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Headline:  Scottish parliament discusses recognition of Palestinian state

A Scottish parliament debate on Monday on the recognition of a Palestinian state as a means to revive peace negotiations drew sharp condemnations from Jerusalem. Noting that the debate took place on the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day, one Israeli official called the discussion “pointless” and “shameful.” The parliament in Edinburgh did not vote at the end of the poorly attended session, but most speakers expressed support for the motion, several of them criticizing Israel for running an “apartheid” regime and “inhumane” policies vis-à-vis the Palestinians. The motion, proposed by Glasgow MP Sandra White, stated that the parliament “believes that the recognition of the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel based on 1967 borders could be a stimulus to securing a negotiated two-state solution in the Middle East and notes the opinion of many Israelis and Palestinians living in Glasgow, the rest of Scotland and beyond that resolution through peaceful means is the only option.”
April 22, 2015

http://www.timesofisrael.com/scottish-parliament-discusses-recognition-of-palestinian-state/

Headline:  PM: ‘Our enemies must know they will not break us’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the central memorial ceremony for fallen soldiers at the Mount Herzl military cemetery Wednesday, recognizing the sacrifice of those who gave their lives for the State of Israel and urging Israelis to appreciate the meaning of that loss. “Our enemies must know they will not break us,” the prime minister said, quoting a widow who spoke Tuesday in the Knesset’s memorial ceremony. Netanyahu, who was heavily criticized for his statements about Arab voters during last month’s elections, stressed the importance of unity on Memorial Day. “We are one family: Jews and our non-Jewish brothers — Druze, Muslims, Bedouins, Christians, Circassians,” he said.
April 22, 2015

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-our-enemies-must-know-they-will-not-break-us/

Headline:  Judge orders NY transit agency to run ‘Killing Jews’ ad

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to display on its buses a controversial ad that refers to Muslims killing Jews, rejecting the argument that the ad could incite terrorism or imminent violence. U.S. District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan said the ad from the American Freedom Defense Initiative, which had previously run in Chicago and San Francisco, was protected speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The ad portrays a menacing man wearing a scarf around his head and face, includes a quotation “Killing Jews is Worship that draws us close to Allah” attributed to “Hamas MTV,” and then states, “That’s His Jihad. What’s yours?” Koeltl said he was “sensitive” to the security concerns, but noted that the MTA and Chairman Thomas Prendergast “underestimate the tolerant quality of New Yorkers and overestimate the potential impact of these fleeting advertisements. It strains credulity to believe that New Yorkers would be incited to violence by ads that did not incite residents of Chicago and San Francisco.”
April 22, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/judge-orders-york-transit-agency-run-pro-israel-164735981.html

“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:  Mortar fire kills 2 kids in Sinai

Mortar fire killed two five-year-old boys Monday in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, officials said, hours after a bomb killed three soldiers in the area where troops are fighting an insurgency.
Mortar rounds struck a residential area south of the town of Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai late on Monday in which the two boys were killed, medics said. Earlier a roadside bomb struck an armored military vehicle on the Egyptian side of the divided city of Rafah on the Gaza border, killing an army officer and two soldiers. Another soldier was also wounded when the bomb hit the vehicle in the Tawil Al-Amir district. Militants who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, said they carried out the bomb attack. “We blew up an armored vehicle of the apostate army and everyone inside was killed,” IS Sinai Province said on a Twitter account attributed to the group.
In a separate incident, four IS fighters were killed when they attempted to attack a checkpoint in North Sinai’s provincial capital of El-Arish, police said.
April 22, 2015

http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/735876

FOR THE TIME BEING, I AM MOVING YEMEN UP TO THIS AREA, AS MANY OF THE NEWS ITEMS WE WILL BE SEEING WILL INCLUDE SAUDI ARABIA & OTHER GULF COUNTRIES; PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YEMEN IS NOT PART OF THE PSALM 83 WAR, BUT CONTINUES TO FULFILL THE PROPHECY OF NATION AGAINST NATION.

Headline:  Campaign against Yemen rebels enters new phase, Saudi Arabia says

A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition targeting rebels in Yemen with airstrikes said Tuesday that the so-called “Decisive Storm” campaign is over, but that allies will launch a new phase aimed at stopping the rebels. Speaking at a news conference in Riyadh on Tuesday, Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asiri said the objectives of the campaign have been met and that it would cease at midnight. He said the rebels no longer pose a danger to civilians and that the new phase, called “Renewal of Hope” would focus on rebuilding the country while interdicting the rebels. But Asiri did not rule out future airstrikes against the Houthi rebels. The Saudi embassy in Washington released a statement Tuesday mirroring a series of remarks by Gen. Asiri, saying the military campaign had achieved its objectives, which included “the prevention of the flow of weapons from outside of Yemen into the country.” Later in the day, the official Saudi news agency reported that King Salman has ordered the country’s National Guard to take part in the Yemen operation. There were no further details on the scope of the deployment but it appeared to be another step toward a possible ground invasion.
April 21, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/21/saudi-airstrikes-pound-yemen-shiite-rebels-killing-20/

Headline:  Saudi-led coalition resumes air strikes

Headline:  Iranian warships reach Yemen as Saudis first suspend, and then continue air strikes

Headline:  US Yemen ceasefire bid founders as Saudis resume air strikes, Iranian warships on course for Gulf of Aden

Saudi-led coalition jets have bombed Houthi rebels in Yemen’s third city of Taiz, hours after announcing the end of a military campaign against them. The strikes followed the fall of the base outside Taiz of an army unit loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. Fighting was also reported in the second city of Aden, Lahj’s provincial capital Huta, and the town of Daleh. On Tuesday, Riyadh declared its month-long campaign, which sought to restore the president, had achieved its goals. But it warned that it would continue to take action against the Houthis as needed. More work “needs to be done” in Yemen, US White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told CNN, while emphasising the need for a negotiated solution. On Wednesday the Houthi rebels asked for the coalition action to end and for UN-sponsored peace talks. The UN says at least 944 people have been killed and 3,487 injured in air strikes, fighting on the ground and attacks by jihadist militants in Yemen since 19 March.
April 22, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32411311

http://www.worldtribune.com/2015/04/22/iranian-warships-reach-yemen-as-saudis-first-suspend-and-then-continue-air-strikes/

http://debka.com/article/24548/US-Yemen-ceasefire-bid-founders-as-Saudis-resume-air-strikes-Iranian-warships-on-course-for-Gulf-of-Aden

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

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:   23 killed in airstrikes across Syria

Syrian government aircraft bombed rebel-held areas in the capital’s suburbs and a northern town and surrounding villages controlled by the Islamic State group, including a strike on a local hospital, killing at least 23 people Wednesday, activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the airstrikes on the town of Dayr Hafir and surrounding villages in the northern province of Aleppo killed at least 12 people, including women and children, and wounded at least 40. The group said the casualty figures are likely to rise. Activist Abu al-Hassan Marea, who is based near the town, told The Associated Press the airstrikes in Dayr Hafir hit a local hospital, killing at least 21 people, mostly civilians and medics. The Aleppo Media Center activist group said the strike on the hospital killed 23, mostly civilians. Marea said another airstrike on a nearby village, also held by Islamic State fighters, killed seven people. The discrepancies in the casualty figures could not be immediately reconciled, but such differences are common in the chaotic aftermath of attacks in Syria.
April 22, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Apr-22/295405-activists-say-at-least-23-killed-in-airstrikes-across-syria.ashx

Syria Headline: Syrian rebels attack regime positions in Aleppo

On Tuesday, clashes renewed between Syrian rebels and pro-regime forces in the Rashideen and Salahuddin districts of Aleppo in northern Syria, amid attempts by opposition fighters to advance in the strategic neighborhood of Rashideen which is considered a main supply line to the pro-regime forces in Aleppo. Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, documentation activist Mohammed al-Zahrawi said that the clashes began with the early morning hours in the southwestern part of the neighborhood of Rashideen where the opposition forces were able to seize new buildings following the partial withdrawal of pro-Assad forces. At least two pro-regime solders were killed in the clashes, while the armed opposition lost four of its fighters during Tuesday’s operations. In the Salahuddin district, fierce clashes broke out Tuesday where the pro-regime forces tried to regain some of the buildings overlooking an intelligence unit. “The clashes continued until midnight Tuesday,” said al-Zahrawi.
April 22, 2015

http://aranews.net/2015/04/syrian-rebels-attack-regime-positions-in-aleppo/

Syria Headline: Kurds, FSA advance on ISIS stronghold

Kurdish forces backed by Free Syrian Army-affiliated fighters have surrounded the strategic ISIS stronghold of Sarrin, which lies in a key position north of the militant group’s de-facto Raqqa capital. “Intense clashes between Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) fighters supported by [FSA] rebel troops on one hand and ISIS militants on the other have been ongoing for the past 48 hours in the villages surrounding Sarrin,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported late Tuesday. The Observatory cited “trusted sources” as saying that at least 10 ISIS members have been killed in the fighting. “YPG fighters have seized control over three villages outside Sarrin and completely surrounded the grain silos outside the town.” Kurdish media outlets, meanwhile, touted the success of their troops and said that YPG forces backed by FSA troops had seized the silos outside of Sarrin. The commander of the FSA’s Northern Sun Brigade told Kurdish Bas News that the joint forces were “at the gates of Sarrin, with only kilometer separating them and the town.”
April 22, 2015

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/565158-kurds-fsa-advance-on-isis-stronghold

Syria Headline: At least 42 dead in rebel-ISIS clashes near Damascus: activists

At least 42 fighters were killed in 24 hours of fierce fighting between Islamist rebels and ISIS in Syria’s Damascus province, an activist group said Wednesday. “At least 30 Islamist rebels and 12 fighters from IS were killed in fighting since Tuesday” in the hilly region of Qalamun, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.  Qalamun is divided into a western portion, which borders Lebanon and is mostly controlled by the regime and its ally, the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah. Meanwhile, 13 civilians, including nine children, were killed Tuesday night in shelling in the northwest province of Idlib, whose provincial capital was overrun by al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate and allied rebels.
April 22, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Apr-22/295361-at-least-42-dead-in-rebel-is-clashes-near-damascus-activists.ashx

Syria Headline: ISIS batters Nusra in desert Qalamun battle

ISIS has inflicted heavy casualties against the Al-Nusra Front and allied rebels in a strategic area of the Syrian desert northeast of Damascus, setting back rebel plans to fight ISIS outside the capital. “At least 30 Al-Nusra Front and rebel fighters were killed during fierce clashes with ISIS in the Muhassa area on the outskirts of eastern Qalamoun,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Wednesday. Reports emerged afterward that ISIS had seized Muhassa, which lies at a strategic point between Damascus to the south, the Qalamoun mountains to the west and the Jordanian border to the southeast. The Observatory said ISIS had “managed to retake large parts of the area,” while Lebanese daily As-Safir reported that ISIS had “announced its dominance of Muhassa… which has witnessed numerous battles recently.” ISIS notched a further victory in the fighting with the killing of Nusra’s top commander for the eastern Qalamoun front, according to media reports.
April 22, 2015

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/565162-isis-batters-nusra-in-desert-battle

Syria Headline:   ISW Syria Situation Report April 14-21, 2015

http://iswsyria.blogspot.com/2015/04/syria-situation-report-april-14-21-2015.html

Syria Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe

http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/

Iraq Headline:   Iraqi troops seize parts of Ramadi from Islamic State

Iraqi security forces and allied Sunni militias took back key parts of the city of Ramadi on Tuesday, officials say. The move is the latest reversal for the Islamic State, which recently lost up to 25 percent of the territory it seized after blitzing into Iraq’s north and west last summer, according to U.S. estimates. Security officials in Anbar province, of which Ramadi is the capital, said government forces, with the backing of Sunni tribal fighters and coalition airstrikes, took key areas in the city’s west, including a hospital where militants barricaded themselves on Tuesday before running out of ammunition and blowing themselves up. On April 17, U.S. Central Command reported 13 total airstrikes in Iraq, including two in Ramadi that destroyed a heavy machine gun position, vehicles and an IS tactical unit. Iraqi security forces now face a slow advance into Ramadi’s east, which IS forces have littered with roadside bombs. IS also claims to be making advances in Ramadi, according to the BBC.
April 21, 2015

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/04/21/Officials-Iraqi-troops-seize-parts-of-Ramadi-from-Islamic-State/2681429646200/?spt=sec&or=tn

Iraq Headline: Car bomb attack in Iraqi capital kills 7 people

Iraqi officials say a car bomb explosion near a car repair store in the capital, Baghdad, has killed seven people. Police officials say the bomb went off at noon Wednesday in the eastern district of Talibiyah. They say the blast also wounded 14 people and damaged several shops and cars. Security forces sealed off the area. A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media.
April 22, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Apr-22/295339-car-bomb-attack-in-iraqi-capital-kills-7-people.ashx

Iraq Headline:   ISW Iraq Situation Report April 18-20, 2015

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/iraq-situation-report-april-18-20-2015.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 Russian invasion of Israel.

Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Russia.

Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.

Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Gomer is Eastern Germany.

Beth Togarmah is Turkey and Armenia. 

Russia

Headline:  Russia Wants to ‘Redesign’ the Middle East

Under the radar last week, Vladimir Putin met with Mahmoud Abbas in Moscow. The meeting was not considered remarkable as Abbas has started to visit the Kremlin on an annual basis. The timing, though, corresponded with Putin’s definitely remarkable announcement Russia would reinitiate its sale of S-300 missiles to Iran. According to Sarah Fainberg of the Institute for National Security Studies, it is hard to ignore the correlation. “The official announcement that Putin was lifting the ban happened a few hours after Russia received Abbas in Moscow. It might be just a coincidence. But at this level of decision-making, coincidences are rare. It is sending a message about Russia’s intentions in the Middle East.” Russia’s goals in the region have been opaque for analysts, even more so for people unfamiliar with Russian politics. Spokesman for the White House Josh Earnest belittled the Russians by suggesting the missile sale was all about badly needed currency. But Fainberg says that that is hardly the entire picture. The money Russia would make from the deal is extremely limited and cannot hope to make a massive impact on a Russian economy in its sixth year of recession. “Basically we often quote economic reasons and these are valid, real reasons. But the ultimate and decisive reason is of a geopolitical nature meaning Russia wants to ultimately redesign the Middle East to its best interests and this explains the intensification of its activities in the past weeks whether in Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen or Iran. For Russia it is also about containing the spread of Sunni fundamentalism through its Southern borders. The number of Chechen fighters in Iraq and Syria has been on the rise.”
April 21, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/194358#.VTgCW5Me2uS

Headline:  Russia arms Iraq, Syria to help combat Islamic State: Lavrov

Russia is arming Iraq and Syria to help them fight Islamic State, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, calling the radical militant group the main threat to his own country’s security. “Islamic State is our main enemy at the moment. If only because hundreds of Russian citizens, hundreds of Europeans, hundreds of Americans fight alongside IS,” he said in an interview with three radio stations. “They are already coming back… and to enjoy themselves could stage vile acts at home.” Russia has criticized air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State positions in Syria and Iraq, and encouraged Washington to work with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the battle against IS. “We are helping both Iraq and Syria, possibly more effectively than anyone else, by providing weapons to their armies and security forces,” Lavrov said, without giving details of the weapons.
April 22, 2015

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/22/us-mideast-crisis-russia-lavrov-idUSKBN0ND1GL20150422

Iran

Headline:  Timing of sanctions relief may be deal breaker as Iran talks resume

Headline:    State Department won’t rule out $50B ‘signing bonus’ for Iran

The timing of sanctions relief is the main sticking point in nuclear talks that resumed on Wednesday with a meeting between delegates from Iran and the European Union. Arriving in Vienna, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi reiterated Iran’s position: “All the economic sanctions should be lifted on the day that the deal is implemented,” Iranian news agency Tasnim reported. The United States says the sanctions, imposed on Iran by countries concerned that its nuclear programme could be aimed at weapons development, would have to be phased out gradually. Referring to concerns that the U.S. Congress might try to delay lifting sanctions, Araqchi told state television that President Barack Obama’s administration was “responsible to ensure that its commitments, particularly sanctions-related ones, are fulfilled”. Iran and the other countries in the talks — China, France, Russia, Britain, the United States and Germany — reached a tentative deal on April 2 and now aim to finalise the details by self-imposed end-June deadline.
April 22, 2015

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/22/us-iran-nuclear-talks-idUSKBN0ND0R520150422

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/21/state-department-wont-rule-out-50b-signing-bonus-for-iran/

Afghanistan

Headline:   Taliban announce plans to ramp up attacks in Afghanistan

The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday announced the start of its annual spring offensive, warning it would ramp up attacks on foreign embassies and government officials, as well as military targets, starting on Friday. The Islamist militant group has been fighting the Afghan government and its foreign backers since it was ousted from power by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in 2001. “If the foreign occupiers really want to relieve themselves from this nuisance of fighting, they should immediately withdraw,” the Taliban said in a statement. The Taliban typically steps up its military efforts when warmer weather facilitates the transit of fighters and weapons. This year’s offensive has been dubbed “Azm” or “Resolution”, similar to the name chosen for the NATO-led coalition’s two year “Resolute Support” mission that started in January.
April 22, 2015

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/22/us-afghanistan-war-idUSKBN0ND0UW20150422

Headline:  Three people killed in eastern Afghanistan

Three people, including a senior security official, were killed as two bomb blasts rocked Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, officials say. A senior provincial intelligence official, named Ghulam Haidar Haidari, was killed after his vehicle ran over a roadside bomb planted in Behsud district, said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a spokesperson for the provincial government, on Wednesday. “A roadside bomb organized by terrorists struck the vehicle of Ghulam Haidar Haidari, killing him along with his driver,” Abdulzai told Xinhua news agency. Another blast targeted the vehicle of a logistic official of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), identified as Khan Wali, killing him on the spot and injuring two others, Abdulzai said.
April 22, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/04/22/407565/Afghanistan-bomb-blasts-killed-official-Nanagarhar

Ethiopia

Headline:    1000s of Ethiopians stage protest against ISIL terrorists

Headline:   Ethiopia: Police fire tear gas on protesters after Isis beheadings in Libya

Over 100,000 Ethiopians have held a demonstration to condemn the recent execution of some 30 of their fellow countrymen in Libya by the Takfiri ISIL militants. Protesters took to the streets of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to attend Wednesday’s government-sponsored march, demanding revenge for the blood of the Ethiopian victims. A 29-minute video purportedly made by ISIL and posted on social media sites on April 19 appeared to show the ISIL terrorists beheading a group of around 12 Ethiopian Christian men on a beach and shooting at least 16 others in a desert area in Libya. The victims are said to have been captured in the North African country while trying to reach Europe. The march at some point turned violent as police clashed with stone-throwing protesters and arrested at least 100 protesters consequently.
April 22, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/04/22/407548/Ethiopia-ISIL-demo-execution-Libya-Takfiri

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ethiopia-police-fire-tear-gas-protesters-after-isis-beheadings-libya-1497835

Sudan

Headline:   Rival pro-government troops clash in South Sudan’s Malakal

Rival pro-government troops in South Sudan have clashed in the war-ravaged country’s northeastern city of Malakal. The South Sudanese army said on Wednesday that during the latest fighting in the capital of the oil-producing Upper Nile State, forces loyal to the state governor clashed with troops of General Johnson Olony, an ex-rebel who commands Shilluk, a pro-government ethnic militia. According to military spokesman, Philip Aguer, the fighting erupted late on Tuesday and intensified on Wednesday morning. Aid workers and residents of the city also reported powerful blasts and “gunfire from all sides.” Shooting purportedly decreased later in the afternoon. Olony was ordered to report to army headquarters in March following the UN reports that accused him of kidnapping a large number of child soldiers. Malakal has already seen huge damage after repeatedly changing hands between rebels and the government.
April 22, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/04/22/407557/Africa-South-Sudan-clashes-rival-factions

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: Somali militants kill at least 10 in restaurant car bomb attack

A suicide bomber from the Somali militant group Al-Shabab Tuesday rammed a car laden with explosives into a busy restaurant in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than a dozen others. The lunch-hour explosion also wrecked a tea shop next door and set fire to nearby petrol drums, sending a huge plume of smoke above the Indian Ocean port city. The car bombing took place a day after after an Al-Shabab suicide bomber killed six people, including four United Nations staff, during an attack on a U.N. minivan in Garowe, a city about 1,000 km northeast of Mogadishu. “We are behind the attack,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, Al-Shabab’s military operations spokesman, told Reuters. Musab said it was targeting officials from government ministries and the presidential palace who eat at the restaurant. “A policeman opened fire to stop the car bomb but it was all in vain. The policeman died and the car bomb rammed into the gate in the busy restaurant,” Major Farah Hussein, a police officer at the scene of the attack, told Reuters. A second police officer, Colonel Osman Ibrahim, said 15 people were wounded in what he called a suicide bombing. “These are mostly civilians who were having lunch at the restaurant,” Ibrahim said.
April 22, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Apr-22/295286-somali-militants-kill-at-least-10-in-restaurant-car-bomb-attack.ashx

Headline:  Nigerian forces invade last known stronghold of Boko Haram

Headline:  Boko Haram crisis: Nigeria begins Sambisa ground offensive

Headline: Militant ambush kills two soldiers in northeast Nigeria

Nigerian forces backed by warplanes invaded Islamist group Boko Haram’s last known stronghold, the Sambisa forest, on Wednesday, in an effort to finally defeat their six-year-old insurgency, two military sources said. Armies from Nigeria and neighbours Chad, Niger and Cameroon have in the past two months launched a concerted push to try to crush the insurgents, who have killed thousands and kidnapped hundreds in their battle to establish an Islamic state. The Sambisa forest in northeast Nigeria is about 100 km (60 miles) from the village of Chibok from where Boko Haram abducted more than 200 secondary school girls a year ago. Intelligence officials had believed that this was where they were being held, although U.S. reconnaissance drones failed to find them. A spokesman for the military was not immediately available for comment. An official in the Chadian army said allied Chadian and Cameroonian troops were ready to attack Sambisa, which lies on the Cameroon border, from the other side and would move in soon.
April 22, 2015

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/World/2015/04/23/Nigerian-forces-invade-last-known-stronghold-of-Boko-Haram/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32416155

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/04/21/407403/Ambush-kills-2-troops-in-NE-Nigeria

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:  Greek bank shares slide to record low as ECB considers pulling the plug

Shares in Greece’s stricken banks fell to an all-time low on Tuesday amid fears the European Central Bank was planning to finally pull the plug on the country’s lenders. Banks stocks fell by 4pc on the news that ECB staff had drawn up a memo which proposed limiting the emergency assistance (ELA) that has been keeping lenders alive since the Syriza-led government entered office at the end of January. Tuesday’s trading helped cap off a torrid run which has seen more than 50pc wiped off the value of Greece’s lenders since the start of the year. Central bank president Mario Draghi has insisted Greek banks will continue to receive ELA. However, other members of the Governing Council have suggested the liquidity assistance should not continue after the summer. Any decision to remove the life-support would require a two-thirds majority among the bank’s governing board. Should the ECB pull the plug, Greek banks will go bust in a matter of months, said rating’s agency Standard & Poor’s.
April 21, 2015

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11551536/Greek-bank-shares-slide-to-record-low-as-ECB-considers-pulling-the-plug.html

April 20, 2015 – Hundreds of dead fish found floating on a lake in Pennsylvania, America
http://fox43.com/2015/04/20/dead-fish-popping-up-in-harrisburgs-italian-lake/

April 20, 2015 – Thousands of dead fish wash up along a lake in Florida, America
http://www.ocala.com/article/20150420/ARTICLES/150429972

April 21, 2015 – Mass die off of fish in the Bobos river ‘is alarming’ in 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.alcalorpolitico.com%2Finformacion%2Falarmante-mortandad-de-peces-en-el-rio-bobos-llega-hasta-la-barra-de-casitas-166167.html%23.VTerhyFViko&edit-text=&act=url

April 21, 2015 – die off of fish occuring in a river and reservoir in Magdalena, Colombia
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April 21, 2015 – 5.3 MILLION hens to be killed due to avian flu in Iowa, America

About 5.3 million laying hens in northwest Iowa will be destroyed after tests confirmed a second outbreak of avian influenza in the state, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday. It’s the largest operation in the nation to be hit with the virus since December, federal documents show. The commercial egg-laying facility, located in Osceola County, Iowa, more than doubles the number of birds destroyed in the country because of the disease. “It’s one of the bigger farms in the state,” said Bill Northey, Iowa’s secretary of agriculture. “But when there’s an outbreak like this, you have to make sure the disease doesn’t leave.” Because of avian influenza, the state’s $2 billion commercial egg-laying industry has been on high alert this spring. Iowa, the nation’s largest egg producer, has about 50 million hens and supplies nearly 1 in every 5 eggs consumed in the United States.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/21/iowa-bird-flu-outbreak/26113911/

April 22, 2015 – Hundreds of dead fish washing ashore in the waters of Hulan, China
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April 22, 2015 – Hundreds of dead fish washing ashore in the waters of Hulan, China
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April 22, 2015 – Large amount of dead fish washing ashore on Lake Champlain in Vermont, America
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/47901/20150422/large-number-of-small-fish-washing-up-dead-on-lake-champlain-shores.htm

April 22, 2015 – 60,000 birds to be killed due to new outbreak of avian flu in Wisconsin, America
http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/bird-flu-lands-at-chippewa-county-farm/article_432682e8-7e43-5be5-b0d3-f3100feb2bec.html

         Increase in Knowledge/Mark of the Beast Daniel 12:4 and Revelation 13:16-17 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” (Daniel) “He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, ¹⁷ and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation)

Headline:  PayPal wants to implant passwords in your stomach and your brain

PayPal is working on a new generation of embeddable, injectable and ingestible devices that could replace passwords as a means of identification. Jonathan LeBlanc, PayPal’s global head of developer evangelism, claims that these devices could include brain implants, wafer-thin silicon chips that can be embedded into the skin, and ingestible devices with batteries that are powered by stomach acid. These devices would allow “natural body identification,” by monitoring internal body functions like heartbeat, glucose levels and vein recognition, Mr LeBlanc told the Wall Street Journal. Over time they would come to replace passwords and even more advanced methods of identification, like fingerprint scanning and location verification, which he says are not always reliable. “As long as passwords remain the standard methods for identifying your users on the web, people will still continue to use ‘letmein’ or ‘password123’ for their secure login, and will continue to be shocked when their accounts become compromised,” said Mr LeBlanc.
April 20, 2015

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet-security/11550183/PayPal-wants-to-implant-passwords-in-your-stomach-and-you-brain.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:   3 killed, 200,000 homes without power as ‘worst in decade’ storm rages in Australia- VIDEO

A powerful storm hitting Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) coast has killed at least three people so far and left thousands without power. The gusts of wind averaged 100km/h and some 30cm of rain fell in some areas, many times more than usual. The average yearly amount of precipitation in the region is 5.5cm.
April 21, 2015

http://rt.com/news/251497-australia-nsw-storm-fatalities/

Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#{%22feed%22%3A%221day_m25%22%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22autoUpdate%22%3Atrue%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3Atrue%2C%22timeZone%22%3A%22local%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A[[-82.49482361179572%2C-81.2109375]%2C[82.44876405595812%2C481.28906250000006]]%2C%22overlays%22%3A{%22plates%22%3Atrue}%2C%22viewModes%22%3A{%22map%22%3Atrue%2C%22list%22%3Atrue%2C%22settings%22%3Afalse%2C%22help%22%3Afalse}}

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This is Pastor Fiaz of Pakistan, a great man of God that I have been blessed to work with for many years in supporting the Gospel being spread in Pakistan.  Pastor Fiaz wrote to me and I want to share his email with you:

Dear in Christ
We held this cross outside the road. This was a bold act in Pakistan. Because Pakistan condition is not good due to churches bomb blast. Last month 2 bomb blast in 2 churches in Lahore. Many people died and also seriously injured. Our purpose was to held this cross to show no one can stop us.and Christian are son of Peace and love. And cross is symbol of victory, salvation, peace and love. I say a big thanks for your all prayers. Your prayers always encourage us to do God Work.
Many blessing to you and your family.
In Jesus
Fiaz

Headline:   Israel Denounces Moscow’s Decision to Lift Iran Missile Ban

Israel on Monday denounced Russia’s decision to lift a ban on supplying Iran with sophisticated S-300 air defense missile systems as proof of Tehran’s newfound “legitimacy” following nuclear talks. “At a time when Iran denies clause after clause of the agreement declared last week, the international community has already begun easing its sanctions,” Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said in a statement. “This is a direct result of the legitimacy that Iran is receiving from the nuclear deal that is being prepared, and proof that the Iranian economic growth which follows the lifting of sanctions will be exploited for arming itself and not for the welfare of the Iranian people.” “Instead of demanding that Iran desist from the terrorist activity that it is carrying out in the Middle East and throughout the world, it is being allowed to arm itself with advanced weapons that will only increase its aggression,” he added.
April 13, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193994#.VSwTo5Me2uQ

Headline: Israel: Iran steps up arms shipments to Hezbollah, Hamas

Israeli officials revealed Monday that the Islamic Republic had stepped up its support for Lebanese Shiite terror group Hezbollah over the past few weeks. According to a Channel 2 report Monday, Israel observed an increase in Iran weapons shipments to Hezbollah members on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. Iran had also sent weaponry to Hamas rulers in Gaza and was even attempting to arm Hamas members in the West Bank, the report said. The report said Israel was alarmed that the sanctions relief Iran would enjoy if it reaches a deal on its nuclear program would free up “billions of dollars” for further such weapons shipments, and for Iranian support for terrorism, the TV report quoted the Israeli officials saying. It said the officials added that it was “hard to see” how the deal, so firmly backed by the US, could help the interests of Israel and other US allies.
April 13, 2015

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-iran-steps-up-arms-shipments-to-hezbollah-hamas/ 

“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:    Hezbollah accuses Saudi Arabia of ‘genocide’ in Yemen

The deputy chief of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah lashed out at Saudi Arabia on Monday, accusing the kingdom of committing “genocide” with its airstrikes campaign that has been targeting Yemen’s Shiite rebels for over two weeks. In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, Sheikh Naim Kassem said Saudi Arabia made a “strategic mistake” by interfering in Yemen’s internal affairs and warned that the kingdom will “pay a heavy price” for the campaign. “Saudi Arabia has embroiled itself and will incur very serious losses that have started to show and will increasingly reflect on its status, its internal situation and its role in the region,” Kassem said. “What happened in Yemen is a crime that cannot be ignored … Saudi Arabia is committing genocide in Yemen, we cannot be silent after that.” Kassem, who spoke in the Shiite group’s stronghold in southern Beirut, suggested that the situation inside Saudi Arabia could implode as a result of its “aggression” in Yemen. “What is happening in Yemen today will reflect on Saudi Arabia internally,” he said, adding that the predominantly Sunni kingdom has its own domestic problems and several “factors that may cause the internal situation to implode” there. “So it would be wiser for it not to interfere in Yemen’s affairs in a negative way, but rather in a positive way by calling for dialogue,” Kassem added.
April 13, 2015

http://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-accuses-saudi-arabia-of-genocide-in-yemen/

Headline:   Syria rebels seize Hezbollah position near Lebanon border

Syrian opposition fighters overnight seized control of a strategic hill overlooking the Qalamoun village of Flita near the border with Lebanon after a deadly gunbattle with Hezbollah forces. Sources following up on the battles told The Daily Star that opposition fighters entrenched in Syria’s Qalamoun unleashed late-Sunday a heavy artillery barrage to drive Hezbollah fighters from the al-Mesh hill overlooking Flita. At dawn, the Syrian rebels stormed the hilltop position after engaging Hezbollah fighters in a clash with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, according to the sources. They said opposition fighters seized full control of the hilltop, killing several Hezbollah members, while others managed to flee to other Hezbollah positions.
April 13, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Apr-13/294260-syria-rebels-seize-hezbollah-position-near-lebanon-border-sources.ashx 

Egypt

Headline:  Two bomb attacks in Egypt’s Sinai kill 13, wound dozens

Headline: Group loyal to ISIL claims credit for bloody series of Sinai attacks Sunday

Two separate bomb attacks targeting security forces in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens on Sunday, the latest in a wave of violence in a region hit by an Islamist insurgency. Egypt’s military said a roadside bomb detonated by militants killed six soldiers and wounded two others in an attack on an armoured military vehicle in the town of Sheikh Zuweid. Two of those killed were officers, it said. The army said in a statement that “terrorist and extremist elements” were behind the blast and that two of those killed were officers. A Twitter feed that describes itself as the official account for Sinai Province, a militant group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, claimed responsibility for the attack.
April 12, 2015

http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5N0X908K20150412

http://www.worldtribune.com/2015/04/12/group-loyal-to-isil-claims-credit-for-bloody-series-of-sinai-attacks-sunday/

FOR THE TIME BEING, I AM MOVING YEMEN UP TO THIS AREA, AS MANY OF THE NEWS ITEMS WE WILL BE SEEING WILL INCLUDE SAUDI ARABIA & OTHER GULF COUNTRIES; PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YEMEN IS NOT PART OF THE PSALM 83 WAR, BUT CONTINUES TO FULFILL THE PROPHECY OF NATION AGAINST NATION.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2015/03/26/Allies-back-Saudi-led-Decisive-Storm-op-in-Yemen-with-fighter-jets-.html

Headline:  500 Yemen rebels dead on border since air war began: Saudi

Saudi Arabia said Saturday at least 500 Shiite insurgents have been killed in border clashes since the coalition it heads launched air strikes against the Huthi rebels in war-battered Yemen. A defence ministry statement in Riyadh also said three soldiers were killed in a mortar attack on the kingdom’s border with Yemen on Friday. The statement gave the first reported death toll for border clashes since the coalition launched air strikes against Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen last month. Earlier, coalition spokesman Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri told journalists at his daily briefing in Riyadh there had been 1,200 coalition air strikes between March 26 and midday Saturday. He said the raids had neutralised the air and ballistic capabilities of the rebels and their allies, and “will continue”. Assiri also told reporters: “At the appropriate time, we will take action on the ground.”
April 11, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/500-yemen-rebels-killed-saudi-border-since-march-192933949.html

Headline: Saudi-led strikes pound Houthi targets in Sanaa

Saudi-led warplanes hit Houthi rebels and the militias of the deposed Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa on Monday, shelling militia tanks and ammunition depots. Warplanes also launched 10 air raids on the southern Shabwa province, as well as the military airport and headquarters of the 21st Armored Division in the city’s area of Ataq. Armed tribesmen in the province seized a rebel army brigade base in the coastal town of Al-Nashima, tribal sources said. Meanwhile, strikes hit the southern city of Aden, including the rebel-held presidential palace in Aden as gunfire killed five people in the port city, medics and residents said.
April 13, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/04/13/Saudi-led-strikes-pound-Houthi-targets-in-Sanaa.html

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

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:   Assad Army bombs school

A group monitoring the Syrian war said at least nine people including five children were killed in a Syrian army airstrike that hit a school in a rebel-held area of the country’s second city Aleppo on Sunday, though the army denied the report. A Syrian Army source told Reuters the army had stepped up attacks on rebels since the insurgents bombarded a government-held residential area in the northwestern city on Saturday. But he said the military had not targeted civilians. The dead included two women, it said. The Observatory circulated a video it said showed the aftermath of the attack. A man is shown holding what he says is the severed lower leg and foot of a child, and rescue workers were shown carrying away what appeared to be a body wrapped in a sheet. The Observatory said at least 32 people were killed in Aleppo on Saturday, 17 of them in the government-held district of Suleimaniyah bombarded by rebels, and 15 of them in an army air strike that later hit a market in a rebel-held area. The military source said the weaponry used in Saturday’s rebel bombardment had “a very great destructive capacity.” Army specialists were investigating, he said. “It might be the first time it was used.” “The army is targeting militants in Aleppo because … yesterday (Saturday) they committed a major crime against civilians in Suleimaniyah,” the source added. The Syrian National Coalition, a Turkey-based political opposition alliance, said the air trike on the market in the Maadi district of Aleppo on Saturday was a new massacre of civilians by President Bashar Assad.
April 13, 2015

http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/731711

Syria Headline:   ISIS shuts down Deir Ezzor town

ISIS has gone on high alert in Deir Ezzor’s Al-Mayadeen and ordered all shops to close following a brazen attack on a courthouse. “Unidentified gunmen carried out an overnight attack on the ‘Executive Court’ in Al-Mayadeen,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Monday. The monitoring NGO added that a number of ISIS members were killed in the firefight between the court’s guards and the gunmen. “Following the clash ISIS imposed a curfew in the city and ordered shop owners to close their businesses while residents were told to stay indoors,” the Observatory said. “ISIS has not allowed residents to approach the area of the clash.” The overnight attack is the latest armed assault on the militant organization in Al-Mayadeen and nearby towns in Deir Ezzor.
April 13, 2015

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/565112-isis-shuts-down-deir-ezzor-town

Syria Headline:   ISW Syria Situation Report April 1-8, 2015

http://iswsyria.blogspot.com/2015/04/syria-situation-report-march-31-april-8.html

Syria Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe

http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/

Iraq Headline:  ISIS Attacks Capital Of Iraq’s Anbar Province, Hundreds Of Families Flee Area

Iraq Headline:  Iraqi forces launch counter-attack against ISIS in Anbar

Islamic State militants attacked the capital of Iraq’s vast Anbar province on multiple fronts on Friday, seizing two areas on the city outskirts in a setback for a government campaign to retake the desert terrain. The jihadists deployed vehicle and suicide bombs to tear through Iraqi government lines north of the city of Ramadi overnight before attacking on foot, said security officials and a hospital source. The head of Anbar’s provincial council, Sabah Karhout, called on Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to send urgent military reinforcements and supplies to fighters, saying they were running low on ammunition. Abadi visited Anbar on Tuesday and declared the start of the operation to liberate the Sunni Muslim heartland, seeking to build on a victory over Islamic State last week in the city of Tikrit. But a police source in Ramadi said early on Friday the insurgents had taken half of the Albu Faraj area, and provincial council member Athal al-Fahdawi later said it had been overrun completely. Hundreds of families were fleeing Albu Faraj, just north of Ramadi, after Islamic State militants broke into the homes of policemen and soldiers in the area and killed 15 members of their families. A car bomb blew up the bridge linking Ramadi and Albu Faraj across the Euphrates river, a police source said.
April 11, 2015

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/10/isis-anbar-attack_n_7041656.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/middle-east-updates/1.651528

Iraq Headline:  Jihadists attack Iraq’s largest oil refinery

Islamic State militants on Saturday launched suicide attacks against the Baiji oil refinery, Iraq’s largest, a senior army officer said. “Today Daesh (an Arab acronym for IS) launched an attack against the Baiji oil refinery,” said a major general from Salaheddin province, in which Baiji is located. He described the attack on the refinery, which lies around 200 kilometres (120 miles) north of Baghdad, as “the fiercest since we broke the siege a few months ago.” The officer and other military sources said the attack was launched around 7:00 am (0400 GMT) and led to clashes. He said IS militants attacked the large complex from three fronts: Al-Bujwari village to the south, the housing compound for refinery employees to the west and one of the smaller plants producing derivatives to the east. “Three suicide attackers were able to reach the entrances of the refinery. Two were killed but one managed to blow himself up,” the army officer said. He said that the Iraqi forces protecting the refinery regained control of the entrances and that the entire site was now under government control.
April 11, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/jihadists-attack-iraqs-largest-oil-refinery-232455421.html

Iraq Headline:  Bombings kill 12 people in Iraq

Authorities in Iraq say a series of bombings targeting public places in the capital, Baghdad, have killed 12 people. Police officials say a bomb exploded on a commercial street in downtown Baghdad, killing four people and wounding nine others. Earlier, two bomb blasts near an outdoor market killed five people and wounded 10 others in the western suburbs of the capital. Another bomb exploded on a commercial street in Baghdad’s district of Amil, killing three people and wounding 11 others. Medics in nearby hospitals confirmed the casualties. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
April 12, 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/bombings-kill-12-people-in-iraq/2015/04/12/4d6d5e28-e138-11e4-ae0f-f8c46aa8c3a4_story.html

Iraq Headline:    ISW Iraq Situation Report April 9-10, 2015

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/iraq-situation-report-april-9-10-2015.html

Headline:   Islamic State group destroys ancient ruins of Nimrud

Islamic State militants hammered, bulldozed and ultimately blew up parts of the ancient Iraqi Assyrian city of Nimrud, destroying a site dating back to the 13th century B.C., an online militant video purportedly shows. The destruction at Nimrud, located near the militant-held city of Mosul, came amid other attacks on antiquity carried out by the group now holding a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria in its self-declared caliphate. The attacks have horrified archaeologists and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who last month called the destruction at Nimrud “a war crime.” The seven-minute video, posted late Saturday, shows bearded militants using sledgehammers, jackhammers and saws to take down huge alabaster reliefs depicting Assyrian kings and deities. A bulldozer brings down walls, while militants fill barrels with explosives and later destroy three separate areas of the site in massive explosions. “God has honored us in the Islamic State to remove all of these idols and statutes worshipped instead of Allah in the past days,” one militant says in the video. Another militant vows that “whenever we seize a piece of land, we will remove signs of idolatry and spread monotheism.”
April 12, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/video-islamic-state-group-destroys-ancient-ruins-nimrud-075504213.html

Headline:   Islamic State issues IDs to facilitate militants’ movement

After dazzling the entire world with its semi-Hollywood team filming barbaric operations, the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) surprised observers with the issuance of identity cards with three-dimensional chip and electronic SIMs to prevent fraud. The IS newly issued Identity cards, of which ARA News received a photo, are prepared specifically for the group’s local and foreign members, according to an IS militant statement to ARA News. The source pointed out that the IDs are designed to facilitate passage for local and foreign members between Mosul (in Iraq) and Raqqa (in Syria) and other areas under the control of the radical group. “This step is to raise the insurgents’ morale, especially following the losses in several areas and amid intensified U.S.-led international coalition airstrikes against cities and towns held by the group in both Syria and Iraq,” a civil rights activist told ARA News in Mosul on the condition of anonymity. “This could suggest to the group’s members that their leadership is still strong and heading towards the institutionalization of the state through the issuance of such ID cards,” he added. “They want to convince their militants that they’re capable of overcoming the current challenges.”
April 13, 2015

http://aranews.net/2015/04/islamic-state-issues-ids-to-facilitate-militants-movement/

Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above). 

Gog is the leader of the Russian invasion of Israel.

Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Russia.

Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.

Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Gomer is Eastern Germany.

Beth Togarmah is Turkey and Armenia. 

Russia  

Headline:  Russia lifts ban on S-300 missile system delivery to Iran

Russia has lifted a ban on supplying Iran with a sophisticated air defence missile system, the Kremlin has said. Delivery of the S-300s was cancelled in 2010 after the UN imposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme. But the Russian president gave the go-ahead after Tehran struck an interim deal with world powers to curb nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. The US and Israel have criticised the news. The $800m (£545m) contract to deliver the system was heavily criticised at the time by Israel and the US, who feared it could be used to protect Iranian nuclear sites from air strikes. When it was cancelled, Iran filed a lawsuit seeking billions of dollars in damages. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a statement that the sale was put on hold “entirely voluntarily” to aid the talks on Iran’s nuclear programme.
April 13, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32290335

Headline: Nordic pact heightens tension with Russia

The Kremlin has complained that a new Nordic defence pact is “directed against Russia” and amounts to a “confrontational approach” on the Ukraine crisis. The Russian foreign ministry issued the statement on its website on Sunday (12 April). It said “Nordic defence co-operation … has begun to be directed against Russia in a way that could undermine the positive engagement accumulated over the past decade”. It voiced “concern” that Finland and Sweden, which are not Nato members, are showing “increasingly strong convergence” with the alliance. It also said that “instead of an open and constructive dialogue” on issues such as the Ukraine conflict, “the principles of confrontation are being foisted on the public opinion of the Nordic countries”. The defence ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden unveiled the agreement in an op-ed in Norwegian daily Aftenposten last Thursday.
April 13, 2015

https://euobserver.com/foreign/128297 

Afghanistan

Headline:   Taliban attack kills 18 Afghan soldiers; some beheaded

Headline: UN: Afghan war causes record number of civilian casualties

Taliban fighters swarmed over Afghan army posts in the country’s northeast, killing at least 18 soldiers and beheading some in a major attack to mark the start of the country’s summer fighting season, authorities said Monday. The assault marks a grim first summer battle for Afghan forces, now fighting largely alone after the U.S. and NATO ended their combat mission in the country at the start of this year. The attack in Badakhshan’s Jurm district happened Friday, though officials only offered details about it days later as they pledged to investigate the apparent rout. Some 250 Taliban fighters overran the posts, said Gul Mohammad Bidar, the province’s deputy governor. Ahmad Nawid Froutan, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said the attack killed 18 soldiers, with eight of their bodies beheaded. He said Afghan troops killed 19 Taliban fighters, eight of them foreigners, and that the insurgents fled after reinforcements arrived to the area. The Defense Ministry said earlier Monday that the attack caused 30 soldiers to be “killed, wounded or become missing.” The ministry said it was conducting an investigation into the attack, which it said came from unspecified “neglect” by an army officer there. It said the fighters looted military equipment and set fire to vehicles it couldn’t take. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and said they killed 49 soldiers.
April 13, 2015

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150413/as–afghanistan-37484c5836.html

http://www.dpa-international.com/news/asia/un-afghan-war-causes-record-number-of-civilian-casualties-a-44885406.html

Libya

Headline:  Islamic State claims attacks on two embassies in Libya

Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks on embassies in Libya in the latest strikes against foreigners, embassies or oilfields in the country. A bomb exploded at the gate of the Moroccan embassy in the Libyan capital of Tripoli early on Monday, causing some damage but hurting nobody, a security official said, only hours after gunmen attacked South Korea’s mission in the city. Militants claiming loyalty to Islamic State said on Twitter that they were responsible for both attacks. It was not possible to verify the authenticity of the claims. Isis has exploited chaos in the north African country where two governments allied to a host of armed groups fight for control four years after the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi. The group also claimed two bomb attacks in the Sinai region of Egypt on Sunday which killed 14 people, including 11 security personnel. The attack on the Moroccan embassy in Tripoli damaged the gate and a residential building next to the mission in the upmarket Ben Ashour district, a security official and Reuters reporter at the scene said. Nobody was hurt. On Sunday, gunmen fired shots at the South Korean embassy in Tripoli killing two local security guards and wounding a third person, South Korean and Libyan officials said.
April 13, 2015

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/11531793/Islamic-State-claims-attacks-on-two-embassies-in-Libya.html

Turkey

Headline:   Turkish army says five Kurdish rebels killed in clashes

Five rebels from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed and four Turkish soldiers wounded in a day of clashes Saturday, the army said, in a blow to a fragile peace process to end a decades-long insurgency. The army said Turkish troops had been dispatched to the district of Diaydin in the Agri region of southeast Turkey after receiving intelligence of a planned “festival” to promote the “separatist terror organisation”. This is official shorthand for the PKK, banned as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and EU and whose actual name is never used by the authorities. After being fired on, the army said it sent armed helicopters, reconnaissance jets and a commando unit to the region to battle more than two dozen militants. In a statement on its website, the army confirmed that four Turkish soldiers had been wounded in the clashes. “On the other side, five terrorists were killed and one wounded was captured,” it said. The army said that three of the Turkish soldiers were not severely wounded and their lives were not in danger but the fourth had undergone an operation in hospital. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the PKK of seeking “to dynamite the peace in our country and undermine the peace process”, in a televised speech in the western city of Sakarya on the Black Sea.
April 12, 2015

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/turkish-army-says-five-kurdish-rebels-killed-in-clashes_1577307.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: Hundreds of thousands rally against corruption in Brazil

Hundreds of thousands of people have joined peaceful demonstrations across Brazil against government corruption. Crowds were generally smaller than in March when more than 1.5 million people turned out. They allege involvement of the governing Worker’s Party in bribery at the state oil firm Petrobas. President Dilma Rousseff denies involvement and has been exonerated in an investigation by the attorney general. The political opposition say much of the alleged bribery of politicians took place when Ms Rousseff was head of the oil company. Despite her exoneration, many protestors still believe that the president must have known about the scandal. Some have been calling for her impeachment.
April 13, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-32280674

Headline: Police, protesters clash in Guinea

Police in Guinea have shot and injured anti-government protesters during violent clashes in the capital, Conakry, medical and opposition sources say. The riot started in the morning on Monday in several suburbs of the capital including Simbaya and Hamadallaye. “There were violent clashes between young protesters and police in Hamadallaye, where security forces shot three young protesters,” a hospital physician said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The gunfire resumed after the injured were taken to hospital as youths protested in the streets. Four other protesters were reportedly wounded in Simbaya, a northeastern suburb of the capital. President Alpha Conde is blamed by opposition leaders for lack of security in the country. They have called for demonstrations in all parts of Conakry.
April 13, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/04/13/406142/Police-protesters-clash-in-Guinea

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: Time running out on Greek debt talks, says top EU official

Greece is not moving fast enough to draw up and implement structural reforms and there is limited time to prevent it running out of cash, European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Monday. The mood between Greece’s newly elected leftist government and its euro zone partners has been tense during negotiations that will determine whether the cash-strapped country gets further, much-needed financial aid from its EU/IMF lenders. “Talks are very complicated. Time is running out,” Dombrovskis told Reuters in an interview. “Greece should come up with an ambitious reform list in line with its bailout program and also start to implement it,” he said. A meeting of deputy finance ministers — called the Euro Working Group — on Thursday gave Athens a deadline of six working days to present a revised economic reform plan, before euro zone finance ministers meet on April 24 to decide whether to unlock emergency funding to keep Greece afloat. Dombrovskis noted that April 24 was not a formal deadline to reach a deal with Greece, but the country’s financial difficulties were pressing.
April 13, 2015

http://newsdaily.com/2015/04/time-running-out-on-greek-debt-talks-says-top-eu-official/

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:   Indiana HIV outbreak tops 100 cases: state health officials

An HIV outbreak in southeastern Indiana related to intravenous prescription drug abuse has reached 106 confirmed and preliminary cases, state public health officials said on Friday. As of Thursday there were 95 confirmed HIV cases and 11 preliminary cases from the outbreak in rural Scott County, some 30 miles north of Louisville, Kentucky, a state joint information center said. Scott County has been the center of the outbreak, the biggest in the state’s history. A short-term state-authorized needle exchange program began on Saturday in Scott County to combat the outbreak. The program authorized by Governor Mike Pence expires on April 25, but may be extended if necessary. Needle exchange programs provide drug users with sterile needles to try to prevent infections from spreading through the sharing of contaminated needles.
April 10, 2015

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/indiana-hiv-outbreak-tops-100-cases-state-health-193004049.html

April 7, 2015 – 7,500 turkeys dead due to avian flu in Ontario, Canada
http://www.610cktb.com/news/2015/04/07/over-7000-turkeys-dead-in-bird-flu-outbreak-in-ontario

April 7, 2015 – Avian Cholera Kills More than 600 Birds in North Dakota
http://www.valleynewslive.com/home/headlines/Avian-Cholera-Kills-More-than-600-Birds-in-North-Dakota-298812311.html

April 8, 2015 – 40,000 chickens dead in Muritiba and Varzedo, Brazil
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fg1.globo.com%2Fbahia%2Fnoticia%2F2015%2F04%2Fcerca-de-40-mil-frangos-morrem-na-ba-e-donos-alegam-queda-de-energia.html&edit-text=&act=url

April 8, 2015 – Fish kills littering ponds in western New York, America
http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/e7c365a9964845578db8da457fbb9954/NY–Dead-Fish

April 8, 2015 – 139,000 cattle and 3.88 Million birds killed since December due to disease in South Korea
http://www.globalmeatnews.com/Industry-Markets/South-Korea-continues-to-battle-livestock-disease

April 9, 2015 – 2,440 birds dead due to avian flu on a farm in Maradi, Niger
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/04/09/us-health-birdflu-niger-idUKKBN0N018420150409

April 10, 2015 – Large die off of fish in a river in Deli Serdang Regency, Indonesia
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tribunnews.com%2Fregional%2F2015%2F04%2F10%2Fwarga-berebut-ikan-mati-di-sungai-blumai-deliserdang&edit-text=&act=url

April 11, 2015 – 1.2 Million birds dead due to avian flu, ‘scientists puzzled’, in Midwest America
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/04/11/2-more-south-dakota-farms-confirmed-with-deadly-bird-flu/

April 11, 2015 – 150 dolphins stranded, majority dead on a beach in Japan
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/569860/Dolphins-beached-dead-Japan

        Apostasy Amos 8:11 & 2 Peter2:1-3 “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) “ But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. ³ By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.” (2 Peter)

Headline:   ‘Blessed Be, Aho, and Amen,’ Wiccan Priestess Delivers Prayer for Iowa House

“Blessed Be, Aho, and Amen,” aren’t the words members of the Iowa House of Representatives are accustomed to hear at the closing of the invocation marking the House’s opening ceremonies, but that’s just what happened yesterday when a Wiccan priestess delivered the prayer. “We call this morning to God, Goddess, Universe, that which is greater than ourselves to be here with us today,” said Deborah Maynard, who delivered the first prayer by a Wiccan in the assembly. “By the Earth that is in our bones and centers us, may all here remember our roots and those whom we are here to represent….. We call this morning to Spirit, which is ever present, to help us respect the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. Be with this legislative body and guide them to seek justice, equity and compassion in the work that is before them today.” A number of Christian lawmakers didn’t attend the opening ceremony to protest the priestess’ historic invocation. Others, like State Rep. Rob Taylor (R-Iowa), turned their backs during the priestess’ prayer. Taylor said he asked himself “What would Jesus do?” and decided Jesus would “be in the presence of a prayer, but peacefully protest.” He added that “everyone has the right to come into our chamber – it is the people’s chamber – and pray and she did and this was the way for me to peacefully protest.”
April 10, 2015

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/blessed-be-aho-and-amen-wiccan-priestess-delivers-prayer-iowa-house

    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:   LARGE SUNSPOT TURNS TOWARD EARTH

A large sunspot group emerged over the weekend and it is turning toward Earth. Karzaman Ahmad of the Langkawi National Observatory in Malaysia photographed “AR2321” during the early hours of Monday, April 13^th. Sprawling more than 120,000 km from end to end, the sunspot group has several dark cores as large as Earth. These dimensions make AR2321 an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. If you have one, take a look. Of greater interest is the region’s potential for flares. AR2321 has an unstable “beta-gamma-delta” magnetic field that harbors energy for strong eruptions. NOAA forecasters estimate a 55% chance of M-class flares and a 20% chance of X-flares on April 13th.
April 13, 2015

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes

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Headline:  Two Israeli soldiers wounded in West Bank stabbing

Two Israeli soldiers were wounded on Wednesday morning in a stabbing attack at the Shiloh Junction in the northern West Bank. One of the victims was seriously wounded in his upper body and the other sustained light injuries to his back. The assailant was shot and killed on the spot. The soldiers, both around 20 years old, were attacked on Route 60, near the entrance to the Ma’ale Levona settlement and the Palestinian village of Sinjil, just after 10 A.M. They were initially treated by medics on site and then transferred to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. The two soldiers both serve in the Tavor Battalion of the Home Front Command. They were sitting in an ambulance at the time of the attack, called to the area to reinforce the security guards manning the Shiloh area roads over the Passover holiday. The assailant approached the ambulance and stabbed one of the soldiers, a medic, lightly wounding him. The assailant then stabbed a paramedic in his neck, inflicting serious wounds.
April 8, 2015

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.650963

Headline:  Qatar lends Palestinians $100 million to pay salaries: Palestinians

The Palestinian Authority said on Wednesday it had received a $100 million loan from Qatar to help pay civil servants salaries and alleviate an economic crisis triggered by a row with Israel over taxes. President Mahmoud Abbas, who is visiting the Gulf state, issued a statement thanking Qatar for the loan. There was no immediate confirmation or comment from Qatari officials.Israel collects taxes on behalf of Abbas’s Palestinian Authority but suspended payments of some $130 million a month in January to protest at moves by the Palestinians to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). Palestinian membership of the ICC started on April 1, opening the way for possible law suits against Israel for alleged war crimes tied to its lengthy occupation of territory the Palestinians want for an independent state. Following widespread criticism by Western allies, Israel earlier this month released some of the frozen tax revenue, but withheld a portion of the cash, saying it was money Palestinians owed for utilities and health care supplied by Israel. Abbas said the deductions amounted to a third of the total sum that Israel owed and refused to accept any of the money, threatening to go to the ICC over the issue.
April 8, 2015

http://newsdaily.com/2015/04/qatar-lends-palestinians-100-million-to-pay-salaries-palestinians/

“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:  Lebanese army says it killed 3 militants in raid near border with Syria

The Lebanese army says it has killed three militants and wounded four others in a raid near the border with Syria. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the military says it carried out the raid in the hills of Mkhairmeh based on information that “terrorist groups” were preparing logistics for combat operations there. It says the army attack was in the context of “preventive military operations” to eradicate militant groups and prevent them from infiltrating Lebanon to target army outposts and civilians. The Lebanese military occasionally clashes with Syria-based militants from the Islamic State group and the Nusra Front.
April 7, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/07/lebanese-army-says-it-killed-3-militants-in-raid-near-border-with-syria/

Saudi Arabia

Headline:  Two Saudi policemen shot dead in Riyadh

Two Saudi policemen were killed in the capital Riyadh in the early hours of Wednesday morning, state media reported, citing an unnamed police spokesman. The policemen were patrolling in their vehicle at 1:30 a.m. when shots were fired from an unidentified vehicle, killing Thamer Amran al-Mutairi and Abdulmohsen Khalaf al-Mutairi. Last month two policemen were shot and injured in a similar attack in Riyadh, Reuters reported. SPA says an investigation is underway. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
April 8, 2015

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/04/08/Two-Saudi-policemen-patrolling-in-Riyadh-.html

Egypt

Headline:  Hellfire missiles approved for Egypt

Egypt has been approved by the U.S. State Department for purchase of more than 300 Hellfire missiles through the Foreign Military Sales program. The 356 AGM-114K/R3 Hellfire II Air-to-Ground missiles, together with associated equipment and support, would be worth an estimated $57 million, according to the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which notified Congress of the possible sale. “Egypt will use the enhanced capability as a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen its homeland defense,” the agency said. “While this potential sale would be the first transfer of the R variant of this missile to Egypt, Egypt already has the F and K variants in its inventory and will have no difficulty absorbing these additional missiles.”
April 8, 2015

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2015/04/08/Hellfire-missiles-approved-for-Egypt/6671428503101/

FOR THE TIME BEING, I AM MOVING YEMEN UP TO THIS AREA, AS MANY OF THE NEWS ITEMS WE WILL BE SEEING WILL INCLUDE SAUDI ARABIA & OTHER GULF COUNTRIES; PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YEMEN IS NOT PART OF THE PSALM 83 WAR, BUT CONTINUES TO FULFILL THE PROPHECY OF NATION AGAINST NATION.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2015/03/26/Allies-back-Saudi-led-Decisive-Storm-op-in-Yemen-with-fighter-jets-.html

Headline:  Yemen war: Saudis prevented Russian evacuations by air, bombed Moscow’s spy center in Aden

Saudi Arabia has gone head to head with Russia as Iran’s ally in Yemen. Moscow claims to have evacuated hundreds of Russian nationals from Yemen by an air lift running out of Sanaa airport, but debkafile’s exclusive intelligence and military sources reveal that not a single Russian plane has taken off from any Yemeni airport since March 27, when Saudi Arabia launched its military offensive against the pro-Iranian Houthi rebels. The Saudiis warned Russia that they would not be responsible for the safety of any flights landing at a Yemeni airport or the passengers assembled there for evacuation, while their air force conducted strikes against the rebels. Having achieved control of Yemen’s skies in the early stages of their intervention, the Saudis declared its air space a no-fly zone. This warning gained substance when, on April 1, Saudi F-15 warplanes bombed the Russian consulate in the second largest Yemeni city, Aden. A Russian witness said that not a single window was left in the building and all Russian citizens would have to leave the town. According to debkafile’s sources, the building was in fact completely demolished in order to dismantle Russia’s regional intelligence-gathering center which operated out of the consulate building and fed Iranian intelligence with data on military movements in the neighborhood. It functioned according to the same system as Russian spy stations in Syria, which routinely keep their Iranian colleagues au fait with military activities, including Israeli army movements. The intelligence gathered by the Aden facility was no doubt passed on by Iranian agents to the Houthi commanders, certainly after Al Qods Brigades chief Gen. Qassem Soleimani arrived in Sanaa to direct the rebel offensive after the Saudi offensive was launched.
April 7, 2015

http://debka.com/article/24518/Yemen-war-Saudis-prevented-Russian-evacuations-by-air-bombed-Moscow%E2%80%99s-spy-center-in-Aden

Headline:    Iran reportedly sends navy vessels near Yemen amid airstrikes

Headline:  Iranian ships ‘not allowed’ in Yemeni waters says Saudi General

A state-run broadcaster in Iran is reporting that the Islamic Republic has sent a navy destroyer and another vessel to waters near Yemen amid a Saudi-led airstrike campaign. Iran’s English-language Press TV on Wednesday quoted Rear Adm. Habibollah Sayyari saying that the vessels would be part of an anti-piracy campaign “safeguarding naval routes for vessels in the region.” However, the maneuver comes as a coalition of Saudi-led countries is launching airstrikes targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen known as Houthis. Critics say Shiite power Iran backs the Houthis, though both the Islamic Republic and the rebels deny any direct military assistance.
April 8, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/08/iran-reportedly-sends-navy-vessels-near-yemen-amid-airstrikes/

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/04/08/Iranian-ships-not-allowed-in-Yemeni-waters-.html

Headline:   Fighting in central Aden, mosques call for jihad

Headline:  Yemen’s Qaeda offers gold bounties for Huthi, Saleh

Headline:  WHO Revises Death Toll in Yemen Fighting to 643

Dozens of Yemeni Houthi fighters clashed with local militiamen in the central Aden district of Crater on Wednesday and mosques broadcast calls for jihad to combat the Houthi forces trying to take over the southern Yemeni port city, residents said. They said several houses were on fire after being hit by rockets, and families stayed indoors as fighting raged from street to street. The Houthis, who are allied to soldiers loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, advanced into Crater on Wednesday morning with a tank and two armoured vehicles, one resident said. Mosques in Crater called on the population to wage holy war against the Houthis, their loudspeakers, usually reserved for sermons and the call to prayer, broadcasting: “God is the greatest! Rise for jihad!” The battle in the old centre of Aden came a day after fighters from the city said they had pushed the Houthis and allied troops from positions in northern Aden neighbourhoods, which they said cut Houthi supply lines into the centre.
April 8, 2015

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/08/yemen-security-aden-idUSL5N0X515N20150408

http://news.yahoo.com/yemens-qaeda-offers-gold-bounties-huthi-saleh-182240502.html

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/174741-who-revises-death-toll-in-yemen-fighting-to-643

Headline:   U.S. expands military involvement in Yemen’s proxy war between Iran, Saudis

U.S. military officials said the Pentagon has expanded weapons shipments to the Saudi-led Arab coalition now conducting an air campaign against Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen. By taking an active interest, the United States is deepening its involvement in the Yemen conflict which is being viewed in the region as a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The McClatchy news agency reported that the weapons are likely precision-guided weapons as the Saudi alliance has no troops on the ground to provide targeting coordinates. “It’s a combination of pre-existing orders to our partners and some new requirements,” said Army Col. Steve Warren, describing the arms shipments. In another indication of increased U.S. involvement, an American military team headed by Marine Maj. Gen. Sam Bundy, deputy commander of the Marines at the U.S. Central Command, has joined a “joint fusion center” in Saudi Arabia that is conducting the air strikes in Yemen.
April 8, 2015

http://www.worldtribune.com/2015/04/08/u-s-expands-military-involvement-in-yemens-proxy-war-between-iran-saudis/

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

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:  2 deadly car bombs hit rebel bases in Syria

A pair of car bombs targeted two rebel bases north of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing and wounding dozens, two activist groups said. The attacks targeted compounds belonging to Islamic opposition groups in the countryside north of Aleppo, a strategic stretch of territory because of its proximity to neighboring Turkey. Long a stronghold for Syrian rebels, the area has been a flash point since the Islamic State group advanced into the region several months ago. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the first bombing hit the town of Marea, killing at least seven people, including two rebel leaders, and wounding dozens more. It said a second explosion in the Hur Kilis area killed and wounded up to 40 people, although the Observatory did not have exact figures. The Aleppo Media Center activist group put the toll in the first blast at 12 killed and more than 15 wounded. It reported at least 30 casualties in the second attack in Hur Kilis.
April 7, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/lebanese-army-kills-3-militants-raid-near-syrian-105125881.html

Syria Headline:   Assad looses ISIS against Palestinians trapped in Yarmouk camp – a sinister new partnership

Syria Headline:   Syrian minister calls for military op in Yarmouk

Syria Headline:   Syria set to offer Palestinians firepower

Obama’s rapprochement with Iran and its Middle East allies has produced an incredibly sinister new twist in the Syrian war as it enters its fifth year. The atrocity-ridden conflict finds 16,000 Palestinians trapped in horrible conditions in the Yarmouk refugee camp of Damascus and beset by two enemies: the Islamic State and the President Bashar Assad’s army.
The world has been shown three players in the vicious Yarmouk contest: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, whose jihadis are slashing through the refugee camp and massacring its Palestinian inmates, the second player, and the Syrian army, the third, which appears to be fighting to keep the Islamists from reaching central Damascus. The camp lies 8.5 km from Assad’s presidential palace. The Islamists are usually presented as fighting to settle a score with the camp’s inmates, because the Hamas majority is aligned with Iran and Hizballah, ISIS’s deadliest foes. But even this evil scenario is not crazy enough to cover the new patchwork of alliances revealed here by debkafile’s military and intelligence sources. Syrian troops were actually directed by Assad to open the roads to Damascus and give the Islamists a free path to their Palestinian victims. This saved ISIS the need to detach substantial strength from other fronts for its Yarmouk operation. ISIS is winning its cheapest victory yet as a result of a secret understanding reached by the Syrian president with the Islamists’ leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which evolved from their covert partnership in the oil and gas fields of eastern Syria.
April 8, 2015

http://debka.com/article/24521/Assad-looses-ISIS-against-Palestinians-trapped-in-Yarmouk-camp—a-sinister-new-partnership-

http://www.timesofisrael.com/syrian-minister-calls-for-military-op-in-yarmouk/

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/04/08/405197/Syria-set-to-offer-Palestinians-firepower

Syria Headline:   Syrian rebels report new gains in Daraa

Subsequent to fierce battles with the Syrian regime’s forces, factions of the armed opposition forces reportedly seized control of the town of Kafr Shams in the northern countryside of Daraa, southern Syria, on Tuesday. According to military sources, the opposition fighters launched an offensive on a major checkpoint held by the regime’s forces in the vicinity of the town of Kafr Shams. Jassim Mutawe, a fighter in the ranks of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Daraa’s countryside, stated to ARA News that the town of Kafr Shams has a great importance “as it opens the path for the rebels to control the strategic village of Qita”, which is the gateway to the city of Sanamayn, the second largest city in the countryside of Daraa after Nawa. Mutawe added that the Syrian regime brought in large military reinforcements “including Iraqi and Iranian Shiite militias” to Qita following the withdrawal of its soldiers from the town of Kafr Shams. Daraa witnesses fierce battles between pro-Assad army forces –Shiite militias– and the opposition forces, who were able last week to control the Nasib crossing, the last crossing held by the regime on the Jordanian border. Seizing control of Nasib border crossing and the city of Bosra Sham (in the eastern countryside of Daraa) are considered as the most prominent gains by the armed opposition forces in Southern Syria.
April 8, 2015

http://aranews.net/2015/04/syrian-rebels-report-new-gains-in-daraa/

Syria Headline:   Islamic State opens new military camp in Deir ez-Zor

On Tuesday, the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) opened a new military training camp in the town of al-Sour in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor province, eastern Syria. Activists in Deir ez-Zor reported that IS is trying to attract youngsters in Deir ez-Zor to join the newly opened camp, which is expected to provide qualitative training about tactical military operations as well as street fighting to its members and new recruits. Taim Ali, a civil rights activist based in Deir ez-Zor, told ARA News that the group transferred dozens of its fighters to the battlefront in northern Syria and Iraq, after suffering heavy losses during battles against the Kurdish forces and while under airstrikes by the U.S.-led international coalition. “IS pays salaries to the youth who recently enrolled in the camp in an attempt to attract more recruits to and encourage them to engage in battles,” Ali said.
April 8, 2015

http://aranews.net/2015/04/islamic-state-opens-new-military-camp-in-deir-ez-zor/

Syria Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe

http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/

Iraq Headline:  Iraqi forces move against Islamic State in Sunni heartland Anbar

Iraqi security forces launched a new offensive against Islamic State insurgents in the Sunni Muslim heartland of Anbar on Wednesday, seeking to build on a victory over the jihadist group last week in the city of Tikrit. Fighting began in the western province’s desert terrain as Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi was touring Anbar, visiting Iraqi army units and pro-government Sunnis, his office said. Abadi was expected to address the nation from Anbar later in the day. “Our next stand and battle will be from Anbar to liberate it entirely,” Abadi said in a post on his official Facebook page. “We will prevail in Anbar as we prevailed in Tikrit.” Army officers said Islamic State militants were driven back on Wednesday in the Sijariya area east of the Anbar capital Ramadi and Falluja — the region’s two key cities, where the ultra-radical Sunni group has been dominant. Islamic State was retreating from Sijariya, trading mortar fire with government forces, military sources said. A senior Iraqi officer in Ramadi said the purpose of clearing Sijariya was to secure supply routes to the nearby Habbaniya air base and to weaken the jihadists’ grip on territory connecting Ramadi and Falluja.
April 8, 2015

http://newsdaily.com/2015/04/iraqi-forces-move-against-islamic-state-in-sunni-heartland-anbar/

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

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/iraq-situation-report-april-4-6-2015.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 Russian invasion of Israel.

Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Russia.

Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.

Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Gomer is Eastern Germany.

Beth Togarmah is Turkey and Armenia. 

Russia  

Headline:  Ukraine agrees military-technical cooperation with NATO

Ukraine will sign a set of agreements with NATO on military-technical cooperation in intelligence, surveillance and other areas, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk told his Cabinet. Kiev and NATO will sign a memorandum on cooperation in “control, communications, intelligence and surveillance” under NATO’s Partnership for Peace program, Yatsenyuk was cited as saying by Tass news agency. Another document will see the implementation of four trust projects, including military-technical cooperation, communications and new information technologies, the PM added. “Ukraine must restore its armed forces exclusively following the example of the strongest armies and strongest alliances that fight for peace in the world. In the first place, these are the standards of NATO, and we are moving in this direction,” Yatsenyuk said. Ukraine is intensifying its ties with NATO in hopes of becoming a full member of the military alliance in five years’ time.
April 8, 2015

http://rt.com/news/247965-nato-ukraine-military-cooperation/

Iran

Headline: 8 Iranian guards killed at Pakistan border

Eight Iranian border guards were killed by militants in a cross-border raid on the frontier with Pakistan on Monday, according to reports in the Iranian media. Sistan-Baluchistan province in southeast Iran has long been plagued by unrest from both drug smuggling gangs and separatist militants. “The armed terrorists entered Iranian soil from Pakistani soil and clashed with the guards,” Ali Asghar Mirshekari, the deputy governor of the province, told the IRNA news agency. “They killed eight members of the border guards and fled to Pakistani soil.” The attack happened only two days before Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was scheduled to visit Pakistan. Tasnim Aslam, a spokeswoman for the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, condemned the attack and noted that a militant group called Jaish Al-Adl had claimed responsibility, according to Iranian state media. “It’s necessary that the two countries work together on this issue in order to maintain security in the border areas,” she said. Jaish Al-Adl is a Sunni militant group that has carried out attacks against Iranian security forces with the aim of highlighting what they say is discrimination against Sunni Muslims and the ethnic Baluch in the province.
April 8, 2015

http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/729386

Headline:  Iran: We’ll Start Using Advanced Centrifuges After Deal Signed

Iran’s negotiator in the nuclear negotiations and its nuclear chief revealed on Tuesday that after a final deal is signed by a June 30 deadline on the framework reached last week, Iran will unleash its most advanced centrifuges for uranium enrichment, threatening a quick turnover in producing a nuclear weapon. Iran’s semi-official FARS news agency reported on a closed meeting held Tuesday by Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) chief Ali Akbar Salehi, in which they briefed members of Iran’s parliament on the deal being finalized. In their statements, they said Iran’s most advanced IR-8 centrifuges will be used as soon as the deal removing world sanctions against Iran begins. The report noted the two said the advanced centrifuges enrich uranium 20 times faster than the current IR-1 models, meaning they would radically reduce the breakout time needed for Iran to obtain a nuclear arsenal.
April 8, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193800#.VSV175Me2uQ

Afghanistan

Headline:  U.S., Afghan soldiers killed in firefight between Afghan, NATO forces

An American and an Afghan soldier were killed on Wednesday when a firefight broke out between Afghan and NATO coalition forces at a compound where a senior U.S. diplomat met a provincial governor in eastern Afghanistan, police and U.S. sources said. Soldiers from both sides were wounded in the shooting, which erupted shortly after the diplomat left the compound aboard a helicopter, according to U.S. and Afghan sources. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, estimated that around six American personnel were wounded, but the Pentagon said only that “several” were injured in the attack. “I can confirm that one American soldier was killed today,” Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters. Asked whether this was an insider attack by an Afghan soldier turning his weapon against NATO forces, Warren said: “It’s a little early to tell. Indications are leaning that way.”
April 8, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/firefight-breaks-between-afghan-nato-forces-police-101715447.html

Libya

Headline:  ISIS: First We Take Libya, Then We Take Tunisia

Headline:  Tunisian IS Fighter in Libya Calls Countrymen to Join Him in Video, Threatens Tunisian Government

The Islamic State’s “Tripoli province” released a new video calling for Tunisian supporters to help ISIS conquer Libya, as a strategic step towards conquering Tunisia. In the video, a masked ISIS gunman from Tripoli threatens to slaughter Tunisia’s leaders and avenge the imprisonment of ISIS supporters there. Local reports say that Tunisian prisons currently hold at least 150 jihadists who returned from fighting in Syria. “The Islamic State is only a few kilometers from you [Tunisia], we are coming”, he says. “Brothers, come to Libya. Don’t be humiliated by the [Tunisian] dictators. Muslims have their own state now.” The video ends with old footage from the ISIS attack against the Iranian embassy in Tripoli, which took place on Feb. 22, 2015. Tunisia is considered to be the largest exporter of ISIS fighters, and the group is also steadily gaining domestic influence there, with ISIS claiming responsibility for last month’s terrorist attack in Tunis. The Islamic State’s English propaganda magazine, Dabiq, dedicated their last issue to ISIS expansion across Africa, and the cover image was a picture of Tunisia’s landmark Mosque of Kairouan.
April 8, 2015

http://www.vocativ.com/world/isis-2/isis-tunisia-libya-recruiting/

https://news.siteintelgroup.com/Jihadist-News/tunisian-is-fighter-in-libya-calls-countrymen-to-join-him-in-video-threatens-tunisian-government.html

Tunisia

Headline:    4 Tunisian soldiers perish in ambush

Headline:    Fifth Tunisian soldier dies after ambush

Four Tunisian soldiers were killed and six wounded Tuesday in an ambush in the Kasserine region where the military is battling militants, state television reported. “Four soldiers have died as martyrs and six were wounded in an ambush against a military patrol,” the Wataniya 1 channel reported, quoting the defense ministry. The channel had earlier given a toll of two dead and three wounded. It gave no further details and officials at the defense ministry could not be immediately reached. A military source told AFP that the attack took place not far from the city of Sbeitla. Several Tunisian media reported that the soldiers came under fire with a rocket-propelled grenade.
April 8, 2015

http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/729411

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Apr-08/293754-fifth-tunisian-soldier-dies-after-ambush.ashx

Algeria

Headline:    Italy, Egypt and Algeria to intensify collaboration over Libya

Italy, Egypt and Algeria have agreed to “intensify” joint efforts to fight the growth of terrorist forces in Libya and to pool information as part of the move. The decision was taken at a meeting in Rome this afternoon of the three countries’ ministers dealing with Libya. They also agreed to continue backing the UN bid to create a Libyan national unity government. “We have decided to intensify our efforts and our work together to promote the activities of UN envoy Bernardino Leon trying to stabilise the situation in Libya,” Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said at a press conference attended by his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukri, and Algeria’s Minister for Maghreb and African Affairs, Abdelkader Messahel. Algeria’s Messahel said that it made sense to coordinate policy and strategy on the terrorist threat from Libya, warning that the situation in Libya had to be brought under control otherwise it would impact on his own country’s security.
April 8, 2015

http://www.libyaherald.com/2015/04/08/italy-egypt-and-algeria-to-intensify-collaboration-over-libya/#axzz3WkYWMRKx

Turkey

Headline:  Iran and Turkey ‘agree to stop war in Yemen’

In a joint press conference with visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the war in Yemen was high on the agenda during his talks with the Turkish leader. “We talked about Iraq, Syria, Palestine … We had a long discussion about Yemen. We both think that war and bloodshed must stop in this area immediately, and a complete ceasefire must be established,” Rouhani said, adding that the Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen must halt. The Iranian president said he hoped that Turkey and Iran could end the Yemen war “with the help of other countries in the region” and bring “peace, stability” to the Middle Eastern country. Turkey has joined the Saudi-led coalition conducting airstrikes against Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have captured several key Yemeni cities including the capital Sanaa and the southern port city of Aden. Riyadh accuses Tehran of supporting Houthis in toppling President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government. Iran denies the allegations. For his part, Erdogan chose not to comment directly on Yemen’s conflict in the press conference, but talked in detail about his country’s relations with Iran, and civil wars in Syria and Iraq. “We discussed Iraq. A hundred thousand people have been killed there. So far, more than 300 thousand have been killed in Syria. All were Muslims. We do not know who is killing who,” Erdogan said. “We have to get united and stop the killing and bloodshed. We have to bring together those who are fighting,” the Turkish leader added.
April 8, 2015

http://www.dw.de/iran-and-turkey-agree-to-stop-war-in-yemen/a-18365989

Armenia

Headline:    Armenian soldier killed in Karabakh clashes

An Armenian soldier has been killed in clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian border forces in the disputed mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh.   The Defense Ministry of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region said in a statement on Wednesday that the soldier was shot dead by an Azerbaijani sniper at the frontline. “On April 7 (Tuesday), a soldier was shot dead on the Karabakh frontline by an Azerbaijani sniper,” the statement read. The Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman also said on Tuesday that another Armenian officer was killed in fierce fighting on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. “Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire at the north-eastern sector of the state border,” the Armenian spokesman, Artsrun Hovannisyan, said, adding that an Armenian army officer was killed in the clashes. Some 25 people from both sides reportedly lost their lives and several others were wounded this year in clashes in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
April 8, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/04/08/405277/Armenian-trooper-killed-in-Karabakh

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: Fifteen Mexican police officers killed in deadly ambush in Jalisco state

Fifteen Mexican police officers have been killed and five seriously wounded in the deadliest single attack on the country’s security forces in recent memory. The officers’ convoy was ambushed as it drove along a winding mountain road in the western state of Jalisco on Monday afternoon. The gunmen, believed to belong to the New Generation Jalisco cartel, reportedly used burning vehicles to block the road while they openend fire with machine guns and grenade launchers from the mountainsides. Monday’s ambush produced the biggest death toll since 2010, when 12 federal officers were killed in the neighbouring state of Michoacán in an attack blamed on the La Familia cartel. It has also drawn attention to the security crisis in Jalisco, in which orchestrated attacks on the security forces and public officials have been escalating in recent months, mostly blamed on the New Generation Jalisco cartel. Over 70 public officials, including police, have reportedly been killed in Jalisco since 2013.
April 7, 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/mexico-police-attack-jalisco-15-dead

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:  Northcom: China’s Three Missile Submarines a ‘Concern’

The Chinese Navy has deployed three ballistic missile submarines at sea capable of striking the United States with nuclear missiles, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command said Tuesday. Adm. William Gortney, the commander, said the submarines are a “concern” and will be able to strike the United States when fully deployed with missiles and warheads.
The missile submarines are deployed in the South China Sea at a base on Hainan Island, according to a defense official. They’ve not loaded their missiles or begun strategic patrols,” the official said. “But we believe they are likely to begin this year.” Gortney also stated explicitly that U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that North Korea is capable of mounting a small nuclear warhead on its new road-mobile KN-08 intercontinental missiles.
April 7, 2015

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/northcom-china-begins-missile-sub-patrols/

Headline:  US aerospace command moving comms gear back to Cold War bunker

The US military command that scans North America’s skies for enemy missiles and aircraft plans to move its communications gear to a Cold War-era mountain bunker, officers said. The shift to the Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado is designed to safeguard the command’s sensitive sensors and servers from a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, military officers said. The Pentagon last week announced a $700 million contract with Raytheon Corporation to oversee the work for North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command. Admiral William Gortney, head of NORAD and Northern Command, said that “because of the very nature of the way that Cheyenne Mountain’s built, it’s EMP-hardened.” “And so, there’s a lot of movement to put capability into Cheyenne Mountain and to be able to communicate in there,” Gortney told reporters. “My primary concern was… are we going to have the space inside the mountain for everybody who wants to move in there, and I’m not at liberty to discuss who’s moving in there,” he said.
April 8, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/us-aerospace-command-moving-comms-gear-back-cold-015320113.html

     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:  Southern California reportedly faces cut in water deliveries this summer

Headline:  Smart Meters: Enforcement Of Mandatory Water Restrictions Is Only Just The Beginning

Southern California’s water wholesaler reportedly is planning to cut deliveries of imported water to 26 cities and districts in response to the state’s ongoing drought. According to The Los Angeles Times, the rationing measure by the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) will take effect July 1 and was in the works before California Gov. Jerry Brown mandated a 25 percent cut in water use by the state’s cities and towns last week. The size of the cutback has not been revealed, but the Times reports that the MWD could reduce deliveries by between 10 and 20 percent, which would amount to between 200,000 and 400,000 fewer acre-feet of water. An acre-foot of water is enough to supply two households for one year. If a local agency needs more water than their allocation, they will be required to pay a surcharge of up to $2,690 per acre-foot for extra deliveries. That could raise the cost of water by roughly fourfold for agencies and, possibly, residents.
April 7, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/07/southern-california-reportedly-faces-water-rationing-beginning-this-summer/?intcmp=latestnews

http://www.infowars.com/smart-meters-enforcement-of-mandatory-water-restrictions-is-only-just-the-beginning/

Headline:   Taiwan rations water amid drought

Taiwan has begun rationing water supplies to more than one million households as it tackles the island’s worst drought in years. Water supplies will be cut off entirely for two days each week, on a rotating basis, in several northern cities. The shortage is due to reduced rainfall, leaving water levels in reservoirs far below capacity. But a leaky delivery system, silt build-up in reservoirs and wastage are also being blamed. Late last month, the government said the dry spell was forecast to continue. “The water supply situation is urgent as Taiwan had the lowest rainfall last autumn and winter since 1947,” the economics affairs ministry said. “We may have delayed or no monsoon rains at all… We urge the public to co-operate during this difficult time.” The rationing is affecting New Taipei City, neighbouring Taoyuan City and Hsinchu County all in the north of the island. New Taipei surrounds the capital, Taipei, which remains unaffected.
April 8, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32200687
    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:   37 killed in Bangladesh storms

At least 37 people were killed when powerful storms swept Bangladesh at the weekend and left a trail of devastation in the northwest, officials said Monday. Rescuers and villagers recovered the bodies of victims after the storms flattened thousands of houses, uprooted trees and electricity poles and damaged paddy fields across a large area on Saturday night and Sunday. Nineteen people died in the northern district of Bogra, government administrator of the district Shafiqur Reza Biswas told AFP, adding that more than 100 people were injured. “They died mostly after they were hit by falling trees or collapsed houses and walls,” he said, adding that authorities have sent emergency relief to thousands of villagers. In neighbouring Rajshahi district, at least five people were killed and 27 injured as the storm hit a large stretch of low-lying land, another administrator said. “At least 6,960 mud and tin-built houses were completely damaged by the storm,” said Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury. In the western district of Kushtia two people died and around 100 houses were flattened on Sunday. Two died from lightning strikes as the storm hit the southern port city of Chittagong on Monday, government officials told AFP. There were also fatalities in at least nine other districts, officials told local media, bringing the death toll to 37.
April 6, 2015

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/37_killed_in_Bangladesh_storms_999.html

Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes

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Headline:   Palestinian Authority rejects Israel tax transfer

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says he has refused to accept hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenues unfrozen by Israel. Mr Abbas says he returned the money because Israel deducted a third to cover unpaid Palestinian utility debts. He has threatened to take Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) unless the full amount is released. Israel collects taxes on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA), but suspended payments in January. It froze the transfers in protest at the Palestinians joining the ICC. Palestinian membership began on 1 April, giving them the option to pursue Israel for alleged war crimes. Israel says it has deducted the cost of unpaid services provided to the Palestinian population, including electricity, water and hospital bills. The government made the decision to restart payments two weeks ago but warned at the time that it would make deductions from the transfer. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the time Israel would resume payments partly out of “humanitarian considerations”, adding the “deteriorating situation in the Middle East” and rise of extremists required him to “act responsibly and judiciously”. Speaking at a rally in Ramallah, President Abbas demanded the tax revenues in full. “We are returning the money. Either they give it to us in full or we go to arbitration or to the ICC. We will not accept anything else.”
April 6, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32193371

“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:   One militant dead in Army clashes near border

The Lebanese Army killed one Islamist militant and arrested another overnight Sunday during a foiled infiltration attempt into Lebanese territory. One Syrian gunman, Khalil Ahmad, was gunned down by soldiers while another Syrian, Ahmad Hasan, was taken in to custody after a “militant group” attempted to cross into Lebanese territory via the northeastern border, the Army said in a statement Sunday. The militants encountered the Lebanese Army after entering Lebanon from the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal. The statement did not mention the number of militants in the group. The suspect in custody confessed to belonging to one of the terrorist groups stationed across the Lebanese-Syrian border, the statement added. But the Army did not disclose weather he was a member of ISIS or the Nusra Front.
April 5, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Apr-05/293393-one-militant-dead-in-army-clashes-near-border.ashx

Saudi Arabia

Headline: Pakistan says Saudi asked for warplanes, warships and soldiers

Saudi Arabia has asked Pakistan for military aircraft, warships and soldiers, Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on Monday, at the start of a parliamentary debate on whether Pakistan should get involved in a Saudi-led campaign in Yemen. Saudi Arabia, the Gulf’s main Sunni Muslim power, has asked Sunni-majority Pakistan to join a Saudi-led military coalition that began conducting air strikes last month against largely Shi’ite Houthi forces in Yemen. Sharif has hedged his bets. He has repeatedly said he will defend any threat to Saudi Arabia’s “territorial integrity” without defining what threat, or what action. “Saudi Arabia has asked for combat planes, warships and soldiers,” Asif said, without specifying where Saudi wanted them deployed. Arif Rafiq, a Washington-based adjunct scholar with the Middle East Institute, said earlier Pakistan was hoping to satisfy Saudi expectations at a “minimal” level. “They’re unlikely to be part of any meaningful action inside Yemen,” he told Reuters. “Maybe they will reinforce the border.”
April 6, 2015

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/06/us-yemen-security-pakistan-idUSKBN0MX01H20150406

Headline: Saudi policeman killed during raid in eastern province

A Saudi policeman was shot dead and three were wounded during a raid which devolved into a gun battle in the eastern Saudi city of Awamiya on Sunday, state news agency SPA said. “An exchange of fire led to the injury of Corporal Majid bin Turki al-Qahtani, and his death after being taken to hospital – may God have mercy on him and accept him as a martyrs – and wounded three security men, a citizen, and a (foreign) resident,” with moderate wounds, SPA said. The agency said forces undertook the search against “terrorist elements” and retrieved automatic weapons, pistols and communication equipment. It added that four Saudis were arrested after the firefight for targeting the officers. Tension is growing in the country’s oil-rich Eastern province, one of the main centres of the Shiite community in majority Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia, as neighboring Yemen, Iraq and Syria contend with violent sectarian conflict.
April 6, 2015

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Apr-06/293423-saudi-policeman-killed-during-raid-in-eastern-province.ashx

Egypt

Headline:  Militants attack church and police in Egypt, one policeman dead

Islamist militants hit Egypt’s two largest cities on Sunday with a bombing in Cairo and an attack on a church in Alexandria, leaving one policeman dead and seven people wounded, security sources said. In a separate incident, the leader of a militant group that has targeted police and soldiers around the capital was killed in a firefight with security forces early on Sunday, the interior ministry said. A bomb explosion on a bridge leading to the upscale Cairo district of Zamalek, which hosts many embassies, killed one policeman, the interior ministry said. Two more officers and a civilian were injured. The force of the bomb, which the sources said was planted in or near a car, left a shallow crater and pools of blood on the 15 May Bridge. In Alexandria, militants in a micro bus shot at the Church of the Angel Rafael, wounding one police officer and three civilians before fleeing, security sources said. On Saturday, two bombs exploded near a police station in the residential Imbaba district across the Nile River from Zamalek, causing no casualties.
April 5, 2015

http://news.yahoo.com/bomb-explodes-cairo-leaving-crater-security-sources-093531283.html

Headline: ‘Egypt is Preparing for War with Israel’

Noha Hashad (51), an Egyptian nuclear scientist who fled the Nile state in 2011 after her support of Israel made her a target for torture over many long years, has exposed troubling insights regarding Egypt’s military buildup in the Sinai Peninsula, as it fights terrorist organizations there. Speaking to Israel Hayom‘s Emily Amrousi from her new home in Haifa, Hashad was asked to give her take about Egypt’s actions in Sinai, where the Egyptian army has been fighting radical groups such as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a group that recently swore allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS). “That’s all for show,” appraised Hashad. “In the race for the presidency, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis supported (President Abdel Fattah) al-Sisi, who isn’t really fighting them.” The nuclear scientist warned “Egypt is preparing for war with Israel. It armed and trained Hamas in Gaza. Whoever knows Arabic can hear the heads of Egyptian military intelligence talk about wide canals that open up between Israel and Egypt that will be used at the appropriate time.” The warning echoes appraisals by Col. (res.) Dr. Shaul Shay, former deputy head of the Israel National Security Council, who wrote in Israel Defense last December that the “Badr 2014” military maneuver, its largest in decades, was meant to prepare for “a potential conflict with Israel.”
April 6, 2015

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193710#.VSKW3ZMe2uQ

FOR THE TIME BEING, I AM MOVING YEMEN UP TO THIS AREA, AS MANY OF THE NEWS ITEMS WE WILL BE SEEING WILL INCLUDE SAUDI ARABIA & OTHER GULF COUNTRIES; PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YEMEN IS NOT PART OF THE PSALM 83 WAR, BUT CONTINUES TO FULFILL THE PROPHECY OF NATION AGAINST NATION.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2015/03/26/Allies-back-Saudi-led-Decisive-Storm-op-in-Yemen-with-fighter-jets-.html

Headline:  Yemen conflict: Houthi rebels make gains in Aden

Yemen’s Shia Houthi rebels have made more gains in the city of Aden, despite air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition. Fighting in the southern city has intensified as rebels and forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi battle for control. On Sunday, the rebels advanced further into the city, bombarding residential areas and setting fire to several buildings, AFP reports. Many residents have become trapped in their homes because of the fighting. At least 185 people have been killed and 1,282 injured in Aden since 26 March, health department director Al-Kheder Lassouar said. The toll does not include rebel casualties or victims of air raids, he added. The UN says 500 have been killed over the past two weeks.
April 5, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32188017

Headline: Saudi Arabia set to raze empty villages on Yemen border

Saudi Arabia will raze 96 deserted border villages to prevent their use by infiltrators from neighboring Yemen, where the kingdom is leading air strikes on rebels, a report said Sunday. Ten villages have already been demolished since a Saudi-led military coalition began air strikes on Shiite Houthi rebels on March 26, the Saudi-owned Al-Hayat newspaper reported. It cited the border guard chief in the area, Hassan Aqili, as saying that the move was to prevent the empty houses from turning into “a safe haven for traffickers and infiltrators”. The 15,000 inhabitants were resettled following a 2009-2010 conflict that saw Houthi rebels cross into Saudi Arabia from their stronghold in northern Yemen. The same rebels forced Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi to flee the country to Saudi Arabia last month as they swept towards his southern refuge in Aden after seizing power in the capital. Three Saudi border guards have been shot dead by gunfire from within Yemen since Riyadh launched air raids against the Iran-backed rebels.
April 5, 2015

http://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-arabia-set-to-raze-empty-villages-on-yemen-border/

Headline:   Al Qaeda in Yemen expanding footprint amid chaos, giving guidance to al-Shabaab

Al Qaeda’s Yemen affiliate is expanding its footprint amid the chaos in the country and now providing guidance to the Somalia terror group that claimed responsibility for last week’s deadly terror attack at a university, an intelligence source told Fox News. The warning underscores the growing threat posed by Al Qaeda in Yemen at a time when the advance of Shiite rebels has effectively created a power vacuum in the country, with the unrest stalling what had been a robust U.S. counterterrorism operation there. The intelligence source told Fox News that the affiliate is providing guidance to Somalia’s al-Shabaab on how major plots — like the attack at Garissa University College in Kenya that killed nearly 150 people — can support their regional ambitions. The intelligence source said Al Qaeda in Yemen is providing guidance and fighters, and sharing bomb-making techniques that account for the more sophisticated vehicle-borne explosive devices now being recovered in the region.
April 6, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/06/source-al-qaeda-in-yemen-expanding-footprint-amid-chaos-giving-guidance-to-al/

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

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:   ISIS in Syria Update: March 31, 2015

-ISIS Consolidates Defensive Posture Near Ayn al-Arab

-ISIS Maintains Pressure on YPG Forces in Western Hasaka Province

-ISIS Enhances Security Measures in Eastern Deir ez-Zour

-ISIS Assaults the Syrian Regime in Central Syria

-ISIS Builds Presence in the Damascus Countryside

-ISIS Tests Rebel Unity in Aleppo

April 1, 2015
http://iswsyria.blogspot.com/2015/04/isis-in-syria-campaign-update-march-31.html

Syria Headline:   Islamic State Seizes Palestinian Refugee Camp in Syria

Syria Headline:   Hamas-linked group in Yarmouk to force out ISIL

Islamic State militants have seized most of a sprawling Palestinian refugee district in the southern part of the Syrian capital, Damascus, an area that has been under siege and bombardment for nearly two years already, according to Palestinian and United Nations officials and residents. The officials called for quick action by international organizations, the Syrian government and all armed groups to head off an unfolding catastrophe. Reports of killings and even beheadings were beginning to circulate on Saturday, worsening what is already a longstanding humanitarian nightmare for the 18,000 residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp. By seizing much of the camp, the Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, made its greatest inroads yet into Damascus, a significant step for a group that rose largely in the northern and eastern provinces of Syria, far from the capital. Yet at the same time, the move suggests that as the Islamic State loses ground in Iraq and northeastern Syria, the most daring response it could muster on the ground was to attack one of the most vulnerable populations in Syria.
April 6, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/world/middleeast/islamic-state-seizes-palestinian-refugee-camp-in-syria.html?_r=0

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/04/06/404924/Hamaslinked-men-in-Yarmouk-to-oust-ISIL

Syria Headline:   Islamic State Blows Up Church in Syria on Easter Sunday

Terrorists from the Islamic State group have reportedly blown up a church in northeastern Syria on Easter Sunday. The 80-year-old Church of the Virgin Mary in Tel Nasri, an Assyrian village in Syria’s Hassaka province, was destroyed by the terror group, no deaths or injuries were reported, Reuters said, citing a report by the Syrian State News Agency (SANA). Assyrian Christian and Kurdish militia have been battling the Islamic State in the region. In February, the Islamic State abducted hundreds of Assyrian Christians from their villages in northeastern Syria. Meanwhile in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Assyrian Christians and other minority groups have been persecuted and driven from their homes in northern Iraq as a result of the Islamic State. The terror group has also destroyed numerous churches and antiquities in Iraq as part of an effort to erase Iraq’s non-Islamic past. Assyrian Christian groups recently spearheaded an effort asking that UN missions from various countries call on the UN Security Council to issue a resolution against Islamic State’s persecution of minorities and to take tangible steps to save those vulnerable groups.
April 6, 2015

http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/04/06/islamic-state-blows-up-church-in-syria-on-easter-sunday/

Syria Headline:   ISW Syria Situation Report March 24-31, 2015

http://iswsyria.blogspot.com/2015/03/syria-situation-report-march-24-31-2015.html

Syria Headline:   Control of Terrain in Syria: March 31, 2015

http://iswsyria.blogspot.com/2015/03/control-of-terrain-in-syria-march-31.html

Syria Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe

http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/

Iraq Headline: 30 killed in airstrike, clashes with IS militants in Iraq

A total of 30 people were killed and 27 others wounded on Monday in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike and clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, security source said. In Salahudin province, 13 IS militants, including foreign fighters, were killed when the security forces repelled an attack by dozens of IS militants on military positions near the village of Mazraa, just south of the refinery town of Baiji. Also in the province, a total of eight security members were killed and 13 others wounded in separate clashes in west of the city of Samarra, about 120 km north of Baghdad, in Allas oil field near the town of Alam. In Iraq’s western province of Anbar, a U.S.-led airstrike hit a group of IS militants on a bridge in south of the IS-held city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, leaving nine militants killed and 14 others wounded, along with destroying part of the bridge, a provincial security source anonymously told Xinhua.
April 6, 2015

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-04/06/c_134127717.htm

Iraq Headline:   ISW Iraq Situation Report April 2-3, 2015

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/iraq-situation-report-april-2-3-2015.html

Iraq Headline:   ISW Control of Terrain in Iraq: April 3, 2015

http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/control-of-terrain-in-iraq-april-3-2015.html

Kurdish Headline: Al Qaeda kidnaps 300 Syrian Kurds – Kurdish official

Al Qaeda’s official Syrian wing, the Nusra Front, kidnapped 300 Kurdish men in the country’s north, a Kurdish official in Syria said on Monday. Idris Nassan, an official in the Kobani canton, said the men were taken on Sunday evening as they were travelling from the town of Afrin, which is under Kurdish control, to the cities of Aleppo and the capital Damascus. “They left women and children but they kidnapped 300 men and young people,” he said. “They captured them in Tuqad village, 20 kilometres west of Aleppo and then they moved them to al-Dana town in Idlib province,” he said. The Nusra Front has not claimed the kidnapping. Syrian state media did not report the incident. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, which tracks the conflict from Britain, said Kurds were kidnapped but it was not clear how many.
April 6, 2015

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/04/06/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-kurds-idUKKBN0MX0VK20150406

Headline:  ISIS Sanctuary: April 3, 2015

ISIS lost control over central Tikrit following an offensive by the ISF and allied forces with the support of coalition airstrikes. Tikrit was announced captured by the government on April 1, 2015, and PM Abadi, ISF commanders, and local government officials have toured the city center. Since that time, clashes have not been reported in the city and reports that looting of homes is taking place further indicates that combat operations in Tikrit have ceased. The areas immediately surrounding Tikrit likely remain an ISIS attack zone, however. Meanwhile, ISIS intensified its military campaign in central and western Syria. Over the past month, ISIS launched a series of successful hit-and-run attacks against regime checkpoints, military facilities, and oil installations throughout eastern Homs and Hama Provinces, including several villages along the regime supply route to Aleppo city. ISIS counterbalanced these operations with consistent pressure along frontlines in Ayn al-Arab (Kobani) canton and Hasaka Province meant to dissuade further Kurdish advances into core ISIS terrain. ISIS also reasserted its presence in southern Damascus city, advancing into the Yarmouk Camp district after heavy clashes with rebel forces. The nature of these offensives suggests that ISIS seeks to shape conditions for future territorial gains in the Syrian central corridor while bolstering its narrative of victory following losses in northern Syria and Iraq.
April 3, 2015

http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/isis-sanctuary-april-3-2015 

Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above). 

Gog is the leader of the Russian invasion of Israel.

Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Russia.

Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.

Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Gomer is Eastern Germany.

Beth Togarmah is Turkey and Armenia. 

Russia  

Headline:  Nine government soldiers killed in three incidents in east Ukraine

Nine Ukrainian soldiers were killed in three separate incidents over the weekend in the country’s east, the latest breach of a fragile ceasefire organized by international powers earlier this year. Two soldiers were killed in the government-controlled port city of Mariupol when their vehicle struck a mine, and four others died in Schastye, near the rebel bastion of Luhansk close to the Russian border. Ukraine’s interior ministry released a statement saying the four were killed by an anti-tank rocket fired by a pro-Russian separatists as their vehicle crossed a bridge. On Saturday three other government soldiers were killed in a mine blast near the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. The incidents join other isolated breaches of a February ceasefire organized in Minsk, Belarus, by leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France.
April 5, 2015

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/04/05/Nine-government-soldiers-killed-in-three-incidents-in-east-Ukraine/3571428259372/?spt=sec&or=tn

Iran

Headline: Iran ‘is intensifying efforts to support Hamas in Gaza’

Iran has sent Hamas’s military wing tens of millions of dollars to help it rebuild the network of tunnels in Gaza destroyed by Israel’s invasion last summer, intelligence sources have told The Sunday Telegraph. It is also funding new missile supplies to replenish stocks used to bombard residential neighbourhoods in Israel during the war, code-named Operation Protective Edge by Israel. The renewed funding is a sign that the two old allies are putting behind them a rift caused by the conflict in Syria, where Shia Iran is backing President Bashar al-Assad against Hamas’s mainly Sunni allies. Iran has sponsored Hamas’s military operations for years, despite the contradiction that Hamas is part of the worldwide, Sunni-supremacist Muslim Brotherhood, while Iran is Shia. Hamas’s leader, Khaled Meshaal, who left Damascus for Qatar after falling out with the Assad regime, has often fought with Hamas’s military wing over the strength of the Iranian connection. However, with the Sunni Arab world joining forces against Iran, led by Saudi Arabia and President Abdelfattah el-Sisi of Egypt, who are both hostile to Hamas, the Palestinian militant group has been left little option but to accept the Iranian largesse. At the same time, Iran’s overseas operations arm, the Al-Quds force, led by its charismatic general Qassem Suleimani, has been consolidating a broad hold over the Middle East.
April 4, 2015

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/11515603/Iran-is-intensifying-efforts-to-support-Hamas-in-Gaza.html

Headline: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said ‘preparing for war’ in case deal collapses

Headline: Outline of Iran Nuclear Deal Sounds Different From Each Side

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards “are preparing for war” in the event that negotiations to turn Thursday’s framework nuclear agreement into a binding deal by June 30 collapse, an Israeli TV report said Sunday night, citing Arab intelligence agencies. The Israeli Channel 10 report said Arab intelligence agencies have warned “France, the UK and the US” that the Revolutionary Guards fear Iran could face a military strike should the talks break down, and that the Guards are ready to close the Strait of Hormuz and take other unspecified measures. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the US was working as recently as January on improving its biggest bunker buster bombs in case they were needed for strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The Sunday Israeli TV report highlighted the major discrepancies that have emerged between the US and Iran since the framework agreement was announced on Thursday, raising the concern that the non-binding understandings reached to date will fall apart and the negotiations collapse. A little over a month ago, the Revolutionary Guards held large-scale naval and air defense drills near the Strait of Hormuz — a strategic Gulf waterway, through which one fifth of the world’s oil passes — in which dozens of speedboats swarmed a replica of a US aircraft carrier. State TV showed footage of missiles fired from the coast and fast boats striking the mock US aircraft carrier. The late February drill also included shooting down a drone and planting undersea mines.
April 5, 2015

http://www.timesofisrael.com/irans-revolutionary-guards-said-preparing-for-war-in-case-deal-collapses/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/world/middleeast/outline-of-iran-nuclear-deal-sounds-different-from-each-side.html

Afghanistan

Headline:   Today’s Afghanistan News April 5, 2015 ***clicking on the underlined section will take you to each news story

There is considerable confusion about the current state of the Taliban and the prospects for peace talks. Yesterday, NBC reported that Mullah Omar is preparing to enter peace talks, with an implication that Pakistan is sincere in saying that it will no longer harbor the Afghan Taliban and that this may have driven him to negotiations.

Today, however, Khaama reports that he may be dead,  or in any event has delegated authority to Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor; and that the Taliban may have split into three factions, perhaps because of his death. Another possibility is that Pakistan, which has obviously been harboring him, now has him in custody and has incapacitated him.

It is unclear whether all this bodes well or ill for the prospects for peace. Certainly the emergence of factions which no longer answer to Omar or his successors means that a comprehensive peace is not possible. Leaders who have adopted the Islamic State brand are apparently responsible for the kidnapping of 31 Hazaras in February. Meanwhile, a high level of violence continues.

A bomb kills 7 people in Logar.

A bomb near a police station in Kundoz injures 10.

Explosion in Helmand injures 3 soldiers and 3 civilians.

On Thursday, a suicide bomb attack on a protest in Khost killed 17 and injured dozens. Since then, the death toll has risen to 20 and the National Directorate of Security says the Haqqani network was responsible.

A sticky bomb injures an attorney in Kundoz.

100 insurgents storm police outposts in Farah, leading to death of 5 police, 4 militants and a clergyman. Communications in the area were also knocked out by damage to a radio tower.

Motorcycle bomb in Baghlan kills 4, injures 5.

Teachers at Nangarhar university go on strike  because money intended for their salaries was stolen by gunmen on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway, and evidently they have not been paid

Former member of a provincial council in southern Ghazni is injured by a would-be assassin.

http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/2015/04/update-for-sunday-april-5-2015.html

Libya

Headline: Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Deadly Suicide Bombing in Libya

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing Sunday that killed at least six people — including several women and children — at a security checkpoint near the Libyan city of Misrata. At least 21 people were injured in the attack, according to LANA News Agency, an outlet affiliated with the Libyan government in Tripoli. According to AFP, the Islamic State’s Al-Bayan radio identified the bomber as a Sudanese man named Abu Dujana. Misrata, the site of the bombing Sunday, is located about 150 miles northwest of Sirte, a coastal city that has seen numerous skirmishes between Islamic State affiliates and Dawn of Libya forces. At least 11 oil fields in the area have been shut down due to Islamic State attacks. Groups pledging allegiance to Islamic State also took credit for a suicide bombing last month at a Tripoli police station, as well as a series of suicide bombings in Benghazi. Dawn of Libya’s Misrata-based 166 brigade is currently working to oust the Islamic State from positions in and around Sirte. Brigade commander Mohammed Hassan told VICE News his forces launched an attack Saturday night that killed a number of Islamic State fighters, including foreigners from Tunisia and Mauritania. The 166 brigade has imposed a curfew on the city and asked residents to stay away from areas where clashes have been taking place, Hassan added. On Sunday, the internationally recognized government launched airstrikes against Dawn of Libya sites near Tripoli, an air force defense official told Reuters, but no deaths or injuries were reported.
April 5, 2015

https://news.vice.com/article/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-deadly-suicide-bombing-in-libya

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: Kenya bombs Somalia al-Shabab bases after Garissa attack

Kenyan fighter jets have bombed positions of militant Islamist group al-Shabab in neighbouring Somalia, a military spokesman has told the BBC. The warplanes had targeted two camps in the Gedo region, used by al-Shabab to cross into Kenya, the spokesman added. This is Kenya’s first response to the al-Shabab assault which left 148 people dead at Garissa University last week. President Uhuru Kenyatta had vowed to respond to the attack “in the severest way possible”. Kenyan army spokesman David Obonyo told the BBC that the military had responded to “threats” by launching the air strikes on Sunday night in the remote region. Two camps had been destroyed, he said, adding: “The bombings are part of the continued process and engagement against al-Shabab, which will go on.”
April 6, 2015

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32194722

Headline: Boko Haram militants kill 7 civilians in Chadian village

At least seven civilians have been killed when members of the Nigeria-based Boko Haram militant group launched an attack against a village in neighboring Chad. Dimouya Souapebe, the deputy prefect of Baga Solan region, said Boko Haram extremists on Friday ambushed people on their way to a market in Tchoukou Telia near Lake Chad, which borders Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon. He said some of the victims had their throats slit, while others had succumbed to fatal gunshot wounds. Improvised explosive devices were later discovered along the road between Tchoukou Telia and Ngouboua, which lies close to the border with Nigeria and has come under Boko Haram attacks in recent weeks. The report comes as the leaders of Central and West African countries plan to hold a summit in an effort to come up with a common strategy to counter the threat posed by Boko Haram.
April 6, 2015

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/04/06/404943/7-die-in-Boko-Haram-attack-in-Chad

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: Drug-resistant strain of infectious illness hits U.S.

A drug-resistant strain of the food-borne bacteria Shigella has made its way to the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reportreleased Friday. The bacteria causes Shigellosis, a diarrhea-inducing intestinal infection that can vary in severity and infects approximately 500,000 people in the U.S. every year. The disease comes with a host of unpleasant symptoms, including acute muscle cramping, nausea and vomiting. Typically, the disease resolves itself within a week for those in otherwise good health, and the antimicrobial drug ciprofloxacin is recommended to alleviate the symptoms and shorten the duration of illness. The multi-drug resistant bacteria has shown itself to be immune to ciprofloxacin, and has infected at least 243 people in the U.S. throughout the past year. Just over 20% of patients had to be hospitalized.
April 3, 2015

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/04/03/drug-resistant-infectious-food-borne-bacteria-united-states-shigella/25238937/

Headline: Fleas test positive for plague near Flagstaff

Coconino County officials are taking precautions after finding fleas collected in Picture Canyon northeast of Flagstaff have tested positive for plague. The Arizona Daily Sun reported Friday that the County Public Health Services District is conducting additional tests and disinfecting prairie dog burrows. Public health officials collected the fleas around trails in the popular hiking area after noticing some prairie dogs dying off. The positive test is the first sign of plague activity in the county since last September in Doney Park. Officials are advising residents to take precautions such as using insect repellent and to avoid handling sick or dead animals. Symptoms of plague appear within two to six days after initial exposure. They can include fever, chills, swollen lymph glands and muscle pain.
April 5, 2015

http://www.azfamily.com/story/28724768/fleas-test-positive-for-plague-near-flagstaff?autostart=true

March 31, 2015 – Large die off of blackbirds near Picher in Oklahoma, America
http://www.miamiok.com/news/article_515e000f-f42f-5f48-83a4-891485fcdd3d.html

April 1, 2015 – Major fish kill found in a canal in Portmore, Jamaica
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20150331/nepa-investigates-fish-kill-portmore

April 1, 2015 – Hundreds of dead fish wash up along Elizabeth river in Virginia, America
http://hamptonroads.com/2015/03/hundreds-dead-fish-wash-ashore-chesapeake

April 1, 2015 – Dead fish washing ashore for the past week in Lake Parsippany in New Jersey, America
http://parsippanyfocus.com/2015/04/01/somethings-fishy-in-lake-parsippany-dead-fish-appearing-along-the-shore/

April 1, 2015 – 75,000 birds dead after heavy rains in Chimborazo, Ecuador
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecuadorinmediato.com%2Findex.php%3Fmodule%3DNoticias%26func%3Dnews_user_view%26id%3D2818778933&edit-text=&act=url

April 2, 2015 – Thousands of ‘blue button jellyfish’ wash ashore on Pensacola Beach, Florida
http://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/pensacola/beaches/2015/04/02/thousands-stinging-blue-buttons-wash-ashore/70851916/

April 2, 2015 – 53,000 turkeys to be killed due to avian flu in South Dakota, America
http://www.islandpacket.com/2015/04/02/3679315/avian-influenza-confirmed-in-south.html

April 2, 2015 – Fish kill in Wascana Lake in Regina, Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/dead-fish-emerge-on-regina-s-wascana-lake-shores-1.3020451

April 2, 2015 – Die off of sea birds along Seward City coast Alaska, America
http://sewardcitynews.com/2015/04/common-murre-die-off-along-waterfront/

April 3, 2015 – Thousands of dead fish found floating off Lantau Island, China
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1755723/thousands-dead-fish-found-lantau

April 3, 2015 – Hundreds of dead fish found in Bethlehem Township pond in Pennsylvania, America
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/bethlehem/index.ssf/2015/04/green_pond_in_bethlehem_townsh.html

April 3, 2015 – Fish kill found in La Cienaga dam in Argentina
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jujuyaldia.com.ar%2F2015%2F04%2F03%2Fbuscan-determinar-la-causa-de-la-mortandad-de-peces-ocurrida-en-la-cienaga%2F&edit-text=&act=url

April 4, 2015 – Hundreds of dead fish found in the Tonto River in 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.alcalorpolitico.com%2Finformacion%2Fcientos-de-peces-muertos-en-el-rio-tonto-a-causa-del-ingenio-central-motzorongo-164810.html%23.VSKDi_nF-So&edit-text=&act=url

April 5, 2015 – Masses of dead fish found in mangroves in Santos, Brazil
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fg1.globo.com%2Fsp%2Fsantos-regiao%2Fnoticia%2F2015%2F04%2Fmoradores-fotografam-peixes-mortos-e-secretaria-do-meio-ambiente-alerta.html&edit-text=&act=url

April 6, 2015 – Thousands of dead fish found in the Tagus River in Portugal
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omirante.pt%2Fnoticia.asp%3FidEdicao%3D54%26id%3D81142%26idSeccao%3D479%26Action%3Dnoticia%23.VSKHT_nF-So&edit-text=&act=url

April 6, 2015 – 12,000 birds killed due to avian flu in North Brabant, Netherlands
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/34766/lowpath-bird-flu-in-dutch-poultry-flock/

April 6, 2015 – Hundreds of dead fish found floating in the Kali Bein in India
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/week-before-baisakhi-dead-fish-found-in-holy-kali-bein/63398.html

April 6, 2015 – Massive fish kill in Kolleru Lake in India
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/mass-fish-kill-a-cause-for-concern-at-kolleru/article7072794.ece

April 6, 2015 – Geese dead due to avian flu in Taiwan, China
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/34764/two-new-highpath-bird-flu-outbreaks-in-tawans-geese/

    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:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes

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