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Iran’s Leader Wants To March To Jerusalem

Headline:   Israeli opposition leader fears new Palestinian uprising

Israel’s opposition leader on Tuesday warned that a new Palestinian uprising could be looming after a recent spate of violence and called on both sides to reduce tensions and restart peace talks. The appeal came during a meeting in the West Bank with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a rare face-to-face encounter after a more than yearlong diplomatic standstill. Officials on both sides said that Abbas initiated the meeting with Isaac Herzog, leader of the opposition Zionist Union, in response to the violence of recent weeks. Addressing reporters at Abbas’ West Bank headquarters in Ramallah, Herzog said the two men held an “in-depth” discussion that lasted more than an hour. He said they agreed “first and foremost” that a new “intifada,” or uprising, must be prevented. “We have agreed that in order to prevent a third intifada we must combat terror on the one hand aggressively, and on the other hand move toward a diplomatic process,” he said. “We must ignite the process yet again and give it another effort.” After the meeting, Herzog wrote on his Facebook page that he believed a deal could be reached within two years if there was sufficient political will. For now, the odds of bringing Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu together for a meeting — much less restarting peace talks — appear virtually nonexistent.
August 18, 2015

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150818/ml–israel-palestinians-1838894c55.html

Headline: Hunger striker gives Israel 24 hours to resolve case

Headline: MRI Shows Palestinian Hunger-striker Suffered Irreversible Damage

Palestinian detainee on a two-month hunger strike emerged from a coma Tuesday but pledged to resume fasting if Israel did not resolve his case within 24 hours, a Palestinian group said. The detainee, 31-year-old Mohammed Allan, “declared in front of his doctors that if there is not any solution to his case within 24 hours he will ask for all treatment to stop and will stop drinking water,” the Palestinian Prisoners Club said in a statement. Israel’s High Court is on Wednesday to continue hearing a petition by his lawyers calling for his release on medical grounds. At a hearing on Monday one of the doctors treating Allan said that if he were resume his hunger strike he was likely to go into a fatal decline. The Justice Ministry offered to free Allan, a lawyer from the northern West Bank town of Einabus, “if he agrees to go abroad for a period of four years.” His lawyer immediately dismissed the proposal. Meanwhile, An MRI examination showed hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Allaan has suffered irreversible neurological damage as a result of vitamin deficiency, medical officials said on Wednesday, hours after the state said he would be released if his medical condition deteriorates to an extent that renders him permanently incapacitated.
August 19, 2015

http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/793501

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.671943

“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:    Islamic State storms Hezbollah strongholds near Syria-Lebanon border

Fighters of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) stormed bases of the Lebanese Shiite militia of Hezbollah near the Syrian border with Lebanon, media sources reported on Tuesday. “Hezbollah fighters withdrew from strategic border areas under heavy shelling by IS militants,” media activist Adnan Furati told ARA News. After clashes with Hezbollah fighters, IS militants seized Jousiya border crossing. The Jousiya crossing links the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon with Qusair city in Syria’s Homs province. “IS militants also seized villages in the vicinity of Jousiya crossing following clashes that claimed lives of dozens of  militants on both sides,” Syrian activist Ammar al-Qaseer told ARA News. The unprecedented offensive by IS militants against Hezbollah near Jousiya border crossing comes after several attempts by fighters of al-Nusra Front (Syria’s branch of al-Qaeda) to seize that area without making any progress.
August 19, 2015

http://aranews.net/2015/08/islamic-state-storms-hezbollah-strongholds-near-syria-lebanon-border/

Egypt

Headline:   U.S. Considering Pull Out of Troops From Sinai Due to ISIS Threat

The Obama administration is quietly reviewing the future of America’s three-decade deployment to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, fearful the lightly equipped peacekeepers could be targets of escalating Islamic State-inspired violence. Options range from beefing up their protection or even pulling them out altogether, officials told The Associated Press. For the United States, the fighting is troublesome, centered in the heart of the volatile Middle East near key maritime trading routes and alongside the most durable peace yet established between Israel and an Arab state. And it risks putting the so-called Multinational Force and Observers in the cross-hairs. Armed primarily with light weapons, armored personnel carriers and similarly limited materiel, the forces lack the capacity to take on Islamic State or other militants across the sparsely populated, desert territory. As a result, officials said, the Obama administration has been conducting an “interagency review” of the U.S. posture in the Sinai.
August 19, 2015

http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.671955

             Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:    Six Russian MiG-31 interceptor aircraft land in Damascus to rescue Assad regime

Six Russian MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor aircraft from Moscow landed Tuesday, Aug. 18, at the Mezze Airbase situated in Damascus international airport, debkafile’s military and intelligence sources disclose. They were followed shortly after by giant An-124 Condor transports, which delivered 1,000 Kornet-9M133 third-generation anti-tank guided missiles.
The Russian airlift of advanced weapons for Bashar Assad’s army will last for several days. It betokens Moscow’s intention to keep up its support for the Syrian ruler and counter – by military means if necessary – any secret Iranian diplomatic machinations for terminating the Syria war and with it the Assad regime – such as have been reported in the past week in Western and Arab capitals, especially in the Gulf. Our sources report that the decision to send the Syrian ruler advanced aircraft and missiles could only have come from the top, i.e. President Vladimir Putin. It took direct aim at the latest moves made by the US, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia for ending the Syrian war. Every formula they came up with entailed Assad’s exit, either in stages or at once. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made it crystal clear to visiting Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubair on Aug. 11 that Moscow would not stand still for any changes in Assad’s position in Damascus.
August 18, 2015

http://debka.com/article/24819/Six-Russian-MiG-31-interceptor-aircraft-land-in-Damascus-to-rescue-Assad-regime

Syria Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news

Iraq Headline: 20 killed in blast, clashes with IS militants in Iraq’s Anbar

A total of 20 people were killed and 31 wounded on Wednesday in a suicide car bomb attack and clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said. The security forces and allied paramilitary militias known as Hashd Shaabi, or popular mobilization, carried out an operation on IS positions in Albu-Eitha northeast of the IS-held provincial capital city of Ramadi, sparking heavy clashes with the extremist militants, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. During the battle, a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden military vehicle into the advanced troops and blew it up, while six more roadside bombs and mortar barrage struck the military vehicles, leaving 15 soldiers and Hashd Shaabi members killed and 22 others wounded, the source said without giving further details about the casualties among the militants. Three people were killed and five others injured when IS militants pounded a police station in the town of Khaldiyah, the source said. Also in the province, IS militants shelled al-Mazraa military camp, which houses army and Hashd Shaabi militiamen, in east of the militant-seized city of Fallujah, killing two soldiers and wounding others, the source added.
August 19, 2015

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-08/19/c_134535172.htm

Iraq Headline:   ISW Iraq Situation Report August 14-17, 2015

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/08/iraq-situation-report-august-14-17-2015.html

Kurdish Headline: Suicide bomber kills 10 Kurdish forces in northeast Syria

At least 10 Kurdish security force members were killed on Wednesday in a suicide bomb attack on their station in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli, a monitoring group said.
“A suicide bomber in a vehicle targeted the Asayish’s local headquarters in Qamishli. There are at least 10 dead,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The attack in the city of Qamishli targeted offices belonging to the Asayish, an internal security agency set up by an autonomous Kurdish administration in northern Syria.
Kurdish officials contacted by Reuters could not immediately confirm the casualty toll.
August 19, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/19/Blast-hits-offices-of-Kurdish-security-agency-in-Syria-at-least-10-killed.html

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:  ISIS calls Erdogan infidel, urges followers to conquer Istanbul

A fighter proclaiming allegiance to Islamic State has appeared in a video urging fellow Turks to rebel against “infidel” President Tayyip Erdogan and help conquer Istanbul, highlighting the threat the NATO member faces as it battles the radical insurgents. Speaking in accent-free Turkish, the Islamic State fighter, a rifle propped against his body, accused Erdogan in the video of “selling the country to crusaders” and of allowing US access to Turkish bases “just to keep his post.” “Turkish people: without losing any time you have to rebel against these atheists, crusaders and infidels who have made you slaves,” he said, as two other armed and bearded men, their heads covered with turbans, sat silently beside him.
It also described Kurdish PKK militants in Turkey, some of whom have joined the fight against Islamic State in Syria, as “atheists” and warned that eastern Turkey would fall into Kurdish hands unless Islamist fighters rose up. Reuters could not verify the authenticity of the video, which made no specific threats of attacks. But the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks extremist activity, described the recording as a call by a Turkish Islamic State fighter for support from Muslims in Turkey.
August 18, 2015

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/WATCH-ISIS-calls-Erdogan-traitor-urges-followers-to-conquer-Istanbul-412460

Headline:   Report: 8 soldiers killed in PKK bomb attack in Turkey

Headline: Gunfire and large explosion heard in central Istanbul

Turkey’s state-run news agency says Kurdish rebels have detonated a bomb on a road in southeast Turkey, killing at least eight soldiers. The Anadolu Agency says the bomb exploded Wednesday on a highway in the mainly-Kurdish province of Siirt as their military vehicle was passing by. The attack comes amid renewed violence between the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and Turkey’s security forces. Dozens of people, most of them police and soldiers, have died in the violence since July.
August 19, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/08/19/report-8-soldiers-killed-in-pkk-bomb-attack-in-turkey/?intcmp=hplnws

http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/12373/

Iran

Headline:     Iranian official: Tehran to sign deal with Russia for advanced S-300 missile system next week

Iran and Russia will sign a deal that will see Moscow send Tehran the S-300 air-defense missile system by next week, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had been ready to deliver the S-300 to Iran already in 2010, but had previously agreed to ban the sale under pressure from the US. Israel has also pushed Moscow not to send the S-300 to Iran. The deal has now been updated and will be finalized soon, the Iranian Students’ News Agency quoted Dehghan as saying. Dehghan said that as part of the new deal, Iran would be receiving an upgraded version of the S-300 system. “We will go to Russia next week to sign the deal and there is no barrier hindering the agreement,” ISNA quoted him as saying.  He added that the weapons system would be delivered to Iran shortly after the signing of the agreement.
August 18, 2015

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran/Iranian-official-Tehran-to-sign-deal-with-Russia-for-advanced-S-300-missile-system-next-week-412449

Headline:   AP: U.N. to let Iran inspect alleged nuke work site

Headline:   Iran military writings reveal work on electromagnetic pulse nuclear strike

Iran, in an unusual arrangement, will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site it allegedly used to develop nuclear arms under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work, according to a document seen by The Associated Press. The revelation is sure to roil American and Israeli critics of the main Iran deal signed by the U.S., Iran and five world powers in July. Those critics have complained that the deal is built on trust of the Iranians, a claim the U.S. has denied. The investigation of the Parchin nuclear site by the International Atomic Energy Agency is linked to a broader probe of allegations that Iran has worked on atomic weapons. That investigation is part of the overarching nuclear deal. The Parchin deal is a separate, side agreement worked out between the IAEA and Iran. the agreement diverges from normal inspection procedures between the IAEA and a member country by essentially ceding the agency’s investigative authority to Iran. It allows Tehran to employ its own experts and equipment in the search for evidence for activities that it has consistently denied – trying to develop nuclear weapons.
August 19, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/19/AP-U-N-to-let-Iran-inspect-alleged-nuke-work-site.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/18/jams-woolsey-peter-pry-emp-a-shariah-approved-nucl/

Afghanistan

Headline:   Afghanistan summons Pak ambassador after 8 policemen martyred in heavy shelling

Headline:   Afghanistan forces retreat from strategic district in Helmand province

Headline: The Death of Mullah Omar and the Rise of ISIS in Afghanistan

The Pakistani ambassador in Kabul was summoned in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan (MoFA) following indiscriminate shelling by the Pakistani forces which left eight members of the Afghan Border Police Forces martyred. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said a strong protest was lodged with the Pakistani ambassador Syed Abrar Hussain after he was summoned this evening. Deputy Foreign Minister in Administrative Affairs Atiqullah Atifmal told Mr. Hussain that eight members of the Afghan Border Police forces were martyred in heavy shelling on check posts in eastern Kunar province on Monday morning and afternoon. Atifmal further added that the market of Do Kalam was also torched and enormous financial loss was incurred to the local residents in Nari district as a result of the indiscriminate shelling by the Pakistani forces. He told the Pakistani envoy “This is not the first time you have been summoned regarding the heavy artillery shelling by the Pakistani military on areas along the Durand Line. But unfortunately we have not seen any long term change in Pakistani military’s offensive acts.”
August 18, 2015

http://www.khaama.com/afghanistan-summons-pak-ambassador-after-8-policemen-martyred-in-heavy-shelling-1403

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-afghanistan-forces-retreat-from-strategic-district-in-helmand-province-2115785

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Mullah%20Omar%20Backgrounder.pdf

Sudan

Headline:   Peace Efforts in Tatters, South Sudan Sees New Fighting

With peace efforts in South Sudan in tatters, fighting resumed in parts of the country between government troops and rebel forces, a South Sudanese military spokesman said Wednesday. International frustration is mounting after South Sudan President Salva Kiir refused to sign a power-sharing deal with rebels on Monday, with the U.S. pushing on Tuesday for U.N. sanctions against the government. South Sudan military spokesman Colonel Philip Aguer said fighting broke out Wednesday in the oil-producing Upper Nile state, close to the border with Sudan, with rebels trying to take areas controlled by government troops. Aguer said fighting also broke out Tuesday in Eastern Equatoria state, between Juba, the capital, and the town of Nimule on the border with Uganda. He said there had been no fighting in the area previously and accused the rebels of starting the latest violence in an attempt to open a new front.
August 19, 2015

http://www.voanews.com/content/peace-efforts-in-tatters-south-sudan-sees-new-fighting/2924008.html

Libya

Headline: Libyan guards at main crossing to Egypt stop working

Libya’s regular border security guards have stopped working at the main border crossing to Egypt, officials said on Wednesday, a further breakdown of state authority. The incident will reinforce worries in Egypt that militants are using the desert border to smuggle in fighters and weapons from Libya, which is in a state of chaos four years after rebels overthrew Muammar Gaddafi. The border is also a transit route for migrants from Syria heading via Egypt to western Libya, from where they hope to get by boat with the help of smugglers to Italy. “The force protecting the Musaid border crossing between Egypt and Libya have withdrawn due to some problems,” said Tariq Kharaz, a spokesman for the interior ministry of Libya’s internationally recognized government, based in the east. He said another force was now manning the border, declining to say why the regular troops had left. An Egyptian security source said the regular Libyan border guards had stopped working five days ago, adding that civilians now appeared to be working on the Libyan side of the border.
August 19, 2015

http://newsdaily.com/2015/08/libyan-guards-at-main-crossing-to-egypt-stop-working/

Algeria

Headline:   Russia to deliver 14 heavy-haul helicopters Mil Mi-26T2 to Algeria

Russian Helicopters Holding’s Rostvertol JSC is implementing two contracts for the delivery of modernized heavy-haul helicopters Mil Mi-26T2 to Algeria, a source in the defense sector told Interfax-AVN on Aug. 19. “The first contract provides the delivery of six Mi-26T2 helicopters to the customer, and eight helicopters of this kind will be delivered under the other contract,” he said. The first two helicopters were supplied to Algeria under the first contract in spring of this year. “Another two helicopters will be shipped before the end of this year and the remaining two will be dispatched in the beginning of next year. After that the deliveries will begin under the other contract,” the source said. In addition to the delivery of helicopters, the contracts provide coaching of Algerian pilots and technicians, he said.
August 19, 2015

http://rbth.com/news/2015/08/19/russia_to_deliver_14_heavy-haul_helicopters_mil_mi-26t2_to_algeria_48603.html

Morocco

Headline:   Africa’s top arms-buyer alarmed by Morocco’s recent arms purchases

Algeria, the number one arms purchaser on the African continent, has voiced concerns that the number two arms purchaser, Morocco, is purchasing too many arms. After reports that Morocco had acquired Russian-made missile batteries, the Algerian newspaper Al-Shorouq accused Morocco of stirring up conflict and threatening its neighbors. Further fraying Algeria’s nerves are reports that Morocco and Russia are close to reaching a deal on the price tag of a Russian-made Amur 1650, which would be the kingdom’s first submarine. The deal is expected to be completed during King Mohammed VI’s trip to Moscow later this year. Algeria was also said to be concerned after Morocco purchased three U.S. Army CH-470 Chinook transport helicopters, which arrived in Tangier last weekend after seven months of refurbishment. Morroco also plans to reinforce its four new frigate warships by acquiring helicopters with anti-submarine capabilities from Russia. Swedish think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reports that Morocco is the second largest importer of arms in Africa, accounting for 26 per cent of the continent’s overall imports between 2005-2009 and 2010-2014.
August 18, 2015

http://www.worldtribune.com/2015/08/18/africas-top-arms-buyer-alarmed-by-moroccos-recent-arms-purchases/

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:  Boko Haram crisis: ‘Dozens drown’ fleeing Nigeria attack

Reports in Nigeria say as many as 60 people may have been killed after a raid on a village in the north-east by suspected Boko Haram militants. The attack on Kukuwa in Yobe state happened last Thursday but details have only just emerged from survivors. Some of the villagers are said to have drowned while fleeing gunmen. The BBC’s Nigeria reporter says the fact it took five days for any news to come out shows how dire the security situation is in parts of Yobe state. A military spokesman said that following air surveillance and armed reconnaissance, the reports of a massacre and drownings could not be substantiated. However, eyewitnesses said that dozens of militants arrived in the village on motorcycles and began shooting the residents. “We were getting ready to observe evening prayers, all of a sudden we started hearing sounds of gunshots,” one man told the BBC Hausa service. “We all ran for our dear life into the bush. The following morning we returned home and discovered corpses of 60 children. They all drowned in the river in their effort to escape the attack.”
August 18, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33983546

Headline: Philippine army kills 20 militants during clashes in south

Philippine soldiers have killed at least 20 militants in clashes with members of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group in the south of the country. The Philippine military said on Wednesday that the militants were killed in separate clashes on two islands in the country’s troubled south. Brigadier General Alan Arrojado, the commander of the military task force, confirmed that 15 militants were killed as the government forces used artillery fire to confront about a hundred members of the Abu Sayyaf group in Indanan town on the southern island of Jolo, Sulu Province. The clashes were triggered after the army launched a large-scale security operation to rescue hostages held by the militant group in the region. Arrojado said the government forces suffered no casualties during the encounter. Earlier, a Philippine military report said two days of similar clashes have killed at least five militants and one soldier on the nearby island of Basilan.
August 19, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/08/19/425468/Philippines-Abu-Sayyaf-militants-Jolo

Headline: Yemeni Rebels Strike Again

Headline: Yemeni rebels rebound with new attacks after setbacks

Yemeni rebels ambushed pro-government forces in the south on Tuesday, setting off a major battle that killed 65 anti-rebel forces and handed them their first serious setback following a series of recent advances, officials said. The officials said 15 Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, were killed in the fighting near the Aqaba Tharaa area, where anti-rebel forces were advancing from Abyan into Bayda province. The officials, who hailed from both sides of the conflict, said the rebels destroyed at least eight armored vehicles and four tanks, which were left burning. The officials said both sides were rushing reinforcements to the area, with the Houthis attempting to squeeze the pocket closed and their opponents attempting to break out. Dozens of airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition opposing the rebels hit the mountainous area, but had yet to open up the rebels’ positions. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. The Houthis have meanwhile taken control of the United Arab Emirates embassy in the capital Sanaa, prompting condemnation from Emirati and Egyptian authorities.
August 19, 2015

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/08/18/rights-group-all-sides-in-yemen-may-be-guilty-of-war-crimes

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Aug-19/311839-yemeni-rebels-rebound-with-new-attacks-after-setbacks.ashx

Headline:   Yemen’s Houthis claim control of Saudi territory: Report

A Yemeni television channel broadcast footage on Tuesday reportedly showing Houthi fighters inside Saudi Arabia who claimed to be within striking distance of a city populated by 1.6 million people. Al Masirah, a TV station which is run by the Houthis, aired a video report with Houthi fighters who said they were less than two km from Najran, a city in a province of the same name near the Yemeni border. The cameraman zooms in on a city, which can be seen in the distance. A fighter says it is Najran. In the clip, the presenter points to a stone apparently marking the border, which has an image of the Saudi national flag on one side and the Yemeni flag on the other. A group of Houthi fighters are shown next to the stone, one standing on top of it and holding a Yemeni flag. The fighters shouted the Houthi slogan: “God is great, Death to America, Death to Israel, A curse upon the Jews, Victory for Islam.” One of the fighters, who is not named, claims that the Houthi forces have captured the Shirfa military base, which is near the Yemeni border and used by Saudi forces to protect Najran city. The Houthis have previously broadcast footage claiming to show their forces attacking the Shirfa military base. The fighter in the video says his forces are in complete control of the Shirfa military base and the border area surrounding it. “We are at al-Shirfa Point – it was named al-Shirfa because it overlooks Najran province, which is now in the sights of the Yemeni army and the popular committees,” the presenter, Abdel Basit al-Sharfi, said. Middle East Eye could not independently confirm the claims made by Al Masirah, although there have been numerous reports of the Houthis shelling Saudi territory in recent months. There is no official death toll but tens of Saudi soldiers have been reportedly killed by Houthi attacks.
August 19, 2015

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemens-houthis-claim-control-territory-inside-saudi-arabia-report-1765737816

Headline:   9 dead as shelling increases in eastern Ukraine

Headline: Kiev Gathers Huge 65,000-Strong Army on Frontline Near Donetsk

A night-long artillery exchange in eastern Ukraine between government troops and Russia-backed rebels claimed nine lives on Monday, casting doubt on the already shaky cease-fire. The fighting between Russia-backed separatist rebels and Ukrainian government troops in the country’s industrial heartland eased after a truce was signed in February. But despite pledges to withdraw heavy caliber weapons from the front lines, both sides seem to be engaged in recent heavy fighting. The conflict has killed an estimated 6,400 people since April 2014, according to the United Nations. The rebel mouthpiece Donetsk News Agency said artillery fire killed three people in a front line town of Horlivka and two in the rebel capital of Donetsk. Ukrainian officials reported two civilian deaths on their side, in a suburb of Mariupol on the Black Sea. The Ukrainian Security and Defense Council also reported two troops killed and six injured overnight. The shelling on Monday came after failed talks between Ukraine, the rebels and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe which were supposed to agree on further steps to withdraw weaponry. An Associated Press reporter in Donetsk witnessed weaponry on the move in the past few days while salvos of incoming and outgoing Grad rockets were frequently heard.
August 19, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/9-dead-uptick-violence-eastern-ukraine-114231376.html#

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150819/1025923220/kiev-army-deployment-donetsk.html

  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:  Venezuela’s currency is now so worthless that people are using it as napkins

An image is going round that sums up just how ridiculous Venezuela’s economy has become. A Reddit user uploaded a picture on Monday of a man using a 2 bolivar note to hold an empanada. According to Venezuela’s official bolivar-dollar exchange rate, the man using his money as a napkin is wasting about $0.31 (£0.20). But on the black market, the reality is completely different. You can get 676.88 bolivars to the dollar, according to dolartoday.com. That means holding food with a 2 bolivar note costs the holder less than a third of one US cent. This time last year, the bolivar was far more valuable, and even as recently as May this year, you could still get hold of a dollar for less than 300 bolivars. Today, you need more than twice that. The country has a spiralling inflation rate. Official inflation is high enough, at 68.5%, but like the official exchange rate, that paints a much rosier picture than reality. Professor Steve Hanke, who runs the “Troubled Currencies Project,” a joint program between the Cato Institute and Johns Hopkins University, says in reality inflation is more like 808%. The country is a major oil exporter, and the plunge in prices is a huge part of what’s causing the crisis — as a result, the country is pegged as having the riskiest debt in the world, with the highest likelihood of a future default. Food is increasingly hard to get hold of, shop shelves are often empty, and the country’s social order is deteriorating.
August 18, 2015

http://www.businessinsider.com/venezuelas-currency-is-now-so-worthless-that-people-are-using-it-as-napkins-2015-8

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: Treatment-Resistant Lice Are Now In 25 States

Just in time for the new school year, head lice have become literal superbugs. Lice have developed a high level of resistance to the most common over-the-counter treatments in 25 states, according to research presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society. “If you overuse a product, over time, the selection pressure will cause insects to develop resistance to it,” Kyong Yoon, an assistant professor of biological and environmental science at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and lead author of this ongoing research, told a group of journalists. Head lice are most commonly treated with pyrethroids, a widely used class of indoor-outdoor insecticides, often used for mosquito control. Yoon and his team found that lice developed a gene mutation, known as knock-down resistance (kdr) against the pyrethroids — rendering them ineffective. In 104 out of the 109 lice populations Yoon tested, the insects were resistant to pyrethroids. “Lice don’t have wings, and they don’t jump, so they move where people move,” Yoon said. That’s why the new school year is such a vulnerable time for head lice transmission. Kids bring lice back from vacations and into the classroom, where they pass the infestation on to their classmates. “It’s a really, really serious problem right now in the U.S.,” Yoon told Time. “Though head lice aren’t known to transmit any diseases, they can be an itchy nuisance — and now, they’re harder to kill.”
August 18, 2015

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/head-lice-resistant-to-over-the-counter-products-in-25-states_55d36ff1e4b0ab468d9e91f5

Headline: Third Louisiana Public Water Supply Site Tests Positive for Brain-Eating Amoeba

Public officials are in the process of eliminating Naegleria Fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba that thrives in warm water, from another drinking water supply in Louisiana. Naegleria Fowleri was detected during routine tests on Aug. 5 at a utility district in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, roughly 80 miles from New Orleans. A press release was issued  on  Monday, Aug. 17. According to the local fire department, the Schriever Water System serves approximately 97,000 residents in the Houma area. Two other systems in the area were tested with negative results, according to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH). While officials say the water is safe for drinking, residents are urged to use caution with the water, not letting it get into their nose. Humans are infected when water containing the amoeba travels through the nose and migrates to the brain, destroying the tissue.
August 19, 2015

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/brain-eating-amoeba-louisiana-drinking-water-warm-terrebonne-parish-naegleria-fowleri/51859270

 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: U.S. Navy on alert: China, Russia to launch largest-ever joint navy exercise

The Chinese and Russian navies are gearing up for their largest-ever joint exercises, slated to begin Thursday in the Pacific with more than 20 ships and featuring anti-submarine operations as well as a joint-beach landing. The “Joint Sea 2015 II” exercises will run through Aug. 28 in the Sea of Japan and off the coast of Vladivostok. But in the current round of exercises, Chinese frigates have reportedly made their first-ever visit to the Russian Novorossiysk naval base in the Black Sea. President Vladimir Putin made headlines in the area Tuesday by joining a Russian navy team aboard a small vessel that plunged into the Black Sea along the coast of the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine last year. The U.S. Naval Institute’s online news and analysis portal, USNI, said Tuesday that the coming China–Russia exercises will be the second series of joint drills in less than a year.
August 18, 2015

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/18/china-russia-to-launch-largest-ever-joint-navy-exe/

 Apostasy & Alternative Lifestyles Amos 8:11, 1 Timothy 4:1-3 & Romans1:26-27  “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, ³ forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.” (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) “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due”(Romans)

Headline: White House hires first transgender member of staff

The White House has hired its first openly transgender full-time member of staff, officials have confirmed. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan started working as an outreach and recruitment director for presidential staff on Tuesday. Her commitment to transgender rights reflects “the values of this administration,” a senior White House official said. It is President Barack Obama’s latest move in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights. “Raffi Freedman-Gurspan demonstrates the kind of leadership this administration champions,” said Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to the president. Ms Freedman-Gurspan previously worked as a policy adviser for the National Center for Transgender Equality (NTCE). Her appointment to the White House has been hailed as an important step by key members of the LGBT community.
August 18, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33979934
    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:  Twin typhoons Goni and Atsani threaten Southeast Asia

Headline: Tropical Storm Danny Forms in Atlantic, Expected to Become Hurricane

Two typhoons churning in the Pacific Ocean are intensifying, with one likely to meander for days in the vicinity of Taiwan and the northern Philippines later this week, potentially bringing disastrous amounts of rainfall. Typhoons Goni and Atsani are currently spinning in the Northwest Pacific Basin, well away from any landmass — for now. Typhoon Goni is projected to potentially make landfall near the northern Philippines or Taiwan at the end of this week, though there is still some uncertainty about where and when it could hit. As the storm reaches these areas, it is likely to be in a vicinity of weak upper atmospheric winds, allowing it to slowly meander like a spinning top. Taiwan was hammered with more than 50 inches of rain just one week ago when Super Typhoon Soudelor made landfall, and the island nation is still recovering, so a blow from Goni — even if it is not a direct one — could potentially be destructive to areas of the country. “Any slowdown in Goni’s progress near the mountainous terrain of Taiwan or nearby islands could lead to torrential, destructive rainfall,” Bob Henson wrote on Dr. Jeff Masters’ Weather Underground blog Monday.
August 18, 2015

http://mashable.com/2015/08/18/twin-typhoons-pacific-taiwan/

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/tropical-storm-danny-forms-atlantic-expected-become-hurricane-n412021

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Headline:     Daily Tours of the Temple Mount Starting Soon!

Starting Tuesday, September 1, 2015,  a Temple Mount Heritage Foundation trained tour guide will be waiting every morning at the entrance to the Temple Mount to meet you for your Temple Mount tour. The guide is properly trained to answer all of your questions and assure that you get the most out of your visit. This exciting update came about following a meeting held on August 11 in Jerusalem. A group of Temple Mount Heritage Center trained tour guides were united in their desire to start giving tours to all who are interested in visiting the Temple Mount. Already fifty tour guides qualify to provide the best possible experience for you.
August 12, 2015

http://templemountheritage.com/2015/08/12/exciting-news-daily-tours-of-the-temple-mount-starting-soon/

Headline:   United Church of Canada Votes in Favor of Divestment, Sanctions against Israel

The United Church of Canada (UCC) voted in favor of divestment from Israel Tuesday during its 42^nd General Council meeting “to address the illegal occupation of Palestinian territories by the State of Israel.” The resolution, according to a statement on the Council’s website, calls for the development of programs “of education and advocacy in cooperation with our partners, related to divestment from and economic sanctions against all corporations and institutions complicit in and benefiting from the illegal occupations.” UCC also urged its members to refrain from “tourism [in Israel] which bolsters the oppression of Palestinians.” The UCC commission which passed the divestment resolution encouraged “all courts, bodies and members of The United Church of Canada to apply such divestment strategies and sanctions, until such time as the occupation of the Palestinian territories ends.” With more than two million members, the UCC is Canada’s largest Protestant church. Tuesday’s resolution against Israel follows a 2012 UCC boycott of all goods made in Judea and Samaria.
August 13, 2015

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/46816/united-church-canada-votes-favor-divestment-sanctions-israel-biblical-zionism/#erOEdOpD5McQL2Pb.97

Headline:   Protests on Temple Mount over Hunger Striker

Headline:   Islamic Jihad: If Hunger Striker Dies, We’ll Respond With Force Against Israel

Arab worshipers have begun protesting on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Friday, over the comatose state of a hunger-striking terrorist being held in Israeli prison. Several police units are at the scene, attempting to restore order, according to Maariv. Terrorist Mohammed Allaan, who was being held in Israeli prison for his crimes, lost consciousness on Friday and he is being artificially respirated at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. Allaan’s strike is on its 59th day. The “protestors” are allegedly demanding the Israel Police immediately release him. Several dozen Palestinian Arab prisoners held in Israeli jails launched a hunger strike last week to protest what they term as “humiliating treatment” from jailers and poor imprisonment conditions. Dozens more joined them on Sunday, bringing the total to about 180.
August 14, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199474

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.671202

“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:  ‘You have no strategy for victory in Lebanon,’ Nasrallah taunts Israel on war anniversary

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah delivered a televised speech on Friday which was viewed by the Shi’ite movement’s followers who marked the nine-year anniversary of the Second Lebanon War. Nasrallah, who gave the speech from his hiding place, praised “the heroes of the resistance who fought to their last drop of blood in July 2006.” “Allah gave us this victory, which can be considered a real miracle and which is impossible to explain in materialistic terms,” the Hezbollah leader said. “This was a heroic clash that included the destruction of dozens of IDF tanks and the killing of dozens of elite soldiers who felt what it was like to be in hell,” Nasrallah said. The Hezbollah leader spoke of the prospect of renewed fighting with Israel, saying: “Israel has no military strategy that could bring it victory in Lebanon.” “Your army will be routed,” Nasrallah said, addressing Israel.
August 14, 2015

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/On-Lebanon-war-anniversary-Nasrallah-taunts-Israel-You-have-no-strategy-for-victory-412150

             Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:   Rebels Close in on Assad’s Latakia Bastion

Two people were killed and 14 wounded Thursday in a rare rebel rocket attack on the provincial capital of President Bashar al-Assad’s coastal heartland, a monitoring group said. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, rebel groups stationed around the city of Latakia fired rockets into the city center and along the waterfront. “At least two people were killed and 14 people were wounded when rockets fell on March 8 street, near the (Islamic authority) Dar al-Ifta building in the middle of the city,” Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said. He said rebel factions – mostly from Islamist groups – were taking up positions overlooking the city and firing rockets before leaving for areas under their control.
August 13, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199423

Syria Headline:  Syrian police fire tear gas to control prison riot in Hama city

The Syrian police tear-gassed tens of inmates in a bid to quell a riot that engulfed the central prison of Syria’s Hama city, a monitor group reported on Friday. Citing “crosschecked sources,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Central Prison of Hama is witnessing a riot by inmates, who were detained without trials. The UK-based watchdog group said it had received a video footage, showing inmates shouting and badmouthing the authorities inside the prison. Activists said gunfire was heard in the vicinity of the prison, as the government forces succeeded in storming the jails and taking some of the prisoners to unknown destination. The watchdog added that tens of inmates fainted as a result of the tear gas firing by the authorities. The Syrian opposition accuses the government of detaining thousands of political activists without trials.
August 14, 2015

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-08/14/c_134518619.htm

Syria Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news

Iraq Headline: Iraq truck bomb kills dozens at Baghdad market

At least 59 people have been killed after a truck bomb exploded in north-eastern Baghdad, Iraqi officials say. The blast tore through the crowded Jameela market in the predominantly Shia district of Sadr City. The Sunni jihadist group, Islamic State (IS), said it was behind the bombing and that it targeted Shia militiamen. Thursday’s bomb attack in Sadr City was one of the deadliest in the capital since Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi took office a year ago. In a statement posted on Twitter, IS said the truck bomb targeted Shia militiamen from the Mahdi Army and the Popular Mobilisation forces, who have been battling the jihadist group in northern and western Iraq for more than a year. Sadr City has been the target of several bomb attacks this year claimed by IS militants, who consider Shia to be heretics.
August 13, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33901796

Iraq Headline: ISIS attacks in and around Iraqi refinery town

ISIS militants attacked the outskirts of Iraq’s northern oil refinery town of Baiji overnight with car bombs and clashed with the army and Shiite militias in the town’s western districts, the local mayor and security sources said Friday. At least three militia fighters were killed Friday when ISIS launched car bomb attacks against a makeshift headquarters in al-Rayash, about 18 km (5 miles) south of Baiji, a militia leader and a source in the Salahuddin Operations Command said. Mortars in an adjacent area killed two civilians, according to the source in the operations command, the Iraqi military’s command centre for the province of Salahuddin, where Baiji is situated. Baiji Mayor Mahmoud al-Jabouri said ISIS used 12 car bombs and more than 200 fighters in the offensive. “The attack started at 2 a.m. (2300 GMT),” he said. “They came from the direction of Camp Speicher”, a former U.S. base outside the city of Tikrit. Jabouri said “tens” of security forces and militia fighters were killed or wounded in the violence, which also saw ongoing clashes in Baiji’s western districts of Sikak and Tamim.
August 14, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Aug-14/311115-isis-attacks-in-and-around-iraqi-refinery-town.ashx

Iraq Headline:   ISW Iraq Situation Report August 12-13, 2015

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/08/iraq-situation-report-august-12-13-2015.html

Kurdish Headline: Iraqi Kurdish forces hit with chemical weapons

Kurdish Headline: Pentagon: Reports Islamic State used mustard gas are ‘credible’

Kurdish forces in northern Iraq who are fighting ISIL were attacked with chemical weapons a few days ago, the German defence ministry said on Thursday. “There was a chemical weapons attack” southwest of Arbil, a ministry spokesman said, adding that some Kurdish fighters suffered respiratory problems while German military trainers were unhurt. The chemical agent had been delivered with mortar or artillery shells, said the spokesman, who did not say who was suspected of carrying out the attack. “American and Iraqi specialists from Baghdad are on their way to find out what happened,” he added. Germany has been supporting the Kurdish peshmerga fighters with arms shipments and weapons training since September to back the fight against ISIL, and currently has about 90 personnel on the ground. “German soldiers were not affected or in danger,” the spokesman said. “The protection of our soldiers in northern Iraq is already at the highest level.”
August 13, 2015

http://www.worldbulletin.net/headlines/163141/germany-iraqi-kurdish-forces-hit-with-chemical-weapons

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/08/13/Pentagon-Reports-Islamic-State-used-mustard-gas-are-credible/7371439502774/?spt=sec&or=tn

Kurdish Headline: 7 Kurds Killed as Clashes Escalate between Turkey, PKK

Kurdish Headline: One Killed in Renewed Clashes between Turkey, Kurds

Kurdish Headline: PKK leader warns of ‘heavy price’ amid new Turkey violence

Kurdish Headline: Amnesty International: Turkey Carried Out Unlawful Attack on Kurds in Iraq

Seven suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebel group were killed in clashes overnight that erupted when the rebels attacked military posts in eastern Turkey, the army said Thursday. The attacks are the latest in an escalating cycle of violence between Turkish security forces and Kurdish rebels that has left a 2013 ceasefire agreed by the PKK in tatters. PKK fighters launched an attack with guns and rockets on a command post in southeastern town of Silopi on the border with Iraq and Syria, prompting clashes that left four militants dead, an army statement said. The PKK also attacked a military base and police station in the Agri province near the Iranian border, where three of their number were killed in clashes with the security forces, it said. Meanwhile, on Friday, A man was shot dead as members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) clashed with Turkish security forces in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, security sources said Friday. The 40-year-old man was killed when he was caught in the crossfire of an armed clash between Turkish forces and the separatist PKK militants in the southeast city of Diyarbakir, the sources told AFP.
August 14, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199426#.VczOsvlRLSg

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199475

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Aug-14/311147-pkk-leader-warns-of-heavy-price-amid-new-turkey-violence.ashx

http://www.basnews.com/en/news/2015/08/12/amnesty-international-turkey-carried-out-unlawful-attack-on-kurds-in-iraq/

Kurdish Headline: Syrian Kurds now say they now control territory the size of Qatar and Kuwait combined

A Kurdish militia that has captured swathes of northern Syria from Islamic State has signed up thousands of fighters in recent months as it seeks to tighten control over newly won territory. The People’s Protection Units (YPG), which has been fighting Islamic State with U.S.-led air support, says it now controls territory the size of Qatar and Kuwait combined. YPG spokesman Redur Xelil, speaking to Reuters, said the YPG had drawn 5,000 new recruits, growing to 40,000 fighters. After a period of rapid territorial gains, the priority was to strengthen defensive positions in newly captured land. “This is the priority now but this does not mean there are no plans to hit Daesh in places near the front lines,” Xelil said, using an Arabic name for the Islamic State group also known as ISIS and ISIL. “Attack is the best form of defence.” The YPG has doubled the amount of territory it controls between the Euphrates river and the Syrian border with Iraq to 21,000 square kilometers (8,000 square miles) this year, Xelil said. It also controls an area of the northwest known as Afrin, and parts of Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the war using its own sources, said the YPG had grown by 4,000-5,000 fighters in the last three months, though it gave a bigger estimate for the militia’s overall size at more than 50,000. Turkey’s concern about the expansion of Kurdish influence in northern Syria is seen as a major factor behind its new plan to help Syrian rebels seize Islamic State’s last remaining zone of control at the Turkish border in an area north of Aleppo. The autonomous Kurdish administration in northern Syria is deeply suspicious of the Turkish plan, believing its primary aim is to contain the YPG and stop Afrin being joined to the expanding zone of Kurdish controlled territory further east.
August 14, 2015

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/syrian-kurds-now-say-they-now-control-territory-the-size-of-qatar-and-kuwait-combined-2015-8

Headline: ‘Soon, Very Soon You Will See’: Pro-Islamic State Hacking Group Issues Chilling Warning to America

A representative for a pro-Islamic State hacking group issued a chilling warning to members of the U.S. military and government Wednesday, promising that “very soon” followers of the organization would retaliate for overseas bombing targeting the terror organization. Speaking to TheBlaze using smartphone messenger application Kik, a representative for the Islamic State Hacking Division said the group is constantly spying on U.S. servicemen. The organization on Tuesday published personal information purporting to belong to U.S. military and government online. When asked exactly what could be expected to be seen “soon,” the member replied, “you will see when US military and government personnel start getting beheaded in their homes.” The individual would not provide specifics on the Islamic State Hacking Division, declining to say where the group is based or how many members are in its ranks. He did, however, go after Anonymous, the hacking group which recently targeted the Islamic State.
August 12, 2015

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/08/12/soon-very-soon-you-will-see-pro-islamic-state-hacking-group-issues-chilling-warning-to-america/

Headline: New Audio Message Suggests Closer al Qaida-Taliban Alliance

Headline: New Taliban emir accepts al Qaeda’s oath of allegiance

Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri appears to have pledged the group’s loyalty to the new leader of the Afghan Taliban, a move that could strengthen both terror organizations as they fend off challenges from Islamic State. “We pledge our allegiance … [to the] commander of the faithful, Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour, may God protect him,” said Zawahiri during a 10-minute recording that surfaced on the Internet Thursday. U.S. counterterrorism officials are still studying the message but said there was “no reason to believe it is not authentic.”  Private analysts said the recording bears similarities to other messages attributed to Zawahiri, but it was released with more speed than usual. “In al-Qaida’s world, especially in Zawahiri’s world, they’re very deliberative,” said Thomas Joscelyn, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and senior editor of The Long War Journal. “They go through a very rigorous sharia process to figure out how to handle these types of matters.” Afghan officials announced the death of former Taliban leader Mullah Omar late last month, with Taliban officials confirming it on July 31.  Joscelyn said this recording appeared to have been made just one day later, on August 1. “It suggests to me that they basically knew about this beforehand and were planning on pledging allegiance to Mansour as soon as Omar’s death was announced,” he said. That level of planning and coordination could suggest al-Qaida and the Taliban may be trying to forge an even closer relationship.
August 13, 2015

http://www.voanews.com/content/audio-message-suggests-closer-qaida-taliban-alliance/2917569.html

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/08/new-taliban-emir-accepts-al-qaedas-oath-of-allegiance.php

Headline: ISIS Sanctuary- August 13, 2015

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/ISIS%20Sanctuary%2070812-01.pdf

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:  Erdogan’s Party Says New Elections ‘Only Option’

Headline: Erdoğan says Turkey’s government ‘a de facto presidential system’

Headline: Three possibly future-changing choices to determine Turkey’s next government after coalition talks fail

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday that coalition talks with the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) had ended in failure and early elections looked now to be the “only option.” The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by Davutoglu had negotiated for several weeks with the CHP, after losing its overall parliamentary majority in June 7 polls for the first time since it came to power in 2002. “We have not been successful in assuring a favorable base for the creation of a government,” Davutoglu told reporters after a final meeting with CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. “There is a strong possibility of appealing to the national will,” he said in reference to new snap polls following the inconclusive June elections. “Actually the snap elections have become the only option for Turkey,” he added. Davutoglu said AKP negotiators had offered a “medium-term reform government” to the CHP but “no common ground has been found.” Meanwhile, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has argued that Turkey’s government has been already changed into a de facto presidential system, calling for a constitutional framework to “finalize” this transition. “You can either accept it or not. Turkey’s governmental system has been de facto changed in this regard. What should be done now is to finalize the legal framework of this de facto situation with a new constitution,” Erdoğan said on Friday during a speech in his hometown of Rize.
August 14, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199432

http://www.todayszaman.com/national_erdogan-says-turkeys-government-a-de-facto-presidential-system_396559.html

http://www.dailysabah.com/elections/2015/08/14/three-possibly-future-changing-choices-to-determine-turkeys-next-government-after-coalition-talks-fail

Afghanistan

Headline:    US general says Islamic State gaining in Afghanistan

The Islamic State is making small inroads in Afghanistan and could grow into a more worrisome threat, a U.S. Army general said Thursday. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon from his offices in Kabul, Brig. Gen. Wilson Shoffner said the Islamic State, which rose to prominence by capturing large swaths of Syria and Iraq, is not yet capable of coordinating military operations in more than one part of Afghanistan at a time. “We see their capabilities increasing somewhat but not to the point where they can conduct operations that you’re seeing in Iraq and Syria, although we do note the potential for them to evolve into something more serious, more dangerous,” he said. Shoffner said the Islamic State’s fighters are clashing with the Taliban in areas of Afghanistan where the Islamic State is encroaching on Taliban territory. He called this a destabilizing development, with Afghan civilians caught in the middle. “That’s a security issue that we are committed to helping the Afghan government resolve,” Shoffner said. He declined to say whether U.S. aircraft have attacked Islamic State targets in Afghanistan.
August 13, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/13/us-general-says-islamic-state-gaining-in-afghanistan/

Sudan

Headline:    S. Sudan Pulls Negotiators From Peace Talks

Talks to end South Sudan’s conflict appeared in jeopardy Friday, as President Salva Kiir canceled a planned trip to the site of the talks in Ethiopia and the government recalled its negotiating team. Cabinet Affairs Minister Martin Elias Lomoro said officials want to determine whether there is a split in the rebel camp.  Two rebel generals announced this week they are longer allied with rebel leader Riek Machar and are setting up their own movement. If the president is going to go to Addis Ababa, Lomoro said, “he must go with clear mind as to who he is going to meet and negotiate with.” One of the defecting rebel generals, Gathoth Gatkuoth, condemned both Machar and President Kiir in an interview with VOA.  The general said the two leaders are taking part in peace talks in Addis Ababa not for the good of the South Sudanese people, but because they want to secure their positions in a future government.
August 14, 2015

http://www.voanews.com/content/south-sudan-government-pulls-negotiators-from-peace-talks/2918005.html

Libya

Headline: ISIS in Libya kills senior cleric of rival group

Libya’s Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) affiliate is battling a rival Islamist group in the central city of Sirte, killing one of its senior clerics and besieging and shelling a residential area housing its supporters, officials and witnesses said Thursday. The clashes have killed between 13 and 49 people, with officials giving different casualty counts. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters. The ISIS affiliate last week called on residents of a northern Sirte neighborhood working in the police, the judiciary and the financial sector to pledge allegiance to the group or face death, local journalist Ezzeldin Ahmed said. In response, a group of ultraconservative Muslim clerics in the area refused to pledge allegiance to ISIS and urged residents to rise up against it. One of the clerics was found dead Monday, setting off the clashes, he said.
August 14, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/africa/2015/08/14/ISIS-in-Libya-kills-senior-cleric-of-rival-group.html

Headline: ISIS and rival group fight for Libyan city, 37 killed: residents

Around 37 people have been killed in clashes between ISIS fighters and an Islamist group that is challenging the grip of the ultra-hardliners on the city of Sirte in central Libya, residents said. Earlier this week, a Salafist Muslim group and armed residents attacked ISIS fighters in Sirte, located about 500 km east of the capital Tripoli, accusing them of killing a prominent preacher in Sirte. Fighting raged until early Friday before dying down when ISIS took back a district which the Salafists and armed residents had tried to seize, residents said. “Families are leaving Sirte,” said a resident, asking, like others, not to be named. He said Islamic State fighters were searching for people with weapons. A similar battle occurred in the eastern city of Derna in June when ISIS was expelled by rival Islamist fighters who teamed up with locals angered by the arrival of foreign militants and clerics. Islamic State launched an offensive to retake Derna this week.
August 14, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Aug-14/311119-isis-and-rival-group-fight-for-libyan-city-37-killed-residents.ashx

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:   Kashmir villagers flee amid Pakistan-India gunfire

Pakistan and India traded heavy gunfire on Friday, killing one person and forcing villagers in divided Kashmir to flee to safety even as the Pakistani president renewed his offer of talks with India to resolve the issue of the disputed region. A Pakistani woman was killed and her two daughters and husband were wounded when an Indian mortar struck their home in the Nezapir sector of the divided region, the Pakistani military said. Earlier Friday, the Pakistani military said “unprovoked shooting” came from the Indian-held side of Kashmir, from Nezapir and Rawalakot sectors, and that Pakistani forces were responding. Mohammad Ansar, a local police official in Pakistan’s part of Kashmir said rockets and mortars fired by Indian were landing near villages in the two sectors since the morning hours and that terrified villagers were fleeing to safer places. However, Indian army spokesman Lt. Col. Manish Mehta blamed Pakistan, saying the Pakistanis have been firing mortars, grenades and machine-guns at Indian positions in the Poonch sector “intermittently for the last five days.”
August 14, 2015

http://www.arabnews.com/world/news/791186

Headline: Ukraine Crisis Update: August 12, 2015

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Ukraine%20SITREP%20August%2012.pdf

 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: Greece backs bailout after all-night debate

The Greek parliament approved the country’s latest bailout after an all-night session Friday, as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced a revolt within his own party. Over seven hours of heated and angry debate, much of it within Tsipiras’ Syriza Party, led to the vote in favor of accepting Greece’s third bailout in five years. The European Union is prepared to loan Greece 85 billion Euros ($95 billion), as a 3.2 billion Euro ($3.57 billion) payment to the European Central Bank (ECB) on a previous loan looms with an Aug. 20 deadline. Failure to pay the ECB would likely end external funding to Greek banks and lead to the country’s exit from the Eurozone of countries using the Euro. Greece, dealing with a long-term recession, must make drastic economic cuts and privatize much of its infrastructure, part of austerity measures demanded by creditors. The new bailout will make essential financing available in the next three years.
August 14, 2015

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/08/14/Greece-backs-bailout-after-all-night-debate/7031439555138/?spt=sec&or=tn

  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:  46 million Americans go to food banks, and long lines for dwindling food supplies begin at 6:30 AM

Headline: Nearly 1 million people face food emergency in drought-hit Guatemala: U.N.
Those that run food banks all over America say that demand for their services just continues to explode. It always amazes me that there are still people out there that insist that an “economic collapse” is not happening. From their air-conditioned homes in their cushy suburban neighborhoods they mock the idea that the U.S. economy is crumbling. But if they would just go down and visit the local food banks in their areas, they would see how much people are hurting. According to Feeding America spokesman Ross Fraser, 46 million Americans got food from a food bank at least one time during 2014. Because the demand has become so overwhelming, some food banks are cutting back on the number of days they operate and the amount of food that is given to each family. As you will see below, many impoverished Americans are lining up at food banks as early as 6:30 in the morning just so that they can be sure to get something before the food runs out. And yet there are still many people out there that have the audacity to say that everything is just fine in America. Shame on them for ignoring the pain of millions upon millions of their fellow citizens. Poverty in America is getting worse, not better. And no amount of spin from Barack Obama or his apologists can change that fact.
August 14, 2015

http://www.infowars.com/46-million-americans-go-to-food-banks-and-long-lines-for-dwindling-food-supplies-begin-at-630-am/

http://newsdaily.com/2015/08/nearly-1-million-people-face-food-emergency-in-drought-hit-guatemala-u-n/

Headline: Saudi Arabia issues 1st bond in 8 years to fill budget hole

Saudi Arabia has issued its first government bonds since 2007 to cover a growing budget deficit and its neighbor, the United Arab Emirates, has scrapped fuel subsidies as the big oil exporters scramble to deal with sharply lower crude prices. Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Finance announced Tuesday it had issued 20 billion riyals ($5.33 billion) of sovereign development bonds. It floated five-year bonds with a coupon of 1.92%, seven-year bonds at 2.34%, and 10-year bonds at 2.65%. The ministry said the debt was sold mainly to domestic private banks. It also said it sold 15 billion riyals of bonds to a government-funded organization in June. The country will probably issue more debt later. Reuters reported that Saudi Arabia is expected to float 100 billion to 200 billion riyals worth of debt this year.
August 14, 2015

http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Economy/Saudi-Arabia-issues-1st-bond-in-8-years-to-fill-budget-hole

August 12, 2015- Thousands of dead fish wash up in the Ardila River in Portugal
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August 13, 2015- Achovies wash up in Monterey Harbor in California
http://www.kionrightnow.com/news/local-news/hundreds-of-dead-anchovies-floating-in-monterey-harbor/34713650

August 13, 2015- Die off of several species of fish found along 3 miles of Boone River Iowa
http://www.radioiowa.com/2015/08/13/dnr-investigating-fish-kill-near-woolstock/

August 13, 2015- Dead birds found washed up on the river bank in Keokuk, Iowa
http://www.connecttristates.com/news/story.aspx?id=1242819

August 13, 2015- Warm water killing fish in Mat-Su and Anchorage Alaska
https://www.adn.com/article/20150813/warm-water-killing-fish-mat-su-and-anchorage

August 13, 2015- Dead herring, poison mussels found on Unalaska shorelines Alaska
http://kucb.org/news/article/dead-herring-poison-mussels-found-on-unalaska-shorelines/

August 13, 2015- 3rd mass die off this year in a lake in Mandalay, Myanmar
http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/15974-factories-blamed-after-third-fish-die-off.html

August 13, 2015- Four dead humpback whales found off British Columbia, Canada coast in one week
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/four-dead-humpback-whales-found-off-b-c-coast-in-one-week-1.2514429

August 13, 2015- 32 dead dolphins have washed up THIS MONTH along the coast of Bulgaria
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dnevnik.bg%2Fzelen%2Fjiva_planeta%2F2015%2F08%2F12%2F2589673_izhvurlenite_na_brega_murtvi_delfini_sa_se_uvelichili%2F&edit-text=&act=url

August 13, 2015- 21 humpback and fin whales have been found dead in southeast Alaska during the past month
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Four+whale+deaths+week+baffle+scientists/11285810/story.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:  Experts say ‘Godzilla El Niño’ may be coming

The waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean are heating up, scientists say, building towards a strong El Niño event that could rival the intensity of the record 1997 event that wreaked weather-related havoc across the globe, from mudslides in California to fires in Australia. According to the latest forecast released Thursday by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, this year’s El Niño is “significant and strengthening.” “There is a greater than 90% chance that El Niño will continue through Northern Hemisphere winter 2015-16, and around an 85% chance it will last into early spring 2016,” the NOAA said in a statement. Bill Patzert, a climatologist for the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, told the Los Angeles Times that it had the potential to be the “Godzilla El Niño.” The weather phenomenon largely became a part of the public vernacular during the 1997 El Niño. It caused devastating flooding in the western U.S. and drought in Indonesia. It was blamed for deadly virus outbreaks in Africa and rising coffee prices around the world.
August 13, 2015

http://kfor.com/2015/08/13/experts-say-godzilla-el-nino-may-be-coming/

Headline: Apocalyptic-Looking Thunderstom Is About To Smash Its Way Across Britain

Dramatic satellite images show the gigantic thunderstorm that is about to smash its way across Britain. The apocalyptic-looking weather front has come across from France – and is sparking fears that up to 50mm of rain will fall over the next two days. That’s roughly what we usually endure over the course of an entire month in August. The Met Office, which released the pictures on its Twitter feed, has issued severe weather warnings for Wales and all English regions. Torrential rain and thunderstorms are expected to hit everywhere apart from the North East today.
August 13, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/this-apocalyptic-looking-thunderstom-is-about-to-115145356.html

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Headline:      Israeli combat troops react angrily to new rules of engagement in West Bank

In light of heightened security tensions in the West Bank, the Israeli defense establishment on Tuesday temporarily revised the rules of engagement for combat soldiers on the ground serving in the Palestinian territories, triggering a wave of resentment within the ranks. According to the 0404 web site, IDF soldiers were furious over the newly issued rules of engagement that they say will encourage more Palestinian terrorism. The Jerusalem Post‘s Hebrew-language sister publication Ma’ariv learned on Tuesday that the defense establishment is now requiring soldiers to hold their fire except for instances in which there is a genuine threat to their lives. Under the previous rules, soldiers were permitted to fire a number of warning shots in the air before taking aim at a potential terrorist. The defense establishment wishes to avoid situations in which IDF gunfire leads to the death of an alleged terrorist, a development that is liable to spark widespread protest and further fan nationalistic flames. One soldier serving in the Givati infantry brigade told 0404: “There are new rules and we are now studying them. If a Molotov cocktail is thrown at me, even from a distance of just 10 meters, I’m not allowed to shoot at the person throwing it.” “These are bizarre rules, and I, as an officer, will have difficulty in telling my soldiers and looking them in the eye,” the infantryman is quoted as saying. “Somebody upstairs thinks that we are female models and not soldiers in the Israel Defense Force.”
August 12, 2015

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israel-tightens-rules-of-engagement-for-combat-troops-in-West-Bank-411868

Headline: Terror victims’ families blast feds for intervening in court case

Attorneys for 11 American families who won a potential billion-dollar judgment against the Palestinian leadership, which a federal jury blamed for a string of deadly terror attacks, say the U.S. government took the side of terrorists when it weighed in on the case Monday. The State and Justice departments filed a “statement of interest” in the case known as Sokolow v. PLO, urging U.S. District Judge George Daniels not to force the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Liberation Organization to post bond of up to $30 million per month while it appeals the jury’s February decision. Daniels had previously said he may require the bond as “some meaningful demonstration that the defendant is ready and willing to pay the judgment.” “The State Department should stand on the side of the American terror victims and not on the side of the Palestinian suicide bombers.- ” – Nitsana Darshan Leitner, attorney for victims’ families. In the statement and an accompanying affidavit from Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, the government warned that requiring the cash-strapped Palestinian government to make the bond payments could leave its ability to govern “severely compromised.” ” … the continued viability of the PA is essential to key U.S. security and diplomatic interests, including advancing peace between Israel and the Palestinians, supporting the security of U.S. allies such as Israel, Jordan and Egypt, combating extremism and terrorism, and promoting good governance,” read Blinken’s affidavit.
August 12, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/08/12/siding-with-enemies-terror-victims-families-blast-feds-for-intervening-in-court/?intcmp=hpbt3

Headline: Report: Hamas’ Meshal Meets Blair in Doha to Discuss Israel Ceasefire

Tony Blair met with Hamas’ political bureau chief Khaled Meshal recently in Doha, according to Palestinian and other Arab media reports. The former British prime minister and Middle East Quartet envoy was meeting with Meshal, who lives in Doha, for the second time in a month and a half, according to the reports. The two were said to have discussed the implementation of the ceasefire with Israel in exchange for lifting the blockade on Gaza. According to the reports, the two sides have still not finalized the details. Blair is also reported to have consulted in recent weeks with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi and the head of Egyptian intelligence, along with Jordanian, Saudi and Israeli officials. News of the Blair-Meshal meeting surfaced one day after reports that an Israeli delegation led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s special envoy Isaac Molho met in Cairo with senior Egyptian officials.
August 12, 2015

http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/.premium-1.670831?date=1439395011232

Headline: Hamas claims to have Israeli drone under its control

Hamas announced Wednesday evening that it  successfully dismantled and reassembled an Israeli drone that is now operational for use by its military arm al-Kassam Brigades.
The terrorist organization made the announcement through its official website, claiming that an Israeli Skylark 1 drone, that crashed into Gaza in late July was now in its possession and was ready for use. “Hamas’ military wing… al-Kassam Brigades took control of the Zionist drone Skylark 1 and managed to make its services operational” a statement on Hamas’ website read. The Hamas owned “Al-Aqsa” television channel reportedly aired a video allegedly showing the drone in action under the control of Hamas operatives. “This is a great achievement… and a gift to the Palestinian people,” the statement went on to say. “This demonstrates the strength of our people and its resistance.”
August 12, 2015

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Report-Hamas-claims-to-have-Israeli-drone-under-their-control-411935

“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)

Jordan

Headline: Israel accountable for any violations in Jerusalem — gov’t

Jordan said Tuesday that it holds the Israeli government responsible for any violation of Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem since it is the occupation force. Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Mohammad Momani said any attempt to raid the mosque by the Israelis or conducting excavations under the sanctuary are illegal, violating Islamic sanctities and the feelings of Muslims, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. Momani said Jordan is doing all it can to preserve Islamic revered places and protect them, underlining an agreement His Majesty King Abdullah signed with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last year under which the King was declared the custodian of the holy places in Jerusalem. Jordan’s commitment to the cause of Jerusalem’s holy places is a duty and the Kingdom accepts no excuses when it comes to violations committed by any party.
August 12, 2015

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/israel-accountable-any-violations-jerusalem-%E2%80%94-gov%E2%80%99t 

Lebanon

Headline:   Truce reached between Hezbollah and rebels fighting in Syria

Headline: Hezbollah’s Syria war since 2011

A 48-hour ceasefire was declared on Wednesday to halt fighting between Syrian insurgents and the army and its Lebanese militant Hezbollah ally in the rebel-held town of Zabadani and two Shiite Muslim villages in Idlib province. The U.N. envoy for Syria said last month that government airstrikes had caused widespread death and destruction in Zabadani, and expressed concern that civilians were trapped both there and in al-Foua and Kefraya villages. Sources on both sides of the civil war told Reuters earlier on Wednesday the truce was to begin at 6 a.m. (0300 GMT), and negotiations would continue. The rebel group Ahrar al-Sham had led the negotiations on the insurgents’ side. “A ceasefire began at 6 a.m. today for 48 hours to halt military operations in Zabadani,” Hezbollah’s al-Manar reported. “It also includes the two villages of al-Foua and Kefraya in the Idlib countryside.” The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that reports on the war, said no fighting had been reported in Zabadani, Kefraya or al-Foua after the ceasefire’s agreed start time. “So far there is calm,” Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Observatory, told Reuters.
August 12, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/12/Two-day-ceasefire-underway-in-Syrian-town-villages.html

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/reportsfeatures/565725-mapping-hezbollahs-syria-war-since-2011

Egypt

Headline: Image shows Croatian beheaded by ISIS in Egypt

An online image circulated Wednesday purported to show a Croatian hostage held by the Islamic State group’s Egyptian affiliate beheaded. The still image, shared by Islamic State sympathizers on social media, showed the apparent body of Tomislav Salopek, a married, 30-year-old father of two, wearing a beige jumpsuit looking like the one he had worn in a previous video. A black flag used by the Islamic State group and a knife were planted in the sand next to him. The photo carried a caption in Arabic that said Salopek was killed “for his country’s participation in the war against the Islamic State,” and after a deadline had passed for the Egyptian government to meet their demands. This comes after the Islamic State affiliate set a Friday deadline for Egyptian authorities to free “Muslim women,” a term referring to female Islamist prisoners detained in a sweeping government crackdown following the 2013 military ouster of an Islamist president. Egyptian Foreign Ministry officials were not immediately available for comment. An official at the Croatian Embassy in Cairo who refused to give his name said the embassy cannot comment on the incident.
August 12, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/08/12/image-shows-croat-beheaded-by-isis-in-egypt/?intcmp=hplnws

            Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:    ISIL attacks Syrian rebels near Turkish border

Dozens of combatants have been reported killed on both sides during fighting in and around the town of Marea, 20 km (12 miles) south of the border with Turkey, where ISIL suicide attackers detonated four car bombs overnight. The attack on Marea followed the capture of a nearby rebel-held village, Um Hosh, by ISIL fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a rebel commander said. The rebel commander said it was the most fierce ISIL attack in the area in several months. “There is fierce fighting,” he added, declining to be identified for security reasons. In a statement dated Tuesday, ISIL said its fighters had attacked two buildings in Marea and killed nearly 50 members of an “apostate” militia that opposes it. The rebel commander said the targeted rebels were from a group operating under the banner of the “Free Syrian Army”.
August 11, 2015

http://world.bgnnews.com/isil-attacks-syrian-rebels-near-turkish-border-haberi/8454

Syria Headline:   Regime Airstrikes Near Damascus Kill 37 Civilians

At least 37 civilians were killed Wednesday in Syrian government air strikes near Damascus, while at least 13 people died as rebels fired a barrage of rockets into the capital, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least four children were among the dead in regime strikes on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region, where some 120 people were also injured. The death toll was likely to rise further, it said. The air raids hit the towns of Douma, Saqba, Kafr Batna and Hammouriyeh in the rebel stronghold region outside the capital. The strikes came as rebels fired dozens of rockets into Damascus. The Observatory, without specifying whether the raids or attack on Damascus came first, said at least 13 people, among them 10 civilians, were killed as a barrage of more than 50 rockets slammed into Damascus. It said another 60 people were wounded.
August 12, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199359#.VctuOPlRLSg

Syria Headline:   US-Led Coalition Hits Rebel Arms Depot in Syria

The US-led coalition against the “Islamic State” (ISIS) terrorist group hit a weapons depot belonging to a rebel group allied with Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate overnight in northwestern Syria, a monitor said Wednesday, according to AFP. The strikes killed 10 members of the Jaish al-Sunna group, as well as a child, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The raid hit the Atmeh region of Idlib province, home to a large camp for displaced Syrians, but did not strike the camp itself, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
August 12, 2015

https://www.google.com/search?q=Jaysh+al-Sunna&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Syria Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news

Iraq Headline: Iraq ambush kills 14 soldiers in restive Anbar province

Iraqi officials say ISIS militants have ambushed a military convoy in the country’s western Anbar province, killing at least 14 soldiers. The officials, a military officer and a police officer, say numerous roadside bombs targeted a military convoy Wednesday morning as it was traveling on a highway outside the ISIS-held city of Ramadi. They say that the attack in Khabaz area, about 170 kilometers (105 miles) west of Ramadi, also wounded 10 soldiers. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.
August 12, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Aug-12/310832-iraq-ambush-kills-14-soldiers-in-restive-anbar-province.ashx

Iraq Headline:   ISW Iraq Situation Report August 7-11, 2015

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/08/iraq-situation-report-august-7-11-2015.html

Kurdish Headline: Kurds threaten to secede from defense system

MP from the Kurdistan Alliance Chakhuan Abdullah announced on Tuesday presenting a number of candidates to the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for the post of Chief of Army Staff, noting that al-Abadi has not ratified them so far, while he threatened of secession from Iraq’s defense system in the event of failure to give them the post of Chiefs of Staff. Abdullah said during a press conference today in the parliament building attended by IraqiNews.com, “we have presented the names of the candidates for the post of Army Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, but the latter has not ratified them so far,” and expressed hope “about approving those names during the 20 days.” Abdullah added that “in the absence of ratification of our candidates for the presidency of this post, we will announce that we are not part of the defense system of Iraq,” indicating that “the position is the share of the Kurds.”
August 11, 2015

http://www.iraqinews.com/features/kurds-threaten-secede-defense-system/

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 air strikes: PKK targeted by air force jets

Headline: Turkish soldier, 2 Kurdish fighters killed after PKK attack on security outpost

Turkey launched a series of overnight air strikes against Kurdish militants, aimed at 17 targets in the south-east, the army says. The targets were in Hakkari province on the border with Iran and Iraq. Turkey has seen increasing violence in recent weeks between the military and Kurdish separatists. Tuesday’s air strikes are being widely interpreted as retaliation for the attacks conducted on Monday, says the BBC’s Selin Girit in Istanbul. Early on Tuesday morning, further attacks took place. The Turkish military said Kurdish militants had attacked an army base in Sirnak, in the south-east. A soldier died of his wounds in hospital. Dawn raids also saw 16 people who were allegedly members of the Patriotic Revolutionist Youth Movement, being taken into custody according to the state-run agency Anadolu. And overnight, there were more shoot-outs between Turkish forces and militants in three other cities.
August 11, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33859991

http://www.rt.com/news/line/

Iran

Headline:     Iranian, Russian Warships Hold Joint ‘War Games’

Iranian and Russian warships took part in joint “war games” training exercises on Tuesday in Iranian waters, giving clear expression to the military cooperation between the two states. Commander of Iran’s fleet in the Northern Gilan province Admiral Ahmad Reza Baqeri told Fars News Agency ahead of the war games that the Iranian destroyer Damavand and missile ships Joshan and Peikan took part in the drills, manned by 200 Iranian naval forces members. From the Russian side, the warships Volgodonsk and Makhachkala which docked in Anzali Port near the Caspian Sea on Sunday took part in the drills. After the drills the Russian ships are to depart Iranian waters and head for Azerbaijan, according to Baqeri. Russian backing has been a key source of support for Iran; late last month a senior Russian official said the advanced S-300 anti-missile system is being upgraded prior to delivery to Iran.
August 12, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199343#.VctxiPlRLSg

Headline: Iran’s Syria plan: Hezbollah withdrawal, Assad as toothless leader

Headline: Zarif in Beirut: Nuke deal ‘historic opportunity’ to face Israeli threats

Iran’s latest plan to end the five-year civil war in Syria includes a withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters and and keeping Bashar Assad as a powerless head of state, according to pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was to visit Syria on Wednesday to discuss a “new plan” by the Islamic Republic to help resolve the conflict there, his spokeswoman said. During his visit, Zarif will raise “Iran’s new plan to help solve the Syrian issue,” spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said. Asharq al-Awsat cited sources as saying that Zarif had planned in his Tuesday visit with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon to convey “Iran’s support for Hezbollah, which is still a main player, like other main players.” “However, there will be a change of roles in light of the talk about the expected settlement in Syria which will stipulate the departure of Shiite fighters from the battle,” the sources quoted Zarif as saying. As part of the Syrian peace plan, Assad would retain “a tokenistic role, that is, he will be a president without authority,” the report said, while an alternate government is formed. Zarif began a regional tour in Lebanon on Tuesday, after a previously scheduled trip to Turkey was postponed.
August 12, 2015

http://www.timesofisrael.com/irans-syria-plan-hezbollah-withdrawal-assad-as-toothless-leader/

http://www.timesofisrael.com/zarif-in-beirut-nuke-deal-historic-opportunity-to-face-israeli-threats/

Afghanistan

Headline:   Taliban infiltrate base, kill up to 15 Afghan police: officials

Headline:   Taliban raise flag over captured district in Helmand province

Taliban fighters disguised in police uniforms infiltrated a security forces compound in the southern Afghan province of Helmand and killed as many as 15 police, officials said on Wednesday. The attack, in the Musa Qala district, was the latest in a widening insurgency that has killed thousands of Afghan security force members and civilians since NATO forces ended combat operations at the end of last year. “The Taliban were in police uniform and had police vehicles and entered a police compound where they killed all 14 policemen and took their weapons,” said a security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said the Taliban then went to another checkpoint where they killed another policeman. Other sources confirmed the attack but gave differing casualty figures, with Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the governor of Helmand saying nine police had been killed. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a spokesman for Taliban in southern Afghanistan said in a text message 12 police including two officers were killed in the attack and 12 weapons captured.
August 12, 2015

http://newsdaily.com/2015/08/taliban-infiltrate-base-kill-up-to-15-afghan-police-officials/

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/08/taliban-raise-flag-over-captured-district-in-helmand-province.php

Sudan

Headline:     Split among rebels in South Sudan threatens efforts to secure peace deal

Two top rebel generals have defected from South Sudan’s rebel movement, a rebel official said Wednesday, as the country’s warring factions negotiated in Ethiopia to secure a deal to end war in the world’s newest country. The rebel generals, identified as Peter Gadet and Gathoth Gatkuoth, defected and fled to Sudan after rebel leader Riek Machar removed them from their senior command positions, Puoch Riek told The Associated Press. Puoch Riek, a member of the rebel delegation here, said no rebel fighters had defected with the generals and he insisted the rebel movement is still under the command of Machar, the former vice president whose dismissal in July 2013 sparked a political crisis that led to the rebellion against President Salva Kiir. South Sudan’s warring factions face international pressure to reach a comprehensive peace deal by Aug. 17, but several earlier negotiations have failed. Kiir has made abrupt changes to the board of the national oil company, Nilepet, possibly “to cement his grip on this critical institution in advance of major political changes,” the watchdog group Global Witness said Wednesday.
August 12, 2015

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/08/12/split-among-south-sudan-rebels-threatens-peace-efforts

Libya

Headline: Libya chaos deepens as PM threatens resignation

The future of Libya’s internationally recognised government was uncertain Wednesday after Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani threatened to resign, and as the latest UN-brokered peace talks ended amid optimism about a deal. Thani made the resignation threat during an emotional live television appearance in which he faced a barrage of angry questions from citizens, but it was unclear whether he planned to follow through. His remarks added to the political uncertainty as Libya’s rival factions met for a second and final day. A UN statement said the talks in Geneva had been held in a “positive atmosphere” and that there was optimism that the process of dialogue was approaching its final stages.
August 12, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-prime-minister-announces-resignation-official-news-agency-005158524.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:    At least 47 dead in market bomb blast in NE Nigeria

Headline: Boko Haram leader Shekau replaced by pro-peace deputy, Chad’s president says

At least 47 people were killed and dozens wounded in a bomb blast Tuesday in a part of northeast Nigeria frequently targeted by Boko Haram Islamists, a medical source and witnesses said. The explosion ripped through the weekly market in the village of Sabon Gari, around 135 kilometres (85 miles) south of Borno state capital Maiduguri, during peak trading around 1:15 pm (1230 GMT), the sources said. “We have received at least 47 dead bodies and at least 50 with injuries from the Sabon Gari market, where there was a blast this afternoon,” a nurse at Biu General Hospital, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) away, told AFP. He said the injuries from the blast are mostly “severe”, meaning the death toll could continue to rise. “The explosion happened inside the market at the mobile phone section, near the livestock section of the market,” said Yuram Bura, a member of a local vigilante group fighting Boko Haram alongside the army. “It was concealed in a knapsack used for spraying herbicides. It was smuggled into the market and apparently abandoned.”
August 11, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/least-47-dead-market-bomb-blast-ne-nigeria-165920305.html

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/08/12/Boko-Haram-leader-Shekau-replaced-by-pro-peace-deputy-Chads-president-says/5771439382789/?spt=sec&or=tn

Headline: Migrants, police clash on Greek island

Greek police used fire extinguishers and batons against migrants on the island of Kos, as tensions boiled over in a sports stadium where hundreds, including young children, had gathered to wait for immigration papers, state television footage showed. The scuffles took place a day after a police officer on the island was suspended for brandishing a knife and slapping a man identified by Greek media as a Pakistani migrant. On Tuesday, TV images showed hundreds of migrants jostling with one another as they ran from huge clouds of thick white powder set off from fire extinguishers wielded by police officers who were apparently trying to disperse the crowd. It was not immediately clear what had sparked the violence. Greece has seen a surge in the number of migrants and refugees, fleeing war zones like Syria, trying to enter the European Union by crossing in rubber dinghies from Turkey. The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said 124,000 had landed on Greek islands this year. The UNHCR called conditions for migrants on Kos and other islands “shameful”. Kos Mayor Yorgos Kyritsis said strained local services, including the police and coast guard were unable to cope with the influx. “This situation on the island is out of control,” he told Greek TV. “There is a real danger of uncontrollable situations. Blood will be shed.” A Greek police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said riot police squads would be deployed to the island and police officers from the neighbouring islands of Rhodes and Syros would be sent in as reinforcements.
August 12, 2015

http://aranews.net/2015/08/migrants-police-clash-on-greek-island/

Headline:  Victorious Hadi forces advance toward Taez

Headline: Houthi and Resistance fighters square off for battle over Yemen capital

Forces loyal to Yemen’s President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi clashed with the Houthi group inside the city of Ibb on Tuesday, residents said, in their latest significant advance into territory the rebels had held unopposed for months. Loyalists have launched a major counter-offensive in recent weeks and recaptured four southern provinces — Abyan, Aden, Daleh, and Lahj — from Houthis. Late Monday, they took Loder, the last Houthi-occupied town in Abyan, and were poised to enter the southern Shabwa province. Military officials said the advance is heading toward third city Taez, southwest of Sanaa. Clashes with Houthi forces also raged on Tuesday in the central provinces of Al-Bayda and Shabwa, where militiamen appeared to be gaining the upper hand backed by warplanes from Gulf states bombing from the air.
August 12, 2015

http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/790181

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/houthis-and-resistance-forces-gear-towards-battle-yemens-capital-298609571

  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:  China devalues yuan currency to three-year low

Headline: China’s move to devalue currency could reverberate globally

Headline: China’s yuan currency falls for a second day

China’s central bank has devalued the yuan to its lowest rate against the US dollar in almost three years. The lender said the move was a “one-off depreciation” of 1.9% in a move to make the exchange rate more market-oriented. The move, which makes exports cheaper, comes after weak economic data from the world’s second largest economy. Washington has in the past complained that China uses its currency for competitive advantage, but the US Treasury’s response was measured. “While it is too early to judge the full implications of the change… China has indicated that the changes announced today are another step in its move to a more market-determined exchange rate,” a department statement said. However, the statement added: “We will continue to monitor how these changes are implemented and continue to press China on the pace of its reforms, including additional measures to transition to a market-oriented exchange rate and its stated desire to move towards an economy that is more dependent on domestic demand, which is in China and America’s best interests. Any reversal in reforms would be a troubling development.”
August 12, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33858433

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150811/as–china-currency-ddaa2d84ab.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33875061

Headline: 150 Days: Treasury Says Debt Has Been Frozen at $18,112,975,000,000

The portion of the federal debt that is subject to a legal limit set by Congress closed Monday, August 10, at $18,112,975,000,000, according to the latest Daily Treasury Statement, which was published at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. That, according to the Treasury’s statements, makes 150 straight days the debt subject to the limit has been frozen at $18,112,975,000,000. On March 13, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew sent an initial letter to House Speaker John Boehner and other congressional leaders informing them that he was planning to declare a “debt issuance suspension period.” “Beginning on Monday, March 16, the outstanding debt of the United States will be at the statutory limit,” Lew said in that letter. “In anticipation of reaching that date, Treasury has suspended until further notice the issue of State and Local Government Series securities, which count against the debt limit.” On July 29, Lew sent another letter to the leaders of Congress informing them: “I expect to extend the debt issuance suspension period through October 30.” Lew explained that he believed the Treasury would be able to continue using “extraordinary measures” to keep the debt from exceeding the limit through at least the end of October. “The effective duration of the extraordinary measures is subject to considerable uncertainty due to a variety of factors, including the unpredictability of September tax receipts and the normal challenges of forecasting the payments and receipts of the U.S. government months into the future,” Lew told the congressional leaders. “Given this unavoidable uncertainty, Treasury is not able to provide a specific estimate of how long the extraordinary measures will last,” Lew said. “Nonetheless, we believe that the measures will not be exhausted before late October, and it is likely that they will last for at least a brief additional period of time.”
August 12, 2015

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/150-days-treasury-says-debt-has-been-frozen-18112975000000

August 9, 2015- Thousands of dead fish found in the waters of Quintana Roo, 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.eluniversal.com.mx%2Farticulo%2Festados%2F2015%2F08%2F9%2Fhallan-miles-de-peces-muertos-en-el-sur-de-quintana-roo&edit-text=&act=url

August 9, 2015- Die off of crayfish, shrimp and shellfish in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thairath.co.th%2Fcontent%2F517123&edit-text=&act=url

August 11, 2015- Thousands of dead fish found in a creek in Georgia
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2015/08/11/dahlonega-park-yahoola-lumpkin-environmental-natural-resources-georgia/31487659/

August 11, 2015- Sea birds and dolphins washing up dead, ‘dying of hunger’ in La Libertad, Peru
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Flarepublica.pe%2Fimpresa%2Fsociedad%2F397632-otra-vez-aparecen-aves-marinas-muertas-en-las-playas-de-la-libertad&edit-text=&act=url

August 12, 2015- 512,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Sinaloa, Mexico
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/35594/avian-flu-reported-in-mexico/

August 12, 2015- Dead fish and pelicans wash ashore in La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago
https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2015-08-11/ema-told-probe-cause-fish-kill-la-brea

 Apostasy & Alternative Lifestyles Amos 8:11, 1 Timothy 4:1-3 & Romans1:26-27  “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, ³ forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.” (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) “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due”(Romans)

Headline: Mexican court lifts ban on adoption by gay couples

The Supreme Court of Mexico lifted a state ban on adoption by homosexual couples Monday. In the Mexican state of Campeche, gay couples were legally unable to adopt. In its decision, the Supreme Court ruled article 19 of a law regulating civil unions unconstitutional, now allowing homosexual couples to adopt underage children. The court claimed that the article discriminated against children’s rights. Its president, Luis Maria Aguilar Morales, said the structure of any particular family is irrelevant. Rather, the lives of children in abandonment must be prioritized and turned over to parents who can provide an authentic life of affection and solidarity no matter their gender. The news follows the court’s nationwide decision in June to allow legal marriage between gay individuals. Though the ruling struck down state bans — gay marriage was only legal in Mexico City until then — it did not affect nationwide adoption laws. The court’s current decision only affects adoptions in Campeche, but may serve as the precedent for the lifting of the ban in other states.
August 12, 2015

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/08/12/Mexican-court-lifts-ban-on-adoption-by-gay-couples/8791439384530/?spt=sec&or=tn

  Godlessness 2 Timothy 3:1-5 & Matthew 24:12 “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: ² For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, ⁴ traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold”

Headline:    Amnesty International approves policy supporting decriminalization of sex trade

Amnesty International approved a controversial policy Tuesday to endorse the de-criminalization of the sex trade, rejecting complaints from some women’s rights groups who say it is tantamount to advocating the legalization of pimping and brothel owning. At its decision-making forum in Dublin, the human rights watchdog approved the resolution to recommend “full decriminalization of all aspects of consensual sex work.” It argues its research suggests decriminalization is the best way to defend sex workers’ human rights. “We recognize that this critical human rights issue is hugely complex and that is why we have addressed this issue from the perspective of international human rights standards,” said Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International. “We also consulted with our global movement to take on board different views from around the world.” Amnesty’s decision is important because it will use its heft to lobby governments around the world to accept its point of view. Advance word of the Amnesty policy sparked opposition from some women’s groups who argued that the human rights organization has made a serious mistake. The groups, such as the U.S.-based Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, have argued that while it agrees with Amnesty that those who are prostituted should not be criminalized, full de-criminalization would make pimps “businesspeople” who could sell the vulnerable with impunity.
August 12, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/08/12/amnesty-international-approves-policy-to-decriminalize-sex-trade-rejecting/?intcmp=hplnws

    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”

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Headline:  Three Years of Rain Falls in 12 Hours as Deadly Storm Causes Flooding, Mudslides in Chile

At least six people are dead in Chile after a potent weekend storm brought unusual rains to Chile’s Atacama desert region, while the coast was battered by destructive waves and strong winds. Antofagasta, Chile, saw 0.55 inches (14 mm) of rain in just 12 hours Saturday into Sunday. That may not sound like much, but it’s actually more than three years worth of rain for this town where the average annual rainfall is just 0.14 inches (3.8 mm). The unusual rains caused deadly flooding and mudslides just to the north of Antofagasta in the town of Tocopilla. According to Chile’s National Office of Emergency of the Interior Ministry, at least three people are dead and one more is missing due to the flooding. This is the second time in 2015 that this part of Chile has seen unusual rain amounts. In March, Antofagasta saw an even heavier bout of rainfall with 0.96 inches (24.4 mm) falling during the 24 hour period ending at 8 a.m. EDT March 26. That bout of rainfall also resulted in deadly flooding and was named our strangest weather event of 2015, so far.
August 11, 2015

http://www.wunderground.com/news/chile-deadly-storm-flooding-mudslides

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Headline:    Israel Air Force attacks Hamas target in Gaza in response to rocket fire

Earlier three projectiles were launched towards southern Israel – no injuries reported. The IDF spokesman announced on Friday evening that Israel’s air force launched precision strikes on the infrastructure of the Hamas terrorist organization in central Gaza. According to Palestinian sources, four people were injured in the attack on Hamas’ training facility in the Bureij refugee camp. There are conflicting reports as to the severity of the injuries. Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, the IDF Spokesman said: “Since the beginning of August multiple rockets have been fired towards southern Israel, most falling short in the Gaza Strip. Israelis and Palestinians deserve to live normal lives but instead terrorists choose to use the Gaza Strip as a launch pad for rocket attacks. Hamas, must fulfill its responsibilities or face the consequences.” Earlier on Friday, three projectiles were fired at Israel. One of them landed in the Kissufim area of Israel, a kilometer away from the border with Gaza. Army Radio reported that according to security sources the other two projectiles landed inside of Gaza. There were no injuries reported.
August 7, 2015

http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/81264-150807-rocket-from-gaza-lands-in-israeli-territory

Headline: Hamas urges Palestinians to attack settlers after second death from arson

Hamas called Saturday for “open and comprehensive confrontation” with Israel after the father of a Palestinian toddler killed in a firebombing by Jewish extremists last week died of his burns. “Nothing will stop these murderous settler attacks and… we cannot wait until they come into our villages and our homes,” Hamas spokesman Hossam Badran wrote on Facebook from his base in Qatar. “Our people in the West Bank have only one choice: that of open and comprehensive confrontation against the occupation.” Saad Dawabsha died earlier on Saturday in hospital in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba where he was being treated for third degree burns, Palestinian official Ghassan Daghlas said.
August 8, 2015

http://yalibnan.com/2015/08/08/hamas-urges-confrontation-with-israel-after-second-arson-death/

Headline: Islamic Waqf Authority Guard Arrested on Temple Mount

In a new twist, a Waqf Islamic Authority security guard was arrested Monday morning in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount. Israeli security personnel were forced to use pepper spray to bring the situation under control. The incident occurred when Israel Border Guard Police refused entry to a group of Arab minors at the Lions Gate on the grounds they were going to disturb the peace. Usually, it is Jews who are refused entry to the site on such grounds. The Waqf Authority guard intervened and began to argue with the Israel Police officers. When they refused to allow the entry, he then tried to attack them, according to security sources. Israeli police immediately arrested the guard and defended themselves with pepper spray when he tried to attack them. Security footage from the scene also shows that a number of other people in the area, including several other Waqf security officials, were also affected by the spray as well. Visits by tourists to the site continued uninterrupted following the incident. It is highly unusual for Israeli forces to arrest Muslims at the site, and completely rare for Waqf officials to ever be taken into custody.
August 10, 2015

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/islamic-waqf-authority-guard-arrested-on-temple-mount/2015/08/10/

Headline: Holy Land Catholic body urges action against Jewish extremists

The body in charge of Roman Catholic properties in the Holy Land has called for legal action against a Jewish extremist group and its leader after he condoned burning churches. “The danger and threats to the Church and to Christians in Israel are imminent,” the Custodian of the Holy Land wrote in a plea to Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein seen by AFP Monday. The letter called on Israel to take immediate action to outlaw the extremist Lehava organization and prosecute its leader Benzi Gopstein. The letter followed attacks, allegedly by Jewish extremists, on Palestinians and Christian sites in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
August 10, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Aug-10/310517-holy-land-catholic-body-urges-action-against-jewish-extremists.ashx

Headline: Activists rally around Palestinian prisoner as Israel sets up emergency force-feeding ward

Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Allan could become the first person to be forcibly fed after Israel recently authorized the practice for inmates on hunger strike. Allan’s lawyer says his client, who has not eaten for almost 60 days, is “very frail,” and the process could “kill him.” Israel is currently setting up a special ward to implement the force-feeding. Allan has been kept under arrest and in administrative detention since November, despite not having been charged with any offense. He has been on hunger strike for 57 days as of Monday, refusing medicine and vitamins and only taking water.
August 10, 2015

http://www.rt.com/news/312039-israel-force-feeding-prisoners/

“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)

Egypt

Headline: Bomb explodes near Cairo court, wounds three policemen

Four people, at least three of whom were policemen, were wounded on Monday when a bomb exploded under a traffic sentry post near a Cairo court, security sources said. Bomb disposal experts defused a second device they found inside a black bag while searching the area following the blast, state news agency MENA said. Egyptian authorities have pledged to end a wave of Islamist militant violence that has swept across the country but sporadic attacks on high-profile locations in Cairo and elsewhere have continued. The explosion occurred in the affluent northeastern Heliopolis district and wounded four people, the health ministry said It was claimed by Ajnad Misr, a militant group that emerged in January 2014 and has targeted security forces in and around Cairo. “God Almighty made it possible for a company of our heroes to target a gathering of criminal security forces in the vicinity of Heliopolis Court with a bomb that led to the serious injury of two of their senior officers … and a conscript,” the group’s media wing said on Twitter.
August 10, 2015

http://newsdaily.com/2015/08/bomb-explodes-at-cairo-traffic-sentry-post-wounds-three-policemen/

            Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:     Islamic State assault in northern Syria kills nearly 40 rival rebels

An Islamic State assault on a town in Syria’s northern Aleppo province has left nearly 40 rival insurgents dead. IS fighters suffered 10 killed during the assault on Om Hosh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Sunday. U.S.-led coalition airstrikes are reported to have hit IS positions during the assault, which ended after 37 rival rebels were killed, 20 went missing, and the town fell into IS hands. The militants are reportedly attempting to cut off a road linking the city of Aleppo to its northern countryside, which borders Turkey. U.S. Central Command reports two airstrikes against IS forces near Aleppo on August 6. SOHR did not clarify the allegiance of the rival rebels, but U.S.-trained and equipped militants have suffered recent setbacks while operating near Aleppo.
August 9, 2015

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/08/09/Islamic-State-assault-in-northern-Syria-kills-nearly-40-rival-rebels/9771439152075/?spt=sec&or=tn

Syria Headline:   Nusra Front withdraws from ISIS frontline

The al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front has withdrawn from frontline positions against ISIS north of Aleppo and ceded them to other rebels, leaving an area of northern Syria where Turkey wants to establish a buffer zone. A Nusra Front statement dated on Sunday criticized a Turkish-U.S. plan to drive ISIS from the Syrian-Turkish border area, saying the aim was to serve “Turkey’s national security” rather than the fight against President Bashar al-Assad. The Nusra Front, an enemy of ISIS, said participation in the campaign was forbidden. The U.S. and Turkey last month announced their intention to drive ISIS fighters from a strip of territory in northern Syria near the Turkish border, providing air cover for Syrian rebels in the area. Nusra said the Turkish government and the U.S.-led alliance against ISIS were seeking to direct the battle according to their interests and priorities, and said Syrian groups taking part were not doing so of their free will. “Facing this current scene, our only option was to withdraw and leave our frontline positions (with ISIS) in the northern Aleppo countryside for any fighting faction in these areas to take over,” the group said. It added that the Nusra Front would maintain frontlines with ISIS in other areas including Hama province and the Qalamoun mountain range near the border with Lebanon.
August 10, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/10/Nusra-Front-says-it-will-withdraw-from-frontline-against-ISIS.html

Syria Headline:   Syrian rebel group fires 1,000 missiles on Shiite towns: monitor

Rebel militants have reportedly launched missile attacks against the two towns of Fuaa and Kafraya in northwestern Syria. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Monday, the rebels fired around 1,000 rockets, homemade projectiles and mortar shells on the Shia towns in the restive province of Idlib on Sunday night. The UK-based group provided no exact figures on the casualties, but said there were deaths and injuries. A coalition of rebel groups, including al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front, has already taken most of Idlib Province and is trying to capture Fuaa and Kafraya, which are still under control of the Syrian army. The militants say the attacks on the towns are in retaliation for the growing advances of the Syrian army near the Lebanese border.
August 10, 2015

http://www.albawaba.com/news/syrian-rebel-group-fires-1000-missiles-shiite-towns-monitor-729124

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199284#.Vcjjc_lRLSg

Syria Headline:   ISIS kills 18 Syrian soldiers in attack on air base

At least 18 Syrian soldiers including two generals were killed in an Islamic State (ISIS) attack on Monday and the fighting that ensued at the Kuweris air base in eastern Aleppo province. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports that 26 ISIS militants were also killed in the fighting. The jihadists used three car bombs in the attempt to take over the base, which for the moment remains in the hands of regime forces.
August 10, 2015

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2015/08/10/isis-kills-18-syrian-soldiers-in-attack-on-air-base_7b3db8fd-f38f-4e81-a5c8-157f6bc0e39b.html

Syria Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news

Iraq Headline: At least 31 people killed in two bomb attacks in eastern Iraq – security sources

At least 24 people were killed and 55 others wounded near the eastern Iraqi city of Baquba when a car bomb exploded in a marketplace on Monday, security and medical sources said. In a separate blast to the east of the city, a further seven people were killed and 25 wounded, the sources said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks.
August 10, 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3192648/At-31-people-killed-two-bomb-attacks-eastern-Iraq–security-sources.html

Iraq Headline:   ISW Iraq Situation Report August 4-6, 2015

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/08/iraq-situation-report-august-4-6-2015.html

Headline: ISIS in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia: July 2015

http://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/ISIS%20Near%20Abroad%20Map%20%255bMaster%255d-01_2.png

Headline: Tracking ISIS Since (Before) the Islamic State

The ISIS Sanctuary Maps from the last 14 months (and longer) show how ISW has tracked the conflict and become the recognized expert on ISIS’s expansion. As we approach the one-year anniversary of U.S. and coalition airstrikes against ISIS, we have collected all our Sanctuary Maps, along with examples of where they have appeared, to help show the role ISW is proud to have played in tracking ISIS.
August 7, 2015

http://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/ISW-%20Tracking%20ISIS%20Since%20%28Before%29%20the%20Islamic%20State.pdf  

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 attacks: Deadly violence in Istanbul and Sirnak

Headline:   PKK leader: Turkey is protecting IS by attacking Kurds

Headline: DHKP-C Claims Responsibility of US consulate Attack

Six members of the security forces have been killed in a series of attacks in Turkey amid rising tension between the government and Kurdish militants. In south-eastern Sirnak province, four police officers were killed by a roadside bomb and a soldier died when gunmen fired on a military helicopter. In Istanbul, a police officer was killed in clashes after a car bombing. Meanwhile, the city’s US consulate was attacked by two assailants. A leftist group said it carried out that attack. The outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army Front (DHKP-C) made the claim in a statement on its website, which described the US as the “chief enemy of people in the Middle East and in the world”. One of the two women assailants in the attack on the consulate was wounded and detained, and a rifle and other weaponry were seized, Istanbul’s governor said in a statement. Meanwhile, An outlawed radical Turkish Marxist group on Monday claimed responsibility for a gun attack on the US consulate in Istanbul. The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front (DHKP-C) said on its website that one of its female militants carried out the attack.  It named her as Hatice Asik and said she was later arrested and taken to hospital after being shot by police. “Our struggle will continue until imperialism and its collaborators leave our country and every parcel of our homeland is cleared of US bases,” it said, praising Asik as “our honour”.
August 10, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33844246

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33818282

http://www.basnews.com/en/news/2015/08/10/dhkp-c-claims-responsibility-of-us-consulate-attack/

Iran

Headline:    Palestinians, Iran to work together for Israel’s nuclear disarmament, official says

The Palestinian Authority and Iran have agreed to work together toward holding an international conference to seek the nuclear disarmament of Israel, a senior PLO official who visited Tehran in the past few days said. Ahmed Majdalani, member of the PLO Executive Committee, held talks in Tehran with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamed Zarif. He also delivered a letter from PA President Mahmoud Abbas to Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani. Majdalani said on Monday that his visit to Iran resulted in agreement on reviving the idea of an international conference to rid the region of Israel’s nuclear arsenal and weapons of mass destruction. Voicing support for the nuclear agreement between Iran and the world powers, Majdalani said that the accord would create a positive atmosphere for ensuring security and stability in the Middle East. The PLO official said that his visit to Iran was aimed at refuting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that Iran’s nuclear program poses a threat to Israel and peace. He claimed that Netanyahu was using the Iranian issue to avoid fulfilling Israel’s obligations toward the peace process. The Palestinians are now hoping that the Palestinian issue would return to the center stage as the essence of the Middle East conflict.
August 10, 2015

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran/Palestinians-Iran-to-work-together-for-Israels-nuclear-disarmament-official-says-411712

Afghanistan

Headline:    Dozens killed as wave of bomb attacks hits Kabul

Headline: Afghan president slams Pakistan over Kabul attacks

A suicide bomber killed dozens of cadets at a Kabul police academy and insurgents struck an area near a U.S. special forces base on Friday in a wave of attacks in the Afghan capital that began with a huge early morning truck bomb explosion. The attacks came just over a week after the Taliban announced a new leader and appeared to dash any hope of a swift return to peace talks between the insurgent movement and the government of President Ashraf Ghani. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the police academy, in which security sources said at least 50 or 60 people had been killed or wounded. “The bomber was wearing a police uniform and detonated his explosives among students who had just returned from a break,” a police official said. Shortly afterwards, two explosions hit an area north of Kabul airport close to a U.S. special forces base and insurgent fighters followed up with gunfire, with fighting continuing into the early hours of the morning.
August 10, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/suicide-bomber-targets-police-academy-afghan-capital-161458995.html

http://www.rt.com/news/line/

Headline: Afghanistan: Taliban suicide bomb attack near Kabul airport

A Taliban suicide bomber has attacked a checkpoint near the entrance to the international airport in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing five people. Local officials said at least 16 people were injured in the blast. The incident is the latest in a series of recent deadly attacks following the announcement of a new Taliban leader. Talking after the attack, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani accused Pakistan of sending “messages of war” and harbouring terrorist training camps. Kabul’s deputy police chief, Sayed Gul Agha Rouhani, told reporters that a suicide bomber had driven a vehicle into the first checkpoint on the road into the airport. Images showed a large plume of smoke rising from the site of the blast and locals reported seeing ambulances approaching the scene.
August 10, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33845326

Sudan

Headline:   Sudanese rebels retake Blue Nile’s area – spokesperson

The rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army – North (SPLA-N) has retaken Torda area 45 km south to the Blue Nile state Ed Damazen in less than 24 hours after its capture by the Sudanese army, said the rebel group on Sunday evening. Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commander of the Fourth Infantry Division, said on Saturday that the government forces had recaptured the strategic town from the rebel group. Gen Osman Sid Ahmed further said the area constitutes an important economic and intelligence centre because it is close to mining sites in Ingessana Hills. “SPLA-N (fighters) have retaken control of the strategic area of Torda in Bau county of Blue Nile state on Sunday 9 August at 12:30pm ,” said the SPLM-A official spokesperson Arnu Ngutulu Lodi in a statement extended to Sudan Tribune. Lodi further said the purpose of the Sudanese government troops was to loot the mineral resources of the area. He pointed they killed four soldiers and lost two fighters, adding they seized four Kalashnikov AK-47.
August 9, 2015

http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article55986

Libya

Headline: Bomb kills nine in eastern Libya as ISIS presses on

A car bomb attack claimed by ISIS has killed nine people and wounded dozens in Libya’s eastern coastal city of Derna, a medical source said. “Nine persons were killed and dozens wounded in a car bomb in Derna city” on Sunday night, a medical official in eastern Libya told AFP by telephone. “Some of the dead and wounded are civilians.” ISIS has said it was behind the attack and that it was carried out by a Sudanese militant. “The martyr Abu Jaafar al-Sudani blew up his car bomb… in the city of Derna, causing many dead and wounded,” read a statement the group posted online. ISIS has built up a significant presence in Libya, exploiting a security vacuum as two rival governments battle for power four years after the ousting of Muammar Qaddafi.
August 10, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/10/Car-bomb-kills-seven-in-eastern-Libya-as-ISIS-presses-offensive.html

Morocco

Headline:  Morocco Accused of Being Behind Terrorist Attacks in Mali

Morocco is accused of being behind the latest terrorist attacks executed in Mali by the jihadist group MUJWA in order to wreck the good offices of Algeria in the neighboring country. The attacks resumption in Mali just some months after the signing of the peace and reconciliation agreement in Algiers is more than enough proof of the aims of this movement whose finances come mainly from trafficking hashish and cocaine. The Algerian press accuses Morocco to remotely control these terrorist operations in order to disrupt negotiations between the Malian actors under the auspices of Algiers. An accusation widely reinforced by the information relayed by French press sources. Indeed, according to a dispatch published on September 5, 2012 by the magazine Jeune Afrique, “the French intelligence services claim that weapons have recently been delivered, via Burkina Faso, to the Movement for the uniqueness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA)”. “As a result, French officials are perplexed: how trucks loaded of weapons can cross Burkina without the approval of the authorities?”, Jeune Afrique reports, while the Sahrawi authorities had accused Limam Ould Chafai of being the relay contact between Rabat and MUJWA. Since the overthrow of President Compaoré, Ould Chafai fled to Morocco where his family was already for years before.
August 10, 2015
***See Mali below

http://allafrica.com/stories/201508101970.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:    New rally planned for Ferguson after man shot in night of violence

Headline: Gunfire erupts in Ferguson a year after Michael Brown died

A new round of rallies was planned in and around Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday, hours after a man was critically wounded in a gun battle with police when peaceful protests to mark the fatal shooting a year ago of an unarmed black teenager by a white officer erupted into violence. On Sunday night in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, several volleys of gunshots rang out as police in riot gear tried to disperse demonstrators blocking traffic and smashing storefront windows along a street that was a flashpoint of riots last year after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot dead. The death of Brown and a grand jury’s decision to spare the officer, Darren Wilson, from criminal charges led to a wave of demonstrations that boiled over into rioting and arson at times and spawned sympathy rallies across the United States.
August 10, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/ferguson-protests-mostly-peaceful-anniversary-brown-shooting-015555407.html

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/10/ferguson-protest-shooting/31397841/

Headline: Islamists kill six, take hostages in Mali hotel

Headline: Group linked to Al-Qaeda says responsible for Mali siege: Al-Jazeera

Suspected Islamist militants attacked a hotel in central Mali used by U.N. staff, killing at least six people, taking others hostage and holding off troops encircling the building on Friday, residents and military sources said. A Russian and a Ukrainian were among those being held inside the Byblos Hotel, officials from their countries said. There were up to eight other captives and South African and French citizens had also been staying there, government officials said. Friday’s violence began with a raid on a military site in the town of Sevare, around 600 km (400 miles) northeast of the capital Bamako, that was successfully repelled by government troops, according to Mali’s U.N. peacekeeping mission, MINUSMA. The attackers then stormed the hotel near the airport before 8 a.m. (4 a.m. EDT), according to witnesses. Smoke rose from the hotel and heavy weapons fire rang out through the day as government forces attempted to dislodge the gunmen. The body of a white male victim was visible in front of the hotel, a town resident said. Five Malian soldiers were killed in the clashes, Maiga said. Three attackers, one strapped with explosives, also died. MINUSMA confirmed in a statement that one of its international employees was among the dead, but did not give the victim’s nationality. Sources with knowledge of an internal U.N. briefing said that two U.N. contractors remained missing.
***See Morocco above
August 10, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/gunmen-attack-hotel-central-mali-one-dead-110859351.html

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/World/2015/Aug-10/310523-group-linked-to-al-qaeda-says-responsible-for-mali-siege-al-jazeera.ashx

Headline: 4 killed in Boko Haram ambush in Nigeria’s Borno

A Sunday attack by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state has left four people killed. Local witnesses said Monday that militants stopped the vehicles near Borno’s Nwajurko village and opened fire on the passengers. The gunmen reportedly emerged from the homes along the Damboa-Biu highway and opened fire on a car as it approached, killing one person. Then they attacked a bus which was driving by, killing three people and seizing five. Three more passengers were also injured in the attack. Local vigilantes, who fight Boko Haram along the Nigerian military, rushed to the scene only to recover four dead bodies and three people who sustained injuries, witnesses said.
August 10, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/08/10/424140/Nigeria-Boko-Haram-Damboa–Biu–Borno-Daesh

Headline:  Anti-Houthi forces take strategic city in Yemen, Emirati troops killed

Fighters backed by an Arab military coalition seized the key city of Zinjibar in southern Yemen on Saturday, residents and militia sources said, dealing another major blow to the dominant Houthi group. The capital city of Abyan province on the Arabian Sea had been a major focus of forces battling the Iranian-allied Houthis. It is the fourth regional capital they have won since taking control of the port of Aden last month. Three soldiers from the United Arab Emirates were reported killed while taking part in the Saudi-led military campaign against the Houthis, UAE state news agency WAM said on Saturday. Southern militia sources said they had been killed by landmines planted by the Houthis while entering Zinjibar.
August 8, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/three-emirati-soldiers-killed-yemen-fighting-state-news-153341049.html

Headline:   Ukraine claims repelled tank assault by pro-Russians

The Ukrainian government says its forces have repelled a recent tank assault by pro-Russia fighters in troubled eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday that about “200 insurgents used tanks to storm” Novolaspa village in Donetsk region in a pre-dawn raid. The  village is located halfway between the    regional capital of Donetsk and the Kiev-held port of Mariupol. The presidency noted that the Ukrainian forces “gave a fitting rebuff and repelled all the attacks.” Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has described the incident as “a dangerous indication of a further escalation to come.” Reacting to remarks, pro-Russia forces denied launching an attack and accused the Kiev troops of initiating shelling in the violence-wracked region. “The armed forces of Ukraine simply put the village under a heavy shelling attack,” media outlets quoted a local pro-Russia official as saying.
August 10, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/08/10/424137/Ukraine-proRussians-Novolaspa-Kiev–President-Petro-Poroshenko–

 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: Greece hopes for bailout deal this week

The Greek government hopes negotiations for a new bailout will be concluded this week, with eurozone finance ministers possibly endorsing the plan as soon as Friday (14 August). Greece needs the up-to €86 billion bailout before next Thursday (20 August), when it has to repay €3.2 billion to the European Central Bank (ECB). Talks between Greek finance and economy ministers, Euclid Tsakalotos and George Stathakis, and representatives of Greece’s creditors, the EU, the ECB and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), were held all weekend. Economic reforms, budget cuts, and prior actions – the measures to be taken before the first aid payment is disbursed – were discussed, according to the Wall Street Journal and Reuters news agency. “Efforts are being made to conclude the negotiations, the horizon is by Monday night or early Tuesday”, a Greek official was quoted as saying by Kathimerini newspaper.  If talks are concluded, the Greek parliament could be called back from its summer recess to vote on a two-article bill comprised of the memorandum of understanding signed with the creditors and of a list of prior actions to take. As for the reforms voted on 15 and 22 July as a condition to start the bailout negotiations, Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras will have rely on opposition parties to gather a majority. As rebels from Tsipras’ own Syriza party continue to oppose the conditions of the bailout deal, Nikos Pappas, a minister without portfolio, warned on Sunday that Syriza would not allow “a party within a party”.
August 10, 2015

https://euobserver.com/economic/129854

   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:  Russian GDP Plunges 4.6%

Russia’s economy shrank the most since 2009 after a currency crisis jolted consumer demand, while a selloff in oil threatens to drag the country into a deeper recession. Gross domestic product contracted 4.6 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier after a 2.2 percent decline in the previous three months, the Federal Statistics Service in Moscow said on Monday, citing preliminary data. That was worse than the median forecast for a 4.5 percent slump in a Bloomberg survey of 18 analysts. The Economy Ministry had projected that output shrank 4.4 percent in the period, calling it “the lowest point” for Russia. The rout on commodities markets has overshadowed the first signs of stabilization in Russia by hammering the ruble and shaking a country that relies on oil and gas for about half of its budget revenue. The nation is enduring its first recession in six years after last year’s currency crisis and a surge in inflation eroded consumer buying power as sanctions over Ukraine choked access to capital markets. “While second-quarter growth surprised on the downside, perhaps far more importantly is the fact that the outlook for the Russian economy has deteriorated so far in the third quarter,” Piotr Matys, a London-based foreign-exchange strategist at Rabobank, said by e-mail. “The central bank may have to pause the monetary policy easing cycle at a time when local banks are still cut off from external sources of funding.”
August 10, 2015

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-10/russian-economy-shrinks-4-6-as-oil-slump-risks-deeper-recession

August 6, 2015 – Rainbow trout dead ‘due to heat’ in a hatchery in Washington, America
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article30339423.html

August 7, 2015 – Hundreds of fish die in a pond in Culemborg, Netherlands
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omroepgelderland.nl%2Fnieuws%2F2097098%2FHonderden-dode-visjes-uit-sloot-Culemborg-gehaald&edit-text=&act=url

August 7, 2015 – Wildlife Officials Puzzled Why Deer Are Dropping Dead Around Lodi Lake CA
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015/08/07/wildlife-officials-puzzled-why-deer-are-dropping-dead-around-lodi-lake/

August 8, 2015 – 10,000 kgs of fish have suddenly died in Nanjing, China
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fzz.mnw.cn%2Fnanjing%2Fxw%2F959406.html&edit-text=&act=url

August 8, 2015 – Thousands of dead fish wash up on beaches in the Gulf of Morrosquillo, Colombia
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhsbnoticias.com%2Fnoticias%2Fnacional%2Finvestigan-muerte-de-miles-de-peces-en-el-golfo-de-morrosqui-152113&edit-text=&act=url

August 8, 2015 – Blue herons found dead at oilsands site in Alberta, Canada
http://globalnews.ca/news/2154674/30-blue-herons-found-dead-at-alberta-oilsands-site/

August 9, 2015 –Mysterious fungus killing snakes in at least 9 states
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SNAKE_FUNGUS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-08-09-10-43-54

  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:     Cocaine seizures off Latin America this year soared to highest levels in 5 years

The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday cocaine seizures off Latin America’s Pacific coast have soared in 2015 to their highest levels in five years. During a press conference in San Diego, federal officials lauded the efforts of the Coast Guard aided by the Navy, federal law enforcement agencies and the navies of allied nations that have resulted in the seizure of 119,000 pounds of cocaine worth about $1.8 billion over the past 10 months. Authorities said that’s more than the total amount of cocaine seized in fiscal years 2012, 2013 and 2014 combined. “This is about more than just trying to keep drugs off U.S. streets,” the Coast Guard Commandant, Adm. Paul Zukunft, said. “The cultivation, trafficking and distribution of narcotics fuels violence and instability throughout the Western Hemisphere, leaving a path of destruction directly to the door step of the U.S.” “We must continue to make progress in our effort to combat transnational organized crime networks to ensure safety and security in our hemisphere,” Zukunft said. Traffickers have been increasingly turning to the high seas to get their loads to U.S. markets, and skirt the tightened security on land at the U.S.-Mexico border. The drugs were seized in 23 separate interdictions by U.S. Coast Guard cutters and Coast Guard law enforcement teams operating from U.S. Navy vessels in known drug transit zones near Central and South America, resulting in the apprehension of more than 215 suspected smugglers.
August 10, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/10/coast-guard-cocaine-seizures-off-latin-america-this-year-soared-to-highest/?intcmp=hpbt3

Scorching Sun Isaiah30:26 , Revelation 16:8-9 & Revelation 7:16, Malachi 4:1 “Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.” (Isaiah 30:26) “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. ⁹ And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” (Revelation 16:8-9) “Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.” ( Revelation 7: 16) “For behold, the day is coming,Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch” (Malachi 4:1) Prophecy Sign: Drought Jeremiah 50:38 & Isaiah 42:15 “A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is the land of carved images, And they are insane with their idols.” (Jeremiah)“I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the rivers coastlands, And I will dry up the pools.”(Isaiah)

Headline: Sweltering heatwave in Egypt leaves 21 dead

Twenty-one people have died and 66 others were hospitalized with exhaustion as soaring temperatures and high humidity hit Cairo and other parts of Egypt, the health ministry said Monday. The victims, who all died on Sunday, succumbed as temperatures soared as high as 47 degrees Celsius (117 Fahrenheit), in conditions made less bearable by elevated humidity levels. Fifteen people died in Cairo, four in the Delta province of Qalibiya and two in Upper Egypt’s Qena province, the ministry said in a statement. Those who died, including seven women, were all aged over 60. Sixty-six people were admitted to hospital after suffering from exhaustion, including 37 who are still under observation, it added. “There is a big rise in temperature compared with previous years. But the problem is the humidity which is affecting people more,” said ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar. “Long exposure under the sun is a killer.” Meteorological officials confirmed that temperatures in the capital and some parts of the country were higher than average.
August 10, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/10/Sweltering-heatwave-in-Egypt-leaves-21-dead-.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:  Typhoon weakens over southeast China after 20 dead, missing

A typhoon that lashed Taiwan dumped heavy rain and winds on the Chinese mainland on Sunday, leaving 20 people dead or missing, collapsing homes and trees and cutting power to more than a million homes. Typhoon Soudelor made landfall in China’s Fujian province late Saturday night and was downgraded into a tropical storm as it moved across the region. Rains from the typhoon triggered mudslides in mountainous Pingyang county in Zhejiang province, north of Fujian, killing eight people and leaving two others missing. One was seriously injured, the county government said. The Fujian Civil Affairs Department said that the storm collapsed 36 houses and damaged 281 others. Authorities had evacuated more than 370,000 people and ordered around 32,000 boats back to port before the typhoon struck land. State broadcaster showed people wading in knee-deep water in the provincial capital of Fuzhou and said that some streets were submerged under 80 centimeters (30 inches).
August 9, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/china-hit-typhoon-10-dead-missing-taiwan-155517295.html#

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Israel to have a 7 year peace agreement!

 

Headline:     Obama admin mulling intervention in massive judgment against Palestinians in terror case

The Obama administration has signaled it may intervene next week in a civil lawsuit in which 11 American families won a potential billion-dollar judgment from the Palestinian leadership over a series of bombings and shootings that killed or wounded dozens of U.S. citizens, a move that critics say would find the government siding with terrorists over its own citizens. The families won a $218.5 million judgment in February after a seven-week trial in Manhattan Federal Court in which a jury found the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority were responsible for a string of attacks from 2001 to 2004 that killed 33 and injured hundreds. A 1992 law that requires damages in such cases to be tripled, as well as interest on the award, would push it to as much as $1.1 billion. The judgment, which the Palestinians are appealing, would equal nearly a third of the Palestinian Authority’s annual operating budget. Late last month, the Department of Justice, which had previously not been involved in the 11-year-old case, informed the court it was considering filing a “statement of interest” in the case by Aug. 10, but officials would not elaborate. A source said the Department of Justice was working with the State Department on the matter.
August 3, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/03/white-house-mulling-intervention-in-massive-judgment-against-palestinians-in/?intcmp=hplnws

Headline:   Obama tells US Jews: Rockets will fall on Tel Aviv if Congress kills Iran nuclear deal

Headline: News flash for Obama: With or without a nuclear deal, Hizballah’s Iranian missiles threaten Tel Aviv

A scuttling of the Iran nuclear deal would result in rockets falling on Tel Aviv as Israel would “bear the burden” of a US military attack on Iran, US President Barack Obama told a delegation of Jewish leaders at the White House on Tuesday. The meeting, held in the Cabinet Room for over two hours, featured a passionate president intent on winning over skeptics of the signature agreement. The nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPOA), is intended to cap, restrict, monitor and partially roll back Iran’s nuclear work for a 15-year period in exchange for sanctions relief. According to National Jewish Democratic Council chairman Greg Rosenbaum, one of nearly two dozen heads of Jewish organizations at the meeting, one of the participants took umbrage with Obama’s characterization of those who are opposed to the deal as warmongers.
August 5, 2015

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran/Frustrated-Obama-tells-US-Jewish-leaders-Stop-distorting-facts-on-Iran-deal-411180

http://debka.com/article/24786/News-flash-for-Obama-With-or-without-a-nuclear-deal-Hizballah%E2%80%99s-Iranian-missiles-threaten-Tel-Aviv

Headline: Three Israeli Soldiers Wounded in West Bank Terrorist Attack

Headline: Hamas Threatens Violence Unless Israel Lifts Blockade

Three soldiers were wounded in a suspected hit-and-run terror attack on Thursday afternoon in the area of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh. The driver was then shot in his vehicle by Israel Defense Force soldiers. Magen David Adom reported that it had received an alert at 3:11 P.M. on Thursday that three soldiers had been injured on Highway 60, close to the village of Sinjil. Paramedics who arrived on the scene said they saw an overturned car and three people lying in pools of blood close to it. Two of the wounded were unconscious and suffering from multiple injuries, including to the head. The third was fully conscious with limb injuries. “We separated into teams, along with IDF medical personnel who were present, and began providing emergency treatment, including anesthesia, respiration and transfusions,” the paramedics said.
August 6, 2015

http://www.haaretz.com/beta/1.669924

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199093#.VcOhCvlRLSg

“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:   Senior Nusra commander killed by Hezbollah in Zabadani

Hezbollah killed a senior Nusra Front commander in Zabadani, a security source said, as Ahrar al-Sham halted its negotiations with the party and the Syrian regime and 14 Syrian rebels surrendered to the Lebanese group. The source said that Abdel-Rahman Kharita, the deputy Nusra commander of the Zabadani area, was killed in a guided missile strike. Ahrar al-Sham, a hard-line Islamist group, said it had ended negotiations because of Hezbollah and the Syrian army’s “sectarian cleansing” of Sunnis in Damascus and surrounding areas, as well as in locations along the border with Lebanon. This conspiracy, it said, is “in its final phases and Zabadani … is the first step in the last phase which will end in eastern Ghouta.” The group, which has become one of the most powerful Islamist militias in northern Syria, said that it was tasked by Zabadani residents with negotiating with Hezbollah and the Syrian army in an attempt to broker a “humanitarian” solution to the battles. “But the case of Zabadani has exceeded the borders of Zabadani and has exceeded the responsibility of Ahrar al-Sham,” the statement read, adding that the forceful displacement of Sunnis is a “national and regional concern that affects all the Sunnis in the region.”
***Zabandani is located in the Qalamon Mountains; see also Syria below
August 6, 2015

http://www.albawaba.com/news/senior-nusra-commander-killed-hezbollah-zabadani-727596

Headline:   ISIS storms into strategic town outside Qalamoun

ISIS forces have seized a strategically located town south of Homs as they push further westward in the direction of Syria’s mountainous Qalamoun region along Lebanon’s border. On Wednesday, the extremist group stormed into Qaryatayn after three of its suicide bombers detonated explosive-laden vehicles in the town, a now standard operating procedure for ISIS when it launches assaults on fortified positions. As ISIS stormed the desert town the regime launched “more than 25 air raids, and rocket [strikes] from the Al-Hamrat Division [Base]” media activist Baybars Tallawi told Alaraby Aljadeed. Following its seizure of Qaryatayn, ISIS issued a picture statement on its victory that highlighted the town’s proximity to both Homs and Damascus, raising questions over the group’s next military objective. For its part, the SOHR noted that the Syrian Desert town “connects the group’s areas of control in eastern Homs province with its areas of control in eastern Qalamoun.” ISIS has maintained an armed presence in the eastern slopes of the Qalamoun mountain range northeast of Damascus after the extremist group reportedly abandoned most of its positions in the western sectors of Qalamoun near Lebanon, where Hezbollah has waged a fierce campaign against the Nusra Front since early May. ISIS has continued to push westwards in the direction of Qalamoun following the fall of Qaryatayn, attacking two settlements to the west of the town.   “Other confrontations took place today, between the regime and members of ISIS, on the outskirts of the Mheen area, which lies 12 km away from Qaryatayn,” Baybars Tallawi told Alaraby Aljadeed.
August 6, 2015

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/565698-isis-storms-into-strategic-town-outside-qalamoun

Saudi Arabia

Headline:   Saudi mosque bombing targets police, at least 13 dead

Headline: Islamic State group claims Saudi mosque suicide blast

A suicide bomber struck a mosque in Saudi Arabia used by Interior Ministry special forces in the southwestern city of Abha on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, the ministry said. The Interior Ministry’s statement said 10 of those killed were members of the security forces. The state-owned Al-Ekhbariya news channel earlier gave a higher death toll, reporting that 17 had been killed in the attack. It was not immediately clear why there was a discrepancy, but conflicting reports are common in the chaotic aftermath of bombings. Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said nine other people were wounded in the attack, three of them seriously. He said initial findings point to the attack being carried out by a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest. A Saudi Interior Ministry official told the Associated Press that the bomb targeted police trainees as they were in the middle of prayer. The official, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters, could not immediately confirm if the mosque was inside an Interior Ministry compound.
August 6, 2015

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150806/ml–saudi_arabia-e8b1212984.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33805901

Egypt

Headline: Egypt militant attack on Sinai house kills five civilians

Egyptians security officials say militants in northern Sinai have shelled a house near a security checkpoint, killing an entire family of five members inside it and wounding nine of their neighbors. The officials say the Tuesday morning attack happened in the restive town of Sheikh Zuweid in the Sinai Peninsula. They say the security checkpoint appeared to be the intended target. Medical officials said three children were among those killed. The wounded were taken to the town hospital for treatment. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to reporters.
August 4, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/04/Egypt-militant-attack-on-Sinai-house-kills-five-civilians.html

Headline: Islamic State group in Egypt threatens to kill Croat hostage

An Islamic State affiliate released a video Wednesday threatening to kill a Croatian hostage if Egyptian authorities do not release “Muslim women” held in prison within 48 hours, a day before the country plans to unveil a highly promoted new extension of the Suez Canal. The video, circulated on social media by Islamic State sympathizers, shows a man wearing a yellow jumpsuit kneeling in the desert before a knife-wielding masked man in military fatigues. A black Islamic flag often used by the extremists flutters next to him. The video identifies itself as coming from the media arm of the Islamic State affiliate in Egypt’s lawless Sinai Peninsula. Reading calmly from a note in English, the man identifies himself as Tomislav Salopek, a married, 30-year-old father of two, adding that Islamic State fighters captured him on July 22. If Egyptian authorities do not act, he said, “the soldiers from Wilayet Sina will kill me.” Wilayet Sina is the Arabic phrase for the Egyptian group calling itself the Sinai Province of the Islamic State. It was not clear where the video was shot. The Associated Press could not independently verify the footage, entitled “A Message to the Egyptian Government,” though it was shot in the style of previous Islamic State propaganda videos in which they threaten and behead hostages.
August 5, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-clashes-anbar-kill-least-17-government-troops-124646861.html

            Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:      Syria foreign minister in Tehran for talks with Iran, Russia

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem arrived in Tehran on Tuesday for talks with Iranian and Russian officials expected to focus on efforts to end the four-year-old war in his country. Moallem will meet Mikhail Bogdanov, President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy to the Middle East, on Tuesday evening before holding talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday, Iranian media reported. Iran and Russia have stood by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, providing military and financial support, during the civil war, whereas the United States and some of its Gulf Arab allies have said Assad must leave office. Iran and world powers led by the United States reached a nuclear agreement on July 14 but both sides have made it clear that the deal will not change their policies in the region. Moualem on July 24 reiterated his government’s view that Iran’s support for Damascus would continue after the deal. Speaking about Moualem’s visit, Iranian deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian suggested the chances of a diplomatic resolution of the war were growing. “Fortunately we see a change in the strategy of regional players in the Syrian crisis. If four years ago they believed war is the only solution, now they prefer to focus on diplomacy,” Amir-Abdollahian was quoted as saying by Fars News Agency.
August 4, 2015

http://newsdaily.com/2015/08/syria-foreign-minister-in-tehran-for-talks-with-iran-russia/

Syria Headline:   ISIS Seizes Key Syrian Town from Regime Forces

ISIS jihadists seized control of a key town in the central Syrian province of Homs overnight after heavy clashes with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, a monitor said on Thursday. The violent jihadist group started the attack on Wednesday morning when three suicide bombers targeted pro-regime checkpoints at entrances to the city, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. “IS seized Al-Qaryatain town in the southeastern countryside of Homs after violent clashes with pro-regime forces and loyalist fighters,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP using another acronym for the so-called “Islamic Sate” terrorist group. A total of 37 regime soldiers and loyalist fighters were killed, while 23 ISIS fighters also died, Abdel Rahman said. He said the town held strategic importance because of its location along a road linking the ancient city of Palmyra, which has been held by ISIS terrorists since May, with Qalamoun region in Damascus province.
***SEE LEBANON ABOVE
August 6, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199107

Syria Headline:   Syria rebels near key IRGC-Hezbollah base

Islamist rebels fighting along the regime’s coastal heartland have neared a key base that reportedly serves as the HQ for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah’s operations in the region. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Wednesday that rebels were battling regime forces in the Al-Ghab Plain village of Bahsa “less than two kilometers from the operations command center of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, regime forces and [allied] Asian fighters in Jourin.” Reports have emerged in past months that Iran had set up a headquarters in Jourin after an early summer visit by IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani to the village, which lies on the frontline with the Idlib province seized by the Army of Conquest rebel coalition in the beginning of June. Following the regime’s Idlib defeat, the Syrian army’s chief of operations in the area, General Jamal Younis, had been reportedly removed from his post and replaced by an Iranian general known only by his moniker Iffari, who set up his headquarters in Jourin.
August 6, 2015

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/565695-syria-rebels-near-key-irgc-hezbollah-base

Syria Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news

Iraq Headline: Clashes in Iraq’s Anbar kill at least 17 government troops

Iraqi forces battled Daesh militants Wednesday in western Anbar province, leaving at least 17 troops dead, officials said. A police officer, an army officer and a Sunni tribal fighter said the deadliest clashes took place east of Daesh-held Ramadi, where six soldiers, four Sunni tribal fighters and two police officers were killed. Nine other troops were wounded, they said. They say another five soldiers were killed and nine wounded when militants attacked troops near the Habbaniyah military base, where dozens of American advisers are stationed. Also Wednesday, militants detonated bombs in commercial areas of the capital, Baghdad, and in northeastern Diyala province, killing at least eight civilians and wounding 31, police and medical officials said.
August 5, 2015

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/region/clashes-iraq%E2%80%99s-anbar-kill-least-17-government-troops

Iraq Headline: Deadly car bombs hit Baghdad as Iraqi forces fight ISIL in Ramadi

At least 10 people have been killed and 22 wounded in two car bomb attacks in predominantly Shi’ite neighbourhoods in Baghdad. Six people were killed when an explosive-laden vehicle was detonated in the northeastern district of Sadr city. Later on a car bomb killed four people in the northern al-Husseiniya district. So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but near daily bombings in the country are often claimed by Islamic State militants. More than 100km away in the western Anbar province, Iraqi police clashed with ISIL militants in Ramadi. Iraqi forces backed by the US-led coalition launched an operation to retake Anbar last month.
August 5, 2015

http://www.euronews.com/2015/08/05/deadly-car-bombs-hit-baghdad-as-iraqi-forces-fight-isil-in-ramadi/

Iraq Headline:   ISW Iraq Situation Report July 31- August 3, 2015

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/08/iraq-situation-report-july-31-august-3_3.html

Kurdish Headline: Turkish jets hit PKK targets, soldiers killed in southeast

Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish rebel targets in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, Dogan news agency reported, and three soldiers were killed in two separate attacks in a neighboring province, the military said. Turkish F-16 jets carried out a 35-minute assault on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in Daglica, in Hakkari Province near the border with Iraq, whose northern mountains offer a relatively safe base for the insurgents. The air strikes came after two soldiers were killed by a remote-controlled mine in the neighboring province of Sirnak. In a day of apparent tit-for-tat violence, shortly after the raids by F-16 jets, another soldier was killed and one wounded when militants attacked a guard post in Sirnak with a rocket-propelled grenade. Violence has swept eastern Turkey since last month, when the outlawed PKK ramped up attacks against Turkish security forces and Ankara launched reciprocal air strikes against its fighters in Turkey and northern Iraq. A senior EU official expressed concern the violence could jeopardize any efforts to end the PKK’s three-decade insurgency. The prospect of unrest in a country bordering both Iraq and Syria, focus of Islamic State activity, has aroused broader disquiet among NATO allies. |
August 4, 2015

http://newsdaily.com/2015/08/two-security-personnel-killed-by-mine-in-southeast-turkey/

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:  League of Arab States denounces Turkish bombardment in northern Iraq

Headline: Turkey ‘decided to light a match’ and ‘won’t be able to control the intensity’ of what happens next

Headline: Residents of southeast Turkey fear return to 1990s as violence escalates

The League of Arab States denounced on Wednesday the Turkish bombardment of northern Iraq, demanding it to respect Iraq’s sovereignty over its territory. The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Nabil al-Arabi, said in a statement, “We express our condemnation of the Turkish bombardment on northern Iraq areas,” urging Turkey to “respect Iraq’s sovereignty over its territory.” Al-Arabi stressed on the “de-escalation, and the use of understanding between the two countries to cooperate in order to address all matters relating to maintaining security and stability of the two countries.”
August 6, 2015

http://www.iraqinews.com/baghdad-politics/league-arab-states-denounces-turkish-bombardment-northern-iraq/

http://www.businessinsider.com/turkey-and-what-happens-next-with-isis-2015-8

http://www.todayszaman.com/national_residents-of-southeast-turkey-fear-return-to-1990s-as-violence-escalates_395758.html

Iran

Headline:     Turkish and Iranian Presidents Discuss PKK Attacks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke to his Iranian counterpart on the phone on Wednesday August 5^th to discuss the current security situation in the region. According to the Turkish Anadolu Agency, Erdogan updated Hassan Rouhani on military operations against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraqi Kurdistan. Rouhani reportedly expressed his country’s support for the anti-terrorism campaign.  He also expressed his condolences to the Turkish people, following the loss of lives during recent attacks on the Turkish civilians and soldiers. The pair emphasised the importance of international cooperation to stabilise Iraq and Syria. Following the July 20^th Suruç bombing in Turkey and the attacks on security forces, Turkey stepped up its anti-terror military campaign and opened its Incirlik military airbase to international coalition jets.
August 6, 2015

http://www.basnews.com/en/news/2015/08/06/turkish-and-iranian-presidents-discuss-pkk-attacks/

Afghanistan

Headline:     Suicide bomb kills six in first Taliban attack since new leader announced

A Taliban suicide truck bomber has killed six people in Afghanistan, in the first major insurgent attack since the announcement of leader Mullah Omar’s death. The blast in Pul-i-Alam, the capital of insurgency-prone Logar province just south of Kabul, highlights growing insecurity that is taking a heavy toll on Afghan civilians and security forces. “A water truck filled with explosives was detonated when it was stopped at the gate of the quick reaction force [police] compound,” said the deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Qari Wara. “It was a powerful explosion which killed three members of the quick reaction force and three civilians.” An official from the provincial governor’s office confirmed the death toll, adding that eight civilians, including a child, had been wounded. The force of the explosion damaged government buildings nearby, while the site of the attack was littered with debris and shards of broken glass. The Afghan interior ministry said the bombing on Thursday was the first suicide attack since the Taliban confirmed the death of Omar, who led the militant movement for about 20 years. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, with spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid saying a “Mazda truck packed with heavy explosives … killed more than 100 security personnel”.
August 6, 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/06/taliban-suicide-truck-bomb-kills-six-in-afghanistan

Libya

Headline: Libyan Judge Abducted by Islamic State Group Found Dead

The body of a Libyan judge abducted last month by an Islamic State affiliate was found on Thursday, Libyan officials said. Judge Mohamed al-Nemli’s body was found near the western coastal city of Misrata, said lawmaker Saad Abusharrada, adding that the body had signs of torture and a gunshot wound. “His identity card indicated he was a judge and (IS) kills judges and police people,” Abusharrada said. Al-Nemli’s death was confirmed by the municipality of the town of Zliten, where he worked. The judge was taken hostage along Libya’s east-to-west coastal road, residents have said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals. Islamic State fighters man checkpoints in the area and have in the past taken non-Muslims or government officials hostage there. The hostages have been exchanged for ransom or killed. Libya is today bitterly divided between rival governments in its east and west, after descending into chaos following the 2011 civil war that ended dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s rule, with parts of the country run by Islamic militants. A militant faction declared its allegiance to the IS last year.
August 6, 2015

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/libyan-judge-abducted-islamic-state-group-found-dead-32926632

Armenia

Headline:   Azerbaijan Says It’s Prepared to Take Back Karabakh by Force

Azerbaijan is preparing to use force to regain control of territory it lost to Armenians more than two decades ago after international efforts to find a peaceful solution failed to bring results, its defense minister said. “The time has come,” Azeri Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov said while visiting troops near the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, according to a statement on the ministry website on Thursday. “Our people have run out of patience and demand that we take action to drive the enemy out of our lands.” Fighting would threaten the energy industry of the ex-Soviet Union’s third-biggest oil producer, where BP Plc and its partners have invested more than $50 billion since 1994. While Nagorno-Karabakh is more than 350 kilometers (220 miles) from Baku — and even further from projects such as Shah Deniz that dot the Caspian Sea — military activity may harm infrastructure. The BP-led Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline runs through land less than 50 kilometers from the cease-fire line. Azeri President Ilham Aliyev accused Armenia last month of boycotting talks to prolong the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, frozen since Armenians took over the region during a war in 1994. He said the negotiations mediated by Russia, the U.S. and France hadn’t brought results. Armenia’s government has also accused Azerbaijan of a destructive approach in talks. Two Armenian drones were shot down near Nagorno-Karabakh when they were flying over Azeri positions in the Agdam district east of the disputed region, according to a statement from the Defense Ministry in Baku on Thursday.
August 6, 2015

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-06/azerbaijan-vows-to-take-back-karabakh-from-armenia-by-force

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:    Suspected Boko Haram Takfiris kill 9 in raids on Cameroon villages

Suspected Boko Haram Takfiri militants have attacked two villages in the northern part of Cameroon, killing at least nine people and kidnapping dozens of others. The raid was carried out in the early hours of Tuesday in the villages of Tchakamari and Kangaleri located in the Far North region of Cameroon, near the border with Nigeria. Tchakarmari village chief Kadzamare Amin said armed assailants from Nigeria raided the villages on trucks. “They burned at least 15 houses and slaughtered six men and three women whose corpses we are still to bury,” he said, adding that he witnessed the capture of dozens of others. Some sources put the number of abductees at 135. Midjiyawa Bakary, governor of the Far North region, said the authenticity of the report is yet to be confirmed.
August 6, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/08/05/423395/Cameroon-Nigeria-Boko-Haram-Tchakamari-

Headline: 1 killed, 4 injured in S Thailand roadside bombing

A roadside bomb attack has left one Thai marine dead and four others wounded in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat. The explosive device, installed along a highway route, targeted the soldiers who were on their daily patrol in the Bacho district of Narathiwat Province Thursday morning, said Thai police officer Lance Chakrit Chaiseesa. The attack claimed the life of a 23-year-old solider and injured four others, including the patrol leader. According to reports, a bomb-disposal squad was immediately sent to investigate the scene of the incident. The bomb, discovered to be a 25kg gas cylinder attached to a telecommunication device, was concealed in a garbage can, reports added. No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack, but Bangkok blames such incidents on insurgents active in the violence-wracked south of the Asian country.
August 6, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/08/06/423487/Thailand-Narathiwat-Bacho-roadside-bomb

Headline: Anti-Houthi fighters score more gains in south Yemen

Headline: Saudi and UAE armored brigades and commando forces land in Aden as Houthi insurgents fall back

Headline:Shell kills Saudi soldier on Yemen border

Headline: Yemen Officials: Al-Qaida Exploits Chaos to Seize 3 Towns

Fighters loyal to Yemen’s deposed president seized about 10 southern villages from Houthi forces on Tuesday, maintaining momentum in their offensive a day after capturing the country’s biggest air base, residents and loyalist sources said. Clashes took place across the southern province of Lahj, most of which is now back in the hands of the Saudi-backed loyalist forces. Militias siding with President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who fled Yemen for Saudi Arabia in March, and army units trained and equipped by Gulf Arab countries have made advances against the Iranian-allied Houthis in recent weeks. Boosted by Saudi-led air strikes, they drove the Houthis from the port city of Aden last month then pushed northward and recaptured the Al-Anad air base from Houthi forces on Monday after beseiging it for days. “The next step for the popular resistance and army forces after liberating Aden is the clearing of the provinces of Abyan and Lahj,” a commander in the anti-Houthi forces told Reuters. Militia sources said that 1,000 Yemeni fighters trained in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates arrived in Aden on Monday.
August 6, 2015

http://newsdaily.com/2015/08/anti-houthi-fighters-score-more-gains-in-south-yemen/

http://debka.com/article/24784/Saudi-and-UAE-armored-brigades-and-commando-forces-land-in-Aden-as-Houthi-insurgents-fall-back

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/06/Shell-kills-Saudi-soldier-on-Yemen-border-.html

http://www.newsmax.com/World/MiddleEast/ML-Yemen/2015/08/06/id/665729/

Headline:   Ukraine Crisis Update: August 5, 2015

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Ukraine%20SITREP%20July%2005.pdf

   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:  Looting and violence on the rise in Venezuela supermarkets

Venezuelan supermarkets are increasingly being targeted by looters as swollen lines and prolonged food shortages spark frustration in the OPEC nation struggling with an economic crisis. Shoppers routinely spend hours in lines to buy consumer staples ranging from corn flour to laundry soap, turning lines into venues for shoving matches and now more frequent attempts to plunder shops. The economic crisis has hit President Nicolas Maduro’s approval ratings and raised tension levels in the country. Fifty-six incidents of looting and 76 looting attempts took place in the first half of 2015, according local NGO Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict, which based the figures on media reports and testimony of observers around the country. On Sunday, a small crowd in the western city of San Cristobal pushed its way into the government-run Bicentenario supermarket to grab products after it had closed, leaving staff scratched and bruised, according to store manager Edward Perez. “As we were closing, a group of 20 people unexpectedly started shouting insults at the government and the workers,” said Perez in a telephone interview. Several looters were arrested after the fracas, which Perez blamed on “ultra-right-wing sectors of the opposition” seeking to sow violence. Last Friday, one man was killed and 60 were arrested in Ciudad Guayana in southern Venezuela after shops were looted.
August 6, 2015

http://newsdaily.com/2015/08/looting-and-violence-on-the-rise-in-venezuela-supermarkets/

Aug. 2, 2015 – Hundreds of dead fish found in a lake in Florida
http://www.wsvn.com/story/29691016/dozens-of-dead-fish-found-in-ne-miami-dade-lake

Aug. 3, 2015 – Tens of thousands of chickens die in Lebanon heat wave
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Aug-03/309523-tens-of-thousands-of-chickens-die-in-lebanon-heat-wave.ashx

Aug. 3, 2015 – Large fish kills washing up in Orange Beach, Alabama
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/08/fish_kills_reported_in_orange.html

Aug. 4, 2015 – Dolphins have washed up dead this year along the coast of Bulgaria
http://sofiaglobe.com/2015/08/04/dead-dolphins-again-wash-up-on-shores-of-bulgarias-black-sea-coast/

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: Number of Legionnaires’ Cases Rises to 86 Amid Deadly Outbreak: Officials

Five more cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been added to the Bronx outbreak that has claimed seven lives and sickened more than six dozen people in the last three weeks, Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday. The number of those killed stands at seven. The mayor’s briefing comes a day after the city announced an increase in the death toll and the number of cases at a packed town hall meeting at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, where hundreds of residents gathered to hear what state, city and local officials had to say about the deadly outbreak. Eighty-six cases of the disease, a severe, often lethal, form of pneumonia spread through the air, have been reported in the south Bronx since July 10, city officials said Tuesday. That marked 40 new cases since Wednesday, when 46 cases were announced as health officials first discussed the outbreak. The seven patients who died had underlying health conditions, authorities said.
August 4, 2015

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Legionnaires-Outbreak-New-York-City-Bronx-Symptom-Case-Death-Health-Department-Mist-Cooling-Tower-Test-Sick-Pneumonia-320618572.html

Headline: 2nd Colorado resident dies of plague

A person from southern Colorado has died of the plague, the second person to die of the disease in the state this year. The unidentified adult from Pueblo County likely died of the relatively rare septicemic form of the disease, said Christine Nevin-Woods, the medical officer for the Pueblo City-County Health Department. Officials believe the person likely was infected by fleas from a dead rodent or another animal. In June, a 16-year-old star baseball player from northern Colorado also died of septicemic plague that wasn’t detected until after he passed away. That’s a relatively rare form of the plague that is difficult to diagnose because it isn’t accompanied by the tell-tale swelling of lymph nodes seen in most plague cases. Cases of the plague are rare in the United States and most common in the West. Deaths are even rarer. Nationally, an average of seven human plague cases is reported each year, although Colorado had eight on its own last year.
August 6, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/08/05/2nd-colorado-resident-dies-plague/?intcmp=hplnws

 Godlessness 2 Timothy 3:1-5 & Matthew 24:12 “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: ² For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, ⁴ traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold”

Headline:   Fifth Undercover Planned Parenthood Video Released: ‘This Patient Was Like 18 Weeks’ (Warning: GRAPHIC)

Headline:   Planned Parenthood Survives Abortion in Senate

A pro-life, medical ethics group has released the fifth video in its ongoing undercover series that allegedly shows Planned Parenthood doctors and staffers discussing the sale of aborted fetal body parts. The latest footage, which was captured on April 9, 2015, features Melissa Farrell, director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston, Texas, who proclaims that her organization has been “doing research for many, many years.” Farrell also allegedly tells two actors posing as tissue buyers that Planned Parenthood can “get creative about when and where, and under what conditions can we interject something that is specific to the tissue procurement needs.” At one point, the buyers speak with her about “financial gain” over a meal, and at another point they are seen with medical staff observing fetal remains in a pathology lab — an incredibly graphic scene that is reminiscent of what unfolded at a different clinic in the fourth video. “This patient was at, like, 18 weeks, I think,” one medical staffer says, while sifting through fetal remains.
August 4, 2015

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/08/04/fifth-undercover-planned-parenthood-video-released-and-it-purports-to-show-disturbing-comments-about-fully-intact-fetuses/

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/03/planned-parenthood-survives-abortion-defunding-vote/

Persecution Matthew 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: China detains Zhejiang Christians amid cross removal dispute

Seven Christians have been detained in China accused of embezzlement and disrupting social order. Pastor Bao Guohua, his wife and five church employees were detained in Jinhua, in eastern Zhejiang province. But the church’s lawyer Chen Jiangang told the BBC he believed they were being punished for protesting against the removal of their church cross. The local government in Zhejiang has recently been ordering state-sanctioned churches to stop displaying crosses. A number of churches have also been demolished after the government said they broke building regulations. Christians have said the crackdown is an attempt to rein in the influence of Christianity. Chinese state media on Wednesday said that Mr Bao and his wife, Xing Wenxiang, who are pastors at the Holy Love Christian Church, had embezzled hundreds of thousands of yuan in church funds and “conducted illegal business”.
August 5, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-33783463

Scorching Sun Isaiah30:26 , Revelation 16:8-9 & Revelation 7:16, Malachi 4:1 “Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.” (Isaiah 30:26) “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. ⁹ And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” (Revelation 16:8-9) “Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.” ( Revelation 7: 16) “For behold, the day is coming,Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch” (Malachi 4:1) Prophecy Sign: Drought Jeremiah 50:38 & Isaiah 42:15 “A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is the land of carved images, And they are insane with their idols.” (Jeremiah)“I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the rivers coastlands, And I will dry up the pools.”(Isaiah)

Headline: Puerto Ricans face punishing drought amid economic slump

Puerto Ricans are learning to live without water on an island that already was suffering an economic crisis. A severe drought is forcing businesses to temporarily close, public schools to cancel breakfast service and people to find creative ways to stay clean amid sweltering temperatures. Rationing rules that had meant water coming through the pipes only one day out of three will increase the cutoff to one day out of four starting next week, government officials say. “I’ve grown fearful of the weather report,” said Cornelio Vegazo, owner of a roof-repair company. “There’s no light at the end of the tunnel.” The drought is one of the worst in the U.S. territory’s history. July was the fourth driest month in the capital of San Juan since 1898, the year Puerto Rico became a possession of the United States. Only 1.60 inches (4 centimeters) of rain fell last month, and forecasters predict several more weeks and possibly months of dry conditions. Nearly 13 percent of Puerto Rico is in extreme drought and an additional 38 percent is in a severe one, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center, which says 2.5 million people are affected. The situation has grown so dire that Puerto Rico’s water and sewer company announced Wednesday that it would spend about $200,000 over three months on a pilot project to use “cloud seeding” in hopes of creating rain clouds over three of the island’s main reservoirs.
August 6, 2015

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150806/cb-puerto-rico-drought-979d87fab1.html

Headline: Tokyo Endures Longest Heat Wave Ever Recorded; Death Toll Surges to 55 in Japan

A heat wave that has already killed dozens and sickened thousands in Japan reached ominous thresholds Wednesday as new heat records for intensity and duration were set in Tokyo and other Japanese cities. Tokyo reached 35.1 degrees Celsius (95.2 degrees Fahrenheit) Wednesday, marking its fifth consecutive day of highs at or above 35 C (95 F). According to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, this set a new all-time record for the most consecutive days at or above that threshold since records began in central Tokyo in June 1875. The city had already reached 35.1 C by 10:53 a.m. local time Thursday, according to preliminary JMA data, extending the streak to a sixth day. The toll from Japan’s ongoing heat wave accelerated last week, boosting the year’s official tally to 55 heat-related deaths and sending more than 11,000 to the hospital according to new government figures released Tuesday. According to Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency, 25 people died from heat stroke and other heat-related illnesses nationwide during the week of July 27 through Aug. 2. It was by far the deadliest week so far this year in Japan, nearly equaling the death toll of 30 in the preceding three months combined.
August 6, 2015

http://www.weather.com/news/news/japan-heat-stroke-deaths-illnesses-2015-august-2

    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:  Super Typhoon Soudelor targets Japan, China as most powerful storm of 2015

Super Typhoon Soudelor developed into the world’s most powerful storm of the year Tuesday as it took aim at Japan, Taiwan and China after trashing the Northern Marianas. The storm was roaring across the western Pacific Ocean packing wind gusts up to 220 miles per hour (354 kph) according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center which rated it a maximum category five. It was stronger than Cyclone Pam, the previous strongest storm of 2015, which killed at least 15 people when it slammed into Vanuatu, also in the Pacific, five months ago. No deaths have been attributed to Soudelor, but it left a trail of destruction across the Northern Marianas where acting governor Ralph Torres declared a “state of major disaster and significant emergency” after it struck late Sunday.
August 4, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/soudelor-targets-japan-china-most-powerful-storm-2015-042526866.html;_ylt=A0LEViq7qsBVzRQAix4nnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw–

Headline: At least 180 dead in India floods

Headline: Death toll from Pakistan floods up to 118

Headline: 9 swept away by flash flood in China

Floods from days of torrential rain have claimed at least 180 lives in India with one million people sheltering in relief camps after fleeing surging waters, officials say. Rivers have burst their banks, hitting thousands of villages in parts of West Bengal as well as northeastern Manipur state, where roads and bridges have been cut and communications were patchy. Most of those 180 died from drowning, while at least four people have been killed in a landslide that buried a remote village in Manipur bordering Myanmar, where heavy monsoon rains have also wreaked havoc. The death toll jumped from around 120 on Monday, after the discovery of more bodies in West Bengal and the western state of Gujarat where water levels have receded, allowing families to return home. ‘The death toll due to flooding in West Bengal rose to 70, with roads and farms in 13,200 villages remaining under water,’ disaster management minister Javed Ahmad Khan told AFP. ‘Nearly 1.2 million people are now staying in around 1,600 relief camps opened in schools and government offices.’
August 4, 2015

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/asiapacific/2015/08/04/over-100-dead-in-india-floods.html

http://www.startribune.com/death-toll-from-pakistan-flash-floods-rises-to-118/320482142/

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2860b31e1ff94554aa1a521813b943bd/9-swept-away-flash-flood-china-8-bodies-recovered

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