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Headline: Dozens of Palestinians Injured in Clashes With Israeli Army Near Ramallah
Headline: Palestinians ramp up terror to gunfire
Over two dozen Palestinians were injured Monday morning in clashes with Israel Defense Forces soldiers that erupted during an arrest operation in the Al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported. According to the army, one of the soldiers was lightly injured by a stone during the clashes, when Palestinians shot at the force, threw explosive devices and threw stones. The army reported that about 100 Palestinians took part in the clashes, which began when Israeli soldiers entered the refugee camp and arrested two Tanzim militia members. It noted that its force opened fire at and hit 10 Palestinians in response to the rioting. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 28 Palestinians were injure, one of them seriously. Red Crescent teams stated that they evacuated six people who were injured as a result of live fire or rubber-coated bullets.
February 15, 2016
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.703484
Headline: Senior Palestinian official calls on Jews to ‘return to country of origin’
Palestinian Authority envoy to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Ibrahim Khreisheh, said that all Jews living in Israel “should all return to their country of origin,” according to The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). In an interview with Palestinian Authority TV earlier this month, Khreisheh posited that Jews are not indigenous to the land of Israel, and their presence today is a product of years-long colonization. Khreisheh begins by stating: “Our problem is that the Jews came to Palestine from outside the region, colonized it, and established their own state.”
He then adds that there is a chronicled history of Palestinian subjugation by Jews, citing the book of Exodus, the subsequent takeover of the “Promised Land,” and Israel’s modern efforts to “colonize” the West Bank. “This ‘Promised Land’ within Israel is not large enough for them, and they have begun to take over our lands in the West Bank, with their settlements.”
Khreisheh then adds that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments in late January, in which he suggested that Russia was “ready to accept” Jews back into his country, was “an important message” because it potentially provided a precedent which could lead all Jews out of Israel.
February 16, 2016
Headline: France Presents Middle East Peace Initiative to Israel
Headline: Netanyahu: French peace initiative is ‘curious’
Headline: PA: No more negotiations with Israel, ever
France officially presented Israel with its initiative to convene an international peace summit in an attempt to restart the peace process. French and Israeli diplomats said that French Ambassador Patrick Maisonnave met with the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Alon Ushpiz and presented him with the plan’s details at 10 A.M. The French hope to convene a peace summit in Paris this summer. French diplomats said that Tuesday morning’s meeting is part of wider consultations France is holding concerning the initiative with several countries. According to them, the French foreign ministry has prompted more than 20 ambassadors around the world in recent days to present the plan’s details to foreign ministries in Washington, London, Berlin, Moscow and other capitals in Europe and the Arab world. The French initiative is a three-step process:
- Consultations with Israel, the Palestinians and other countries on the idea of a summit and its contents to occur in February-March.
- Convening a meeting in Paris of the international support group in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, including several dozen countries that hope to restart the peace process. The French was to hold the meeting in March and April, without the presence of Israelis or Palestinians.
- Convening of the international peace summit in Paris in June or July that will re-start negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
On Monday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that he supports the French initiative during a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
February 16, 2016
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.703640?date=1455645933728
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4766983,00.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/208082#.VsMue5MrKog
“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)
Lebanon
Headline: Nasrallah begs Arab leaders: Don’t ally with Israel against Iran
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has voiced his concern over Israel’s emerging alliance with Sunni Arab gulf states, and urged Arab leaders to break ties with the Jewish state. Nasrallah made his remarks during a televised address Tuesday evening from his bunker in Lebanon, from which he rarely emerges. In comments broadcast on Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV in honor of “Martyr Leaders Day”, Nasrallah claimed that Israel was “taking advantage” of Sunni states’ confrontation with Iran to forge “relations and alliances with the Sunni Arab states.” He also accused Israel of seeking to affect regime change in Syria, by supporting Sunni rebels in that country’s bloody civil war, and claimed that Israel viewed “Al Qaeda in Syria” (the Nusra Front) as a “lesser evil” compared with the Iranian-backed Assad regime and its proxies. Addressing Lebanon’s own Sunni population – which has largely turned against Hezbollah due to its key role in the Syrian civil war on the side of the Assad regime – Nasrallah urged them not to be wooed by Israel’s overtures to the Sunni Arab world. Turning to the leaders of Arab states themselves, Nasrallah issued a direct plea to end ties with Israel. “Do you accept a friend occupying Sunni land in Palestine? Can you become friends with an entity that has committed the most horrible massacres against the Sunni community?” he said, according to transcripts of the speech carried by Naharnet. “You are free to consider Iran an enemy but how can you consider Israel a friend and an ally?” he asked. Nasrallah accused Israel of working with Saudi Arabia and Turkey in particular – key foes of the Assad regime and Tehran – in order to “partition” Syria and remove Assad from power.
February 16, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/208132
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Saudi Arabia took part in weekend air strikes against Islamic State – Pentagon
Saudi Arabia participated in air strikes as part of a U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State militants over the weekend, a U.S. Department of Defense spokesman said on Tuesday. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who has been under pressure to shore up support from Sunni Arab allies to fight Islamic State last week welcomed a commitment from Saudi Arabia to expand its role in air strikes. Saudi Arabia has concentrated its military efforts over the last year on the conflict in Yemen, where it is leading a coalition of mainly Gulf Arab forces battling Houthi fighters who control the capital, Sanaa. “They (the Saudis) did participate in strikes over the weekend,” said Peter Cook, a Pentagon spokesman, in a Tuesday news briefing. He did not say specifically what the Saudi actions were, or where.
February 16, 2016
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/saudi-arabia-took-part-in/2521282.html
Headline: Top south Yemen officials survive al-Qaeda gun attack
The governor and police chief of Yemen’s main southern city Aden escaped unharmed Tuesday after an attack by al-Qaeda gunmen that left three assailants dead, an aide said. Aden’s governor Aidarus al-Zubaidi and its police chief General Shallal Ali Shayae were travelling in a convoy in Aden’s central Mansura district when they came under fire, said Zubaidi’s aide, Mansur Zaid. “Al-Qaeda gunmen opened fire at the convoy and (security) guards responded,” he said, adding that the two senior officials escaped “unharmed”. “Three of the attackers were killed and four guards protecting the convoy were wounded,” said Zaid. Military sources said unmanned aircraft carried out strikes for the second day Tuesday on positions held by al-Qaeda in Lahj. The drones hit government buildings and nearby farms held by the jihadists in provincial capital Huta, the sources said. Other drone strikes targeted radio headquarters and other al-Qaeda-held buildings in nearby Abyan province, the sources told AFP without reporting casualties. Similar raids killed three people in Huta Monday, according to a local official.
February 16, 2016
Egypt
Headline: New Islamic State franchise threatens Egypt
On Jan. 21, days before the fifth anniversary of Egypt’s fabled revolution, police in Cairo raided a slum in the crowded Ahram neighborhood. Booby-trapped bombs went off in a scene more reminiscent of Fallujah, Iraq, than Egypt’s capital. Six officers and three civilians were killed, and an entire floor of the mid-size apartment block was leveled. The bombing was the latest in a string of attacks claimed by a new Islamic State group that calls itself “Misr” — or “Egypt” in Arabic. The Misr network is an ominously peculiar militant creation. It is not designated as an official “province,” an Islamic State-controlled territory, or wilaya, like the group’s Sinai and Libyan counterparts. Yet Misr’s name and the ability of its cells to regroup after being hit hard by police suggest that this offshoot of the world’s most powerful jihadist group is out to threaten stability in Egypt’s heartland. If ignored, it may well achieve it. Misr launched with a car bombing against the Italian consulate in Cairo, in July 2015. It again drew public attention the following month, with a bomb so powerful it was heard across the Cairo megalopolis. The target was the Qalubiya Province Security Directorate, just north of the capital. Though its Sinai counterpart stole the headlines, Misr has since carried out more than 10 sophisticated attacks in Egypt’s highly defended capital, hitting symbols of power as well as tourism attractions. Over the seven months since its creation, Misr has moved from sophisticated one-off bombings to more frequent, yet simpler attacks. It’s a worrying shift in modus operandi that indicates an effort to ignite and maintain a low-level insurgency in the neighborhoods once dominated by the disintegrating Muslim Brotherhood.
February 16, 2016
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/02/16/new-islamic-state-franchise-threatens-egypt/
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Missiles hit school and hospital in Syrian border town, 14 dead
At least 14 civilians were killed when missiles hit a children’s hospital, a school and other locations in the rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz near the Turkish border on Monday, a medic and two residents said. They said at least five missiles hit the hospital in the town center and a nearby school, where refugees fleeing a major Syrian army offensive were sheltering. A resident said another refugee shelter south of the town was also hit by bombs dropped by jets believed to be Russian. Tens of thousands of people have fled to the town, the last rebel stronghold before the border with Turkey, from towns and villages where there is heavy fighting between the Syrian army and militias. “We have been moving scores of screaming children from the hospital,” said medic Juma Rahal. At least two children were killed and ambulances ferried scores of injured people to Turkey for treatment, he said.
February 15, 2016
***See also Kurds & Turkey below
Syria Headline: Syria regime regains control of Aleppo power plant
Syrian regime forces have regained control of the Aleppo Thermal Power Plant, which was the country’s largest electricity producing facility prior to damage suffered during the war. “Regime forces backed by allied militias composed of Syrian, Arab and Asian fighters… regained control of the Aleppo Thermal Station that has been [out of commission] for approximately two years since ISIS seized it,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Tuesday morning. The monitoring NGO added that the pro-regime forces had advanced into the facility after “heavy strikes by Russian jets and Syrian helicopters.” Meanwhile, an independent outlet based in Iraq’s Erbil, ARA News, noted the military repercussions of the plant’s seizure, saying that it would allow regime forces to “isolate ISIS from its bases in the towns of Al-Bab and Manbij, and impose their control over most of eastern Aleppo countryside.”
February 16, 2016
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/566612-syria-regime-regains-control-of-aleppo-power-plant
Syria Headline: SYRIAN ARMED OPPOSITION FORCES IN ALEPPO
Syria Headline: The IRGC’s (Iran’s) involvement in the battle for Aleppo- 3rd link
The United States faces a geostrategic inflection in Syria that it has not yet fully recognized. The “cessation of hostilities” declared on February 11, 2016 permits Russia and the Assad regime to continue targeting U.S. allies in Aleppo under the pretext that the opposition in the city consists predominantly of al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al Nusra. The Russian view of the situation in Aleppo is false and deliberately distorting. There are multiple opposition groups within Aleppo that are distinct from Jabhat al Nusra, do not share its vision, and which the United States must support and strengthen. The U.S. must take steps to achieve three objectives: 1) to prevent Jabhat al Nusra from assuming leadership of the Aleppo-based opposition, 2) to avert the humanitarian catastrophe of a siege of Aleppo City, and 3) to shape the reactions of partners such as Turkey. This report assesses the opposition powerbrokers in Aleppo and their mobilization for the siege in order to help facilitate intelligent policies to achieve the first objective. It recommends that the United States, rather than pursuing a false “cessation of hostilities” that does not protect Aleppines, take three steps to secure its interests and those of the Syria people: humanitarian airdrops to Aleppo, material support to opposition groups in Aleppo distinct from Jabhat al Nusra, and a creation of a humanitarian safe-zone north of Aleppo.
February 16, 2016
http://www.iswresearch.blogspot.com/
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/02/the-irgcs-involvement-in-the-battle-for-aleppo.php
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 Launches Operation against ISIS to Regain Key Ramadi District
Iraq Headline: Security forces raise Iraqi flag over Hamidiya Bridge east of Ramadi
“A military operation has been launched this morning to liberate the district of al-Hamidiya located near the international highway east of Ramadi,” said Major General Ismail al-Mahlawi, commander of the Anbar Operation on Tuesday, Iraq’s al-Sumaria news channel reported. Mahlwai added that the Iraqi army troops, backed by Popular Mobilization units, are making advances against terrorists in the area. Meanwhile, Mahlawi said a new mass grave containing the remains of 50 people, including children, was discovered in the recently-liberated al-Sufiyah district east of Ramadi. Daesh had executed tens of civilians who resorted to the security forces in the areas east of Ramadi before their liberation. In another development on Tuesday, an Iraqi military helicopter crashed north of Kut city in the province of Wasit, leaving all nine crew members dead. A military spokesman said two pilots and seven army officers were killed in the crash.
February 16, 2016
http://en.alalam.ir/news/1790042
Kurdish Headline: Turkey issues new threats to Kurdish forces in Syria
Turkey has promised the “harshest reaction” if Kurdish forces try to take the key town of Azaz in northern Syria. Over the weekend Turkey shelled the Kurdish YPG militia as it made advances in the area. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters on his plane as he headed to Ukraine that the weekend shelling had managed to force the YPG from Azaz. “If they approach again, they will see the harshest reaction. We will not allow Azaz to fall,” he said. Mr Davutoglu also pledged to make the Syrian Menagh air base “unusable” if the militia did not withdraw from the area, and that the YPG would not be allowed to move east of its Afrin region or west of the Euphrates.
***See also Turkey vs. Russia below
February 15, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35576458
Kurdish Headline: Kurds capture Syrian town of Tel Rifaat despite Ankara’s threats
Fighters from the Kurdish YPG militia on Tuesday captured the town of Tel Rifaat, one of the largest rebel strongholds after Aleppo, in Syria’s Idlib province near the Turkish border. The move came despite threats from Ankara that it would launch a military operation within Syria if the Kurds continue to advance. DEBKAfile‘s military sources: Turkey is making empty threats and has no intention to launch such an operation. It also has no intention to establish a ground force consisting of troops from Islamic countries to depose Syrian President Bashar Assad, which it has proposed, or to invade Syria.
February 16, 2016
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: Turkey calls on US, allies to launch ground operation in Syria
Headline: EU calls on Turkey to halt military action in Syria
Turkey called Tuesday on the United States and its allies to take part in a joint ground operation in Syria, saying it is “impossible to stop this war” without a greater effort against a Moscow-backed Syrian government offensive. “We want a ground operation. If there is a consensus, Turkey will take part,” a Turkish official, who declined to be named in order to speak more freely, told reporters in Istanbul, according to Reuters. “Without a ground operation it is impossible to stop this war.” There was no immediate U.S. response. “Turkey is not going to have a unilateral ground operation … We are discussing this with allies,” the official said.
February 16, 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/880871
Headline: Turkey accuses Russia of an “obvious war crime”
Headline: Russia denies its warplanes struck Syria hospitals
Headline: Russia says Turkey supplies ISIS via Syrian town of Azaz
Turkey on Monday accused Russia of an “obvious war crime” after missile attacks in northern Syria killed scores of people. An offensive supported by Russian bombing and Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias has brought the Syrian army to within 25 km (15 miles) of Turkey’s frontier. Almost 50 civilians were killed when missiles hit at least five medical facilities and two schools in rebel-held areas of Syria on Monday, according to the United Nations, which called the attacks a blatant violation of international law. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said a Russian missile had hit the buildings and that many civilians including children had been killed. Turkey’s foreign ministry accused Russia of carrying out an “obvious war crime.”
February 16, 2016
https://news.yahoo.com/turkey-not-considering-sending-troops-syria-agency-062936633.html
Iran
Headline:Defiant Iran ignores UN ban, hits up Putin for high-tech tanks, fighter jets
Iran’s defense minister met Tuesday in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin about delivery of the advanced S-300 air defense system — and the purchase of powerful offensive weapons, including Russia’s most sophisticated tank and jet fighters. Russian media and two intelligence officials speaking to Fox News confirm the meeting between Putin and Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan, believed to be the architect of the 1983 terror bombing that killed 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service members in Beirut, Lebanon. A United Nations resolution passed on July 20, days after the landmark nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers, including the United States, forbids Iran from making conventional arms sales for the next five years. While a defensive “ground-to-air” weapons system such as the S-300 is exempt from U.N. Resolution 2231, the ban explicitly forbids “battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, large-caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, [and] warships…” from being purchased by Iran without prior approval from the U.N. Iran is looking to buy Russia’s most capable tank, the T-90, as well as modern Su-30 Flanker fighter jets, Dehqan has said.
February 16, 2016
Afghanistan
Headline: Taliban militants kill dozens of Afghan forces in Helmand
Headline: Number of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan Conflict ‘Hits Record’ in 2015
Headline: Taliban, Islamic State clash in eastern Afghanistan
A series of militant attacks have claimed the lives of dozens of soldiers and policemen across the southern province of Helmand over the past three days. Local Afghan officials said on Tuesday that at least 18 soldiers were killed during clashes with the Taliban militants in Sangin and Musa Qalah districts of the volatile province. In another incident, at least 10 policemen lost their lives during a gun battle with Taliban in Gereshk area, a road junction north of the district capital Lashkar Gah. At least two more policemen were killed when armed men clad in Afghan police uniform opened fire on them in Khan Nashin district on Monday night. In the worst incident in Helmand on Sunday, a militant attack on a checkpoint in the district center of Sangin killed seven soldiers and 15 policemen.
February 16, 2016
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/16/450705/Afghanistan-Taliban-Helmand-Sangin-Musa-Qalah
http://theindianrepublic.com/number-of-civilian-casualties-in-afghanistan-conflict-hits-82395.html
Sudan
Headline: Sudan rebels, troops clash in restive South Kordofan
Sudanese troops and rebels have clashed around an army base in the restive South Kordofan state, both sides said on Monday, but giving conflicting accounts of the fighting. The Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North has been battling President Omar al-Bashir’s troops in South Kordofan and Blue Nile since 2011, but there has been relatively little fighting there this year. SPLA-N forces on Saturday “repulsed a convoy leaving Abry and heading to Lamray and pushed back the invading forces to the Abry garrison and entered its trenches and the fighting is still going on there,” rebel spokesman Arnu Lodi said in a statement. Abry is a village south of the South Kordofan state capital of Kadugli where the Sudanese military has a base. Most of the territory around Abry is thought to be rebel-controlled. Lodi said the SPLA-N destroyed seven enemy land cruisers and killed 60 troops, losing seven of its own men. Sudan’s army denied the claims, saying the SPLA-N had been shelling the Abray base for days. “The insurgents had been shelling the Abray site with artillery and Katyusha (rockets) for more than a week and some of them attacked the site and they were repulsed and pushed back,” spokesman Brigadier Ahmed Khalifa al-Shami told AFP on Monday. “We didn’t suffer any losses,” he said, adding that many SPLA-N troops had been killed. Sudanese security forces rarely grant media access to South Kordofan, making it impossible to verify the often conflicting accounts from both sides.
February 16, 2016
Armenia
Headline: Turkish PM: Supporting Armenia, Russia jeopardizes Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity
Russia is jeopardizing Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity by supporting Armenia, said Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu during a visit to Ukraine Feb. 15. He further said Russia is currently seeking to promote its interests in the region, as well as in the Middle East. “Russia must understand that the Soviet Union collapsed long ago and Moscow’s actions greatly harm the interests of Russian people as well,” added Davutoglu. The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the US are currently holding peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented the UN Security Council’s four resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
February 15, 2016
http://en.trend.az/world/turkey/2494690.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: Cameroon forces kill 162 Boko Haram extremists, retake town
Cameroon’s special forces have killed 162 Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s northeastern town of Goshi, destroying bomb factories and weapons to retake the extremist stronghold, the government said. The town is now under the control of Nigerian forces after the operation led by Cameroon special forces from Feb. 11 to Feb. 14, Cameroon’s communication minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said late Monday. Cameroon forces freed about 100 people being held by the insurgents, including Cameroonians and Nigerians, he said. Two members of Cameroon’s military were killed, he said. The two, including a senior commander, were reported killed after their convoy hit a vehicle Sunday. “The town of Goshi in Nigeria was formally identified as one of the Boko Haram posts, hosting factories for the manufacturing of bombs and mines,” Bakary said. He added that the town was also used to house teenagers who are used as human bombs during suicide attacks. Bakary said 162 Boko Haram fighters were killed, four mine factories dismantled, and special forces seized at least five readied mines, hundreds of explosive holders, suicide vests and triggers. A previously identified training center, along with two vehicles were also set on fire, he said.
February 16, 2016
Headline: Suicide bomb kills two police officers, injures 14 in Dagestan, Russia
Two police officers died and 12 people were injured Monday by a suicide car bomb detonated near Dzhemikentskogo traffic police post in the Derbent region of Dagestan, Russia. The attack was organized by militants who have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State, said Rasul Temirbekov, spokesman for the Dagestani branch of the federal Investigative Committee. Ramadan Abdullatipov, Head of the Republic of Dagestan, posted several photos from the scene on Instagram. “Our common motto is: ‘All to combat terrorism!’, and we will be able to clean the Republic of the residue from the terrorist evil spirits! We are not afraid of extremists and terrorists, even if they are afraid of us. We live and die for our great country!” Abdullatipov wrote in the post. The area has seen an increase of violence since Russian army forces became more involved in the conflict in Syria over the past year.
***Please track back to ETRM Rise of Global Islam at this link: http://endtimesresearchministry.com/november-30-2015-russia-turkey-isis-whats-going-on/
February 15, 2016
Headline: Two civilians killed in Indian Kashmir violence
Headline: India imposes curfew in strike-hit Kashmir
Two Kashmiri civilians – a young woman and a teenage boy – have been killed and over a dozen injured by Indian police during clashes with protesters in the restive Pulwama district of Indian-administered Kashmir. According to an Indian police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, the incident occurred on Sunday after clashes erupted between Indian army troops and resident protesters in the village of Kakpora, in Pulwama district, some 35 kilometers south of Srinagar. The residents allegedly protested after Indian police cordoned off the village, suspecting the presence of pro-independence fighters. “One lady died in cross fire near the encounter site, and one protester reportedly died due to tear-smoke shell injury,” said Javid Gillani, India’s regional inspector general of police. A local resident said that the dead boy, identified as Danish, was hit by a bullet in the head and the young woman, a university student named Shaista Hamid, was killed after a stray bullet struck her inside her home compound. “They targeted civilians deliberately. They didn’t even spare women. Shaista and Danish were killed in forces firing,” said Shakeel Ahmad, a villager from Kakpora. Officials confirmed the death of a pro-independence fighter in clashes, adding that 15 protesters sustained injuries and were transferred to the nearest hospital.
February 15, 2016
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/14/450342/Pulwama-Kashmir-Javid-Gillani-Shaista-Danish
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/15/450463/Pakistan-Kashmir-Srinagar-Pulwama-India
Headline: Philippine rebels kill 6 policemen, wound 8 others in attack
Headline: Philippines-based jihadist groups pledge allegiance to the Islamic State
Suspected communist guerrillas killed six policemen and wounded eight others in an ambush in the northern Philippines on Tuesday in the latest flare-up of the decades-old Marxist insurgency, the military said. Army Maj. Gen. Lysander Suerte said about 40 New People’s Army rebels detonated a bomb then opened fire on a truckload of policemen in the coastal town of Baggao in Cagayan province Tuesday, sparking an hourlong gunbattle.Two assault helicopters were deployed and soldiers and policemen were pursuing the attackers, who burned construction equipment in a nearby farm irrigation project late Monday, Suerte said.
February 16, 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/world/news/881456
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: China issues warning against THAAD in South Korea
Headline: U.S. to deploy F-22 Raptors to South Korea
China’s opposition to the possible deployment of a U.S. anti-missile defense system in South Korea is mounting and overshadowing calls for tougher sanctions against North Korea. Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Yesui met with South Korean delegates in Beijing Tuesday to directly convey the government’s objections to Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, a deterrent that could intercept North Korea missiles, South Korean television network SBS reported. Beijing’s state-owned CCTV also aired footage of a test launch of a long-range ballistic missile, the DF-21D, during the day of the meeting. The Chinese missile is a powerful weapon that can strike warships, and is also known as the “carrier-killer.” Zheng’s message to South Korea and the United States was also a warning. The senior official told reporters that Beijing opposes the deployment of THAAD, and that he hoped “relevant nations act carefully.”
February 16, 2016
Headline: Euro on the brink of DISASTER: Germany’s debt plans could send currency into MELTDOWN
Professor Peter Bofinger, a special advisor to the Berlin-based government, said Italy and Spain could potentially be forced out of the euro and back to their own currencies under new plans. Under the proposed scheme, investors who hold Eurozone government-issued debts through bonds would have to accept write-offs on the value of their investment before the group steps in to offer bailout cash. Professor Bofinger believes the move could cause a “bond crisis” where investors dump debts in countries such as Italy, Spain and Portugal, for fears that they could have to accept the write downs, sending the cost of borrowing sky-high. He told the Telegraph: “It is the fastest way to break up the eurozone. “A speculative attack could come very fast. If I were a politician in Italy and I was confronted by this sort of insolvency risk I would want to go back to my own currency as fast as possible, because that is the only way to avoid going bankrupt.” The scheme would potentially halt the need for billions of German cash to bail-out countries with huge debts in the future, and the German Council of Economic Advisors is largely in favour of the policy. It comes as debts in Italy, Portugal and Spain look ever more worrying. Portugal government borrowing costs have recently jumped back to increasingly high levels, triggering worries it could soon need another eurozone bailout. Professor Bofinger also believes that the eurozone is more crisis-prone because of the way it was set up.
February 16, 2016
Economic collapse Revelation 6:5-6 & James 5:1-3– Worldwide– “ 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) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James)
Headline: Negative central bank interest rates now herald new danger for the world
Headline: Fed’s Kashkari Floats Breaking Up Big Banks to Avert Meltdown
The world’s tentative experiment with negative interest rates got off to an unremarkable start. Sweden’s Riksbank – the world’s oldest central bank – became the first major monetary authority to cross the rubicon and take its main policy rate into the red exactly a year ago to the month (see map above). The Riksbank’s move followed the likes of Switzerland and Denmark, who had turned negative in a bid to stimulate flagging inflation and halt the punishing appreciation of their currencies. But recessionary fears have crept up on the world much faster than the likes of Mr Haldane may have anticipated. Global markets have crashed into bear market territory. A cocktail of fears, including the collapsing price of oil, the creaking health of the world’s biggest banks and China’s competence in managing its economic slowdown, have ignited fears that investor panic may lead the world into a new downturn. Bank shares have been in the eye of the selling storm, concentrating minds on just what negative interest rates mean for the financial system. Jitters were set off by the Bank of Japan’s shock decision to join the negative rate club at the end of January. One year into the negative rates experiment, it seemed monetary authorities were getting desperate in their attempts to stimulate growth and inflation with their limited policy tools. Like its counterparts in northern Europe, Japan’s sub-zero rates were intended to drive down the value of its currency, the yen. It didn’t work. The yen has now risen by 10pc against the US dollar since the Bank of Japan’s negative interest rate decision on January 30.
February 15, 2016
Headline: Saudi Arabia, Russia agree oil output freeze; talks with Iran to follow
Top oil exporters Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed on Tuesday to freeze output levels but said the deal was contingent on other producers joining in. However Iran, a major sticking point, was absent from the talks with Tehran determined to raise production. The Saudi, Russian, Qatari and Venezuelan oil ministers announced the proposal after a previously undisclosed meeting in Doha — their highest-level discussion in months on joint action to tackle a growing oversupply of crude and help prices recover from their lowest levels in more than a decade. The Saudi minister, Ali al-Naimi, said freezing production at January levels — near record highs — was an adequate measure and he hoped other producers would adopt the plan. Venezuela’s oil minister Eulogio Del Pino said more talks would take place with Iran and Iraq on Wednesday in Tehran. “The reason we agreed to a potential freeze of production is simple: it is the beginning of a process which we will assess in the next few months and decide if we need other steps to stabilize and improve the market,” Naimi told reporters. “We don’t want significant gyrations in prices, we don’t want reduction in supply, we want to meet demand, we want a stable oil price. We have to take a step at a time,” he said.
February 16, 2016
Headline: Drought may affect 49 million in southern Africa: UN
The United Nations (UN) has warned that around 49 million people in southern Africa could be affected by drought. “It is estimated that 40 million rural people and 9 million poor urban people who live in drought-affected areas could be exposed,” the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said in a report on Monday. According to the WFP, around 14 million people are already facing hunger in the region. The UN agency also noted that the drought has been worsened by the most severe and longest El Nino weather condition in 35 years, as it has caused the lowest recorded rainfall between October and December since 1981. This comes as several countries across the region have been struck by a drop in food production and a rise in food prices due to the ongoing drought. The drought has especially hit maize belt in southern Africa, the continent’s top producer of the staple grain. Maize planting has been delayed by two months or more in Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Maize deficit has pushed the price higher in several countries across the drought-hit region.
February 15, 2016
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/15/450529/UN-World-Food-Program-Africa-El-Nino-drought
February 13, 2016 –150,000 penguins die after giant iceberg becomes grounded in Antarctica
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/13/150000-penguins-killed-after-giant-iceberg-renders-colony-landlocked
February 15, 2016 – Thousands of fish are dying along the Porce River in Colombia
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elcolombiano.com%2Fantioquia%2Fotra-mortandad-de-peces-en-el-rio-porce-FY3607564&edit-text=&act=url
February 16, 2016 – Large die off of fish along the waterways of Karatay in Turkey
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fyenikonya.com.tr%2Fhaber-487290-_konyada_vatandalar_tedirgin_eden_balk_lmleri.html&edit-text=&act=url
February 16, 2016 – Dead turtles found washed up along beaches in Guerrero, Mexico
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fregeneracion.mx%2Fmuerte-masiva-de-tortugas-en-guerrero%2F&sandbox=1
February 15, 2016 – 50 Percent die off of bees during past 3 years in a large bee farm in Arkansas
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/feb/15/for-bee-business-die-off-a-worry-201602/?f=business
February 16, 2016 – Massive die off of bees in the past 2 weeks in various parts of Spain
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.teinteresa.es%2Fespana%2FGREENPEACE-APICULTORES-DENUNCIAN-MUERTES-MASIVAS_0_1523847670.html&edit-text=&act=url
Headline: Hawaii declares state of emergency over Zika virus, dengue fever outbreak
Headline: Zika infection suspected in pregnant San Antonio woman
Headline: Venezuela faces ‘worst-case scenario’ as Zika outbreak expands
Headline: Scientists: Zika virus has potential to go pandemic
Hawaii Gov. David Ige declared a state of emergency to fight mosquito borne illnesses including dengue fever and the Zika virus. The state has been in the midst of a dengue fever outbreak on Hawaii’s Big Island, where there were more than 250 confirmed cases. There have been no locally transmitted cases of the Zika virus in Hawaii, Ige said in a news conference Friday. But there’s concern that the islands could be at risk because mosquitoes that can carry dengue fever also can carry the Zika virus. “We are doing everything we can to be prepared, to be proactive, to prevent vector borne diseases here in Hawaii,” Ige said. The emergency proclamation could help the state acquire more money to control outbreaks. Hawaii is rushing to build up its mosquito control staff after a December report from the Centers for Disease Control highlighted deficiencies in the state’s vector control department.
February 15, 2016
http://www.naturalnews.com/052982_Zika_virus_pandemics_human_microbiome.html#
Headline: Doctors 3D-print ‘living’ body parts
Custom-made, living body parts have been 3D-printed in a significant advance for regenerative medicine, say scientists. The sections of bone, muscle and cartilage all functioned normally when implanted into animals. The breakthrough, published in Nature Biotechnology, raises the hope of using living tissues to repair the body. Experts described the technology, developed in the US, as a “goose that really does lay golden eggs”. The idea of placing individual human cells in a precise pattern to replace a damaged jaw, missing ear or scarred heart muscle holds much promise. But the field has been limited by the huge challenge of keeping the cells alive – they become starved of oxygen and nutrients in tissues thicker than 0.2 millimetres. The team at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre developed a new technique that 3D-prints a tissue riddled with micro-channels, rather like a sponge, to allow nutrients to penetrate the tissue.
February 16, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35581454
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: Cliff collapses as 5.7-magnitude quake rocks New Zealand
A cliff near New Zealand city of Christchurch collapsed on Sunday after a 5.7-magnitude quake struck the South Island city. The New Zealand government’s GeoNet monitoring service said the moderate quake was centred 15 km east of the city at a depth of 15 km, Xinhua reported. The US Geological Survey put the magnitude of the temblor at 5.8 with a relatively shallow depth of 8.2 km. Emergency services said part of a cliff collapsed in Sumner district in Christchurch. A video clip posted on the social media showed a huge dust cloud following the collapse. Police cordoned off nearby access to the fallen cliff and local electricity service said at least 450 homes were left without power. Earthquake Minister Gerry Brownlee said he has not received reports of injuries or deaths and engineers were on the ground to assess any damage.
February 14, 2016
***All earthquakes are instantly posted to my Facebook page; Please be sure to visit my Facebook page to see ALL the maps of the large earthquakes from March 2014 – today
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Headline: What’s shaking? 
List & map of USGS Earthquakes