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Headline: Rains drench Israel, snow cools the north
Headline: Small earthquake felt in northern Israel
Heavy rains are expected to continue to fall on Israel throughout the weekend, accompanied by strong winds and thunder in some places. With the strong rainfall comes the risk of floods which will possibly bring movement to a standstill in a number of locations throughout the country, particularly in the center of cities. The cooling temperatures and wetter conditions are not the only offers of respite in what has been an extremely protracted summer and a grave cause for concern for Israel’s farmers and population alike. Meanwhile, For the second time in two weeks, northern Israel feels a small tremor as a 3.8 magnitude earthquake rocks 5 kilometers north of the Kineret.
Dec. 2, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4887428,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4887443,00.html
Headline: Obama postpones moving of embassy to Jerusalem
President Barack Obama on Thursday signed a waiver which prevents moving the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Congress passed a law in 1995 mandating the move of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but allowed the President to exercise a waiver delaying the move. The waiver must be renewed every six months. “I hereby determine that it is necessary, in order to protect the national security interests of the United States, to suspend for a period of 6 months the limitations set forth in sections 3(b) and 7(b) of the Act,” Obama said in a memorandum. Thursday marked the eighth time Obama has signed the waiver, which has been signed by every President since Bill Clinton, each time citing “national security” as the reason for the delay. However, this could be the last time the waiver is renewed – if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his campaign promises. During the election campaign, Trump promised to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv in recognition of Jerusalem being Israel’s capital city. Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Dean Heller drafted a law last year that would remove the president’s authority to invoke national security as a reason to ignore Congressional resolutions on moving the embassy to Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority, which wants Jerusalem to be the capital of its desired future state, has expressed anger over Trump’s campaign promises and vowed to “make life miserable” for the United States at the United Nations if he follows through with the move.
Dec. 2, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221144
Headline: Hamas to hold war preparation drill in Gaza
The government of Hamas, which is the de-facto governing authority in Gaza, continues to build up its military capabilities in preparation for a future conflict with Israel. Gaza’s Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the local security forces, many of whom are active in Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades, announced on Thursday that a comprehensive military drill will be held throughout the coastal enclave this coming Sunday. According to the announcement, the drill will begin at 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning, and sounds of explosions and gunfire will be heard in Gaza during that time. The police headquarters and some of the Palestinian security forces will be evacuated during the drill, and the forces will be deployed in the field. This appears to be a drill practicing a scenario of an Israeli attack. In recent years, Hamas has been working feverishly to rebuild its infiltration tunnel network into Israel, after the IDF destroyed the network during Operation Protective Edge in 2014. In addition, the group has invested considerable resources in the development and procurement of weapons, including long-range missiles that cover most of the territory of the State of Israel. As part of these efforts, Hamas conducts ongoing missile tests meant to advance its domestic rocket arsenal ahead of its next terror war against Israel. Just last week, a senior Hamas official announced that Hamas has thousands of rockets capable of striking Tel Aviv and localities to the north in the event of another war.
Dec. 2, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221141
Headline: Hezbollah vs ISIS vs Israel
Two incidents this week showcase the complexity of the challenges facing Israel on its northern front. In the first, an air strike killed four members of the Islamic State-affiliated Khalid Ibn al-Walid Brigade after a patrol of the Golani reconnaissance unit in the southern Golan Heights was targeted by the organization. Israeli aircraft then targeted a facility used by the group in the Wadi Sirhan area. In the second incident, according to regional media reports, Israeli aircraft operating from Lebanese airspace fired Popeye missiles at targets in the Sabboura area, 8 km. northwest of Damascus. There were no casualties, according to SANA, the official Syrian news agency. London-based Arabic newspaper Rai al-Youm reported that the Israeli strike was targeting a Hezbollah-bound weapons convoy. The paper also reported that Israeli aircraft carried out a second strike on a facility of Syria’s 4th Armored Division, near Damascus. Israel neither confirmed nor denied the second incident. But on a number of occasions over the last four years of war in Syria, Israel has used its ability to operate in the skies over Syria to prevent weapons transfers to Hezbollah in Lebanon from the Syrian regime. It is possible that this incident was the latest act in this effort. These two events are of tactical importance only. Neither is likely at this stage to lead to broader engagements, but they reflect a reality in which some of the world’s most powerful non-state military organizations are deployed close to Israel’s border with Syria, making war against one another while planning and organizing for a future war against the Jewish state.
Dec. 2, 2016
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/Hezbollah-vs-ISIS-vs-Israel-474233
Headline: Iran: We have ‘unwavering support’ for Palestine
Iran’s Deputy Ambassador to the UN Gholam-Hossein Dehqani said to the international organisation that Israel continues to commit atrocities against the Palestinians. Israel “continues to disregard and disrespect the persistent demands by the international community to abide by international law,” he said in a statement addressed to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. “The systematic violation of the rights of the Palestinian people, including demolition of homes, forced displacement of Palestinian civilians, arrest and detention of Palestinians, including children, and incessant violence, terror and provocations by Israeli settlers and extremists, including at sensitive religious sites, particularly al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem al-Quds , have persisted unabated,” he continued.
Dec. 1, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iran-unwavering-support-palestine/
Headline: Israel’s new ambassador arrives in Turkey- VIDEO
Headline: ‘Drop charges against Israelis in Mavi Marmara incident’
A Turkish prosecutor called on Friday for charges related to the 2010 Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound ship attempting to break the sea blockade imposed by Israel on Gaza in order to prevent arms shipments, to be dropped following diplomatic reconciliation between Turkey and Israel, state media reported. The so-called “Mavi Marmara incident” in question occurred when IDF soldiers boarded the Mavi Marmara ship after Turkish Islamists posing as humanitarian aid workers refused to change their course from Gaza and dock at the Ashdod Port. On Friday the prosecutor told an Istanbul court that the case against the Israeli individuals should be dropped because of the agreement, state-run news agency Anadolu said. Turkish prosecutors had been seeking life sentences for the alleged involvement of former military chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi, former navy chief Eliezer Marom, former military intelligence head Amos Yadlin and former air force intelligence chief Avishai Levy, who went on trial in Turkey in absentia in 2012. In October, families of the Islamists killed aboard the ship and lawyers told AFP they had no intention of dropping the lawsuits despite the deal. One of the final key elements of returning to normal relations was the exchange of ambassadors, which will formally take place this month. Israel’s envoy Eitan Naeh arrived in Ankara on Thursday, and he is due to present his letter of credence to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan within days. Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s policy advisor Kemal Okem will start work as Turkey’s ambassador to Israel on December 12, Anadolu said on Friday.
Dec. 2, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221146
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221161
Headline: UN calls on Israel to transfer control of the Golan Heights to Syria
Headline: Stunning World, UN Passes 6 Resolutions Confirming Everything Is Israel’s Fault
UN released the Document a/7l/I.8 calling for the return of the Golan Heights to the Syrian state. Israel had annexed the Syrian Golan during the infamous Six Day War of 1967 along with the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. Since then, Israel has ceded Sinai to the sovereign control of Egypt under a US-sponsored peace deal while the Syrian state and its Israeli counterpart failed to reach such a diplomatic breakthrough. The UN General Assembly on Wednesday adopted six resolutions on “Palestinian and Middle East issues,” ranging from Jerusalem to the United Nations special information program on the question of Palestine. The good news is that Israel still has a smattering of friends at the UN: Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, and the United States (and Israel, of course) voted against; Australia, Cameroon, Honduras, Guatemala, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Tonga, and Vanuatu abstained. The rest, 153 world nations that include places where you plan to spend your vacation this summer or buy your car, condemned Israel as being responsible for most of the ills of the planet, especially the Middle East. For instance, Haya al-Duraie, representing Kuwait which in 1991 expelled 400,000 Palestinians into the desert, expressed support for international efforts that were laying the foundation for security and stability in the region. “However,” the ambassador warned, “the faltering peace process continues to present a danger to the Middle East.” There you have it.
Dec. 1, 2016
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/un-calls-israel-transfer-control-golan-heights-syria/
Lebanon
Headline: Turkish FM stresses stability in Lebanon
Visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stressed Friday that “stability is an important factor in Lebanon,” reiterating the importance of “strengthening the Turkish-Lebanese relations.” Cavusoglu, who kicked off a visit to Beirut on Friday, held a meeting with President Michel Aoun and conveyed a message from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of congratulating the Lebanese new head of state on his election, the National News Agency (NNA) reported. Touching on the repercussions of the influx of Syrian refugees into Lebanon, Aoun highlighted the “need for reaching a political solution in Syria” and hailed Lebanon’s role in sheltering displaced Syrians.
Dec. 2, 2016
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-12/02/c_135877107.htm
Saudi Arabia/Egypt
Headline: Egypt and Saudi Arabia: Marriage on the Rocks?
For several decades, the alliance between Egypt and Saudi Arabia has served as an anchor of a pro-Western geopolitical order in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Dating back to the 1970s, Cairo and Riyadh’s mutual interests and concerns about common threats and shared opportunities have fostered strong ties between the Arab world’s most populous state and its wealthiest one. Egypt, which has faced major security, political, and economic challenges in recent years, has grown quite dependent on the oil-rich kingdom for financial aid. The Saudis, long reliant on external support for defense, have counted on Egypt as a strong and experienced military force to confront what they perceive to be Iran’s expansionist and “aggressive” operations throughout the region. Recently, however, the Cairo-Riyadh relationship has significantly deteriorated. In October, Egypt sided with Russia in yet another clash within the United Nations Security Council over Syria by voting with Moscow in favor of a Russian resolution that argued for a ceasefire in Syria excluding Aleppo. The move felt like an unexpected betrayal for Saudi Arabia, which for years has strongly opposed the axis crafted in Syria among Moscow, Tehran, Lebanese Hezbollah, and Damascus. Abdullah al-Muallami, Riyadh’s envoy to the U.N., called Cairo’s vote “painful,” Just a few days later, Saudi Aramco announced its intention to suspend deliveries of petroleum to Egypt, a country that is constantly at risk of energy crises.
Dec. 2, 2016
https://lobelog.com/egypt-and-saudi-arabia-marriage-on-the-rocks/
Headline: Aleppo army break siege and ready for urban warfare
Rebels in Aleppo have agreed to form a new military alliance headed by “Abu AbdulRahman Nour,” to protect the city they control from the brutal assaults by the regime and its allies. The new alliance would be called the Aleppo Army and would be led by the commander of the Jabha Shamiya rebel faction, one of the major groups fighting in northern Syria under the Free Syrian Army. A commander at the Jabha Shamiya told Reuters that the new coalition will help in the centralization of the decision-taking process. The situation in Aleppo is escalating, with the regime forces seizing more than 40% of Eastern Aleppo, 15 days after the eruption of the massive assault to restore the second biggest city in Syria. The UN had said that Russia is working on setting up four humanitarian corridors to evacuate the wounded victims and provide medical and food supplies for the trapped civilians in East of Aleppo. The scene in Aleppo is tragic; dead bodies all around the neighborhoods that are controlled by the opposition after the assaults led by the regime. The majority have fled the city and those who chose to stay there, are living without the bare necessities. International reporters and journalists are all describing the situation in Aleppo as hopeless amid the constant attacks from the regime forces.
Dec. 2, 2016
Headline: ISIS bombing Deir Ezzor with drones
ISIS has been bombing regime-controlled areas of Deir Ezzor with rudimentary weaponized drones, the terrorist group’s first use of the tactic in Syria. On Friday morning, a drone operated by the jihadist group dropped explosive devices on the Al-Jaz, Al-Barid and Howeika district of the eastern Syrian city, according to an activist group. Al-Nateq did not elaborate on casualties or property destruction caused by the unusual bombing raid, the latest in a series of attacks conducted by ISIS using remotely-guided aircraft to drop explosives in Deir Ezzor. Only days before, the pro-opposition 7al.me reported that seven people were killed in a more wide scale bombing attack on Deir Ezzor that featured several drones, showing the tactic’s potential for destruction. Reports of ISIS weaponized drone attacks in the divided city began emerging in late October, however none of them have gone into details on the technical nature of the operations or what type of explosive is being used. In one of the first reports of the new style of ISIS raid, Euphrates Post on October 20 said that a “reconnaissance plane” owned by ISIS dropped explosives on the Joura neighborhood of the city, killing one person and injuring four others.
Dec. 2, 2016
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/567531-isis-using-new-drone-tactic-in-syrias-deir-ezzor
Headline: Pentagon: Mosul 20% captured, Islamic State in city’s east isolated
About 20 percent of Mosul has been captured from Islamic State control, while the city’s east has been completely isolated, U.S. military officials said in its latest update on fighting in the stronghold. Col. John Dorrian, U.S. spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, told Fox News on Thursday he estimates Iraqi security forces have freed about 20 percent of Mosul during “very dangerous fighting.” Dorrian said he could not estimate when the Islamic State would be cleared from Iraq’s second-largest city, adding that it is “going to take some time … but ultimately the flag of Iraq is going to be raised in the center of the city.” “The Iraqi forces are working very hard to get this done … but they are up against a fanatical enemy,” Dorrian said. Iraqi security forces, aided by the Kurdish Peshmerga, Shiite militias and a U.S.-led international coalition, began a ground offensive on Oct. 17 to capture Mosul away from Islamic State control. “The Iraqi security forces have completely encircled the city,” Dorrian said, adding Islamic State militants “are largely going to be destroyed in place.” Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Defense, said Iraqi security forces are approaching the city from the east, southeast and the north. Iraqi forces have already entered Mosul, Davis said in a Defense Department statement published Thursday.
Dec. 2, 2016
Turkey
Headline: 3 Turkish Soldiers Killed Clashes in Kurdish Region
Three Turkish soldiers were killed Friday after clashing with Kurdish militants in the southeastern province of Hakkari, military sources said. The military launched an operation in the region, which borders Iraq, following the clashes, the sources said. The private Dogan news agency reported that several Kurdish militants had been “neutralized.” Turkey’s southeast has been rocked by violence following the collapse of a 2-1/2-year ceasefire between the state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in July last year. The PKK has repeatedly targeted security forces since. Some 49 PKK militants were killed or captured in operations last week, the Interior Ministry said Monday, adding that 269 people suspected of aiding and financing the militant group had been detained.
Dec. 2, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/a/turkish-soldiers-killed-in-kurdish-region/3620184.html
Headline: Assad cannot remain in power: Turkish FM
Headline: Erdogan backtracks on comment about Turkey’s incursion to remove Assad
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu Friday said that Syrian President Bashar Assad cannot remain in power, speaking during a visit to Beirut. “Instead of prioritizing his own interests, he should consider the interests of the entire [Syrian] nation,” Cavusoglu said during a joint news conference with his Lebanese counterpart, caretaker FM Gebran Bassil. “Assad’s existence [in power] cannot fortify the unity of Syria,” he said. “A person responsible for the death of more than 600,000 of his people cannot remain in power.” The Turkish FM also called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Syria. “War in Aleppo is worrying,” he said. “A mutual understanding is necessary to declare a cease-fire.” He expressed support for any effective meetings between main players in the region, particularly between Russia and the U.S., to end hostilities in Syria. “We [the international community] should get together to facilitate a solution in Syria and reach a cease-fire through collective efforts,” he said.
Dec. 2, 2016
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/erdogan-backtracks-comment-turkeys-incursion-remove-assad/
Iran
Headline: Iran says extension of sanctions act by US Congress violates nuclear deal
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that the US Senate’s vote to extend sanctions against the Islamic Republic for 10 years violated a historic nuclear deal reached between the country and six major powers in 2015. “The extension of sanctions by the US congress is a violation of the deal. We will report it to Iran’s committee, assigned for monitoring the implementation of the deal,” according to a statement by Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi read on television. Congress members and US officials said the renewal of the Iran Sanctions Act, which was passed unanimously on Thursday, would not violate the nuclear agreement, under which Iran curbed its nuclear-power program in return for lifting sanctions. Iran’s top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned in November that an extension would breach the deal and threatened retaliation. “The American government is responsible of carrying out its international commitments … The US president has accepted to use its authority to prevent such measures,” Ghasemi said, according to the state news agency IRNA.
Dec. 2, 2016
Afghanistan
Headline: China suggests the construction of rail lines linking Afghanistan and Pakistan
Headline: Five Afghan army forces killed in Taliban attack in southern Kandahar
Headline: 23 civilians killed by militants in S. Afghanistan
China has proposed that a railway line be built linking the Pakistani city of Quetta to the Afghani capital of Kabul, as well as from the Pakistani city of Peshawar to Kabul, according to Afghan Presidential Palace. The proposal was made by the Chinese Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Kong Xuanyou in a meeting with the Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani. Xuanyou emphasised the importance of Afghanistan to China’s New Silk Road. He recommended that Afghanistan, China, and Pakistan hold discussions to construct new economic corridors through construction of railway lines. Ghani said that his country wants to have strong relations with all of Afghanistan’s neighbors. Peshawar and Quetta have significant Pashtun communities who also make up the majority of ethnic people in Afghanistan.
Dec. 2, 2016
https://eblnews.com/news/world/five-afghan-army-forces-killed-taliban-attack-southern-kandahar-46754
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-12/02/c_135876790.htm
Sudan
Headline: In Sudan, austerity and protest as economy crumbles
Mohamed Yassin’s minimarket occupies a prime spot in Khartoum but its shelves are largely empty as a plummeting currency and slew of subsidy cuts pushes prices up and customers away. “Prices rise daily after the government decisions and what we sell, we can no longer completely replace because our capital is losing value,” 44-year-old Yassin told Reuters. “Sales have dropped significantly … We don’t know how long we can handle it. We’re afraid we’ll go out of business.” Inflation approaching 20 percent and government austerity have fueled growing discontent and rare protests in Sudan in recent weeks. Protests have so far been small but, mindful of popular anger that swept away several Arab autocrats in 2011, the government of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has been quick to silence media criticism over its handling of the crisis. Sudan’s economic problems have been building since the south seceded in 2011, taking with it three-quarters of oil output, the main source of foreign currency and government income. Its revenues dwindling, the government began reducing fuel and power subsidies in 2013 and announced a new round of cuts in early November that saw petrol prices rise about 30 percent.
Dec. 2, 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-economy-protests-idUSKBN13R0IM
Libya
Headline: Armed groups clash in Tripoli in worst fighting for over a year
Rival armed factions battled overnight and into Friday in the worst outbreak of fighting in the Libyan capital Tripoli for more than a year. Black smoke rose into the sky and explosions reverberated around the Abu Salim and Hadba districts, and an eyewitness said a major road nearby had been blocked off with shipping containers. Gunfire echoed across several other neighbourhoods. Tripoli is controlled by an array of armed groups which sporadically clash over territorial control or economic interests. Some groups have quasi-official status, but no government has succeeded in taming their power since the uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi five years ago. The violence is the latest setback for the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), which arrived in the capital in March with the acquiescence of some powerful armed factions but has struggled to assert its authority.
Dec. 2, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4887531,00.html
Morocco
Luke 21:9-10
Matthew 24:6-7
Mark 13:7-8
Revelation 6:4
Revelation 6:8
Headline: 2,000 veterans to give protesters a break at Standing Rock
Headline: Group protests Dakota Access Pipeline at Wells Fargo in downtown Billings
Thousands of U.S. veterans will descend this weekend on the site in North Dakota where Native Americans have been protesting the construction of a pipeline that would threaten water and their land. Some 2,000 veterans will join demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline with the idea of giving a break to protesters who have engaged in the standoff for months. The veterans also want to call attention to the violent treatment that law enforcement has waged on the protesters, according to Veterans Stand for Standing Rock. “We want to offer them a moment of peace and, if we can, take a little bit of pressure off,” said Ashleigh Jennifer Parker, a Coast Guard veteran and spokeswoman for Veterans Stand for Standing Rock. Two-thousand veterans have signed up and the Oceti Sakowin protesters’ campsite cannot hold more veterans than that, but about 1,000 more have said they plan to come, Parker said. The veterans plan to set up on Dec. 4 and will stay at least through Dec. 7, she said. She later added that some would remain indefinitely at Standing Rock. “The militarized police paid for by tax dollars … is unconstitutional,” Parker said. “People are being brutalized; concussion grenades are being thrown into crowds,” Parker said. “They’re spraying people, even old women, and other elders of the tribe with tear gas and pepper spray and all of this is just unconstitutional. I can’t believe the media hasn’t taken more of an interest in this.”
Dec. 2, 2016
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/11/30/veterans-give-protesters-break-standing-rock/94698198/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-north-dakota-pipeline-idUSKBN13R0WM
Headline: Protesters outside Trump’s first thank you rally: ‘I will not stand for you’
Headline: Twitter Threatens Trump Ban Over “Harassment And Hateful Conduct”
While President-Elect Donald Trump hosted his first “thank you” tour rally since the election, chants of “love trumps hate,” echoed in the cold Cincinnati air Thursday night outside of the US Bank Arena. The cry was met by a man’s voice nearby, who responded, “That’s that not love! Why are you here?” There was a little tension between protestors and Trump supporters outside of the President-elect’s first such event post-victory, the beginning of several stops on a tour through the states his transition team sees as keys to his upset win last month. The colorful and at time incendiary rallies Trump hosted became signature stops throughout the Republican primary and the general election campaign, as were the consistent presence of comparatively small but vocal groups of protesters who demonstrated in and around his events. And on Thursday, they were back at it in Ohio. A small group of people gathered near the entrance for the Trump rally about an hour before the show started. Wielding a few bullhorns and carrying signs, they chanted about immigration rights, Hillary Clinton, and “fighting back.”
Dec. 2, 2016
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/02/politics/donald-trump-rally-protest/
Headline: Daniel Ortega’s ‘dictatorial regime’ repressing protests, Nicaraguan groups say
Nicaraguan civil society organizations, consolidated in a movement called Blue and White, on Wednesday accused President Daniel Ortega‘s regime of repressing protesters. The organizations are protesting alleged electoral fraud in recent presidential elections in which Ortega won and also the planned construction of the Nicaragua Canal, which would connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, akin to the Panama Canal. The organizations will hold marches on Thursday in Managua, Nicaragua’s capital. “As it is known to the people of Nicaragua, from yesterday the forces of the National Police and the Nicaraguan Army, with unidentified auxiliary forces, have deployed a gigantic operation that has placed the country in a virtual state of siege,” the Blue and White organizations said in a joint statement on Wednesday. “Despite the police and government blockade, farmers’ caravans have already been successful. Thousands have left their homes and communities and although they are being blocked. They have uncovered the true face of Ortega’s repressive and dictatorial regime.” The organizations demand the Nicaraguan government “repeal the concession of the inter-oceanic canal and demand clean, honest, plural and observed elections.”
Dec. 1, 2016
Headline: Indonesian police violently suppress West Papua independence protest
West Papuan protesters clashed with police in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on Thursday as they made calls for the regions independence. Organizers claimed that police denied them permissions to protest. Papua Students Alliance made up the majority of protestors and they chanted “Freedom Papua” despite hundreds of police monitoring the demonstration in which they fired water cannons and dragged men from the crowd into waiting police vans. “Don’t hinder our right to voice our aspirations. Papuans are demanding the truth of our history,” a speaker standing atop a small truck shouted at the crowd. Indonesia commit gross human right abuses against the native Papuans who have seen their island resources looted and gross demographic changes occur from a Melanesian majority to predominantly Indonesian, specifically colonizers from Java. Voice of America explains the situation.
Dec. 1, 2016
Headline: 2 US warships, 4k troops arrive in Mediterranean – Navy
Four-thousand US sailors and marines from the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) have arrived in the Mediterranean Sea after transiting the Suez Canal, according to a release from the US navy. The group, which is comprised of an amphibious assault ship, the USS Wasp (LHD 1), and an amphibious dock landing ship, the USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41), rejoined the operations of the US 6th Fleet Thursday, according to Wasp ARG commander Captain F. Byron Ogden. “After completing our time in 5th Fleet, the Wasp ARG will now be supporting the maritime security mission in the Mediterranean Sea. This sea lane is vital to our global economy, and it remains secure because of the strong relationships between the navies that operate together here,” Ogden said in the release. Dec. 2, 2016
https://www.rt.com/news/368962-wasp-warships-navy-mediterranean/
Headline: Bye-Bye: U.S. Job Seekers Giving Up, Leaving the Workforce
More Americans are kissing the workforce goodbye – not because they’re financially secure but because they can’t find a job. A record 95 million people are sitting on the sidelines opting not to work. As a result, the labor participation rate is stuck at 62.7%, a 40-year low. “There are a certain percentage of people staying home,” said Dan North, economist at Euler Hermes, during an interview with FOXBusiness.com. “If benefits are great in some states, people will just stay home,” he noted. Those benefits may include welfare, food stamps and Medicare. “It’s not that people are lazy, they are just not stupid,” Michael Tanner, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, which advocates limited government, tells FOXBusiness.com. Tanner, who studies poverty issues, also notes the federal welfare system is very complex and has around 70 programs, making it more complicated to fix. States with generous freebies include Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and California.
Dec. 2, 2016
Headline: Putin mediates Riyadh-Tehran differences on slowing OPEC production
Headline: Putin ‘directly involved’ in OPEC reaching production cut deal
Russian President Vladimir Putin is reported by sources in Moscow, Riyadh and Tehran to have played a central role in achieving an accord Friday among OPEC members to cut oil production by 4.9 percent. The accord sent oil prices upward. Those sources describe Putin as personally intervening to resolve the differences between Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Alil Khamenei and Saudi defense minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Riyadh was persuaded to start cutting back on quantities, while the Iranians finally agreed to slow down their increased production.
Dec. 2, 2016
https://www.rt.com/news/368978-putin-oil-deal-opec/
Headline: In Cash-Short Venezuela, the ATM Hustle Is Driving People Mad- VIDEO
Domingris Montano did the calculations as she stood in the rain at the midpoint of a queue outside a bank in Caracas. She needed to buy groceries. A package of rice would cost 3,500 bolivars, more than half the daily withdrawal limit, and the automated teller machine might be empty by the time her turn came. Maybe she could hit a few more before dark? “I’ve had to go to six different ATMs just to get 6,000 bolivars,” said Montano, a 36-year-old hair stylist, poking her head out from under her umbrella to see if the people ahead of her at the Banesco Banco Universal CA branch were moving forward. They weren’t. Lines are nothing new in Venezuela, where the economy is shattered, inflation is soaring and the currency fell a staggering 67 percent against the U.S. dollar on the black market last month alone — making 6,000 bolivars worth just $1.30. Now added to the indignities of daily life in a country desperately short on most everything except crime is the ATM hustle, as banks crack down on what customers can take out, setting measly maximums.
Dec. 2, 2016
Nov. 22, 2016- Thousands of dead fish found floating in the Malacca River in Malaysia
http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/11/190645/thousands-dead-tilapia-end-malacca-river
Nov. 22, 2016- Thousands of dead starfish found washed up on a beach in Portsmouth, England
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/735128/Storm-Angus-starfish-Southsea-beach-Britain-costline-waves
Nov. 24, 2016- dead birds found in a street, ‘a mystery’ in San Siro, Italy
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Nov. 25, 2016- 200,000 chickens killed due to avian flu in Helsingborg, Sweden
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Nov. 25, 2016- Hundreds of dead fish, plus 35 dead turtles found on a beach in Bahia, Brazil
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Nov. 26, 2016- Thousands of dead fish are washing up, ‘scientists puzzled’, in Nova Scotia, Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/herring-washing-ashore-in-st-marys-bay-nova-scotia-1.3869341
Nov. 27, 2016- Mass die off of fish washes up along the coast of Khanh Hoa, Vietnam
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/environment/167637/mass-fish-deaths-off-khanh-hoa-province-coast.html
Nov. 28, 2016- 190,000 ducks to be killed due to avian flu in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/11/nearly-200000-birds-to-be-slaughtered-following-flu-outbreak/
Nov. 28, 2016- 320,000 birds killed due to avian flu in North Japan
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Nov. 28, 2016- 1 million lbs of dead fish wash up in Southamption, New York
http://patch.com/new-york/southampton/more-1-million-lbs-smelly-fish-wash-near-one-wealthiest-streets-hamptons
Nov. 29, 2016- 2,000 deer are dead due to disease in South Dakota
http://www.capjournal.com/news/more-than-deer-reported-dead-in-s-d-disease-outbreak/article_44d296b0-b5fe-11e6-9460-7f9e4041af05.html
Headline: Thick toxic smog clouds engulf London and Paris as health bosses issue pollution warnings to millions
A toxic smog cloud has engulfed London and Paris amid warnings of high pollution levels in the two capitals effecting millions of people. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan issued warnings for the first time at bus stops, Tube stations and roadsides in the capital because of what he described as “high pollution levels”. Meanwhile in Paris, a potentially more dangerous smog cloud has engulfed the city for two days. Health bosses in the two cities have said that anyone experiencing discomfort such as sore eyes, a cough or sore throat are advised to consider reducing their activity, particularly outdoors. The alert in London were issued at around 4.30pm on Thursday. Mr Khan said: “Londoners need to know when the city is suffering from high pollution levels so they can take any necessary appropriate measures to protect themselves from poor air quality.
Dec. 1, 2016
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/thick-toxic-smog-cloud-engulfs-9375333
Headline: Vatican Reports Surge in Exorcisms Worldwide
The Catholic Church reported a meteoric uptick in the number of demonic possessions its priests are encountering. To tackle the surge, the Vatican is offering what they call “a week-long course on how to perform exorcisms, expounding on the nature of angels and demons,” News Target reported. The course has attracted over 1,000 students and claims to educate them on the difference between genuine demonic possession and psychological disorder. Symptoms of possession, according to the guidelines of the course, include: speaking in languages the person was not previously familiar with, moving objects with the mind, and dramatic mood shifts that cannot be attributed to psychological causes. The Real Truth looks at such activity through a biblical lens. While this publication does not endorse the views of professing Christianity, it is clear that spiritism is on the rise. To find out the trends, history and true reasons from the Bible regarding the rise of demonic activity, read The Real Truth article “Demystifying the Spirit Realm.”
Dec. 1, 2016
https://realtruth.org/news/161128-004.html
Headline: Jakarta protests: Muslims turn out in force against Christian governor Ahok
A crowd of at least 200,000 Muslim protesters has descended on Jakarta to demand the Christian governor of the Indonesian capital be arrested for insulting Islam. There was heavy security at the rally on Friday with authorities wary of the kind of violence that marred a similar demonstration in November. People headed towards a huge park in downtown Jakarta to protest against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known by his nickname Ahok, who has become the target of widespread anger in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country. Waving banners that read “Jail Ahok, the law must be fair”, demonstrators dressed in white Islamic skullcaps and robes marched through the streets. Many had travelled from outside the capital to take part. “All we want is justice, and by justice I mean Ahok being detained,” said Ricky Subagia, 26, who had come 200km (120 miles) from the town of Garut. President Joko Widodo, who is a political ally of Ahok, unexpectedly went to the national monument to join Friday prayers with the sprawling crowd. He called for protesters to disperse peacefully. They cheered and then broke into chants calling for Ahok’s arrest.
Dec. 2, 2016
Headline: San Bernardino: Pastor Arrested for offering Prayer
Last month, Father James Linton was arrested outside the San Bernardino Planned Parenthood for offering to pray with women entering the abortion facility. Police held him for six hours and cited him for interfering with and obstructing access to a business. On November 2, the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office formally charged Linton, accusing him of violating Penal Code section 602.1 (a) (Interference with a Business). If convicted, Fr. Linton could be sentenced to up to 90 days in jail and a $400 fine. When he was arrested, Fr. Linton, an Anglican pastor, was standing on a public easement offering incoming mothers and fathers alternatives to abortion and praying for them to change their minds. “The arrest of Fr. Linton is outrageous,” stated Allison Aranda, Senior Staff Counsel for the Life Legal Defense Foundation and a former prosecutor for Riverside County. “Fr. Linton certainly did not intend to interfere with Planned Parenthood’s ability to conduct its business. Rather, he simply offered assistance and alternatives to its patrons that could save the lives of their precious babies.”
Dec. 1, 2016
http://www.trunews.com/article/san-bernardino-pastor-arrested-for-offering-prayer
Headline: Albania: Europe’s outdoor cannabis capital
Albania has become the largest producer of outdoor-grown cannabis in Europe. The potent plant has been described as “green gold” for struggling farmers. In a poor nation, it’s a billion-euro industry. Off a dirt road, in a small village north of Tirana, there’s a half-built, tumble-down, brick house. It stands alone and looks abandoned. It isn’t. The sweet, heady odor that seeps from one of the rooms reveals its current function: cannabis production. Inside, more than half the floor space is covered with buds of the drying drug. “There’s about 20kg here,” says the man who owns it. He is young – late 20s maybe – dressed in skinny jeans, a tight top and trainers. And he is one of thousands making money from the cannabis boom.
Dec. 1, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38111945
Headline: Tornado Outbreaks Are More Common — But We Don’t Know Why
The most dangerous tornadoes are the ones that touch down one after the other. Most tornado deaths in the U.S. happen when six or more tornadoes affect a relatively small area — and new research shows these outbreaks are getting more severe. We’ve seen that the frequency of these outbreaks is rising faster than expected. The chances of seeing a string of tornadoes has more than doubled in the past 50 years. And it’s not that we’re just seeing more of them thanks to smartphones and social media. While it’s true that tornadoes are now more likely to be spotted and reported than ever, the researchers adjusted for this phenomenon and the counts still increased. And we’re still not sure why. The increase doesn’t seem to be driven by climate change. The warming planet has more energy available in the atmosphere to whip up fierce storms, but the models show this isn’t associated with the frequency of the outbreaks. Researchers think it could be long-term cycles in ocean temperatures instead. We know these natural changes can influence everything from glacier mass in the Swiss Alps, to the frequency of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, to U.S. droughts.
Dec. 1, 2016
http://www.10news.com/newsy/tornado-outbreaks-are-more-common-but-we-dont-know-why
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Headline: 30 Years to Fully Recover From Israel Fires
Israeli experts lamented that it could take as much as 30 years to fully recover from the wave of fires that ravaged the country over the past two weeks. While hundreds of homes were damaged or destroyed by the flames (mostly in the Haifa and Jerusalem areas) huge tracts of forests, including entire nature reserves, were decimated. Current estimates are that well over 35,000 acres of forest were destroyed, and much of the wildlife living there was killed. “While some of the foxes and hyenas and other animals managed to flee the fires, others were not so lucky. Snakes and turtles for example, did not survive,” Uri Naveh, head of the Nature and Parks Authority Jerusalem District, told Israel’s Ynet news portal.
Nov. 29, 2016
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/30611/Default.aspx
Headline: Israel president decries bill to quieten mosques
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin spoke out on Tuesday against a controversial bill that would prohibit mosques from using loudspeakers to summon believers to prayers early in the morning. The draft law, which sparked outrage around the Arab and wider Muslim world, is set to be submitted for its preliminary reading in parliament on Wednesday. Its original form was amended last week in order not to affect the sirens that announce the start of the Jewish day of rest at sundown each Friday. Rivlin on Tuesday hosted in his Jerusalem residence a meeting of religious leaders “seeking to bridge gaps over the issue of the muezzins”, the Muslim lay officials charged with calling the faithful to prayer, a statement from his office read. “I thought that perhaps such a meeting could have an impact on the whole public, and that it would be a shame that a law should be born which touches on the issue of freedom of faith of a specific group among us,” he was quoted as telling participants. Rivlin, whose post is mainly ceremonial, considers the new legislation – supported by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – unnecessary.
Nov. 30, 2016
Headline: Abbas reelected party leader as Fateh opens rare congress
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reelected as Fateh Party leader Tuesday as the movement opened its first congress since 2009 with talk mounting of who will eventually succeed the 81-year-old. Abbas was reelected by consensus, party spokesman Mahmoud Abu Al Hija said. The election of members of Fateh’s parliament and its central committee over the five-day conference will signal the direction the oldest Palestinian party will take at a time when Abbas is weakened by his own unpopularity and internal dissent. While the ageing leader has said he has no intention of stepping aside anytime soon, talk of who will eventually succeed him as Palestinian president has intensified. He has not publicly designated a successor.
Nov. 30, 2016
http://jordantimes.com/news/region/abbas-reelected-party-leader-fateh-opens-rare-congress
Headline: Jimmy Carter: America Must Recognize Palestine
Headline: UN General Assembly president wears Palestinian flag scarf
Headline: UN chief: Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects under threat
Headline: Palestinian leader seeks Trump support for independence
We do not yet know the policy of the next administration toward Israel and Palestine, but we do know the policy of this administration. It has been President Obama’s aim to support a negotiated end to the conflict based on two states, living side by side in peace. That prospect is now in grave doubt. I am convinced that the United States can still shape the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before a change in presidents, but time is very short. The simple but vital step this administration must take before its term expires on Jan. 20 is to grant American diplomatic recognition to the state of Palestine, as 137 countries have already done, and help it achieve full United Nations membership. Back in 1978, during my administration, Israel’s prime minister, Menachem Begin, and Egypt’s president, Anwar Sadat, signed the Camp David Accords. That agreement was based on the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which was passed in the aftermath of the 1967 war. The key words of that resolution were “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East in which every state in the area can live in security,” and the “withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict.”
Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/opinion/jimmy-carter-america-must-recognize-palestine.html?_r=0
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4886372,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4886322,00.html
Headline: Erdogan calls on Muslims to ‘protect Jerusalem’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on all Muslims to “defend the Palestinian cause” and protect Jerusalem. Speaking in Istanbul at a parliamentary symposium on Jerusalem and quoted by Al Jazeera, Erdogan said “it is the common duty of all Muslims to embrace the Palestinian cause and protect Jerusalem”, adding that safeguarding the Al-Aqsa Mosque should not be left to children armed with nothing but stones. He accused Israel of “policies of repression and discrimination against our Palestinian brothers” and condemned the so-called Israeli “Muezzin Law”, which would prohibit houses of worship from using loudspeakers, specifically mosques, which disturb the sleep of nearby residents when the Muezzin calls worshipers to prayer in the early hours of the morning. Erdogan criticized the bill as “irrational” and “conscienceless”, reiterating criticism voiced about the law last week by Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister. He also underscored the need for a “two-state solution” to solve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). “The only way for permanent peace in the Middle East is a free and independent Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem,” said Erdogan, according to Al Jazeera.
***see also Turkey below
Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221034
Headline: Israel plots largest settlement expansion in occupied Syrian Golan since 1980
Arab Human Rights Center in the Golan announced in a press release that it has written to the European Union, European governments and the Permanent Members of the UN Security Council regarding Israel’s plans to expand Katrzin settlement and establish ‘Hermon National Park’ in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The Israeli Finance Ministry approved plans to build 1,600 additional settlement units in Katzrin in October. About 8,000 settlers live in Katzrin atop the destroyed Syrian villages of Qasrin, Shqef and Sanawber. It is the largest settlement in the occupied Syrian Golan. “This will be the largest expansion of an illegal Israeli settlement in the Occupied Syrian Golan since the 1980s,” a letter from Al-Marsad to the Delegation of the European Union to Israel reads.
Nov. 29, 2016
Headline: Israeli warplanes launch 2 rockets across Syrian border that strike near Damascus
Headline: Israel jets mark go-it-alone policy on Syria
Syrian state media said Israeli fighter jets fired two missiles that hit west of Damascus, causing no casualties. Earlier reports indicated the missiles had hit Hezbollah militia targets near Al-Saboorah, a government-controlled suburb of Syria’s capital. Israeli planes launched the airstrike from Lebanese airspace at dawn to “divert attention away from the successes of the Syrian Arab Army,” a Syrian military source said, according to SANA news agency. Al-Masdar news agency reported earlier that the Israeli Air Force had launched four air-to-surface Popeye missiles targeting Hezbollah positions. The jets themselves are not believed to have entered Syrian airspace. Pro-#Hezbollah outlet: Two #Israeli raids targeted arms cache belonging to 4th Division as well as arms convoy on Damascus-Beirut highway pic.twitter.com/CMjlgVexOp — Albin Szakola (@AlbinSzakola) 30 ноября 2016 г. There have been conflicting reports over the initial target of the raid with speculations swirling over what targets were actually hit during the sorties. Lebanomn’s Mulhak News reported citing own sources that Syria’s army ammunition depot was destroyed in one of the raids, while in the other a number of cars left near to the Damascus-Beirut Highway were damaged. The outlet stated that no senior security or political commanders have been killed in the attack.
Nov. 30, 2016
https://www.rt.com/news/368644-israel-syria-border-strike-damascus/
http://debka.com/article/25806/Israel-jets-mark-go-it-alone-policy-on-Syria
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-israeli-jet-carries-airstrike-near-damascus/
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/30617/Default.aspx
Lebanon
Headline: Hezbollah to play lead role in new Syria regime force: report
Hezbollah will play a leading role overseeing a recently-formed corps set to serve as an auxiliary fighting force for the Syrian regime, according to a Lebanese daily supportive of Damascus. As-Safir reported Monday that top Hezbollah commanders known for their “high leadership quality” will embed with the Fifth Corps, which was formed last week by the Syrian regime. “It is expected that some Hezbollah military leaders will have a major role in leading some of the fighting groups that will join the Fifth Corps,” the pro-Assad Lebanese daily claimed. It went on to say that “a new force of elite troops within Hezbollah” will either operate under the banner of the Fifth Corps or directly coordinate with the new unit, without going into further details on the matter. Officially dubbed a “storming force” by Syria’s army command, the Fifth Corps publicly stated mission is to “work alongside the Syrian army and allied troops” to “eradicate terrorism.” Syrian state media has broadcast calls for volunteers to join the new unit, prompting reports in some opposition outlets that the Fifth Corps is another regime attempt to bolster its fighting manpower.
Nov. 30, 2016
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/567525-hezbollah-to-play-lead-role-in-new-syria-regime-force
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Yemen president accuses rebels of dashing peace hopes
Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi on Tuesday accused Shiite rebels and their allies of dashing hopes for peace after they unveiled a new government in areas under their control. Hadi said Monday’s formation by the Iran-backed rebels of a government of national salvation showed their determination to “spread chaos and destruction” and “destroys any chance of dialogue and peace”. Speaking through a spokesman from Yemen’s second city Aden, the seat of his beleaguered government, Hadi called on the international community to “condemn this move and hold the militia responsible for the collapse of peace efforts”. Announcing their new government, the Houthi rebels said it was a response to Hadi’s “stubbornness” in pursuing a deadly war against them with the support of a Saudi-led coalition since March last year. The war of words comes as the UN envoy for Yemen shuttles between the two sides in an effort to revive a US-backed ceasefire that collapsed after just 48 hours early last week.
Nov. 30, 2016
http://jordantimes.com/news/region/yemen-president-accuses-rebels-dashing-peace-hopes
Headline: Moscow demands answers after Erdogan vows to oust ‘tyrant’ Assad
Headline: Erdogan and Putin discuss Aleppo
The Kremlin on Wednesday demanded an explanation after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara intervened in the Syria conflict solely to topple President Bashar Assad.
Turkish forces are pressing on with a three-month operation inside Syria in support of anti-Assad forces, while Russia is the chief ally of the Syrian president in the conflict that has claimed more than 300,000 lives since 2011. At the same time, Turkey and Russia have also been working hard to improve relations after clinching a reconciliation deal in June to repair ties brought to a historic low by Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian jet in November 2015. Erdogan had said at a meeting in Istanbul on Tuesday: “We went in there to put an end to the rule of the tyrant Assad who carries out state terror, not for anything else.”
Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1017606/middle-east
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4886740,00.html
Headline: Syrian military source says army, allies take south Aleppo area
Headline: Al-Qaeda reinforcements arrive on western outskirts of Aleppo for new assaults
A Syrian military source said government troops and allied forces took back full countrol of the Sheikh Saeed district in southeast Aleppo from rebels on Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitoring group, said that rebel groups still controlled a third of the district, however, while government forces and allied forces seized the rest of it. Meanwhile, According to information obtained by Al-Masdar News, hundreds of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (Al-Qaeda affiliate) fighters arrived from Idlib to the western Aleppo countryside on Wednesday. Syrian reconnaissance units and drones have observed extensive Islamist military build-up in the region, causing government troops to stiffen their defences of the city. Effectively, Jaysh al-Fateh (Army of Conquest/Islamist coalition) is expected to launch renewed attacks on the densely populated government-held suburbs of western Aleppo in the coming days in a last-ditch effort to relieve besieged insurgents in eastern Aleppo. Meanwhile, the Russian Air Force will likely increase its sorties over western Aleppo in an attempt to disrupt the upcoming jihadist offensive and reduce its initial impact. Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4886613,00.html
Headline: US says that strikes against Syrian Army in Deir Ezzor were ‘unintentional’
The US Defense Department has said that it’s strikes against the Syrian Army in Deir Ezzor that killed over 80 soldiers in mid-Septemer was an “unintentional error” and did not violate international law. The Pentagon made the claims in a statement on Tuesday, saying that the US-led coalition had launched the air raids based on wrong intelligence and as it was not a deliberate mistake, it would not constitute a breach of law. “The evidence showed there was not a deliberate disregard of targeting procedures or the rules of engagement,” the statement said. The statement then went onto defend the legality of the deadly airstrikes. “The decision to strike these targets was made in accordance with the law of armed conflict and the applicable rules of engagement,” the statement continued. “We made an unintentional, regrettable error, based on several factors in the targeting process,” said Richard Coe, US air force brigadier general and the investigating officer.
Nov. 30, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/us-says-strikes-syrian-army-deir-ezzor-unintentional/
Headline: Anticipating Iraq’s Next Sunni Insurgency
Iraq could face another Sunni insurgency after ISIS loses control of Mosul. The U.S.-led Operation Inherent Resolve has not resolved the political conditions that originally caused Sunni Arabs to mobilize in a non-violent protest movement in 2012-2013. Sunni Arabs in Iraq who are liberated from ISIS’s control will not necessarily be reconciled to the Iraqi Government. The success of anti-ISIS operations in 2016 will open space for other Sunni anti-government actors and armed groups to resurge in ISIS’s absence. Sunni Arabs are displaced in large numbers, which will grow as the Coalition seizes and secures Mosul. Iranian-backed Shi’a militias will exacerbate grievances as they move to clear Sunni-majority villages in northern Iraq and near Tel Afar, a historic stronghold of Sunni insurgents and al Qaeda in Iraq west of Mosul. Shi’a militias have alienated local Sunni Arab populations in other cities cleared of ISIS by conducting extrajudicial killings, ethnic cleansing, and other forms of violence against the local population. A permissive environment is emerging for a Sunni insurgency in the vacuum of control left by ISIS, into which other actors, including al Qaeda, could emerge in 2017.
Nov. 30, 2016
Headline: Iraq’s special forces control 19 Mosul neighborhoods
Iraqi special forces fighting ISIS militants on the eastern side of Mosul have retaken 19 neighborhoods from the extremist group since the battle for the city began last month, a senior Iraqi commander said on Wednesday. Brig. Gen. Haider Fadhil of the special forces told The Associated Press his men were now about four kilometers from the Tigris river, which slices the city in half. He said the 19 neighborhoods constituted less than 30 percent of the part of the city east of the Tigris.
Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4886739,00.html
Turkey
Headline: Erdogan questions legitimacy of Cyprus Flag
The Greek Foreign Ministry has denounced recent statements by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who angrily detested the legitimacy of the Cypriot flag that displays the whole island. “Without shame they go to the EU meetings with a flag that depicts the whole island. You cannot have such a flag. You are the Greek Cypriot administration of Southern Cyprus. To the north is the Turkish republic. That’s rude. In any case, they will understand this”, Erdogan was quoted as saying. The Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Stratos Efthimiou, said that Turkey attempting to make Cyprus the aggressor is “groundless”. “Once again, the Turkish leadership is trying to equate the aggressor with the victim by making historically groundless and arbitrary arguments that attempt to erase Turkey’s responsibilities as an occupying power,” Efthimiou told Greek media. Turkey continues to occupy the northern half of the island with over 30,000 soldiers since the Turkish invasion in 1974. The northern half of the island is recognized only by Turkey as an independent republic.
Nov. 30, 2016
PLEASE SEE ETRM POST FOR TURKEY 10/3
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/erdogan-questions-legitimacy-of-cyprus-flag/
Iran
Headline: Russia gets permission to use Iran’s Hamadan air base for Syria airstrikes
Headline: The Iranian Empire is back
Russia is considering using Iran’s Hamadan airbase to launch airstrikes on insurgents in Syria if its aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, leaves Syria’s coastline on the Mediterranean for a new mission, Russian and Iranian officials said. “The necessity to use the airfield of the airbase in Hamadan could emerge if Admiral Kuznetsov carries out another operation and [Russia] will not be able to use it for airstrikes against terrorists in Syria,” Viktor Ozerov on Saturday told RIA Novosti,, Russia’s state-operated international news agency. Earlier in the day, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said that Iran might allow Russia to use Hamadan in its air operation against militants in Syria. Hossein Sheikholeslam, an adviser to Iran’s foreign minister, repeated the offer Tuesday, saying: “If the situation demands it, like it did in August, we’re ready to allow Russian warplanes to take off and refuel at this airfield.” Iran allowed Russia to operate from the base in mid-August. The jets returned to Russia after completing their anti-terror mission one week later. Meanwhile, For the first time since 625 CE, Iran has restored its control over a contiguous territory that extends from the east of Afghanistan to the Mediterranean coast. With the complete collapse of the Syrian armed opposition expected before the end of this year, Tehran would have subdued the three Arab countries that are sandwiched between its Western border and the Mediterranean. The dream of the founder of the Islamic Republic and its first Supreme Guide Ruhollah Khomeini will be finally recognized.
Nov. 30, 2016
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/567528-the-iranian-empire-is-back
Afghanistan
Headline: China dismisses report of military patrols in Afghanistan
China’s Defence Ministry on Wednesday dismissed reports Chinese military vehicles were patrolling inside Afghanistan, after an Indian media outlet said Chinese security forces were making regular patrols there. India’s WION news outlet this month published pictures on its website showing what it said were likely Chinese security forces patrolling in Afghanistan’s far northeastern Little Pamir region, where the country shares a border with China. Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun dismissed the report. “Reports in foreign media of Chinese military vehicles patrolling inside Afghanistan do not accord with the facts,” he told a regular news briefing. Yang said China and Afghanistan did work together in some places to fight terrorist activity and cross-border crime. “In recent years, law enforcement bodies from China and Afghanistan, in accordance with a bilateral cooperation decision on strengthening border law enforcement, arranged to have joint law enforcement operations in border regions,” Yang added. He did not elaborate.
Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-afghanistan-security-idUSKBN13P121
Sudan
Headline: US, UN Warn of Intensified Violence in South Sudan
Headline: US Envoy: South Sudan Government Prepares Attack in Border State
United States and United Nations representatives warned in separate meetings Wednesday of escalated tension and potential violence in South Sudan. “We have credible information that the South Sudanese government is currently targeting civilians in Central Equatoria and preparing for large-scale attacks in the coming days or weeks,” Keith Harper, the U.S. representative at the U.N. Human Rights Council, said in Geneva. The claim was quickly rejected by his South Sudanese counterpart, and South Sudan ambassador Kuol Alor Kuol Arop denied any build-up of forces or plans for an offensive in an interview with the Associated Press. In Juba on Wednesday, U.N. human rights experts warned of “unprecedented” levels of violence and ethnic tension across the war-torn country. “Many expect intensified fighting now that the dry season is setting in,” said Yasmin Sooka of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, following a fact-finding mission.
Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/a/south-sudan/3617691.html
http://www.voanews.com/a/south-sudan-government-prepares-attack-in-border-state/3617296.html
Morocco
Headline: Morocco accuses African Union chief of obstructing readmission
Morocco accused African Union Commission head Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma of blocking its efforts to rejoin the organization it left 32 years ago, the country’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Morocco has asked the African Union (AU) to readmit it, as it seeks support for its plan to offer autonomy to the disputed territory of Western Sahara while keeping it under Moroccan sovereignty. Morocco abandoned its seat in 1984 when the AU recognized Western Sahara, a sparsely populated stretch of desert that was formerly a Spanish protectorate, and admitted it as a member. The ministry said Dlamini-Zuma had delayed the distribution of the Moroccan request to AU members without any apparent reason, and then invented a new procedural requirement to reject letters from AU members supporting Morocco’s demand. “The kingdom of Morocco denounces vigorously the maneuvers of African Union Commission head, who is trying to thwart Morocco’s decision to regain its natural and legitimate place in the pan-African institutional family,” the foreign ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency MAP. “The president of the AU commission is dropping her neutrality and failing the rules and standards of the organization and its members’ will,” the statement added.
Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-morocco-africa-idUSKBN13P22H
Headline: ISIS claims responsibility for Ohio attack
The ISIS news agency, Amaq, has said in a statement on Tuesday that the attacker in Ohio State University who was responsible for the injury of nearly a dozen people, was inspired by the terrorist groups call to target citizens of countries part of the US-led coalition against it. The attack took place a day earlier when a Somali man, The Somali man identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan, violently drove his car through people before exiting the vehicle and beginning his stabbing rampage. ISIS described the attacker as a “soldier” of the terrorist group. “Brother Abdul Razak Ali Artan, God accept him, implementer of the Ohio attack, a student in his third year in university,” the group noted.
Nov. 30, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/isis-claims-responsibility-ohio-attack/
Headline: Albanian PM warns Islamists may seek to undermine Europe via Balkans
Albania’s PM has warned that Islamists – and Moscow – may seek to grow their influence in the Balkans. Rama said Albania would continue to seek EU accession as a way of combating this, but was not hopeful of quick entry. “If we want to have a secure and stable European Union and with it a secure Europe, it’s not good if there are holes,” Edi Rama told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper in comments published on Wednesday. “It’s not about how long we still need, it’s about how the European Union will continue to develop. In the meantime, we are politically in fairly good form, but the European Union is not at present,” he said. The Muslims of southeastern Europe are one of the world’s more moderate Islamic populations, although it is estimated that five to ten percent have become indoctrinated in more extreme forms of Islam, often funded by Middle Eastern donors. The region has also been a transit zone for migrants making their way to Europe from the Middle East. “Our European integration remains a major task,” Rama said at a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week in Berlin. Merkel in turn said Albania had “undertaken huge reforms” and that Germany had always supported its EU endeavors.
Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.dw.com/en/albanian-pm-warns-islamists-may-seek-to-undermine-europe-via-balkans/a-36589096
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Headline: North Dakota backs away from checking cars headed to pipeline protest
Headline: Standing Rock is the first of many protests to come in the Trump era
Headline: Standing Rock Demonstrators File Class-Action Lawsuit Over Police Violence
North Dakota law enforcement will not make spot checks on vehicles headed to the camp where activists are protesting a pipeline project near a Native American reservation, the governor’s office said on Wednesday. The move suggests the state will not seek to actively enforce Monday’s emergency order to evacuate the camp issued by Governor Jack Dalrymple, who cited a coming blizzard. Local law enforcement officials had said on Tuesday they planned a blockade of the camp – but they and state officials later retreated from that stance to say they would only check vehicles for certain prohibited supplies like propane, and potentially issue fines. “The governor has said there will be no checkpoints, no stopping of vehicles,” said Jeff Zent, a spokesman for Republican Dalrymple. Activists have spent months protesting plans to route the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, saying the project poses a threat to water resources and sacred Native American sites.
Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-standing-rock-20161129-story.html
Headline: Flag Burning At Trump Tower: Donald Trump Protests Test First Amendment
It didn’t take long for protestors to respond to President-elect Donald Trump’s tweet calling for punishment for those who burn the American flag. A video posted Tuesday (shown above) shows members of the left-wing NYC Revolution club dousing two small U.S. flags in accelerant and igniting them in front of Trump Tower in New York. The angry display was in response to Trump’s tweet early Tuesday, which said that flag burners could face one year in jail or lose their citizenship. Burning the American flag, which is considered “symbolic speech,” is technically protected under the First Amendment.
Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.ibtimes.com/flag-burning-trump-tower-donald-trump-protests-test-first-amendment-2452834
Headline: Trans Mountain pipeline approval prompts anger, promises to protest in B.C.
The federal cabinet’s decision to approve Kinder Morgan Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has prompted a flood of outrage and promises of protests and court challenges in British Columbia. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said he was “profoundly disappointed,” calling the decision a “big step backwards” for Canada’s environment and economy. “I — along with the tens of thousands of residents, local First Nations, and other Metro Vancouver cities who told the federal government a resounding ‘no’ to this project — will keep speaking out against this pipeline expansion that doesn’t make sense for our economic or environmental future.” The $6.8-billion project would triple the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline, from 300,000 to 890,000 barrels a day, and would add 980 kilometres of new pipe along the route from near Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C. It would also increase the number of tankers leaving Vancouver-area waters seven-fold, from five to 34 per month, prompting fierce opposition from local mayors and First Nations who say any risk of a diluted-bitumen spill is unacceptable.
Nov. 29, 2016
Headline: Zimbabwe Police Use Tear Gas on Bond Note Protesters
Zimbabwe police used water cannons and tear gas Wednesday to disperse demonstrators in the capital, Harare, who were protesting the country’s new currency. The government says the bond notes are aimed at easing cash shortages, but economists warn that the notes will quickly lose value and unleash hyperinflation. Police refused to comment on tactics used against the crowd, but activist Maureen Kademaunga says Zimbabweans will not be silenced. “The economy is not going to change because people have been clamped down or harassed,” Kademaunga said. “… at some point again people will still start to say, ‘Enough is enough. We are sick and tired of being sick and tired.’ So we are going to go back to the July-era where Evan was leading as the voice of discontent.”
Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/a/zimbabwe-police-disperse-protesters/3617239.html
Headline: Philippines ends five-day siege against Daesh-linked rebels
Troops in the southern Philippines retook a disused building from Daesh-linked militants on Wednesday, ending an intense five-day siege that killed dozens of militants. The incident highlights the challenges facing President Rodrigo Duterte in keeping order in the Philippines, particularly in his native south, riven by nationalist rebellions for decades. The military stepped up its offensive after the weekend, pounding rebels holed up in a disused municipal hall with artillery and bombs dropped from aircraft. The army said 30 security forces were wounded and 61 militants killed in the operation.
The militants belonged to the Maute group, one of several rebel groups in the country’s restive south.
Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1017691/world
Headline: Russia threatens to shoot down missiles test-fired by Ukraine
Russia’s air defense network on the Ukrainian border was placed on its highest level of alert on Wednesday evening following Ukraine’s announcement that it will conduct missile tests on Thursday and Friday near Crimea, an area that Russia annexed in 2014. Kiev claimed that the missiles are to be launched towards the Black Sea, west of Crimea. Russia’s TASS news agency quoted official Russian sources as saying the tests are an unnecessary provocation, and that the Russian military views them as a serious threat and will respond with the 55,000 troops based in Crimea and with ships equipped with means to shoot down the missiles. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called the tests a “provocation designed to prompt a tough response”.
Nov. 30, 2016
http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/19088/Russia-threatens-to-shoot-down-missiles-test-fired-by-Ukraine
Headline: Over a quarter of Europeans think sex without consent is justifiable – poll
A Eurobarometer survey has shown alarming tendencies in attitudes towards sex without consent, with about 27 percent of respondents across the EU saying sex without consent is justifiable. Most respondents cite reasons like being drunk or on drugs (12 percent), agreeing to go home with someone (11 percent), wearing revealing clothes, or not clearly saying no or physically fighting back (both 10 percent). Sorted by country, those surveyed in Romania and Hungary tended to be the most likely to say each situation could justify sex without consent, while respondents in Sweden and Spain were among the least likely to say so. Moreover, more than 40 percent of respondents in the EU believe that harassing women in the street by making sexually offensive jokes should not be illegal, with nine percent in Slovenia and eight percent each in Austria, Germany, and Lithuania saying it is not even wrong. The survey also asked the respondents about harassment at work: for instance, “touching a colleague in an inappropriate way” should not be illegal, think 48 percent of Hungarians, 42 percent of Estonians, and 38 percent of Lithuanians. Most respondents also think that sexual harassment against women is either very common (20 percent) or fairly common (half of all respondents). The location where violent acts occur is most often home, over 85 percent of respondents said, while 19 percent said public places, and another 19 percent said harassment happens most often online. Perhaps even more alarming is the way many respondents expressed their attitude towards violence against women, with almost a quarter saying that women often make up or exaggerate claims of abuse, and 17 percent saying that it is women who provoke violence.
Nov. 30, 2016
https://www.rt.com/news/368692-eu-survey-sex-consent/
Headline: 5 people killed, 3 children injured after possible tornadoes sweep through the Deep South
At least five people were killed while three children at a daycare center were injured after powerful thunderstorms and possible tornadoes swept through the South overnight and into Wednesday morning, officials said. Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen said early Wednesday that three people living in a mobile home in the northeastern community of Rosalie, Alabama were killed. Another person in the home was critically injured, he added. Emergency officials in Tennessee said two more people were killed and at least nine others injured in severe weather that hit the state overnight. Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Dean Flener says a husband and wife died and two others were injured in Polk County. He said at least seven injuries were reported in nearby McMinn County. He didn’t have further details on what happened.
Nov. 30, 2016
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/30/line-storms-possible-tornado-kills-3-in-northern-alabama.html
Headline: Heavy rain, floods in Saudi Arabia leave seven dead
At least seven people died and many others were injured or trapped by heavy rain and floods that swept various regions of Saudi Arabia, press reports said on Tuesday. The dead included three young Saudi men in Bisha, two others in Baha and two expatriates who were struck by a thunderbolt in Qunfudah. Torrential floods also destroyed a number of houses, blocked roads and overturned vehicles. The rain and floods in the last few days uncovered the ineffective drainage systems in many parts of the country. The two expatriates were killed by a thunderbolt, which also injured two of their companions in Qunfudah governorate in Makkah province. Civil Defense teams rushed the victims to hospital. The rain inundated various parts of Qunfudah governorate and washed away large sections of the International Road linking Jeddah and Jazan. Heavy rain lashed Bisha for more than three hours. Three people were killed and two others injured in a traffic accident in the city. The rain flooded Wadi Houran, in the southwest of the governorate, causing cracks in the road leading to Arar in the north of the Kingdom. The rain also caused a number of cars to overturn or skid off roads.
Nov. 30, 2016
Headline: The Man Who Stands Between Earth and Asteroid Armageddon
Because every day could be “asteroid day” for NASA’s planetary defense officer- an interview:
You recently conducted a third wargame-like exercise with other agencies about an incoming asteroid.
In this scenario was we found this asteroid that had the potential to impact the Earth in four years. It takes some time to observe the asteroid and reduce the uncertainties in its orbit, so we really understand where it’s going to be relative to the Earth four years later. At a point in the exercise we determine the probability is 100 percent that we’re going to have an impact. It’s only in the last several days or weeks prior to impact that we can really narrow it down to a 10-kilometer area.
What do we do if you really find one?
We’re working on a couple of different projects to test and demonstrate what we think are viable capabilities to do that. The first we talk about is part of our asteroid redirect mission. A second project we have going is in collaboration with the European Space Agency, and that’s a project called the Asteroid Impact Deflection Assessment.
Do asteroids ever get mentioned in the Presidential Daily Briefing?
I don’t know that for a fact. In 2008 we discovered a very small object a few meters in size that was going to impact us the next day. It was discovered and predicted to impact in the Sudan desert. And so we here at NASA generated a notification of that, which was sent up to the White House. We know that it was brought to their attention because George W. Bush’s press secretary, in the log of her White House years, talks about it as being one of the strangest days she had at the White House.
Nov. 30, 2016
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Headline: Hamas leader threatens Tel Aviv
Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas lawmaker and one of the leaders of the terrorist group, announced on Saturday that Hamas has thousands of rockets capable of striking Tel Aviv and localities to the north of Tel Aviv. Speaking at a rally held by Hamas in Gaza, Masri claimed that “any future war of the occupation against the Izz al-Din al-Qassam military wing of Hamas will result in the shelling of Tel Aviv and north of it.” He further declared that Gaza “is a thorn in the throat of the Zionist dream to establish a Greater Israel stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates” and claimed that Israel does not know which types of weapons Hamas is hiding. Masri also said that “the occupation has crossed all the red lines, and the last one preventing the sound of the call to prayer in mosques in Jerusalem and in the internal occupied territory,” a reference to the “Muezzin Law”, which would prohibit mosques from using loudspeakers for the call to prayer which disturbs the sleep of Israelis in the early hours of the morning. “Israel seeks to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and build an imaginary temple instead,” claimed Masri, “but the heroes, men and women oppress death and protect the mosque.” The Hamas leader also had something to say about the wildfires that have broken out throughout Israel over the last few days and which were caused, in part, by Arab arson. “The fires that broke out in various parts of occupied Palestine are an outrage from heaven against the Zionists…this is the harsh punishment against which God had warned all those who desire to prevent the prayer or the call to prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque or to attack the mosques,” he claimed.
Nov. 27, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220866
Headline: Trump: My son-in-law could broker Middle East peace
Donald Trump believes peace can be attained in the Middle East but it isn’t the president-elect who would be in charge — it’s his son in law. In a meeting with The New York Times on Tuesday, Trump said he could see Jared Kushner as the broker between Israel and Palestine according to tweets from meeting attendees. Trump: Jared Kushner could help make peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. — Elisabeth Bumiller (@BumillerNYT) November 22, 2016 I asked PEOTUS what role he sees Kushner playing. Indicates formal role unlikely but he could be a player on Mideast peace. — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016 Kushner is an Orthodox Jew and Trump’s daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism before they were married. Kushner has become one of Trump’s most trusted advisers and has been playing a major role in shaping the president-elect’s transition. However, his exact role is not clear. There have been reports that Trump requested security clearances for his children. Trump has denied but it is not clear if Kushner falls under that category.
Nov. 28, 2016
Headline: Israeli forces kill 4 Islamic State allies in Golan Heights firefight
Israeli forces engaged in a brief but deadly fight Sunday against Syrian militiamen allied with the Islamic State, killing four militants in the fraught borderlands of the Golan Heights. It was the “first substantial fight” between Israeli soldiers and an Islamic State affiliate in the long-running Syrian war, said Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman. No Israelis were injured. Although there have been dozens of cases of errant and intentional artillery, mortar and small-arms fire from Syria toward Israeli-controlled territory in the occupied Golan Heights, this exchange involved the group known as the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, whose leaders publicly pledged their allegiance to the Islamic State in 2014. About 9 a.m., a reconnaissance unit from Israel’s Golani Brigade was patrolling along the cease-fire line, the military said, outside the Israeli-built fence. The Israeli troops were confronted by the Syrian militants, who deployed small arms and mortars, and the Israelis responded, the military spokesman said. The Israeli air force spotted a vehicle armed with a heavy machine gun and destroyed it with a rocket, killing four occupants, Israel said. Israel has pledged to stay out of the Syrian conflict but has also vowed that it will respond to any threats made against Israelis in the Golan Heights.
Nov. 27, 2016
Headline: Israel strikes new ISIS target in Syria day after Golan attack
The IDF on Monday morning again responded to an ISIS attack Sunday against the Israeli Golani Reconnaissance Battalion operating along the Syrian border, the military spokesperson’s office reported. The Israeli Air Force attack targeted an ISIS-held location in the south of the Syrian Golan heights early Monday. Some 10 tons of explosives were said to have been dropped by the IAF on the ISIS target in the retaliatory strike. A military spokesman said that the strike had targeted “an abandoned military facility, which was previously used by the United Nations and served as a location for ISIS to consolidate their offensive forces and operations near the border. This is a response to the attack performed yesterday, and was aimed at preventing the return of the terrorists to the facility which would constitute a substantial threat in the area.” “The IDF will continue to act to protect the citizens of Israel while maintaining the IDF’s freedom of action within the sovereign territory of Israel, and will not hesitate to act against the terrorist organizations operating against it.”
Nov. 28, 2016
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Israeli-Air-Force-strikes-ISIS-target-in-Syria-473858
Headline: Rabbis urge: “Rise up and resist the evacuation!”
Headline: Initial: Attempted shooting attack on IDF in West Bank
120 senior rabbis representing a variety of communities and institutions have made a united call for the public to come to Amona to resist the anticipated evacuation. The declaration’s signatories are from all ends of the religious spectrum, including Rabbi Haim Druckman, head of the Bnei Akiva yeshivas, the rabbi of Ramat Gan, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, the rabbi of Safed Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu; the rabbi of Kiryat Arba Rabbi Dov Lior, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, head of Ateret Cohanim Yeshiva, Tzohar chairman Rabbi David Stav. and pre-military academy head Rabbi Eli Sadan, the rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl, and the head of Yeshivat Maaleh Adumim Rabbi Nachum Rabinowitz. “We call on all those who can to come and stay in the community. Our presences will give strength to the residents and be a clear declaration to the decision-makers that we are with the residents of Amona in every way during this difficult time, and we will continue to be with them until the Regulation Law is enacted, and Amona is saved,” the rabbis wrote. They added that “if, heaven forbid, the day comes for an expulsion, we urge the public to continue living in the community, and protesting vigorously the destruction of the community, through passive resistance and non-violence”. The rabbis call on the prime minister to “stop immediately this terrible and unnecessary destruction. The coming days are crucial for the future of Amona and the future of Jewish settlement. The Knesset is sitting on the pot. They have the ability to pass a law that would save the town from destruction. This is no time is to be silent, either towards God or towards our fellow human beings. All men and women should cry to God and stimulate God’s grace to save the town and its inhabitants. ”
Nov. 28, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220963
Jordan
Headline: Jordan, Egypt discuss closer security ties
Jordan and Egypt Sunday discussed enforcing signed security agreements and joint coordination to counter terrorism during talks held in Cairo. Interior Minister Salameh Hammad said at a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Majdi Abdel Ghafar that his visit was to benefit from the Egyptian expertise in security and anti-terrorism fields, as well as boosting communication channels and the exchange of data on the movement and designs of terrorists and their funding sources. Jordan, Hammad said, looks forward to enacting anti-drugs and civil protection security agreements, and backing these with joint communication mechanisms and exchanging visits by security officials. He said Jordan wanted to send police trainees to join advanced courses at Egypt’s police academy.
Nov. 28, 2016
http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=33368
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Yemen’s Houthis form gov’t in setback to peace process
Yemen’s armed Houthi movement and its political allies formed a new government on Monday, the Houthi-run state news agency Saba reported, in what appeared a blow to UN-backed efforts to end 20 months of war in the country. Diplomats had hoped the Houthis, who control the capital Sanaa, would hold off on putting together a Cabinet of their loyalists and instead form a unity government with their Yemeni foes, whom they pushed into Saudi exile. The Houthis, who control territory with more than half of Yemen’s population, previously said forming a government with their allies did not mean abandoning the UN-sponsored peace process. The flight of Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, the internationally recognised president, triggered military intervention by a coalition led Saudi Arabia that has carried out thousands of air strikes on the Houthis but failed to dislodge them from Sanaa. Having caused the deaths of at least 10,000 people and unleashed a humanitarian crisis, the Arabian Peninsula conflict has continued despite several UN-backed ceasefires and peace efforts by Western and UN diplomats. The Houthis this month agreed to a UN plan which required them to hand in heavy weapons and pull out of main cities in exchange for participating in a unity government with Hadi, who rejected the proposal, saying he was the legitimate president. Making common cause with the party of powerful ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Iran-allied Houthis previously ruled the parts of Yemen they controlled through a “Supreme Political Council”, a body which announced the new government.
Nov. 28, 2016
http://jordantimes.com/news/region/yemen%E2%80%99s-houthis-form-gov%E2%80%99t-setback-peace-process
Egypt
Headline: Egypt to Send Troops to Syria to Aid Bashar al-Assad and Russia
Headline: Egyptian pilots flying Russian choppers in Syria
Headline: Egypt denies its military is in Syria
In a new Mideast realignment, Egypt’s president Abdel al-Fattah al-Sisi has said in an interview that that he is officially backing the regime of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad. According to al-Sisi: [Al-Assad’s forces are] best positioned to combat terrorism and restore stability [in Syria]. Our priority is to support national armies, for example in Libya to exert control over Libya territory and deal with extremist elements. The same with Syria and Iraq. Some analysts are suggesting that al-Sisi’s statement of support is purely political, or only symbolic. But in fact reports indicate that al-Sisi is committed militarily as well. Several reports have indicated that al-Sisi has sent Egyptian helicopters and pilots to Syria to take part in the fighting, and that he plans to send a large deployment of Egyptian troops to Syria in January. Al-Sisi apparently believes that the best way for Egypt to fight ISIS in Egypt is to fight ISIS in Syria.
Nov. 28, 2016
https://www.debka.com/article/25802/Egyptian-pilots-flying-Russian-choppers-in-Syria
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/egypt-denies-military-syria/
Headline: Syrian Army Scores Major Victory by Cutting Through Jihadist-Held Eastern Aleppo
Headline: Large build-up of Hezbollah, Iraqi forces in southern Aleppo
Headline: Complete battlefield update from east Aleppo: map
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies are reported to have freed the al-Sakhour neighborhood of eastern Aleppo earlier on Monday, separating southern and northern jihadist-held districts of the embattled city in what would be a major victory that could well determine the outcome of the years-long war. he SAA encircled areas held by radical groups in late July, launching a major operation aimed at freeing the city in September. It is said to be in control of approximately a third of eastern Aleppo at the moment. Earlier on Monday, Damascus-led forces pushed the militants out of the al-Sakhour neighborhood, cutting the rebel-held neighborhoods in two separate parts. The plan aimed at dividing eastern Aleppo into several pockets has turned out to be efficient “both in terms of psychology and military strategy,” Krutikov observed.
Nov. 28, 2016
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201611281047919170-syrian-army-aleppo-offensive/
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/large-build-hezbollah-iraqi-forces-southern-aleppo/
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/complete-battlefield-update-east-aleppo-map/
Headline: Aleppo rebels handed over districts to Kurds: report
Amid the dramatic collapse of opposition lines in northeastern Aleppo, rebels groups purportedly handed over a number of districts to Kurdish forces in the divided city. One of the most popular pro-rebel outlets in Aleppo reported early Monday afternoon that opposition factions reached an agreement with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) to deliver the Baydin, Bustan al-Pasha, Ayn al-Tal, Al-Halak, Sheikh Fares and Zaytounat quarters, all of which border the Sheikh Maqsoud district, which is under the de facto control of autonomous Kurds. “The agreement to hand over the neighborhoods… came to protect the lives of civilians and to avoid shelling by the regime and Russian forces,” a military source told the Aleppo Media Center. A monitoring NGO tracking developments in war-torn Syria confirmed that YPG troops entered Bustan al-Pasha and Al-Halak, while saying that Baydin and other areas where under the control of regime forces. However, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights did not provide context on the YPG entry into the two areas nor mention whether YPG fighters engaged in clashes with rebel forces.
Nov. 28, 2016
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/567522-aleppo-rebels-handed-over-districts-to-kurds-report
Headline: The Kurds Are Nearly There
The dream of a national homeland is one that all Kurds share, no matter where they currently live. For the past century—ever since World War I brought about the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent creation of new nation-states that excluded Kurdish aspirations—they have yearned in vain. Yet now circumstances have conspired to bring the Kurds—or some of them, at least—closer to achieving a workable state than at any other time in recent memory. To be sure, not all of the Kurds are equally well positioned to take advantage. The Kurds of Iran, who briefly enjoyed a self-governing state under Soviet tutelage after World War II, seem the least likely to strike out on their own, given the strength of the Tehran government and the relative weakness of the Kurdish nationalist movement. In southeastern Turkey, the goal of self-determination has long been pursued with particular ferocity by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has carried on a four-decade-long insurgency against the government in Ankara. After years of effectively denying the existence of the roughly 15 million Kurds within its borders, the Turkish state embarked on a policy of cautious rapprochement that culminated in the launching of peace negotiations in 2013. Last year, however, the war flared up again, prosecuted on the Turkish side by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who had, for a time, pursued the peace process with more determination than any of his predecessors. The return to war, amid scenes of extraordinary destruction in Kurdish communities, makes the attainment of any sort of independence for the Turkish Kurds—a long shot under the best of circumstances—even less likely.
December 8, 2016 Issue
Headline: Syria Situation Report Nov. 10-18, 2016
http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/November18%20EDITS%20COT.pdf
Headline: Iraqi forces liberate entire Nineveh Plains region from ISIS
The Iraqi Armed Forces have officially liberated the entire Nineveh Plains region of northwestern Iraq after a month long offensive to expel the so-called “Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham” (ISIS) from the area. The Nineveh Plains, which consists of three districts located northeast of Mosul, was one of the first major areas to be captured by the Islamic State terrorists in the Summer of 2014. Once ISIS seized the Nineveh Plains, they began to demolish historical sites that date back several centuries to the ancient Assyrian cities of Nineveh and Nimrud. In addition to liberating the Nineveh Plains, the Iraqi Armed Forces captured the villages of Al-Turkmaniyeh Al-Janoubiyeh and Al-Salaam near teh key town of Tal ‘Afar in northwest Iraq.
Nov. 28, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iraqi-forces-liberate-entire-nineveh-plains-region-isis/
Turkey
Headline: Turkey could extend state of emergency, Erdogan warns EU
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned the European Union that Turkey could extend by at least another three months a state of emergency that has been in place since the failed July coup. In a a speech in Istanbul, Erdogan launched another stinging attack on the EU after the European Parliament voted on Thursday to back a freeze in accession talks with Ankara. He again threatened to bring back the death penalty — a decision that would effectively end Ankara’s longstanding bid — and said that on this he would listen to the Turkish people and not “Hans” and “George”, picking out two common European names. The state of emergency imposed after the July 15 failed coup bid has seen at least 37,000 people arrested, causing alarm in Brussels over the scale of the crackdown. “Maybe the state of emergency will be extended by three months and then maybe another three months,” he said. “This is a decision for the government and the parliament.” “What’s it to you?” he told the European Parliament. “Is the European Parliament in charge of this country or is the government in charge of this country?” “Know your place!” he added, in an angry tirade.
Nov. 28, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkey-extend-state-emergency-erdogan-warns-eu/
Iran
Headline: Iran considers naval bases in Yemen, Syria
Headline: Iranian vessel points weapon at U.S. helicopter: officials
Iran’s chief of staff of the armed forces said Saturday that Tehran may be interested in setting up naval bases in both Syria and Yemen, the semi-official Tasnim reported. The report by Tasnim, close to military, quoted Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri as saying, “Maybe, at some point we will need bases on the shores of Yemen and Syria.” He said “Having naval bases in remote distances is not less than nuclear power. It is ten times more important and creates deterrence.” Gen. Bagheri added that setting up naval platforms off the shores of those countries requires “infrastructures there first.” He said Iran is also able to set up permanent platforms for military purposes in the Persian Gulf and roving ones in other places. Gen. Bagheri did not elaborate but said “When two thirds of the world’s population lives near shores and the world economy depends on the sea, we have to take measures. Though there is a need for the time for these (steps).” This is the first time that an Iranian military official has spoken of setting up naval bases in another country in the region. No Middle Eastern country is known to have a formal naval base in another Mideast country.
Nov. 28, 2016
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-considers-naval-bases-yemen-syria-123314309.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-helicopter-idUSKBN13N27C
Afghanistan
Headline: Afghanistan Partial Threat Assessment: November 22, 2016
Headline: Four police killed in Taliban ambush in Afghanistan
Taliban militants’ military successes during their 2016 campaign, Operation Omari demonstrate requirements for U.S. policy in Afghanistan. The ANSF is incapable of securing major population centers like Lashkar Gah or Kunduz cities or increasing government-controlled territory without significant U.S. support. The ANSF remains highly dependent on current levels of U.S. support to regenerate units and secure government-controlled territory. Resolute Support Commander General John Nicholson stated on September 23 that the Afghan government controls or heavily influences 68- 70% of the population, and Taliban militants control 10% of the population, leaving roughly a quarter of the country contested. The continued expansion of ungoverned spaces in Afghanistan allows global extremist networks like al Qaeda and ISIS and their allies to carve out sanctuaries from which to target the U.S. and its national security interests.
Nov. 28, 2016
Sudan
Headline: Gunmen kidnap three UNHCR workers in Sudan’s Darfur: local official
Headline: Sudan’s civil disobedience begins amid varying popular response
Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped three workers from the United Nation’s refugee agency in Sudan’s restive Darfur region, a local official told Reuters on Monday. The three workers, one Sudanese and two Nepalese, were kidnapped from Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state and were taken to an unknown location, said West Darfur government spokesman Abdallah Gar al-Nabi. Security forces were working to retrieve them and locate the culprits, he added. An official from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) declined to comment. Security remains fragile in Darfur, where mainly non-Arab tribes have been fighting the Arab-led government in Khartoum, and the government is struggling to control rural areas. Some 300,000 people have been killed in Darfur since the conflict began in 2003, the United Nations says, while over 2.5 million have been displaced.
Nov. 28, 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-violence-un-idUSKBN13N0ZQ
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article60956
Libya
Headline: New Putin move to win a military base in Libya
Libyan Gen Khalifa Hafter arrived in Moscow Sunday, Nov. 26, with a request for Russian arms and military support for his army. He was welcomed in Moscow, which saw an opening for Russia to gain its first military base in North Africa. According to debkafile’s military and intelligence sources, President Vladimir Putin began to envision a second Mediterranean base on the coast of Benghazi, twin to Hmeimim in Syria’s Latakia. This one would accommodate Russian naval as well as air units and be located 700km from Europe. The US-born Hafter, a general in the army of the late Muammar Qaddafi, carries the title of supreme commander of the Libyan army. However, Libya is today riddled with hundreds of militias vying for control. Haftar heads a powerful group that was once backed by the United States. But since refusing to recognize the government established by the UN in Tripoli, he relies mainly on the support of Egypt and some of the Gulf emirates for his eastern Libyan Benghazi stronghold. Egypt and the UAE provide Hafter’s army with air support from Egyptian bases in the Western Desert. It was their leaders who urged him to accept the Russian invitation to Moscow and bid for military assistance. This was Hafter’s second trip to Moscow. He was there in June and met with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and National Security Adviser Nikolai Patrushev. Then, the Kremlin was wary of extending military aid to the maverick Libyan general. US, Italian and British special forces were at the time pressing a major offensive to drive ISIS out of the key Libyan port of Sirte. However, this offensive has still not achieved its goal.
Nov. 28, 2016
http://debka.com/article/25804/New-Putin-move-to-win-a-military-base-in-Libya
Armenia
Headline: Russia, Armenia inch closer in collective defense with upgraded joint task force
Armenia and Russia are set to sign a treaty on a joint task force, which would give legal grounds for Russia to use its military to protect Armenia from foreign aggression. Armenia is among the few nations hosting Russian troops on its territory. The new Joint Task Force (JTF) agreement set to be signed this later week between Moscow and Yerevan upgrades an existing military cooperation mechanism, going into far greater detail about how troops would be used in case of a hypothetical attack. For instance, it marks the Russian military base in Armenia as a key component for the JTF deployment, gives Russian command and communication systems a priority in the force’s operation, and states that the JTF commander, who remains in the Armenian chain-of-command during peacetime, may become subordinate to the commander of Russia’s Southern Military District in wartime. “If Armenia is attacked, the Russian military base in Gyumri would be involved in our defense, but this requires legal grounds. This international agreement will provide such grounds,” Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sarkisyan told Armenian media.
Nov. 28, 2016
https://www.rt.com/news/368445-russia-armenia-collective-defense/
Headline: Somali student behind car, knife attack at Ohio State University that injured 11
Headline: Ohio State attack probed as possible terrorism
An 18-year-old Somali student was behind an attack involving a car and butcher knife on the campus of Ohio State University Monday that left 11 people injured, officials said. After the attacker, identified by authorities as first-year student Abdul Razak Ali Artan, plowed his vehicle into the crowd, officials said he got out of the vehicle and began attacking people with a butcher knife before he was shot and killed by a campus police officer. Two law enforcement sources told Fox News that Artan came into the United States as a Somali refugee, and was granted status as a legal permanent resident. The motive behind the attack is still unclear, according to law enforcement sources, but investigators are not ruling out anything at this point. Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said authorities were looking into whether it was a terrorist attack.
Nov. 28, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4885671,00.html
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Headline: Pipeline protesters vow to stay camped on federal land
Headline: Standing Rock: North Dakota access pipeline demonstrators say white people are ‘treating protest like Burning Man’
Headline: US authorities: Dakota pipeline protesters can stay
Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters will not follow a government directive to leave the federal land where hundreds have camped for months, organizers said Saturday, despite state officials encouraging them to do so. Standing Rock Sioux tribal leader Dave Archambault and other protest organizers confidently explained that they’ll stay at the Oceti Sakowin camp and continue with nonviolent protests a day after Archambault received a letter from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that said all federal lands north of the Cannonball River will be closed to public access Dec. 5 for “safety concerns.” The Corps cited the oncoming winter and increasingly contentious clashes between protesters, who believe the pipeline could harm drinking water and Native American cultural sites, and police. Standing Rock tribal members believe the land in which the encampment is on is owned by the Sioux through a more than century-old treaty with the U.S. government. “We are wardens of this land. This is our land and they can’t remove us,” said protester Isaac Weston, who is an Oglala Sioux member from South Dakota. “We have every right to be here to protect our land and to protect our water.”
Nov. 28, 2016
http://www.abc15.com/news/national/pipeline-protesters-vow-to-stay-camped-on-federal-land
Headline: Anti-Trump protesters gather outside Nebraska Capitol
Headline: Anti-Trump Protests Continue Nationwide
About 100 demonstrators gathered in front of the Nebraska Capitol building Sunday morning to protest President-elect Donald Trump. Chelsea Dappen, a senior at Nebraska Wesleyan University, passionately spoke against Trump. Dappen, a sexual assault survivor, was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder four years ago. She said that her PTSD was triggered by the president-elect and that she refuses to be neutral about the election. “As a sexual assault survivor, I know firsthand the dangers of neutrality and becoming a bystander.” Dappen said. “In our culture, we’re trained to mind our own business and not stir the pot. Sometimes, the pot needs stirred.” Dappen said comments Trump made to Billy Bush in a recorded conversation in 2005 were an admittance to sexual assault. “The second we stop calling him out, his words become normalized,” she said. Lincoln resident Michael Funk, 24, said he protested because he’s against everything Trump and his associates stand for. He’s also concerned for the LGBTQ and Muslim communities, he said.
Nov. 28, 2016
http://elvaq.com/top-stories/2016/11/28/anti-trump-protests-continue-nationwide/
Headline: ‘It’s Standing Rock North’: Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada stirs strong opposition
Headline: Trudeau cabinet to discuss Trans Mountain pipeline Tuesday as B.C. First Nation vows to oppose it
Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion would nearly triple the amount of Alberta oil transported to the Vancouver-area port just across the water from this tiny First Nation reserve, where the Tsleil-Waututh people are battling a pipeline with far bigger capacity than the bitterly fought-over Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines in the U.S. The $6.3 billion expansion would position Canada to be the biggest oil producer in the Americas, and could be approved as soon as Monday by the Trudeau administration. “We don’t realize we have Saudi Arabia in our backyard, and there is this pent-up demand to get (the oil) to market,” said Fred Felleman, a Seattle Port commissioner and consultant to Friends of the Earth, which opposes the project. “And here is this little sleeper pipeline project, Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain; it’s bigger than all of them.”
Nov. 28, 2016
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trans-mountain-bc-pipeline-firstnations-1.3870838
Headline: Somalia car bomb: Blast rips through Mogadishu market
Headline: 10 dead as residents in 1 Somali town resist al-Shabab taxes
Headline: Somali forces begin moving to attack ISIS holding port town
A car bomb has killed at least 11 people and injured 16 others in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. The blast hit a market in the Waberi area, while President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was visiting a nearby university. No group claimed responsibility, but suspicion fell on the Islamist militant group al-Shabab. “There was chaos and severed dead bodies strewn around the street,” said Abdulahi Osman, a witness. Ambulance workers says the death toll could rise substantially. More than 22,000 peacekeepers are currently deployed in Somalia in the multi-national African Union force. Meanwhile, Hundreds of pro-government Somali forces began moving toward the port town of Qandala on Monday for an offensive against Islamic State fighters who seized it last month, Qandala’s mayor Jamac Mohamed Khurshe told Reuters. The pro-government forces includes militia fighters, soldiers form the semi-autonomous region of Puntland and fighters from the same clan as Abdiqadir Mumin, the Somali insurgent leader who has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, Somali security officials said.
Nov. 28, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38116817
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4885560,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4885516,00.html
Headline: Uganda police arrest Rwenzururu king over deadly clashes
Police in western Uganda have arrested the king of Rwenzururu over clashes between officers and militia which have left at least 55 people dead. Charles Wesley Mumbere is accused of inciting violence after militiamen reportedly attacked a police post in his hometown of Kasese. Security forces stormed his palace amid claims he was harbouring fighters. The king has denied any involvement. At least 14 police officers and 41 militants have died in the clashes. A Ugandan government spokesman accused the militia of seeking to break away from Uganda. “These militiamen have set up camps in the Rwenzori mountains from where they train and come to attack government installations,” Shaban Bantariza said. Police spokesman Andrew Felix Kaweesi said the attackers were fighting to create a new republic on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Several other people were also arrested when the security forces stormed the king’s palace on Sunday, he told the BBC.
Nov. 27, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38121581
Headline: 30 Boko Haram troops killed in ambush of Nigerian government convoy
Thirty suspected Boko Haram militants died when the Nigerian army repelled an ambush of traveling government members near Bama, a local official said. “We were traveling from Pulka to Maiduguri when militants attacked our convoy with improvised explosive devices and sporadic gunshots, just after [passing the village of] Ngurosoye, but the troops repelled them, killing up to 30 of the terrorists,” said Saeed Salisu, chairmen of the government of Gwoza, in northeastern Borno state. Nigerian troops escorting the convoy Sunday returned fire. No government officials were injured, but several soldiers were treated for injuries at a nearby barracks hospital. The insurgent group has perfected a new tactic of waiting to ambush convoys. At least two senior officers were killed in the past two months, including Lt. Col. Mohammed Abu-Ali, a commanding officer in the army’s counter-terrorism unit, the Nigerian newspaper the Guardian reported Monday.
Nov. 28, 2016
Headline: Philippine police find home-made bomb near U.S. embassy, rebels suspected
Philippine police conducted a controlled detonation of a home-made bomb found in a trash bin near the U.S. embassy in Manila on Monday and said militants sympathetic to Islamic State could have been responsible. National police chief Ronald dela Rosa said components of the improvised explosive device suggested it could have been planted by the Maute, a Muslim rebel group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State. Maute’s fighters were locked in a standoff with the military for a third day in the country’s south. More rebels were reported killed on Monday, taking the number of dead to 19. “We could theorize that they could use this as a diversion,” dela Rosa told a news conference. The embassy had no immediate comment on the discovery of the bomb, which was left about 200 meters from the compound. Business there continued as normal, with dozens of Filipinos queuing outside for visa applications. An 81 mm mortar round was used as an explosive device and that was a signature of the group, Dela Rosa said. Similar components were used in a Sept. 2 bombing in Davao, which killed 15 people died and wounded about 70.
Nov. 28, 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-security-idUSKBN13N07C?il=0
Headline: ‘Day of Rage’ rupee ban protests held in India
Thousands of people in India are protesting the government’s decision to ban 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, which accounted for 86 percent of cash in circulation. About 90 percent of India’s financial transactions are done in cash. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this month announced the currency ban but most opposition parties on Monday are holding protests over the decision in what they’re calling a “Day of Rage.” Protests have been held in the cities of Kolkata, Lucknow and Bangalore, as well as in India’s Kerala and Tripura states, which are ruled by India’s Communist Party. Though the opposition parties agreed to protest, they did not agree on the means — with some calling for a strike — or the extent to which they oppose the demonetization, Times of India reports. Amit Shah, the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, to which Modi belongs, said the opposition are merely opposing everything Modi is doing. Some opposition parties last week stalled Parliament and demanded Modi apologize for the demonetization decision.
Nov. 28, 2016
Headline: China again sends fighter jets, bombers through sensitive strait south of Okinawa
Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force scrambled aircraft in response to a flight by Chinese fighters and bombers through a key entryway into the Pacific Ocean between Okinawa and Miyako Island, the Defense Ministry said. Two Chinese fighters and bombers, as well as two other surveillance planes, flew through the Miyako Strait on Friday. The flight, which did not infringe on Japanese territorial airspace, was legal but went through a politically sensitive area. It was the second such flight since September, when Beijing dispatched at least eight fighters and bombers through the area — apparently to send a message to Tokyo. Friday’s flight involved two H-6 bombers and two intelligence-gathering aircraft that flew northwest over the Pacific Ocean toward the East China Sea, passing through the strait south of Okinawa. The two Su-30 fighters entered the passageway from the opposite direction, making U-turns to link up with the four other aircraft before flying to the East China Sea, the Defense Ministry’s Joint Staff Office said in a news release.
Nov. 26, 2016
The Coming One world government & religionHeadline: Anti-terror police units deployed on London’s streets
Anti-terrorism police patrol units are hitting the streets of London in an attempt to spot people carrying out “hostile reconnaissance” and other criminal activity. Lambeth and Wandsworth will be the first areas to see the new patrol units of uniformed and undercover officers from today, and are due to be extended to other boroughs in the coming months. Scotland Yard stressed the move was “not in response to a specific threat”. Operation Servator, as it is known, is a tactic of policing already used by other forces including City of London and British Transport Police. It “is based on extensive research into the psychology of criminals and what undermines their activities”, the Metropolitan Police said. Other units will also be available, including the dogs and boat units and the territorial support unit riot police.
Nov. 28, 2016
http://news.sky.com/story/anti-terror-police-deployed-on-londons-streets-10675458
Headline: Zimbabwe Begins Issuing New Currency
Zimbabwe is issuing a new currency, known as bond notes, that officially are equal to the U.S. dollar. The government has gone ahead with the plan despite warnings the new currency will fuel hyperinflation and worsen the already ailing economy. On Monday, there were still long queues at most ATMs in Harare, despite the release of the new bond notes, which are intended, in part, to ease long-running cash shortages. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe says the new currency will, among other things, increase the country’s exports. But economist Prosper Chitambara, of the Labor and Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe, says the bond notes will worsen the country’s situation. “The costs may probably outweigh the intended benefits. Most of the economic agents in Zimbabwe have to buy imports from outside our borders. So they would require either U.S. dollars or South African dollars, or other internationally tradable currencies to be able to do business. Actually the bond note has even exacerbated the macroeconomic sustainability. It has eroded confidence within the financial system. It has created a lot of uncertainties in the market. Investors are not going to be interested in doing business in Zimbabwe,” Chitambara said.
Nov. 28, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/a/zimbabwe-bond-notes/3614439.html
Headline: Tunisia to issue 1bn euro Eurobond in January
Tunisia plans to issue a Eurobond worth 1 billion euros in January as it seeks funding to cover its deficit, a government source said on Monday. The issue was initially scheduled for April, but that was delayed after Tunisia secured a $500 million sovereign bond fully guaranteed by the United States, said the official. “Tunisia will issue in January 2017 a delayed 1 billion euro Eurobond that was first planned earlier this year,” he said, without giving further details. Tunisia’s economy has been hit by social unrest and militant attacks following the 2011 uprising that toppled former leader Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. Investment has fallen and unemployment is high, especially among young people. The government is facing further strikes over austerity measures included in the 2017 budget as it tries to cut public spending and rein in the deficit. Tunisia recently cut its 2016 growth forecast to 1.5 percent this year, down from an expected 2.5 percent.
Nov. 28, 2016
Headline: Please see our updated archive for all Mass Animal Deaths for 2016
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Headline: ‘Thunderstorm asthma’ deaths in Melbourne rise to six
Headline: Aerosol flu vaccine with live virus to be sprayed on all Americans? It’s already ‘approved for deployment’ in Australia
The number of people dying in the Australian city of Melbourne from a rare phenomenon called thunderstorm asthma has risen to six. Three others are in a critical condition. Heavy rains and winds on Monday triggered thousands of pollen allergy asthma attacks in the state of Victoria. Paramedics and hospitals were stretched to their limits as thousands phoned to report breathing problems. Thunderstorm asthma occurs in the spring when rye grass pollen gets wet, breaks into smaller pieces and enters people’s lungs, causing them breathing problems. More than 8,000 people were treated in hospital. About one in 10 people has asthma in Australia, with about 80% of those sufferers experiencing allergies, particularly to rye pollen. Melbourne’s current spring season has been particularly wet, creating havoc for asthma and hay fever sufferers.
Nov. 27, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38121579
http://www.naturalnews.com/056123_aerial_vaccines_flu_shots_mad_science.html
Headline: New law still limits freedom of religion
On 18 November 2016 Vietnams 14th National Assembly passed the nations first ever Law on Belief and Religion, amid concerns that multiple drafts of the Bill did not conform to international standards on freedom of religion or belief. Although the final text has not yet been made public, it is not expected to have altered significantly from previous drafts. The text of the law has been revised numerous times. Some improvements to the draft were made during the revision process, possibly in response to the feedback offered by religious communities. However, these improvements, and the inclusion of basic guarantees of the right to freedom of religion or belief, were undermined by onerous registration requirements and excessive State interference in the internal affairs of religious organisations. In a joint statement published prior to the passing of the law, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), together with over 50 civil society organisations and Vietnamese religious groups called upon the Vietnamese Government to ensure that registration is not a pre-requisite for the exercise of freedom of religion or belief.
Nov. 24, 2016
http://www.csw.org.uk/2016/11/24/news/3355/article.htm
Headline: Pakistan province bans forced conversion of Christians to Islam
Forced conversions from one faith to another in a major Pakistan province have been banned. Sindh’s provincial assembly voted to criminalise those who use force to make people change their religion. The bill means perpetrators can face five years in prison whilst facilitators could be handed a three year sentence. According to charities at least 1,000 girls, most of them Christians, are forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan every year. Physical, emotional or psychological violence is often used to make another person adopt another religion. Under the new law anyone converting will be monitored for 21 days “to ensure they are converting for religious purposes and by their own free will, not out of fashion or under force.” Nasir Saeed, director of CLAAS-UK, welcomed the new law: “Unequivocally, it is a great step taken by the Sindh government to protect the religious minorities. “Though it will not stop the ongoing trend in society, it will help to reduce such crimes and it will also build confidence and a sense of security among the religious minorities. “The police do not normally take action in such cases, fearing the reaction and pressure from the Muslim community, but now they will have to take action.” He urged the Punjab government to consider a similar law given that it is home to most of the Christian population.
Nov. 28, 2016
http://www.premier.org.uk/News/World/Pakistan-province-bans-forced-conversion-of-Christians-to-Islam
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Headline: Syrian Army heads to Golan Heights border for upcoming offensive
The Syrian Arab Army’s 42nd Brigade of the 4th Mechanized began their journey to the volatile Golan Heights region of Al-Quneitra this morning after a long deployment in the West Ghouta in rural Damascus. This new deployment comes just hours after the jihadist rebels of Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham (formerly Al-Nusra Front) agreed to surrender the strategic West Ghouta town of Khan Al-Sheih to the Syrian government. Similar to their previous military operations in the West Ghouta, the elite 42nd Brigade will be fighting alongside the 1st and 7th armored divisions in order to achieve their offensive objectives.
Nov. 26, 2016
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-heads-golan-heights-border-upcoming-offensive/
Headline: IDF eliminates ISIS force from the air
Headline: Israeli Air Force strikes Islamic State militants inside Syria for the first time
A patrol from the Golani Brigade this morning was fired on by ISIS forces in Syria in the vicinity of the communities of Nov and Avnei Eitan in the Golan Heights. The patrol returned the fire first with small arms and then mortars. The air force located the armored vehicle that had been the source of the fire and destroyed the vehicle, killing all four ISIS terrorists inside. This is not the first time the IDF has had to deal with spillover from the Syrian conflict. In September, three projectiles hit Israel, and the IDF was forced to retaliate, targeting three Syrian artillery positions. The problem is not new to 2016, either: there has been spillover from Syria’s civil war since the war began. Already in 2012, Israel filed a complaint with the UN, complaining that the fire presented a threat to Israeli residents and interests.
Nov. 27, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220878
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Nov 26
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“Hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.” (1 Kings 8:36)
‘Arson is Terror,’ Netanyahu Says; Arabs Arrested for Sparking Wildfires
“Every fire that was the result of arson or incitement to arson is terror in every way and we’ll treat it as such. Anyone who tries to burn parts of the State of Israel will be severely punished,” Netanyahu stated. “It’s likely that there is a nationalist motive in some of the arson cases,” Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich said at a press conference Thursday afternoon, as fires continued to rage in the Haifa area. Police made several arrests of ‘nationalistically motivated’ Arabs suspected of sparking wildfires across Israel. “We have a special integrated investigation team that is monitoring everything that is happening across the country. I don’t want to get into questions regarding where [we suspect] arson and where we do not,” Alsheich said. At least 60,000 Haifa residents were evacuated from their homes, and about 100 people in the vicinity were treated for smoke inhalation. There were no fatalities. “If this is [confirmed] as arson, it could be nationalistically motivated. It’s certainly not just pyromania. There have been arrests,” he stated. “I know for a fact that they tried to set fire to the department’s station in Haifa deliberately to cause the Haifa fire department to be paralyzed,” a senior firefighter declared.
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continued their military operations in the Golan Heights of Al-Quneitra on Wednesday, targeting the key road linking the town of Hadar to the provincial capital. Led by Fouj Al-Joulan (Golan Regiment), the Syrian Armed Forces launched a powerful assault at the large hilltop of Tal Al-Naqar; this resulted in a series of back-and-forth clashes that lasted for three hours on Wednesday afternoon. Following their breach of Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham’s first line of defense at this hilltop, the Syrian Armed Forces used their momentum to expel the jihadist rebels from Tal Al-Naqar by 4:00 P.M. (Damascus Time). As a result of their operations on Wednesday, the Syrian Armed Forces managed to secure much of the road linking Hadar to Quneitra City, leaving only the southern part of this roadway under the control of the jihadist rebels. In the coming weeks, the Syrian Armed Forces will likely intensify their operations in the Golan Heights as additional reinforcements from the Syrian Arab Army’s 4th Mechanized and 7th Armored Division pour into the province.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-secures-strategic-highway-golan-heights/
Nov 23
Revelation 18:12 gives us a look at some of the items that will be taken away by Jesus from the people living in the last days. These items no doubt have skyrocketed in price for we see the people weeping over these items. Most people as you know won’t cry over items that hold no value. Based on what we see from Revelation 18:12, I have been warning as many as I can over the years that the prices of gold and silver will skyrocket. Almost every month we are reading news reports showing gold and silver are indeed becoming major items in these last days on a globe scene. Around ten years ago I could have purchased an ounce of gold for $300.00.
If I would have told you ten years ago gold would hit the $1,214.00 mark, most people would have just laughed at me, and many people would have called me crazy! However, those people who laughed at this prediction have taken a second look at what they were told. Now, what if I told you in the future you could see the price of gold hit the $3,000 to $5,000 mark? We know what could drive the price of gold and silver up in the near future. There is no doubt that when paper currencies fall the real wealth will take the lead as it has done so in the pass ie like during the great depression.
India is a prime example of what I am writing about. Take a look at this headline below from November 9, 2016
Here is a quote from that report on the 9th.
“As I write this in the morning of 9th November 2016, there are huge lines forming outside gold shops in India — and gold traded heavily until late into the night yesterday. Depending on who you ask, the retail price of gold has gone up between 15% and 20% within the last 10 hours.”
http://www.acting-man.com/?p=47768
Now today there there is more news about the crisis going on in India and as you can see from the red print below gold has so far shot up to $2,800 per ounce.
Today’s headline: Scenes Of Panic In India As Gold Price Skyrockets After Currency Ban
People are now converting whatever they can into gold, silver, and mostly for the first time into the US dollar and other foreign currencies as well, all of which are trading at huge premiums. Money is also moving out of the country. Gold has shot up to as much as $2,800 per ounce, if you can find it.
If you want to know exactly what is going on in India to drive the price of gold up read the report from Zerohedge below. If you live in the U.S. and think this could never happen in America you would be wrong. How can I say this you ask? Just read Revelation chapter 13 where we see the Antichrist stopping everyone from buying and selling unless they have his mark in their right hand or forehead. In the future there will be no paper currency. One would presume that in order for one man to take control of the world’s economy something must transpire. As spock would say “it does not seem logical that every world leader would give up there power to one man unless something major happened that forced them to do so.” Something major is coming that will shift the economic world like never before and, the end result will be just as Jesus warned us in Revelation chapter 13.
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Headline: Trump Win to Spur Massive Building Wave in Jerusalem
The election of Donald Trump has led to the fast-tracking of plans to build 1,400 new homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo as Israel anticipates an end to the “de facto” building freeze in place during the Obama administration. An official from the Jerusalem municipality said the construction in Ramat Shlomo, which is located past the Green Line, is set to be approved in light of Trump’s victory. Trump is widely expected to ease the US’s hardline anti-settlement policy, which led to frosty relations between the two allies over the past eight years and strangled building in Judea and Samaria. “In Jerusalem, it’s as if Trump is already in office,” said the municipality official on Sunday, the Jerusalem Post reported. “The problem is that nobody knows what his policies will actually be.” He dismissed any denouncement from the lame-duck administration. “Even if the [current] State Department or White House issues a condemnation, it won’t be worth much at this point.” Construction in Ramat Shlomo has been hotly contested under Obama’s State Department, which claims that building Jewish homes in East Jerusalem threatens the possibility of a two-state solution.
Nov. 21, 2016
Headline: All eyes on the Golan Heights for the Syrian Army as the jihadist rebels surrender last West Ghouta stronghold
The jihadist rebels of Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham (formerly Al-Nusra Front) surrendered Khan Al-Sheih on Sunday to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) after more than four years of battle in this key West Ghouta town near the Syrian capital. With over 3,700 soldiers from the 4th Mechanized and 7th Armored divisions surrounding Khan Al-Sheih for months, the Syrian Arab Army just received a major boost in terms of manpower to the strategic Golan Heights front in the Al-Quneitra Governorate. For several months, the Syrian Arab Army’s High Command has discussed operations in the Golan Heights; however, their elite forces were hampered down by the heavy battles taking place in both Darayya and Khan Al-Sheih. When it came time for the jihadist rebels to surrender Khan Al-Sheih this week, they asked the Syrian Arab Army’s High Command for transportation to the Dara’a Governorate; this was immediately rejected because Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham would send these reinforcements to the Golan Heights. Now that the 4th Mechanized Division’s elite 42nd Brigade is free to be redeployed, the Golan Heights front will become the new battle-zone in southern Syria, as the government attempts to isolate the jihadist rebels near the Israeli border.
Nov. 21, 2016
Jordan
Headline: Secret Israel-Jordanian-Syrian border talks begin
Israel, Jordan and Syria have embarked on secret discussions for the stabilization of their borders in southern Syria by restoring the status quo ante that reigned on the Golan prior to the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011. This is reported exclusively by debkafile from intelligence, Washington and Moscow sources. The incoming Trump administration in Washington and Russian President Vladimir Putin are in the picture; so is the United Arab Emirates ruler, Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Although still at a preliminary stage, the talks have produced their first tangible result: A vanguard of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) has arrived on the Syrian side of the Golan. It has taken up position at its former Fawwar Camp base 4km east of Quneitra, which it evacuated during the Syrian fighting. The main body of the force, around 1,000 UN soldiers and 70 observers, is expected soon, to take up the task of reconstituting the former demilitarized zone that separated Israel and Syria under the 1974 armistice agreement. This DMZ runs 80km along the Hermon range up to the Lebanese border in the north and down to the Israel-Syrian-Jordanian triangle in southern Syria up to the Jordanian border. In the 25km long Golan strip, between half a kilometer and 10 deep, the IDF and Syrian army were originally limited as to the number of soldiers and types of weaponry they are allowed to maintain. The strip will revert to Syrian civil administration under UNDOF control, and the Israeli-Syrian border crossing point will be reopened in the Quneitra area under the joint supervision of UN, Israeli and Syrian officers. The military arrangements are still in discussion and changes may be introduced to this format.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://debka.com/article/25789/Secret-Israel-Jordanian-Syrian-border-talks-begin
Lebanon
Headline: Lebanon’s President Aoun invited to visit Saudi Arabia
Headline: Lebanon’s Aoun looks to revive ties with Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s Prince Khaled al-Faisal on Monday invited Lebanon’s recently-elected President Michel Aoun, a close ally of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, to visit Saudi. Al Faisal, governor of Mecca and an adviser to the king, said during an official visit to Lebanon that Aoun had promised to visit as soon as a new Lebanese government was formed.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4882185,00.html
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Yemen thanks Saudi Arabia and UAE for helping lift Taiz siege
Headline: Saudi-led coalition says Yemen truce will not be renewed
Headline: Yemeni army resumes military operations
Headline: Yemeni ceasefire expires as clashes erupt across the country
Yemeni Vice President Lt. Gen. Ali Mohsen Saleh Al-Ahmar has expressed appreciation to the Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates for helping lift the siege of Taiz. He extended his appreciation during a call to Maj. Gen. Khaled Fadhel, commander of the alliance in the province, while meeting in the Saudi capital with Taiz Gov. Ali Maamari on Thursday. The King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid (KSRelief), under General Supervisor Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, played an important role in the efforts to help the inhabitants as it distributed food baskets through the humanitarian relief coalition in Taiz.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1013151/saudi-arabia
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4882118,00.html
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2016/11/21/Yemen-ceasefire-ends-without-extension.html
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/yemeni-ceasefire-expires-clashes-erupt-across-country/
Egypt
Headline: Sisi praises Trump, expects more US ‘engagement’ in region
Headline: Nearly 300 detained in Egypt over Sissi assassination plot, Sinai attacks
Headline: Egypt’s minority Nubians stage rally, demand land rights
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi praised US President-elect Donald Trump and said he expected greater engagement in the Middle East from his administration, in an interview with Portuguese media. “Personally I respect and appreciate” Trump, Sisi said according to an English translation of his remarks to Portuguese news agency LUSA published on Saturday. “I believe that President-elect Trump will be more rigorously engaged with the issues of the region,” he said. “As a matter of fact President-elect Trump has shown deep and great understanding of what is taking place in the region as a whole and what is taking place in Egypt,” he added. “That is why I am looking forward, and I am expecting more support and more reinforcement of our bilateral relations”. Meanwhile, Hundreds of Egypt’s ethnic minority Nubians have blocked a main road in the country’s south to protest the government’s plan to sell land they claim to be their ancestral territory. Monday’s protest, on the road between the city of Aswan and the Abu Simbel archaeological site, came after police last weekend prevented a group of Nubians from returning to their land. Nubians have been forcibly displaced four times in the 20th century, most recently in 1964 with the construction of the Aswan High dam. Egypt’s new constitution, adopted in 2014, grants Nubians the right to return to their land within 10 years of ratification.
Nov. 21, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/sisi-praises-trump-expects-us-engagement-region/
Headline: Syrian government refuses UN truce terms for Aleppo
Headline: Syrian Army nears total victory in Aleppo amid advances on all fronts
The Syrian government refused the UN envoy’s latest proposal for a truce in Aleppo on Sunday, calling on insurgents to withdraw and saying it would not grant autonomy to the rebel-held east in exchange for calm. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said restoring government rule was a matter of “national sovereignty,” and that Damascus would not allow the people of eastern Aleppo to be “hostages to 6,000 gunmen.” “We agreed on the need that terrorists should get out of east Aleppo to end the suffering of the civilians in the city,” he said. He spoke after meeting with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura, who acknowledged a “major disagreement” with al-Moallem and said a “creative” if interim solution was required to halt the violence. “We are only proposing that there should not be a radical dramatic change in the administration of Aleppo until there is a political solution,” he said.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4881957,00.html
Headline: ISIS suicide bomber drives headlong towards Iraqi troops at Tal Afar Airbase
Headline: ISIS increase use of suicide car bombs in bitter Mosul battle
Nail-biting footage has emerged of an Islamic State VBIED (vehicle-borne improvised explosive device) plunging towards positions held by the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) during the battle for Tal Afar Airbase. Fortunately for the Iraqi soldiers, the suicidal driver was brought to an explosive halt just meters prior to reaching his designated target, two Iraqi armored Humvees. Following the PMU’s capture of Tal Afar Airbase, the Iraqi Armed Forces have now turned their attention to Tal Afar city, an ISIS bastion in the western part of Nineveh province. Should the PMU seize control of Tal Afar, their forces will effectively have cut off the Islamic State’s only supply road to Mosul, thus sealing the inevitable fate of the city.
Nov. 21, 2016
Headline: Turkey will “not remain silent” on PMU’s attack against ISIS-held Tel Afar
Headline: Turkish double standard on terror?- Turkish President Erodgan blasts European tolerance for Kurdish PKK members – all while Turkey hosts Hamas terrorists.
Turkey has said it will not remain silent on the Popular Mobilization Unit’s (PMU) offensive on the ISIS-held predominately-Turkmen town of Tal Afar, just west of Mosul in Iraq’s north. “(Iraqi) Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, had pledged through the United States that the PMU would not enter Tel Afar, but on the ground, it seems they did enter,” the Turkish presidency spokesperson, Ibrahim Kalin, said in a press statement on Sunday. He then went onto say that Turkey “will not remain silent”, and “warns the Iraqi government, through the United States, that it is ought to honor its commitments.” Turkey fears that the predominately Shi’ite PMU will carry out sectarian attacks on the Sunni Turkmen, an allegation that goes against the inter-faith policy of the militia. In more than two years of ISIS-occupation of Tel Afar, Turkey have never offered to liberate the city, but have threatened to do so against the PMU.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220614
Turkey
Headline: Turkey’s Parliament Set To Legalise Child Rape of ‘Married’ Victims
A new bill proposed by the Turkish parliament will allow those who rape underage children to be pardoned for the crime as long as they marry the victim after the act. The ruling party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the AKP, has provoked outcry after they proposed the bill which would see the pardoning over some 3,000 child rapists. According to the AKP, the bill is intended to benefit men who have had sex with a minor they are in a relationship with, and deal with the complications of child marriage within the country the Telegraph reports. The new bill would be a reversal of a law that was passed over a decade ago in 2005 that criminalized child rape regardless if the victim and the attacker were married or not. The new bill also stipulates that if the marriage does not work out and the two parties agree to a divorce then the rapist would once again be arrested for the crime and continue any deferred sentence. Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag defended the bill saying that it would help in cases where the girl became pregnant by keeping the man around in her life and able to provide economic assistance to her and their child.
Nov. 18, 2016
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/18/turkey-legalizes-child-rape-rapist-marries-victim/
Headline: Turkey’s Erdogan warns NATO on sheltering ‘terrorist’ plotters
Headline: Erdogan: My people believe U.S. was behind coup attempt
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday warned NATO against sheltering “terrorist” soldiers after Turkish officers in the alliance’s command reportedly sought asylum after a failed putsch. “How can a terrorist, a terrorist soldier, a soldier who has been involved in plotting a coup, be employed in NATO?” Erdogan told journalists on a plane from Uzbekistan, the Milliyet newspaper reported. “They cannot do such a thing,” he said. On Friday, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said a number of Turkish officers serving in NATO command positions had requested asylum following the botched coup on July 15. Neither Stoltenberg nor Erdogan provided a number, although Erdogan said it was not high. Erdogan said his government demanded that soldiers who asked for asylum be extradited and warned the alliance against providing them with a haven. “NATO cannot entertain accepting asylum requests of this kind. Those in question are accused of terror,” he said. Stoltenberg said the NATO countries concerned would make their own asylum decisions rather than the alliance headquarters in Brussels.
Nov. 21, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkeys-erdogan-warns-nato-sheltering-terrorist-plotters/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220593
Iran
Headline: Expel Iran from OIC, Arab states urged
The Council of Gulf International Relations (COGIR) has urged Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as well as Arab and Islamic states to expel Iran from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) because of its harmful acts against Islamic unity and solidarity and its sponsoring of terrorism and promoting sectarianism. The Council also stressed that Tehran’s instigation of its agents in Yemen to target Makkah showed the Muslim world the hatred of this country for Islam’s holiest sites. This was announced by the President of COGIR and Chairman of its Arab Society for Press and Freedom of Information Dr. Tariq Al-Sheikhan. Last Month, 11 countries wrote a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon cautioning that Iran was continuing a negative role in causing tension and instability in the region. The letter cited Tehran’s expansionist regional policies, flagrant violations of the principle of sovereignty and constant interference in the internal affairs of Arab states. The letter was signed by the UN ambassadors of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. UN Watch, a Geneva-based monitoring group, welcomed the letter, saying it was “important” that Muslim countries were speaking out against Iranian policies.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2016/11/21/Expel-Iran-from-OIC-Arab-states-urged.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation
Afghanistan
Headline: IS Claims Kabul Shi’ite Mosque Blast That Killed 32
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Monday’s suicide bombing of a Shi’ite mosque in the Afghan capital that killed at least 32 people and wounded more than 80 others. The bomber entered the crowded Baqir ul Olum Mosque in Kabul during a religious ceremony and detonated the explosives strapped to his body among the worshipers. General Faridoon Obaidi, head of Kabul’s Criminal Investigation Department, told reporters all the victims were civilians. A brief statement issued by IS’s media wing said it was behind the bloodshed. President Ashraf Ghani denounced the bombing as “unforgivable” and an act of enemies of Afghanistan aimed at dividing Afghan ethnicities. Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah condemned the attack, saying it targeted “innocent civilians – including children – in a holy place. It is a war crime and an act against Islam.”
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/a/ap-afghan-official-suicide-bomb-shiite-mosque/3605189.html
Ethiopia
Headline: CPJ accuses Ethiopia of intensifying press crackdown
A press freedom campaigner group has accused Ethiopia of intensifying crackdown on media under the recently imposed state of emergency. Last month, Ethiopia declared a six-month state of emergency after a wave of deadly anti-government demonstrations in Oromia and Amhara regions. The New York based group, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said the Horn of Africa’s nation has arrested or sentenced at least three journalists and bloggers under a state of emergency since October. “In recent weeks, Ethiopian authorities have jailed a newspaper editor, as well as two members of the award-winning Zone 9 bloggers’ collective, which has faced continuous legal harassment on terrorism and incitement charges” CPJ said in a statement extended to Sudan Tribune. “A fourth journalist has been missing for a week; his family fear he is in state custody” it added. The rights group urged the Ethiopian government to immediately release all journalists detained.
Nov. 19, 2016
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article60887
Sudan
Headline: Japan’s first gun-toting troops since WWII have deployed — to South Sudan
Last year, in the middle of the night, tens of thousands of Japanese protesters gathered outside their country’s parliament. Inside, legislators were engaged in a melee, as members of Japan’s biggest opposition party tried to grab a microphone from the chairman of a special parliamentary committee. The dissenters had the support of the protesters outside. With control of the microphone, the chairman could initiate a vote on a question that has divided Japan since its defeat in World War II: Should Japan reinstate its army’s ability to use force in conflicts abroad? Eventually, lawmakers from the governing party formed a protective cordon around the chairman, and the ensuing vote at least nominally brought Japan’s decades of pacifism to an end. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe successfully argued that Japan needed to flex its muscles, given North Korea’s persistent belligerence and unpredictability, as well as neighboring China’s intimidatingly large army. On Monday, however, Japanese forces were actually deployed — but not to any hot spots in East Asia. Instead, dozens of Japanese soldiers landed in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. By mid-December, 350 of them will be stationed there as part of a peacekeeping unit that will be authorized to use guns if needed to protect civilians, U.N. staff or themselves. The Japanese contingent is made up of trained engineers whose main mission is to engage in construction projects, but there are also plans for them to take a more active role in peacekeeping under an expanded mandate stemming from the security measures approved last year. Japanese troops have been deployed as part of U.N. peacekeeping missions before — starting in 1992 in Cambodia and including to South Sudan in 2012. Last year’s legislation means that the Japanese troops can now use weapons, notably in rescuing U.N. staffers who come under attack and defending U.N. peacekeeping facilities.
Nov. 21, 2016
Libya
Headline: Car bombing in Libyan city of Benghazi kills 3, wounds 26
A car bombing outside a hospital in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi killed three people and wounded 26 on Monday, the hospital said, the third attack on the medical facility this year. The car detonated in the parking lot of Jalaa Hospital, which is located in the heart of the city, at a time when streets around the facility were full of children who had finished school for the day. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Mohammed Zwai, a hospital official, said the death toll is expected to rise as several of the wounded remain in critical condition. A police spokesman, Walid al-Urfi, said the car bomb was detonated by remote control. Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city, has been the scene of more than two years of fighting between forces loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Hifter and Islamic militants, including an ISIS affiliate. Last week, Hifter’s forces expelled Islamic militants from their key stronghold in the city but deadly fighting continues in other areas.
Nov. 21, 2016
Algeria
Headline: Algeria’s Teachers, Others Strike to Protest Finance Bill
Teachers, health workers and local civil servants in Algeria have begun a three-day strike over government plans to tighten spending and increase the retirement age as part of the 2017 finance bill. Some students were given the day off on Monday as schools found there weren’t enough teachers. The head of the National Parents Association, Djamila Khiar, denounced the action by the 12 striking unions, saying teachers “don’t have the right to use students” to press demands. The government, coping with a fall in oil revenue, wants to raise taxes, freeze some salaries and set a minimum retirement age of 60. Protesters planned a sit-in on Wednesday at Algeria’s parliament, which is voting on the finance bill at week’s end.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/11/21/world/middleeast/ap-ml-algeria-strikes.html?_r=0
Armenia
Headline: Turkey unveils condition for opening border with Armenia
If the occupation of Azerbaijani lands ceases, Turkey’s doubts over opening the border with Armenia will be removed, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said, Anadolu news agency reported. Simsek made remarks at the 62nd session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Istanbul. As for reason of not opening the border with Armenia, Simsek drew attention to the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Stressing that the Turkey-Azerbaijan relations are at a very high level, Simsek stressed that Armenia must cease occupation of Azerbaijani lands. “If the occupation ceases, Turkey’s doubts over support for Armenia and opening of the check point will be removed,” he said. The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://news.az/articles/world/116078
Headline: American jihadists on the move from Mosul pose threat to US
Clouds of black soot and the acrid stench of burning tires hang over the ISIS-controlled road in the early morning, as rockets whistle through the air toward the Peshmerga-held posts. The smoke helps ISIS fighters re-position, and even flee. In the case of foreign fighters, it could even allow them to live to fight another day in their homelands, including America. “The smoke is designed to dampen our vision. But this is more than normal, which means they are moving around the ISIS leaders,” one Kurdish lieutenant commander told FoxNews.com from the front line wrapping around Shengal, also known as Sinjar. “And likely, their key Western fighters, too.” Within the ranks of the brutal terrorist organization, Western fighters – especially those holding U.S. passports – have held an esteemed position, if only for propaganda purposes. In the early days of ISIS’ rise, Westerners routinely got the nicest homes, their pick of Yazidi sex slaves and the freshest food. According to an FBI spokesperson, 250 Americans have “traveled or attempted to travel” to Syria or Iraq to join ISIS or other terrorist groups over the past few years. It is not clear how many made it, but the FBI reports a decrease in recent months. The slowing of all foreign recruits – from a pinnacle of 2,000 per month to now less than 50 – comes as a result of both stricter border controls in neighboring countries and evident ISIS battlefield losses, which hurts their resolve and enlistment efforts.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/11/21/american-jihadists-on-move-from-mosul-pose-threat-to-us.html
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Headline: Officers douse pipeline protesters in subfreezing weather
Authorities on Monday defended their decision to douse protesters with water during a skirmish in subfreezing weather near the Dakota Access oil pipeline, and organizers said at least 17 protesters were taken to the hospital — including some who were treated for hypothermia. Protesters trying to push past a long-blocked bridge on a state highway late Sunday and early Monday were turned back by authorities using tear gas, rubber bullets and water hoses. At least 17 protesters were injured severely enough to be taken to hospitals, said Dallas Goldtooth, an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network. “Hypothermia, a number of head injuries from being shot with rubber bullets, one individual had a heart attack,” he said. Although Goldtrooth said a water cannon was used to douse the protesters, Morton County Sheriff’s spokesman Rob Keller denied that. He did confirm that water hoses owned by the Mandan Rural Fire Department were used to put out fires set by protesters and to turn back protesters during a violent clash that was “rapidly unfolding.”
Nov. 21, 2016
Headline: North Texas land owners fight back against federal land seizure
On this episode of The Jacki Daily Show, Rob Henneke joins the program to describe the legal battle he is waging on behalf of property owners in North Texas whose land is being seized by the Bureau of Land Management. Jacki expresses her disappointment that Republican leaders have not come to the defense of these aggrieved citizens. Jacki summarizes the absurd situation neatly: “Overnight, the Feds just show up one day and say, ‘So you thought this was your home, you’ve been paying taxes on it, but really it’s on federal land. It’s not your private property, it’s our property.’” Rob reveals the many tactics his team is pursuing to ensure his clients can keep their family homes, many of which have been in their possession for generations. Jacki also reviews Donald Trump’s likely energy policies; speaks with Andrew Browning, COO of the Consumer Energy Alliance, about the continuing importance of traditional fuels and the safety and efficacy of pipelines; and describes the bizarre letter she got from the federal government after her personal information, stored on a government server because of her former top secret security clearance, was hacked and stolen.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.theblaze.com/podcasts/north-texas-land-owners-fight-back-against-federal-land-seizure/
Headline: Militant attacks kill five soldiers, civilian in Mali
Twin attacks blamed on militants during weekend municipal elections in Mali have claimed the lives of at least five soldiers and one civilian, security sources say. In the first incident, security sources said on Monday that five Malian troops were killed after being ambushed while transporting ballot boxes in the restive north. “After the voting on Sunday, an army convoy taking the ballot boxes for counting was attacked in the north by jihadists. Five Malian soldiers were killed,” AFP quoted a source as saying. Separately, a group of militants nabbed several vehicles and killed a civilian in the town of Dilli in southwestern Mali overnight Sunday to Monday. “They arrived early Monday in Dilli. They attacked a council building. The jihadists then took off with two ambulances and a vehicle, after which they killed a civilian and made off for the Mauritanian border,” a local official said. This comes as Malians have voted in long-overdue local elections, which were tainted by a spate of violent attacks and opposition boycotts.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/11/21/494547/Mali-Dilli-CMA-Tuareg-alQaeda
Headline: Rohingya villages ‘destroyed’ in Myanmar, images show
More than 1,200 homes have been razed in villages inhabited by Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority in the past six weeks, Human Rights Watch says. The group has released a batch of new satellite images that it says show 820 structures were destroyed between 10-18 November. The military is conducting security operations in Rakhine but the government denies it is razing homes. The Rohingya are one of the world’s most persecuted minority groups. The BBC cannot independently verify the extent of destruction in Rohingya villages as the government has blocked international journalists from visiting the area, from where tens of thousands of people have fled. But a BBC correspondent on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border has spoken with fleeing Rohingya families who described what was happening in northern Rakhine as “hell on earth”. The government of Myanmar, which is also known as Burma, says that the Rohingya are setting fire to their own homes to attract international attention. Human Rights Watch previously identified 430 destroyed buildings in three villages from satellite images released on 13 November. Presidential spokesman Zaw Htay accused the group of exaggeration in responding to that report.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38049106
http://www.opendoorsuk.org/persecution/worldwatch/burma_myanmar.php
Headline: Putin says Russia will respond to NATO expansion
Headline: Russia to deploy S-400 and Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia would take countermeasures in response to NATO expansion, RIA news agency quoted him as saying on Monday. “Why are we reacting to NATO expansion so emotionally? We are concerned by NATO’s decision making,” Putin was quoted as saying in an interview to be broadcast on Russian TV later on Monday.
***see also Turkey above
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4882095,00.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-putin-nato-idUSKBN13G0ZN
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4882093,00.html
Headline: Russia quits Hague Court
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a directive on Wednesday to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Hague. The ICC is meant to be the world’s first permanent court and works to prosecute leaders and countries for war crimes, genocide and “crimes against humanity.” In 2000, Russia signed the Rome treaty establishing the ICC, but never ratified it. The ICC was established in 1998, and currently has over 100 member states. Like Russia, the US also signed the treaty but declared in 2002 that they had “no intention” of ratifying it. Last Tuesday, the UN General Assembly’s Human Rights Committee approved a resolution condemning Russia’s “occupation” of Crimea and Sevastopol, and blamed Russia for discrimination against Crimean residents, as well as rights abuses. Last Monday, the ICC issued a preliminary report describing the events in Crimea as “an international armed conflict between the Ukraine and the Russian Federation.” Russia is also under continuous threat of sanctions and being sued in the ICC, since they are carrying out airstrikes to help Syrian nationals fight ISIS. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia’s withdrawal is an issue of “national interests” and explained Putin’s decree as a mere formality, since the agreement was never ratified in the first place. He also said Crimea was not occupied but had joined Russia in March 2014 after a legitimate popular vote. Though Russia does want international crimes dealt with in the ICC, the country is becoming increasingly frustrated with what it terms the ICC’s ineffectiveness. They are also dissatisfied with how the ICC handled the 2008 five-day war in Georgia, claiming the court ignored continued aggression by Tbilisi against South Ossetia civilians.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220600
The Coming One world government & religionHeadline: China says would consider Turkey membership of security bloc
Headline: Erdogan: We can join Shanghai Pact instead of the EU
China is willing to consider any application from NATO-member Turkey to join a Russian and Chinese-led security bloc, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday, after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his country could join. China, Russia and four Central Asian nations — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in 2001 as a regional security bloc to fight threats posed by radical Islam and drug trafficking from neighbouring Afghanistan. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that Turkey is already a dialogue partner of the bloc and has for a long time closely cooperated with it, which China appreciates. China attaches great importance to Turkey’s wish to strengthen that cooperation, he told a daily news briefing. “We are willing, together with other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and in accordance with the rules of its legal documents, to seriously study it on the basis of consensus consultation,” Geng added, without elaborating.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4882090,00.html
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/erdogan-can-join-shanghai-pact-instead-eu/
Headline: Pope extends power to forgive abortion to all Roman Catholic priests
Pope Francis on Monday extended indefinitely to all Roman Catholic priests the power to forgive abortion, a right previously reserved for bishops or special confessors in most parts of the world. Francis, who has made a more inclusive and forgiving Roman Catholic Church a characteristic of his papacy, made the announcement in a document known as an “apostolic letter” after Sunday’s close of the Church’s “Holy Year of Mercy.” He said he wanted to “restate as firmly as I can that abortion is a grave sin, since it puts an end to an innocent life” but “there is no sin that God’s mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart seeking to be reconciled with (God).” Francis had already temporarily granted the power to all priests to give what is known as “sacramental absolution” for abortion during the Holy Year, from Dec. 8 to Nov. 20, but the solemn tone of his words in Monday’s letter suggested that the change would last for at least the rest of his papacy.
Nov. 21, 2016
Headline: Iran reports outbreaks of H5N8 bird flu in Tehran area
Iran reported two outbreaks of the highly contagious H5N8 bird flu virus at farms located in the Tehran region, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday, citing a report from the Iranian agriculture ministry. The outbreaks killed some 5,600 birds out of a total of nearly 283,500 on the farms, the OIE said in a report posted on its website. All animals were killed or slaughtered. “A post outbreak investigation to trace the source of infection is ongoing to detect the probable spread and circulation of this subtype,” the ministry said in the report. The H5N8 virus has never been found in humans but has infected wild birds and farms in several European countries as well as in Israel over the past weeks.
Nov. 21, 2016
Headline: “Allah, Kill the Despicable Christians”- Muslim Persecution of Christians, August 2016
Islamic hate for Christians was on display throughout the month of August. Shortly after an 80-year-old Catholic priest in France was slaughtered by Muslims who stormed his church during mass, the 16-year-old Muslim son of an Islamic cleric living in Belgium made a video and posted it on social media. In the video, he appears walking along the main street of the Belgian city of Verviers during Ramadan while making prayers to Allah, which include: “Allah, kill the despicable Christians. Allah, kill each and every last one of them….” According to Immigration Minister Theo Francken: “It’s obvious that his father, the imam, is promoting such ideas not just to fighters to join the battle in Syria, but also to his own children. The young man who appears in the video reflects the father’s views, and I understand and empathize with the great concern that city residents have over this.” A deportation order was last reported as pending a court appeal. Similarly, in the August edition of Dabiq, ISIS’s propaganda magazine, the jihadi organization urged Muslims to destroy the “arrogant Christian disbelievers” and urged them to “pray for Allah’s curse to be upon the liars.” ISIS also threatened Christians to “break the cross.” Those who do and convert to Islam will “enter the Gardens of Paradise,” and those who reject Islam and cling to the cross will die in a “futile” war against ISIS. As if the Christians of Nigeria were not persecuted enough by Muslim groups, Boko Haram’s new leader, known for killing nonconformist Muslims as well, announced that Christians are now its number one and primary target, and that Boko Haram will continue to “bomb churches and kill Christians while ending attacks on mosques and markets used by ordinary Muslims.” Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the new leader, also spoke of “booby-trapping and blowing up every church that we are able to reach, and killing all of those who we find from the citizens of the Cross.”
Nov. 20, 2016
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9350/kill-despicable-christians
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