email address: endtimesresearchministry@yahoo.com

 Bible prophecy documentary book download proving our generation will see the return of the Lord. Do you want to know what is going to happen in the future before it actually takes place? The Word of God provides you with specific details about our future and all of these things are coming to pass in this generation. If you aren’t saved yet this is a must read! The Last Chronicles of Planet Earth Oct. 6, 2016 Edition written by Frank Dimora

~be sure to click photos~

Headline:     UN chief rejects UNESCO resolution on Temple Mount

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon distanced himself on Sunday from a recent UNESCO resolution which failed to acknowledge the ties between the Jewish people and the Temple Mount. Israel suspended its cooperation with the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), claiming the draft resolution it adopted on Thursday denies the deep, historic Jewish connection to the holy sites in Jerusalem. The resolution refers to the holiest site in Judaism—the Temple Mount—only by its Muslim name—Al-Haram Al Sharif.   “The Secretary-General reaffirms the importance of the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls for the three monotheistic religions and stresses the importance of the religious and historical link of the Jewish, Muslim and Christian peoples to the holy site,” said a statement read by the UN Spokesperson on behalf of Ban.
Oct. 16, 2016

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4866955,00.html

Headline: Israeli Ministry Presents “UNESCO Revised Bible” [VIDEO]

Following the vote on Thursday in which the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) erased all connection between Judaism and Jerusalem, the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs released a video featuring a reading of a revised “UNESCO Bible”. The video targeted Christian supporters of Israel, as it featured a verse from the New Testament that was altered from the original, replacing the Jewish Temple with Al Aqsa Mosque. It should be noted that Al Aqsa Mosque was built at least 1,200 years after the death of Jesus.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/77155/israeli-ministry-presents-unesco-revised-bible-watch/?utm_source=Breaking+Israel+News&utm_campaign=bae0fe774f-BIN_morning_10_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b6d3627f72-bae0fe774f-86610633&mc_cid=bae0fe774f&mc_eid=c55

Headline:    Report: Hamas launches long-range rocket into Mediterranean Sea

Headline: Officer wounded in attack near Jerusalem

The Gaza-based terror organization Hamas on Monday reportedly test-fired at least one long-range missile, launching the weapon into the Mediterranean Sea, according to a Channel 2 report.
Residents situated in Israel’s southern communities reported hearing an explosion following the event, the report added. No injuries or damage were reported in the incident. Hamas frequently launches rockets into Mediterranean waters, honing its technological capabilities for a possible future confrontation with Israel. Palestinian terrorists continually shoot rockets into Israeli territory, as well, with a number landing in residential areas located primarily in the South.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Report-Hamas-launches-long-range-rocket-into-Mediterranean-Sea-470276

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/219007

Jordan

Headline:    Suicide bomber kills three at refugee camp on Syria-Jordan border

A suicide bomber believed to be from ISIS killed three people and injured at least 20 others in an attack on Sunday on an outpost manned by a Syrian rebel group at a refugee camp on the border between Syria and Jordan, a rebel official said.  The attack targeted the Jaish al-Ashair rebel group at the Rakban camp, said Said Saif, spokesman for the Forces of Martyrs Ahmed al-Abdo Brigades, a Free Syrian Army rebel group fighting against ISIS.
Oct. 16, 2016

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4867027,00.html

Lebanon

http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2539436&language=en

Egypt

Headline:    Three Egyptian soldiers killed during air, ground raids on Sinai militants: Army

Egypt’s army said three of its personnel were killed and two wounded during air and ground operations against militants in the restive North Sinai region on Sunday. Military air forces pounded 16 militant hideouts while ground and special troops simultaneously raided a number of other targets, killing 18 militants, military spokesman Brigadier General Mohamed Samir said in a statement. Three military personnel were killed and two others wounded in the Sunday dawn fighting, he added. The raids came two days after militants attacked an army checkpoint in the Bir Al-Abd area west of El-Arish, the provincial capital of North Sinai, killing 12 soldiers and wounding at least six more. The attack was claimed by the Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State group. The army said it killed 15 militant fighters in response when Egyptian jets bombed Islamist militant targets for three hours on Saturday.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/245926/Egypt/Politics-/Three-Egyptian-soldiers-killed-during-air,-ground-.aspx

Headline: European Union condemns Russia bombing of Aleppo, says may be war crime

The European Union condemned on Monday Syrian and Russian air strikes on the rebel-held part of Aleppo, singling out Moscow for deliberately targeting hospitals and medical personnel. “Since the beginning of the offensive by the regime and its allies, notably Russia, the intensity and scale of the aerial bombardment of eastern Aleppo is clearly disproportionate,” said the statement agreed by the EU’s 28 governments. “The deliberate targeting of hospitals, medical personnel, schools and essential infrastructure, as well as the use of barrel bombs, cluster bombs, and chemical weapons … may amount to war crimes,” EU foreign ministers agreed in Luxembourg.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4867139,00.html

Headline:    Syrian Army, Hezbollah continue massive southern Aleppo assault

Headline:   Russian & Syrian military to organize 8-hour ‘humanitarian pause’ in Aleppo on Oct. 20

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), backed by Hezbollah, continued their large-scale assault in southern Aleppo on Monday, targeting several districts and hilltops under the control of both Jaysh Al-Fateh and Fatah Halab. The southern Aleppo assault began last night, when the 800th Regiment of the Republican Guard established full control over Tal SyriaTel and the Air Defense Base near the strategic town of Khan Touman. Following the capture of these southern Aleppo sites, a large Hezbollah force stormed the southern sector of the 1070 Al-Hamdaniyah Housing Project, seizing almost 90 percent of this district before dawn on Monday. Despite initially overrunning Jaysh Al-Fateh’s positions at the 1070 Housing Project, Hezbollah was forced to withdraw from a number of buildings inside this district; this was due to the jihadist rebels maintaining control over the Hikmah School. Meanwhile, at Salahiddeen, the Syrian Armed Forces managed to capture several buildings inside the Sheikh ‘Ali area, giving the latter a large presence inside this strategic district in southern Aleppo. Intense clashes are still ongoing at several axes, as the Syrian Armed Forces and Hezbollah press the jihadist rebel defenses around southern Aleppo.
Oct. 17, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-hezbollah-continue-massive-southern-aleppo-assault/

https://www.rt.com/news/363045-aleppo-humanitarian-pause-russia/

Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe

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

Headline:       Attacks including suicide bombing by IS kill 46 in Iraq

Attacks killed at least 46 people in Iraq on Saturday, including a suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group that was the deadliest to hit Baghdad in months. A suicide bomber targeted a funeral tent where mourners were gathered to pay their respects in the Shiite-majority Shaab area of north Baghdad, killing at least 34 people and wounding least 36, officials said. IS issued an online statement claiming the attack, saying it was carried out by a man who detonated an explosive vest. A witness said the bomber entered the funeral tent and blew himself up as lunch was being served. “I saw with my eyes 20 martyrs on the ground,” the witness said. Blood stained the ground at the scene of the attack, which was littered with the remains of plastics chairs mourners had been seated on. IS, a Sunni extremist group, considers Shiites to be heretics, and frequently carries out suicide bombings and other attacks against them in Baghdad and elsewhere in the country. Today’s bombing is the deadliest to hit the Iraqi capital since early July, when a suicide bombing in central Baghdad sparked infernos in a crowded shopping area, killing more than 300 people.
Oct. 16, 2016

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-attacks-including-suicide-bombing-by-is-kill-46-in-iraq-2264517

Headline:    Iraq Launches the Campaign for Mosul

Headline:    Kurdish Soldiers Report Initial Success in Battle to Re-take Mosul

Headline:    Ankara-Baghdad Tensions Escalate as Mosul Operation Begins

Headline:    Mosul assault – a military Tower of Babel

Headline: Uprising in Mosul begins as civilians attack ISIS

Iraqi and regional actors are preparing to assist with or spoil the Iraqi Security Forces’ (ISF) operation to retake Mosul and its environs from ISIS. Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced the start of operations to retake the city on October 17. The ISF began shelling ISIS-held villages south of Mosul, Iraqi Army armored units and Federal Police advanced towards Mosul near Gwer, southeast of Mosul, and Peshmerga units began advancing towards Mosul from Khazar, east of Mosul. The ISF’s operation against ISIS will require security forces to isolate Mosul before it can begin a block-by-block clearing operation in the city itself. The ISF recaptured Shirqat, the last major ISIS-held city on the Mosul-Baghdad highway, on September 22, thereby setting the operational conditions to launch operations for Mosul. The ISF will need to continue its line of effort up the highway while also encircling the city from the north and northeast. ISIS will seek to conduct attrition warfare against the ISF before it arrives in Mosul, leveraging its remaining lines of communication in Anbar, Ninewa, and Syria to shift people and supplies. ISIS will also use the sparsely populated areas on both the eastern and western sides of the Tigris River to launch attacks against recaptured areas and the ISF.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://iswresearch.blogspot.com/2016/10/iraq-launches-campaign-for-mosul.html?utm_source=Iraq+Launches+the+Campaign+for+Mosul&utm_campaign=Ukraine+Update%3A+September+1+-+October+13%2C+2016&utm_medium=email

http://www.voanews.com/a/iraqi-pm-signal-start-of-mosul-offensive/3554344.html

http://www.voanews.com/a/turkey-iraq-tensions-over-mosul/3554900.html

http://debka.com/article/25721/Mosul-assault-%E2%80%93-a-military-Tower-of-Babel

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/uprising-mosul-begins-civilians-attack-isis/

Turkey

Headline:       Three killed in suicide attack in Turkey’s Gaziantep

A suspected Islamic State (ISIS) suicide bomber blew himself up during an anti-terror raid in the Turkish city of Gaziantep on Sunday, killing three police officers, officials said. A few hours later, a second suicide bomber — identified as the chief of ISIS group “bomb cells” in the city near the Syrian border — detonated his explosives, killing himself but without causing any further fatalities, according to AFP. The blasts took place shortly after Turkish-backed rebels captured the northern Syrian town of Dabiq from ISIS, dealing a major symbolic blow to the jihadists. In the first attack in Gaziantep, the bomber set off his explosives to avoid being captured by Turkish police, local governor Ali Yerlikaya said in televised comments. Turkish media had initially spoken of more than one attacker but the governor and the local prosecutor’s office said the body of just one bomber was found at the scene. The governor said five police and four Syrians were also injured. Acting on a tip-off, special police used armored vehicles to block the road where the suspected jihadists were holed up in a house, the state-run news agency Anadolu reported. Witnesses told private NTV television they heard sound of gunfire and clashes in the area, which is mostly populated by university students. Video footage released by the private Dogan news agency showed several suspects with their hands tied behind their backs as they were taken to a police car. Yerlikaya said the raid took place after Turkish authorities gathered intelligence about a possible suicide bomb attack by a suspected ISIS sleeper cell in Gaziantep against an Alevi cultural association.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/219045

Afghanistan

Headline:       Latest Taliban offensives kill dozens, displace thousands in Afghanistan

The Taliban’s latest offensives in the north and south of Afghanistan have killed dozens of people and displaced tens of thousands, officials said Monday. Earlier this month the militants launched a full-fledged attack on Kunduz, briefly entering the northern city and triggering fierce fighting with Afghan forces that forced thousands of residents to flee. Last week the militants also launched a new attack on Lashkar Gah, the besieged capital of volatile Helmand province in the south. They killed dozens of security forces personnel before being pushed back when government reinforcements arrived. “Due to hostilities in Kunduz and intensified fighting across the south we have seen a jump of 37,000 IDPs alone — more than ten percent of the year total in just one week,” Danielle Moylan a spokeswoman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told AFP. The total number of internally displaced people due to fighting since the start of the year stands at 323,500. In Helmand, which has seen some of the worst fighting since the Taliban began their insurgency against the western-backed Kabul government in 2001, authorities reported dozens of troops had been killed and more captured. “Around 50 Afghan security forces were killed, and the same numbers went missing in Helmand province over the past two weeks,” Tooryalai Hemat, the Helmand governor’s adviser, told AFP.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/asia/2016/10/17/Latest-Taliban-offensives-kill-dozens-displace-thousands-in-Afghanistan-.html

Ethiopia

Headline:      Ethiopia Government Unveils Rules for State of Emergency

The Ethiopian government has unveiled stringent rules for its state of emergency which the opposition says is meant to curb a wave of protests, sometimes deadly, in the Oromia region and other areas.
Hundreds have been killed in anti-government protests in the past year, according to human rights groups and opposition activists. The protesters have been demanding wider freedoms in one of Africa’s best-performing economies The rules announced late Saturday restricts the movement of diplomats 40 kilometers (25 miles) outside of Addis Ababa without official permission. The emergency prohibits anyone from making contact with groups that are labeled as terrorist and from watching media channels like Oromia Media Network and Ethiopian Satellite Television and Radio, according to a statement issued by Siraj Fegessa, Ethiopia’s minster of defense and head of the Command Post set up to oversee the state of emergency law. Those who break the terms of the emergency risk jail terms of three to five years. The emergency also outlaws rallies and public meetings without permission from authorities and gives security forces the right to detain and search suspects without a court order.
Oct. 16, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/ethiopia-state-of-emergency/3553533.html

Libya

Headline:     U.S. air strikes pound Libya’s Sirte to oust Islamic State militants

U.S. aircraft hit Islamic State targets with more 30 strikes over the last three days on the Libyan city of Sirte as pro-government forces push into its last militant-held districts, the U.S. military said on Monday. Libyan forces are close to ending a six-month campaign to liberate Sirte from Islamic State, which took over the city more than a year after taking advantage of factional infighting that emerged after the fall of strongman Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Forces mostly from nearby Misrata city are pushing ahead street by street, facing snipers and suicide bombers. They are helped by U.S. air strikes since August and coordination with small teams of Western special forces on the ground. On Sunday, Libyan forces recaptured the city’s Cambo area, and swept out tunnels used by militants to hide and prepare ambushes, and seized a field hospital. They found charred bodies of militants hit by air strikes. A Reuters reporter at the scene said they also came across booby traps using grenades and rocket shells. “At the moment, the forces are preparing to enter Ghiza Bahriya district,” Rida Essa, media official with the pro-government forces, said. U.S. aircraft carried out 36 strikes from Friday to Saturday mostly on enemy fighting positions but also on a car bomb, according to a U.S. Africa Command statement on Monday. The loss of Sirte would close down Islamic State’s main stronghold in North Africa and its only base outside Iraq and Syria, just as the militant group comes under pressure in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security-sirte-idUSKBN12H1U9?il=0

Luke 21:9-10
Matthew 24:6-7
Mark 13:7-8
Revelation 6:4
Revelation 6:8

Headline:    North Carolina GOP office burned by suspected firebomb, vandalized

Authorities are investigating after a local Republican Party office in Hillsborough, North Carolina was set on fire in what a state GOP official called an act of “political terrorism.” The GOP headquarters was vandalized with graffiti and damaged with a flammable material thrown through the front window. It happened at 347 Ja-Max Drive and was discovered Sunday morning by another business owner. Officials said it happened between 9 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday. The graffiti included a swastika and the words “Nazi Republicans leave town or else,” which was spray-painted in black on the side of an adjacent building. This is the country of freedom & liberty- not of hate & violence. The orange co gop will rebuild and be renewed. #ncpol @NCGOP pic.twitter.com/fiYvFC5Mvx — Kami Mueller (@kamimueller) October 16, 2016 Authorities said the flammable substance ignited inside the building, burning furniture and damaging the interior of the building. It was contained in a bottle thrown through the window. The window had lettering on it that said, “Freedom Speaks.” Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party, called the attack “political terrorism,” and said the party will not succumb to it.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://abc7ny.com/news/north-carolina-gop-office-burned-vandalized/1557961/

Headline:    At least 9 dead after Brazilian prison mutiny

Police say at least nine people have been killed at a Brazilian penitentiary in a clash between rival gangs of inmates in the northern state of Roraima. The state’s justice secretary Uziel Castro says in a statement that seven bodies were piled up and burned after the Sunday prison mutiny. Two other bodies were found in a different part of the Monte Cristo prison. Castro says at least three of the bodies were beheaded and efforts to identify them have been slow. Officers said Monday that about 50 people who were visiting the penitentiary in the state on the border with Venezuela and Guyana were released unharmed after being held hostage.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/17/at-least-9-dead-after-brazilian-prison-mutiny.html

Headline:  Pakistan Says 3rd Chinese-built Nuclear Reactor Goes Into Operation

Pakistan has connected its new, largely Chinese-built nuclear reactor to the national grid as part of broader plans to overcome long-running crippling power shortages. The facility is located at Chashma, a town in the central province of Punjab, where China has constructed two other nuclear reactors, known as Chashma-1 and Chashma-2. They went into operation in 2000 and 2011 respectively, supplying 600 megawatts of electricity to the grid. The so-called Chashma-3 project, with an installed capacity of 340 megawatts, was inaugurated “on trial basis” this past Saturday, according to a spokesman for the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). “After performing various safety and functional tests, the plant will attain full power in first fortnight of December 2016,” Shahid Riaz, told VOA Monday.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-chinese-built-nuclear-reactor/3554623.html

Headline:    Kuwait ruler dissolves parliament, opens way for elections

Kuwait’s emir ordered the dissolution of parliament on Sunday, opening the way to fresh elections, saying “security challenges” in the region could best be addressed by consulting the popular will. A ballot would be the seventh since 2006 in the Gulf Arab state, where political strains have long held up economic development and the government is trying to introduce painful cuts to longstanding welfare benefits. Political stability in the major oil producer has traditionally depended on cooperation between the government and parliament, the oldest legislature in the Gulf Arab states. KUNA reported the decree as saying the move was linked to regional developments and “security challenges and their different impacts and risks, that require returning to the people – the origin of authority – to choose its representatives to express its directions, ambitions and contribute to facing these challenges.” A report on the official KUNA news agency about Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah’s decree gave no date for fresh elections for the 50-seat chamber but under constitutional rules a ballot should be held within 60 days.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kuwait-parliament-idUSKBN12G0JP

Headline:    Rebel leader in eastern Ukraine killed in bomb blast

Arsen “Motorola” Pavlov, a pro-Russian rebel commander in eastern Ukraine, died in a bomb blast in his apartment building, both sides confirmed. Pavlov had been an active participant in the conflict between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. The Russian-born Pavlov, head of the rebel military group known as the Sparta battalion, was accused by Ukraine of war crimes. In September, the newspaper Ukrainskaya Pravda said Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Pavlov of shooting and killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war, adding “The monster will answer” for that crime, the BBC reported. In April 2015 Pavlov bragged to the Kiev Post he had killed 15 Ukrainian soldiers captured by rebels. Rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko, who calls himself the “prime minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic,” called the killing of Pavlov “terrorism” and added, “As I understand it, Petro Poroshenko has violated the cease-fire and declared war on us.” It remains unclear who killed Pavlov. On Sunday,; a bomb exploded in the elevator of his Donetsk apartment building. His personal guard also died. A Ukrainian neo-Nazi group claimed credit for the bomb in an Internet video, but is being discounted by analysts.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/10/17/Rebel-leader-in-eastern-Ukraine-killed-in-bomb-blast/7141476711222/?spt=sec&or=tn

As you can see from the Lord’s prophecies not only are we to keep on the watch for rumors of war but, Jesus tells us nation will be against nation.  For the past few years the rumors of war have no doubt increased and there is no doubt now our world will find itself in another major war. When will it start? We can not say for sure but one is coming so don’t be shocked when you see it. Some think the current war in Syria that is drawing in Russia and the U.S. could be the match that lights the next war.

Headline:  US nuclear war fears see American military drills brought forward as Russia tension rises

Headline:  FAA Warns Pilots: No Flying Parts of Montana on Saturday

The Obama administration is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action against Russia in retaliation for alleged Russian interference in the American presidential election, U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News. Current and former officials with direct knowledge of the situation say the CIA has been asked to deliver options to the White House for a wide-ranging “clandestine” cyber operation designed to harass and “embarrass” the Kremlin leadership. The sources did not elaborate on the exact measures the CIA was considering, but said the agency had already begun opening cyber doors, selecting targets and making other preparations for an operation. Former intelligence officers told NBC News that the agency had gathered reams of documents that could expose unsavory tactics by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

***the 2^nd story is from RedFlag news (2^nd link) showing the FAA order above (3^rd link).  While this is important information to have and continue watching, at this time Live Track FlightRadar is showing air craft activity over Montana (4^th link). There were no large storms over the weekend and this week’s forecast shows only drizzle (5^th link). Further investigation showed that the issuing authority 14 CFR 91.143 is flight limitation in the proximity of space flight operations (6^th link).  This could include, according to retired military sources, the launching of a satellite. 
Oct. 17, 2016

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/722025/US-nuclear-war-threat-Russia-military-training-drill-global-thunder-brought-forward

http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines-2016/faa-warns-pilots-no-flying-parts-of-montana-on-saturday-rocket-launches-the-only-rockets-in-montana-are-nuclear-missiles

http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_6_0517.html

https://www.flightradar24.com/45.54,-111.08/6

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/billings-mt/59101/october-weather/329450

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.143

http://www.faraim.org/aim/aim-4-03-14-147.html (Aeronautical Information Manual)

Headline:   U.S. warship targeted in failed missile attack from Yemen: official

Headline:  Saudi says prepared for ceasefire in Yemen

Headline:  Houthis launch missiles into Saudi Arabia

A U.S. Navy destroyer was targeted on Saturday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, the third such incident in the past week, U.S. officials said. Multiple surface-to-surface missiles were fired at the USS Mason sailing in international waters in the Red Sea but the warship used on-board countermeasures to defend itself and was not hit, one defense official said, citing initial information. The latest attack could provoke further retaliation by the U.S. military, which launched cruise missiles on Thursday against three coastal radar sites in Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen in response to the two previous failed missile firings against the Mason. “The Mason once again appears to have come under attack in the Red Sea, again from coastal defense cruise missiles fired from the coast of Yemen,” Admiral John Richardson, U.S. chief of naval operations, said during a ship christening in Baltimore on Saturday. Another U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters: “We are assessing the situation. All of our ships and crews are safe and unharmed.” Thursday’s U.S. counter-strikes, authorized by President Barack Obama, marked Washington’s first direct military action against suspected Houthi-controlled targets in Yemen’s conflict and raised questions about the potential for further escalation.
Oct. 17, 2016

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-warship-again-targeted-failed-missile-attack-yemen-000745899.html

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/10/17/Saudi-Arabia-says-prepared-for-ceasefire-in-Yemen-if-Houthis-agree.html

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/houthis-launch-missiles-into-saudi-arabia/

Headline:    Russian Broadcaster RT Says UK Bank Suspends Its Accounts

Tense relations between Britain and Russia came under further strain Monday as Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT accused the U.K.’s NatWest bank of shutting down its accounts without explanation. The editor of the government-funded television channel, Margarita Simonyan, tweeted: “They’ve closed our accounts in Britain. All our accounts. ‘The decision is not subject to review.’ Praise be to freedom of speech!” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted on Facebook: “Looks like, while leaving the EU, London has left all its freedom of speech obligations there.” RT, formerly known as Russia Today, published what appears to be a letter from NatWest informing the broadcaster that “we have recently undertaken a review of your banking arrangements with us and reached the conclusion that we will no longer provide these facilities.” The letter said the firm’s bank accounts would be “cancelled and closed” on Dec. 12. Royal Bank of Scotland Group, which owns NatWest, said such decisions “are not taken lightly” — but indicated it might not be set in stone. “We are reviewing the situation and are contacting the customer to discuss this further,” RBS Group said in a statement. “The bank accounts remain open and are still operative.” Britain’s Treasury — which was not told of the bank’s decision in advance — declined to comment. Britain has imposed economic sanctions on a number of Russian individuals, but has not introduced any new measures since February 2015.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russian-broadcaster-rt-uk-bank-suspends-accounts-42855479

Headline:  Iceland and Norway could LEAVE European Economic trade area for new deal with Britain

According to a newly-adopted foreign policy from the governing Progressive Party, the time has come for Iceland to consider whether the EEA and Schengen deals are working for them. The new policy, adopted at the party’s national conference earlier this month, states the EEA agreement formed the basis for the state’s cooperation and positive relationship with the European Union as a whole. It also claims Icelanders “should continue to seek cooperation with European nations, inside and outside the EU, on grounds of free and fair agreements and cooperation based on equality and mutual benefits.” But the policy also looks into Iceland’s membership of the EEA – and questions whether it is necessary for the future of the Nordic country. One reason to quit the allegiance is the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. the report claims. The Progressive Party claims that due to “fundamental changes” to the EEA that include Britain opting to leave the bloc, the government must look into alternatives. The foreign policy read: ”The United Kingdom is Iceland’s largest trading partner, both regarding trade in goods and services. Iceland should initiate talks with the British government with the aim of securing at least the current level of trade between the two countries.”
Oct. 17, 2016

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/721917/Iceland-LEAVE-European-Union-Economic-Area-trade-new-deal-with-UK

Headline:  The stock market is turning into a sloppy, ugly mess—and it could get worse

It is getting dicey out there for Wall Street investors, although stocks eked out a modest rise on Friday. U.S. equities have been bouncing around lately. And the trend has been predominantly lower. Although it hasn’t been the sort of dizzying tumble for equities that would elicit an instant spike in fear, it has been, however, the kind of plodding descent that has the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.07%  down nearly 300 points since the end of July. In fact, the Dow and the S&P 500 index SPX, -0.11%  are on the verge of tallying three straight months of declines, with October shaping up to be the ugliest monthly fall since January—the month after the Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time in a decade. (Friday’s jump on better bank earnings will have to be factored after the close.) But, if the Dow posts a loss in October it would be the first time the blue-chip index logged three consecutive monthly declines since the period ended in September 2011. The S&P 500 notched three consecutive monthly loses earlier this year, ended February.
Oct. 17, 2016

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-stock-market-is-turning-into-a-sloppy-ugly-mess-and-it-could-get-worse-2016-10-13

Oct. 12, 2016- 1.5 million fish have died ‘due to pollution’ in fish farms on Buyuk Menderes River, Turkey
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.milliyet.com.tr%2Fbuyuk-menderes-teki-kirlilik–gundem-2326043%2F&edit-text=&act=url

Oct. 13, 2016- 20 tons of fish ‘died suddenly’ in fish farms in Paminggir, Indonesia
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbanjarmasin.tribunnews.com%2F2016%2F10%2F13%2Fpetani-kaget-20-ton-ikan-mati-mendadak-di-kecamatan-paminggir-hsu&edit-text=&act=url

Oct. 13, 2016- Millions of chickens dead from flooding in North Carolina
https://www.yahoo.com/news/millions-north-carolina-chickens-die-hurricane-matthew-floods-203948573–finance.html

Oct. 15, 2016- Hundreds of dead fish wash up on a beach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2016/10/15/Sewage-water-toxic-algae-behind-dead-fish-on-Jeddah-beach-.html

Oct. 15, 2016- Thousands of dead fish washing up on beaches in Ceredigion and Gwynedd, Wales
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-37662437

Oct. 15, 2016- Whales have washed up dead during the last weeks in Taipei, Taiwan
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201610150022.aspx

Headline:    Thousands flee as typhoon lashes Philippines

Typhoon Sarika lashed the main Philippine island of Luzon on Sunday, flattening homes and toppling trees and power pylons as more than 12,000 people fled to safer ground, officials said. Minor landslides and flooding were also reported a day after the cyclone brushed past the remote eastern island of Catanduanes and left one person drowned and three others missing there. “We were told roofs were ripped off houses and there were fallen trees but that’s about the extent of damage that we know of,” Ricardo Jalad, head of the government’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, told reporters. Nelianto Bihasa, the mayor of the town of Baler where Sarika made landfall before dawn, told ABS-CBN network the typhoon destroyed at least 20 houses and left one person injured there. “Many trees and power pylons were toppled,” Bihasa said, adding the coastal town of 36,000 people some 145 kilometres (90 miles) northeast of Manila was without electricity. “This was no ordinary typhoon,” Bihasa added. Government crews and utility workers immediately went to work clearing roads blocked by landslides, toppled trees and posts and other debris. Some towns began sending people in shelters back to their homes as the danger passed.
Oct. 16, 2016

https://www.yahoo.com/news/thousands-flee-typhoon-smashes-philippines-030144964.html

~click the photo to see ALL the maps of the large earthquakes for the current year~

Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes~Click the shaking house~

email address: endtimesresearchministry@yahoo.com

 Bible prophecy documentary book download proving our generation will see the return of the Lord. Do you want to know what is going to happen in the future before it actually takes place? The Word of God provides you with specific details about our future and all of these things are coming to pass in this generation. If you aren’t saved yet this is a must read! The Last Chronicles of Planet Earth Oct. 6, 2016 Edition written by Frank Dimora

As you can see from the Lord’s prophecies not only are we to keep on the watch for rumors of war but, Jesus tells us nation will be against nation.  For the past few years the rumors of war have no doubt increased and there is no doubt now our world will find itself in another major war. When will it start? We can not say for sure but one is coming so don’t be shocked when you see it. Some think the current war in Syria that is drawing in Russia and the U.S. could be the match that lights the next war.

Russia orders all officials to fly home any relatives living abroad, as tensions mount over the prospect of a global war

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3833941/Russia-orders-officials-fly-home-relatives-living-abroad-tensions-mount-prospect-global-war.html

Putin ally warns of ‘war’ if US elects Hillary Clinton

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/10/13/putin-ally-us-election-comments-todd-tsr-dnt.cnn

  ‘Posturing ‘ Russians to send aircraft carrier and fleet along the English Channel

Russia is expected to sail its only aircraft carrier through the English Channel later this month amid strained relations between London and Moscow over the Syria crisis. Royal Navy chiefs and their Nato allies are drawing up plans to escort up to eight Russian warships which are due to leave port imminently to join the country’s air strike campaign against Syrian rebels. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/14/russian-aircraft-carrier-expected-in-english-channel/

   CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia

The Obama administration is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action against Russia in retaliation for alleged Russian interference in the American presidential election… officials with direct knowledge of the situation say the CIA has been asked to deliver options to the White House for a wide-ranging “clandestine” cyber operation designed to harass and “embarrass” the Kremlin leadership.  http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cia-prepping-possible-cyber-strike-against-russia-n666636

7 Ways Russia Is Telling People to Prepare for War 

With tensions between Russia and the United States at their highest since the Cold War, there have been alarming signs coming out of Moscow that suggest the country is ready for war. http://abcnews.go.com/International/ways-russia-telling-people-prepare-war/story?id=42800992

Is The US On The Verge Of Mass Race Riots?
 Is The US On The Verge Of Mass Race Riots?

Ferguson, Baltimore, Ferguson (again), Milwaukee, Charlotte. Much has been made by the media of the recent riots that have taken place across America. Which begs the question: Are these riots passing occurrences or, like a series of smaller seismic events, a forewarning of much larger mass civil unrest to come? For the answers, we take a quick trip back in time. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-14/us-verge-mass-race-riots

email address: endtimesresearchministry@yahoo.com

 Bible prophecy documentary book download proving our generation will see the return of the Lord. Do you want to know what is going to happen in the future before it actually takes place? The Word of God provides you with specific details about our future and all of these things are coming to pass in this generation. If you aren’t saved yet this is a must read! The Last Chronicles of Planet Earth Oct. 6, 2016 Edition written by Frank Dimora

~be sure to click photos~

Headline:     Report: Israel to Purchase New German Submarines Targeting Iran, Syria

Israel and Germany have begun top echelon political and security negotiations of the purchase of new Dolphin class submarines, Israel Defense reported Friday. The IDF’s five-submarine fleet, its most expensive weapons system, is its longest arm in a potential war with a nuclear Iran. The purchase of the sixth submarine was an option that was part of the 2012 deal signed between the two countries, with Germany paying for about a third of the cost of each sub — $180 million out of half a billion dollars. In the past the IDF’s strategic thinking regarding the submarine fleet was in dispute between former Defense Minister Ehud Barak and former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Olmert accused Barak of planning to buy a sixth submarine not because this was what the IDF needed (then Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi was vehemently against such a purchase) but because the Germans bribed him. Eventually, it was Olmert who ended up being sentenced to prison over  taking a bribe.
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/report-israel-to-purchase-new-german-submarines-targeting-iran-syria/2016/10/14/

Headline:  Shin Bet Busts Arab-Israeli ISIS Terror Cell

Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said Thursday that security forces have arrested 16 Arab citizens of Israel suspected of supporting ISIS. The detainees were arrested during the month of September and are residents of the city of Taybe. Prior to being arrested members of the group are suspected of trying to set fire to the local soccer stadium in order to prevent a concert scheduled for last months Eid al-Adha holiday. Under questioning, the suspects told Shin Bet interrogators that the arson attempt was inspired by ISIS ideology – that is to say, that they believe that live music is “immoral” and “against Islam”, and violates the principles of the “Islamic State.”
Oct. 13, 2016

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/77116/shabak-busts-isis-cell-arab-israelis/#pEe3lWrIkOGkuxkR.97

Headline:  Russian influence evident in Palestinian militia in Syria- PHOTOS

Senior commanders in the Sunni Palestinian Quds Brigade, known as the Liwa al Quds or the Syrian Arab Army Fedayeen, have been photographed receiving medals from Russian military officers for battlefield action. The latest interaction further indicates the deep level of Russian involvement and impact they are having on the Syrian civil war. The pro-government militia is drawn from the Palestinian diaspora in Aleppo province, and has openly operated as an auxiliary to pro-regime forces there since 2013. The unit numbers in the several hundreds. Late last month, the Quds Brigade and the Syrian Arab Army succeeded in taking the strategic Handarat Palestinian refugee camp and Kindi Hospital north of Aleppo proper, following the launch of an offensive in late September and several rounds of intense back-and-forth with the Islamist-led Fatah Halab coalition. Pro-regime forces and the Quds Brigade have been fighting to control the camp since 2014.
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/10/russian-influence-evident-in-palestinian-militia-in-syria.php

Headline:    Temple Mount Faithful to March to the Temple Mount From Jaffa Gate to Mount Moriah

On Sukkot, 17 Tishrei, 5777, Wednesday, October 19th, 2016, during a very critical time, the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement will march and make a pilgrimage to the Holy Temple Mount starting from Jaffa Gate through the streets of biblical Jerusalem to Mount Moriah. The security forces of Israel prepare themselves to prevent any Arab violence against the faithful marchers and pilgrims. Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, is one of the three pilgrimage festivals that the G‑d of Israel ordained as a blessing upon Israel. The main commandment of G‑d to Israel is to make a pilgrimage to His Holy Mountain where He will share His love and blessings with His people Israel. Sukkot is also the festival of the anniversary of the dedication of the First Holy Temple by King Solomon. During our pilgrimage the Faithful Movement will celebrate this exciting biblical event and will call the government of Israel to follow the example originally set by King Solomon with no fear from human powers and with great trust in the G‑d of Israel alone to fulfill His call to build His Holy Temple with no delay. The Faithful Movement will also call to stop pilgrimages and the traditional priestly blessings that are given near the Western Wall, including any kind of worship ceremonies but rather to do all of these at the correct place that G‑d chose for these exciting activities, which is only on the Holy Temple Mount in Jerusalem. These holy activities ordained for Israel alone to accomplish must be conducted in the appropriate place with no fear from any human power and with complete trust in the One True Living G‑d of Israel. The Faithful Movement will also petition to allow her to bring a model of the Third Holy Temple in order to share it with the great crowds who will attend the priestly blessing on this special morning near the Western Wall. This pilgrimage will be an exciting event just like in biblical times. Everyone is invited to take part in this major endeavor of the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement.
Oct. 13, 2016

http://templemountfaithful.org/events/exciting-sukkot-event-like-biblical-times.php

Headline:  UNESCO Backs Motion Nullifying Jewish Ties to Temple Mount

Headline: Jerusalem asks Holy See for help with UNESCO vote on Jerusalem

Headline:  Bennett suspends Israeli cooperation with UNESCO after Temple Mount vote

Headline: PA: UNESCO vote is call for Israel to end ‘illegal, colonial’ acts

 Due to Israeli efforts, no European country backed the motion, which describes the Temple Mount as holy to Muslims alone, without mentioning the site’s significance to Jews. UNESCO adopted an anti-Israel resolution Thursday that disregards Judaism’s historic connection to the Temple Mount and casts doubt on the link between Judaism and the Western Wall. Twenty-four countries voted in favor of the decision while six voted against and 26 abstained while just two were missing from the vote. The U.S., Britain, Germany, Holland, Lithuania and Estonia voted against the resolution. A senior source said that the efforts of Israeli diplomats significantly changed the votes of European states, none of which supported the motion. Israeli efforts, he said, succeeded in swaying France, Sweden, Slovenia, Argentina, Togo and India to abstain from the vote. In an unusual move, Israel on Thursday sought the Holy See’s help in forestalling the adoption of the resolution, arguing that it will also harm Christians. In addition, Israel’s permanent delegate to UNESCO, Ambassador Carmel Shama Hacohen, explained that the Palestinians enjoy an automatic majority of support at UNESCO and so his goal was to expand as much as possible the number of those opposed. “We are mobilizing to erode and drive a wedge in the automatic majority that has stood against us for the past two years,” he said. “The efforts are indeed bearing fruit: From the situation we were in when only the USA voted for us alone, we’ve gradually increased the number to six countries and also increased the number of abstainers.” Shama Hacohen went on to say that “Israel and the Jewish people don’t require UNESCO’s or any other country’s confirmation of the special connection between the Jewish people and the State of Israel and Jerusalem in general and the holy sites therein like the Western Wall and the Temple Mount in particular.” The ambassador continued, “There is no connection of another people to another place in the world that comes close to the strength and depth of our connection to Jerusalem from a religious, historical and national perspective, a connection that has stood the test of 2,000 years.”
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.747314

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4866113,00.html

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Bennett-suspends-Israeli-cooperation-with-UNESCO-after-Temple-Mount-vote-470128

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-unesco-vote-is-call-for-israel-to-end-illegal-colonial-acts/

Jordan

Headline:   Jordanians protest against Israel gas deal for third week in a row

More than a thousand people protested in the Jordanian capital Amman on Friday against a recent government agreement to import natural gas from Israel, local media reported. This is the third consecutive week protests have taken place against the controversial deal, which was signed on 26 September. This Friday’s demonstration departed from the Grand Husseini Mosque in central Amman after Friday prayers. Chants included “Oh great Jordanian people, the enemy’s (Israel) gas is imperialism,” and “from the south to the north, the gas of the enemy is occupation.” The government has defended its decision by saying it will cut the state’s energy bill and diversify their sources of gas supplies.
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jordanian-protestors-demontsrate-third-week-in-a-row-against-israel-gas-deal-1793590876

Lebanon

Headline:  Lebanon security foils ISIS terror plot: report

Lebanese security has foiled an ISIS-directed terror plot aiming to target Shiite Muslims in the run up to the holy day of Ashura, according to a local daily. As-Safir newspaper reported Friday morning that Beirut’s southern suburbs (Dahiyeh) avoided a “massacre” after General Security managed to capture a would-be suicide bomber on October 5. The terror suspect confessed that he was preparing to blow himself up on October 7 in “one of the largest mosques in Dahiyeh” during Muslim Friday communal prayers. According to the report, another would-be suicide bomber was apprehended by Lebanese army intelligence, with both of them being dispatched by an ISIS official in the jihadist organization’s de facto capital of Raqqa, although neither of the suspects knew of each other. As-Safir added that two independent cells were providing logistic support for the attack, residency papers and secure transportation as well scouting intended targets.
Oct. 14, 2016

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/567427-lebanon-security-foils-isis-terror-plot-report

Egypt

Headline:  Moscow: Egypt ‘No Longer Able to Count on Washington’ to Fight Sinai Terror

Headline:  Egyptian officials: Suspected Islamic militants attack army checkpoint in Sinai, killing 12 soldiers

Headline:  Egypt to open Rafah border crossing in Gaza for several days starting Saturday

Russia is moving in to train with Egypt in military strategies, equipment and personnel and build a closer relationship towards the goal of “helping” in the fight to contain and trim back terrorists in the northern Sinai. Towards that end, Russia and Egypt are set to carry out their first-ever joint anti-terror military exercise “in a desert environment. The joint paratroopers’ drill in Egypt is to involve six air fields and 15 aircraft and helicopters for various purposes, in addition to 10 combat vehicles, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Russian airborne troops are to be sent to the north of Africa on an Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft in mid-October, the ministry told the English-language edition of Gazeta.ru. “Special attention is given to the knowledge of the customs and traditions of the Egyptian people”, the Defense Ministry said. According to the report, Russia will work together with Egypt on developing “a common approach to encircling and destroying illegal armed formations in a desert environment.” Russia contends that Egypt has lost control over the northern Sinai, which has become a terrorist stronghold, and is “no longer able to count on Washington’s support in this matter.”
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/moscow-egypt-no-longer-able-to-count-on-washington-to-fight-sinai-terror/2016/10/13/

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4866465,00.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37658035

Headline:  Exclusive: Obama, aides expected to weigh Syria military options on Friday

U.S. President Barack Obama and his top foreign policy advisers are expected to meet on Friday to consider their military and other options in Syria as Syrian and Russian aircraft continue to pummel Aleppo and other targets, U.S. officials said. Some top officials argue the United States must act more forcefully in Syria or risk losing what influence it still has over moderate rebels and its Arab, Kurdish and Turkish allies in the fight against Islamic State, the officials told Reuters. One set of options includes direct U.S. military action such as air strikes on Syrian military bases, munitions depots or radar and anti-aircraft bases, said one official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. This official said one danger of such action is that Russian and Syrian forces are often co-mingled, raising the possibility of a direct confrontation with Russia that Obama has been at pains to avoid. U.S. officials said they consider it unlikely that Obama will order U.S. air strikes on Syrian government targets, and they stressed that he may not make any decisions at the planned meeting of his National Security Council. One alternative, U.S. officials said, is allowing allies to provide U.S.-vetted rebels with more sophisticated weapons, although not shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, which Washington fears could be used against Western airliners. The White House declined to comment.
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-options-exclusiv-idUSKCN12D2B2

Headline:  Renewed bombing kills over 150 in rebel-held Aleppo this week

Headline:  Russia’s embassy in Damascus hit with mortar fire for two hours

Headline:  Rebels surrender two major suburbs in Damascus to the Syrian Army

Renewed bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo has killed more than 150 people this week, rescue workers said on Thursday, as the Syrian government steps up its Russian-backed offensive to take the whole city.  Airstrikes against rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo had tapered off over the weekend after the Syrian army announced it would reduce raids for what it described as humanitarian reasons. But the strikes have intensified since Tuesday. Airstrikes killed 13 people on Thursday, when warplanes hit several rebel-held districts, including Al-Kalaseh, Bustan Al-Qasr and Al-Sakhour, Civil Defense official Ibrahim Abu Al-Laith told Reuters from Aleppo. “The bombing started at 2 a.m. and it’s going on till now,” he said. In a government-held area of western Aleppo, at least four children were killed and 10 wounded on Thursday when shells landed near a school, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Meanwhile, Britain is looking at its military involvement in Syria but any action would need to be part of a coalition involving the US and is not likely to happen soon, Foreign Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday.
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.arabnews.com/node/997786/middle-east

http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/18497/Russia-s-embassy-in-Damascus-hit-with-mortar-fire-for-two-hours

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/rebels-surrender-two-major-suburbs-damascus-syrian-army/

Headline:    Syria Situation Report Oct. 6 – 13, 2016

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Oct13%20EDITS%20COT_0.pdf

Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe

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

Headline:     US-led coalition ramps up airstrikes on ISIS-held Mosul

Headline:     Iraqi special forces arrive outside militant-held Mosul

Headline:     ISIS crushes rebellion plot in Mosul as army closes in

A few hundred Iraqi special forces arrived Friday at the front line near militant-held Mosul, one small part of a series of troop movements that have massed thousands of soldiers ahead of an operation seeking to retake the country’s second-largest city from the Islamic State group. “Yesterday, our commander told us: This is it, the liberation of Mosul is beginning,” a special forces sergeant said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media. Officials from Iraq and the U.S.-led coalition have said preparations and planning of the operation are ongoing, but there is widespread speculation it will be launched this month. The Iraqi troops interviewed by The Associated Press were camped in a field across the Great Zab River separating Nineveh province from Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Nearby, other members of their unit were moving into an abandoned village, converting homes into a barracks for temporary camp. The large volume of forces needed for the Mosul fight — Iraqi and coalition officials say at least 30,000 will take part — has overcrowded the few bases that Iraq’s military has along the Mosul front line. The sergeant said his unit traveled in a convoy from Tikrit to the front near the district of Khazer, on the edges of the Nineveh plain about 18 miles from Mosul. Along the way, he saw thousands more Iraqi soldiers being deployed, he said. “We are here for the Mosul battle, and we won’t return home until we finish it,” he added.
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/14/us-led-coalition-ramps-up-airstrikes-on-isis-held-mosul.html

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4866544,00.html

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/10/14/ISIS-crushes-rebellion-plot-in-Mosul-as-army-closes-in.html

Headline:    Iraq Situation Report Oct. 4 – 11, 2016

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/iraq%20SITREP%202016-10-11.pdf

Headline:        Sources: Iraqi army receiving anti-drone weapons following ISIS attack- Irbil

Headline:        Western coalition won’t allow PKK to play any role in anti-ISIS battle for Mosul

 Iraqi sources said that the Iraqi army is receiving anti-drone weapons after deadly attacks by ISIS using “booby-trapped drones” in the northern part of the country, Al Arabiya News Channel reported on Friday. A booby-trapped drone operated by ISIS killed two Kurdish fighters and injured two members of the French special forces in the Kurdish area of Iraq, two political sources said on Wednesday. The incident, in early October in Erbil in northern Iraq, has been reported by French media outlets but neither the army nor the defense ministry has confirmed it. One of the French sources confirmed the use of a “booby-trapped drones in Iraq” while another confirmed that two French soldiers were hurt in the incident. Le Monde newspaper reported that the soldiers were operating with Kurdish peshmerga fighters when the drone exploded. One of the French soldiers has life-threatening injuries. Both have been flown back to France for treatment.
Oct. 14, 2016
***ETRM 10-12 post

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/10/14/Sources-Iraqi-army-receiving-anti-drone-weapons-following-ISIS-attack.html

http://aranews.net/2016/10/western-coalition-wont-allow-pkk-play-role-anti-isis-battle-mosul/

Turkey

Headline:    Kremlin: Putin, Erdogan discussed Russian air defence supplies to Turkey

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan recently discussed possible supplies of Russian air defence systems to Ankara, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. “They mentioned various anti-missile systems, the supplies of which in different variations Russia could consider if there was such a wish on Turkey’s side,” Peskov told reporters in the Armenian capital Yerevan. He was referring to the meeting between the two leaders during Putin’s recent visit to a world energy congress in Istanbul.
Oct. 14, 2016

http://in.reuters.com/article/mideast-crisis-russia-turkey-idINKBN12E1BD

Headline:  Turkey-GCC call for end to Iran interventions

The foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) along with their Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu urged Iran to stop its sectarian interferences in the region. Addressing a joint press conference with Cavusoglu after the GCC-Turkey ministerial meeting, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir called on “Iran and Iraq to refrain from promoting sectarianism in the region.” A joint Turkish-GCC communique released after the meeting of ministers condemned “indiscriminate airstrikes on Syria’s Aleppo” and expressed “deep regrets” at the inability of the UN and the international community to stop the raids. The GCC and Turkish foreign ministers met in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh and reaffirmed “their complete rejection of the use of Iraqi territory as a safe haven for terrorist groups to carry out terror attacks including smuggling of weapons and explosives.”
Oct. 14, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/10/14/Turkey-GCC-call-for-end-to-Iran-interventions.html

Afghanistan

Headline:    An ‘eroding stalemate’ in Afghanistan as Taliban widens its offensive

Headline:    Taliban surround and massacre about 100 Afghan soldiers and police near Lashkar Gah

Headline:  U.S Forces Deployed In Farah To Help Afghan Soldiers

Headline: Taliban threatens 5 provincial capitals in Afghanistan

With winter approaching in Afghanistan, Taliban militants there seem more determined than ever to expand their influence across the country. On Friday, the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan announced that it was sending Western advisers to Farah province, a rural area just northwest of Helmand Province, to buoy Afghan soldiers there battling the insurgent group. The newfound Western presence in Farah comes roughly a week after Taliban fighters began making concerted efforts to seize the city of Farah, the capital of the province. Around the same time, the Taliban began offensives near Helmand’s provincial capital of Lashkar Gah and also managed to enter the northern city of Kunduz before being pushed back to the city’s outskirts after more than a week of heavy fighting. “What we believe we’re seeing right now is the Taliban trying to make an effort before the end of the year to achieve their 2016 strategic objective of capturing a provincial capital,” said Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland, the spokesman for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, in an email. It is unclear how many advisers are heading to Farah, but Resolute Support, the name of the NATO-led Afghanistan mission, tweeted that it had sent an “expeditionary advisory package,” or group of soldiers and advisers, to the embattled province.
Oct. 14, 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/10/14/an-eroding-stalemate-in-afghanistan-as-taliban-widens-its-offensive/

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/taleban-ambush-kills-around-100-retreating-afghan-police-and-soldiers-outside

http://www.tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/27784-us-forces-deployed-in-farah-to-help-afghan-soldiers

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/10/taliban-threatens-5-provincial-capitals-in-afghanistan.php

Ethiopia

Headline:     Egypt’s Sissi Denies Supporting Opposition in Ethiopia

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi on Thursday denied Ethiopian accusations that his country was supporting the opposition after a wave of violent protests that left hundreds dead. Ethiopia accused “elements” in Eritrea, Egypt and elsewhere on Monday of being behind protests over land grabs and human rights that prompted the government to declare a state of emergency. The unrest has cast a shadow over Ethiopia, where a state-led industrial drive has created one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, but whose government also faces criticism at home and abroad over its authoritarian approach. Ethiopia’s government spokesman said Egypt, which is embroiled in a row with Addis Ababa over sharing Nile waters, was a source of backing for armed gangs though that backing may not come from state actors. Sissi denied those accusations.
Oct. 13, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/egypt-abdel-fattah-al-sissi-denies-supporting-opposition-ethiopia/3549773.html

Sudan

Headline:  Week of violence in South Sudan kills 60, government says

Fighting in South Sudan killed at least 60 people this week, the military said on Friday, stoking fears the region could plunge back into full-scale war. Army spokesman Lul Ruai Koang accused the rebels of “burning civilians, maiming women and child abductions and setting ablaze properties”. Armed men loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar killed 11 government soldiers and 28 civilians from Saturday to Thursday, Koang said in a press statement. Twenty-one rebels were also killed, he said. A spokesman for the rebels denied the accusations. “Those who are committing atrocities and raping are deserted SPLA (government) soldiers who have not been paid for several months and their families are starving. Our forces are aiming to target only those in uniforms,” the deputy spokesman for the opposition forces, Dickson Gatluak, told Reuters by phone from Ethiopia.
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southsudan-violence-idUSKBN12E1VM

Luke 21:9-10
Matthew 24:6-7
Mark 13:7-8
Revelation 6:4
Revelation 6:8

Headline:  UN: 30 Killed in Central African Republic Clash

Thirty people were killed and over 50 others were injured when violence erupted Wednesday in the Central African Republic, the U.N. said. Fighters with the former Seleka rebel group attacked the town of Kaga-Bandoro before eventually being repelled by U.N. peacekeepers, who killed 12 of the rebels. Nine civilians were also among the dead. The attack was likely retaliation for a Tuesday killing of a suspected former Seleka member, the peacekeeping mission said in a statement.
Oct. 13, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/un-says-30-killed-in-clashes-in-central-african-republic/3549380.html

Headline:      Clashes in Somalia kill 11, displace 50,000

Clashes between two semi-autonomous regions of Somalia this week have killed at least 11 people and displaced around 50,000, the United Nations said on Friday, stoking concerns the violence could escalate. Clashes have been intensifying between forces loyal to the semi-autonomous regions of Puntland and forces from the semi-autonomous Galmudug region. The two sides are fighting in the town of Galkayo, which is divided between clan militias loyal to the different regions. “The armed violence has exacerbated an already fragile humanitarian situation … especially for IDPs (internally displaced people) who continue to live in deplorable conditions and makeshift structures,” the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement. The statement said 11 people had been killed in the fighting so far, citing local officials.
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4866539,00.html

Headline:  Taliban Gunmen Target Pakistan Security Forces

Gunmen on motorcycles killed at least three Pakistani paramilitary forces Friday in the southwestern city of Quetta. A splinter Pakistani Taliban group, Jamaatul Ahrar, claimed responsibility for the deadly attack. The group has claimed responsibility for most of recent attacks across the country, including a suicide bombing in Quetta in early August that left more than 70 people dead. Most of the dead in that bombing were members of the city’s lawyer community. The victims were on a routine patrol when the assailants ambushed their vehicle, a spokesman for the Frontier Corps paramilitary force said.
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/taliban-gunmen-target-pakistan-security-forces-/3550461.html

Headline:  Death toll rises as Myanmar battles border attackers

Myanmar’s security forces have now killed at least 26 people in response to attacks on police that have sparked a dramatic escalation in violence in a Muslim-majority region along its border with Bangladesh, according to reports in state media. Armed men believed to be from the long-oppressed Rohingya Muslim minority launched a coordinated assault on three border police posts in the early hours Sunday, killing nine police, injuring five and making off with dozens of weapons and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition. Military personnel and police reinforcements have poured into the Muslim-majority township of Maungdaw, northern Rakhine State, and have clashed with groups of up to 300 men, armed with pistols, swords and knives, according to official reports. Human rights groups and advocates for the stateless Rohingya have voiced concern that the civilian population may be caught up in the authorities’ violent response. Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said that her government was “exercising the rule of law” in dealing with the attacks, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said on Thursday.
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.arabnews.com/node/997771/world

Headline:  Putin Ally Warns Americans To Vote For Trump Or Face Nuclear War

Headline:  PUTINS URGENT WARNING: “WORLD WAR III IS ABOUT TO START”

Headline:  Russia, India to sign deal on air defense missile systems and helicopters

The name of what is arguably Russia’s most flamboyant, ultra-nationalist politician, and according to some the local incarnation of Donald Trump,  Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a deputy in the state Duma and leader of the nationalist LDPR party, is familiar to frequent readers: he most recently made an appearance on these pages two months ago, when he warned Germany that it risks utter destruction if it continued on its present track of operating Bundeswehr forces in the Baltics. Zhirinovsky also shares another feature with Donald Trump: both are outspoken to a fault. Which is why we were not surprised to read that as Reuters reported earlier, Zhirinovsky urged Americans to vote for Donald Trump as president or “risk being dragged into a nuclear war.” In an interview with Reuters, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, known in Russia and Europe for his fiery rhetoric, said that Trump was the only person able to de-escalate dangerous tensions between Moscow and Washington. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton could spark World War Three, said the Russian who received a top state award from Putin after his pro-Kremlin Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) came third in Russia’s parliamentary election last month. “Relations between Russia and the United States can’t get any worse. The only way they can get worse is if a war starts,” said Zhirinovsky, speaking in his huge office on the 10th floor of Russia’s State Duma, or lower house of parliament. “Americans voting for a president on Nov. 8 must realize that they are voting for peace on Planet Earth if they vote for Trump. But if they vote for Hillary it’s war. It will be a short movie. There will be Hiroshimas and Nagasakis everywhere.” Well, we said he was outspoken. And, Just like Trump, Zhirinovsky tends to polarize his fellow countrymen. According to Reuters while “many Russians regard the politician as a clownish figure who makes outspoken statements to grab attention” he is also “widely viewed as a faithful servant of Kremlin policy, sometimes used to float radical opinions to test public reaction.”
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-12/putin-ally-warns-americans-vote-trump-or-face-nuclear-war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSWrFKmV9c0&app=desktop

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/10/14/Russia-India-to-sign-deal-on-air-defense-missile-systems-and-helicopters/5691476439054/?spt=sec&or=tn

Headline:    Yemen conflict: US strikes radar sites after missile attack on ship

Headline: Officials say US missiles destroy radar sites on Yemen coast

Headline:   State Department Asked What Is Difference Between Yemen And Syria Bombings, Awkward Moment Follows

Headline: Iran deploys warships off Yemen coast in the Gulf of Aden: Tasnim

Headline: Report: U.S. cash to Iran may have funded Houthi attack on American Navy

Headline: Iran’s 34th fleet faces US flotilla opposite Yemen

Headline: US preparing new strikes against Houthis in Yemen

Headline: British Pilots Given ‘Shoot to Kill’ Order Over Syria

Headline: Britain to present UN resolution demanding ceasefire in Yemen

The US has hit radar sites in Yemen after one of its warships in the Red Sea came under missile attack for the second time in days. The Pentagon said the sites were on territory controlled by Houthi rebels. The rebels denied firing the missiles. It marks the first time the US has fired at rebel targets since the start of the Yemen conflict in March 2015. The US said initial assessments showed three radar sites involved in the recent attacks had been destroyed. It said the US strikes had been authorised by President Barack Obama. They were carried out using Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from the destroyer USS Nitze, according to US officials. “These limited self-defence strikes were conducted to protect our personnel, our ships, and our freedom of navigation in this important maritime passageway,” Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said. “The United States will respond to any further threat to our ships and commercial traffic, as appropriate.” The Houthi-controlled Saba news agency quoted an unnamed rebel official as saying neither the movement nor its allies were involved in any of the recent missile attacks. As The Independent reports, a US government spokesperson has struggled to answer questions put to him on why the US condemns Russian bombing in Syria, and supports Saudi-led bombing in Yemen, both of which have killed thousands of civilians. Meanwhile, Iran sent two warships to the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, establishing a military presence in waters off Yemen where the U.S. military launched cruise missile strikes on areas controlled by Iran-backed Houthi forces. “Iran’s Alvand and Bushehr warships have been dispatched to the Gulf of Aden to protect trade vessels from piracy,” Tasnim reported. The U.S. military strikes were in response to failed missile attacks this week on a U.S. Navy destroyer, U.S. officials said.
Oct. 14, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37639565

https://www.yahoo.com/news/official-yemen-rebels-fire-2-missiles-us-ship-171231166–politics.html

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-12/russia-rages-western-stupidity-more-dangerous-terrorism

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-iran-warship-idUSKCN12D198

http://www.worldtribune.com/report-u-s-cash-to-iran-may-have-funded-houthi-attack-on-american-navy/

http://debka.com/article/25717/Iran%E2%80%99s-34th-fleet-faces-US-flotilla-opposite-Yemen

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-preparing-new-strikes-yemen-1238790017

http://www.charismanews.com/politics/issues/60549-war-drums-british-pilots-given-shoot-to-kill-order-over-syria

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/219003

The Coming One world government & religion

Revelation 17:3-8
Revelation 17:12-13
Revelation 17:18
Daniel 7:24-25a
Daniel 2:36-44

Headline:   Obama expands his executive power beyond Earth

President Obama has expanded his use of executive power beyond bounds of earth, signing an executive order Thursday to prepare the federal government to deal with the effects of space weather events. That space weather — which includes phenomena like solar flares, geomagnetic disturbances — can have big effects on everyday technologies like global positioning systems, satellite communication and aviation. And if the weather is extreme enough, Obama said, it “has the potential to simultaneously affect and disrupt health and safety across entire continents.” Solar winds could disable the electrical power grid, resulting in “cascading failures” that would affect almost every area of modern life — including basic health and safety issues like the water supply. The executive order came as Obama prepared to travel to Pittsburgh for a technology conference focusing on artificial intelligence, space exploration, clean energy and precision medicine. Like many executive orders, Obama’s directive instructs executive branch agencies on their responsibilities in preparing and responding to space weather events. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will coordinate the efforts of agencies across the government, including Defense, Commerce, Energy and NASA, which will work together to improve their ability to forecast space weather events and protect critical infrastructure from their effects. Obama also ordered the release of federal data on previous space weather events. Obama’s executive order also made public for the first time the existence of a previously unknown secret policy directive he signed on July 15. Presidential Policy Directive 40 established a new national continuity policy that defined the “national essential functions” of the federal government. Such directives, known as PPDs, are an often secret form of executive order in the realm of national security.
Oct. 13, 2016

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/10/13/obama-signs-executive-order-space-weather/91990316/

Headline:   296 Refugees Diagnosed with Active TB in Minnesota

Two hundred and ninety-six refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) between 2010 and 2014 in Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. Seventy-one were diagnosed within one year of their arrival, while 225 were diagnosed after the first year. The number of active TB cases reported among refugees arriving in Minnesota is ten times higher than reported in any of the fourteen other states that have released refugee TB data to the public, or made it available to Breitbart News. The previous high among the other reporting states was Wisconsin, which reported 27 cases of active TB among refugees arriving in the state between 2014 and 2015. The other thirteen states, and the number of diagnosed cases of active TB among refugees are: Nebraska (21), Louisiana (21), Michigan (19),  Vermont (17), Colorado (16), Florida (11), Ohio (11 in one county), Idaho (7), Kentucky (9 in one county), North Dakota (4 in one county),  Indiana (4), California (3), and Tennessee, where two refugees have been diagnosed with the very dangerous, multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB. With 296 cases of active TB diagnosed among refugees over five years, Minnesota reported more cases than all fourteen other states where that data has been made available — a combined total of 172 cases.
Oct. 13, 2016

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/13/two-hundred-ninety-six-refugees-diagnosed-active-tuberculosis-minnesota/

Headline:    Pentagon issues handbook on sex change in the ranks

Political correctness remains a central characteristic of the Obama administration’s policies. Take the Pentagon’s new anti-discrimination policy on what a newly-published handbook calls “gender dysphoria,” or “the distress that some transgender individuals experience due to a mismatch between their gender and their sex assigned at birth.” Under the new policies, military commanders are now responsible for approving or denying sex changes for troops who self-identify as the opposite sex, according to the 72-page handbook, “Transgender Service in the U.S. Military: An Implementation Handbook,” published Sept. 30. “The commander, informed by the recommendations of the [military medical provider], the [service central coordination cells], and others, as appropriate, will respond to the request to transition gender while ensuring readiness by minimizing impacts to the mission (including deployment, operations, training, exercise schedules, and critical skills availability), as well as to the morale and welfare and good order and discipline of the command,” the handbook states. The handbook is the result of a Pentagon policy adopted in July that permits troops who self-identify as the opposite sex while serving openly in the ranks. In the past, such cross-dressers were limited by the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy of hiding sexual orientation.
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/12/pentagon-issues-handbook-on-sex-change-in-the-rank/

Headline: United Methodist and Episcopalian Church Clergy Lead Prayer Rally to “Bless” Abortion Clinic

In Ohio, United Methodist Church pastor, Reverend Laura Young, says she believes pro-life protesters in front of Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities have “misguided faith.” In fact, she thinks these clinics should be blessed, which is why she went out to an abortion facility called Preterm on October 8^th in Cleveland. In 2014, Preterm was involved in the abortion-related death of Lakisha Wilson. Young explained her acceptance of abortion like this: “Christianity, like most faiths, is founded on love. Watching protesters shouting judgment and hate based on what they call religion is horrible. Is that loving God? Is that loving your neighbor as yourself?” Think Progress reports that the group hopes their “blessing” will protect Preterm from “preachy protesters, as well as encourage the strength and bravery of those providing and relying on its services.” Young plans to go out to other abortion facilities in the state if their event in Cleveland is successful. Young also says religious groups are fueling the so-called war on women. She explained, “Women are being attacked at a moral level by the radical Religious Right. They’ve hijacked the political discussion. This event is an opportunity for progressive religious leaders to stop the silence. We need to be in the conversation.”
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.lifenews.com/2015/10/12/united-methodist-and-episcopalian-church-clergy-lead-prayer-rally-to-bless-abortion-clinic/

~click the photo to see ALL the maps of the large earthquakes for the current year~

Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes~Click the shaking house~

Leaked Emails Show Hillary Clinton Campaign Chief Discussing ‘Revolution’ Against Bishop

WASHINGTON — The chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign appears to discuss with a progressive figure whether it is possible to “plant the seeds of the revolution” against the U.S. bishops and their stances, a leaked email hacked from a private account revealed.

The email exchange, entitled “Catholic Spring,” also suggests that two organizations — Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and Catholics United — were created for such a purpose.

“There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church,” wrote Sandy Newman, president of the Washington-based political action organization Voices for Progress, in the first of two emails in the February 2012 exchange.

The recipient of the email, John Podesta, is Catholic and a graduate of Georgetown University. He currently serves as the head of Hillary Clinton’s campaign for presidency. Previously, Podesta served as president and CEO of the think tank Center for American Progress, and as the chief of staff for President Bill Clinton. http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/leaked-emails-show-hillary-clinton-campaign-chief-discussing-revolution-aga

email address: endtimesresearchministry@yahoo.com

 Bible prophecy documentary book download proving our generation will see the return of the Lord. Do you want to know what is going to happen in the future before it actually takes place? The Word of God provides you with specific details about our future and all of these things are coming to pass in this generation. If you aren’t saved yet this is a must read! The Last Chronicles of Planet Earth Oct. 6, 2016 Edition written by Frank Dimora

~to get everyone used to the new format please be sure to click photos
for full explanation~

Headline:     UNESCO to vote on resolutions ignoring Jewish ties to Temple Mount

UNESCO is slated to vote twice this month on Palestinian initiated resolutions that ignore Jewish ties to its most holy religious site of the Temple Mount and the Western Wall area in Jerusalem.
The first of these votes will be taken on Thursday or Friday of this week by the 58-member Executive Board of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris. In advance of that vote, Israel’s Mission to UNESCO in Paris, has given board members and international diplomats a brochure detailing the deep historical connections Judaism has to those sites, which are also holy to Christianity and Islam. “These facts and evidences will leave no doubt, and without undermining other connection of other religions to the holy places in Jerusalem, of the deepest and longest Jewish presence in Jerusalem since ancient times,” Israel’s Ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Shama-Hacohen wrote. “Every attempt to distort the history and harm the above mentioned relations of the Jewish people and Jerusalem, is an attempt to rewrite the history in a dangerous, unfair and one-sided manner,” he said. Among the evidence listed in the brochure is a 9th Century BC inscription referring to the House of David, an 8th Century BC seal from King Hezekiah, and a stone etching of the Jewish Menorah from the year 66 AD found in Jerusalem.

Oct. 11, 2016

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/UNESCO-to-vote-on-resolutions-ignoring-Jewish-ties-to-Temple-Mount-469942

Headline:     Report: Obama Administration ‘Manufacturing Crisis’ With Israel

With its eyes on the potential launch of an Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative after next month’s presidential election, the Obama administration is “manufacturing a crisis” over settlement construction, to exert diplomatic pressure on the Jewish state, The Weekly Standard reported on Sunday, citing sources in Congress and the American Jewish community. Last week, the administration raised many eyebrows with its unusually strident criticism of Israel’s settlement policies following the approval of dozens of new homes in the West Bank. One congressional source told The Weekly Standard that the administration had been “waiting for an opening” to hit hard against Israel, and an official with an American-Jewish organization was quoted as saying the administration “wants to be able to say the Israelis forced them to act.” The vociferous anti-settlement rhetoric used by White House and State Department spokespersons was shortly followed by the publication of a New York Times editorial board op-ed calling on the administration to back a UN Security Council resolution that would outline the parameters of a two-state solution. In response to that op-ed, Mark Dubowitz — executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) think thank — tweeted on Friday, “Obama is laying the groundwork for UN & EU sanctions on Israel. I’ve seen this playbook before.” Later the same day, Dubowitz took aim at the administration again, tweeting, “Unlike with Iran, all options are on Obama’s table to pound Israel.” As reported by The Algemeiner extensively, many observers are expecting a US-led peace drive during the lame-duck period between the presidential election on Nov. 8 and the inauguration of Obama’s successor on Jan. 20.
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=719

Headline:    5 Biggest Temple Stories of Year Prove Third Temple is Closer Than Ever as Yom Kippur Approaches

Headline:    Judge lifts restraining order allowing California synagogue to perform animal ritual

Headline: Security forces on high alert in Jerusalem as Jewish Israelis mark Yom Kippur

While today, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, means long hours of intense prayer, the modern holiday service is really a stand-in for Biblical sacrifices performed by the High Priest as he entered the Holy of Holies in the Temple in order to beg forgiveness for the Jewish people. While the Temple was standing, thousands would gather to witness the holy offerings and pray for atonement. Though the Temple was not built this year, many significant events have brought us closer than ever before to its prophesied rebuilding, and all over the world, Jews are praying that this time next year, the Yom Kippur service will take place in the Third Temple! ~photos~
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/77013/5-biggest-temple-stories-yom-kippur-approaches-prove-third-temple-closer-ever/?utm_source=Breaking+Israel+News&utm_campaign=e5930d8e6f-BIN_morning_10_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b6d3627f72-e5930d8e6f-86610633&mc_

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/12/judge-lifts-restraining-order-allowing-california-synagogue-to-perform-animal-ritual.html

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Security-forces-on-high-alert-in-Jerusalem-as-Jewish-Israelis-mark-Yom-Kippur-469933

Lebanon

Headline: Nasrallah: Saudi leadership pushing country to abyss

Hezbollah’s leader blasted Saudi Arabia over its military campaign in Yemen days after an airstrike conducted by the Riyadh-led coalition killed over 100 people in the conflict-stricken country. “The Saudi leadership is pushing their country to the abyss,” Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday night at a ceremony on the eve of Ashura, a holy day revered by Shiite Muslims. Nasrallah, who delivered his speech in a rare public appearance, rebuked Saudi Arabia for its campaign against the Houthis of Yemen, who are backed by Iran. On Saturday, an airstrike by the Saudi coalition killed over 140 people and injured hundreds of others at the funeral for Sheikh Ali al-Rawishan, the father of the interior minister in the government run by the Houthis. “Saudi Arabia’s leaders must return to their senses,” he said, amid a chorus of “Death to the Saud family” calls chanted by the crowd of thousands of Hezbollah supporters gathered at the Sayyed al-Shuhada Complex in the southern Beirut suburbs.
Oct. 11, 2016

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/567419-nasrallah-saudi-leadership-pushing-country-to-abyss

Headline:   Hezbollah leader vows to keep eye on Israel, fight in Syria

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah Wednesday vowed to keep an eye on Israel and Lebanon’s southern border, while still being involved in the Syrian conflict. “The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon will not lose sight of the southern border in fighting Israel. … The resistance will also not lose sight of the eastern borders in the Bekaa Valley to fight the takfiri enemy, and we will continue being present in Syria to defend the region’s issues and peoples,” Nasrallah said as he addressed crowds of supporters observing Ashoura at Al-Raya Stadium in the southern suburbs of Beirut. This was Nasrallah’s second public appearance this week, after he surprised supporters last night by giving a speech at the Sayyed al-Shouhadaa complex.
Oct. 12, 2016

https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2016/Oct-12/376175-hezbollah-leader-vows-to-keep-eye-on-israel-fight-in-syria.ashx

Saudi Arabia

Headline:    US Considering Retaliation for Missile Firing at Navy Ship

Headline: U.S. Navy destroyer again targeted by missiles from Yemen-U.S. officials

The Pentagon has said that it is considering a military retaliation against Houthi militants in Yemen after two missiles were fired Sunday at the destroyer USS Mason from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen. Both missiles fell short of the destroyer and landed in the sea. Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said today that the U.S. is still assessing who fired missiles at the destroyer when it was in the Red Sea on Sunday.  “Anytime anyone engages a U.S. Navy ship at sea in hostility … they do so at great peril to themselves,” said Davis. Asked if that could mean retaliatory strikes against those responsible for firing the missiles, Davis said, “Those things are things that we’re looking at.” “We want very much to get to the bottom of what happened,” said Davis. “We’re going to find out who did this, and we’ll take action accordingly.” Meanwhile, a U.S. Navy destroyer was targeted on Wednesday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, the second such incident in the past four days, U.S. officials told Reuters.
Oct. 12, 2016

https://gma.yahoo.com/us-considering-retaliation-missile-firing-navy-ship-204009933–abc-news-topstories.html

http://news.trust.org/item/20161012175308-u3r1t

Egypt

Headline:   Russian, Egyptian troops to hold exercises at El-Alamein

Egypt says it will host Russian troops this month for joint military exercises at the coastal city of El-Alamein, the latest step in the two countries’ rapprochement. The army says in a Wednesday statement that the training exercises, called “Guardians of Friendship,” will take place between Oct. 15 and 26 and include “elite units” as well as vehicles from both sides. Egypt has increased cooperation with Russia under the leadership of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, the former army leader who overthrew his elected but divisive Islamist predecessor in 2013. In May 2015, Cairo announced a $25 billion Russian loan for a joint project to build a nuclear power plant.
Oct. 12, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/10/12/Russian-Egyptian-troops-to-hold-exercises-at-El-Alamein.html

Headline:     Syria conflict: Russia’s Putin halts France visit amid row

Headline:   Lavrov, Kerry To Meet in Switzerland For Syria Talks

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has cancelled a planned visit to France amid a row over Syria. He had been due to meet French President Francois Hollande and open a new Orthodox church later this month. But after France’s government said talks would be confined to Syria, the visit was halted, French presidential sources said. On Monday, Mr Hollande suggested Russia could face war crimes charges over its bombardment of Syria’s city of Aleppo. The French presidency had told the Russians Mr Hollande would attend only one event with Mr Putin during the visit planned for 19 October – a working meeting on Syria, according to the sources. But after this Russia “let it be known that it wanted to postpone the visit”, they added. A spokesman for Mr Putin confirmed the trip had been cancelled, adding that the visit would take place when it becomes “comfortable for President Hollande”.
***see ETRM 10-7 post
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37616333

http://www.rferl.org/a/syria-russia-us-talks-to-resume/28049477.html

Headline:   ISIS, Hezbollah seen using weaponized drones, raising new fears in Syria

Headline:   Pentagon: ISIS arming small drones with explosives

Insurgent groups like Hezbollah and the Islamic State group have learned how to weaponize surveillance drones and use them against each other, adding a new twist to Syria’s civil war, a U.S. military official and others say. A video belonging to an Al Qaeda offshoot, Jund al-Aqsa, purportedly shows a drone landing on Syrian military barracks. In another video , small explosives purportedly dropped by the Iran-backed Shiite militant group Hezbollah target the Sunni militant group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front. A U.S. military official, who spoke anonymously because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said the U.S. military is aware of the development. Commanders have warned troops to take cover if they see what they might have once dismissed as a surveillance drone, he said. The head of the Airwars project, which tracks the international air war in Iraq, Syria and Libya, said the weaponized drones are clumsy but will scare people. “There are a million ways you can weaponize drones — fire rockets, strap things in and crash them,” Chris Woods said. He added: “This is the stuff everyone has been terrified about for years, and now it’s a reality.”
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/12/isis-hezbollah-seen-using-weaponized-drones-raising-new-fears-in-syria.html

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/10/12/Pentagon-ISIS-arming-small-drones-with-explosives/1861476249628/?spt=sec&or=tn

Headline: Russian Warplanes Resume Heavy Bombing in Aleppo
Headline: At least 15 dead in airstrike on Aleppo market
Headline: Negotiations to surrender east Aleppo under way
Headline: ISIS launches major offensive in Deir Ezzor
Headline: Rebel rocket attack hits several residential areas inside Damascus

Monitors say Russian jet fighters on Tuesday resumed heavy bombing in rebel-held eastern districts of the war-shattered Syrian city of Aleppo, targeting two opposition-held neighborhoods and killing more than 20 people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights called Tuesday’s onslaught “the heaviest Russian bombardment” since the government of President Bashar al-Assad announced last week it would cut back on airstrikes, ostensibly to allow civilians to disarm and leave opposition-held neighborhoods. However, civilians, distrustful of the Assad government, have largely ignored the offer, which insurgents fighting to topple the government have called a deception.
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/russian-warplanes-resume-bombing-aleppo-syria-monitors-say/3546579.html

http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-least-15-dead-in-airstrike-on-aleppo-market/

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/isis-launches-major-offensive-deir-ezzor-3/

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/negotiations-surrender-east-aleppo-way/

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/rebel-rocket-attack-hits-several-residential-areas-inside-damascus/

Headline:   Turkey-backed Syrian rebels advance closer to ISIS-held Dabiq

Syrian rebels advanced closer to an ISIS-held village that is of great symbolic significance to the group in a Turkey-backed operation in northern Syria on Wednesday, a rebel commander told Reuters. The rebels captured the village of Duweibiq, which is some 2 km from Dabiq – the site of an apocalyptic prophesy central to the militant group’s ideology. “The clashes were not very fierce but there is resistance,” the commander said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based organization that reports on the war, also confirmed the capture of Duweibiq.
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Oct-12/376215-turkey-backed-syrian-rebels-advance-closer-to-isis-held-dabiq.ashx

Headline:   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe

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

Headline:    Turkey says its troops to stay in Iraq until Islamic State cleared from Mosul

Headline: Turkey has right to combat threats in Syria and Iraq — Erdogan

Headline: US tries to defuse Iraq-Turkey war of words over Mosul

Headline:  Iraqi forces liberate strategic island in Al-Anbar

A planned U.S.-backed operation to drive Islamic State from the Iraqi city of Mosul could cause “blood and fire” in the region if not carefully handled, Turkey warned on Wednesday, saying it would keep troops nearby despite Baghdad’s opposition. President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey, locked in an escalating row with Iraq over who should take part in the planned Mosul assault, would do all it could to prevent the operation from deepening sectarian conflict on its borders. Mosul, home to up to 1.5 million people, has been the headquarters of Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate in northern Iraq since 2014. The battle for the city, expected later this month, will help shape the future of Iraq and the legacy of U.S. President Barack Obama. “We will use all our resources to prevent our brothers in Syria and Iraq from being crushed under the wheels of global power games, and to keep us from suffering a similar fate,” Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul. “We are determined to deflate the balloon of sectarian conflict aimed at drowning the region in blood and fire.” Soldiers from Turkey, a regional power with the second largest armed forces in NATO, have been training Sunni Muslim and Kurdish Peshmerga units at the Bashiqa camp in northern Iraq and want them to take part in the expected battle for Mosul. But their presence has sparked a row with the Shi’ite-led government in Baghdad, which is keen that its forces be at the forefront of the offensive. Erdogan said: “Turkey cannot intervene against the threats right next to it? We will never accept this… We don’t need permission for this, and we don’t plan on getting it.”
Oct. 12, 2016

https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkey-troops-stay-iraqs-bashiqa-until-islamic-state-064240622.html

http://jordantimes.com/news/region/turkey-has-right-combat-threats-syria-and-iraq-%E2%80%94-erdogan

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/10/12/US-tries-to-defuse-Iraq-Turkey-war-of-words-over-Mosul.html

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iraqi-forces-liberate-strategic-island-al-anbar/

Headline:   ISIS drone kills Kurdish fighters, hurts French troops

A remote-controlled hobby plane belonging to ISIS and rigged with hidden explosives killed two Kurdish fighters and wounded two French special operations troops near Mosul, French and U.S. sources confirmed Wednesday. While the Pentagon has previously said ISIS uses simple, commercially available drones to conduct surveillance and carry small explosives, this was the first known deadly case. According to a U.S. defense official, the incident unfolded Oct. 2 when a small plane with a styrofoam body was either shot down or crashed in Irbil in northern Iraq. Two local Kurdish peshmerga fighters grabbed it and took it back to their camp to inspect and photograph it, when it blew up. “It looks like the explosive charge was hidden inside of what appeared to be a battery on some sort of a timer,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter. A French source earlier confirmed the use of a “booby-trapped drone in Iraq,” while another confirmed that two French soldiers were hurt in the incident. One of the French soldiers has life-threatening injuries. Both have been flown back to France for treatment.  The French military declined to comment.
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Oct-12/376221-isis-drone-kills-kurdish-fighters-hurts-french-troops.ashx

Iran

Headline:     Obama breaks another promise to ‘save’ the Iran deal

The Obama administration keeps on breaking its promises on the Iran deal — its promises to the American people, that is. The latest betrayal: The Treasury Department just lifted key restrictions on Iran’s ability to do business in US dollars and access world financial markets — breaking Team Obama’s explicit vows as it lobbied Congress not to nix the deal. Iran’s banks weren’t even cut off from the US financial system over the nuclear issue — but over Tehran’s funding of terrorism, its regional aggression and so on. Which makes another Treasury move even more squalid: It will now also let foreign firms and branches of US firms do business with Iranian groups like the Revolutionary Guard. The Guard is the chief conduit for Tehran’s support of terrorism, tied to numerous plots, including one in DC aimed at a Saudi envoy. And it’s also a prime force helping Syria’s Bashar al-Assad massacre civilians in his bloody bid to keep power. It was behind the kidnapping of US sailors in January, the serial harassment of US Navy ships and even last month’s arrest of another Iranian-American in Iran. Yet the Obama Treasury is making it easier for the Revolutionary Guard to do business — as part of an official US drive to boost Iran’s economy in the name of preserving the nuclear deal.
***see ETRM 10-6 post

Oct. 10, 2016

http://nypost.com/2016/10/10/obama-breaks-another-promise-to-save-the-iran-deal/

Afghanistan

Headline:    Islamic State Claims Attack On Shi’ite Mourners In Kabul

Headline:   Separately: a blast kills 14 as militants target Afghan Shiites during Ashura

Headline: Remote district in northwestern Afghanistan falls to the Taliban

The Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a shrine in the Afghan capital, Kabul, that killed 18 people, mostly Shi’ite mourners. IS’s affiliate in Afghanistan and Pakistan — known as Khorasan Province — claimed the attack in an online statement issued on October 12. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said 62 people, including 12 police, were wounded in the attack on the Karte Sakhi shrine, one of the largest in Kabul. He said that, contrary to earlier reports of three gunmen, only one gunman, who was later gunned down by security forces, attacked the shrine. In a statement issued on October 12, the United Nations said the “attack deliberately targeting a large group of civilians exercising their right to freely manifest their religion in worship, observance, and practice is an atrocity.” In a statement issued on October 11, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered his condolences to the victims and condemned the attack as a “clear sign of a crime against humanity.”
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.rferl.org/a/adghanistan-gunmen-shi-ite-pilgrims-kabul-ashura/28046322.html

https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/blast-kills-14-militants-target-afghan-shiites-during-ashura

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/10/remote-district-in-northwestern-afghanistan-falls-to-the-taliban.php

Ethiopia

Headline:       Merkel signals support for Ethiopia’s protesters in visit

Headline: African nations must halt migration, says Merkel

Headline:    Ethiopia withdraws from Somalia el-Ali in Hiran region

German Chancellor Angela Merkel signaled support for protesters demanding wider freedoms in Ethiopia during a visit to the country on Tuesday, saying “a vibrant civil society is part and parcel of a developing country.” After meeting with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, Merkel said Germany has offered to train Ethiopia’s police to deal with the sometimes deadly demonstrations that have caused one of Africa’s best-performing economies to declare its first state of emergency in 25 years. “We are already working in Oromia to de-escalate the situation there by offering mediation between groups,” she said, referring to the region where protests have simmered for nearly a year. “I would always argue for allowing people of a different political opinion … to engage with them and allow them to express their views because, after all, a democratic experience shows that out of these discussions good solutions usually come,” Merkel said.
Oct. 11, 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/merkel-visiting-ethiopia-as-state-of-emergency-unfolds/2016/10/11/863c85f0-8f77-11e6-bc00-1a9756d4111b_story.html

https://euobserver.com/migration/135470

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37616973

Luke 21:9-10
Matthew 24:6-7
Mark 13:7-8
Revelation 6:4
Revelation 6:8

Headline:    US start-up Geofeedia ‘allowed police to track protesters’

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have revoked access to their data to an analytics firm accused of selling information that allowed US police to track activists and protesters. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Chicago-based Geofeedia had allowed police to “sneak in through a side door” to monitor protests. Geofeedia said it was committed to the principles of personal privacy. It comes amid growing concern about government access to social media. ACLU said Geofeedia had been marketing its services to police agencies to help track activists using location data and social media posts. The group said it had seen internal documents in which Geofeedia said that it “covered Ferguson/Mike Brown nationally with great success,” referring to protests which erupted in 2014 after an unarmed African-American man was shot dead by police. “The ACLU of California has obtained records showing that Twitter, Facebook and Instagram provided user data access to Geofeedia, a developer of a social media monitoring product that we have seen marketed to law enforcement as a tool to monitor activists and protesters,” the group said in a statement. “We know for a fact that in Oakland [California] and Baltimore [Maryland], law enforcement has used Geofeedia to monitor protests.”
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37627086

Headline:   7 killed as bombing targets taxi in northeastern Nigeria

A local official says at least seven people have been killed in an explosion targeting a taxi in northeastern Nigeria’s largest city. Bello Dambatta, an emergency response official, says six people were killed at the scene of Wednesday’s attack and another died at a hospital. He says at least four people were injured. It is unclear if a bomb had been planted on the taxi or if a passenger detonated explosives after boarding. The explosion occurred as the taxi approached a gas station. Northeastern Nigeria is the epicenter of Boko Haram’s seven-year uprising that has claimed more than 20,000 lives. Maiduguri city had been spared deadly bombings in recent months as soldiers were able to shoot suicide attackers before they reached their targets.
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/12/7-killed-as-bombing-targets-taxi-in-northeastern-nigeria.html

Headline: Brexit champ: We are seeing a ‘popular uprising against failed politics on a global scale’

There is a “growing mistrust of the political class” in both Britain and the U.S., a key player in the successful Brexit vote said. “The little people have had enough – not just here, but in America too,” Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party (Ukip), wrote in an Oct. 9 op-ed for the UK’s Telegraph. The U.S. presidential campaign “mirrors many of the arguments and conflicts that we have seen recently in British politics, especially during the recent referendum campaign. Essentially, this election is about continuity versus change, with huge doses of personal vitriol thrown in,” Farage wrote. “When I arrived at the Republican Party convention in Cleveland, Ohio, back in July, I was amazed at the reaction to me over the Brexit result. Normally we follow trends in America, not the other way round, but it was clear that many of the delegates saw Brexit as an aspiration for what they see as the Trump ‘revolution’ against the Establishment.” Farage noted that “one of the reasons that Ukip went from being an insignificant political party to winning the 2014 European elections is that we spoke about issues in a language that resonated with ordinary people.” “Like him or loathe him,” Farage pointed out, “Trump is not a part of the political elite and he most certainly is not constrained by political correctness. When I spoke at one of his rallies in Jackson, Mississippi, I saw a fanatical gathering of his fans who want to give the Establishment a good hiding. ‘We want our country back’ works as a slogan here, too.”
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.worldtribune.com/uks-brexit-champion-we-are-witnessing-a-popular-uprising-against-failed-politics-on-a-global-scale/

Headline:     Russia tests ballistic missiles amid tensions with West

Headline: Kerry threatens retaliation for Russian meddling in US election

Headline: Russian Government Officials Told To Immediately Bring Back Children Studying Abroad

Russia´s military conducted a series of intercontinental ballistic missile tests on Wednesday, the latest flexing of its muscles as tensions with the US spike over Syria. Russian forces fired a nuclear-capable rocket from a Pacific Fleet submarine in the Sea of Okhotsk north of Japan, state-run RIA Novosti reported. A Topol missile was shot off from a submarine in the Barents Sea, and a third was launched from an inland site in the north-west of the vast country, Russian agencies reported. The latest display of might by Moscow — which has been conducting regular military drills since ties with the West slumped in 2014 over Ukraine — comes as tensions have shot up in recent days. Russia has pulled the plug on a series of deals with the US — including a symbolic disarmament pact between the two nuclear powers to dispose of weapons-grade plutonium — as Washington has halted talks on Syria.
Oct. 12, 2016

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/156845-Russia-tests-ballistic-missiles-amid-tensions-with-West

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/kerry-threatens-retaliation-for-russian-meddling-in-u.s.-election/article/2604241

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-11/russian-government-officials-told-immediately-bring-back-children-studying-abroad

The Coming One world government & religion

Revelation 17:3-8
Revelation 17:12-13
Revelation 17:18
Daniel 7:24-25a
Daniel 2:36-44

Headline: Dr. Oz Promotes The Mark Of The Beast- VIDEO

Revelation 13:16 reads “And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,” That quote leads us to the small hamlet of Geneva, Switzerland where the elite go about doing Lucifer’s work. ***in and on in Greek are the same word ‘epi’
Oct. 11, 2016

http://www.infowars.com/dr-oz-promotes-the-mark-of-the-beast/

***Pacific Standard Time

Headline: RED ALERT — Get ready for a ‘severe fall’ in the stock market, HSBC says

HSBC’s technical-analysis team has thrown up the ultimate warning signal. In a note to clients released Wednesday, Murray Gunn, the head of technical analysis for HSBC, said he had become on “RED ALERT” for an imminent sell-off in stocks given the price action over the past few weeks. Gunn uses a type of technical analysis called the Elliott Wave Principle, which tracks alternating patterns in the stock market to discern investors’ behavior and possible next moves. In late September, Gunn said the stock market’s moves looked eerily similar to those just before the 1987 stock market crash. Citi’s Tom Fitzpatrick also highlighted the market’s similarities to the 1987 crash just a few days ago. On September 30, Gunn said stocks were under an “orange alert,” as they looked to him as if they had topped out. And now, given the 200-point decline for the Dow on Tuesday, Gunn thinks the drop is here.
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.businessinsider.com/hsbc-red-alert-get-ready-for-a-severe-fall-in-the-stock-market-2016-10

Matthew 24:7
Revelation 6:4
Revelation 6:8

Headline:   Displaced Nigerians Face Starvation in Maiduguri

Headline: North Korea plagued by serious levels of hunger, think tank says

The food shortage gripping northeast Nigeria is most obvious on the streets of the Borno State capital, Maiduguri. Long lines meander along the sidewalks as people wait for handouts from charities. Sometimes, the people in line become unruly. For seven years, Boko Haram militants have been at war with the Nigerian government. Sect members have targeted civilians — destroying farmland and stealing livestock. Families have fled to the cities, especially Maiduguri, which is now housing more than a million displaced people. Hunger and widespread malnutrition are the result. “Today in Maiduguri, malnutrition is way above 20 percent,” says Dr. Jarvid Ali, the emergency medical coordinator of Doctors Without Borders’ activities in Borno State. “That means in terms of the gravity of the situation, the magnitude of severe acute malnutrition, it’s really huge.” Many people cannot afford to buy food and some displaced people say the rations in the refugee camps are not enough. The food insecurity has reached famine levels and Maiduguri residents say they have noticed a rise in the number of deaths.
Oct. 12, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/nigeria-malnutrition/3545857.html

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/10/12/North-Korea-plagued-by-serious-levels-of-hunger-think-tank-says/4291476291174/?spt=sec&or=tn

Oct. 3, 2016- Large die off of fish found in Arkansas
http://wreg.com/2016/10/03/mysterious-dead-fish-investigation-underway-near-marianna-ar/

Oct. 4, 2016- Large number of fish die in a river in Neembucu, Paraguay
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ultimahora.com%2Fencuentran-gran-cantidad-peces-muertos-neembucu-n1029038.html&edit-text=&act=url

Oct. 5, 2016- Dead Bird Mystery: Dozens of dead birds turning up at Weeks Bay, Alabama
http://wkrg.com/2016/10/05/dead-bird-mystery-at-weeks-bay/

Oct. 6, 2016- Large fish kills along the beaches Ljungan, Sweden
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsverigesradio.se%2Fsida%2Fartikel.aspx%3Fprogramid%3D110%26artikel%3D6535452&edit-text=&act=url

Oct. 6, 2016- Mass die off of fish in the waters of Corrientes, Argentina
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcaa.nearural.com%2Fampliar.php%3Fid%3D35073&edit-text=&act=url

Oct. 7, 2016- Almost 70,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/37647/bird-flu-kills-poultry-in-cote-divoire/

Oct. 7, 2016- Large amount of dead fish washing ashore in Naples, Florida

http://www.fox4now.com/news/dead-fish-washing-ashore-in-naples

Oct. 11, 2016- Thousands of dead fish wash up along Island Road in Louisiana
http://www.dailycomet.com/news/20161011/thousands-of-dead-fish-collect-along-island-road

Oct. 12, 2016- Dead dolphins found washed up in Boyd’s Cove, Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/dolphins-hurricane-matthew-1.3800310

Matthew 24:7
Luke 21:11
Luke 21:25 

Headline:      Hurricane Nicole Is Headed to Bermuda as Cat.2 Storm

Headline:    Death toll climbs as floods swamp North Carolina after Hurricane Matthew

Hurricane Nicole is heading toward Bermuda as a Category 2 storm. Nicole’s maximum sustained winds increased early Wednesday to near 100 mph (155 kph). The U.S. National Hurricane Center says some strengthening is possible and Nicole could be near major hurricane strength later in the day. The storm is centered about 330 miles (535 kilometers) south-southwest of Bermuda, where a hurricane warning is in effect, and is moving north-northwest near 7 mph (11 kph).
Oct. 12, 2016

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hurricane-nicole-headed-bermuda-category-storm-42744102

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-matthew-idUSKCN12A0N0

~click the photo to see ALL the maps of the large earthquakes for the current year~

Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes~Click the shaking house~

email address: endtimesresearchministry@yahoo.com

 Bible prophecy documentary book download proving our generation will see the return of the Lord. Do you want to know what is going to happen in the future before it actually takes place? The Word of God provides you with specific details about our future and all of these things are coming to pass in this generation. If you aren’t saved yet this is a must read! The Last Chronicles of Planet Earth Oct. 6, 2016 Edition written by Frank Dimora

~to get everyone used to the new format please be sure to click photos for full explanation~

Headline:       Minister: Part of response to Jerusalem terror needs to be massive building in capital

Israel should build massively in Jerusalem as part of its answer to the type of terrorism that struck the capital again on Sunday morning, Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel said before Sunday’s cabinet meeting. Ariel’s comments to reporters before the weekly cabinet session came within an hour of news of the Jerusalem shooting attacks. Part of the answer to these attacks, he said, beyond the security component, “is massive building and removing from the heart of our enemies the idea that we will ever move from a united Jerusalem. That will minimize the potential for attacks in Jerusalem.” Bayit Yehudi MK Mordechai Yogev called for the cabinet to immediately permit construction, for the IDF to enter Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, and to destroy Hamas. “Every attack requires a Zionist response of authorizing new building plans in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria,” Yogev said. “This must be accompanied by public diplomacy telling the world that the land belongs to the people of Israel who desire life, and not to terrorists who sanctify death.”
Oct. 9, 2016

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Minister-Part-of-response-to-Jerusalem-terror-needs-to-be-Massive-building-in-capital-469747

Headline:  Kerry said to tell PM that US hasn’t decided yet on UN resolution

US Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend that the Obama administration has not yet made a decision on whether to back a UN Security Council resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after the November presidential elections. Support for or promotion of such a resolution would mark a drastic change in policy for the US, which has consistently vetoed and/or threatened to veto any UN resolutions deemed unfavorable to Israel. In a phone conversation on Saturday night, Netanyahu told Kerry he expects that the US will not support any diplomatic measures at the UN that are carried out without Israel’s consent, Haaretz newspaper reported. The prime minister also reiterated statements he made in a speech to the UN General Assembly last month, in which he said “peace will not come from statements and resolutions at the United Nations.” But while Kerry listened to Netanyahu’s request, he told the prime minister that no decision on supporting future resolutions had yet been made, the report said. Speaking at the UN in September a day before his final official meeting with Obama, Netanyahu sought to sow opposition to a change in US policy, praising Obama for using his veto for such resolutions in the past. The phone conversation between Kerry and Netanayahu came amid a tussle between Israel and the US following Israeli approval last week of construction of new settlement housing units for the homeowners of the illegal outpost of Amona ahead of its court-ordered evacuation. The plan calls for two phases of construction, with a further 200 units to be approved after a first round of 98 homes is completed.
Oct. 10, 2016

http://www.timesofisrael.com/kerry-said-to-tell-pm-that-us-hasnt-decided-yet-on-un-resolution/

Headline:      Jerusalem Attack: Two Killed, Six Wounded in Drive-by Shooting at Light Rail Stop

Headline:  Danon to UN: Why don’t you ask PA to condemn terror attack?

An East Jerusalem resident shot and killed a 60-year-old woman and a 30-year-old police officer on Sunday near the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on Sunday. The drive-by shootings spanned three sites. In addition, three victims were moderately wounded, while a further three were lightly wounded by shrapnel or suffered from shock. Police eventualy shot the assailant, identified as a 39-year-old resident of the Silwan neighborhood, at nearby Sheikh Jarrah. He succumbed to his wounds shortly thereafter. Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, penned a letter to the UN Security Council, calling upon that body to demand the Palestinian Authority condemn the murder of Yosef Kirma and Levana Malichi in Jerusalem on Sunday. In his letter, Danon noted the numerous expressions of joy and celebrations by Arabs in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria following the terror attack. He also included photographs documenting the celebrations. In some cases, Arab residents were seen handing out candy and waving pictures of the terrorist. Danon argued that the Security Council must “demand that the Palestinian Authority immediately halt the incitement [against Israel] and strongly condemn the murders in Jerusalem.”
Oct. 9, 2016

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.746607

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/218838

Headline:     Top Hamas Official: We Must Further Enhance Ties With Iran; Palestinian ‘Resistance’ Ready to Enter Real Battle With Israel

A top Hamas official called for the bolstering of his group’s ties with Iran and issued a threat to Israel, in an interview with the Islamic Republic’s semi-official state news agency Fars on Monday. Mahmoud al-Zahar — a co-founder of the Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organization that rules the Gaza Strip — said, “Relations with Iran are acceptable but they should further enhance and develop [and]…if the regime (Israel) is after a new war against the region, (it should know that) the Palestinian resistance, more than what they imagine, is ready to enter a real battle.” Last month, as reported by The Algemeiner, Mohammad Majedi — a high-ranking Iranian diplomatic official stationed in Beirut — told Hamas’ envoy to Lebanon Ali Baraka that Tehran would continue to support “the Palestinian nation, the resistance groups and Palestine’s Intifada against Israel’s occupation.” And Baraka, for his part, declared that Hamas was determined to maintain good ties with Iran.
Oct. 10, 2016

https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/10/10/top-hamas-official-we-must-further-enhance-ties-with-iran-palestinian-resistance-ready-to-enter-real-battle-with-israel/

Saudi Arabia

Headline:     Missiles Fired From Rebel-Held Yemen Land Near US Destroyer

Two missiles fired from rebel-held territory in Yemen landed near an American destroyer in the Red Sea, the U.S. Navy said Monday, the second such launch targeting ships in the crucial international waterway in recent days.The missile launches Sunday came as a ballistic missile fired from Yemen apparently targeted a Saudi air base near the Muslim holy city of Mecca, the deepest strike yet into the kingdom by Shiite rebels and their allies. The rebels fired another two missiles into the Saudi Jizan region along the border on Monday, wounding two foreigners who worked there, the local civil defense said in a statement.Yemen’s Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, and their allies offered no reason for the launches, though they came after a Saudi-led airstrike targeting a funeral in Yemen’s capital killed over 140 people and wounded 525 on Saturday. In a statement, the Navy said no American sailors were wounded and no damage was caused to the USS Mason, an Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyer whose home port is Norfolk, Virginia. Lt. Ian McConnaughey, a spokesman for U.S. Navy Forces Central Command, said that it’s unclear if the USS Mason was specifically targeted, though the missiles were fired in its direction over an hour’s time, starting at around 7 p.m.
Oct. 10, 2016

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/saudi-arabia-intercepts-missiles-fired-yemen-42691382

Egypt

Headline:  Allies Saudi Arabia, Egypt in rare public spat over Syria

Close allies and Arab powerhouses Egypt and Saudi Arabia are having their first public spat since Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi took office two years ago, a quarrel over Syria that points to a wider, but mostly muted, divergence in the handling by Cairo and Riyadh of regional issues. The two countries have gone to great lengths to shield their differences from the public eye, often emphasizing their closes ties and cooperation. But Egypt’s vote in favor of separate Russian and French draft resolutions on Syria at the UN Security Council over the weekend has apparently angered the Saudis. Egypt’s UN Ambassador Amr Aboulatta, the Arab representative on the council, defended his support for both drafts, saying his country backed all efforts to stop the suffering of the Syrians. Russia vetoed the French resolution demanding an immediate halt of the bombing by Russia and the Syrian government of rebel-held areas in the northern city of Aleppo.
Oct. 10, 2016

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4865480,00.html

Syria Headline:       Russia vetoes U.N. demand for end to bombing of Syria’s Aleppo

Russia vetoed a French-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution on Saturday that would have demanded an end to air strikes and military flights over Syria’s city of Aleppo, while a rival Russian draft text failed to get a minimum nine votes in favor. Moscow’s text was effectively the French draft with Russian amendments. It removed the demand for an end to air strikes on Aleppo and put the focus back on a failed Sept. 9 U.S./Russia ceasefire deal, which was annexed to the draft. British U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft told Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin: “Thanks to your actions today, Syrians will continue to lose their lives in Aleppo and beyond to Russian and Syrian bombing. Please stop now.” Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, backed by Russian war planes and Iranian support, have been battling to capture eastern Aleppo, the rebel-held half of Syria’s largest city, where more than 250,000 civilians are trapped. “Russia has become one of the chief purveyors of terror in Aleppo, using tactics more commonly associated with thugs than governments,” U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations David Pressman told the council.
Oct. 8, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-un-idUSKCN1280VJ

Syria Headline:    Russia to create permanent naval base in Syria

Russia intends to establish a permanent naval base on the site of an existing facility it leases at the Syrian port of Tartus, Russian Deputy Defence Minister Nikolai Pankov said on Monday, Russian news agencies reported. Pankov’s statement is the latest sign that Moscow wants to expand its military footprint in Syria where it has been helping President Bashar al-Assad fight rebels since 2015. Moscow last week deployed S-300 surface-to air missiles to Tartus. “We will have a permanent naval base at Tartus,” Pankov told Russian senators. “The necessary documents are already prepared and are in the process of being approved by different agencies. We hope we can ask you to ratify these documents soon.” Senator Igor Morozov told the RIA news agency that the decision would allow Russia to operate more ships in the Mediterranean as they would have an enhanced facility at which they could refuel and resupply. “By doing this Russia is not only increasing its military potential in Syria but in the entire Middle East and in the Mediterranean region as a whole,” said Morozov. Russia already has a permanent air base at Hmeymim in Syria’s Latakia province from which it launches air strikes against anti-Assad rebels.
Oct. 10, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/10/10/Russia-to-create-permanent-naval-base-in-Syria-s-Tartus.html

Syria Headline:  Syrian Forces Push Through Rebel-Held Eastern Aleppo

Syrian government forces continued their offensive on rebel-held eastern Aleppo, after the U.N. Security Council failed to pass a resolution Saturday on a truce to end the deadly bombing of the city. Regime forces and their allies were advancing street by street in the eastern sector of Aleppo, which had been out of government control since 2012, the British-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that regime forces took control of the Jandul crossroads in the northeast of the city. The Observatory said 290 civilians have died in artillery bombardment of eastern districts and 50 civilians have died in rebel bombardment of regime-controlled western districts in the past two weeks. The Damascus daily newspaper Al-Watan, which is close to the government, said the latest advance is aiming to clear the way for “a crucial and decisive land offensive.”
Oct. 9, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/syrian-forces-push-through-rebel-held-eastern-aleppo/3543079.html

Syria Headline:    Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe

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

Iraq Headline:          D-day looms for Mosul battle but questions remain

More than two years after the fall of Mosul to the Islamic State, the battle to liberate Iraq’s second-largest city appears imminent. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in September that he expected the military offensive in Mosul to begin in October, al­though in later pronouncements he said he would decide at “the last minute” when to give the go-ahead. British Defense Secretary Mi­chael Fallon said the operation to liberate Mosul would begin “within weeks” and French De­fense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said, “There will soon be the main attack.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the military of­fensive would begin Oct. 19. Iraqi officials said they expected the liberation to be swift and un­complicated. Observers, however, said they fear complications during and af­ter the liberation of Mosul. Reports from Mosul indicate that IS has tightened its grip on the ci­vilian population it is holding hos­tage in the city and is not expected to leave without bloodshed, boo­by traps and “tunnels of fire.”
Oct. 10, 2016

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/10/10/D-day-looms-for-Mosul-battle-but-questions-remain/1001476100953/

Kurdish Headline:  18 People Killed in Car Bomb Attack in Southeastern Turkey

Ten Turkish soldiers and eight civilians were killed Sunday when suspected Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb outside a military checkpoint in Hakkari province in southeast Turkey. Another 26 people, 10 soldiers and 16 civilians, were injured. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party for the suicide attack that detonated five tons of explosives. “Unfortunately in Semdinli, in Hakkari [province], we have martyrs as a result of a suicide bombing attack by the vile terrorist organization,” he said, referring to the PKK, Kurdistan Workers’ Party. “We have citizens from the civilian population who have lost their lives.As of now, 10 of our soldiers have been martyred and and eight civilians.” The mid-morning attack occurred when a small truck approached the vehicle checkpoint and ignored an order to stop, prompting troops to open fire, authorities said. The explosion left a crater 15 meters wide and 7 meters deep.
Oct. 9, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/turkey-car-bomb-attack/3542977.html

Turkey

Headline:    Russia-Turkey thaw? Putin, Erdogan sign gas pipeline deal

Headline:  Putin opens Russian market to Turkish ‘partners’

Headline:     Russians and Saudis Pledge Joint Effort to Limit Oil Production

Turkey and Russia on Monday signed a deal to build a gas pipeline from Russia as the two countries pressed ahead with efforts to normalize ties. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan watched as their countries’ energy ministers sealed an intergovernmental agreement for the “Turkish Stream” project that would bring gas from Russia to Turkey. It would then be distributed to European Union nations. The project, which had previously been suspended amid tensions between the two countries, was signed on the sidelines of the World Energy Congress. In other steps aimed at restoring ties, Putin announced that Russia had agreed to a natural gas discount to Turkey and would resume importing fruit, vegetables and other agricultural goods from the country. The two countries would intensify defense contacts and also look into cooperation in space technologies. Russia is building Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, and Erdogan said the sides agreed to accelerate the project. “I am convinced that the process of normalization of our ties will continue rapidly,” Erdogan told reporters during a joint news conference. “Our relations will (improve) in many fields, be it in defense industry, political, economic, trade, tourism or culture.” “We will make up for lost time in the coming days,” Erdogan said.
Oct. 10, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/10/putin-erdogan-to-meet-at-energy-summit-in-istanbul.html

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/10/10/Putin-arrives-in-Turkey-to-hold-talks-with-Erdogan-.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-10/russians-and-saudis-pledge-joint-effort-to-limit-oil-production

Afghanistan

Headline:     Afghan Taliban launch large-scale attack on Helmand; suicide blast kills 14

Headline:     Thousands flee pitched battles in Afghanistan’s Kunduz

A suicide car bombing killed 14 people, including 10 Afghan police officers, as the Taliban launched a large-scale attack Monday on the capital in southern Helmand province, the heartland of the insurgency. Since the beginning of this year’s fighting season, the Taliban have expanded their footprint across most of the province and have been at the gates of the city of Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, for weeks. According to Haji Marjan, police chief of Nad Ali district who has been deployed to the city, the explosion happened around 11.30 a.m., after the Taliban earlier targeted police checkpoints across Lashkar Gah. Marjan said at least 10 police officers, including his brother, and four civilians died in the bombing in the Mukhtar area of police district 2. He warned the death toll was likely to rise as it was unclear how many people remain unaccounted for after the explosion. A doctor at the city’s international emergency hospital said 14 bodies were brought to the clinic. Speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media, the physician said 15 wounded were also brought in, including 14 victims of the car bombing and one person who suffered gunshot wounds. |
Oct. 10, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/10/afghan-taliban-launch-large-scale-attack-on-helmand-suicide-blast-kills-14.html

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/asia/2016/10/10/Thousands-flee-pitched-battles-in-Afghanistan-s-Kunduz.html

Ethiopia

Headline:        Ethiopia declares state of emergency amid protests

Ethiopia has declared a state of emergency following months of anti-government protests by members of the country’s two largest ethnic groups. The Oromo and the Amhara make up about 60% of the population. They complain power is held by a tiny Tigrean elite. Violence has intensified since last Sunday when at least 55 people were killed in clashes between police and protesters at an Oromo festival. Hundreds have died in months of protests, human rights groups say. Tens of thousands have also been detained, they say. Declaring the state of emergency, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said in a televised address: “We put our citizens’ safety first. Besides, we want to put an end to the damage that is being carried out against infrastructure projects, education institutions, health centres, administration and justice buildings.” The state of emergency will last for six months.
Oct. 9, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37600225

Sudan

Headline:  South Sudan says rebels kill 21 civilians in ambush

Rebels attacked trucks carrying civilians in South Sudan, killing 21 people, the government said, as violence between rival forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his former vice president risks dragging the country back into civil war. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said in a statement on Monday it had received reports of horrific violence being perpetrated against civilians in Central Equatorial State and urged both rebel and government commanders to control their forces. The government said on Monday 21 civilians were killed, some burned to death, and about 20 wounded when rebel gunmen ambushed their vehicles on a road connecting Yei town, in Central Equatorial State, to the capital Juba on Saturday. Jacob Lem Chan, a local government official, said four trucks were ambushed and victims were burned and shot at. “These are SPLA-IO force … who laid the ambush,” Chan said, referring to former vice president Riek Machar’s rebel movement. “We have confirmed 21 dead, and about 20 casualties were admitted in the hospital,” Chan said, adding one truck was burnt with victims inside.
Oct. 10, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southsudan-security-idUSKCN12A17N

http://www.voanews.com/a/south-sudan-ambush/3543905.html

Libya

Headline:  Libyan forces push into last ISIS area in Sirte

Libyan pro-government forces are advancing into the last area controlled by ISIS in the coastal city of Sirte, surrounding the militants after a five-month campaign backed by US air strikes, military officials say. At least eight pro-government fighters were killed over the weekend as their forces pushed into the 600 block, an area in central Sirte, with snipers and boobytraps posing the main obstacles to their advance, the officials said. A Reuters reporter on the ground said forces advanced across two streets on Sunday, but were facing resistance and discovering explosive devices in many buildings. The advance is being led by the Bonyan Marsous forces, mainly fighters from the city of Misrata, who are supporting a United Nations-backed unity government in Tripoli that is trying to bring together rival factions. “The forces of Bonyan Marsous made some advances and completely trapped the 600 block area in Sirte,” Misrata forces media official Ali Almabrouk said. Mohamed Ghasri, a spokesman for pro-government forces, said two female militants had escaped with their three children and surrendered. They told Misrata forces they did not want to be used in suicide attacks, Ghasri said. The fall of a major city to one of the country’s most powerful factions is rekindling tensions with rival brigades in the east, led by Khalifa Haftar, who has rejected the authority of the UN-backed government in Tripoli. In a major advance, Haftar has taken control of eastern oil ports and his troops have advanced close to Sirte. Many in the west of Libya believe Haftar is planning to establish himself as a military strongman like Gaddafi. His backers in the east see him as the only one who has fought for their interests, especially against Islamist militants.
Oct. 10, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/10/10/Libyan-forces-push-into-last-ISIS-area-in-Sirte.html

Morocco

Headline:  Islamists beat liberals in Morocco elections

Headline:  Islamist Benkirane tasked to form new Morocco government

The Islamist party which has headed Morocco’s coalition government since Arab Spring-inspired protests five years ago has beaten liberal rivals in parliamentary elections, results showed Saturday. Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane’s Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) took 125 seats out of 395, the interior ministry said after all ballots were counted. Its main rival, the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), which had campaigned against the “Islamisation” of Moroccan society, won 102 seats, the ministry said. Istiqlal, the party which historically fought for independence from France, came third with 45 seats. In any case, the real power will remain in the hands of King Mohammed VI, the scion of a monarchy that has ruled the North African country for 350 years. Interior Minister Mohamed Hassad said that the election was “transparent” and had gone well, rejecting accusations of voter fraud from both sides.
Oct. 10, 2016

https://www.yahoo.com/news/islamists-win-morocco-parliamentary-elections-provisional-results-011355834.html

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/africa/2016/10/10/Islamist-Benkirane-tasked-to-form-new-Morocco-government.html

Luke 21:9-10
Matthew 24:6-7
Mark 13:7-8
Revelation 6:4
Revelation 6:8

Headline:     ‘Hell broke out:’ South African police, students clash

One of South Africa’s top universities descended into violence on Monday, with police firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon at stone-throwing students who are locked in a bitter national dispute with administrators and the government over demonstrators’ demands for free education. Stun grenades boomed and gunshots crackled as police cleared protesters at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, the most prominent site of a student movement that recently shut other universities and prompted official warnings that badly needed medics, engineers and other skilled workers might not be able to graduate this year.
Oct. 10, 2016

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4865425,00.html

Headline:   US troops in Kuwait came under ‘terrorist’ attack: embassy

A collision between a truck driven by an Egyptian and a vehicle carrying three US soldiers in Kuwait was a “terrorist attack,” not an accident as first thought, the embassy confirmed Sunday. “US Embassy in Kuwait confirms that what at first appeared to be a routine traffic accident involving three deployed US military personnel… was in fact an attempted terrorist attack,” the mission said in a statement posted on its website. The statement said the attack took place on Thursday and that the US soldiers escaped unhurt. The soldiers also rescued the Egyptian driver when his truck caught fire, it said. The Kuwaiti interior ministry said on Saturday that authorities arrested the Egyptian driver and found with him a hand-written note in which he had pledged allegiance to the Daesh terrorist group.
Oct. 9, 2016

http://www.arabnews.com/node/995786/middle-east

Headline:     Kashmir unrest prompts India’s biggest crackdown in decades

Headline:  Indian Troops Battle Suspected Rebels in Kashmir

Anxious to quell anti-India protests in Kashmir, Indian forces are carrying out their most severe crackdown in more than two decades against civilian protesters, arresting more than 8,000 this summer across the disputed Himalayan territory, police said Monday. That includes 450 or so civilians being held, possibly for up to six months without trial, under a harsh security law criticized as a human-rights violation. India has said the separatist rebels – and civilians who help them – are undermining the country’s territorial integrity and forcing authorities to keep the India-controlled portion of Kashmir under tight control. “This is, so far, the biggest crackdown against miscreants,” said a senior police officer, requesting anonymity because he was not authorized to share details of the crackdown.
Oct. 10, 2016

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4865396,00.html

http://www.voanews.com/a/ap-indian-troops-battle-suspected-rebels-in-kashmir/3543792.html

Headline:  Nine police officers killed in attacks in Myanmar

Nine police officers were killed and four wounded when a group of 90 assailants raided a police station and others attacked a border control post in western Myanmar, near the border with Bangladesh. State officials said they believed the assailants were members of the Muslim minority in the state of Rakhine, where the attacks took place Sunday. There are more than 1 million members of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic group living in the state. Most have been denied citizenship in Myanmar, formerly Burma, and Myanmar has refused to recognize them as an ethnic group, insisting they are ethnic Bengalis. The attacks began early Sunday morning when the group of 90 men stormed the police station in Maungdow Township, killing six police officers, wounding two others, and seizing a large number of weapons. One police officer was killed and two wounded in a second attack, taking place at the same time, on a police border patrol camp in Rathidaung Township. Two more police officers were killed and one missing after a third attack a couple of hours later in Buthidaung Township. Seven of the attackers were reportedly killed in that attack.
Oct. 10, 2016

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/10/10/Nine-police-officers-killed-in-attacks-in-Myanmar/9051476119438/?spt=sec&or=tn

Headline:      Russia deploys nuclear-capable missiles in Kaliningrad

Russia has deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in its western-most region, Kaliningrad, which borders on Nato members Poland and Lithuania. Poland said the development was of the “highest concern”, adding it was monitoring the situation. Russia’s defence ministry said the new deployment was part of military exercises and had happened before. The US and Nato have seen disagreements with Russia intensify in recent times, particularly over Syria and Ukraine. Kaliningrad is a Russian enclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania. The Iskander system has a range of up to 700km (440 miles) and could reach the German capital, Berlin. Polish Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz called Russia’s activities “very alarming”. And a US intelligence official told Reuters the move could be to express displeasure at Nato. Nato is boosting its eastern flank by deploying four battalions in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia next year.
Oct. 9, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37597075

Headline:     Report: Japan to deploy enhanced patrol boats to deter Chinese vessels

Japan is implementing stricter measures against Chinese fishing boats that may enter Japanese territorial waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands. Tokyo plans to deploy nine patrol vessels from November to 2018, and to quadruple existing manpower and equipment for monitoring, Japanese television network NHK reported Monday. According to the Japanese coast guard, the number of Chinese boats in violation of maritime law has increased. The coast guard said in 2015 it counted 99 boats in Japan-claimed waters. In 2016, that number increased to 135 boats that were occupying 70 percent of total fishing areas.
Oct. 10, 2016

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/10/10/Report-Japan-to-deploy-enhanced-patrol-boats-to-deter-Chinese-vessels/9331476124548/?spt=sec&or=tn

Headline: Nearly 7 in 10 Americans have less than $1,000 in savings

The U.S. is often referred to as the land of economic opportunity. Apparently, it’s also the land of consumption and “spend everything you’ve got.” We don’t have to look far for confirmation that Americans are generally poor savers. Every month the St. Louis Federal Reserve releases data on personal household savings rates. In July 2016, the personal savings rate was just 5.7%. Comparatively, personal savings rates in the U.S. 50 years ago were double where they are today, and nearly all developed countries have a higher personal savings rate than the United States. In other words, Americans are saving less of their income than they should be — the recommendation is to save between 10% and 15% of your annual income — and they’re being forced to do more with less in terms of investing. However, new data emerged this week from personal-finance news website GoBankingRates that shows just how dire Americans’ savings habits really are. Last year, GoBankingRates surveyed more than 5,000 Americans only to uncover that 62% of them had less than $1,000 in savings. Last month GoBankingRates again posed the question to Americans of how much they had in their savings account, only this time it asked 7,052 people. The result? Nearly seven in 10 Americans (69%) had less than $1,000 in their savings account.
Oct. 9, 2016

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2016/10/09/savings-study/91083712/

Headline:  China must wean itself off debt addiction if it is to avoid financial calamity, warns IMF chief

China is edging towards “financial calamity” and must wean itself off its debt addiction and reform if it is to avoid a crisis, the International Monetary Fund has warned. Markus Rodlauer, deputy director of the IMF’s Asia-Pacific department, said the world’s second largest economy was approaching a tipping point where its rapidly growing financial sector and surge in shadow credit could undermine the state’s ability to contain the fallout from a crash. “The level of financial and corporate debt and the complexity of the financial system and rapid growth in shadow banking is on an unsustainable path,” he said. “While still manageable in its size given the size of the public assets under public control, the trend is dangerous and if it’s not corrected it will lead to a correction. “The longer it lasts … the more serious the disturbance and the disruption might be. [The reaction could range] from a mild growth slowdown, to a sharp slowdown in growth to potentially a financial crisis.” Data show credit and financial sector leverage in China has continued to rise much faster than economic growth. The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook said debt in China was rising at a “dangerous pace”, while its Financial Stability Report showed small Chinese banks were heavily exposed to shadow credit as a share of capital buffers, with exposure reaching nearly 600pc at some banks.
Oct. 9, 2016

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/09/china-must-wean-itself-off-debt-addiction-if-it-is-to-avoid-fina/

Headline:  Bees placed on endangered species list — a first in the US 10-1

In a first for bees in the nation, seven bee species native to Hawaii are now protected under the Endangered Species Act. The US Fish and Wildlife Service said it added the yellow-faced bee species to the federal list of endangered species Friday night after years of research concluded they are under threat. The rule is effective October 31. Bees pollinate plants producing fruit, nuts and vegetables, and are crucial for the nation’s food industry. They have declined sharply in recent years due to various factors, including habitat loss, pesticides, wildfires and loss of genetic diversity. “Native pollinators in the US provide essential pollination services to agriculture which are valued at more than $9 billion annually,” said Eric Lee-Mäder, pollinator program co-director at the Xerces Society, which was involved in petitions calling for the protection of the bee species. During pollination, insects, birds and bats transfer pollen between plants, which allows them to make seeds and reproduce. Listing the bees allows authorities to provide recovery programs and get funding for protection.
Oct. 1, 2016

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/01/us/hawaii-bee-species-endangered/

Headline:  Believe it or not, the bees are doing just fine

You’ve probably heard the bad news by now that bees were recently added to the endangered species list for the first time. But if you’re part of the 60 percent of people who share stories without actually reading them, you might have missed an important detail: namely, that the newly endangered bees are a handful of relatively obscure species who live only in Hawaii. The bees you’re more familiar with — the ones that buzz around your yard dipping into flowers, making honey, pollinating crops and generally keeping the world’s food supply from collapsing? Those bees are doing just fine, according to data released by the USDA this year. In 2015, there were 2.66 million commercial honey-producing bee colonies in the United States. That’s down slightly from the 2.74 million colonies in 2014, which represented a two-decade high. The number of commercial bee colonies is still significantly higher than it was in 2006, when colony collapse disorder — the mass die-offs that began afflicting U.S. honeybee colonies — was first documented.
Oct. 10, 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/10/believe-it-or-not-the-bees-are-doing-just-fine/

You’ll notice that there are 2 seemingly contradictory stories above.  The first you read scares you, then you read the 2^nd and feel better because – well after all- it IS only Hawaii. That’s ok.  That is exactly what the Post story is meant to do. Make you feel better (notice they began by talking about the 60% who don’t read the story & you instantly feel guilty?).

It’s meant to distract you.  To make you stop worrying about bees dying and in turn NOT worry about food disappearing.  Most of us day to day only think about food (the having and getting) in terms of money, not bees (see today’s story in Economy).  So what is the big deal?

Well ANY bee dying is noteworthy.  God created them ALL for a specific purpose and we understand- food or not- bees are essential to the planet.  Any ‘peace’ about this event should come from God alone, not the Post.  It IS a problem (see ETRM bee archive).  We can face it because God has told us in Zephaniah this would happen, so Christians are more prepared.  God has this- He knows.  The entire point being: search for peace no longer on this earth.  The only true peace comes from Yeshua.

Headline:        Arkansas Investigates Mumps Outbreak With More Than 400 Possible Cases

The Arkansas Department of Health is investigating a mumps outbreak that may have infected hundreds of people. A total of 427 suspected cases of mumps are being investigated in the state, with the majority of them children, the department reported on Friday. More than 30 schools in the state have reported one or more student contracting the mumps virus. The health department is requiring any student with a MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine exemption to stay home for at least 26 days if they were exposed to the mumps virus. If students get the MMR vaccine, they will be able to return to school immediately.
Oct. 10, 2016

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/arkansas-investigates-mumps-outbreak-400-cases/story?id=42700322

Headline:  Young couples are holding ‘vasectomy parties’ to celebrate the start of a childless family, and ask guests to name their CAR instead

Call it a sign of the times. More couples these days want to avoid parenthood and embrace life without children. So some are marking the start of their childless families with ‘vasectomy parties.’ One couple posted a Reddit bulletin announcing that they were inviting friends to revel in the fun of being sterilized. The invitation calls on attendees to live it up in ‘a house filled with sharp furniture and exposed outlets,’ the Sun reported. Instead of the traditional baby shower, couples also invite friends to ‘car showers’ where guests help them name their new car. They also play board games like The Price Is Right, where they talk about what they can buy now that they’ve saved money by not having kids. ‘Absolutely brilliant!,’ one Reddit user replied. ‘Made me LOL, especially the wording on the invitation, the clever cake, and the advent calendar! Congratulations, by the way and have a happy childfree life!’ ‘All a baby shower is a party to celebrate that you had sex,’ wrote another user. ‘That a sperm managed to hit a fertile egg. A vasectomy shower is a party to celebrate soon to be sex.’ The trend has become so pronounced that one couple posted a blog that they proudly named ‘WereNotHavingABaby.com.’ ‘After six years of having looked forward to becoming a caring and all-out stimulating and dynamic mother at some indeterminate point in the near future, I suddenly realised that this wasn’t the only possible narrative for my life,’ one woman known as Stefani posted on the blog. ‘I had swallowed the motherhood mandate hook, line, and sinker and I had never given myself the space and time to question whether I really, really want children.’ ‘Our society is all about celebrating traditional milestones,’ Amy Blackstone, one of the blog’s authors, told the New York Post. ‘You graduate, you get married, you have a child. But that’s a very narrow path and isn’t indicative of many people’s experiences.’ ‘So why not decide to celebrate your choice to not have a child?’
Oct. 10, 2016

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3829664/Forget-baby-showers-Young-couples-celebrate-childless-families-vasectomy-parties.html

Matthew 24:7
Luke 21:11
Luke 21:25 

Headline:       Hurricane Matthew Leaves Trail of Devastation With at Least 26 Dead Across 5 Southern States

Headline:     Haiti death toll tops 1,000 in Hurricane Matthew’s devastating wake

Hurricane Matthew brutalized the Southeast coast for four days before weakening and veering out over the Atlantic Ocean Sunday, leaving a trail of devastation with at least 26 dead, over 1 million homes and businesses without power today and billions of dollars in damage. Matthew wreaked havoc in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia before it was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone Sunday as it headed east over the Atlantic. The death toll spans all five states: at least 10 people were killed in North Carolina, eight people including a 9-year-old boy died in Florida, four died in Georgia, three were killed in South Carolina and one died in Virginia. The storm brought winds of up to 100 mph, as much as 15 inches of rain and powerful storm surges of up to 9 feet to some areas.
Oct. 10, 2016

http://abcnews.go.com/US/hurricane-matthew-numbers-state-multibillion-dollar-disaster-leaves/story?id=42696096

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/haiti-hurricane-cholera-destruction-matthew-1.3798697

~click the photo to see ALL the maps of the large earthquakes for the current year~

Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes~Click the shaking house~

email address: endtimesresearchministry@yahoo.com

 Bible prophecy documentary book download proving our generation will see the return of the Lord. Do you want to know what is going to happen in the future before it actually takes place? The Word of God provides you with specific details about our future and all of these things are coming to pass in this generation. If you aren’t saved yet this is a must read! the-last-chronicles-of-planet-earth-october-6-2016-edition-written-by-frank-dimora

~to get everyone used to the new format please be sure to click photos for full explanation~

Headline:   NY Times: UN Security Council should set Israeli-Palestinian peace terms

The New York Times, in an unusual move, has called on the United Nations Security Council to set the parameters for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
“The best idea under discussion now would be to have the United Nations Security Council, in an official resolution, lay down guidelines for a peace agreement covering such issues as Israel’s security, the future of Jerusalem, the fate of Palestinian refugees and borders for both states,” the paper’s Editorial Board stated. The paper’s editorial, published Thursday, further called on US President Barack Obama to lead the charge at the UNSC. “The most plausible pressure would come from Mr. Obama’s leading the Security Council to put its authority behind a resolution to support a two-state solution and offer the outlines of what that could be. “That may seem like a bureaucratic response unlikely to change anything, but it is the kind of political pressure Mr. Netanyahu abhors and has been working assiduously to prevent,” the New York Times wrote. It issued its editorial just one week before the United Nations Security Council on October 14th is due to hold a public debate, known as an Arria Formula meeting, on Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and Jewish building in east Jerusalem.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/NY-Times-UN-Security-Council-should-set-Israeli-Palestinian-peace-terms-469647

Headline:  UN Security Council to discuss ‘settlements’

The UN Security Council will hold a special meeting next week on Israeli construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem, Haaretz reported Thursday. The Arria Formula meeting will not involve a vote and is expected to be open to the media, according to the newspaper. Foreign Ministry officials in Jerusalem fear it will turn into an international demonstration of condemnation of the Israeli government’s policy and set the stage for an “anti-settlement resolution” in the Security Council after the upcoming U.S. elections. The meeting will be held on October 14 at the behest of Egypt, Venezuela, Malaysia, Senegal and Angola, with a push from the Palestinians. Arria Formula meetings allow all council members to initiate debates on subjects of specific interest to them. While attendance is not mandatory, Jerusalem officials told Haaretz they believe all Security Council members will attend the meeting, stressing that the Palestinians and the host nations succeeded in exceptional fashion to open the session to the press.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/218714

Headline:      Rocket fired at western Negev towns

Warning sirens were sounded Thursday afternoon in western Negev towns near Gaza. Residents reported hearing explosions shortly after the sirens were activated. An IDF spokesperson later stated that the explosions appear to have been from rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel that landed in an unpopulated area not far from Eshkol Regional Council communities in the area. No injuries have been reported. The IDF is conducting searches in the area to verify the cause of the explosion and ensure that no unexploded material remains at the site.
Oct. 6, 2016

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/218688

Headline:     IDF responds to mortar shelling with artillery fire on Hamas targets in Gaza

Headline:     Israel not seeking escalation but will respond strongly to attacks: minister

IDF artillery shelled positions and facilities of the military wing of Hamas in northern and central Gaza on Thursday afternoon in response to a mortar attack on the Eshkol Regional Council area earlier in the day. The mortar strike did not cause any damage or injuries. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday evening at a ceremony in Tel Aviv that Israel is not interested in escalating the situation in the south, and that “The country has a responsible and level-headed leadership that is determined to defend the citizens of Israel. Shooting from the territory of the Gaza Strip towards Israel will be met with a strong response.”
Oct. 6, 2016

http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/18415/Israel-not-seeking-escalation-but-will-respond-strongly-to-attacks-minister

http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/18411/IDF-responds-to-mortar-shelling-with-artillery-fire-on-Hamas-targets-in-Gaza

Headline:      Ghajar residents planned to carry out attack using weapons they smuggled from Hezbollah in Lebanon

Six people were charged Thursday for planning to carry out a terror attack in the northern Israeli city of Haifa using explosives they received from the Lebanese-based militant group Hezbollah, the Shin Bet security service said. Three brothers and a cousin are among the defendants, who are all residents of the village of Ghajar, an Alawite-Arab village on the Hasbani River on the border between Lebanon and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Israel Police said that along with the Shin Bet it had prevented a terrorist attack after revealing the infrastructure that was used as a route to smuggle drugs and weapons from the Lebanese border into Israel. “An investigation began in late July after a farmer found a bag containing two explosive devices in an open area off Highway 90 near the northern town of Metulla,” police said. The explosive devices were examined by the police and it was revealed that the origin of the bag was from the other side of the border, which indicated that Hezbollah was involved. Part of the investigation showed that the bag had been smuggled from Lebanon by a number of suspects from Ghajar. All of the suspects are currently in custody, and on Thursday they were indicted of the following crimes: espionage, aiding the enemy during war, import and export of weapons, contacting a foreign agent and drug dealing.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/127146-161006-israeli-security-forces-thwart-hezbollah-linked-terror-attack-in-haifa

Syria Headline:      Russia posts provocative tweet warning US on Syria, mocking Earnest

Syria Headline:    Russia’s troop presence in Syria now officially open-ended

Syria Headline:     UN to vote on Aleppo truce, face Russian veto

The Russian government is ratcheting up warnings – on Twitter – to the U.S. government not to interfere with its military operations in Syria, even suggesting American aircraft could be targeted by its “air defense systems.” In a provocative tweet Wednesday, the Russian embassy in Washington posted a side-by side photo of White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest and the Russian S-300 missile system. With the military apparatus pointed toward the image of Earnest, a caption says Russia wants the system because they “never really know what kind of assistance terrorists might get.” The tweet says Russia will take “every defensive measure necessary” to protect their personnel in Syria. The tweet comes after the U.S. and Russia suspended direct talks over Syria operations — and amid heightened tensions between the two countries over the bloody civil war in which Vladimir Putin’s forces are backing Bashar Assad while the U.S. tries to focus on taking out ISIS.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/06/russia-posts-provocative-tweet-warning-us-on-syria-mocking-earnest.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-duma-treaty-syria-russian-troops-rift-with-us-assad-grows/

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/2016/10/07/UN-to-vote-on-Aleppo-truce-face-Russian-veto.html

Syria Headline:  German official calls for sanctions against Russia over Syria

Syria Headline:     Kerry Calls for War Crimes Probe Into Russian Activity in Syria

German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Russia on Friday to use its influence with the Syrian government to end the devastating bombardment of Aleppo, as her government opened the door to possible sanctions against Russia for its role in the conflict. In some of her harshest comments to date, Merkel said there was no basis in international law for bombing hospitals and Moscow should use its influence with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end the bombing of civilians. “Russia has a lot of influence on Assad. We must end these atrocious crimes,” Merkel told party members in Magdeburg. She did not address sanctions directly, but said the international community needed to do all it could to bring about a halt in the fighting and get supplies to civilians. Merkel’s chief spokesman Steffen Seibert, speaking at a regular news conference, declined to rule out possible sanctions against Russia for its part in the conflict, but said Berlin’s top priority remained a ceasefire to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to the civilian population. Seibert said Western officials discussed the Syrian conflict in Berlin on Wednesday and those discussions were continuing.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-germany-idUSKCN1270O7

http://www.voanews.com/a/kerry-calls-for-war-crimes-probe-into-russian-activity-in-syria/3541086.html

Syria Headline:    Syria opposition calls for UN envoy to resign

Syria Headline:     Syrian Jihadists rebuff UN envoy’s proposal to leave Aleppo under escort

The Syrian Interim Government has called on Staffan de Mistura to step down, saying that the UN envoy has sided with the Bashar al-Assad regime’s narrative on the critical situation in Aleppo. “We demand the resignation of the UN’s envoy [to Syria]… and we declare that we have stopped all forms of communication and cooperation with him and his staff,” the political body, which was formed in 2013 by the Syrian National Coalition, announced in a statement. “Instead of condemning the aggression [against Aleppo], he sided with the story of the [regime] in Damascus and the Russian occupier,” the Interim Government said, claiming that de Mistura’s recent remarks “gave them justification to continue their aggression.” On Thursday, de Mistura offered to personally accompany all fighters from Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, the rebranded version of the Al-Nusra Front, from Aleppo, saying that the Islamist group was, in effect, holding “hostage” the civilian population of east Aleppo, which has come under intense aerial bombardment following the collapse of a US-Russia brokered cessation of hostilities in late September. The UN envoy’s proposal was predicated on his hope that the Syrian regime would cease bombarding the encircled rebel half of Aleppo if Jabhat Fatah al-Sham fighters left the city. De Mistura also warned that eastern Aleppo could be “totally destroyed” in the coming weeks if the regime shelling of the city continues.
Oct. 7, 2016

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/567413-syria-opposition-calls-for-un-envoy-to-resign

http://aranews.net/2016/10/syrian-jihadists-rebuff-un-envoy-proposal-leave-aleppo-escort/

Syria Headline:  Assad offers rebels amnesty if they surrender Aleppo

Syria Headline:  All eastern Aleppo hospitals reported to be damaged in attacks

Rebels holed up in Aleppo can leave with their families if they lay down their arms, President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday, vowing to press on with the assault on Syria’s largest city and recapture full control of the country. The offer of amnesty follows two weeks of the heaviest bombardment of the five-and-a-half-year civil war, which has killed hundreds of people trapped inside Aleppo’s rebel-held eastern sector and torpedoed a U.S.-backed peace initiative. Fighters have accepted similar government amnesty offers in other besieged areas in recent months, notably in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus that was under siege for years until rebels surrendered it in August. However, rebels said they had no plan to evacuate Aleppo, the last major urban area they control, and denounced the amnesty offer as a deception. “It’s impossible for the rebel groups to leave Aleppo because this would be a trick by the regime,” Zakaria Malahifji, a Turkey-based official for the Fastaqim group which is present in Aleppo, told Reuters. “Aleppo is not like other areas, it’s not possible for them to surrender.” Washington was also skeptical of government motives: “For them to suggest that somehow they’re now looking out for the interests of civilians is outrageous,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, citing the heavy civilian toll from air strikes and bombardment.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-idUSKCN126236

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4864042,00.html

Syria Headline:  Syrian Army fights off ISIS offensive at the gates of Palmyra

Just six months after the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) liberated Palmyra, Syrian government troops now find themselves under increased ISIS attacks as the Islamic State leadership hopes to recapture the ancient city and score a symbolic victory. On Friday morning, just a few kilometers southeast of Palmyra, SAA forces repelled an ISIS assault, destroyed two technicals (light vehicles) and inflicted approximately 10 casualties upon jihadist fighters at the Al-Talilah zone. Furthermore, Syrian government soldiers managed to kill an ISIS driver who unsuccessfully tried to reach a SAA checkpoint and detonate a car bomb at Qasr Al-Habr, south of Palmyra.
Oct. 7, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-fights-off-isis-offensive-gates-palmyra/

Syria Headline:    Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe

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

Iraq Headline:      Upset with Turkey, Iraq seeks UN Security Council session

Iraq Headline:    Turkish troops in Iraq are not invaders: Pentagon

Iraq Headline:    Iraq ready to battle occupying Turkish forces near ISIS-held Mosul

Iraq has requested an emergency UN Security Council session over the presence of Turkish troops in northern Iraq, a foreign ministry spokesman said Thursday, a development that highlights increasing tension between the two neighbours. Turkey, however, remained defiant, with Prime Minister Binali Yildirim vowing on Thursday to maintain Turkish troop presence “no matter what Baghdad says”. Turkey-Iraq relations became strained after Ankara sent troops late last year to the region of Bashiqa, northeast of Mosul, to train anti-Daesh fighters there — a move Baghdad labelled a “blatant violation” of its sovereignty. Iraq has demanded a Turkish withdrawal but Ankara has ignored the call.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://jordantimes.com/news/region/upset-turkey-iraq-seeks-un-security-council-session

http://aranews.net/2016/10/turkish-troops-iraq-not-invaders-pentagon/

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iraq-read-to-battle-occupying-turkish-forces-near-isis-held-mosul/

Iraq Headline:     Control of Terrain in Iraq: Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Iraq%20Blobby%20map%207%20OCT%202016.pdf

Kurdish Headline:  Kurdish group close to PKK claim Istanbul bombing: website

A radical Kurdish group with ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed responsibility on Friday for a motorbike bombing near an Istanbul police station. The claim by the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) for Thursday’s bombing came after Turkish police detained a suspected female militant from the PKK, who is believed to have perpetrated the bombing. At least 10 people were wounded when a bomb which authorities said was attached to a motorbike exploded in the Yenibosna district of Istanbul, close to the city’s main international airport. Television pictures showed several cars wrecked and glass scattered across the ground after the blast.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Oct-07/375587-kurdish-group-close-to-pkk-claim-istanbul-bombing-website.ashx

Kurdish Headline:  Turkey is reportedly restoring a railway leading into a Kurdish region of northwest Syria

Kurdish Headline:  EU report expresses concerns over increasing racist violence against Kurds in Turkey

A media outlet affiliated with the ruling Kurdish authorities in northern Syria has raised concerns over recent Turkish military activity across the border from a de-facto autonomous Kurdish region in the northwest of the war-torn country. In an article entitled “Unprecedented Turkish military movements along Afrin’s border,” the ANHA news agency claimed Thursday that Ankara was undertaking unusual maintenance work on a railway leading into Syria that has been out of service since 2012. Local sources in the Afrin Canton told ANHA that the Turkish military for the pays three days has been working to “restore” the railroad outside the Syrian border village of Meidan Ekbis, which was once one of the stops along the train routes that stretched from Istanbul to Damascus as well as Baghdad. Meanwhile, a source in Turkey said that the Turkish army “conducted full maintenance on the railway” running from the town of Islahiye,  adding that a “number of concrete panels” in a wall running across the railroad tracks were removed “at the border near the village of Meidan Ekbis.”
Oct. 6, 2016

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/567410-syria-kurds-worried-by-turkey-activity-along-afrin-border

http://aranews.net/2016/10/eu-report-expresses-concerns-increasing-racist-violence-kurds-turkey/

Kurdish Headline:  Kurdish security chief calls for deal on post-ISIS administration of Mosul

Masrour Barzani, the Chancellor of the Kurdistan Region Security Council, said on Wednesday that a post-ISIS management deal for Mosul should be completed “before it’s too late.” The Kurdish security chief, met with the US Deputy Head of Mission in Baghdad Stephanie Williams on Wednesday to discuss Iraq’s challenges ahead of major offensives planned against ISIS in Hawija and Mosul. After the meeting, Barzani warned of future problems in Mosul. “[We] must contextualize Iraq’s war as part of ethnic, religious and political differences, and address root-causes of problems to win the peace,” Barzani said. “Problems will resurface once Mosul’s liberated. It’s easier to reach a post-management deal now whilst the parties need each other.” Barzani’s statement indicates that although a military plan might be ready for Mosul, there is no concrete plan yet for the post-ISIS administration of the city.
Oct. 6, 2016

http://aranews.net/2016/10/kurdish-security-chief-calls-for-deal-on-post-isis-administration-of-mosul/

Turkey

Headline:   Turkey, Europe, Saudi Arabia in joint effort against JASTA: Minister

Headline:  Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA)

The Turkish government is working with Saudi Arabia to examine measures to face the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), that was voted in by the US Congress last month, Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper has reported. In an interview with the Saudi newspaper, Turkish Development Minister, Lutfi Elvan, said his country was looking at the legalities to respond to the controversial JASTA legislation, through the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and with the support of some European countries, the report added. “We cannot accept this law, which contradicts international principles and values,” Elvan told the newspaper, adding that a whole country “cannot be accused of terrorism because of some attempts perpetrated by terrorists during the events of September 11, 2001.” Elvan pledged Turkey’s support for Saudi Arabia on the matter, and said such a law would directly harm the United States. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he added, had already described JASTA as a big mistake and announced his support to the Kingdom. The Turkish minister said he believed Saudi and turkey were targeted because they both supported peace and ‘contribute to the establishment of security and stability in the region’ the report added. Elvan has been in Saudi where he arrived earlier in the week on an official visit, the newspaper added.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/2016/10/07/Turkey-reveals-joint-effort-with-Europe-against-JASTA.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Against_Sponsors_of_Terrorism_Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2040

Afghanistan

Headline:       Afghan forces still struggling to push Taliban out of Kunduz

Headline:    Army Base Attacked In Kandahar’s Maiwand District

Afghan officials say the Taliban are still managing to hold out in the northern city of Kunduz as fighting there continues for the fifth day since the insurgents launched an all-out assault. Gen. Qasim Jungalbagh, provincial police chief, said on Friday that government forces advanced overnight, pushing Taliban insurgents from residential areas in the east and west. Jungalbagh says five members of the security forces were killed and another seven wounded. He says three civilians were also killed. The head of the provincial council, Mohammad Yusouf Ayubi, says people are continuing to leave for neighboring provinces. The U.N.’s humanitarian agency has warned of a looming humanitarian crisis as food and water run short. The attack began Monday, a year after the insurgents overran the city.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AFGHANISTAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-10-07-04-22-48

http://www.tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/27672-army-base-attacked-in-kandahars-maiwand-district

Ethiopia

Headline:         Ethiopian protesters attack factories in Africa’s rising economic star

Protesters in Ethiopia damaged almost a dozen mostly foreign-owned factories and flower farms and destroyed scores of vehicles this week, adding economic casualties to a rising death toll in a wave of unrest over land grabs and rights. The violence has cast a shadow over a nation where a state-led industrial drive has created one of Africa’s fastest growing economies, but where the government has also faced rising international criticism and popular opposition to its authoritarian approach to development. The flare-up followed the death of at least 55 people in a stampede on Sunday when police fired tear gas and shot into the air to disperse demonstrators in the Oromiya region near the capital. It raises to more than 450 the number of people rights groups and opponents say have been killed in unrest since 2015. A U.S. researcher was killed on Tuesday when her car was attacked by stone-throwers near Addis Ababa.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-unrest-idUSKCN1270MX

Luke 21:9-10
Matthew 24:6-7
Mark 13:7-8
Revelation 6:4
Revelation 6:8

Headline:      At least 22 Niger soldiers killed in attack on refugee camp

Headline:    Suspected jihadists attack Nigerien refugee camp

At least 22 soldiers were killed in Niger on Thursday when unknown assailants attacked a camp for Malian refugees, the West African nation’s Prime Minister Brigi Rafini said. The attack targeted a camp in the village of Tassalit in Niger’s Tahoua region, around 525 km (326 miles) northeast of the capital Niamey. “We received information of an attack on the camp in Tassalit. For the moment we are told there are 22 dead, but that is not a total death toll,” he said in comments broadcast on state-run television TeleSahel. “The death toll could increase.” Rafini gave no further information concerning the suspected identities of the attackers or whether any civilians had been killed or wounded. Niger’s small army is currently battling Boko Haram militants who launch raids across its southern border from Nigeria while seeking to prevent an overflow of attacks from Mali.
***Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to ISIS
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-niger-attacks-idUSKCN1262KM

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/10/suspected-jihadists-attack-niger-refugee-camp.php

Headline:  2 Bombs hit train in southwestern Pakistan, killing 6 people

Two bombs struck a passenger train minutes apart in southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding 19, officials said. The first bomb exploded on the train and the second device, which was planted on the railway track, struck the moving train near the village of Mach in Baluchistan province, according to railways official Tufail Ahmad and local police official Mohammad Sajid. Ahmad said the train was heading to the garrison city of Rawalpindi in the eastern province of Punjab from Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan, at the time. He said the casualties were taken to nearby hospitals and that some of the wounded were in critical condition.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/07/2-bombs-hit-train-in-southwestern-pakistan-killing-6-people.html

Headline:     Germany moves to run its own EU army – leaving both Brussels & NATO in new crisis

Despite Britain’s move to block an EU army, a growing number of experts believe a recent German defense paper shows Berlin has ambitions to run an EU army, and has a plan to cut through Brussels red tape and create one by itself. But at what cost to NATO? While EU defense ministers openly discuss with NATO chiefs how to create an EU army, many might think the haste for the EU to go ahead with such a grandiose plan stems from its own credibility being at an all-time low in the wake of Brexit. For EU federalists in Brussels, there is indeed some truth in this. But Brussels is also worried about being left behind or dwarfed by Germany’s own plans which would leave the EU in a weak position to negotiate who gets to call the shots in an official EU army, when it is finally created. And the EU has good reason to worry. Germany is impatient and is looking to position itself as the military leader of a coalition of EU countries which would no longer take orders from NATO, but also would not necessarily even be part of an official EU army.
Oct. 7, 2016

https://www.rt.com/op-edge/361832-eu-army-nato-germany/

Headline:       Philippines tells US no joint patrols in South China Sea

The Philippine defense chief said Friday he told the US military that plans for joint patrols and naval exercises in the disputed South China Sea have been put on hold, the first concrete break in defense cooperation after months of increasingly strident comments by the country’s new president. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana also said that 107 US troops involved in operating surveillance drones against Muslim militants would be asked to leave the southern part of the country once the Philippines acquires those intelligence-gathering capabilities in the near future. According to Lorenzana, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who in recent weeks has become increasingly outspoken and hostile against the US, also wants to halt the 28 military exercises that are carried out with US forces each year. Duterte has said he wants an ongoing US-Philippine amphibious beach landing exercise to be the last in his six-year presidency, as he backs away from what he views as too much dependence on the US. “This year would be the last,” Duterte said of military exercises involving the Americans in a speech on Friday.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4864027,00.html

The Coming One world government & religion

Revelation 17:3-8
Revelation 17:12-13
Revelation 17:18
Daniel 7:24-25a
Daniel 2:36-44

Headline:   Facebook is talking to the White House about giving you ‘free’ Internet. Here’s why that may be controversial.

Facebook has been in talks for months with U.S. government officials and wireless carriers with an eye toward unveiling an American version of an app that has caused controversy abroad, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The social media giant is trying to determine how to roll out its program, known as Free Basics, in the United States without triggering the regulatory scrutiny that effectively killed a version of the app in India earlier this year. If Facebook succeeds with its U.S. agenda for Free Basics — which has not been previously reported — it would mark a major victory for the company as it seeks to connect millions more to the Web, and to its own platform.
***research this carefully please; the below article never mentioned the fact that Free Basics is listed under the ICANWiki page.  This is the same ICAN  that the US government just gave up control of the Internet to. See ETRM 10-3 post
Oct. 7, 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/06/facebook-is-talking-to-the-white-house-about-giving-you-free-internet-heres-why-that-may-be-controversial/

https://icannwiki.com/Free_Basics

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/10/03/us-government-no-longer-controls-internet.html

https://www.icann.org/

Headline: Debt Under Obama Up $9,000,000,000,000

The federal government passed a fiscal milestone on the first business day of fiscal 2017—which was Monday, Oct. 3—when the total federal debt accumulated during the presidency of Barack Obama topped $9,000,000,000,000 for the first time. On Jan. 20, 2009, when Obama was inaugurated, the total debt of the federal government was $10,626,877,048,913.08, according to data published by the U.S. Treasury. As of the close of business on Friday, Sept, 30, the last day of fiscal 2016, the total federal debt was $19,573,444,713,936.79. At that point, the total federal debt had increased under Obama by $8,946,567,665,023.71. On Monday, Oct. 3, the first business day of fiscal 2017, the total federal debt closed at $19,642,949,742,561.51. At that point, the debt had increased under Obama by $9,016,072,693,648.43 from the $10,626,877,048,913.08 it stood at on the day of Obama’s inauguration. As of the close of business, on Wednesday, Oct. 5—the latest day for which the Treasury has reported—the total federal debt was $19,663,411,497,797.40. That means that so far in Obama’s presidency, the federal debt has increased $9,036,534,448,884.32.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/debt-under-obama-9000000000000

Headline:  Pound-Dollar Parity Is Now a Possibility for Options Traders

What was close to unthinkable for the pound before the Brexit vote is now firmly on some traders’ minds. They’re betting sterling will tumble to parity with the dollar, a level unseen in the U.K. currency’s history. In recent days, a number of wagers were put on for a one-for-one exchange rate, according to Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. data. The pound, which had already been struggling this week amid growing talk of a so-called hard Brexit, plunged 6.1 percent in Asian hours on Friday to a 31-year low of $1.1841. The slump has made the possibility of a historic $1 level more real: a Bloomberg forecasting model, based on implied volatility, shows about a 7 percent chance of it happening within a year, compared with 3.2 percent yesterday.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-07/pound-dollar-parity-is-now-a-possibility-for-currency-traders

Matthew 24:7
Revelation 6:4
Revelation 6:8

 Headline:    UN: Emergency Hunger Levels Likely in Madagascar by Year-end

Hunger is expected to reach emergency levels by the end of the year in drought-hit southern Madagascar, where many families have already been forced to sell their homes or land, or migrate, the World Food Program (WFP) has warned. At least 1 million people need food and cash aid, and some 200,000 pregnant women and children under five need treatment for acute hunger, the U.N. agency said. Four out of nine districts in the southern tip of the country are likely to fall to emergency hunger levels by the end of the year, according to preliminary results of a food assessment carried by out by WFP and other agencies. The survey also showed that three more districts could follow unless swift action is taken. The districts are currently in phase three of a five-point scale used by food agencies, where five is famine.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/un-emergency-hunger-levels-likely-madagascar-year-end/3539979.html

Headline:      Venezuela doctors sound alarm on reported return of diphtheria

Venezuelan doctors on Thursday warned of a diphtheria outbreak in the crisis-stricken country, calling on the government to boost availability of scarce vaccines and antibiotics to stem the disease which local media and the opposition report has killed some two dozen people. Last seen in Venezuela in 1992, diphtheria has been spreading in the southern jungle state of Bolivar, according to a statement by two local public health associations on Thursday. “We’re very worried because there could be an epidemic in the rest of the country,” infectious disease specialist Doctor Ana Carvajal, one of the authors of the report, told Reuters. The statement said 17 people had died from diphtheria in Venezuela, citing local media. Opposition lawmaker and oncologist Jose Manuel Olivares earlier this week put the number at 22. Reuters could not independently confirm the reports.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/10/07/venezuela-doctors-sound-alarm-on-reported-return-diphtheria.html

Matthew 24:7
Luke 21:11
Luke 21:25 

Headline:    Hurricane Matthew: Haiti storm disaster kills hundreds

Headline:     Two million people in southeastern US ordered to flee from mega-storm

The death toll in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Matthew – the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade – has soared to more than 400, officials say. Some 50 people were reported killed in the town of Roche-a-Bateau alone. The nearby city of Jeremie saw 80% of its buildings levelled. In Sud province 30,000 homes were destroyed. Category Three Matthew, with sustained winds of 120mph (193km/h), is battering the coastline of the US state of Florida but has not yet made landfall. It remains unclear whether it will do so. At 11:00 local time (15:00 GMT) Matthew was hugging the Florida coast, about 35 miles east of Daytona Beach and moving north-west at about 13mph, the National Hurricane Center said.
Oct. 7, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37582009

http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/18413/Two-million-people-in-southeastern-US-ordered-to-flee-from-mega-storm

~click the photo to see ALL the maps of the large earthquakes for the current year~

Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes~Click the shaking house~

email address: endtimesresearchministry@yahoo.com

 Bible prophecy documentary book download proving our generation will see the return of the Lord. Do you want to know what is going to happen in the future before it actually takes place? The Word of God provides you with specific details about our future and all of these things are coming to pass in this generation. If you aren’t saved yet this is a must read! the-last-chronicles-of-planet-earth-october-6-2016-edition-written-by-frank-dimora

~to get everyone used to the new format please be sure to click photos for full explanation~

Headline:    Israeli Navy takes control of Zaytouna-Oliva flotilla

The Israel Navy took control of the Zaytouna-Oliva flotilla Wednesday which set sail from Barcelona in an attempt to breach the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. Commenting on how the incident unfolded, an IDF official said, “the flotilla was stopped without resistance 35 miles from the Israeli coast. There were 13 women aboard and the boat is on its way to Ashdod and will arrive within an hour.” The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit also released a statement on the matter. “In accordance with the decisions of the political leadership and after calls to the Zaytouna flotilla by the navy to stop, which were rejected, sailors from the Navy took control of the boat before it arrived at the Gaza Strip,” the statement read. “The process of taking control was short and resulted in no injuries. The response was implemented after many call to the sailors aboard the flotilla at various distances in the sea. After the sailors indicated that they had no intention to cooperate and to accept the offer to sail to Ashdod, the decision was taken to take control and to prevent it from breaching the legal naval blockade and to divert it to the Ashdod port,” the statement continued.
Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4863253,00.html

Headline:      U.S. Blasts Israel’s Plan for New West Bank Settlement, Says Netanyahu Broke His Word

The U.S. administration published an unusually harsh statement on Wednesday against a plan to build an alternative settlement for residents of the illegal outpost of Amona. The statement, signed by Mark Toner, deputy spokesman for the State Department, drew an unusual linkage between the signing of the defense aid agreement with Israel and criticism of settlement building. Toner stressed that the U.S. views advancement of the plan as a violation of a commitment by Netanyahu’s government not to establish any new settlements in the West Bank. The State Department’s statement comes against the backdrop of the Civil Administration Planning Commission’s decision last Wednesday to approve a plan for the construction of 98 housing units in the new settlement to be established next to the Shvut Rachel settlement.
Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.745959

Headline:    IAF strikes Hamas targets after Gazan rocket explodes on Sderot street

Headline:  Hamas warns it won’t ‘sit idly by’ as IDF planes strike Gaza

Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired a rocket at Sderot on Wednesday morning, setting off air raid sirens and narrowly missing homes. The rocket exploded in a road in the southern town, failing to cause physical injuries, but sending one local resident into shock. Police bomb squad members removed the remains of the projectile from the road, and paramedics treated the shock victim. Following the attack, an ISIS-linked Salafi jihadists in Gaza claimed responsibility. An online statement said the attack was part of the set “jihad against Jews,” and a response to the arrest by Hamas of five Salafi operatives in recent days. The Israel Air Force struck a number of Hamas terror targets in response on Wednesday, launching air strikes in northern and southern Gaza. An additional Hamas target was hit by IDF tank fire in northern Gaza earlier on Wednesday.
Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rocket-alert-sirens-activated-in-southern-Israel-469427

http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-warns-it-wont-sit-idly-by-as-idf-planes-strike-gaza/

Headline:    ‘Next Lebanon war just a matter of time’

A third war between Israel and Lebanon is just a matter of time, says Brigadier-General Resan Alian. Speaking to Channel 2’s Roni Daniel, Alian, a member of Israel’s Druze minority and a veteran of the Second Lebanon War, warned that another confrontation with Israel’s neighbor to the north was inevitable, adding that even outside forces, like the Hamas terror group, could spark fighting on Israel’s northern border. “Events on other fronts could also spark something,” said Alian. While he is stationed in the north, Alian emphasizes that events on Israel’s southern border have a tremendous impact. “A lot of things in Gaza are relevant to the Lebanese front: Understanding the enemy and who we are dealing with, his fighting techniques and tactics – things that [the enemy] learns and improves upon.” One way or another, he added, a third conflict with Lebanon “is just a matter of time.”
Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/218614

Lebanon

Headline:   Trouble in jihadist paradise as ISIS, Nusra go to war in east Lebanon

The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) and their former allies from Jabhat Al-Nusra clashed near the Syrian border on Tuesday, resulting in a flurry of skirmishes that accumulated a high death toll for both terrorist groups. According to local reports, ISIS carried out an attack against Jabhat Al-Nusra near the ‘Arsal Barrens on Tuesday; this prompted the aforementioned jihadist group to mount a counter-assault in order to beat back their former allies. While the terrorists were exchanging blows in the ‘Arsal Barrens, the Lebanese Army began to indiscriminately fire rockets and artillery shells at both forces. In addition to the Lebanese Army’s shelling, the Syrian Arab Air Force (SAAYF) reportedly carried out a few airstrikes along the Lebanese-Syrian border, forcing the terrorist groups to disperse after suffering numerous casualties.
Oct. 4, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/trouble-jihadist-paradise-isis-nusra-go-war-east-lebanon/

Saudi Arabia

Headline:  Saudi Arabia starts naval exercises in the Gulf

Headline: Iran tells Saudi navy vessels to avoid its waters

Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) warned Saudi naval vessels taking part in military exercises in the Gulf on Wednesday not to get close to Iranian waters, in a sign of heightened tensions between the two regional rivals. Saudi Arabia began naval war games including live fire exercises on Tuesday in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important oil route.
Oct. 5, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/10/04/Saudi-Arabia-says-starts-naval-exercises-in-Gulf.html

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4863109,00.html

Headline:     Houthi forces destroy 3 Saudi tanks in Najran

Houthi forces carried out a powerful assault in the Najran region of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, striking several of the Saudi-led Coalition’s positions around this desert area. According to Yemen-based Al-Masirah News Agency, the Houthi forces managed to destroy three Saudi tanks in the Najran region on Tuesday, while also killing several Coalition fighters in the process. Pictures from the attack were released by Hezbollah’s media wing, showing the Houthi forces using ATGMs (anti-tank guided missile) to destroy the Saudi tanks.
Oct. 5, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/houthi-forces-destroy-3-saudi-tanks-najran/

Egypt

Headline:   Sisi, Bashir sign partnership agreement,15 MoUs in high committee meetings

Headline:  Cairo declines to respond to Erdogan saying thaw with Egypt would be ‘unethical’

Headline:  Egypt, Russia stand against forceful regime change in Middle East: Parliament

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir signed a comprehensive partnership agreement on Wednesday in Cairo during bilateral high committee meetings, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported. Fifteen memoranda of understanding were also signed on the sidelines of the meetings in various fields including commerce, education, tourism, economy, transportation and agriculture. El-Sisi awarded the Sudanese president the Egyptian army’s Order of Honour Star for his participation with Sudanese army units in the 6 October War in 1973 and the War of Attrition after 1967. In opening remarks during the ceremony, El-Sisi said that “a comprehensive strategy between the two countries shall enhance cooperation and further progress in all fields.” He added that Egypt and Sudan face similar regional and international challenges, stressing the importance of cooperation to counter “extremism and terrorism.” This is the first time since 2011, when the committee was founded, that the two presidents have headed its meetings.
Oct. 5, 2016

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/245252/Egypt/Politics-/Sisi,-Bashir-sign-partnership-agreement,-MoUs-in-h.aspx

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/245159/Egypt/Politics-/Cairo-declines-to-respond-to-Erdogan-saying-thaw-w.aspx

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/245212/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt,-Russia-stand-against-forceful-regime-change.aspx

Syria Headline:     Russia deploys advanced anti-missile system to Syria for first time, US officials say

Syria Headline:    Russian Army to hold drills in Africa for first time

Russia has deployed an advanced anti-missile system to Syria for the first time, three US officials tell Fox News, the latest indication that Moscow continues to ramp up its military operations in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad. It comes after Russia’s actions led to the collapse of a cease-fire and the cut-off of direct talks with the U.S. While Moscow’s motives are not certain, officials say the new weapon system could potentially counter any American cruise missile attack in Syria. Components of the SA-23 Gladiator anti-missile and anti-aircraft system, which has a range of roughly 150 miles, arrived over the weekend “on the docks” of a Russian naval base along Syria’s Mediterranean coastal city of Tartus, two US officials said. It is the first time Russia has deployed the SA-23 system outside its borders, according to one Western official citing a recent intelligence assessment. The missiles and associated components are still in their crates and are not yet operational, according to the officials.
Oct. 4, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/04/russia-deploys-advanced-anti-missile-system-to-syria-for-first-time-us-officials-say.html

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/russian-army-hold-drills-africa-first-time/

 Syria Headline:    Pentagon paid PR firm $540 million to make fake terrorist videos

The Pentagon paid a UK PR firm half a billion dollars to create fake terrorist videos in Iraq in a secret propaganda campaign exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. PR firm Bell Pottinger, known for its array of controversial clients including the Saudi government and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s foundation, worked with the US military to create the propaganda in a secretive operation. The firm reported to the CIA, the National Security Council and the Pentagon on the project with a mandate to portray Al-Qaeda in a negative light and track suspected sympathizers. Both the White House and General David Petraeus, the former general who shared classified information with his mistress, signed off on the content produced by the agency. The Bell Pottinger operation started soon after the US invasion of Iraq and was tasked with promoting the“democratic elections” for the administration before moving on to more lucrative psychological and information operations. Former employee Martin Wells told the Bureau how he found himself working in Iraq after being hired as a video editor by Bell Pottinger. Within 48 hours, he was landing in Baghdad to edit content for secret“psychological operations” at Camp Victory. The firm created television ads showing Al-Qaeda in a negative light as well as creating content to look as though it had come from “Arabic TV”. Crews were sent out to film bombings with low quality video. The firm would then edit it to make it look like news footage. They would craft scripts for Arabic soap operas where characters would reject terrorism with happy consequences. The firm also created fake Al-Qaeda propaganda videos, which were then planted by the military in homes they raided. Employees were given specific instructions to create the videos. “We need to make this style of video and we’ve got to use Al-Qaeda’s footage,” Wells was told. “We need it to be 10 minutes long, and it needs to be in this file format, and we need to encode it in this manner.” The videos were created to play on Real Player which needs an internet connection to run. The CDs were embedded with a code linking to Google Analytics which allowed the military to track IP addresses that the videos were played on.
Oct. 4, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/pentagon-paid-pr-firm-540-million-make-fake-terrorist-videos/

https://www.rt.com/usa/361385-pentagon-pr-firm-terrorist-videos/

Syria Headline:    Obama administration considering strikes on Assad, again

U.S. military strikes against the Assad regime will be back on the table Wednesday at the White House, when top national security officials in the Obama administration are set to discuss options for the way forward in Syria. But there’s little prospect President Obama will ultimately approve them. Inside the national security agencies, meetings have been going on for weeks to consider new options to recommend to the president to address the ongoing crisis in Aleppo, where Syrian and Russian aircraft continue to perpetrate the deadliest bombing campaign the city has seen since the five-year-old civil war began. A meeting of the Principals Committee, which includes Cabinet-level officials, is scheduled for Wednesday. A meeting of the National Security Council, which could include the president, could come as early as this weekend. Last Wednesday, at a Deputies Committee meeting at the White House, officials from the State Department, the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff discussed limited military strikes against the regime as a means of forcing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to pay a cost for his violations of the cease-fire, disrupt his ability to continue committing war crimes against civilians in Aleppo, and raise the pressure on the regime to come back to the negotiating table in a serious way.
Oct. 4, 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2016/10/04/obama-administration-considering-strikes-on-assad-again/?__hsfp=723692783&__hssc=143095274.2.1475704856278&__hstc=143095274.419bf101b94600980355025df3599556.1475685185483.1475685185484.1475704856278.3

Syria Headline:    Dabiq close to COLLAPSE from US-led airstrikes at APOCALYPSE site

ISLAMIC State (ISIS) is close to collapse and may completely crumble as US-led coalition forces move in to bomb the key northern Syrian town of Dabiq, which Daesh believes will be the site of an almighty clash of civilisations. Warplanes have carried out bombing rads on the small town of Dabiq, where ISIS militants are desperately holding out despite the fierce onslaught. Dabiq is of great religious significance to ISIS as it is named in Islamic mythology as the site of an apocalyptic battle between Muslim and Christian armies. Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels captured new areas in Aleppo’s northern countryside earlier this week and the offensive on Dabiq could see the town fall within hours. A spokesman for the Syrian Turkmen rebels, who are involved in the fight to free the town from ISIS, said: “If Dabiq collapses, ISIS will also collapse.” Mostafa Sejari, from the FSA-linked al-Mutasim Brigade, said: “We expect that the battle of Dabiq will be the fiercest ever. “Daesh [ISIS] has brought hundreds of fighters into the area, including their special forces, to confront us. “Daesh has built its myth in Dabiq, exploiting the ignorance and lack of knowledge among people and taking advantage of history and religion to achieve its evil project. “By controlling Dabiq, we break the myth of Daesh and open a road to reach Marea. “Controlling Dabiq is just a matter of time, God willing.”
***see Turkey below
Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/717887/Dabiq-ISIS-flood-site-apocalypse-prophecy-fighters-jets-bomb-Syrian-town

Syria Headline:      Islamist rebels shell Russian embassy in Damascus

Russian Foreign Ministry said the Russian embassy in Damascus was shelled, today, from a nearby districts controlled by militant groups. The Embassy’s residential complex was partially damaged in the attack. No casualties reported. Two other mortar shells landed near the embassy building. “According to reports, the shelling came from the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, which is under control of the terrorist groups Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and Failak ar-Rahman,” the ministry said. Moscow said the shelling is “result of the actions of those who, like the US and some of its allies, provoke the continued bloodshed in Syria and flirt with militants and extremists of all flavors”, vowing to take “all necessary measures” to restore peace and security to Syria.
Oct. 4, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-islamist-rebels-shell-russian-embassy-damascus/

Syria Headline:  Large number of Syrian Army reinforcements arrive in Deir Ezzor

A large number of Syrian Arab Army (SAA) reinforcements arrived in Deir Ezzor on Tuesday after completing they completed basic training in rural Damascus. According to a military source from the 104th Airborne Brigade of the Republican Guard, the reinforcements were transported to Deir Ezzor via helicopter; these soldiers were then transferred to the 137th Brigade’s headquarters near Jabal Thardeh. As many as 10 helicopters flew these soldiers to Deir Ezzor on Tuesday, marking the first time since the U.S. Coalition’s bombing that reinforcements were sent to this volatile front in eastern Syria. In the coming days, ISIS is expected to launch another major attack on the Deir Ezzor Industrial District and Military Airport, as they look to tighten the siege on the provincial capital.
Oct. 5, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/large-number-syrian-army-reinforcements-arrive-deir-ezzor/

Syria Headline:     Syrian Army continues wide-scale offensive in West Ghouta

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) resumed their wide-scale offensive in the West Ghouta region of rural Damascus on Wednesday after repelling the counter-assault launched by the jihadist rebels last night. Led by the 7th Armored Division and the 42nd Brigade of the 4th Mechanized Division, the Syrian Armed Forces captured several farms surrounding the key town of Deir Khabiyeh, including the sites the jihadist rebels seized during last night’s assault. According to an Al-Masdar field correspondent in Damascus, the Syrian Armed Forces killed several enemy combatants from Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham (formerly Al-Nusra Front) and Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham, while also destroying 8 technical vehicles that were armed with a variety of anti-aircraft machine guns. As a result of their advance on Wednesday, the Syrian Armed Forces are now within 500 meters of Deir Khabiyeh, leaving the jihadist rebels with little room to breathe at the aforementioned town.
Oct. 5, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-continues-wide-scale-offensive-west-ghouta/

Syria Headline:    Suicide bombing kills 25+ civilians at Hasakah wedding

At least 30 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a Kurdish wedding in north-eastern Syria. The bomber blew himself up on Monday night at a hall in Tal Tawil, outside Hassakeh city, reportedly while the bride and groom were exchanging vows. There were conflicting reports about whether the groom was among the dead. So-called Islamic State said one of its militants had attacked a “large gathering” of Kurdish fighters with a machine-gun and and explosive vest. Syria’s official Sana news agency reported that 30 people were killed and 90 others wounded, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 31. The UK-based monitoring group said the groom, Zaradesht Mustafa Fatimi, was among those killed. One relative disputed the report, saying the groom was only lightly wounded but that his father and brother were both killed.
*** see Kurds below
Oct. 4, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/suicide-bombing-kills-25-civilians-hasakah-wedding/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37550119

Syria Headline:    Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe

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

Iraq Headline:    Turkey says it does not aim to be an occupier in Iraq

Iraq Headline:   Iraq, Turkey summon each other’s ambassadors in protest

Iraq Headline:    PMU hit back at Erdogan’s statement that Mosul should be Sunni-only after ISIS

Iraq Headline: ANALYSIS: Turkey, an occupying power or Iraq’s saviour from IS?

Turkey’s military presence in Iraq is intended for stability at a time when the country is deeply divided and Turkey does not aim to become an occupying force, Turkish deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Wednesday. Turkish forces are at Iraq’s Bashiqa camp, at the request of Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani, to train the local forces, Kurtulmus said. “Turkey will not allow this to become a matter of debate,” he told reporters. Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu ALSO said the Bashiqa camp in Iraq, at the centre of a dispute between the two neighbors, had been set up to train local forces in fight against ISIS and Baghdad knew it had been established. “Bashiqa camp was set up within the knowledge of Iraqi administration,” Cavusoglu told a news conference. “Baghdad officials have visited this camp and have even provided financial support to it in the past,” he said. Turkey and Iraq have summoned one other’s ambassadors in a mounting diplomatic stand-off after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned Turkey that it risked triggering a “regional war” by keeping troops in Iraqi territory. Iraq’s Foreign Ministry summoned Turkeys’ ambassador to Baghdad to condemn allegedly “provocative” comments made by Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday about the planned operation to dislodge ISIS militants from the northern city of Mosul, said the ministry’s spokesman, Ahmad Jamal. Yildrim told ruling party legislators in parliament that the Iraqi operation could spark Shiite-Sunni sectarian tensions if the majority Sunni region around Mosul were to be placed under Shiite militia control after the offensive. However, it is still unclear if the Shiite militias, the core of the Iraqi paramilitary forces battling ISIS, will take an essential part in the Mosul operation.
Oct. 5, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/10/05/Turkey-says-it-does-not-aim-to-be-an-occupier-in-Iraq.html

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iraq-turkey-summon-others-ambassadors-protest/

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/pmu-hit-back-erdogans-statement-mosul-sunni-isis/

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/analysis-turkey-iraq-kurds-1957820961

Iraq Headline:   Iraq Situation Report Sept 20- Oct 3, 2016

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/iraq%20SITREP%202016-10-03.pdf

Kurdish Headline:  Syrian Kurdish bloc calls for entry of Peshmerga after Hasakah’s deadly attack

Kurdish Headline:  Kurds call for protection from ISIS gas attack in upcoming Mosul offensive

After an ISIS-led deadly attack hit a Kurdish wedding in Hasakah city on Monday, the Kurdish National Council (KNC) asked for the return of 2,000 Syrian Kurds trained as Peshmerga forces in Iraqi Kurdistan. “This perfidious crime shows the importance to protect the Kurdish territories and the security of the people who are living here,” said Kamiran Hajo, chief of the KNC’s Foreign Relations Office. “The KNC is determined to establish this security and to intensify the fight against terrorism. Regarding this, it is indispensable to enable the return of the Peshmerga of Rojava to Syrian Kurdistan to prevent such horrible attacks on civil life,” he said. The Syrian Kurdish Peshmerga were trained by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Iraqi Kurdistan. “We demand the PYD [Democratic Union Party] to dismiss its claim of exclusive control in Rojava and to give the KNC the opportunity to apply its energies even more to protect the Kurdish territories in Syria,” the KNC official stated.
Oct. 5, 2016

http://aranews.net/2016/10/syrian-kurdish-bloc-calls-for-entry-of-peshmerga-after-hasakahs-deadly-attack/

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/kurds-call-protection-isis-gas-attack-upcoming-mosul-offensive/

Turkey

Headline:   Turkish troops clash with ISIS in Syria

A Turkish soldier was killed in northern Syria during a clash with Islamic State (ISIS) militants early on Wednesday. According to the Dogan News Agency the clash occurred in the village of Ziyara, which ISIS attacked and attempted to infiltrate. Three other Turkish soldiers were also wounded in that attack. The Turkish military said its forces killed 18 ISIS militants in the attack. The Turkish Army released a statement saying that Turkish warplanes targeted ISIS forces in the same area in support of its forces on the ground. Also on Wednesday, two Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters were killed fighting ISIS southwest of the border-town of Al-Rai in a separate incident. The killing of the Turkish soldier on Wednesday comes nearly a month after three Turkish soldiers were killed in Syria in early September when ISIS launched “a rocket attack” against two Turkish tanks near Al-Rai.
Oct. 5, 2016

http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/051020161

Headline:     Did Turkey abandon Aleppo to fight Syrian Kurds?

A rumored Turkish-Russian deal would give Ankara a free hand to deal with Kurdish groups in the north in exchange for cutting support to rebels in Syria’s second city. Developments on the ground in Syria indicate the possible blossoming of an agreement between Turkey and Russia over the conflict, illustrated by the changing priorities of the government in Ankara. The recent Turkish-led offensive against ISIS inside Syria was not met with any resistance by Russia or the Syrian regime, even though Turkey has been explicitly pro-opposition since the early stages of the revolution in 2011. The offensive was preceded by a Turkish-Russian rapprochement, which has been widely cited to explain Russia’s acquiescence to the military action. Similarly, the recent unprecedented attacks by the Syrian regime and Russia to capture rebel-held eastern Aleppo have not led to an increase in the support provided to rebel groups by their backers, namely Turkey. Although the details of this possible new alliance remain largely unknown, rumors are circulating about a behind-the-scenes agreement between Russia and Turkey that would allow the latter to intervene and check the power of Syrian Kurdish groups in the north in exchange for reducing their support for rebels fighting Assad in Aleppo.
Oct. 5, 2016

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/567401-did-turkey-abandon-aleppo-to-fight-the-syrian-kurds

Iran

Headline:  Report: Secret Obama deal freed up funding early for Iran missile program

The Obama administration forged a secret deal to lift sanctions on an Iranian bank that was a primary funding stream for the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program, a report said. The deal called for the immediate lifting of sanctions on Iran’s Bank Sepah – eight years before the sanctions were scheduled to be lifted under last summer’s nuclear deal, according to an Oct. 4 report by the Washington Free Beacon. The Treasury Department described Bank Sepah in 2007 as the “linchpin of Iran’s missile procurement.” A senior adviser to Congress told the Free Beacon that the Obama administration misled the public to avoid sparking outrage over its decision to drop sanctions on the top funder of Iran’s ballistic missile program. “The Obama administration couldn’t tell the American public that it had just unleashed Iran’s ballistic missile program as one part of an enormous ransom extracted by Iran,” the source said. “So instead they ran to friendly reporters to misleadingly boast about how successful their diplomacy was, while they were bribing Iran with billions of dollars and military concessions to stay at the table.” The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, described the administration’s move as putting Iran’s ballistic missile program “back in business.”
Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.worldtribune.com/report-secret-obama-deal-freed-up-funding-early-for-iran-missile-program/

Afghanistan

Headline:      US Military Conducts Airstrikes in Troubled Afghan City

Headline:  World powers pledge $15 bln for Afghanistan, EU seeks peace

Headline:  US Service Member Killed in Afghanistan

Headline:  Islamic State claims it killed US soldier in Afghanistan

The United States military says it conducted airstrikes in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz Wednesday to defend government forces who are battling resilient Taliban insurgents for a third day in a row. The fighting comes as key international and regional stakeholders met in Brussels on the sidelines of a conference and agreed to renew efforts to promote peace and reconciliation between the Afghan government and the Taliban. The NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan said Wednesday the Afghan government still controls Kunduz and there is sporadic fighting within the city as national security forces continue to secure the area. “U.S. forces today conducted two air engagements to defend friendly forces who were receiving enemy fire and continue to assist [Afghan partners] as needed,” the alliance said in a brief statement.
Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/us-military-conducts-airstrikes-in-afghan-city/3537529.html

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/asia/2016/10/05/World-powers-pledge-15-bln-for-Afghanistan-EU-seeks-peace.html

http://www.voanews.com/a/us-service-member-killed-in-afghanistan/3536445.html

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/10/islamic-state-claims-it-killed-us-soldier-in-afghanistan.php

Libya

Headline:      US hits Daesh positions in Libya as air war enters third month

US military aircraft pounded the Daesh terror group positions in the extremists former Libyan stronghold of Sirte over the weekend, as the US air campaign entered its third month, the Pentagon said on Monday. According to the US military’s Africa Command, US pilots conducted 20 air strikes on Sunday alone, most of them against “enemy fighting positions”. When the Pentagon announced its latest front in the war against Daesh on August 1, officials said the campaign to help local forces push the extremists from the coastal city of Sirte would likely be quick, taking “weeks, not months”. The military action followed a request by the UN-supported Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), and President Barack Obama’s administration has stressed that ongoing US involvement would be framed by the interim Libyan government’s needs.
Oct. 4, 2016

http://jordantimes.com/news/region/us-hits-daesh-positions-libya-air-war-enters-third-month

Morocco

Headline:  Polisario Front warns it’s closer to conflict with Morocco

The Polisario Front independence movement is warning that it is closer to resuming confrontation with Morocco over the disputed Western Sahara than to peace.  Ould Salek, the movement’s foreign relations chief, urgently appealed to the UN Security Council on Tuesday to hold the referendum on the future of Western Sahara promised in a 1991 cease-fire agreement with Morocco. He said “the situation remains very tense, very dangerous” in a buffer strip in southwestern Western Sahara where Moroccan security forces are facing Polisario Front fighters. “Anything can start the confrontation,” Salek warned.
***the Polisario Front is a rebel national liberation movement aiming to end Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara
Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4862918,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/04/polisario-front-warns-it-closer-to-conflict-with-morocco.html

Headline:    EU orders British press NOT to reveal when terrorists are Muslims

Headline:  U.S. top court denies Obama request to rehear major immigration case

A report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) found there was an increase in hate speech and racist violence in the UK from 2009 to March 2016. Blaming the press, ECRI Chair Christian Ahlund, said: “It is no coincidence that racist violence is on the rise in the UK at the same time as we see worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in the newspapers, online and even among politicians.” The report makes a whopping 23 recommendations to Theresa May’s Government for changes to criminal law, the freedom of the press, crime reporting and equality law. In a sweeping statement, he said: “The Brexit referendum seems to have led to a further rise in ‘anti-foreigner’ sentiment, making it even more important that the British authorities take the steps outlined in our report as a matter of priority.” The report lays into the British press and urges the government to “give more rigorous training” to reporters. In the 83-page report, the Commission said: “ECRI considers that, in light of the fact that Muslims are increasingly under the spotlight as a result of recent ISIS-related terrorist acts around the world, fuelling prejudice against Muslims shows a reckless disregard, not only for the dignity of the great majority of Muslims in the United Kingdom, but also for their safety.
Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/717627/free-speech-crackdown-EU-report-British-press-hate-crime-violence-terror

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/717146/Merkel-must-go-Germany-in-flames-Dresden-cars-torched-mosque-attack

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-immigration-idUSKCN1231FS

Luke 21:9-10
Matthew 24:6-7
Mark 13:7-8
Revelation 6:4
Revelation 6:8

Headline:       Ansar Dine claims series of attacks in northern Mali

Ansar Dine, a largely Tuareg front group for al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), has claimed credit for a series of attacks on UN forces yesterday near the town of Aguelhok in the Kidal Region. The strikes included two separate incidents of rocket and mortar shelling and ambushes using improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The first occurrence of shelling occurred with Grad rockets, which targeted the UN base in Aguelhok. The rockets did little damage, but it was reported that one vehicle was destroyed. After the shelling, a Chadian patrol team mounted a combing operation near the area where the shells were fired. Ansar Dine claims that when the Chadian troops were near the area, it ambushed the patrol with an IED. One peacekeeper was killed in the blast, while another died from his injuries later in the day. After the IED, an ambulance belonging to the Chadian contingent at Aguelhok was hit by another IED trying to make its way to the earlier patrol. As this was happening, mortars were again fired into the UN camp. Elsewhere in Mali, suspected jihadists targeted a Malian military checkpoint near Timbuktu today, leaving one soldier dead. Two civilians are also reported to have sustained injuries as a result of the assault. While no group has so far taken responsibility, the Timbuktu Region is the main area of operations for AQIM’s al Furqan Battalion, which is part of its Sahara Emirate.
Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/10/ansar-dine-claims-series-of-attacks-in-northern-mali.php

Headline:      ISIS appoints new Boko Haram leader to spearhead Islamist insurgency in Nigeria

The disputed leader of Boko Haram knows how to cheat death — and do it in style. After the Nigerian army declared him “fatally wounded” on Aug. 19, Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video last week to mock the government that has claimed to have killed him at least four times already. “To the despot Nigerian government: Die with envy. I’m not dead,” a man purporting to be Shekau says in the video. But if Shekau looks untouchable in the fight against the Nigerian army, he has proved much more vulnerable to threats from within his organization. Less than 18 months after he led Boko Haram into a high-profile partnership with the Islamic State, the Iraq- and Syria-based caliphate shunted him aside in favor of a new representative in Nigeria. In an interview published in the Islamic State’s propaganda magazine in August, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the son of the late Boko Haram founder Mohammed Yusuf, was named the new leader of Boko Haram.
Oct. 5, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/isis-appoints-new-boko-haram-leader-spearhead-islamist-insurgency-nigeria/

Headline:     ‘Merkel MUST GO’ Germany in FLAMES as furious locals torch cars and attack mosque

HUNDREDS of furious protesters heckled Angela Merkel in Dresden just days after police cars were set on fire in the city and bombs exploded outside a mosque. Campaigners jeered the German Chancellor as she attended celebrations in the eastern city to mark 26 years since Germany’s reunification. Holding placards reading “Merkel must go”, right-wing protesters also shouted the slogan as Merkel, who has faced criticism for her open-door refugee policy, and President Joachim Gauck arrived for the celebrations and greeted spectators. Graffiti declaring “All of Dresden hates the police” has been sprayed in a street near the scene of the arson. Dresden is the birthplace of the anti-Islam Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) group. The grassroots movement, whose weekly rallies attracted around 20,000 supporters at their height at the start of 2015 held a rally in the city today. Protesters blew whistles and shouted ‘Traitors’ and ‘Get out’ as the German Chancellor arrived in Dresden.
Oct. 4, 2016

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/717146/Merkel-must-go-Germany-in-flames-Dresden-cars-torched-mosque-attack

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/717627/free-speech-crackdown-EU-report-British-press-hate-crime-violence-terror

Headline:     Russia begins evacuation of FORTY MILLION PEOPLE in huge drill

Headline:  40 Million Russians To Take Part In “Nuclear Disaster” Drill, Days After US General Warns Of War With Moscow

The huge four-day “civil defence” drill has set alarm bells ringing in Washington and London, with tensions already high over disagreements in Syria. Following a breakdown in communication between the USA and Russia, the Kremlin has now organised the huge emergency practice drill – either as a show of force or something more sinister. The drill will prepare Russian citizens for “large natural and man-made disasters”, according to the country’s Ministery for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disaster. The ministry revealed 40 million civilians, 200,000 emergency rescuers and 50,000 units of equipment are involved in the war game, which is running from October 4 to October 7. A spokesman said in a statement: “The main goal of the drill is to practice organisation of management during civil defence events and emergency and fire management, to check preparedness of management bodies and forces of civil defence on all levels to respond to natural and man-made disasters and to take civil defence measures.” They explained the scheme would be divided into three stages: awareness, planning and evacuation.
Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/717446/russia-evacuate-40-million-people-emergency-drill-vladimir-putin-ww3

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-03/40-million-russians-take-part-radiation-disaster-drill-days-after-us-general-warns-w

Headline:  Two Russian bombers blast across Europe – causing FOUR countries to scramble fighter jets to intercept them

FOUR European countries were forced to scramble fighter jets after two Russian Blackjack bombers blasted across the continent, it has been revealed. The UK, Norway, France and Spain all intercepted the TU-160 planes as they made a daring flight from Norway to northern Spain and back. During the flight, the bombers swooped across the top of Scotland, before skirting the west coast of Ireland, completing their route near northern Spain. Spanish media has reported it is the furthest south such an operation has had to take place – while the frequency of Russian bombers being intercepted by Nato aircraft has significantly increased. Although the incident occurred on September 22, the full details only emerged following an statement from the French Ministry of Defence. According to the statement, the two bombers were first detected by Norway, which scrambled two F-16 jets to accompany them to the north of Scotland – where they were then intercepted by RAF Typhoon aircraft. French Rafale fighter planes then picked up the bombers after they skirted Ireland’s west coast, before Spain sent two F-18 jets to intercept the Russian planes north of Bilbao. The RAF has confirmed that the Russian jets did not enter UK airspace at any point.
Oct. 5, 2016

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1916672/panic-as-two-russian-bombers-blast-across-europe-causing-four-countries-to-scramble-fighter-jets-to-intercept-them/

Headline:    Mysterious paralysis-causing syndrome appears to be on the rise – CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating a dangerous health condition, acute flaccid myelitis, which appears to be on the rise with 50 new cases. The illness can cause temporary or permanent paralysis in severe cases. “We continue to receive reports of sporadic cases of Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). From January 1 to August 31, 2016, a total of 50 people in 24 states across the country were confirmed to have AFM,” said the CDC on Monday. “AFM is a rare illness that anyone can get. It affects a person’s nervous system, specifically the spinal cord. AFM can result from a variety of causes, including viral infections.” AFM causes damage that can result in temporary or permanent paralysis in severe cases. The CDC said the syndrome has a variety of causes, including enterovirus D68.
Oct. 5, 2016

https://www.rt.com/usa/361617-cdc-afm-acute-flaccid-myelitis/

Headline:      Mass protests make Polish govt reconsider blanket abortion ban

Nationwide demos staged by women in Poland against a proposal for a blanket abortion ban may have achieved their goal, with a Polish minister admitting the protests gave authorities some “food for thought.” “I’d like to reassure those who fear that abortions in Poland will be completely banned. The total abortion project certainly won’t pass. Abortions will stay in place for women who were raped or whose life or health is in danger,” Jaroslaw Gowin, Poland’s Minister of Science and Higher Education, said on Wednesday on Radio Koszalin, according to Polish Radio’s IAR news agency. The mass protest, dubbed “Black Monday,” saw some 100,000 women taking to the streets in various Polish cities, including Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw and others. The protests “gave us food for thought and certainly taught us humility,” Gowin said, also noting that the rallies couldn’t have gone unnoticed. The protesters included women who supported the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) in last October’s election, which is a worrying factor for the Polish government. “They could lose the two sections of the electorate that helped them succeed,” said Aleksander Smolar, a liberal political analyst with the Stefan Batory Foundation, according to Reuters. Nearly half of the country’s population supported Monday’s protests, an opinion poll carried out for the liberal OKO.press showed.
Oct. 5, 2016

https://www.rt.com/news/361715-poland-abortions-ban-reconsider/

Headline:    Christians fear displacement from Old City Damascus: activists

A Syrian Christian opposition group has voiced fears that the Bashar al-Assad regime is seeking to displace Christians from the historic center of Damascus, known popularly as the Old City. In a statement issued Sunday, the Syrian Christians for Peace warned of the “deliberate and systemic [efforts] to displace the remaining Christians from the Old City of Damascus.” The humanitarian organization—which seeks to challenge the narrative of Christian support for the regime—said that the government was purposely ruining the “security and moral” situation of Christian quarters in the Old City in a bid to “prompt [Christians] to sell their homes.” “The Syrian Christians for Peace condemns the deliberate disregard for the values and ethics of the Christian-majority areas of Damascus, especially in Bab Touma,” the statement also said. The Syrian Christians for Peace claimed that Christian residents have been complaining that their neighborhoods have transformed into “hotbeds of immorality,” in reference to the large number of bars and nightclubs opened in the past months in the residential areas, which the group said was “violating the sanctity and security” of the historic neighborhoods in central Damascus. The Syrian Christians for Peace called on “all Christian clergymen to take a firm stand against these practices and to stop favoring an authoritarian regime that killed more than half-a-million [people], displaced ten million and destroyed half the country.”
Oct. 5, 2016

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/567402-syria-regime-displacing-christians-from-central-damascus-activists

Matthew 24:7
Luke 21:11
Luke 21:25 

Headline:    Hurricane Matthew damage said the worst since 2010 earthquake

Headline:  Typhoon Chaba batters South Korea; 3 dead

A United Nations official said yesterday that Hurricane Matthew has created the biggest humanitarian crisis in Haiti since the devastating earthquake of January 2010. Deputy Special Representative for Haiti Mourad Wahba said in a statement that 10,000 people were forced from their homes into shelters and communications systems have been knocked out in the country’s hard-hit south-western peninsula. Wahba said officials have received reports of destroyed houses and overcrowded hospitals and shortages of fresh water. The hospital in the city of Les Cayes, he said, had its roof blown off. Damage appeared to be widespread, but because of poor communication, blocked roads and washed-out bridges the full extent of the damage was not immediately clear, nor was the number of deaths.
***ETRM has supported Pastor Josue in Haiti for years.  He was able to get us a message this morning on his Facebook page: Josue Michel  By the grace of God, our little village titanyen is safe. Please, pray for Haiti south, the hurricane give so much damage there

Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Hurricane-Matthew-damage-said-the-worst-since-2010-earthquake_76119

https://www.facebook.com/househopeorphanage/?fref=ts

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4863046,00.html

Headline:     Analysts reveal shock SUNSPOTS discovery

Analysis of the sun has revealed that there has been a sharp decrease in the amount of sunspots this year. Sunspots release solar flares and vast amounts of magnetic energy. For the fourth time this year, the sun has gone blank, which has led some experts to believe that a new Ice Age is on the horizon and could hit us by 2019. According to SpaceWeather.com, the occurrence of a spotless sun is going to become more regular. It said: “There will be lots of spotless suns. “At first, the blank stretches will be measured in days; later in weeks and months. “The current blank spell is the fourth such interval of 2016, so far.” Meteorologist Paul Dorian believes that this is indicative behaviour of an approaching Ice Age.
Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/717559/Earth-ICE-AGE-sun-goes-blank-sunspot

~click the photo to see ALL the maps of the large earthquakes for the current year~

Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes~Click the shaking house~

email address: endtimesresearchministry@yahoo.com

 Bible prophecy documentary book download proving our generation will see the return of the Lord. Do you want to know what is going to happen in the future before it actually takes place? The Word of God provides you with specific details about our future and all of these things are coming to pass in this generation. If you aren’t saved yet this is a must read!  The Last Chronicles of Planet Earth Sept. 27, 2016 Edition written by Frank Dimora

Headline: Backlash to World Economic Order Clouds Outlook at IMF Talks

Headline: Russia is hoarding gold at an alarming pace

Policy-making elites converge on Washington this week for meetings that epitomize a faith in globalization that’s at odds with the growing backlash against the inequities it creates. From Britain’s vote to leave the European Union to Donald Trump’s championing of “America First,” pressures are mounting to roll back the economic integration that has been a hallmark of gatherings of the IMF and World Bank for more than 70 years. Fed by stagnant wages and diminishing job security, the populist uprising threatens to depress a world economy that International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde says is already “weak and fragile.” The calls for less integration and more trade barriers also pose risks for elevated financial markets that remain susceptible to sudden swings in investor sentiment, as underscored by recent jitters over Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank AG’s financial health. “The backlash against globalization is manifesting itself in increased nationalistic sentiment, against the outside world and in favor of increasing isolation,” said Louis Kuijs, head of Asia economics at Oxford Economics in Hong Kong and a former IMF official. “If we lose consensus on what kind of a world we want to have, the world will probably be worse off.”
Oct. 5, 2016

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-04/existential-threat-to-world-order-confronts-elite-at-imf-meeting

http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-is-hoarding-gold-at-an-alarming-pace-2016-10

To answer the question asked of me about the  Baba Vanga prophecies, I want to make it very clear that anyone who tells you they know what is going to happen in the future better be pointing to what the Bible has to say because that is the only way to be safe in making predictions. If you tell people exactly what Jesus said you will be telling truth because Jesus cannot lie and those things which He says will come to pass as we have been seeing in our generation.  So many people have stated they know what is going to happen and over and over again those people have been proven to be false. Baba Vanga is a great example.  Keep in mind, the Bible is 100% on the mark with prophecy. On the flip side, if a person says a host of things over the years there is a chance that one or two of what is said may happen just by chance. As for the facts look at Baba’s predictions from 2010 to 2014 and you will see that nothing of what she said would happen actually happened.

Baba Predictions:

2010 – World War III. War will begin in November 2010 and end in October 2014. Will begin as usual, then nuclear will be used initially, and then chemical weapons. (FAILED)

2011 – As a result of the fallout of nuclear fallout in the northern hemisphere will not be any animals or vegetation. Then Muslims will wage war against chemical surviving Europeans. (NO NUKES AND NO FALL OUT PROPHECY (FAILED)

2014 – Most people will suffer skin cancer and other skin diseases (a consequence of chemical warfare) (FAILED)

Why people even listen to this crap is behind me but they do. Check out what Baba says for 2016 and on and, you will see her predictions are very general in nature. Not only that but, anyone who read the Bible knows what to look for so making a prediction based on the Bible but making it appear as if you are predicting an event is really not honest.  For example:

2016 – Europe almost lonely (empty).  

If you read the book of Daniel you know that the Europe will have trouble because God told Daniel in chapter 7 and 9 that would be the cause when the revived Roman Empire came back so, making a prediction that Europe almost lonely is nothing knew!

 2018 – New China becomes a world power. Developing countries in turn operated from exploiters. 

Anyone who has been watching China in the news can see how fast they are growing in power so predicting China’s rise has been a given for years.

2023 – A little bit of change in the Earth’s orbit.

Here again the God warns us about the Earth moving back and forth in the last days. Prophecy Sign: In Isaiah 24:20 God told Isaiah the following: “The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.” There is no question such a reeling can affect the Earth’s orbit. Looks like Baba read the Bible and made her own statement which made her look like a true prophet. However, since what most of what she stated already failed we know for sure she is not a true prophet of God. 

2025 – Europe still little settled.

Again, the above prediction is so general.

2028 – Creating a new energy source (probably a controlled thermonuclear reaction). Hunger is gradually being overcome. Launched a manned spacecraft to Venus.

Once again, people have been working on a new energy source involving thermonuclear reaction for years and I believe it is possible to get this type of new energy source. God told Daniel our generation who be known as the increase in knowledge generation so it stands to reason the chances of our generation getting this type of energy is very high. Every time someone sets a date that God has supposed to have revealed to someone that date comes and goes without that any fulfilled as what was supposed to happen on that date. I am sure the 2028 date will be added to that list.

2033 – The polar ice are melting. Greater levels of the oceans.

Jesus in the book of Revelation and in the gospels tells us over and over again in the last days there will be droughts, intense heat from the sun, and signs in the Sun, Moon, and Stars. Knowing what Jesus stated and knowing the heat is coming you don’t have to be some kind of great prophet to tell people the ice will melt and the waters will raise. What do you think the affects of intense heat from the Sun is going to do? Of course, melt polar ice and the waters rise! I went to Alaska to report on the ice melting and oceans raising years ago so I could put the facts in my prophecy book. Baba’s prophecy is already to late because it didn’t start in 2028 like she say, it has been going on now for the past 20-30 years.  

2076 – Classless Society (communism).

Baba once again could have read Revelation 13:16-17 which says,  ¹⁶ And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: ¹⁷ And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.  Anyone who read what Jesus said knows that a cashless society has to come to give the Antichrist world power so predicting it and taking credit for the prediction should all be given to Jesus Christ not someone who seems to have borrowed it from Jesus.

I want to jump to Baba’s 4509 prophecy – Getting to Know God. The man has finally been reached such a level of development that can communicate with God.

I want to close with Baba’s above statement. On one has to wait until 4509 to communicate with God. You can communicate with the Lord today if you want. The two most important types of communication are between man and God and between human beings. Communication is more than just our ability to talk, but also to listen. As we communicate with God, the first part of that communication is listening. God’s primary ways of communication with us are through the His Word (Romans 10:17) and by the Holy Spirit (John 14:26). God speaks to all believers through the vehicle of the Bible, which is all we need to equip us for the Christian life (2 Timothy 3:16). In order to fully understand God’s communication with us, we must be diligent to read, study, memorize and meditate on His Word. In short, stop listening to claims made by false prophets and start trusting what God is saying to you via His word from the Bible.