May 1, 2015- Syrian Islamists take over crossing near Israel
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Headline: Palestinian News Agency: ‘Freedom Flotilla III’ is set to challenge Gaza blockade
Three ships are expected to set sail for Gaza this summer as part of a humanitarian mission to Gaza, Ma’an News Agency reported Friday. Details of the mission, coined “Freedom Flotilla III,” remain under the radar. Berawi Zaher, coordinator of the international mission, told Ma’an that its details, including the ships’ departure time and fleet location, will not be released in an effort to hamper Israeli authorities from intervening and exerting international pressure to halt the execution of the mission. The flotilla will be the third of its kind launched by the FCC, the first being 2010’s Mavi Marmara, which ended in violence after being intercepted by the IDF’s navy. Two activists were killed in the confrontation. This past summer, in the midst and aftermath of Operation Protective Edge, the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) threatened to send a second flotilla, “Freedom Flotilla II,” to challenge the blockade.
May 1, 2015
Headline: Iran swings behind escalated Syrian-Hizballah anti-Israel terror offensive on the Golan
The Syrian and Hizballah military delegations visiting Tehran this week achieved their purpose: debkafile’s intelligence and military sources report that in three days of talks up until Friday April 30, Syrian Defense Minister Gen. Fahad Jassim al-Freij procured from his Iranian counterpart Hussein Dehghan, approval for a stepped up terror campaign against Israeli forces and civilians on the Golan, to be executed by terrorist surrogates. Iran pledged its support for this campaign and promised to make the Revolutionary Guards and Afghani Shiite forces present in Syria available, in the event of an Israeli counter-attack. A stamping ground, designated “the open area,” was to be provided for all terrorist militias willing to attack Israel. It would stretch from Damascus to the Golan – a distance of 60 km by road – and take in the Syrian Hermon and Lebanese Chebaa Farms. Syrian and Hizballah military intelligence services will take responsibility for coordinating their operations and providing them with arms and intelligence. According to the plan approved in Tehran, Syria and Hizballah will establish new militias for their campaign as well as deploying existing terrorist groups. One such framework, made up of Syrian Druzes, was set up in recent weeks. Its first attack last Sunday April 26 – an attempt to plant a bomb near an Israeli Golan border position – was a flop. All four bombers were killed in an Israeli air strike and the device did not detonate.
May 1, 2015
Headline: Iran’s claim that Israel has 400 nuclear weapons
“It’s laughable that [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has become everybody’s nonproliferation guru. He is sitting on 400 nuclear warheads, nuclear warheads that have been acquired in violation of the NPT [Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty].” –Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, speaking in New York, April 29, 2015
In the debate over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the unacknowledged nuclear stockpile of Israel often comes up. In the 1950s and 1960s, Israel secretly acquired the technology and material to build nuclear weapons, frequently misleading the U.S. government about its intentions. (France was Israel’s partner in the building of the Dimona reactor in the Negev desert, while South Africa is believed by some to have assisted Israel in conducting at least one nuclear test in the 1970s.) Zarif quickly noted that Israel (unlike Iran) is not a member of the NPT, but added: “Those who provided them with the technology were members of the NPT and violated the NPT to provide them with the technology, and we know who they were. And now they are the proponents of nonproliferation.” (Actually, France’s cooperation with Israel ended in 1966, before the NPT went into effect in 1970.)
May 1, 2015
Headline: Syrian Islamists take over crossing near Israel
On Thursday, Islamist rebels of Ahrar al-Sham in Syria seized a crossing in Quneitra province near the Israeli border. Ahrar al-Sham took over the crossing of al-Qahtaniya after three days of fierce clashes with another Islamist group known as Army of Jihad –which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS/ISIS). Haitham Nassar, a media activist accompanying Ahrar al-Sham in Quneitra, told ARA News that dozens were killed on both sides during the clashes. According to military sources, the crossing of al-Qahtaniya is considered a strategic one for its proximity to the Golan Heights. Ahrar al-Sham has played a role in the rebels operation in Idlib that resulted in the control of the city after forcing Assad army to withdraw.
*** Ahrar ash-Sham is a coalition of multiple Islamist and Salafist units, which coalesced into a single brigade during the Syrian Civil War, in order to fight against the Ba’athist government lead by Bashar al-Assad
May 1, 2015
http://aranews.net/2015/05/syrian-islamists-take-over-crossing-near-israel/
http://web.stanford.edu/group/mappingmilitants/cgi-bin/groups/view/523
“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: Syria army, Hezbollah preparing for anti-ISIL battle
Syrian army forces along with fighters belonging to the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, are preparing for a battle to gain full control of the eastern Lebanon mountain range and to purge the strategic area of ISIL militants.According to security sources, the military arrangements for the battle for the eastern mountain range near the border with Syria have almost finished, the Beirut-based English-language newspaper Daily Star reported. The sources said that the Syrian army has brought a number of rocket launchers, artillery batteries and cannons and has deployed them in strategic areas and hills in the Syrian town of Zabadani, close to the border with Lebanon.
May 1, 2015
FOR THE TIME BEING, I AM MOVING YEMEN UP TO THIS AREA, AS MANY OF THE NEWS ITEMS WE WILL BE SEEING WILL INCLUDE SAUDI ARABIA & OTHER GULF COUNTRIES; PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YEMEN IS NOT PART OF THE PSALM 83 WAR, BUT CONTINUES TO FULFILL THE PROPHECY OF NATION AGAINST NATION.
Headline: Saudi Arabia ‘repels Houthi border attack’
Headline: Yemeni conflict spills into Saudi Arabia
Three Saudi troops and “dozens” of Houthi rebels were killed as Saudi forces repelled a major attack from inside Yemen, Saudi officials say. The rebels attacked near the town of Najran, reports say, in what would be their biggest assault on Saudi soil since a Saudi military campaign began. A statement by the Saudi Press Agency, SPA, said the overnight attack happened on its southern border. Identifying the attackers as Shia Houthi rebels and groups allied to them, SPA said Saudi ground troops exchanged fire with them and called in air strikes. Earlier on Thursday, a Saudi border guard was killed by a mortar shell close to the border with Yemen in the south-west Saudi province of Jizan. Seventeen Saudi troops have been killed in attacks by Yemeni rebels during the last five weeks.
May 1, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32537543
Headline: Air strikes kill civilians in Yemeni capital
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition struck a residential district of the Yemeni capital Sanaa overnight, killing eight to 10 civilians, residents said on Friday. The Saba state news agency, controlled by the Houthi movement in charge of Sanaa, put the death toll in the Sawan district at 20 and said more than 50 people had been wounded. It said casualties included woman and children. Warplanes also struck a military airbase near the capital. Saba said medics had rushed to Sawan to try to rescue residents trapped under the rubble of homes. The strikes came days after jets bombed the runway to stop an Iranian aid plane landing. Damage to the airport has stopped aid deliveries, officials said. In the southern port city of Aden, clashes continued between the Houthi fighters and local militiamen over the control of the main airport. At least 27 civilians and fighters from both sides were killed in the fight for the airport and in the port district of Mualla on Friday, a local militia source said. Eight Houthis were killed in an ambush by local militiamen in the central Crater district, the source said.
May 1, 2015
http://newsdaily.com/2015/05/air-strikes-kill-civilians-in-yemeni-capital/
Headline: Islamic State beheads, shoots 15 Yemeni soldiers
The Islamic State in Yemen claimed credit for the brutal execution of 15 Yemeni soldiers who were captured in the city of Azzan in Shabwa province earlier this month. The treatment of the captured soldiers by the Islamic State presents a stark contrast to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) handling of captured Yemeni soldiers. The Islamic State’s “Media Office for Shabwa Province” released a short, two minute 19 second video called “Eliminating the Apostates” on Twitter today. The video was obtained and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group. In the video, the Islamic State displays 15 Yemeni soldiers. Local media reports indicated that tribal militias overran a military camp operated by the Yemeni Army’s 2nd Mountain Brigade in the city of Azzan in Shabwa province on April 12. Islamic State fighters from “Wilayat Ataq,” or Ataq province (Ataq is a city in Shabwa province), are reported to have executed the Yemeni soldiers days later, on April 14. The graphic execution of the Yemeni soldiers draws a contrast in methodology between the Islamic State and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the dominant jihadist group in Yemen. The Islamic State has been challenging al Qaeda for control of the global jihad. The Islamic State in Yemen, like other Islamic State branches in the Middle East and Africa, has been indiscriminate in its application of violence. In its first major attack in Yemen, the group killed more than 100 people in suicide attacks that targeted Houthi mosques in the capital of Sana’a. The Houthis, a Shiite group that is backed by Iran, have taken over most of northern and eastern Yemen, and have encroached on areas in the south. The Islamic State has accused AQAP of being soft on the Houthis, and has sought to cleave off the more hardline elements of AQAP’s rank and file.
May 1, 2015
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/05/islamic-state-beheads-shoots-15-yemeni-soldiers.php
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Syrian Army Preempts Rebel Attacks in Regime Bastion
Syria’s army launched an offensive Friday against rebel groups in a bid to strengthen its control in the northwest Latakia province, a bastion of the regime, a monitor said. After a series of losses in neighboring Idlib province, the army is fortifying its positions to preempt potential rebel attacks on Latakia, home to the small Alawite religious community from which President Bashar al-Assad hails. Regime forces attacked rebel positions overnight from Thursday until Friday in the northeast of Latakia province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “Seven opposition fighters and 10 pro-government forces were killed,” the Britain-based monitoring group said. Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said that “the battles are taking place around the Nabi Yunes hilltop, a strategic position 1,500 metres (5,000 feet) above sea level, on the edge of Idlib and Hama provinces.” The regime controls the hilltop itself, but opposition groups have taken over the foot of the hill to the west and northwest. “To protect Nabi Yunes, regime forces are trying to dislodge the rebels,” Abdel Rahman said.
May 1, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/194864#.VUPcK5Me2uQ
Syria Headline: Syrian government pounds Idlib as troops besieged
Syrian airstrikes have killed at least 20 people in northwest Idlib province while regime forces tried to battle their way out of a siege in the provincial capital, activists said Thursday. In northern Syria, rebels have advanced on Mastouma, one of the few remaining regime garrisons in Idlib province. Overnight airstrikes targeted rebels north and south of the town of Jisr al-Shughur, which recently fell to the insurgents, and in and around the town of Saraqeb. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 23 civilians, including five children, were killed in those airstrikes. Observatory director Rami Abdel-Rahman said the regime was trying to halt the advance toward Mastouma. The airstrikes are “attempting to terrorize the rebels, but they end up killing civilians,” he said.
May 1, 2015
Syria Headline: An Army in All Corners:” Assad’s Campaign Strategy in Syria
U.S. policymakers in April 2015 appear to be returning to the position that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad represents the “least worst option in Syria” for American strategic interests. Assad is often compared to the Islamic State (ISIS) with the implication that Assad is the lesser of two evils. Senior administration officials including Secretary of State John Kerry signaled support for diplomatic negotiations with the regime in March 2015, rather than developing a committed strategy to remove Assad from power. American leaders’ ambivalence reflects the limitations of U.S. policy which attempts to treat Syria as the backdrop for a narrow counterterrorism problem rather than a comprehensive national security issue. This outlook is dangerously flawed.
May 1, 2015
http://understandingwar.org/report/army-all-corners-assads-campaign-strategy-syria
Syria Headline: Control of Terrain in Syria: April 30, 2015
http://iswsyria.blogspot.com/2015/04/control-of-terrain-in-syria-april-30.html
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: Five car bombs kill 17 across Baghdad
Iraq Headline: IS Claims Six Car Bombings in Baghdad as Revenge for Displaced Sunnis from Anbar Killed in the Capital
Five car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Thursday evening, killing at least 17 people, in attacks that have become more frequent in the Iraqi capital since a decade-old night time curfew was lifted earlier this year. The deadliest of the blasts, which appeared to be coordinated, took place in the Iskan neighborhood, where five people were killed, police and medical sources said. Iraqi authorities lifted the curfew on Baghdad in February, seeking to restore a sense of normality to the city as security forces battle Islamic State militants who overran large sections in the north and west of the country last summer. But militants may be exploiting greater freedom of movement to carry out more attacks in the capital. Thursday was the third day of bombings in Baghdad this week. Another of the car bombs on Thursday exploded near a children’s hospital in Jamila, killing three civilians. Four people were killed by a bomb in a commercial street in al-Hurriya, three more in the Talbiya district and two in the Ur neighborhood.
April 30, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/30/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-violence-idUSKBN0NL2LS20150430
Iraq Headline: ISIS strikes Iraqi forces as battle for Baiji rages
Iraq Headline: Islamic State releases new video from the Baiji oil refinery
A suicide attack by ISIS jihadists in the disputed Iraqi town of Baiji has killed at least 16 members of Iraqi security forces, local agencies reported Friday. Earlier on Friday, the Iraqi Ministry of Defense announced that a tense battle was ongoing between national security forces and extremists trying to capture parts of Baiji, including its refinery complex which is the biggest oil facility in Iraq. A police officer in Salahaddin province, where Baiji is located, said Iraqi fighters protecting the refinery were under intense attacks by the jihadists. According to the officer, ISIS fighters have been able to surround Iraqi forces inside the refinery and cut off military support. The Iraq Oil Report, an independent news outlet, reported Friday that after a series of assaults the jihadists now control most of Baiji refinery.
May 1, 2015
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/01052015
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report April 28-29, 2015
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/iraq-situation-report-april-28-29-2015.html
Kurdish Headline: US Think Tank: Kurds Could Replace Strategic Partnership With Turkey
The DC-based think tank Bipartisan Policy Centre (BPC) in a report released last Thursday says the United States must look for a new reliable strategic partner such as the Kurds in Iraq and Syria to replace Turkey since Turkey is no longer dependable ally. Since the Cold War, the United States and Turkey have had a strong partnership based on shared strategic interests and aspirations towards sharing the same democratic values, the think tank says. But the Bipartisan Policy Centre now thinks that Turkey undermining U.S. interests (including the fight against the Islamic state (IS)). Moreover, , and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) is eroding democracy in Turkey. Therefore the think tank proposes that the United States should build a US airbase in Kurdistan, as an alternative to the Turkish Incirlik airbase. According to the BPC, Turkey’s continued refusal to allow access to the Turkish airbase has forced the US to fly missions out of the gulf. In addition, the US should discuss the delisting of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that has emerged as a viable partner against the terrorist IS-group.
May 1, 2015
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: Russia Conducts Nuclear Bomber Flight Near Alaska
Two Russian nuclear-capable bombers intruded into the U.S. air defense zone near Alaska last week in the latest saber rattling by Moscow, defense officials said. The Tu-95 Bear H bombers flew into the Alaska zone on April 22. But unlike most earlier incursions, no U.S. interceptor jets were dispatched to shadow them, said defense officials familiar with the latest U.S.-Russian aerial encounter. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a spokesman for the U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), declined to confirm the incursion. But he said no jets were dispatched last week to intercept intruding aircraft. The incident was the first Russian bomber incursion of a U.S. or Canadian air defense zone this year. Officials said it likely signals the start of Russia’s long-range aviation spring training cycle. Further aerial incursions are expected.
May 1, 2015
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-conducts-nuclear-bomber-flight-near-alaska/
Iran
Headline: US Navy accompanies 4 ships through Strait of Hormuz
The U.S. Navy accompanied four American-flagged ships and a British vessel moving through the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf on Thursday, and officials said the U.S. will offer that aid to any other nation concerned about interference from Iranian vessels. U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said the four U.S. ships belonged to the Navy’s Military Sealift Command or were contract vessels. Those ships have civilian crews and are used to carry cargo or re-supply U.S. Navy ships. Air Force Col. Pat Ryder, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said that any U.S.-flagged ship can ask to be accompanied by Navy warships through the narrow strait, which includes Iranian territorial waters. Officials use the word “accompany” rather than escort, because they say the Navy ships are positioned nearby and are ready to respond if needed, but they don’t travel back and forth through the strait alongside each contract or Sealift Command vessel as they would during an escort. Ryder said the U.S. Navy ships don’t intend to go into Iranian territorial waters.
May 1, 2015
Afghanistan
Headline: Photos show purported ISIS training camp in Afghanistan
Headline: Afghan delegation to meet with Taliban in Qatar: officials
New photos purport to show ISIS fighters training at a terrorist camp in Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border, in what may be yet another sign of the black-clad jihadist army’s expanding reach. The pictures, obtained by a Pakistani journalist earlier this month and published by the military blog The Long War Journal, show apparent ISIS radicals training, marching in formation and brandishing heavy artillery. The photos were allegedly taken in the “Ustad Yasir” camp in the Logar province in eastern Afghanistan. The camp is believed to be operated by the Sa’ad bin Abi Waqas Front — a group named for an Al Qaeda leader who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in 2011. The camp is named for a key Taliban ideologue and top recruiter who was one of more than two dozen senior and mid-level Taliban officials killed in a 2012 “purge.” The photos raise questions about who the fighters are and how closely they are aligned with the Islamic State leadership in Syria and Iraq. Analysts said they could be disaffected former Taliban fighters — as naming their camp for an accused Taliban turncoat might suggest — of unaffiliated terrorists whose sympathies lie with the infamous jihadist army.
May 1, 2015
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/05/01/photos-show-purported-isis-training-camp-in-afghanistan/
http://newsdaily.com/2015/05/afghan-delegation-to-meet-with-taliban-in-qatar-official/
Tunisia
Headline: ISIS Pushes West, Eyeing a New Caliphate in Tunisia
There are increased signs that the self-proclaimed Islamic State has sets its sights on expanding its caliphate to Tunisia next. In the last two weeks, ISIS has published videos taunting the government, shared pictures of some its fighters brandishing guns and made fun of a Tunisian tourism campaign in the wake of a March bombing at a museum that was reportedly carried out by ISIS. The group also has posted online photos of supposed Tunisian martyrs to its cause—though the tweets don’t make clear where those purported members died. ISIS also announced that it is creating the Islamic State of Afrikah, an antiquated name for the region that is now Tunisia. For a time, Western counter-terrorism analysts hoped that ISIS’s recent territorial losses in Iraq weakened its ability to expand internationally. This lunge toward Tunisia undercuts those hopes.
April 28, 2015
Turkey
Headline: Turkish police fire tear gas, water cannon at May Day protesters
Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon at hundreds of stone-throwing May Day protesters on Friday, after they defied a ban and tried to march on Istanbul’s Taksim Square. Europe’s biggest city was under a security lockdown as thousands of police manned barricades and closed streets to stop demonstrations at Taksim, a traditional rallying ground for leftists that saw weeks of unrest in 2013. Riot police unleashed water cannon and chased protesters down side streets in the nearby Besiktas neighborhood and also they also fired off canisters of tear gas, a Reuters reporter said. Demonstrators lobbed stones and bottles at police and set off fireworks. Istanbul police said nearly 140 people had been detained, although activists said the number was nearly double that. The city’s governor said 6 police officers and 18 protestor had been injured in clashes, which died out as the afternoon wore on and a clean-up operation got underway. Critics say President Tayyip Erdogan and the government have become more authoritarian in the buildup to June elections.
May 1, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/01/us-may-day-turkey-idUSKBN0NM3FO20150501
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: Marchers protest police violence in Baltimore, New York
Headline: Six Officers Charged in Freddie Gray’s Death
Headline: Baltimore Police Commissioner: 2 Large Marches Taking Place This Weekend
Protesters marched against police violence in cities from New York to Denver on Wednesday, and a large demonstration in Baltimore ended peacefully two days after rioting over the death of a black man injured in police custody. The protests were the latest actions against racial profiling and police use of lethal force sparked by the deaths of African-American men in Cleveland; Ferguson, Missouri; New York and elsewhere in the past year. New York City police arrested more than 60 people as protesters roved in separate groups through Manhattan, blocking traffic in a few areas. Smaller protests occurred in Boston, Houston, Ferguson, Missouri, Washington, D.C., Seattle and a handful of demonstrators were arrested in Denver. In Baltimore, 3,000 National Guard troops and police stood by to enforce a 10 p.m. curfew as thousands of peaceful marchers converged on city hall. The march capped a day of calm in a city that two days earlier saw its worst rioting in decades.
May 1, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/marchers-protest-police-violence-baltimore-york-010038242.html
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/freddie-gray-homicide-prosecutor/2015/05/01/id/642014/
Headline: UN Warns Burundi Could Descend Into Chaos
UN aid agencies warn the growing standoff between protesters and the Burundian government over upcoming presidential elections may results in the country descending into chaos and possibly civil war. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said it’s worried about increasingly repressive measures being taken by Burundi’s government to stifle political dissent. Spokesman Rupert Colville pointed to a series of actions taken by authorities which he said seriously curtail people’s rights to freedom of peaceful expression and assembly. “Hundreds of people have also allegedly been detained since the demonstrations began last Sunday,” he said. “And according to one credible report, over 400 individuals are being held in extremely overcrowded conditions, with detainees actually having to sleep standing up, it is so crowded. “Detainees have also been beaten allegedly particularly on their feet and buttocks. And some of those who have been released have had trouble walking as a result of those beatings.”
May 1, 2015
http://www.voanews.com/content/growing-fear-burundi-could-descend-into-chaos/2744645.html
Headline: Tuaregs kill one, take six hostage in Mali’s Bintagoungou
Headline: Clashes between army troopers, rebels leave 19 dead in Mali
The Tuareg rebels in Mali have reportedly stormed a town in the volatile northern region, killing one person and taking six others hostage. Hama Aboubacrine, the mayor of Bintagoungou, west of the city of Timbuktu, said on Friday that over 50 armed men from the Coordination of Azawad Movements, known by the French language acronym, CMA, came Thursday to “sow terror in Bintagoungou.” The mayor added that the gunmen, who were carrying a CMA flag, plundered several shops and a pharmacy and escaped with two vehicles. The CMA comprises ethnic Arabs and Tuaregs. A UN peacekeeping source in Mali also confirmed the attack in Bintagoungou. There has been no comment from the CMA. On Thursday, 19 people lost their lives in clashes between Tuareg rebels and units of government forces in the northern half of Mali, which has witnessed several days of violence. Tuaregs took control of northern Mali, which they call Azawad, in January 2012. The country has witnessed days of turmoil ever since.
May 1, 2015
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/05/01/409010/Mali-Tuareg-Bintagoungou
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/04/30/408876/Mali-Tuareg-rebels-army-clashes
Headline: Pakistani cop killed in bomb attack targeting politician
A Pakistani policeman has been killed and two others injured in a bomb attack targeting the convoy of Pakistan’s former interior minister and ex-minister of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The convoy of Aftab Khan Sherpao came under attack while he was returning from an event in the restive province on Thursday, but he survived the assault that left a policeman dead and two others wounded. “Policemen fired at the bomber when he moved towards the convoy but he blew himself up,” Shafiullah Khan, a district police officer in the town of Charsadda, told AFP. Izharullah, an official at the local police station, also said those wounded were taken to a government hospital in the area. There has been no claim of responsibility for Thursday’s attack.
April 30, 2015
Headline: South Korea workers clash with police during May Day protests in Seoul
South Korean workers have clashed with riot police in the capital, Seoul, during a May Day rally to slam the government’s labor policies. Thousands of riot police set up barricades and tight perimeters with their buses in Seoul to block the 10,000 workers from marching toward the office of President Park Geun-hye on Friday, May 1, the international Labor Day. However, demonstrators tried to move the buses by ropes and police fired water cannons and tear gas in clashes with them to disperse the protesters occupying roads. The demonstrations on Friday came for a third week of protest rallies against the conservative government’s labor policies as well as the last year’s ferry disaster. Protesters blame the government for failing to properly address the tragedy, which claimed more than 300 lives.
May 1, 2015
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/05/01/408999/South-Korea-Seoul-May-Day-police
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: Dog Infects Humans With Plague for First Time in US
A plague-infected dog spread the dangerous disease to four Colorado residents, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health officials told ABC News that this the first report of a dog infecting a human with the plague in the U.S. The dog, a 2-year-old American pit bull terrier, became sick last summer with a fever and jaw rigidity, among other symptoms. The dog’s health declined so quickly that it was euthanized the following day at a local vet’s office, health officials said. Four days later, the dog’s owner entered the hospital with a fever and a bloody cough that became worse over the next few hours, but an initial blood culture was misidentified, according to the CDC report. As the patient’s symptoms grew worse, the test was redone and he was found to have been infected with pnumonic plague, according to the CDC report. The remains of the dog were also tested and were found to be positive for the plague bacteria. “Frankly one of the biggest surprises of this outbreak is the source,” said John Douglas, of Tri-County Health Department in Colorado and one of the study authors. “Primarily … dogs don’t get sick at all or they get a minor illness,” after being infected with the plague.
April 30, 2015
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/dog-infects-humans-plague-time-us/story?id=30710741
April 26, 2015 – 2 tons of fish, frogs and birds found dead on the shores of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia
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April 27, 2015 – Massive die off of fish along 2km of reservoir in Cherepovets, Russia
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April 28, 2015 – 20 million fish have died due to volcano eruption in Los Lagos, Chile
http://www.islandpacket.com/2015/04/28/3722191_chileans-brace-for-volcano-impact.html?rh=1
April 29, 2015 – Large die off of fish in a creek in Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/545583/polluted-creek-threatens-five-villages
April 29, 2015 – Starving sea lions now fight U.S. fishermen for food as West Coast ecosystem collapses
http://www.naturalnews.com/049537_sea_lions_ocean_ecosystem_West_Coast.html#ixzz3YiN7nPZN
April 30, 2015 – Hundreds of dead fish wash up in a river in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fvietnamnet.vn%2Fvn%2Fxa-hoi%2F234921%2Ftp-hcm—ca-chet-noi-trang-kenh-nhieu-loc.html&edit-text=&act=url
April 30, 2015 – Hundreds of fish dead due to algae in a lake in Jalisco, Mexico
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.entornointeligente.com%2Farticulo%2F5806222%2FMEXICO-El-Parque-Alcalde-cierra-por-la-muerte-de-peces-&edit-text=&act=url
April 30, 2015 – 5 million birds to be killed due to new outbreak of avian flu in Iowa
http://www.kcci.com/news/bird-flu-just-confirmed-at-5-iowa-chicken-farms/32647534
April 30, 2015 –Bird Flu Found In Hawk In Western Minnesota
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/04/30/bird-flu-found-in-hawk-in-western-minnesota/
Apostasy & Alternative Lifestyles Amos 8:11 & 1 Timothy 4:1 “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,” (1 Timothy) “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord.” (Amos)
Headline: Christians are leaving the faith in droves and the trend isn’t slowing down
An extensive study done by the Pew Research Center has yielded some fascinating information regarding the trajectory of world religions over the next four decades. As of 2010, Christianity was the dominant world religion with roughly 2.2 billion adherents and Muslims were second with about 1.6 billion adherents. If current demographic trends continue however, Islam is expected to catch up to Christianity midway through the 21st century. Furthermore, people are leaving Christianity in droves. About 106 million Christians are expected to switch affiliation from 2010 to 2050 while only about 40 million people are expected to enter Christianity. The religiously unaffiliated (athiests, agnostics) are expected to see the largest net gains from switching, adding more than 61 million followers. In North America, the fastest growing religious groups are Muslims and followers of “other religions” (an umbrella category that includes Baha’is, Jains, Sikhs, Taoists and many smaller faiths). Christianity is expected to decline from 78 percent of the overall population in 2010 to 66 percent in 2050.
April 28, 2015
http://www.businessinsider.com/christians-are-leaving-the-faith-in-droves-2015-4
Increase in Drugs Revelation 9:21 “And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.”
In Revelation 9:21 we see Jesus speaking to us about drug’s. The words “sorceries” in Revelation 9:21 is the Greek word pharmakia from which comes our word “pharmacy”. It signifies the use of medicine, drugs, spells, such as those used in witchcraft and those used today by those who are seeking a greater “high”. This generation was to be labeled a drug generation and we are.
Headline: Almost one-fifth of Americans now take psychotropic drugs to cope with everyday life
The results of the annual Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index are in, and the methods by which many Americans now cope with their daily lives in this brave new world are sobering. Roughly one in five individuals living in the U.S., based on a random survey of people living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, now take some type of mood-altering drug or medication daily just to make it through their miserable lives. After conducting interviews with at least 450 residents of each U.S. state between January and December 2014, researchers found that about 20% of folks, on average, use pharmaceutical pills or other substances on a day-to-day basis to feel happy and stable. Each individual was asked, open-ended, whether or not he or she uses drugs that “affect your mood or help you relax,” and about one in five answered yes. The types of drugs people use to this end were not specified, and may include both “legal” medications like pharma pills, alcohol and nicotine, as well as various “illegal” substances. The worst state with the most drug use was West Virginia at 28.1%, followed closely behind by Rhode Island at 25.9%, Kentucky at 24.5% and Alabama at 24.2%.
May 1, 2015
http://www.naturalnews.com/049556_psychotropic_drugs_opioid_painkillers_marijuana_prohibition.html#
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
Headline: Calbuco volcano in Chile erupts for third time
The Calbuco volcano in southern Chile erupted Wednesday for a third time, confirming speculation and triggering evacuations. The third eruption was confirmed by the Communication Department of the Chilean Air Force. “Contingency plans are all operating ,” Interior Undersecretary Mahmud Aleuy said, adding that officials are monitoring current situations in the north and south of Chile where other volcanoes have presented seismic activity. The volcano first erupted April 22 and a subsequent eruption occurred hours later.
April 30, 2015
Headline: Mount Everest Shrank As Nepal Quake Lifted Kathmandu
The first good view of the aftermath of Nepal’s deadly earthquake from a satellite reveals that a broad swath of ground near Kathmandu lifted vertically, by about 3 feet (1 meter), which could explain why damage in the city was so severe. The data also indicate the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, got a wee bit shorter. The new information comes from Europe’s Sentinel-1A radar satellite. Scientists are racing to interpret the Sentinel data, which were made available today (April 29) just hours after the satellite passed over Nepal. The preliminary data can help guide relief efforts on the ground by identifying areas that were damaged or hit by landslides. Researchers detected the vertical shift in the ground by comparing before-and-after radar images from the satellite using a technique that produces an image called an interferogram. The resulting images have rainbow-colored areas that represent the movement of the ground between the times each radar image was taken. Each colorful fringe on the European Space Agency’s Nepal interferogram reflects about 1 inch (2.8 centimeters) of vertical movement. The results will be refined in the coming weeks, with as scientists further analysize the images and additional data from satellites become available.
May 1, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/mount-everest-shrank-nepal-quake-lifted-kathmandu-160715192.html
Headline: What’s shaking? 
List & map of USGS Earthquakes http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#{%22feed%22%3A%221day_m25%22%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22autoUpdate%22%3Atrue%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3Atrue%2C%22timeZone%22%3A%22local%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A[[-82.49482361179572%2C-81.2109375]%2C[82.44876405595812%2C481.28906250000006]]%2C%22overlays%22%3A{%22plates%22%3Atrue}%2C%22viewModes%22%3A{%22map%22%3Atrue%2C%22list%22%3Atrue%2C%22settings%22%3Afalse%2C%22help%22%3Afalse}}
