flee from pro-Russian rebels. It is unclear on what grounds Russia can prosecute the officers, who reportedly deny the charges. Meanwhile, government forces in eastern Ukraine lost 15 soldiers within a day. Fifteen were killed and 79 injured on Thursday, the Ukrainian government said, two days after 18 were killed – the highest daily death toll reported in weeks.Government forces have been accused of bombarding residential areas from the ground and the air, killing civilians, as they try to recapture rebel strongholds. International monitors have been surveying damage to homes.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28707018
http://newsdaily.com/2014/08/08/ukraine-troops-break-out-of-encirclement-15-troops-killed/
Iran
Headline: Iran and West to Hold More Talks Before UN General Assembly
Iran and six world powers will hold a new round of nuclear talks before the UN General Assembly, which starts on September 16, a spokesman for lead negotiator Catherine Ashton said Thursday, according to AFP. “We expect to hold an EU-led/E3+3 round of talks in advance of the ministerial meetings at UNGA at a location to be determined,” said Michael Mann, spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Ashton. “We will also likely hold a meeting on the sidelines of UNGA – as we did last year – possibly with ministers participating in some way,” Mann said in an emailed statement. “The specific details remain to be worked out,” he added. Iran and the six powers are trying to turn an interim nuclear deal reached in November into a permanent agreement.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183843#.U-T5DWPfVeA
Afghanistan
Headline: War News for Friday, August 8th, 2014
Obama Allows Limited Airstrikes on ISIS
EU deploys 100 additional observers to assess Afghan vote audit
Reported security incidents
#1: An Afghan official says Taliban fighters stormed a police checkpoint overnight in southern Helmand province, killing four policemen. Deputy district Governor Mohammad Rassoul says the attack happened in Sangin district and that the Taliban have captured the checkpoint.
#2: At least 12 people, including two police personnel, were wounded in a remote-controlled explosion in Chaman Town, a township that shares border with Afghanistan, on Thursday. According to a senior police officer, the target was a police patrol vehicle. “The improvised explosive device (IED) was rigged to a motorbike which was parked near a hotel on Mall Road in Chaman. The bomb was detonated remotely when the police vehicle passed by,” said Mohammed Ashraf, a police officer in Chaman.
#3: A roadside bomb struck the vehicle of district governor in Sangin district of Helmand province on Friday, killing and injuring several persons. “I along with an army officer were going to inspect a checkpoint in Sarwan Qala area of Sangin district this morning at 09:00 a.m. but a roadside bomb organized by militants struck our vehicle injuring both of us besides killing and injuring few others,” Sayed Suliman Shah, the governor of Sangin district, told Xinhua from hospital bed.
http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/
Sudan
Headline: UN Calls for South Sudan Rivals to Resolve Crisis
Headline: Police send personnel to join UN forces in Sudan
The U.N. Security Council urgently called Friday for South Sudan’s feuding political leaders to resolve a mounting crisis and threatened targeted sanctions against perpetrators of ethnic violence. A presidential statement approved by all 15 council members pressed President Salva Kiir and former vice president and current rebel leader Riek Machar to implement a cease-fire and form a transitional government by Sunday. It did not name any potential targets of sanctions. The sharp dispute stems in part from when Kiir accused Machar in December of trying to oust him in a coup, which unleashed months of ethnic attacks and failed cease-fires. In recent days, an outbreak of violence has occurred along the Sudan-South Sudan border and at least six South Sudanese aid workers were killed by a militia hunting the Nuer ethnic group. All of the murdered aid workers are members of the Nuer, to which Machar belongs. Some observers believe the violence threatens to pull Sudan and its rebel groups into South Sudan’s civil war. The Security Council, which plans to visit South Sudan next week, also warned that a “catastrophic” lack of food could lead to famine. A senior U.N. official said this week that the humanitarian crisis has put almost 4 million people at risk of going hungry and another some 50,000 children at risk of dying of acute malnutrition. South Sudan is a largely Christian nation that broke off from Muslim-dominated Sudan after a 2011 referendum.
Aug. 8, 2014
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/calls-south-sudan-rivals-resolve-crisis-24904736
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/08/08/police-send-personnel-join-un-forces-sudan.html-0
Libya
Headline: UN Delegation Holds Talks in Tripoli to Broker Militia Cease-fire
Headline: Battle for Tripoli continues despite calls for ceasefire
A U.N. delegation was holding talks in Tripoli on Friday to try to broker a cease-fire between armed factions who have turned the Libyan capital into a battleground after the worst fighting since the fall of Muammar Gadhafi. Most Western governments followed the United States and the United Nations in evacuating diplomats and shutting embassies after three weeks of clashes between factions fighting over Tripoli airport that have killed 200 people. The delegation, led by a representative of the United Nations mission in Libya, known as UNSMIL, aims to end the violence, help displaced residents and alleviate food and gasoline shortages, UNSMIL said in a statement on its website. “UNSMIL is working closely with the international community in a joint effort to achieve a durable and sustainable cease-fire,” it said.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/battle-tripoli-continues-despite-calls-ceasefire-121955308
Headline: Libya airstrike foils Ansar al-Sharia attack
An air assault by Operation Dignity forces allegedly killed 70 Ansar al-Sharia and other Islamist fighters near Benghazi, Libya Herald reported on Thursday (August 7th). The Islamists were bombarded in Maghzana overnight as they tried to approach the Benina airbase in Benghazi, according to Brigadier-General Saqr Adam Geroushi, the commander of Operation Dignity’s air forces. Saiqa Special Forces moved to the Benina base nine days ago after they were forced out of their Buatni headquarters by Ansar al-Sharia.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://magharebia.com/en_GB/articles/awi/newsbriefs/general/2014/08/08/newsbrief-02
Tunisia
Headline: Tunisia to call up reservists to secure polls
Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa has authorised finance “to call up army reservists in order to contribute to securing upcoming elections”, a government statement said on Friday. After months of political wrangling, Tunisia’s parliament last month approved October 26 as the date for legislative polls and November 23 for a first round of a presidential election. Questioned by AFP, a government spokesman was unable to say how many reservists would be called up, or what tasks the army would undertake to ensure that the elections are trouble-free. Jomaa’s government will also “take steps to shut Internet sites linked to terrorism, and pursue those who use them,” the statement said. A government source said these measures would target mainly web pages that belong to “takfiri” jihadist militant groups “who incite killings of army personnel and security forces”.
Aug. 8, 2014
Algeria
Headline: Algerian Official Calls for Severing of Diplomatic Ties with Morocco
Responding to the recent statements of Salaheddine Mezouar, Moroccan Foreign Minister, holding Algeria responsible for disabling the Maghreb Union, the President of the Consultative National Commission for Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (CNCPPDH) Farouk Ksentini demanded this week that Algeria take a “strict” stance towards Morocco, and called for “severance of diplomatic relations” with the Kingdom. Ksentini, a lawyer, said that “The Kingdom [of Morocco] is solely responsible for the paralysis of the Maghreb Union.” In an attempt to push his country of Algeria to formally react, Ksentini said that he was “convinced” that Algeria’s Foreign Minister, “who is known for his wisdom, will answer his Moroccan counterpart in a timely manner,” stressing that the Algerians “have no problem with their Moroccan brothers.”
Aug. 8, 2014
Morocco
Headline: Radicalism takes root in northern Morocco
Headline: Morocco, US ink security accord
News about a Moroccan national who leads an Islamic State (ISIS) brigade in Syria is raising talk about Islamist jihadists in northern Morocco. Mohamed Hamdouch, a 28-year-old jihadist who is also a member of the Islamic council of the organisation, appeared in a video cutting off the heads of five people. Before fighting in Syria, he ran a clothing business in Fnideq and was recruiting jihadists from the area. A fortnight ago, Moroccan security services also arrested a French jihadist in Tangier for seeking to recruit fighters and send them to organisations loyal to al-Qaeda. Analysts say that northern Morocco has become a fertile breeding ground for radicalisation. According to Human Rights Defence Association Chairman Lahbib Haji, the region is more conservative than elsewhere in Morocco. “Furthermore, they are permanently in contact with Moroccans who have settled in Europe. That makes it easier to recruit them,” the Tetouan barrister said. The cells recruit members from underprivileged areas, he noted. Mediterranean Strategic Analysis and Intelligence Company head Mountacir Zian puts forward other factors to explain the phenomenon. “The northern region has been neglected, if not completely forgotten, since independence,” he said.
*****Notice the name of this website; see ISIS map above
Aug. 8, 2014
http://magharebia.com/en_GB/articles/awi/features/2014/08/08/feature-02
http://magharebia.com/en_GB/articles/awi/newsbriefs/general/2014/08/08/newsbrief-03
Germany
Headline: Berlin plays down Israeli call for Germany to lead Gaza mission
Headline: Returning jihadists pose a threat to Germany
Germany has reacted cautiously to Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman’s call for Berlin to lead an EU inspection mission to Gaza. Lieberman’s counterpart, Mr Steinmeier, said he could envision such a mission to Gaza but played down the idea of German “leadership” of it. “Together with our European partners we are ready to make a contribution, such as an EU mission to oversee border crossings,” he said. “At present we are holding intensive talks with all sides to create the conditions for such a solution.” Reinhold Robbe, former Bundestag military co-ordinator and now president of the German-Israeli Association, said such a mission would have to have a UN mandate. “I don’t know if customs officials with an ordinary police guard will be enough to get a hold of things,” he said. “I think one won’t be able to get around military safeguard for such a supervisory mission.” Mr Robbe said it was not clear whether ordinary Germans would support the idea of sending troops to Israel and Gaza, given the country’s Holocaust history. “I think we have an obligation and cannot just close our eyes,” he said. “In spite of – and even because of – our history we have a particular responsibility. Israel wants a long-term peace and Europe can play an important role.”
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.dw.de/returning-jihadists-pose-a-threat-to-germany/a-17840568
Turkey
Headline: Support Convoy in 81 provinces of Turkey for Gaza
Reaction to Israel from IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, in support of Gaza a “Support Convoy for Gaza” will be held with the slogan “Two Sides One Heart” in all provinces of Turkey. This is the organization that will launch the Freedom Flotilla II with Turkish military escort
Aug. 8, 2014
****very ANTI ISRAEL SITE
http://www.ihh.org.tr/en/main/news/0/support-convoy-in-81-provinces-of-turkey-for-/2468
Headline: US hits IS artillery in Iraq, Turkey on alert
Turkish military sources speaking to Today’s Zaman on Friday said that there no military airplanes, either Turkish or American, had launched attacks inside Iraq from Turkey. He affirmed that the US airstrikes had not been conducted via Turkey’s İncirlik airbase. According to a US official, the military will use F-16 and F/A 18 fighter jets based in the region for strikes and cargo aircraft based in Kuwait for any additional humanitarian aid drops. In addition, USS George H.W. Bush — which carries F/A-18s — is stationed in the Persian Gulf and Apache helicopters are based in Baghdad.
Aug. 8, 2014
*****See Jordan above
http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_us-hits-is-artillery-in-iraq-turkey-on-alert_355039.html
Armenia
Headline: Azerbaijan’s president threatens war with Armenia
Headline: Azerbaijan’s Army Says It Is ‘Ready To Fulfill Even The Order Of Destroying’ Armenia’s Capital City
Azerbaijan’s president has threatened war with Armenia via Twitter, after dozens were killed in clashes over a disputed area of land that both countries lay claim to. In a lengthy series of tweets, President Ilham Aliyev said several Azeri lives had been lost in clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh, and pledged to restore what he said was his country’s “territorial integrity”. The two sides began fighting over the mountainous region in the final years of the USSR. Armenian forces took de facto control of Nagorno-Karabakh. Writing in English on Twitter today, Aliyev countered: “As a result of attacks launched by Armenian occupying forces, our army suffered losses. Several servicemen have become martyrs.” Referring to Armenia as “the enemy” and “the occupiers,” Aliyev said the people of Azerbaijan were disappointed with a perceived lack of action by international mediators to bring the stand-off to an end. “We will restore our sovereignty. The flag of Azerbaijan will fly in all the occupied territories, including Shusha and Khankandi [in Nagorno-Karabakh],” he wrote. “Just as we have beaten the Armenians on the political and economic fronts, we are able to defeat them on the battlefield”.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2014/08/07/19421.shtml
http://www.businessinsider.com/armenia-and-azerbaijan-approaching-war-2014-8
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: Argentina files lawsuit against US over debt dispute
Argentina has attempted to sue the United States at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, the UN’s highest court, over a debt dispute. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday after a US judge blocked Argentina from servicing its restructured debt, with Buenos Aires accusing Washington of violating Argentinean sovereignty. New York District Judge Thomas Griesa has ruled to freeze Argentina’s June debt payment of $539 million in a US bank because two American hedge funds are demanding a full repayment of their money. The two hedge funds, NML Capital and Aurelius Capital Management, have been described by Argentina as “vulture funds” that are seeking profit out of the country’s financial misery. “Given that a state is responsible for the conduct of all the branches of its government, these violations have generated a controversy between the Republic of Argentina and the United States, which our country submits to the ICJ for resolution,” President Cristina Kirchner’s office said in a statement. However, the ICJ declined to take any action, claiming that it is powerless to act “unless and until the United States of America consents to the court’s jurisdiction.”
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/08/374484/argentina-takes-us-dispute-to-intl-court/
Headline: Attack leaves 12 dead, several injured in Pakistan
At least 12 people have been killed in an attack on a convoy of security forces in Pakistan’s restive southwest, an official statement reads. Pakistani officials said the attack was carried out on Thursday in the Tump area, 1,100 kilometers (683 miles) southwest of the city of Quetta, in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province. The provincial home department said that a group of militants attacked a convoy of paramilitary Frontier Corps comprising five vehicles, which triggered a fierce gunfight. “Two soldiers and 10 attackers were killed in the clash,” the statement read, adding that two soldiers and several attackers were also injured. The incident came amid another attack in Pakistan’s southwestern town of Chaman located near Pakistan-Afghanistan border, where 12 people were injured. The incident occurred when an attacker detonated a bomb-laden motorbike.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/08/374539/attack-leaves-dozen-dead-in-pakistan/
Economic collapse Revelation 6:5-6 & Daniel 2:41-43- Decline of the Euro “ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” (Daniel 2:41-43)
Headline: Germany close to recession as ECB admits recovery is weak
German bonds yields plunged to a historic low and two-year rates briefly fell below zero on Thursday on fears of widening recession in the eurozone, and a flight to safety as Russian troops massed on the Ukrainian border. Yields on 10-year Bunds dropped to 1.06pc after a blizzard of fresh data showed that recovery has stalled across most of the currency bloc, with even Germany now uncomfortably close to recession. Commerzbank warned that the German economy may have contracted by 0.2pc in the second quarter and is far too weak to pull southern Europe out of the doldrums. Industrial output fell 1.5pc over the three months. The DAX index of equities in Frankfurt has dropped 10pc over the past month and is threatening to break through the psychological floor of 9,000. Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), said the recovery remained “weak, fragile and uneven”, with a marked slowdown in recent weeks on escalating geopolitical worries over Russia and the Middle East.
Aug. 7, 2014
Pestilence & Plagues Luke 21:11 & Revelation 6:8 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation)
Headline: Liberia, Sierra Leone Deploy Troops to Contain Ebola
Headline: Uganda tests first suspected Ebola case in East Africa
Liberia and Sierra Leone are reporting hundreds of confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola. Their public health systems are overrun. And now, both countries have declared states of emergency and sent security forces to quarantine affected areas. This week, security forces in Liberia and Sierra Leone set up roadblocks and took other measures to limit people’s movements, as part of the efforts to contain the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. In Liberia, they are calling it “Operation White Shield.” Information Minister Lewis Brown says checkpoints are already being established. “Unless it is absolutely necessary, individuals in all affected counties are strongly advised to remain in their counties and continue to take the necessary preventive measures announced by the health experts,” he added.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://www.voanews.com/content/liberia-sierra-leone-deploy-troops-to-contain-ebola/2407268.html
http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/upi20140808-135007-6228
Headline: WHO declares Ebola an international health emergency
West Africa’s Ebola epidemic constitutes an international health emergency and the virus, which has killed nearly 1,000 people, could continue spreading for months, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. “The outbreak is moving faster than we can control it,” the WHO’s director-general Margaret Chan told reporters on a telephone briefing from the WHO’s Geneva headquarters.
Aug. 8, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/declares-ebola-international-health-emergency-153855162.html
PersecutionMatthew 24:9 & Revelation 6:9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.” (Matthew) “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.” (Revelation)
Headline: UPDATE ON PASTOR SAEED- Children of American Pastor Imprisoned in Iran Ask Obama to ‘Help Bring Daddy Home’
The children of an American pastor imprisoned in Iran have appeared in an online video plea to President Obama, asking that he ‘help bring [their] daddy home.’ As previously reported, Saeed Abedini, a former Muslim turned Christian, left Iran in 2005 and moved to the United States with his wife and children to find religious freedom. Last fall, he traveled back to Iran to build an orphanage and visit his parents—and was about to return to the states—when he was taken into custody. “Dear President Obama, please help bring my daddy home,” Rebekka and Jacob Abedini, the two young children of the American pastor, state in a video recently released by the Abedini family. “I miss him so much.” “Why does Daddy have to be in prison for loving Jesus?” Rebekka asks. In another clip, Jacob explains how his heart continually cries over the absence of his father.
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Aug. 7, 2014
https://www.facebook.com/PrayForPastorSaeedAbedini
http://beheardproject.com/saeed
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Praying for the release of pastor saeed abidini every day. also have emailed president Obama to secure the pastor;s release. also pray for Israel their peace in Jerusalem.