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Headline: Hamas ‘working to double its arsenal of rockets for next war with Israel’
A senior commander of Hamas’ military wing said on Monday that while his organization has no interest at the moment in fighting Israel, the Gaza-based Islamist group wants to double its arsenal of rockets and missiles in anticipation of the next round of fighting. Marwan Issa told a gathering Gaza City that Hamas continues to manufacture rockets and forge alliances with whoever can assist its cause.
March 2, 2015
Headline: US officials warns tensions with Israel could last, as Kerry lobbies Saudis on Iran
A top US official Tuesday warned that the current tensions between traditional allies US and Israel could last until the end of the Obama administration in 2016. “There are moments of significant agreement and then there are moments of tactical disagreement,” US deputy secretary of state Antony Blinken told French radio station Europe 1. “That’s the nature of things and I imagine that will continue for the last two years of the Obama administration,” added Blinken, who spoke in French. Iran and the United States Tuesday returned to the negotiating table for a second day of talks, as a political storm over the issue unfolded thousands of miles away in Washington. By the shores of Lake Geneva in the town of Montreux, US Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif as they try to pin down a political framework for a deal to rein in Tehran’s nuclear programme by a March 31 deadline. US officials said they began their talks at 9:30 am (8:30 am GMT).
***See also Saudi Arabia & Iran below
March 3, 2015
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4632839,00.html
Headline: Netanyahu Responds to Obama’s Criticism of His Speech to Congress
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he offered a “practical alternative” to the deal being negotiated over Iran’s nuclear program, after President Barack Obama criticized his address to Congress as containing “nothing new.” Obama said Netanyahu didn’t offer any “viable alternative” and that “as far as I can tell, there was nothing new” in the Tuesday speech. “In my speech before the Congress, I presented a practical alternative,” Netanyahu said upon landing at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport. He said his alternative would impose tougher restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program and delay how quickly the Islamic Republic could assemble a nuclear weapon.
March 4, 2015
Headline: Abbas refuses to drop ICC lawsuits against Israel
The Palestinian Authority will not go back on its demands for an International Criminal Court investigation into war crimes allegedly committed by Israel, despite the fact that the Israeli government offered to return hundreds of millions of dollars in Palestinian tax revenues in exchange for dropping the lawsuits, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday. “The International Criminal Court is the only place where we can raise complaints about the occupation,” Abbas said at a meeting of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization. “They told us that if we do not go to The Hague they will return us the money. We are against barter in return for us not appealing to the court,” he said. “How are they allowed to take away our money? Are we dealing with a state or with a gangster?” Abbas added, according to Reuters.
March 4, 2015
http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-refuses-to-drop-icc-lawsuits-against-israel/
Headline:Temple Mount Police Openly Defy Court Ruling on Jewish Prayer
The Israeli courts may have once again ruled in favor of Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, but a senior Jerusalem police officer made it clear to Jews visiting the holy site that the police would not be following that ruling. The officer, who is well known to Jewish visitors and responsible for clearing Jewish visits (amid severe restrictions), told a group Wednesday morning that as far as he and the police force as a whole were concerned “this court ruling doesn’t exist.” Rabbi Chaim Richman, International Director of the Temple Institute and long-time advocate for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount, recounted the “astonishing” conversation to Arutz Sheva after returning from his visit. The fact that a police officer was willing to so brazenly deny the court’s authority “reveals the depths of the subterfuge” involved in banning Jews from worshipping at their holiest site, he said.
March 4, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192116#.VPdo9uEe2uQ
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Jordan
Headline: Jordanian King Warns Global Battle With ISIS Has Launched World War III
Jordan’s King Abdullah II is warning that the international battle against Daesh – the terror organization known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, ISIS or ISIL – has launched World War III, although the rest of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the radical Islamic terror group may not yet realize it. In fact, the Hashemite monarch told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Global Public Square earlier this week, “This has to be unified. “I’ve said this to leaders both in the Islamic and Arab world, and to the world in general: This is a third World War by other means. “This brings Muslims, Christians, other religions together in this generational fight that all of us have to be in this together.
March 4, 2015
Lebanon
Headline: Lebanon Army expands northeast border shelling
Headline: Lebanese soldier and militant killed in shootout in north: sources
The Lebanese Army has expanded its targets along the northeastern border with Syria, pounding jihadi militants on the outskirts of Arsal, security sources said Tuesday. The sources said the new preemptive measure began late-Monday night with artillerymen shelling ISIS and Nusra Front positions around Wadi Hmeid and Wadi Hosn on Arsal’s outskirts. The Army had maintained a near-daily pattern of pounding militant positions on the outskirts of Ras Baalbek, which nestles in the barren mountainsides embracing the Bekaa Valley, for about 10-15 minutes every few hours in a bid to repulse possible jihadi attacks. It was the first time the Army shelled Wadi Hmeid and Wadi Hosn – the farthest east points in Arsal, close to the border with Syria. The policy of preemptive shelling was put in place after eight soldiers, including an officer, were killed and 22 others were wounded in fierce clashes with ISIS militants on the outer edge of Ras Baalbek in January.
March 3, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/03/us-lebanon-security-idUSKBN0LZ0LS20150303
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Saudi Arabia, South Korea sign nuclear cooperation agreement to build reactors
The leaders of Saudi Arabia and South Korea agreed to cooperate to build more than two small and medium-size nuclear reactors in projects worth as much as $2 billion, The Korea Herald reported Tuesday. South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday and met with King Salman to discuss ways to enhance bilateral relations. Before visiting Saudi Arabia, Park concluded a three-day visit to Kuwait. She is scheduled to continue to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. The two leaders signed a memorandum of understanding to build the Asian country’s SMART reactors, designed by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute specifically for Middle Eastern countries to generate electricity and desalinate seawater, said the report. The agreement calls for a feasibility study to construct the reactors in Saudi Arabia, which should be completed by 2018.
March 3, 2015
Egypt
Headline: Arab League to Discuss Creation of ‘Unified Arab Force’
The Arab League will consider setting up a defense unit to battle the spread of the Islamic State (ISIS) group at its annual summit later this month, an official said Tuesday. Deputy chief Ahmed Ben Helli told reporters that the March 28-29 meeting in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh will discuss an Egyptian initiative to create a “unified Arab force,” reports AFP. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called for such a unit to confront security threats in the region where ISIS holds swathes of Syria and Iraq and has gained a foothold in Egypt’s neighbor Libya. Last month Sisi ordered air strikes in Libya after ISIS jihadists there beheaded 21 mostly Egyptian Christians. Ben Helli said a united Arab force was needed, even as a “symbolic” show of deterrence at times of “conflict or disasters.” “Such forces should be ready and present so that they could symbolically show that the Arab countries have a deterrent force and a peacekeeping force that could step in at times of conflicts,” he said.
March 3, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192086#.VPYeL-Ee2uQ
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Syrian Rebels Bomb Key Aleppo Intelligence HQ
Dozens were killed Wednesday when Syrian rebels set off a powerful tunnel explosion targeting an intelligence headquarters in Aleppo and clashed with regime forces, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast hit a building housing the air force intelligence offices in the west of Syria’s second city and was followed by heavy clashes, reports AFP. “The explosion and the fighting caused dozens of deaths on both sides,” the Britain-based group said, adding that part of the building had collapsed. At least 20 regime forces and 14 rebels were killed in the fighting according to the monitoring group. They added that the attempt to conquer the regime headquarters failed, and sporadic fighting had started to dwindle. The clashes pitted rebels from several factions against government troops supported by fighters from Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy and a key backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, it said. An AFP journalist in eastern Aleppo said the blast was loud enough to be heard across the city and some residents said it had felt like an earthquake. A Syrian military source confirmed the explosion and said clashes were continuing.
March 4, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192153#.VPdoZeEe2uQ
Syria Headline: Southern Syria fighting heats up
Syria Headline: Nusra Front Refuses to Leave Beit Sahem in Southern Damascus, Declares it Will Defend its Bases
Fierce fighting pitting Hezbollah and Iranian-led troops against rebels in southern Syria has intensified, leaving dead an Afghan commander close to Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani. “Daraa [outskirts] have witnessed violent clashes over the past few days between opposition forces and the Al-Nusra Front on one side and Lebanon’s Hezbollah supported by Iranian and Syrian regime forces on the other,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Tuesday. The monitoring group added that the regime was seeking to seize “full control” over the triangle of territory stretching from the western outskirts of Damascus down to Quneitra in the southwest and Daraa in the southeast.
March 4, 2015
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/564911-southern-syria-fighting-heats-up
Syria Headline: Pro-Assad forces target civilian cars near Turkish border
On Tuesday, pro-Assad military forces reportedly targeted with thermal rockets civilian cars which were carrying displaced families near the Turkish border. Dozens of casualties were reported, including children. Civil rights activist Ghias Ali told ARA News that the regime’s warplanes try to prevent displaced civilians from crossing into Turkey by targeting their vehicles near the borderline. While fleeing to the Turkish territory, the villagers are also facing vigorous difficulties due to the ongoing clashes between rebels of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and al-Nusra Front (Syria’s branch of al-Qaeda) in the countryside of Aleppo in northern Syria. Speaking to ARA News, Talib Ismail from the village of Maarat Nasan said that he has been trying to move his family out of the war-torn village for a few days without success. “The roads are closed due to the thermal rockets launched by Syrian warplanes,” he said, pointing out that the only road open is through Afrin area, “which we cannot cross because of the security checkpoint by different armed forces.” “Severe shortages of food hit the village (Maarat Nasan) over the last few days due to the closed roads. People can hardly survive under such conditions,” Ismail added.
March 4, 2015
http://aranews.net/2015/03/pro-assad-forces-target-civilians-cars-near-turkish-border/
Syria Headline: ISW Syria Situation Report Feb. 24- March 2, 2015
http://iswsyria.blogspot.com/2015/03/syria-situation-report-february-24.html
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: IS says US suicide bomber carried out Iraq attack
Iraq Headline: ISIS Unleashes Guerrilla Tactics in Bitter Battle for Tikrit
An American jihadist carried out a suicide truck bomb attack against Iraqi forces involved in an operation to recapture the city of Tikrit, the Islamic State group said Tuesday. “The brother Abu Dawud al-Amriki (may Allah accept him) launched himself with his explosives-laden truck against a gathering” of Iraqi forces and militiamen, an IS radio bulletin said. The report gave no details on the man’s identity. It claimed that dozens of Iraqi forces were killed and wounded in the blast, but no other sources could immediately confirm. Pro-IS social media accounts said the attack was carried out Monday near Samarra, the other main city in Salaheddin province, and released a picture they said was of Abu Dawud al-Amriki. He is masked with only a pair of dark eyes visible. He also wears a microphone, suggesting the group may issue a video of the militant later. Samarra is controlled by the government and has been the launchpad for a broad military operation which officially began Monday to wrest back Tikrit — further north up the Tigris River — from the jihadists.
March 3, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/group-says-us-suicide-bomber-carried-iraq-attack-005028236.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192085#.VPYeqeEe2uQ
Iraq Headline: Iranian-backed Shiite militias lead Iraq’s fight to retake Tikrit
The Iraqi Security Forces, supported by several Iranian-backed Shiite militias and Sunni tribal fighters, have launched an offensive to retake Tikrit from the Islamic State, which has held the central Iraqi city since June 2014. Massive columns of Shiite militas, including some groups that are listed by the US as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, have been leading the fight in Tikrit. The operation, which involves more than thirty thousand Iraqi security personnel and militia forces, started on the morning of March 2. According to Al Jazeera, Iraqi forces and allied militias attacked the city from three sides while Iraqi aviation launched an aerial bombardment. As of yet, the US has not launched any airstrikes in support of the operation. The US has refused to support the Tikrit offensive because Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) elements are actively supporting the operation, anonymous US officials have told The Wall Street Journal. Although the US military has refused to provide air support for the offensive due to Iran’s involvement, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Iran’s involvement could be “a positive thing” if the Shiite militias do not lash out at Sunnis in and around Tikrit.
March 4, 2015
Iraq Headline: Iraqi forces advance to free Salahudin province from IS militants
Iraqi security forces on Wednesday continued their biggest offensive for the third day in Salahudin (Salah al-Din) province to free the northern parts of the province from the Islamic State (IS) militants, security sources said. The troops and allied Sunni and Shiite militias, covered by Iraqi air support, attacked Ajil oilfield area in east of the provincial capital city of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, sparking heavy clashes with the IS militants, a provincial security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The troops continue their fight during the day to free the oilfield within the coming few hours of the day, the source said. Late on Tuesday, the troops recaptured the nearby oilfield of Allas, after they drove away the extremist militants, he said, adding that both the small oilfields apparently were used to fund the extremist militants’ activities. Meanwhile, the security forces are still progressing slowly and cautiously from their positions around the towns of Dour in south of Tikrit and Alam in east of the city, because the militants planted dozens of bombs in the roads leading to the towns, while sporadic clashes and sniper shots were also behind the slow advance of the troops who sustained some casualties.
March 4, 2015
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-03/04/c_134038225.htm
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report March 2, 2015
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/iraq-situation-report-march-2-2015.html
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the Russian invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Russia.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Germany.
Beth Togarmah is Turkey and Armenia.
Russia
Headline: Top U.S. general says it is time to consider arming Ukrainian forces
Headline: Russian Fighter Jets Practice Attacking NATO Ships
The top U.S. military officer expressed openness Tuesday to providing U.S. weapons to Ukrainian forces, joining a growing number of senior American officials who say greater U.S. involvement may be needed in Kiev’s fight against Russian-backed separatists. “I think we should absolutely consider providing lethal aid,” said Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “And it ought to be in the context of our NATO allies because [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s ultimate objective is to fracture NATO.” Dempsey’s comments came in response to a question from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a strong proponent of arming Ukrainian forces, as Dempsey and Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to defend President Obama’s proposal for military spending in fiscal 2016. Although he stopped short of saying he would definitely support providing weapons to the Ukrainian military, it was the first time that Dempsey publicly backed consideration of such a move.
March 3, 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/top-us-general-says-it-is-time-to-consider-arming-ukrainian-forces/2015/03/03/aa68dade-c1d6-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html
http://www.infowars.com/russian-fighter-jets-practice-attacking-nato-ships/
Headline: Russia Accuses U.S. of Plot to Oust Putin Via Opposition Aid
Russia’s Security Council accused the U.S. of plotting to oust President Vladimir Putin by financing the opposition and encouraging mass demonstrations, less than a week after a protest leader was murdered near the Kremlin. The U.S. is funding Russian political groups under the guise of promoting civil society, just as in the “color revolutions” in the former Soviet Union and the Arab world, council chief Nikolai Patrushev said in an e-mailed statement Wednesday. At the same time, the U.S. is using the sanctions imposed over the conflict in Ukraine as a “pretext” to inflict economic pain and stoke discontent, he said. U.S. officials have dismissed the suggestion of a plot. White House spokesman Josh Earnest called the idea “outrageous and false.” Secretary of State John Kerry said this week that Putin “misinterprets a great deal of what the United States has been doing and has tried to do.” Will Stevens, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, said by e-mail that sanctions on Russia are aimed at seeking a change in the country’s policies, not its government. More than 50,000 people turned out in central Moscow on Sunday to mourn the death of Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy premier-turned Putin opponent who was gunned down in one of the most heavily guarded areas of the capital late Friday. That was the biggest rally Russia has seen since 2011-2012, when Putin was preparing to return to the presidency for a third term.
March 4, 2015
Iran
Headline: Iran’s Khamenei: ‘Increasing global hatred of Israel is a sign of divine help’
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has claimed that heightened anti-Israel sentiments across the globe serve as a sign of “divine help” in the Islamic Republic’s fight against its arch enemy. “Increasing global hatred of #Israel is a sign of divine help,” he wrote late Monday on Twitter. Iran’s leading cleric came out against the pro-Israel lobby, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the group’s annual confab on Monday. “The day when Western ppl realize that their problems result from #Zionism’s hegemony over govts they will make an inescapable #hell for them,” Khamenei said on Twitter. According to Khamenei, Israel has also exerted its control over American officials, “obliging” them to “flatter” the government in Jerusalem. “Zionists’ hegemony over US officials is such that these poor ppl have to show consideration for #Israel& cover up its crimes. #ShutDownAIPAC,” said the chief Iranian cleric.
March 3, 2015
Headline: Iran calls Obama’s 10-year nuclear demand ‘unacceptable’
Headline: Iran, UN atomic watchdog to meet in Tehran March 9
Iran rejected on Tuesday as “unacceptable” U.S. President Barack Obama’s demand that it freeze sensitive nuclear activities for at least 10 years but said it would continue talks on a deal, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported. Iran laid out the position as the U.S. and Iranian foreign ministers met for a second day of negotiations and as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a stinging critique of the agreement they are trying to hammer out. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met a day after Obama told Reuters that Iran must commit to a verifiable halt of at least 10 years on sensitive nuclear work for a landmark atomic deal to be reached. “Iran will not accept excessive and illogical demands,” Zarif was quoted by Fars as saying.
March 4, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/03/us-iran-nuclear-usa-idUSKBN0LZ0YU20150303
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-un-atomic-watchdog-to-meet-in-tehran-march-9/
Afghanistan
Headline: Afghan forces kill 121 Taliban militants during cleanup operations
Afghan security forces have killed 121 Taliban militants and detained nine others during separate cleanup operations across the country over the past 24 hours. The Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that the militants were killed and arrested during a series of operations carried out in the provinces of Farah, Ghazni, Helmand, Herat, Kandahar, Kunduz, Nangarhar, Sari Pul, Takhar, Uruzgan and Zabul. The statement added that 23 foreign nationals were among the slain militants, noting, “The Taliban suffered the heaviest casualty in Khak Afghan district of Zabul Province.” It, however, did not mention whether there were any casualties on the side of the Afghan forces. Taliban have not yet made any comments on the issue.
March 4, 2015
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/04/400262/Afghan-forces-kill-121-Taliban-militants
Sudan
Headline: U.N. Security Council sets up South Sudan sanctions regime
Headline: South Sudanese rival leaders began direct talks, urged to take ’tough compromises’
The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday established a sanctions regime for South Sudan but stopped short of imposing worldwide travel bans and asset freezes on officials in the conflict-torn country or an arms embargo. The unanimously adopted resolution, drafted by the United States, threatens to blacklist anyone undermining security or interfering with the peace process after Thursday and April 1 deadlines set by the regional East African IGAD bloc. IGAD has so far been unsuccessful in its attempts to mediate an end to the civil war, in which at least 10,000 people have been killed and 1.5 million internally displaced. The latest round of IGAD-led peace talks are due to end on Thursday.
March 4, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/03/us-southsudan-un-idUSKBN0LZ1SV20150303
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article54183
Libya
Headline: Sources: More than a dozen ISIS operatives in Libya, but no US authority to strike
More than a dozen Islamic State fighters from Iraq and Syria — some with direct ties to the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — are now in Libya working on behalf of the terror group, according to U.S. and European sources. And the U.S. has no authority to take them out. The fighters are in addition to dozens of ISIS sympathizers in the country. The situation is raising fresh security concerns, as the U.S. and its allies struggle to keep tabs on the many arms of the ever-expanding ISIS network. One source, who is not authorized to speak on the record given the sensitivity of the data, said they would not be surprised “if the next 9/11 came out of Libya.” An ISIS presence has been flagged in Benghazi, Derna and Sirte, in addition to training camps providing a steady flow of recruits.
March 3, 2015
Headline: Libya oil fields of Bahi and Mabruk ‘seized by militants’
Headline: Libya declares force majeure at 11 oil fields after attacks
Headline: Air strikes carried out on Tripoli airport: military
Islamist militants are reported to have seized two oil fields in central Libya, as rival groups fight for control of the country. Forces guarding the Bahi and Mabruk sites retreated after running out of ammunition. It is not clear which group seized the oil fields. Libya’s internationally recognised government in Tobruk and its rivals Libya Dawn also conducted air strikes on each other’s positions. “Extremists took control of the Bahi and Mabruk fields and are now heading to seize the Dahra field following the retreat of the forces guarding these sites,” said Colonel Ali al-Hassi, a spokesman for the oil industry security service. A gun attack on Mabruk in February left 11 people dead. At the time witnesses said the attackers had claimed to be from a militia which has joined Islamic State. The Islamic State militia, which controls the town of Derna, has not commented. The BBC’s Rana Jawad in Tripoli says the seizure of these fields will put more pressure on Libya’s oil-reliant economy, already barely functioning because of the battles between rival forces driven by political differences and local grievances.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31719043
Tunisia
Headline: Tunisian army kills two Islamist militants near Algerian border
Tunisian police killed two Islamist militants during clashes near the Algerian border, where the military has been targeted previously in ambushes, the army said on Wednesday. The fighting came after army and police launched a major operation this week to flush out militants from a base in the Chaambi mountains near Algeria. “Our special forces killed two members of the terrorist group in Chaambi mountains in an exchange of fire,” said army spokesman Bel Hassen Ouslati. “The Tunisian army seized weapons, after the confrontation with terrorists,” he added. Last month, four Tunisian police were killed in a militant attack in the same central region of Kasserine.
March 4, 2015
Algeria
Headline: Algeria: 40 police wounded in anti-shale gas protest
Forty police officers were wounded on Sunday in clashes with demonstrators opposed to shale gas exploration in the Algerian Sahara, the Interior Ministry announced. “The town of In Salah saw incidents involving public order, initiated by a group of young people protesting against shale gas operations in the region,” the ministry said in a statement. It said the clashes “caused injuries to 40 police officers, including two who were seriously injured.” Protesters set fire to the headquarters of In Salah district and the residence of the district chief, as well as part of a police dormitory and a police truck. The security forces managed to “take control of the situation and bring calm to the city,” the statement said.
March 2, 2015
Germany
Headline: 70 Years After Hitler’s Death, Germany To Republish ‘Mein Kampf’
Adolf Hitler’s manifesto “Mein Kampf” is a rambling, hate-filled, disjointed and sometimes unintelligible blueprint for the Third Reich. When a new annotated edition of the book is published in Germany in January 2016, it will mark the first time in almost 70 years that the text will be found in German bookstores. After the war, the occupying allies banned the book, and the rights passed to Hitler’s home state of Bavaria. But the copyright expires at the end of the year, and all 16 German states have agreed that the book can be re-released, as long as it contains annotations. But even with the 4,000 or so expected footnotes, there has been protest. A spokesman for the Jewish Forum For Democracy Against Anti Semitism in Berlin asked “can you annotate the devil?”
March 4, 2015
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/03/04/republish-mein-kampf-hitler
Turkey
Headline: Suspicions of Turkey, Hamas alliance stoke fears in Israel
Hamas, the terrorist group perpetually at odds with Israel, has found a willing patron in Turkey, say critics, who allege the NATO member has rolled out the red carpet for the Jewish state’s longtime nemesis, whose official headquarters are now in Istanbul. Kicked out of Damascus in Syria amid deteriorating relations with the Assad regime, Hamas’ top leadership has established a new office in Istanbul called the ‘West Bank and Jerusalem Headquarters.” With the approval of the Turkish authorities, Salah Al-Arouri, one of the founders of the Al Qassam Brigade (Hamas’ military wing), and who served 15 years in jail in Israel for terrorist offenses, has been directing Hamas’ efforts in the West Bank to overthrow the Palestinian Authority and attack Israel at the same time. “Turkey has become a Hamas hotbed, and members of the organization’s military wing are undergoing military training on Turkish soil, with the knowledge, support, and assistance of the local authorities,” leading Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot reported last week. “The U.S. administration has appealed in recent months to the Turkish government to prevent Hamas military activity in its territory, arguing that Turkey is a member of NATO and that Hamas is viewed by most NATO members as a terrorist organization. The appeals have gone unanswered.”
March 4, 2015
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/04/turkey-red-carpet-for-hamas-stokes-fears-in-israel/
Armenia
Headline: Armenia-Azerbaijan bloodletting threatens Karabakh ceasefire
Locals sigh with relief as their Armenian village of Movses, close to the border with Azerbaijan, disappears in the lilac mist rolling down from the Kardash mountain, where Azeri snipers have fortified positions. “The mist is our salvation. When visibility is zero, we know the Azeris won’t be shooting,” said Khanum, an elderly Armenian woman who, like other Movses residents, lives in constant fear of Azeri snipers. But just across the frontline, on the Azeri side, the fear is no less intense. “The streets are deserted during the daytime,” said Ismail Nabiyev, who lives in Alibeyli, an Azeri village. “We can’t hold wedding parties or funerals. The Armenians shoot at us when they see people gathering.” The bloody Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict over the Nagorny Karabakh region formally became a frozen one over two decades ago. In reality the war has never stopped for Azeri and Armenian villagers living along their countries’ border. The villages of Movses and Alibeyli lie around 200 kilometres from Nagorny Karabakh itself. But violence has spread far beyond the epicenter of the conflict, with Azeri and Armenian sharpshooters along their border threatening the shaky peace as tit-for-tat bloodletting annually claims dozens of lives. Sparking fears of a new all-out war between the countries, last year saw an unprecedented spiral of violence with more than 70 people from both sides killed. At least for those living in these rural border areas, war has already returned.
March 4, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/armenia-azerbaijan-bloodletting-threatens-karabakh-ceasefire-164131759.html
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: Chad president tells Boko Haram leader to surrender or face death
Headline: Boko Haram Adopts ISIS Style In New Beheading Video
President Idriss Deby of Chad said on Wednesday he knew the whereabouts of Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, and called on him to surrender or risk being killed. Chad’s army has waged a series of battles against Boko Haram as part of a cross-border military campaign and has re-taken territory the militant group held in northeastern Nigeria. “Abubakar Shekau must surrender. We know where he is. If he doesn’t give himself up he will suffer the same fate as his compatriots,” Deby told a news conference. “He was in Dikwa two days ago. He managed to get away but we know where he is. It’s in his interests to surrender,” Deby said, referring to a town in northeastern Nigeria held by Boko Haram that fell to Chad’s army earlier this week. The Chadian army is considered one of the best in the region and is backed by a strong air force. It first deployed to help Cameroon fend off Boko Haram and is now pressing southwest into Nigerian territory after capturing the border town of Gambaru last month.
March 4, 2015
http://newsdaily.com/2015/03/chad-president-tells-boko-haram-leader-to-surrender-or-face-death/
http://www.vocativ.com/world/nigeria-world/boko-haram-adopts-isis-style-in-new-beheading-video/
Headline: Five dead in Qaeda suicide attack on Houthis in central Yemen
Headline: Yemen’s Hadi wants reconciliation talks moved to Saudi
Five people were killed in an al Qaeda suicide attack on a Houthi outpost in central Yemen on Tuesday, the Defence Ministry said, highlighting the volatility of a country torn by militant and sectarian violence. The United States and its Gulf allies fear the spread of militant and sectarian violence in Yemen — situated between oil giant Saudi Arabia and an important Red Sea shipping lane — will push the country towards a civil war and unravel the state’s already limited control over its territory. The ministry’s news website said five people were also wounded in Tuesday’s attack by a suicide bomber who detonated a vehicle laden with explosives on a youth centre used by the Houthi militia as an outpost in the city of al-Baydah. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one of the Sunni Muslim militant groups battling the Shi’ite Houthis since they captured AQAP’s central Yemen strongholds last year, said several of its members carried out the attack.
March 3, 2015
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: Saudi Arabia ups official oil prices amid signs of stronger demand
Headline: GOP-led Senate fails to override Obama’s Keystone veto
Saudi Arabia raised the official selling prices (OSPs) for its oil deliveries to Asia and the United States on Tuesday, in the latest signal OPEC’s largest exporter is seeing signs of stronger demand. The Kingdom raised all U.S.-bound crude prices by $1 a barrel and hiked extra-light crude oil to Asia by $1.40 a barrel, in a vote of confidence oil demand is growing in two of its biggest markets following the price crash since June. While the increase was largely anticipated by traders amid other signs of robust demand, it bolsters the impression Saudi Arabia is comfortable with the rebound in Brent crude to around $60 a barrel after hitting a six-year low of $45 in January.
March 4, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/03/us-saudi-oil-osp-idUSKBN0LZ25C20150303
Headline: CBO: U.S. will hit debt limit in October or November
The Treasury Department will exhaust its capacity to borrow in October or November if the debt limit isn’t raised, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Tuesday. The non-partisan CBO had previously estimated that “extraordinary measures” Treasury could use to continue borrowing would last until September or October. Read CBO’s latest estimate. The debt limit is suspended until March 15. After that date, so-called extraordinary measures available to the Treasury to keep borrowing include deferring new investments in federal retirement and disability funds. Wall Street analysts have also estimated the Treasury will likely have until the fall to raise the debt ceiling. The Republican-led Congress would need to take a vote to increase the borrowing limit. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, has pledged not to let the government default on its obligations. But some in the GOP could call for spending cuts in exchange for raising the borrowing limit and force negotiations to go down to the wire.
March 3, 2015
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cbo-us-will-hit-debt-limit-in-october-or-november-2015-03-03
March 2, 2015 – 100,000 ducks killed due to avian flu in Fuzesgyarmat, Hungary
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/150302/hungarian-farm-culls-100000-ducks-after-h5n8-bird-flu-detect
March 3, 2015 – Hundreds of dead fish found floating in a river in Hainan, China
http://www.ecns.cn/visual/hd/2015/03-03/60211.shtml
March 3, 2015 – Large die off of fish ‘due to cold weather’ at 3 sites in Nova Scotia, Canada
http://www.novanewsnow.com/News/Local/2015-03-03/article-4063974/Superchill-kills-fish-at-Cooke-Aquaculture-sites-in-Nova-Scotia/1
March 3, 2015 – Thousands of dead fish, plus dead ducks found in a lagoon in Buenos Aires, Argentina
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.agenciaelvigia.com.ar%2Fanoticia00060062.htm&edit-text=&act=url
March 3, 2015 – Dead turtles found on a beach in Piacabucu, Brazil
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conexaopenedo.com.br%2F2015%2F03%2Fpraia-do-peba-amanheceu-com-grande-quantidade-de-tartarugas-mortas%2F&edit-text=&act=url
March 4, 2015 – 23,500 Birds to be killed due to avian flu in Schwanewede, Germany
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.weser-kurier.de%2Fregion%2Fdie-norddeutsche_artikel%2C-Entwarnung-fuer-Schwanewede-_arid%2C1070533.html&edit-text=&act=url
March 4, 2015 – Thousands of dead fish found on coast of East Java, Indonesia
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.merdeka.com%2Fperistiwa%2Fikan-di-pesisir-pantai-pamekasan-mati-melepuh-diduga-teracuni-gas.html&edit-text=&act=url
March 4, 2015 – Snow Geese have died this winter due to disease in Illinois, America
http://www.chicagonow.com/illinois-outdoors/2015/03/avian-cholera-outbreak-earlier-this-winter-claimed-300-birds-not-a-threat-to-overall-waterfowl-populations/
March 4, 2015 – 4.17 million birds have been killed since January due to avian flu in Taiwan, China
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aeco/201503040026.aspx
Apostasy & Alternative Lifestyles Amos 8:11, 1 Timothy 4:1-3 & Romans1:26-27 “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.” (1 Timothy) “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord.” (Amos) “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due”(Romans)
Headline: U.S. judge rules Nebraska same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional
A federal judge on Monday ruled Nebraska’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional in a decision that could allow same-sex couples to marry in the state within a week. U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon issued a preliminary injunction in the case brought by seven same-sex couples in the state, calling Nebraska’s ban an “unabashedly gender-specific infringement of the equal rights of its citizens.” Bataillon denied a state request to stay his decision but said his injunction would take effect on March 9 to assuage Nebraska officials’ concerns of possible administrative turmoil. Nebraska state officials quickly appealed the ruling to the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. “The definition of marriage is an issue for the people of Nebraska, and an activist judge should not substitute his personal political preferences for the will of the people,” Governor Pete Ricketts said in a statement. Nebraska voters in 2000 adopted a state constitutional amendment that defines marriage as only between one man and one woman and does not recognize civil unions, domestic partnerships or similar relationships for same-sex couples.
March 2, 2015
Headline: ABC Family’s show ‘The Fosters’ Airs Youngest-Ever Gay Kiss Between Two 13-Year-Old Boys
Set in a mixed family environment, The Fosters are a diverse group of children, both biological and adopted, whom an interracial lesbian couple cares for, according to the show’s IMDB page. The show, which premiered in 2013, already pushes the limits in the eyes of some, who have raised questions regarding what constitutes modern family programming. The watchdog group One Million Moms boycotted the show immediately after it was announced in 2012. The group then stated: Obviously, ABC has lost their minds… One Million Moms is not sure how the explanation will be given on how the biological children were conceived. None of this material is acceptable content for a family show … Let’s stop this dead in it its tracks. Co-executive producer Jennifer Lopez previously described the show as portraying “a new kind of family” and believes it is reflective of the world today. “Family has tuned into something else,” said Lopez. “Family equals love.” ABC Family, originally founded by controversial pastor Pat Robinson as the Christian Broadcasting Network, was acquired by Disney in 2001.
March 4, 2015
Apostasy Amos 8:11 & 2 Peter2:1-3 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord.” (Amos) “ But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.” (2 Peter)
Headline: Idaho Senate opens with Hindu prayer, 3 lawmakers protest
Three lawmakers refused to attend the Idaho Senate’s daily invocation after objecting to the offering of a Hindu prayer. Rajan Zed, guest chaplain, gave a lengthy prayer in both English and Sanskrit on Tuesday that focused on selflessness and peace. Senators from both sides of the aisle shook his hand and thanked him for coming. However three lawmakers, all Republican, only came back onto the floor once the prayer was over: Sens. Steve Vick, Sheryl Nuxoll and Lori Den Hartog. Nuxoll says she declined to attend because she believes the United States is a Christian nation. Vick had announced his objections the day before, saying that he would ask his colleagues to join him. Hartog said it would’ve been disingenuous to her Christian faith to attend.
March 3, 2015
Headline: New York public schools add two Muslim holidays to calendar
New York public schools will add two Muslim holidays to their vacation calendars, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday, a promise he made during his election campaign. Two of the most sacred holidays in the Islamic calendar, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, will be observed. Eid al-Adha, or “Festival of Sacrifice,” will be a vacation day on September 24, starting in the 2015-2016 school year. The festival of breaking the fast, Eid al-Fitr, which falls over the summer in 2016, will be designated a holiday for summer school students. The mayor said the move reflects New York’s diversity, calling it a “common sense change.” “We made a pledge to families that we would change our school calendar to reflect the strength and diversity of our city,” he said in a statement. “Hundreds of thousands of Muslim families will no longer have to choose between honoring the most sacred days on their calendar or attending school.” New York public schools already give students the day off for some Jewish and Christian holidays. Muslim children account for about 10 percent of New York’s public school students. It is not the first city to close for Muslim holidays — some districts in Vermont, Massachusetts and New Jersey already do.
March 4, 2015
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: Mexican drug cartels reach Japan; meth seizures double
A report released Wednesday by the International Narcotics Control Board revealed that Mexican drug cartels have extended their reach to Japan, where methamphetamine seizures have doubled compared to the previous year. The Control Board, a United Nations organization, released its annual report Wednesday and concluded that Mexican drug cartel influence has also created a “significant” increase in crime associated with the drug. Although most of the methamphetamine abused in east and southeast Asia is produced within the region, sources for methamphetamine have originated from Africa to Iran. “In a worrying development, trafficking of amphetamine-type stimulants through East Africa (e.g. Ethiopia and Kenya) for onward shipment by plane to east and southeast Asia has continued,” the Control Board states. “The latest reports from the authorities in Japan suggest an increasing influence of Mexican cartels on its domestic methamphetamine traffic.” The Attorney General’s Office of Mexico suspects gangs in Hong Kong are making deals with Mexican drug cartels by helping give the cartels the precursor chemicals to making meth.
March 4, 2015
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: Volcano Villarrica erupts in southern Chile
Headline: Thousands flee as volcano erupts in southern Chile
Volcano Villarrica in southern Chile erupted in the early hours of Tuesday, sending a plume of ash and lava high into the sky, and forcing the evacuation of nearby communities. The volcano, located near the popular tourist resort of Pucon around 750 km (460 miles) south of the capital Santiago, is one of South America’s most active. It last erupted in 2000. A column of ash and rock particles shot up to 3 km (nearly 2 miles) into the night sky at around 3 a.m., said the national geological service Sernageomin. Some 3,385 people had been evacuated as a preventative measure, said Interior Minister Rodrigo Penailillo.
March 3, 2015
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/03/thousands-flee-as-volcano-erupts-in-chile/?intcmp=latestnews
Headline: What’s shaking? 
List & map of USGS Earthquakes