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“Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:9-11)
Retired Jordanian General Musa Al-Hadid: The War on ISIS – Not Our War
Jordanian Regime prevents us from waging Jihad
I must caution you: there are links used to report events below that you should use extreme caution in viewing- they are anti-Israel sites and Arabic media sites.
“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.”
Headline: ISIS’ Apocalyptic Magazine Vows to Attack Israel
Headline: Liberman pledges Israeli help in fighting Islamic State
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is vowing to attack Israel over its most-recent conflict with Hamas, and to fight against U.S. troops and the anti-Christ as it conquers Persia and Rome.”As for the massacres taking place in Gaza against the Muslim men, women and children, the Islamic State will do everything within its means to continue striking down every apostate who stands as an obstacle on its path toward Palestine,” reads an entry in the publication Dabiq, which has been distributed in numerous languages, including English. “[The Islamic State’s] actions speak louder than its words and it is only a matter of time and patience before it reaches Palestine to fight the barbaric Jews and kill those of them hiding behind the gharqad trees — the trees of the Jews,” the terror group threatens in Dabiq. Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign minister tells John Kerry that Jerusalem is ready to lend a hand against group, though it is aware of regional sensitivities of coalition members
****Caution: the Dabiq publication is the 2nd link
Sept. 18, 2014
https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/islamic-state-e2809cdc481biq-magazine-2e280b3.pdf
http://www.timesofisrael.com/liberman-pledges-israeli-help-in-fighting-islamic-state/
Headline: Hamas: Ceasefire Talks Will Restart Within a Week
Hamas senior member Mousa Abu Marzouq on Wednesday told the Palestinian Authority-based Ma’an news agency that indirect ceasefire negotiations between Palestinians and Israel will restart within the next week. Abu Marzouq said that while the exact date had not yet been set, “it would definitely be before the 24th of the current month.”The Hamas leader also said that the United Nations will take charge of the reconstruction of Gaza in coordination with Israel and the Palestinian Arab unity government, adding that Hamas would not object to any methods taken by the UN in reconstruction. Abu Marzouq added that he is waiting for a phone call from the head of the Fatah delegation in Cairo, Azzam al-Ahmad, to set a time and place for an awaited meeting between Fatah and Hamas leaders. “The movement does not mind meeting in Cairo if it agrees, but if it doesn’t, the meeting will be held in Gaza,” he told Ma’an.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/185233#.VBr_QxanGVo
Headline: IDF Said Redeploying Iron Dome Batteries Near Gaza Strip
The IDF on Wednesday redeployed Iron Dome anti-missile system batteries to the Sderot and Netivot areas near the Gaza Strip, the local 0404 news site reported. The move comes after a mortar was fired into the southern region of Israel, adjacent to the coastal enclave on Tuesday. There were no physical injuries or damages from the strike, according to local officials.
Sept. 17, 2014
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/09/17/idf-said-redeploying-iron-dome-batteries-near-gaza-strip/
Headline: Hamas warns of renewed ‘explosion’ in South due to delay in Gaza reconstruction
Fighting between Israel and Hamas will resume unless steps are taken to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, a spokesperson for the Islamist organization told Palestinian media on Thursday. “The circumstances that led to the explosion of the situation in the Gaza Strip still exist,” Sami Abu Zuhri is quoted as telling the Safa news agency.
Abu Zuhri called on the international community to “take responsibility” by “lifting the siege” and “immediately starting the reconstruction of Gaza.”
Sept. 18, 2014
Headline: Hamas considering ‘alternatives’ to ‘failed’ Palestinian unity government
A senior Hamas official on Thursday said the Gaza-based group are considering alternatives to the “failed” Palestinian unity government, as relations continue to sour with President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party. “The Palestinian unity government has failed in its missions until now. We will think of alternatives after the end of its legal period,” Mahmoud al-Zahar told Anadolu Agency. The unity government was formed on 2 June ending a seven year long rift between Hamas and Fatah. The two had governed separately, Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Fatah in the West Bank, since elections won by the former in 2006 led to a violent power struggle a year later in Gaza. It is not clear when the “legal period” of the unity government ends, although Zahar may be referring to a condition in the agreement that stipulated elections must be held six months from June this year – this would mean the government’s mandate ends on 2 December.
Sept. 18, 2014
Lebanon
Headline: Lebanon will fight terrorism without global coalition: Machnouk
Lebanon will fight terrorism without having to coordinate with the newly established international coalition to fight ISIS, Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said in remarks published Thursday. He also dismissed reports that the international community had requested such coordination from Lebanon. “It’s Lebanon’s responsibility to fight terrorism with or without an international coalition,” Machnouk said in remarks published in several newspapers. “ Lebanon is in no need of military or non-military force or the use of its airspace for fighter jets.”
Sept. 18, 2014
Headline: Fears of Rise in Extremism in Tripoli over IS, al-Nusra Front ‘Infiltration’
There are rising fears that the northern city of Tripoli will become a hub for Islamic State and al-Nusra Front fighters, who have engaged in gunbattles with the Lebanese army in a border town and beheaded two soldiers. As Safir daily on Thursday quoted security officials as saying that extremists have been spending huge amounts of money to lure young men and encourage them to be armed. Tripoli is back to the “point of disorder” after the “infiltration” of the extremists, the officials said. The city has been relatively calm since the army and security forces implemented a plan to end gunbattles between rival groups earlier this year. Scores of civilians, soldiers and fighters have been killed and injured in dozens of rounds of fighting between the impoverished neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh, which is majority Sunni, and Jabal Mohsen, whose residents are from the Alawite sect of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The security officials told As Safir that the army, security agencies and al-Mustaqbal movement ministers are preparing “preventive steps” to stop Takfiris from expanding in Tripoli and to thwart their plans. Militants from the IS and al-Nusra Front have already engaged in deadly clashes with the Lebanese army in the northeastern border town of Arsal. They took with them hostages from the army and security forces last month and later beheaded two of them. On Tuesday, gunmen crossed the border from Syria and kidnapped a soldier from his parents’ farm on the outskirts Arsal. The IS also threatened to behead another army soldier over what it described as the Lebanese government’s “lies” and “procrastination” in the negotiations over the abducted troops. The presence of the militants on the border and among the more than 1.1 million Syrian refugees across the country has raised fears over Lebanon become another Syria and Iraq where the IS has controlled thousands of square kilometers of territory.
Sept. 18, 2014
Saudi Arabia
Headline: ISIS fighter urges jihad in Saudi Arabia: SITE
A Saudi suicide bomber with the ISIS group called on fellow Saudis to wage jihad and expressed hope that the group would expand into Saudi Arabia and “expel the disbelievers from the Arabian Peninsula,” the SITE monitoring service said. It said the man, identified as Abu Hajer al-Jazrawi, had carried out a suicide bombing in August in Syria’s Raqqa, a bastion of ISIS. The video was posted on an ISIS internet feed late Wednesday. Addressing his countrymen in an apparent call for attacks not only on the ruling family and Westerners in Saudi Arabia, but also on the kingdom’s senior Muslim scholars who have denounced ISIS, Jazrawi said: “It is time to say ‘we will expel the disbelievers from the Arabian Peninsula’. The fire begins with a small spark. That spark will ignite an explosive fire directed at the Saud Family and to their rabbis and priests.” He called on self-declared Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to lead the advance on the birthplace of Islam.
Sept. 18, 2014
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: House Approves Obama’s Request to Arm Syrian Rebels
Syria Headline: House Approves Plan to Arm and Train ISIS to Fight ISIS
The House on Wednesday approved President Barack Obama’s request to arm and train Syrian rebels in the fight against the “Islamic State” (IS) group, CNN reports. With significant opposition to the proposal in both parties, the vote was 273-156, according to the report. Many Republicans argue the strategy isn’t tough enough to defeat IS; many Democrats worry the plan could drag the United States into another long military engagement. The proposal would authorize the Pentagon to provide assistance to “appropriately vetted” members of the Syrian opposition and require the administration to give Congress a detailed plan for helping the rebels before that assistance could begin. The Senate could vote as early as Thursday, noted CNN. Congress is expected to debate a broader war authorization after the midterm elections.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/185234#.VBr_whanGVo
http://www.infowars.com/house-approves-plan-to-arm-and-train-isis-to-fight-isis/
Syria Headline: Israel believes Syria kept ‘significant’ chemical munitions
Syria Headline: John Kerry declares Syria regime has broken chemical weapons deal
Israel believes Syria has retained caches of combat-ready chemical weapons after giving up raw materials used to produce such munitions under pressure from foreign powers, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday. Summarizing Israeli intelligence estimates that were previously not disclosed to avoid undermining the Syrians’ surrender of their declared chemical arsenal, the official said they had kept some missile warheads, air-dropped bombs and rocket-propelled grenades primed with toxins like sarin. “There is, to my mind, still in the hands of Syria a significant residual capability … that could be used in certain circumstances and could be potentially very serious,” the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. While saying Israel had a “high degree of confidence” in its information, he declined to give figures for chemical weapons allegedly kept by Syria, citing secrecy concerns as well as the possibility some had been destroyed or used by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. “What we are saying is that there are a number of questions here that still have to be clarified, still have to be looked at very closely” by international inspectors, the official said.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/israel-believes-syria-kept-significant-chemical-munitions-133516722.html
Syria Headline: Local Kurdish sources say ISIL militants captured the new areas in a major advance towards the city of Ayn al-Arab bordering Turkey on Thursday
The new wave of operations by the ISIL militants started on Wednesday, during which 16 Kurdish villages were seized. Sources say the ISIL terrorists used heavy weaponry, including tanks and artillery, during the raids. Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for Syria’s powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party, the Kurdish fighters withdrew or lost up to 20 villages in the Kobani region and evacuated civilians with them. “The battles that are taking place in Kobani are the most violent,” Khalil said adding that Islamic State group fighters were using tanks in their offensive. Khalil called on Kurds around the world to come to Syria to defend Kobani.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/09/18/379139/isil-overruns-kurdish-villages-in-syria/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/09/18/islamic-state-syria/15816861/
Syria Headline: Syria continues air attacks in Damascus suburbs
Syria Headline: As rockets fly in Damascus, last hopes fade
Syrian warplanes continued their week-long attack on rebel positions near the capital of Damascus, concentrating on the rebel-held city of Douma. At least 10 people, including civilians, were killed Wednesday in the airstrikes, bringing the death count to at least 105 people since Sept. 11, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The area known as Eastern Ghouta, including Douma and nearby communities of suburban Damascus, is regarded as the core of opposition to the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad. It is the area where Syrian forces allegedly used chemical weapons to kill about 1,300 people in August 2013. Troops from the Syrian army and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia have increased operations in Ghouta in recent weeks. The Syrian government line is that the rebels are gradually being pushed out of the districts beyond the ring road which they have held for almost two years. While it is true that some areas have been wrested back from rebel control, thanks to merciless pounding by artillery and aircraft, new areas have fallen. Kashkul, on the south-eastern edge of Damascus, used to be a typical new settlement of five-storey buildings gradually encroaching on farmland. Some were fully inhabited, others still under construction. Shops were always busy and the streets full of cheap cars and pick-up trucks. Now the asphalt is marked by criss-cross patterns imprinted by tank tracks, and troops stand beside armoured personnel carriers, awaiting their orders. “We are suffering from the government side and from the opposition. Both sides are destroying the city. Both use rockets and both are inaccurate. There is no solution. This will only end when there are no Syrians left”, he said desperately. “Too much blood has been spilt. How can there be forgiveness? Some families have lost five members or more. The situation is terrible.”
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/rockets-fly-damascus-last-hopes-fade-82586358
Syria Headline: ISIS shuts down some Deir al-Zor bases ahead of possible U.S. strike
Syria Headline: ISIS goes underground in stronghold Raqqa
With the U.S. military poised to strike, ISIS militants in Syria’s Deir al-Zor province have abandoned some of their bases and redeployed their forces to other positions, activists said Wednesday. ISIS has “started to empty out many of their bases and positions in Deir al-Zor province,” said Abu Osama, an activist from the eastern region, which is mostly under jihadist control. Speaking via the Internet, Abu Osama said all of ISIS’ known positions in Ashara, a town about 60 km east of the provincial capital, had been “shut down.” Abu Osama also said the jihadists had emptied out the former governorate building in Deir al-Zor city, which ISIS was using as its main weapons storage depot in the area. And in the city of Mayadin near the Iraqi border, “ ISIS pulled out of eight bases, leaving only three open – the [former] post office, the military intelligence building and the religious court,” he told AFP. “Even the oil fields are being emptied out. The families of the foreign jihadists who had been living in the residential buildings by the fields have been evacuated,” he added.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2014/09/17/ISIS-goes-underground-in-stronghold-Raqqa.html
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe
Iraq Headline: Attacks kill at least 11 in Iraq
Iraq Headline: Series of attacks kills at least 15 in Iraq
A suicide car bombing on a security post outside Baghdad and explosion on a crowded commercial street in the Iraqi capital killed at least 11 people Wednesday, officials said. The deadliest attack took place after sundown when a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into an abandoned building used by security forces in the town of Tarmiyah, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Baghdad, police officials said. Five soldiers and three policemen were killed, and at least 16 members of the security forces were wounded, the officials said. The second bombing struck a commercial street in Baghdad’s northern district of Khazimiyah, killing three people and wounded eight, police said. Medical officials confirmed the causalities. All of the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. Meanwhile, A series of attacks, including several bombings in commercial areas of Baghdad, killed at least 15 people in Iraq on Thursday, officials said. The deadliest attack struck a shopping street in the Toubachi neighborhood in northwest Baghdad, where a bomb blast killed four people and wounded 10, police said. Elsewhere in the capital, a bombing near a car repair shop downtown killed three and wounded eight, while an explosion in a wholesale produce market killed three more people and wounded 11, police officials said. A roadside bomb also struck an army patrol, killing two soldiers and wounding four. In the city’s southern suburbs, police said mortar shells landed on houses, killing three people, according to police.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/09/17/4353665/2-bombings-kill-at-least-11-in.html
http://news.yahoo.com/attacks-kill-12-wound-several-iraq-125650387.html
Iraq Headline: IS Girding for Anticipated US-Kurdish Assault on Mosul
Iraq Headline: US air strikes target IS training camp in Iraq for first time: Centcom
Major military preparations are underway by Islamic State (IS) militants in their stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq in anticipation of a major assault by US and Kurdish forces, according to sources inside. The militants are in full military gear and seen digging trenches and building barriers, said a source in Mosul, capital of Nineveh province. They are also reinforcing defenses on major roads connecting Iraq’s second-largest city to Kurdish-held areas. Fighters – particularly foreign jihadis – are believed to have been deployed around the city, said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Islamic militants are particularly concentrated on the borders of Duhok province in the south, and on the frontline south of Kirkuk. A major attack by the US air force and Kurdish ground troops is anticipated on Mosul, the first city in Iraq to fall to the militants in June. Meanwhile, the Iraqi air force dropped leaflets over Salahaddin province on Wednesday, warning people to stay away from IS installations and wherever the militants are gathered.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/18092014
Iraq Headline: Institute for the Study of War Iraq Situation Report: September 17, 2014
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2014/09/iraq-situation-report-september-17-2014.html
Iraq Headline: ISW Control of Terrain in Iraq September 17, 2014
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2014/09/control-of-terrain-in-iraq-september-17.html
Kurdish Headline: Intense Clashes Rage Between Peshmerga and Iranian Army
Kurdish Headline: Shiite Militia Groups Attack Kurds in Amerli
Clashes have intensified this week between the Iranian Army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces, where a number of Iranian soldiers have been killed. According to an announcement made by the Kurdistan Revolutionary Party, intense fighting broke out between the Iranian Army and Peshmerga forces on 11 September. The clashes took place near a Kurdish Iranian city Sardasht, located on the border of Iran and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. The announcement mentioned that as a result of the skirmish, three Iranian soldiers were killed and four others injured. They received their medical treatment at Sardasht Hospital. On 13 September 13 another confrontation took place between the two groups in Shene and Gorasher villages which resulted in the death of three Iranian soldiers killed and five injured. After the clashes, Peshmerga forces were forced to retreat toward Kurdistan Region border. On the same day, fighting also took place in the Kurdish city of Mariwan located on the border of Iran and the Kurdistan Region. The clashes continued for three hours but the unmber of casualties have not yet been revealed, though it is known that two Iranian soldiers were injured. Based on the information obtained by BasNews, a militant group called East Protectors confirmed and took the responsibility of the clash between Peshmerga forces and Iranian Soldiers and still they have not revealed their casualties.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/Intense-Clashes-Rage-Between-Peshmerga-and-Iranian-Army-/34533
http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/Shiite-Militia-Groups-Attack-Kurds-in-Amerli/34539
Headline: New ISIS video uses Brit as mouthpiece
According to different reports, the Islamic State has launched a new video with captured journalist John Cantlie. But instead of decapitating their victim, the Islamic State indents to use him for promotional purposes. In the video, Cantlie says he was “abandoned” by the UK government and claims he will seek to counter the “manipulated truths” told by world media against the Islamic State in a number of videos. “I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking ‘he’s only doing this because he’s a prisoner – he’s got a gun at his head and he’s being forced to do this,” Cantlie says. “Well, I am a prisoner – that I cannot deny – but seeing as I’ve been abandoned by my government and my fate now lies in the hands of the Islamic State, I have nothing to lose.” “Over the next few programs, I am going to show you the truth as the Western media tries to drag the public back to the abyss of another war with the Islamic State,” he concludes. In the new video, titled “Lend Me Your Ears, Messages from the British Detainee John Cantlie,” the man identified as Cantlie says he was captured by the Islamic State after arriving in Syria in November 2012. He says he worked for newspapers and magazines in Britain including the Sunday Times, the Sun and the Sunday Telegraph. “After two disastrous and hugely unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, why is it that our governments appear so keen to get involved in yet another unwinnable conflict?” the man says in the video.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4572699,00.html
Headline: IS ordered ‘demonstration killings’ in Australia, says PM
Headline: ‘Kill Christians, slaughter their children’: Thugs waving Islamic State flags threaten church-goers in Sydney
A series of anti-terror raids across Sydney and Brisbane were sparked by a senior Islamic State militant ordering “demonstration killings” in Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Thursday. “The exhortations, quite direct exhortations, were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country,” he said. “So this is not just suspicion, this is intent and that’s why the police and security agencies decided to act in the way they have.” Australian police detained 15 people Thursday in a major counterterrorism operation, saying intelligence indicated a random, violent attack was being planned on Australian soil. About 800 federal and state police officers raided more than a dozen properties across Sydney as part of the operation — the largest in Australian history, Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Andrew Colvin said. Separate raids in the eastern cities of Brisbane and Logan were also conducted. One person was charged with serious terrorism-related offenses and was scheduled to appear in court later Thursday. Colvin declined to detail the exact nature of the charges. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said court documents were expected to reveal that the plan involved snatching a random member of the public in Sydney, draping them in an Islamic State flag and beheading them on camera.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.timesofisrael.com/australian-pm-is-ordered-demonstration-killings-in-country/
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: Poland Wants United Nations to Limit Russia’s Influence
Frustrated by the United Nations’ passive response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, President Bronislaw Komorowski of Poland has said he intends to call on the organization to change its rules to prevent Moscow from vetoing Security Council actions on the region. “My main message will be that perhaps the United Nations should be reformed to make the institution capable of addressing the threats that really exist today,” Mr. Komorowski said in an interview this week at the presidential palace here in advance of his visit to the United Nations in New York next week. “I think blocking the Security Council on Ukraine is a token, a symptom, of the general weakness of the U.N.” Like the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — Britain, China, France and the United States — Russia has the power to veto any of the Council’s actions. But actually removing Russia’s veto on the Council is nearly impossible. Under Article 108 of the organization’s charter, removing the right to veto would require both a vote of two-thirds of the General Assembly and ratification by whatever constitutional process is in place in two-thirds of the member nations, including all five permanent Council members.
Sept. 18, 2014
Headline: Ukraine crisis: President Poroshenko in key US visit
Headline: U.S. giving $53 million in new aid for Ukraine’s struggle with Russian incursion
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is addressing a joint session of the US Congress during a key visit to Washington. He is seeking further support to tackle what he describes as Russian aggression. Ukraine accuses Russia of supporting rebels in the east of the country, but Moscow denies this. Mr Poroshenko earlier held talks at the state department in Washington with Secretary of State John Kerry. More than 3,000 people have died in fighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian rebels in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions since April. A fragile ceasefire agreed on 5 September is holding, despite accusations of shelling by both sides. On Tuesday, Ukraine’s MPs approved a bill granting self-rule to parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions – a move described as “capitulation” by some lawmakers. The unrest in the east followed Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s southern Crimea peninsula in March.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29245609
http://news.yahoo.com/u-giving-53-million-aid-ukraines-struggle-russian-150147352.html
Iran
Headline: West tells Iran it must address nuclear bomb fears
Western powers told Iran on Thursday it must step up cooperation with a U.N. watchdog’s investigation into suspected atomic bomb research if it wants to get a broader nuclear deal that would ease sanctions. The warning was issued at a board meeting of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, as chief negotiators from Iran and six world powers prepared to resume talks in New York after a two-month hiatus. A stalled IAEA inquiry could further complicate the powers’ parallel efforts to reach a settlement with Iran on curbing its nuclear program in exchange for a gradual phasing out of financial and other punitive measures hurting its economy. The United States and the European Union said they were concerned about the slow headway so far in the IAEA’s long-running probe into allegations that Iran has worked on designing a nuclear weapon. Iran denies the charge and says it is Israel’s assumed atomic arsenal that threatens Middle East peace. An IAEA report in early September showed Iran had failed to answer questions about what the U.N. agency calls the possible military dimensions of the country’s nuclear program by an Aug. 25 deadline.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/18/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-eu-idUSKBN0HD15R20140918
Afghanistan
Headline: War News for Thursday, September 18, 2014
Reported security incidents
#1: A security man was killed in a blast in Balochistan’s troubled Kech district on Thursday, a security official said. A security official, who requested anonymity, told Dawn that militants targeted a security forces’ vehicle in Shapuk area of Turbat. He said one security man was killed in the attack. “The vehicle was targeted with a remote-controlled bomb,” he added.
#2: In another incident, armed men killed a police officer in the Double Road area of Quetta on late Wednesday night. Imran Qureshi, the Superintedent of Police, told Dawn that armed militants opened fire on a police assistant sub-inspector (ASI), and killed him on the spot. He said the assailants fled from the scene after launching the attack.
#3: Tajik border guards killed an Afghan drug smuggler and wounded two others Wednesday on the Tajik-Afghan border, in Shuroabad district of Khatlon province, Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security (SCNS) said on Thursday.
#4: Defense ministry spokesman, Gen. Zahir Azimi confirmed that three Afghan soldiers were martyred in improvised explosive device (IED) attack.
#5: At least 22 Taliban militants including Punjabi insurgents were killed following clashes with the Afghan security forces in Kunar province.
http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/
Libya
Headline: Islamist leader killed in Benghazi
Headline: Libya’s elected parliament rejects PM’s new cabinet as oil sector takes hit
Headline: Libya meeting rejects military intervention
A major Libyan Islamist militia leader was killed during fighting around Benina International Airport, Libya Herald reported on Wednesday (September 17th). Salah Benali, the head of the Shura Council for Islamic Youth in Derna, was part of the renewed effort by Ansar al-Sharia and the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council to seize the civilian and military airfields. Benali’s group, the Shura Council of Islamic Youth, is an al-Qaeda linked militia that emerged last April. It has staged several public executions in Derna.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://magharebia.com/en_GB/articles/awi/newsbriefs/general/2014/09/18/newsbrief-01
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/18/us-libya-security-idUSKBN0HD11L20140918
Morocco
Headline: Because of ISIS Morocco Asks Turkey to Require Visa For Moroccans
To tighten its grip on extremists who seek to join the ranks of the Islamic State (IS), the Moroccan government reportedly asked Turkey to require a visa for Moroccans wishing to visit or pass through Turkey, Moroccan newspaper Akhbar Al Youm said in its Thursday edition. According to the same source, the Moroccan authorities aim to curb the flow of Moroccans joining IS, most of whom travel to Syria and Iraq through Turkish territory. The fact that Moroccans don’t need a visa to enter Turkey makes it easier for some extremists to get through its borders and join the ranks of this terrorist organization. The same source added that Turkey does not seem to be enthusiastic about the Moroccan request for political and economic reasons. The political reason is related to Ankara’s reluctance to fully engage in the international coalition led by the United States to destroy IS. The second reason is related to the importance of the Moroccan market for the Turkish tourism sector. More than 100,000 Moroccans visit Turkey every year. This has a positive impact on the country’s economy, which relies heavily on tourism. If the Turkish government meets the request made by its Moroccan counterpart, the number of Moroccans tourists who visit Turkey is likely to plummet, which will have a negative impact on its economy. A report published by CNN earlier this month said that over 1,500 Moroccans have joined the ranks of terrorist groups in Syria, including IS.
Sept. 17, 2014
Turkey
Headline: Turkey announces strategy to bolster EU accession bid
Turkey said on Thursday crises in the Middle East and elsewhere made closer co-operation between Ankara and the European Union essential and announced a new program to revive the country’s stalled drive for EU membership. A document released by the EU Affairs Ministry described the accession process as “the most important modernization project after the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey”. The document highlights a substantial shift in tone on the part of the Turkish authorities, who have reacted angrily to criticisms from European officials since last year over their handling of anti-government protests and a widespread corruption scandal which has swirled around Erdogan’s inner circle. Despite tensions, relations between Ankara and its European partners have apparently been cemented in recent months over efforts to tackle the flow of so-called “foreign fighters” heading to and from Europe to join militant groups such as Islamic State in neighboring Syria and Iraq. “The recent dramatic changes, from Syria to Ukraine and Middle East to North Africa, require Turkey and the EU to act jointly against the global and regional threats,” the 12-page document laying out Turkey’s strategy, stated. The program is due to come into operation in November and will focus on “Political Reform Process, Socio-Economic Transformation in the Accession Process and EU Communication Strategy,” the document said. The strategy targets a change of the constitution, better implementation of existing laws, as well as a drive to drum up public support for the EU, and will be part of the government’s so-called “action plan”, due to run until 2019.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://newsdaily.com/2014/09/18/turkey-announces-strategy-to-bolster-eu-accession-bid/
Headline: Tension escalates in Southeast as PKK sets fire to 6 more schools
Groups affiliated with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) set six more state schools on fire in Yüksekova, a district of Hakkari province, on Tuesday and Wednesday night, escalating tension that erupted following the government shutting down three newly opened private schools offering education in the Kurdish language in three southeastern provinces. After setting fire to five schools in Cizre, a district of Şırnak province, on Tuesday evening, members of the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H) and some PKK supporters threw Molotov cocktails at four other state schools located in various parts of Yüksekova on Tuesday night. The schools — Esenyurt, Hamit Kesici, Uğur Sıtkı and Gazi primary schools — were seriously damaged by the petrol bombs. The YDG-H also set fire to two other schools in the same district on Wednesday night. With the start of the 2014-2015 school year on Monday, three Kurdish-language schools opened in Diyarbakır’s Bağlar district, Cizre and Yüksekova, with each holding its own inauguration ceremony. However, the three district governor’s offices in which the schools are located had warned residents that any ceremonies heralding the schools’ openings would be illegal if held.
Sept. 18, 2014
Armenia
Headline: Armenian soldier killed in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
An Armenian soldier has been killed in fresh clashes with Azerbaijani troops in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. “Private Mger Akopian, 24, was fatally wounded on September 18, while on duty,” the regional Defense Ministry said in a statement issued on Thursday. Last month, rising tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh left over 20 troops dead. Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a conflict over the disputed territory with occasional clashes along the ceasefire line. Nagorno-Karabakh is largely populated by Armenians but located in Azerbaijan.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/09/18/379138/soldier-killed-in-nagornykarabakh/
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: Boko Haram ‘in charge of 25 towns’ in northeast Nigeria
Boko Haram militants are in charge of at least 25 towns and villages in northeast Nigeria, the region’s Roman Catholic bishop has claimed, warning of a deteriorating security situation. Bishop Oliver Dashe said 10 towns in Yobe state, the same number in Borno and five in Adawama had fallen to the rebels over the last month, as they seek to carve out a hardline Islamic state. International assistance was now required to tackle the problem, he told the Nigerian Catholic Bishops’ Conference in the southern city of Warri, Delta state, Wednesday. “As a nation we are almost losing this battle because it is spinning out of control,” he added. “The earlier we come together as Nigerians, forgetting our religious, ethnic, regional, cultural and ideological differences to face this menace the better for us.”
Sept. 18, 2014
Headline: Roadside Bombs Kills 4 UN Peacekeepers in Mali
A roadside bomb in northern Mali killed four U.N. peacekeepers and wounded three on Thursday, a spokesman said of the latest in a string of deadly attacks on the force. A car carrying Chadian troops hit the explosive north of Aguel’hoc, which is near the embattled city of Kidal, said Olivier Salgado. Earlier this month, four U.N. peacekeepers were killed and several were wounded when their convoy hit a mine in the same region. Another mine killed a peacekeeper earlier this week. There was no immediate claim of responsibility and Salgado did not speculate on who was responsible for the bomb. Previous land mines have been blamed on Islamic extremists linked to al-Qaida, and they have taken responsibility for some. Northern Mali fell under control of Tuareg separatists and then al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremists following a military coup in 2012. A French-led intervention last year scattered the extremists, but some remain active in the countryside and there have been continued bursts of violence. U.N. troops are now trying to stabilize the north, and peace talks have begun between the Malian government and Tuaregs, who maintain a heavy presence in Kidal and have resisted the authority of the Bamako-based government. Al-Qaida is not participating in those discussions.
Sept. 18, 2014
Headline: Bahrain warns of ‘counter measures’ against Doha
Bahraini authorities have threatened to take “counter measures” against Qatar should it continue to naturalize Bahrains, Al Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported on Thursday. Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah al-Khalifa, Bahrain’s interior minister, warned that his country would adopt these measures if Qatar does not stop efforts to lure Bahraini nationals towards abandoning their citizenship, an act he called “unfriendly” and offensive. “Such conduct goes against the spirit of brotherhood,” Sheikh al-Khalifa is quoted as saying by the Arabic daily, adding that it also violated the cooperation “we looked forward to” between Gulf Cooperation Council states. If Qatar continues to promote the abandonment of Bahraini nationality, Sheikh al-Khalifa warned that officials in Bahrain will have to resort to measures “they do not look forward to.”
Sept. 18, 2014
Headline: Yemen clashes as UN envoy pursues rebel talks
Headline: Armed Shiite rebels push into Yemen’s capital
Shiite rebels clashed with Sunni Islamists backed by troops north of Sanaa Thursday, as the U.N. envoy huddled in the rebel stronghold to try to end Yemen’s political crisis. Fighting raged between the rebels, known also as Houthis, and fighters of the Islah (Reform) party in Shamlan. Witnesses said five people were wounded. The fighting has spread to Iman University of religion which belongs to top Islah figure preacher Abdul-Majid al-Zandani, they said. The capture of Iman University, a few kilometres from president Hadi’s residence, marks a dramatic victory for the Houthis, a Shiite group based in the northern province of Saada who are demanding government changes. Explosions and gunfire sounded on Wednesday as Houthi militants battled it out with fighters loyal to general Ali Mohsen, a rival of ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Residents in the east of the capital said the two sides were using anti-aircraft missiles. Others fled their homes. U.N. envoy Jamal Benomar flew unexpectedly Wednesday to rebel bastion Saada where he had a three-hour meeting with their leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi. Benomar called the talks “constructive and positive,” and the two are expected to meet again Thursday. However, sources close to the talks said they still face hurdles, mainly on the dismantling of protest camps set up by the rebels weeks ago in and around Sanaa. The rebels earlier rejected an offer by President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi to name a new premier and reduce a controversial fuel price rise, two core rebel demands.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/armed-shiite-rebels-push-yemens-capital-1070179193
Headline: Scots turn out to vote in independence referendum
Voters from across Scotland streamed into polling places Thursday to have their say in a historic referendum that could create the world’s newest independent nation, while breaking up one of the West’s oldest and most consequential political unions. With polls showing an exceptionally tight contest, the pro-breakaway nationalists and the status quo unionists made frenzied appeals that extended right up to the moment voters cast ballots. “Today you hold Scotland’s future in your hands,” read a leaflet that 50-year-old “yes” campaigner Ivan Mckee was passing out to fellow Scots as they stepped into a community center in the heart of Glasgow. “We think we are going to win,” Mckee said, noting momentum toward “yes” that has been reflected in the polls.“We have been working at this for two years, and it’s all paying off now.”
Sept. 18, 2014
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: Sierra Leone readies for controversial Ebola lockdown
Headline: Doctors Without Borders staffer contracts Ebola, will be evacuated to France
Headline: No trace of Ebola on New Orleans-bound ship, CDC insists
Headline: Death toll in West Africa Ebola epidemic reaches 2,630: WHO
Sierra Leone prepared Thursday, September 18, for an unprecedented 3-day nationwide lockdown to contain the deadly spread of the Ebola virus in a controversial move which experts claimed could worsen the epidemic. The population of six million will be confined to their homes from midnight (0000 GMT) going into Friday as almost 30,000 volunteers go door-to-door uncovering patients and bodies hidden in people’s homes. “Rain or shine, the shutdown exercise is going to go ahead. During the three days… the job is going to get done,” said Steven Gaojia, head of the government’s emergency operation centre. The worst-ever outbreak of Ebola has claimed more than 500 lives in Sierra Leone, one of three countries at the epicenter of the epidemic which has so far killed almost 2,500. “Ose to Ose Ebola Tok” – “house-to-house Ebola talk” in the widely-spoken Krio language – will see more than 7,000 volunteer teams of four visiting the country’s 1.5 million homes. They will hand out bars of soap and information on how to prevent infection, as well as setting up “neighbourhood watch”-style community Ebola surveillance teams. The government has said the teams will not enter people’s homes and are not tasked with collecting patients or bodies, but will call emergency services or burial teams “if by chance the teams happen to bump into such situations”.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.rappler.com/world/regions/africa/69502-sierra-leone-ebola-lockdown
http://news.yahoo.com/death-toll-west-africa-ebola-epidemic-reaches-2-131717287.html
Headline: Enterovirus 68 confirmed in Minnesota
Headline: Doctor: Gov’t ‘Tight-Lipped’ on Respiratory Virus, May be From Illegals
Headline: CDC confirms respiratory illness in Virginia
Minnesota has joined a group of states reporting a respiratory illness caused by the virus known as enterovirus 68. State health officials said Wednesday that a case was confirmed Tuesday evening via lab tests from a child hospitalized with acute symptoms. The child has since been released and is recovering at home, the agency said. Shortly after the Department of Health report, the University of Minnesota said it had confirmed 11 cases at its children’s hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota Public Radio News reported. A hospital spokeswoman told The Associated Press she did not know the conditions of the patients. The Health Department said the results confirmed suspicions that enterovirus is circulating in Minnesota. Some hospitals have reported an increase in children being brought in for respiratory problems. At least 12 other states have confirmed cases of the virus, many in the Midwest. It can cause mild to severe illness, and may even require breathing help for patients with the worst cases. But no deaths have been reported.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.wtop.com/267/3704026/CDC-confirms-respiratory-illness-in-Va
Headline: Number of chikungunya cases in El Salvador tops 16,000
Headline: Death toll from Chikungunya hits 113 in the Caribbean, PAHO says
Headline: Epidemiologist declares chikungunya epidemic in Virgin Islands
At least 16,000 patient have contracted the chikungunya virus in El Salvador, prompting health officials in the Central American country to step up the fight Monday to eliminate disease-carrying mosquitoes. “Of the 16,000 chikungunya cases, 11,000 are in the department of San Salvador,” where the capital is located, Health Minister Violeta Menjívar said during a press conference. Menjívar said the country remains on “national alert,” which was declared last June for both the chikungunya virus and dengue, both transmitted by mosquitoes. She said officials would “intensify the response,” including stepping up fumigation efforts and national awareness campaigns aimed at reminding residents to eliminate stagnant water. “We are calling for the unification of efforts by government agencies, municipalities and the Education Ministry [for a campaign] in schools,” the minister said. Chikungunya fever is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, and causes a sudden high fever, skin rashes, pounding headaches, nausea and muscle pain.
Sept. 17, 2014
http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/09/15/number-of-chikungunya-cases-in-el-salvador-tops-16000
http://virginislandsdailynews.com/news/epidemiologist-declares-chikungunya-epidemic-in-v-i-1.1754655
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Increase in Drugs Revelation 9:21 “And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.”
In Revelation 9:21 we see Jesus speaking to us about drug’s. The words “sorceries” in Revelation 9:21 is the Greek word pharmakia from which comes our word “pharmacy”. It signifies the use of medicine, drugs, spells, such as those used in witchcraft and those used today by those who are seeking a greater “high”. This generation was to be labeled a drug generation and we are.
Headline: Stoners on the job: Nearly 10% of Americans go to work high
Showing up to work high? You’re not alone. A new report has found nearly 1 in 10 Americans are showing up to work high on marijuana. Mashable.com conducted the survey in partnership with SurveyMonkey, and found 9.7 percent of Americans fessed up to smoking cannabis before showing up to the office. The data analyzed the marijuana and prescription drug habits of 534 Americans. What’s more, nearly 81 percent said they scored their cannabis illegally, according to the survey. Cannabis and the workplace seem quite linked lately. Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel recently chimed in on marijuana and work. While criticizing Twitter during an appearance on CNBC Wednesday, Thiel said Twitter is a “… horribly mismanaged company—probably a lot of pot smoking going on there.”
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102009068
Headline: Italian army to grow medical marijuana
The Italian army is aiming high with its latest weapon on the medical front: marijuana. The ministers of defense and health signed a deal Thursday for a joint project to produce cannabis derivative drugs for pain relief. The famous spiky-leafed plants will be cultivated and treated at a military pharmaceutical plant in Florence. “The aim is to produce medicine for extremely serious pathologies, such as multiple sclerosis, or for pain relief,” Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin told a press conference. “The project has no ideological or cultural value, it’s just in the interest of the sick.” The project should produce around 80 to 100 kilos of active principle – the extract from marijuana plants used in medicines – each year. Defense minister Roberta Pinotti said the Italian military’s medical skills are “often unsung or underestimated. In Florence we have everything we need to begin production.”
Sept. 18, 2014
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/World/2014/Sep-18/271130-italian-army-to-grow-medical-marijuana.ashx#axzz3DgdrcVFa
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) 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: Last month was world’s hottest August on record: US
Last month was the hottest August on record for global average temperatures over land and ocean surfaces, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday. If the trend continues, 2014 could set new records for planet-wide heat, a development that would raise new alarm over the pace of global warming and the burning of fossil fuels. The month’s temperature was 1.35 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average, the agency said in its monthly climate report. “It was the largest departure from average of any month on record,” said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at NOAA, noting that record-keeping began in 1880. The month’s average land and ocean surface temperature was 61.45 Fahrenheit (16.35 Celsius). The 20th century average for August is 60.1°F (15.6°C). The period of January to August was also the third warmest on record, said the report. “If we continue a consistent departure from average for the rest of 2014, we will edge out 2010 for the warmest year on record,” Crouch told reporters.
Sept. 18, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/last-month-worlds-hottest-august-record-us-154156957.html
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