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Headline: Obama unveils compensation package for Israel after Iran deal
The New York Times on Friday revealed the details of a compensation package Israel is set to receive from the United States after world powers and Iran agreed to a historic nuclear agreement in early July. Laid out in a letter dated August 19 to US Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the president promised to increase American military aid for Israel in developing new anti-missile systems and tunnel detection technologies. “Our governments should identify ways to accelerate the ongoing collaborative research and development for tunnel detection and mapping technologies to provide Israel new capabilities to detect and destroy tunnels because they could be used to threaten Israeli civilians,” Obama stated in writing. The Obama administration also promised to increase cooperation with Israel and its Arab neighbors to help fight the Islamic Republic’s influence in the region, specifically Tehran’s funding of the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syrian President Bashar Assad.
August 22, 2015
Headline: Settlers and Palestinians Clash Near West Bank Outpost; Wounded Reported
Violent clashes erupted on Saturday morning between dozens of settlers and about 150 Palestinians near the West Bank outpost of Esh Kodesh. According to the Israel Defense Forces, both sides threw stones at each other, and the Palestinians tried to torch fields near the outpost, situated south of Nablus. The Palestinians reported that dozens were lightly wounded by rubber-bullet fire and gas canisters, shot by an IDF force which arrived at the scene. The IDF said the force opened fire after it was attacked with stones, and that only seven Palestinians were lightly wounded. Ghassan Douglas, a Palestinian Authority official, said the clash broke out after dozens of settlers attacked Palestinian farmers working their fields in the nearby village of Qusra on Saturday morning. A group of Palestinians from the village then set out toward the outpost.
August 22, 2015
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.672366
Headline: Security Minister Wants to Outlaw Temple Mount Rioters
Minister of Internal Security Gilad Erdan (Likud) sent Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) a letter Monday, asking him to urgently declare the Arab organizations that create mayhem on the Temple Mount as illegal. If the defense minister signs a declaration to this effect, security forces will have a freer hand against the rioters. Erdan has been carrying out behind-the-scenes staff work in the past few weeks, together with police, the Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet), the State Attorney’s Office and even the Attorney General, who has agreed to help advance the declaration. In the discussions of the problem, Erdan was shown evidence that the so-called murabitun and murabitat, as the male and female groups of Muslim mayhem-makers are named, are directed by the northern arm of the Islamic Movement in Israel. The purpose of their activity is to destabilize the status quo on the Temple Mount, and they have succeeded in creating escalation on the Mount, and in making the security situation there untenable.
August 24, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199855#.VdsgIJdRLSg
Headline: Kurdish oil is another Netanyahu-Obama head-to-head front
That Israel and other nations were buying oil from the Kurdish republic of Iraq had been published before and was no secret. The Financial Times broke its “discovery” Sunday, Aug. 23, just by chance? on the day that Britain and Iran reopened their respective embassies in Tehran and London after a four-year breach resulting from a mob attack on the Tehran embassy. Even before sanctions were lifted and Tehran had demonstrated its compliance with the nuclear deal signed with the world powers in Vienna on July 14, European ministers were knocking on the door in a quest for financial relations. The Islamic Republic was deemed rehabilitated by the nuclear accord; and the UK saw no reason to lag behind the others. And so Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was personally in attendance at the ceremonial reopening Sunday of the Tehran embassy.
The FT’s report’s timing fitting in perfectly with the British government’s plans to quickly develop profitable ties with the Islamic Republic in the following arenas:
- The oil industries in Iran and Iraq. London seeks as large a slice as possible of the $150 billion worth of oil and gas contracts on offer by Tehran.
- The Islamic Republic was also meant to infer from the FT report that British intelligence resources and its powerful media were available as tools for beating Israel out on the world’s energy markets.
- Britain’s foreign policy is grounded in accentuating its common interests with Washington. The Obama administration may pose as a champion of Masoud Barzani, President of the autonomous Kurdish Republic of northern Iraq. His peshmerga army has after all distinguished itself in its dogged fight against the Islamic State. But in practice, things are different: the US administration, to meet the wishes of Tehran and Baghdad, consistently withholds from the Kurds the heavy weapons they need to rout ISIS.
August 24, 2015
http://debka.com/article/24834/Kurdish-oil-is-another-Netanyahu-Obama-head-to-head-front-
Headline: Counter-Terrorism Bureau warns of threats to Israelis and Jews from ISIS, Iran
The National Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau released a biannual travel advisory on Monday, warning of potential threats against Jewish and Israeli targets in western nations from global jihad elements, including the Islamic State. The travel advisory comes ahead of the High Holy Days period in September and October, which is generally one of the periods in which Israelis are most likely to travel abroad. Monday’s advisory warned in particular of plots to target Israeli and Jewish targets in northern and western Europe by ISIS operatives who returned to their home countries after having fought with the organization in Iraq and Syria. The advisory also related to Africa, which serves as a base of operations for many Israeli business people. The Somalian terror group Al Shabab, which often carries out terror attacks in Kenya and Boko Haram, in Nigeria, have increased their terrorist activities in the past year, the Conunter-Terrorism Bureau further warned.
August 24, 2015
“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: Report: Hezbollah puts forces along Lebanon, Syria borders on high alert
Hezbollah has reportedly put its forces on high alert along the border with Israel “for fear of attempts by Israel to drag Lebanon and Syria into an escalation in the form of something less than a war but more than an operation,” Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai reported on Saturday. The paper quoted sources as saying that the Lebanese terror organization believes Israel is preparing to take some kind of action, because Jerusalem believes that “the situation is critical and is being put to the test” in light of the nuclear agreement signed with Iran.
August 22, 2015
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4693203,00.html
Headline: Report: Hezbollah Recruiting Fatah Members to Attack Israel
Hezbollah is reportedly upping its attempts to recruit Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria to carry out attacks on its behalf, according to Palestinian Authority sources. The Lebanon-based terrorist group is reportedly attempting to revive its terrorist network in the region by reaching out to disgruntled members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a terrorist group that functions as the armed wing of Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction. During the Second Intifada Hezbollah, under instruction from Iran, recruited extensively among Fatah members, training and arming them to attack Israeli targets. Those efforts reached their height in 2004-2005, with tens of thousands of dollars being doled-out to recruits as an incentive to carry out attacks. Since then the efforts largely petered out for a number of reasons, including Israel’s intensive security operations and the PA’s own crackdown to prevent challenges to its authority in Judea and Samaria. However, a PA security source told the Arabic Al-Masdar site Hezbollah recruitment attempts “never really disappeared,” and in recent months had escalated significantly. With Iran emboldened by the prospect of billions of dollars of sanctions relief due to the recent deal reached with world powers over its nuclear program, it is widely acknowledged even by supporters of the deal that Tehran will use some of those funds to increase support for its numerous terrorist proxies. But Hezbollah, Iran’s most powerful proxy group, is unlikely to mount a frontal attack against Israel from Lebanon in the near future, given that it is already embroiled in several regional wars – in Syria, Iraq and to a lesser extent Yemen. Instead, it is attempting to reestablish an operations base in Judea and Samaria, and recruit local Arabs carry out attacks against Israelis both in that region and elsewhere in Israel.
August 24, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199842#.VdsgnJdRLSg
Headline: Lebanese ‘Palestinian Camp’ Embroiled in Faction Gunbattles
Headline: Lebanese army secures central Beirut after ‘trash protest’ erupts in clashes
A “ceasefire” was agreed upon in a meeting on Sunday in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian “refugee camp,” Ain al-Hilweh, located in Lebanon’s south, reports the Palestinian Arab Ma’an News Agency. That ceasefire came after a day of serious clashes on Saturday, when three people were killed and no less than 18 others were wounded during a failed assassination attempt against Ashraf al-Armoushi, the Fatah security chief of the town. The Jund al-Sham terrorist group reportedly tried to assassinate al-Armoushi; it is unclear if the group took part in the “ceasefire” talks, meaning the ceasefire may be one-sided in nature. Palestinian Authority (PA) ambassador to Lebanon Ashraf Dabbour was said to have taken part in the talks. Security forces were deployed in Ain al-Hilweh to prevent renewed clashes. Al-Armoushi came under fire in the assassination attempt while attending a funeral. According to Lebanese media he emerged unscathed, but at least two Fatah members were killed and around 18 other residents were wounded in the following gun battles between the terror groups.
August 24, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199835#.VdslPZdRLSh
http://www.rt.com/news/313165-lebanon-clashes-beirut-teargas/
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Shots fired at Saudi police patrol in Jeddah
Headline: Saudi general killed in cross-border fire from Yemen
Unknown assailants fired on a police patrol in Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea city of Jeddah late Sunday, injuring an officer, the country’s official media reported Monday. Saudi Press Agency quoted an unnamed Mecca police spokesman as saying security forces were investigating the incident. He did not say whether Islamist militants, who have staged a series of attacks on police in Riyadh, were suspected. Jeddah is the second largest Saudi city and a major port. It is traditionally more socially liberal that the capital Riyadh and also the historical gateway for pilgrims to the Islamic holy sites of Mecca and Medina. Supporters of ISIS have shot at two Saudi police patrols, bombed a mosque used by the security services and two others used by members of the Shiite Muslim minority, killing 40 people. The Interior Ministry said last month it had detained 431 suspected supporters of ISIS and thwarted other attacks on mosques, security forces and a diplomatic mission.
August 24, 2015
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-general-killed-cross-border-fire-yemen-1389070027
Egypt
Headline: Bomb kills 2 Egyptian policemen, wounds 24: officials
The attack occurred in the Nile Delta province of Baheira, 260 kilometres (160 miles) north of Cairo, while the policemen were travelling to work in a civilian bus. “Two policemen were killed and 24 others were wounded, including two seriously,” said health ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar. A local health official earlier told AFP that one policeman had died in the blast. Jihadists have killed scores of police and soldiers since an Islamist insurgency swelled in the wake of the 2013 overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected president who took office following the 2011 ouster of longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak. The insurgency has been spearheaded by Egypt’s IS affiliate which has launched regular attacks against security forces.
August 24, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/bomb-kills-1-egyptian-policemen-wounds-29-091703622.html
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: 20 civilians dead in govt shelling near Damascus: activists
Shelling and air raids by Syrian government forces killed at least 20 civilians and wounded or trapped 200 on Saturday in rebel-held Douma east of Damascus, an activist group said. “At least 20 civilians were killed in the heavy shelling and air attacks since this morning on Douma,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. He said around 200 more were either wounded or still trapped under rubble, and that the death toll was expected to rise. According to the Local Coordination Committees activist network, Saturday’s bombardment struck four adjacent buildings in the town.
August 22, 2015
Syria Headline: Rebels shell prison near Damascus, killing 10
Insurgents shelled the central prison near the Syrian capital Damascus Sunday as well as residential neighborhoods in the city, killing at least 11 and wounding more than 40. The Interior Ministry statement, carried by state TV, said the shelling of the prison area killed 10, seven of which were women, and wounded 40. It said the shelling targeted the visitors’ area of the jail, known as Adra Prison, just northeast of Damascus. The statement did not say which specific insurgent group was responsible for the attack. Later Sunday, insurgents fired shells into residential neighborhoods in Damascus killing two people and wounding seven, according to state TV. Insurgents have shelled Damascus on several occasions in recent weeks, killing and wounding dozens of people. Sunday’s shelling of Adra Prison and nearby areas came a day after government airstrikes on a Damascus suburb killed more than 34 people and wounded dozens in the latest wave of government attacks on the crowded rebel-held area.
August 24, 2015
Syria Headline: Activists say ISIS destroys temple at ancient Palmyra site
Islamic State (ISIS) militants have destroyed a temple at Syria’s ancient ruins of Palmyra, activists said Sunday, realizing the worst fears archaeologists had for the 2,000-year-old Roman-era city after the extremists seized it and beheaded a local scholar. Palmyra, one of the Middle East’s most spectacular archaeological sites and a UNESCO World Heritage site, sits near the modern Syrian city of the same name. Activists said the militants used explosives to blow up the Baalshamin Temple on its grounds, the blast so powerful it also damaged some of the Roman columns around it. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday night that the temple was blown up a month ago. Turkey-based activist Osama al-Khatib, who is originally from Palmyra, said the temple was blown up Sunday. Both said the extremists used a large amount of explosives to destroy it.
August 24, 2015
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news
Iraq Headline: IS Attack in Anbar Kills 23
Iraq Headline: ISIS blows up the house of Iraqi ambassador to Bahrain east of Ramadi
At least 23 Iraqi soldiers and militiamen have been killed in an attack by Islamic State militants in Anbar province, according to police and military officials. The Associated Press reports the dead include 17 soldiers and six militia fighters who were working with troops to push back the militant group. Sunday’s attack in the rural district of Jaramshah, north of the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi, follows two IS ambushes in Anbar on Friday that left at least 50 Iraqi soldiers dead.
August 23, 2015
http://www.voanews.com/content/is-attack-in-anbar-kills-23/2929312.html
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report August 18-20, 2015
http://iswresearch.blogspot.com/search/label/Iraq
Kurdish Headline: Turkish military: 29 Kurdish rebels killed in airstrikes
Kurdish Headline: Turkey Publishes PKK and Turkish Casualty Numbers
Turkey’s military says warplanes have conducted new airstrikes against Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, killing 29 militants. A brief military statement released Saturday says the air raids against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, targets were carried out on Thursday and Friday. Separately, at least 12 rebels were killed as the military clashed with PKK rebels near the town of Uludere, close to Turkey’s border with Iraq on Friday, the military said.
August 24, 2015
http://www.basnews.com/en/news/2015/08/24/turkey-publishes-pkk-and-turkish-casualty-numbers/
Kurdish Headline: Al-Qaeda abducts Kurdish commander near Aleppo
Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front has abducted a Kurdish commander from the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Afrin region of Aleppo province, northeast Syria, Kurdish sources reported on Sunday. The YPG General Command said in a statement, of which ARA News received a copy, that al-Nusra Front (Jabhat al-Nusra) has abducted the Kurdish commander Jamal Efrini. “We’ve lost contact with the commander for days, before we discover that Nusra militants have abducted him at a checkpoint on the highway of Afrin-Aleppo,” the YPG leadership said on Sunday. The General Command also stressed its concerns about the health conditions of Efrini, who disappeared one week ago. “We will respond to this extreme violation with force if al-Nusra didn’t release Jamal (Efrini),” the statement added. “This radical group (in reference to Nusra) should know that we’ve respected the truce, but we won’t remain silent amid such violations.” Al-Nusra Front hasn’t commented on the YPG’s accusation yet.
August 24, 2015
http://aranews.net/2015/08/al-qaeda-abducts-kurdish-commander-near-aleppo/
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: Two soldiers killed after convoy hits explosives in southeast Turkey
Headline: U.S., Turkey to launch ‘comprehensive’ anti-Islamic State operation
Two Turkish soldiers were killed and three wounded Monday when the vehicle they were traveling in hit explosives buried in the road, the latest attack following the collapse of a cease-fire with Kurdish militants, security sources said. The explosion occurred near the town of Semdinli in Hakkari province, which borders the Iraqi border, in the mainly Kurdish southeast. Turkey has launched more than 400 airstrikes against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, where the armed group is based, and in southeast Turkey since late July, in what it says is a response to attacks on police officers and soldiers.
August 24, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/u-turkey-launch-comprehensive-anti-islamic-state-operation-124748828.html
Iran
Headline: Iran unveils new missile with 500 km range, says seeks peace through strength
Headline: Iran rules out diplomatic ties with ‘illogical’ US
Iran on Saturday unveiled a new surface-to-surface missile it said could strike targets with pin-point accuracy within a range of 500 km (310 miles) and it said military might was a precondition for peace and effective diplomacy. The defense ministry’s unveiling of the solid-fuel missile, named Fateh 313, came little more than a month after Iran and world powers reached a deal that requires Tehran to abide by new limits on its nuclear program in return for Western governments easing economic sanctions. According to that deal, any transfer to Iran of ballistic missile technology during the next eight years will be subject to the approval of the United Nations Security Council, and the United States has promised to veto any such requests. An arms embargo on conventional weapons also stays, preventing their import and export for five years. But Iran has said it will not follow parts of the nuclear deal that restricts its military capabilities, a stance reaffirmed by President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday.
August 22, 2015
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-rules-out-diplomatic-ties-with-illogical-us/
Afghanistan
Headline: Kabul explosion: Deadly blast rocks Afghanistan capital
Headline: Four soldiers wounded in explosion in Kabul’s Kalakan District
An explosion has rocked the diplomatic area of the Afghan capital, Kabul, police have said, with at least 12 people killed and 60 injured. Police say it was a suicide attack on a foreign military convoy which was travelling through the area. A health ministry official said nine Afghans were among the dead. A senior Nato official confirmed that three American contractors had been killed in the attack in the Macrorayan district. No group has said it carried out the attack, although in recent months Kabul has been regularly targeted by the Taliban in a series of bombings. The explosion took place not far from Kabul airport and the presidential palace. Witnesses said that children were among the injured and some foreigners were trapped in a destroyed vehicle. An interior ministry spokesman quoted by the AP news agency said the blast destroyed more than a dozen civilian vehicles. The bombing, close to a civilian hospital, is the latest in a series of recent deadly attacks following the announcement of a new Taliban leader.
August 23, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34027065
http://www.khaama.com/four-soldiers-wounded-in-kabul-explosion-3809
Libya
Headline: Boko Haram strengthens ties with ISIL, sends fighters to Libya
Nigerian-based terror group Boko Haram has bolstered its alliance with Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) by sending jihadists to fight alongside ISIL in Libya. Boko Haram pledged allegiance to ISIL in March. In June, ISIL declared territory seized by Boko Haram as its West African province. In addition to sending fighters to Libya, Boko Haram members have also recently been arrested in Lebanon, and India and Nigeria has blocked thousands of suspected jihadists from leaving the country. According to Nigeria analyst Jacob Zenn, an estimated 80 to 200 Boko Haram fighters are in the Libyan city of Sirte, the site of heavy fighting between ISIL and Libyan government forces. “The openness of migration routes from Nigeria through eastern Niger to Libya makes travel … fairly straightforward, and the Islamic State can easily afford to pay smugglers to carry militants (and weapons) along that route,” Zenn wrote in The Sentinel magazine of the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation. On Aug. 15 Lebanese authorities arrested hard-line ISIL cleric Ahmad al-Assir at Beirut airport. They said he planned to fly to Nigeria on a forged Palestinian passport with a Nigerian visa. Two Nigerians studying in India were arrested Aug. 7 as they tried to cross illegally into Pakistan to join ISIL. The Nigeria Immigration Service reported barring 23,472 people from leaving the country between January 2014 and March 2015. “There have been reports in recent times of some Nigerians departing to join terrorist groups especially in the Middle East and North Africa,” said PR Nigeria, which publishes government news.
August 23, 2015
Tunisia
Headline: Tunisian guard killed in shootout with ‘terrorists’
A Tunisian border guard was killed on Sunday in a shootout with jihadists on the border with Algeria, state television and the president of a union of border guards said. “A border guard was killed and three others were wounded in a shootout with a terrorist group in Bouchebka,” Wataniya 1 television reported. Ridha Ennasri, the union president, confirmed to AFP that a border guard was killed in “a terrorist attack” and said that another was wounded. The killing comes days after a Tunisian policeman was shot dead by two assailants on a motorbike in the coastal resort of Sousse. Authorities have been unable to say whether that killing was carried out by jihadists and an investigation is ongoing. In June, a jihadist gunman killed 30 Britons and eight other foreign tourists on a beach in Sousse, an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
August 24, 2015
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: Venezuela declares state of emergency along Colombia border
Headline: Venezuela closes key crossing with Colombia after three soldiers shot
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Friday declared a state of emergency along parts of the border with Colombia to restore order after a clash between smugglers and troops left three soldiers wounded. The measure will remain in effect for 60 days in five municipalities of the Venezuelan state of Tachira, where smugglers of gasoline and subsidized food products have increasingly clashed with security forces. “This decree provides ample power to civil and military authorities to restore peace,” he said in a ceremony broadcast on state television. The decree suspends constitutional guarantees in those areas, except for guarantees relating to human rights.
August 22, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/20/venezuela-maduro-colombia-border
Headline: Two Car Bombs Kill 18 in Somalia
At least 18 people were killed in Somalia on Saturday in two separate bomb attacks carried out by suspected al-Shabab insurgents, officials said. In the first attack, 14 soldiers were killed and more than 20 wounded when militants drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a training site for African Union peacekeepers from Kenya and Somali soldiers in the southern port city of Kismayo. The second attack occurred in the capital, Mogadishu, where four people were killed and at least 10 others wounded, police official Abdullah Osoble said. He said a car bomb exploded near a police station close to a settlement used by displaced persons. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Mogadishu attack, although it bore the hallmarks of al-Shabab. Despite being forced out of many of their strongholds, the group is still able to launch lethal attacks in the capital and elsewhere in Somalia.
August 22, 2015
Headline: Army officer, six rebels killed in NW Pakistan
Two Pakistani soldiers including a senior officer were killed Monday in an exchange of fire with Islamist militants in a restive tribal district along the Afghan border, where the army last week began a ground offensive. The firefight occurred in the Shawal valley of North Waziristan where the military has been battling Taliban and other insurgents since June last year. “During an exchange of fire with security forces, six terrorists were killed in Shawal today. An officer, Lieutenant Colonel Faisal Malik and a soldier also embraced shahadat (martyrdom),” the military said in a statement. The latest incident comes a day after militants launched a cross-border rocket attack on a checkpost in Khyber tribal area, killing four Pakistani soldiers and wounding four others. Pakistan’s foreign office summoned Afghan ambassador Janan Mosazai on Sunday evening and lodged a strong protest over the shelling.
August 24, 2015
Headline: Protesters in Germany attack refugee buses shouting ‘foreigners out’
Up to 1,000 protesters have clashed with police in eastern Germany in riots reportedly sparked by the arrival of 250 migrants. Police said protesters shouting “foreigners out” and carrying banners against the “asylum flood” threw bottles and stones at busloads of asylum seekers arriving in Heidenau, near Dresden. At least 31 officers were hurt in violent scuffles as police used tear gas to disperse crowds. Peaceful demonstrations began after news spread that the town was welcoming a large number of refugees who are set to be housed in an empty building. The protest was hijacked by a group of far-right radicals, many belonging to the militant National Democratic Party (NPD), considered a neo-Nazi organisation. “After the riots, the situation is now calm,” a police spokesman told Tagesspiegel online, adding it was not yet clear how many people had been injured or how many arrests had been made.
August 22, 2015
Headline: US military depot blast, steel plant blaze hit Tokyo
The explosion at the US Army’s Sagami General Depot in the city of Sagamihara, some 25 miles (40 kilometres) southwest of Tokyo, sent sparks shooting into the sky and triggered a blaze that burned through the night, but there were no reports of injuries. Japanese and US base firefighters delayed battling the fire while the contents of the building were assessed. Witnesses said they initially feared a bomb had gone off at the military installation. The explosion at the depot — which occupies about 200 hectares (two square kilometres) and employs nearly 600 people — rattled the windows of nearby buildings. “I thought the American military facility came under a terrorist attack,” a local security guard told Jiji Press news agency. The depot stores supplies and acts as a repair centre for military vehicles. The Pentagon said the cause of the explosion was not immediately known, but the building did not store ammunition or “radiological materials”. Nearby buildings were not damaged. “The storage building is not designated as a hazardous material storage facility as some initial reports indicated,” US Navy Commander Bill Urban, a spokesman, said in a statement. “Inside the building that exploded were canisters of compressed gases: nitrogen, oxygen, freon and air. “The cause of the explosion… is under investigation. There are no indications of injuries.”
August 24, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/blast-rips-building-us-military-depot-japan-005818347.html
Headline: Protests over draft Nepal charter turn violent, nine dead
At least nine people were killed in Nepal on Monday when demonstrators attacked police with spears, knives, axes and scythes during a protest against proposals for administrative reform in the Himalayan country. One police officer died when protesters surrounded him and set him ablaze, Home Minister Bam Dev Gautam told parliament. A district official gave the death toll as nine, but media reports said as many as 20 people – most of them police – may have died. State television reported that the army was mobilized to quell the protests in the low-lying far west of the country close to the border with India.Thousands of people were protesting in the town of Tikapur against a government-backed plan to include their area in a hilly province, part of a regional overhaul envisaged in a new federal constitution expected to be finalised this month. The protesters, mainly from ethnic Tharu community, are demanding a separate province comprising eight districts in the southwestern plains for themselves. The government and major political parties hope that the new constitution, which divides the nation into seven federal states, will boost economic development in Nepal, which is still reeling from two devastating earthquakes that killed 8,900 people this year. But different ethnic groups have been protesting against the plan and demanding regional autonomy. Four demonstrators have died in the past two weeks in violent protests across Nepal.
August 24, 2015
http://newsdaily.com/2015/08/protests-over-draft-nepal-charter-turn-violent-nine-dead/
Headline: Yemen officials say Al-Qaeda seizes key areas of Aden
Headline: Bomb hits intelligence building in Yemen’s Aden, no casualties
Headline: Police HQ Destroyed in Yemen’s Aden, al-Qaida Blamed
Headline: Yemen’s pro-Hadi forces mobilize to retake Sanaa
Al-Qaeda militants have seized control of key areas in and around the port city of Aden, high-ranking security officials said Saturday. Fighters took Tawahi district, home to a presidential palace and Aden’s main port, and were patrolling the streets, some carrying black banners, the officials said. The militants also took Crater, Aden’s commercial center, and parts of Dar Saad town, just north of Aden, including an army base that they turned into a training camp. Security officials near the seized base, in Dar Saad’s al-Lohoum district, say it is now training some 200 militants. The officials, who hail from the military, security forces and police, spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to journalists. They said Al-Qaeda’s gains came in recent weeks in the wake of fighting in Aden between Shiite rebels and pro-government forces, after the front moved outside the city. Al-Qaeda also has a presence in Breiqa city, west of Aden, and nearby al-Khadra city, the officials added.
August 24, 2015
http://www.voanews.com/content/yemen-police-headquarters-in-aden-destroyed/2928932.html
Headline: Ukraine Vows to Increase Troops to Fend off Rebel Attacks
Ukraine’s president vowed to increase troop numbers to fend off attacks by Russia-backed separatist rebels and warned his countrymen that there is still the threat of a “large-scale invasion,” in an impassioned speech to mark Independence Day on Monday. Speaking during a military parade, President Petro Poroshenko said Ukraine must not be complacent even though hostilities have largely died down. In a show of force, thousands of Ukrainian servicemen marched in downtown Kiev on to mark the country’s independence from the Soviet Union on Aug. 24, 1991. “We stand for peace, but we are not pacifists,” Poroshenko said. “We must get through the 25th year of independence as if on brittle ice. We must understand that the smallest misstep could be fatal. The war for independence is still ongoing.” Poroshenko didn’t say how many more troops he would send to eastern Ukraine. He claimed that Russia had massed about 50,000 troops on the border with Ukraine and had supplied the rebels with about 500 tanks and 400 pieces of artillery. Poroshenko warned that Russia is wary of an outright invasion and is instead developing another strategy: sow discord across all of Ukraine and thus spoil its relations with its Western allies.
August 24, 2015
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kiev-celebrates-ukrainian-independence-day-33273890
Headline: Ukraine Crisis Update: August 20, 2015
http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Ukraine%20SITREP%20August%2020.pdf
Economic collapse Revelation 6:5-6 & James 5:1-3– Worldwide– “ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James)
Headline: Dow futures sink 330 points as Wall Street preps for meltdown
Headline: Great fall of China sinks world stocks, dollar tumbles
Headline: Tel Aviv Shares Slide for Second Day After Asian Markets Extend Losses
Wall Street prepares for meltdown U.S. stock futures pointed to a sharply lower open Monday after a selloff on Friday that dragged major indexes to four-year lows. U.S. stock index futures screamed lower, with Dow futures tumbling as much as 350 points, as fears surrounding the health of China’s economy multiplied. These concerns saw the benchmark Shanghai Composite index notch up its biggest one-day percentage loss since 2007 on Monday, closing down 8.5 percent. Panic spread to European markets, with the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 as much as 3 percent in early London trading. All major bourses were off a similar amount. The index has shed over $1 trillion in market value in August so far. The slide comes after U.S. stocks closed deep in the red on Friday, pushing the Dow and Nasdaq into correction territory.The major averages had their biggest trade volume day of the year and posted their worst week in four years. Oil prices crashed to fresh six and half year lows on Monday, after Chinese stock markets suffered, intensifying worries over the outlook for global oil demand. Brent oil was trading down 4.6 percent, at $43.36 a barrel. U.S. October crude was down 4.1 percent at $38.80 a barrel. “Markets are afraid of further economic weakness in China, further pain in global commodity markets and uncertain about Fed and People’s Bank of China policy—what they will do and what the impact will be,” said global strategist at Societe Generale, Kit Juckes.
August 24, 2015
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/dow-futures-sink-330-points-as-wall-street-preps-for-meltdown.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/24/us-markets-global-idUSKCN0QT00B20150824
http://www.haaretz.com/business/.premium-1.672640
Headline: Stock markets in the Middle East fall sharply
Stock markets in the Middle East have fallen sharply after a difficult week for all major global share indexes. The Dubai Financial Market closed down 7%, while the Saudi exchange also lost 7% after Fitch ratings agency cut its outlook for the country. Last week, the Dow Jones in the US fell 6%, while the UK’s FTSE 100 posted its biggest weekly loss this year of 5%. Investors are concerned about a slowdown in China and the knock-on effects for the global economy. Both France’s Cac 40 and Germany’s Dax indexes lost 7% of their value last week. In the Middle East, there is particular concern about low oil prices, which are down by more than a half this year and have been falling steadily since May, when Brent Crude stood at $68 a barrel. A barrel now costs $45. This is mainly due to an abundance of supply, in large part from from US shale oil producers, which are weakening OPEC’s once dominant position in global oil markets. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are all members of OPEC. Moods were further dampened by a report from Fitch which cut the agency’s outlook on Saudi Arabia from “stable” to “negative”. The move reflects concerns about the future of the country’s finances, which are heavily dependent on revenues from exporting oil. These worries come against a backdrop of falling global stock markets, reflecting widespread fears about the pace of the slowdown in the Chinese economy.
August 23, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34032776
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: With many Ebola survivors ailing, doctors evaluate situation
Lingering health problems afflicting many of the roughly 13,000 Ebola survivors have galvanized global and local health officials to find out how widespread the ailments are, and how to remedy them. The World Health Organization calls it an emergency within an emergency. Many of the survivors have vision and hearing issues. Some others experience physical and emotional pains, fatigue and other problems. The medical community is negotiating uncharted waters as it tries to measure the scale of this problem that comes on the tail end of the biggest Ebola outbreak in history. “If we can find out this kind of information, hopefully we can help other Ebola survivors in the future,” Dr. Zan Yeong, an eye specialist involved in a study of health problems in survivors in Liberia, told The Associated Press. Only about 40 percent of those infected have survived Ebola, according to WHO estimates. But while the survivors beat the odds, preliminary research shows that many are still suffering. Around half those who received post-recovery check-ups have joint pain, said Dr. Daniel Bausch, an Ebola expert and consultant for WHO.
August 23, 2015
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150823/af–ebola-sick_survivors-d7b234f391.html
Headline: Seven new coronavirus cases detected in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health has announced that the number of people in the kingdom receiving treatment for the MERS virus has risen to 65, on the back of seven new cases reported in Riyadh on Saturday. A press conference was held amid a surge in the number of infections at King Fahd National Guard Hospital in Riyadh’s King Abdulaziz Medical City. Undersecretary for Public Health Dr. Abdulaziz Bin Saeed explained measures taken to contain the spread, the Saudi Gazette reported. He said a total of 53 people, including four medical practitioners, contracted the virus at the hospital and added that 17 of the patients had died while 32 of them are receiving treatment in hospitals, three are quarantined at home and one patient was discharged after treatment, the newspaper reported.
August 24, 2015
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: South Korea talks tough amid heightened tensions with North
Headline: N. Korea deploys submarines as U.S., S. Korean fighters buzz border
South Korean President Park Geun-hye demanded on Monday that North Korea apologize over recent landmine blasts, even as the bitter rivals held marathon talks to defuse tensions that have brought the peninsula back to the brink of armed conflict. Park said anti-North propaganda broadcasts would continue unless Pyongyang took responsibility for landmine explosions early this month that wounded two South Korean soldiers in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the two countries. North Korea denies it laid the mines. Seoul and Pyongyang have remained technically in a state of war since the 1950-53 Korean war ended in a truce, rather than a peace treaty. The landmine blasts escalated into a crisis that saw both sides exchange artillery fire on Thursday and ramp up their military readiness. The United Nations, the United States and the North’s lone major ally, China, have all called for calm.
August 24, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/north-south-korea-marathon-talks-effort-ease-tension-005931830.html
Apostasy Amos 8:11 1 Timohty 4:1 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) “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons” (1 Timothy 4:1) “ 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 2:1-3)
Headline: Satan worshipers drown women with milk in Planned Parenthood counter-protest
Satan worshipers launched a counter-protest against pro-lifers outside the Detriot and Ferndale, Michigan Planned Parenthood locations Saturday. Clad in black robes, members of the Satanic Temple of Detriot drenched bound women with milk, simulating water-boarding to “illustrate the theocratic agenda imposed upon female bodies.” The milk symbolized breast milk, one of the protest organizers explained on Facebook. The group attached a symbol of their temple to the American flag and held up a sign that read, “America is not a theocracy. End forced motherhood.” “The Satanic Temple strongly opposes the promotion of misinformation and believes that all people are entitled to make informed decisions about their health, family and future without coercion,” says the group’s web site. “We consider our action a form of worship; the rejection of tyranny is an affirmation of selfhood. So long as perverted theocratic systems of power attempt to manipulate our communities and distort truths for political gain, we will rebel.”
August 23, 2015
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/satanists-drown-women-for-planned-parenthood/article/2570695
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: 80 percent chance of cyclone near Windward islands
A low pressure system over the Atlantic Ocean, midway between Africa and the Windward Islands, has an 80 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone over the next 48 hours, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Monday. “A tropical depression could form later today or on Tuesday while the system moves westward,” the Miami-based weather forecaster said.
August 24, 2015
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/80-percent-chance-of-cyclone-near-Windward-islands-413071
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