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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 September 14 2016 Edition written by Frank DiMora

Shimon Peres’s situation improves, but remains in serious condition

In an update to the press Wednesday afternoon at about 3:40pm, Prof. Yitzhak Kreiss, Director of Sheba Medical Center, said that the statesman’s condition had slightly improved, but warned that his condition was still very serious. They stated that he would remain in the neurological intensive care for the next 24 hours.
Sept. 14, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4854842,00.html

Headline:        U.S., Israel Sign Historic 10-year, $38-billion Military Aid Deal

The United States and Israel signed a defense aid agreement on Wednesday that promises Israel $38 billion over 10 years, from 2019 through 2028. “We affirm today the unbreakable bond between the United States and Israel,” U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice said at the Washington ceremony. “On behalf of President Obama, we are all thinking of and praying for President Shimon Peres, Israel’s national treasure,” Rice continued. “Since 2009, the U.S. provided almost $24 billion in military aid to Israel,” she said, adding that “we are proud that no other administration has done so much to enhance Israel’s security.” “We can’t know what will happen in the next 10 years, but we do know that the U.S. will always be there for Israel,” Rice said. Israel’s Acting National Security Adviser Jacob Nagel spoke after Rice, saying that “Israel does not take the military aid package for granted.” Senior U.S. administration officials told Haaretz that in the event of an emergency, such as a war, the United States would be prepared to consider increasing the budget for missile defense systems beyond what is promised in the agreement, as it has done in the past.
Sept. 14, 2016

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.742074

Headline:     IDF says Syria fired missiles at its jets, but denies claim aircraft was downed

The Syrian army claimed on Tuesday it had shot down an Israeli warplane and a drone after an Israeli attack on a regime position in southern Syria, state media reported. Syrian news agency SANA reported that President Bashar Assad’s forces shot down the Israeli aircraft in Syria after the IAF struck in the southern Quneitra countryside in response to a mortar exploding in the Golan Heights. The projectile’s landing in the Golan appeared to be spillover fire from fighting in Syria. In a rare response to a foreign report, the IDF on Tuesday denied that any of its aircraft had been downed, but said Syrian forces had fired two surface-to-air missiles after the Israeli strike Monday night on a Syrian position. However, the military said the missiles were nowhere near the vicinity of the Israel aircraft. The IDF added that all the Israeli jets had returned to base. On Monday evening, Syrian fire crossed into the northern Golan Heights as a nationwide ceasefire brokered by the US and Russia came into effect in the embattled country. In response, the Israeli air force attacked cannons belonging to the Syrian regime on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
Sept. 13, 2016

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Report-Syrian-army-claims-it-shot-down-Israeli-warplane-drone-467600

Headline:  Failed Syrian rebel drive spills shells on Golan

Headline:   Syrian Islamist factions threaten to attack Druze minority in Quneitra

The estimated eight shells spilling in as many days from the Syrian war onto the Golan – and the three Israeli air strikes in reprisal against Syrian army targets – are beginning to sound ominously like Israel’s longstanding automatic tit-for-tat-air-for-rockets relations with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip – never mind who fires them. The latest round occurred Wednesday night, Sept. 13, the day after a fragile truce was due to go into effect in the Syrian war. According to debkafile’s military sources, the Israeli air raid against a Syrian army artillery battery was misplaced. The shells came from the rebel side of the battle. At the same time, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman may have used the stray shells as a pretext to strike the Syrian position and get at the pro-Iranian Hizballah unit posted in the Quneitra area directly opposite Israel’s Golan border. As for the battle, our military sources report that the Syrian Al-Qaeda branch, the rebel Jabhat al Nusra, re-branded as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, launched it five days ago. The militia’s purpose was to create a land bridge between its forces deployed south of Quneitra and its units positioned to the north of the key town, by seizing Tel al-Ahmar from Syrian forces. In the heat of battle, rebel shells strayed across the border into the Golan. Israel’s relations with the various Syrian rebel groups holding positions or fighting near its borders have had their ups and downs. The main problem is that whenever the Druze villages in the vicinity – currently surrounded by rebel forces – are under threat, especially Al Khadar, their Syrian and Israeli leaders turn to Israel with a demand to intervene and save them. Israel has always resisted their pressure. Had the rebel militia been able to capture Tel al-Ahmar, just 5km from the Israeli border, it would have attained control of the strategic “Red Hills,” which command the main Syrian Golan town of Quneitra and the highway link from southern Syria to Damascus.
But the rebel offensive failed and cost the Al-Sham Front heavy casualties, some of whom were evacuated to Israel for medical treatment.
Sept. 14, 2016

http://debka.com/article/25660/Failed-Syrian-rebel-drive-spills-shells-on-Golan-

http://aranews.net/2016/09/syrian-islamist-factions-threaten-attack-druze-minority-quneitra/

Headline:   After strikes, Moscow signals Israel to lower flame on Golan

Headline:   Reinforcements from Sweida pour into the Golan Heights

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called on Tuesday for restraint on the Golan Heights amid increasing tensions along the Israeli-Syria frontier, as the IDF continued to target the Syrian regime in response to apparently errant cross-border mortar fire. Lavrov’s statement appeared aimed at Israel, whose jets on Tuesday hit Syrian army positions in two separate sorties after mortar shells from fighting in the civil war, which has recently intensified in the area, hit open areas in the Israeli Golan Heights. Lavrov defended the Syrian regime’s offensive to retake areas from the Fatah al-Shams Front rebel group — until recently known as the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front — which has led to the increase in fighting, some of which has bled into Israel. “There is the need to show restraint and not to allow any provocations in the Golan Heights,” Lavrov said, according to the Russian news agency Tass. Meanwhile, A massive convoy of reinforcements from the Al-Sweida Governorate arrived in the Golan Heights today after the jihadist rebels mobilized more fighters to launch a 4th offensive. According to a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) source, the government convoy was made up of fighters from the National Defense Forces (NDF), Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), Jaysh Al-Muwahiddeen (Druze militia), and the 5th Armored Division.
Sept. 14, 2016

http://www.timesofisrael.com/after-strikes-moscow-tells-israel-to-lower-flame-on-golan/

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/reinforcements-sweida-pour-golan-heights/

Headline:     ISIS snatches swaths of rebel territory

In a somewhat silent ten-day offensive, ISIS fighters have gradually retaken three hill tops from rebel factions in the mountainous terrain of eastern Qalamoun. Effectively, Jaish al-Islam and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) affiliated Ahmad al-Abdo brigade have lost control of Jabal Zubaydi, Tall Daba’a and Jabal al-Afa’i.
Sept. 14, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/isis-snatches-swaths-rebel-territory-northeast-damascus-map-update/

Minutes after the commencement of the Syrian ceasefire, the Islamist rebels including Hezbollah launched a new offensive in the Golan Heights region of the Al-Quneitra.  We have seen their quiet buildup over the last days.  On Sept. 12^th, the first of 8 shells landed in Israel, which immediately retaliated. Since then, Russia has asked Israel to “lower the flame” while Syrian reinforcements continue to pour into the Golan.  As you can see from the map above ISIS is toe to toe with the Syrians and rebels.  What role Israel will ultimately play remains to be seen. Could this be the beginning of Psalm 83?  Keep on the watch!!

Q: does the Bible say in any way that the third temple MUST be built upon where “we” all believe it should be?

A: No where in the bible that I know of clearly spells out exactly where the Third Temple will be built. What we know for sure is there was a first and second Temple and these Temples were in Jerusalem. Keep in mind, if in fact the first and second Temple were at the site where the Dome of the rock is it would make sense that is why Jesus told John not to measure the outer court as in Revelation 11:2 2 “But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.” Is it possible the Third Temple can be built right next to the Dome of the Rock? I would say yes. I say yes because maybe via some type of peace pact they could agree on having a Jewish Temple standing next to the Dome of the Rock. Maybe this will be part of the covenant that the Antichrist will confirm. Only God knows for sure. Let’s think about why Jesus said don’t measure the court. Is Jesus in fact showing us that the Third Temple will be built on the site where currently the Dome of the Rock is standing? I think so, why even mention the outer court if the Third Temple would be standing somewhere else? I have read that the Temple may be placed somewhere else and I provided you with a link that you can read. http://askelm.com/temple/t001211.htm . One thing I can tell you. If the Third Temple is built on the same site as the Dome or, on another site near it in Jerusalem does it really matter? It may matter to some because if the Third Temple can be built some where other than the Temple Mount area that would mean the Jews don’t have to wait to build it. In that case it would mean that the Antichrist is just about ready to be revealed. The main question one should be asking is, have you received Jesus as Lord yet so that you will not be blinded by the Antichrist when he does in fact stand in the Third Temple Jesus warned us about. Let us always keep our eyes focused on Jesus this way it won’t matter where the Third Temple is built. Remember Jesus died for us and we don’t have to have a Temple! Some day the Jews will see that the real Temple of Salvation was and still is Jesus Christ and, there is no need to kill any animals since Jesus died once for ALL!

“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! ² For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. ³ They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. ⁴ They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)

Saudi Arabia

Headline:    Three Qatari soldiers killed in Yemen

Headline:     Qatar sends 1,000 soldiers to Yemen

Qatar is the latest Gulf country to mobilize their forces to help the Saudi-led Coalition after four of their own soldiers were killed yesterday in Yemen. According to a report released by Al-Jazeera News today, approximately 1,000 Qatari soldiers, 200 armored vehicles, and 30 Apache helicopters were deployed to Yemen to participate in the Saudi-led aggression. “The troops are now reportedly heading to Yemen’s Maareb province, to join the Saudi-led coalition already fighting in the area,” Al-Jazeera added. More Qatari servicemen will be deployed to Yemen in the near future, the report concluded. The reason for the influx of Qatari soldiers is still unknown; however, it is likely to do with yesterday’s situation that involved several Qatari military personnel.
Sept. 14, 2016

http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/three-qatari-soldiers-killed-in-yemen

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/qatar-sends-1000-soldiers-yemen/

Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:         New details of Syria ceasefire deal outlined

Syria Headline:   Russia calls for 48-hour extension of Syria truce

The new Syria ceasefire is rich in detail on the mechanics of ending violence in Aleppo. It says little about how the United States and Russia will establish a new military partnership that is seen as key to the long-term sustainability of the deal. The agreement was reached last Friday after a marathon day of negotiations between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Underscoring the complexity of the new arrangement, even Kerry stumbled over some of the particulars while speaking shortly after the cease-fire came into effect Monday. Here are some details of the agreement, according to the US officials. They weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the still-confidential agreement and demanded anonymity.

• As of Monday, Assad’s government and opposition forces should have ceased all attacks with any weapons, including aerial bombardments, rockets, mortars and anti-tank guided missiles.
  • Sides cannot seek to acquire territory.
  • They should allow rapid, safe, unhindered and sustained humanitarian access to all people in need.
  • In cases when self-defense is required, proportionate force should be used.
  • Two checkpoints will be established on the key Aleppo artery of Castello Road. The Syrian Red Crescent will initially operate the checkpoints, with security of no more than 20 armed personnel. Security will be determined by mutual consent of government and opposition forces. The UN will monitor the personnel, physically or remotely.
  • Government forces must withdraw personnel, heavy weapons and other arms to different points away from Castello Road. In some places, tanks, artillery and mortars must be pulled back at least 3.5 kilometers, or just more than 2 miles. Elsewhere, soldiers with lighter weapons have to retreat at least 500 yards from the road. Other requirements concern crew-served machine guns and observation posts.
  • Opposition forces also must withdraw from the road, in many places equidistant or similar to the level of pullback by government forces. East of Castello Road, their withdrawal will depend on the action of Kurdish forces. If the Kurds retreat 500 yards, the opposition forces should do likewise. Other requirements concern heavy weapons, including infantry-fighting vehicles and tanks, and crew-served machine guns.
  • Opposition must make every effort to prevent al-Qaeda-linked militants from advancing into demilitarized areas.
  • All Syrians should be able to leave Aleppo on Castello Road, including opposition forces with their weapons. Fighters must coordinate with UN officials ahead of time.
  • The US and Russia will address violations of cease-fire.
  • The US and Russia will announce the establishment of their Joint Implementation Center after at least seven straight days of adherence to the cease-fire.
  • Preparatory work for the center should have started Monday, including information-sharing to delineate territories controlled by al-Qaeda-linked militants and those controlled by opposition groups. More comprehensive delineation occurs after the center is established.
  • Starting Monday, the US and Russia should have started developing actionable targets against ISIS and al-Qaeda-linked militants, so that strikes can start immediately after the center is established. Once the first strikes occur, all Syrian military air activities must be halted in agreed areas.
  • The US and Russia can each withdraw from the arrangement.

Sept. 14, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/09/14/New-details-of-Syria-cease-fire-deal-outlined.html

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Sep-14/371915-russia-calls-for-48-hour-extension-of-syria-truce.ashx

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

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

Iraq Headline:   WMD back in Iraq? Pentagon says U.S. planes destroyed ISIL’s chemical weapons facility

The Pentagon said U.S. warplanes eliminated a “significant chemical threat” to Iraqi civilians by bombing a complex of buildings near Mosul that Islamic State militants had converted from pharmaceutical manufacturing to chemical weapons production. Air Force Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigian, head of the U.S. Air Force Central Command in Iraq, told Pentagon reporters on September 13 that the target was an IS headquarters facility also used to produce lethal chemicals, possibly including chlorine and mustard gas. A United Nations investigation recently confirmed that IS has used mustard gas in Syria. Harrigian described the air strikes on September 12 as a large, well-planned operation that destroyed more than 50 targets at the site with a variety of U.S. warplanes, including Air Force B-52 bombers and Marine Corps F-18D attack planes. A total of 12 U.S. planes were used. Harrigian said the mission was part of a broader effort to cut off the Islamic State’s main sources of revenue, kill their leaders, and create “organizational dysfunction” in ways that will eliminate the group as a military threat in Iraq and Syria.
Sept. 14, 2016

http://www.worldtribune.com/wmd-back-in-iraq-pentagon-says-u-s-planes-destroyed-isils-chemical-weapons-facility/

Kurdish Headline:      Is a confrontation between Turkey and Syrian Kurds imminent?

Kurdish Headline:    Tensions Flare Between Turkey, Kurds Over Syria’s Manbij

The frequency and intensity of clashes looks set to rise as the two groups pursue similar objectives in northern Syria and come into contact along shared front lines. Turkish troops and special forces, backed by allied Syrian rebel groups, launched on August 24 the Euphrates Shield operation to liberate the strategic Syrian city of Jarablus on the border with Turkey from ISIS. Turkey’s president later vowed to press ahead with the military offensive until ISIS and Syrian Kurdish militias no longer posed a security threat to Turkey. As a result, military clashes erupted on August 27 between the Turkish coalition and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The indications that the SDF also intended to continue their military advance to connect the Kurdish-controlled western canton of Afrin to the Rojava region (also known as Western or Syrian Kurdistan) played a crucial role in pushing Turkey to launch the first ground military operation in Syria. Turkish officials insist that Kurdish forces should immediately withdraw east of the Euphrates River or face more attacks by Turkish forces. The US has been able to broker a ceasefire between Turkey and the SDF, which prevented the small clashes from becoming an all-out confrontation. However, as long as there is no solid agreement between Turkey and the Syrian Kurds on how to coexist together, the threat of future clashes will remain.
Sept. 14, 2016

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/567352-is-a-confrontation-between-turkey-and-syrian-kurds-imminent

http://www.voanews.com/a/turkey-kurds-ypg-manbij/3505519.html

Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above). 

Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.

Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.

Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.

Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Gomer is Eastern Turkey.

Beth Togarmah is Armenia.

Iran

Headline:      US official: Navy aircraft threatened with shoot down by Iran

Iran threatened to shoot down two US Navy aircraft over the weekend as they were flying just inside the Strait of Hormuz, a US defense official said. The EP-3 and P-8 planes were in international airspace but “near Iranian airspace.” The Iranians made three radio calls to the two planes warning them not to enter Iranian airspace and risk being shot down with surface-to-air missiles, the official said. “All three calls used threatening language,” the US defense official said. The US Navy crews knew they were flying “outside the known range of Iranian air defenses” and proceeded with their flight plans. The American crews “responded in an appropriate and calm manner,” the official said, adding that the crews identified their planes themselves as coalition aircraft flying in international airspace. The two planes — reconnaissance aircraft that routinely fly that flight pattern in the Strait of Hormuz — were on separate flight plans, but close to each other. Also, senior US military officials are trying to assess whether the number of incidents with the Iranians have increased or whether more incidents are simply being reported by US naval commanders in the region because of the sensitivity to Iranian incidents.
Sept. 13, 2016

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/12/politics/navy-aircraft-iran-shoot-down/

Afghanistan

Headline:       Rise of ISIS in Afghanistan is threat to Russia – Moscow

The rise of Islamic State in Afghanistan poses serious security concerns for Russia, Moscow has said, adding that Washington bears responsibility for the current chaos in the country. Moscow “is concerned over the rise of Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] in Afghanistan because it has far-reaching geopolitical consequences for Russian safety,” said Zamir Kabulov, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s director of the Second Asian Department in Afghanistan. Kabulov served as Russian envoy to Afghanistan in 2004-2009 and is currently a special representative of the Russian president on Afghanistan. Kabulov said that about 2,500 Islamic State combatants are currently in Afghanistan. “They [Islamic State] continue to recruit people and enhance their combat capabilities. If they are not restrained then the chances are that we will have to face an even more powerful force,” Kabulov said. The US bears responsibility for the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, he added.
Sept. 13, 2016

https://www.rt.com/news/359220-russia-afghanistan-us-isis/

Libya

Headline:     Libya unity rivals seize final port in ‘oil crescent’: military

Headline:   ISIS captures 3 checkpoints near Benghazi

Forces opposed to Libya’s unity government on Tuesday seized a fourth oil port, completing their takeover of vital installations in the North African country’s “oil crescent,” a military source said. Colonel Muftah al-Muqarief said his forces, who are loyal to controversial General Khalifa Haftar, seized the port of Brega “without any fighting,” after having already taken control of Ras Lanouf, Es-Sidra and Zuwaytina since Sunday. “The entire oil crescent region is now under our control,” Muqarief told AFP, referring to the area along Libya’s northern coast. The officer said Haftar’s forces took control of Brega – between Ras Lanouf and Zuwaytina – largely thanks to “mediation involving residents and town elders.” The loss of Brega would deal a fresh blow to the Government of National Accord which has been struggling to assert its authority.
Sept. 14, 2016

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Sep-13/371797-libya-unity-rivals-seize-final-port-in-oil-crescent-military.ashx

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/isis-captures-3-checkpoints-near-benghazi/

Headline:     White House plans to accept at least 110,000 refugees in 2017

The Obama administration plans to accept at least 110,000 refugees from around the world in fiscal year 2017. Secretary of State John F. Kerry briefed lawmakers Tuesday on the new goal, which is an increase from 85,000 in fiscal year 2016, and 70,000 in the previous three years. It represents a 57 percent increase in refugee arrivals since 2015, as ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere have spurred an exodus of migrants seeking asylum in Europe, Canada and other regions. A senior administration official, who asked for anonymity because the policy is not yet officially announced, “is consistent with our belief that all countries should do more to help the world’s most vulnerable people.” The official added that Kerry told lawmakers “that if it is possible to do more” in terms of accepting refugees, “we would.”
Sept. 14, 2016

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-house-plans-to-accept-at-least-110000-refugees-in-2017/ar-BBw8Kdp?li=BBnb7Kz

Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword.  Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions)   Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)

Headline:    Clash with Boko Haram in Niger kills five soldiers, 30 militants

Thirty members of Boko Haram and five Nigerien soldiers have been killed in fighting in the southeastern Diffa region of Niger, the defense ministry said in a statement late on Tuesday. The clash took place Monday near the village of Toumour, near Lake Chad and the Nigerian border, an area that has plagued by violence from the Islamist militant group and is under an extended state of emergency. Boko Haram took the nearby town of Bosso in early June, in an attack that killed 32 soldiers and was the deadliest Boko Haram assault in Niger since April 2015. Since then, Chad has sent troops to help Niger wage a counterattack. Fighting began on Monday morning when the army fell into an ambush, the statement said, adding that six soldiers were also injured and two militants were captured. “The Boko Haram fighters were trying to prevent people from praying to mark the feast of sacrifice,” said Laouan Boukar, a resident of Toumour, referring to the important Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha that was on Monday.
Sept. 14, 2016

http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN11K0X8

Headline:      Indian forces kill two protesters in Indian-controlled Kashmir

Two people have been killed in fresh clashes between Indian forces and pro-independence protesters in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Police on Tuesday used tear gas and shotgun pellets against the protesters in several areas including the city of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. A protester was killed by a tear gas canister in the northern area of Bandipora, while another demonstrator lost his life by pellets in Shopian in the south, police said. At least five dozen people were injured in fierce clashes in 10 different places across the disputed valley.  The protesters had defied a curfew imposed on the whole region during Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, which marks the culmination of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Most residents in Kashmir remained indoors for the Islamic ritual. Indian authorities did not allow congregational Eid prayers in the main mosques and Eid grounds in the Muslim-majority region, but prayers were held by people in small neighborhood mosques. Almost all businesses remained closed and traffic stayed off the streets across major towns of the valley. Authorities ordered restrictions on the movement of residents across the region. A large number of paramilitary troops and armed police in riot gear patrolled the deserted streets of many towns and villages across Kashmir.
Sept. 13, 2016

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/09/13/484497/India-protesters-Kashmir-Bandipora

Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8 ^“ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass Destruction Zechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”

Headline:         Sweden puts permanent troops on strategic island near Russia

The Swedish military has announced that troops training on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, not far from Russia, will remain there permanently. Officials said “external factors” prompted the order for some 150 soldiers to stay on the island. “The armed forces [now] … have joint permanent groups and troops on Gotland. Gotland is one of our military strategic areas in Sweden … Gotland needs … to increase their operational capacity, and allow troops to practice and work in the field,” the Swedish Armed Forces cited Supreme Commander Micael Byden as saying on its website. Byden later told Swedish broadcaster SVT that “external factors in the world have deteriorated over time and it means I have made a decision about a permanent presence and that we put the battle group here earlier.”  Some 150 soldiers currently training on Gotland received orders on Wednesday morning to remain on the island. “We have to look realistically at the situation in the world. The armed forces are now taking their responsibility, and demonstrating that with increased military capability we are taking responsibility for the country’s sovereignty,” Byden added. Earlier, the Swedish Armed Forces said that “until the battle group is in place, units from different parts of Sweden will be stationed and operate on and around the island.” The last permanent troops left the island back in 2005, the ministry said, adding that Sweden had decided to increase its defense budget by 10.2 billion kronor (US$1.2 billion) from 2016-2020.
Sept. 14, 2016

https://www.rt.com/news/359321-sweden-gotland-station-baltic-sea/

The Coming One world government Anyone who read chapter 13 of the book of Revelations should understand that the Antichrist will be running a One World Government during the seven year tribulation.  The Prophet Daniel in chapters 2 and 7 show us that the last world empire directed by the Antichrist will not be America, but a revived Roman Empire.

Headline:   European Border and Coast Guard to launch in mid-October

Headline:   EU permanent military headquarters proposed by Jean-Claude Juncker

The Council of the European Union (EU), representing member states, on Wednesday ratified the creation of a European Border and Coast Guard. The move paves the way for the apparatus to begin its activities in mid-October. The European Border and Coast Guard was designed to meet the new challenges and political realities faced by the EU. The main role of it is to help provide integrated border management at the external borders, the Council said in a statement. According to the International Organization for Migration, 272,070 migrants have arrived illegally in Europe by sea between Jan. 1 and Aug. 28, 2016, compared with 353,628 in the same period of last year. Facing an unprecedented refugee crisis in the EU history, the new apparatus was expected to ensure the effective management of migration flows and provide a high level of security for the EU. At the same time, it was built to help safeguard free movement within the EU and respect fully fundamental rights.
Sept. 14, 2016

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-09/14/c_135688004.htm

 http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/09/14/EU-permanent-military-headquarters-proposed-by-Jean-Claude-Juncker/7231473852973/?spt=sec&or=tn

Famine Matthew 24:7 & Revelation 6:8 ^“ For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.” “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.”

Headline:     Venezuela’s “Death Spiral” – A Dozen Eggs Cost $150

For many Venezuelans, by every economic, social and political measure, their nation is unravelling at breakneck speed. Severe shortages of food, clean water, electricity, medicines and hospital supplies punctuate a dire scenario of crime-ridden streets in the impoverished neighborhoods of this nearly failed OPEC state, which at one time claimed to be the most prosperous nation in Latin America. Today, a once comfortable middle-class Venezuelan father is scrambling desperately to find his family’s next meal — sometimes hunting through garbage for salvageable food. The unfortunate 75% majority of Venezuelans already suffering extreme poverty are reportedly verging on starvation. When President Nicolas Maduro inherited the Venezuelan Socialist “dream”, in April of 2013, just one month after Chavez died, he was facing a mere 53% inflation rate. Today the Venezuelan bolivar is virtually worthless, and inflation is creeping to 500% with expectations of much more. Demonstrations and public cries for food are the unpleasant evidence of a once-prosperous society being torn apart by the very largess that marked its utopian ideals less than a decade ago. There are dire reports of people waiting in supermarket lines all day, only to discover that expected food deliveries never arrived and the shelves are empty. In desperation, some middle class families have organized online barter clubs as helpless citizens seek to trade anything for diapers and baby food, powdered milk, medicines, toilet paper and other essentials missing from store shelves or available only on the black market for double and triple already impossibly inflated prices.. There are horrific tales of desperate people slaughtering zoo animals to provide their only meal of the day. Even household pets are targeted as a much-needed source for food. This is a desperate time for a desperate people. As things continue to worsen, President Maduro, unfortunately, is doubling down on the proven failed policies and philosophies of “Bolivarian Socialism,” while diverting attention away from the crisis — pointing fingers at so-called “enemies” of Venezuela such as the United States, Saudi Arabia and others.
Sept. 14, 2016

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-14/venezuelas-death-spiral-dozen-eggs-cost-150-hyperinflation-horrors-hit-socialist-uto

Sept 10, 2016- Massive amount of dead fish found along a river in Fujian, China
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ifeng.com%2Fa%2F20160910%2F49949490_0.shtml%23p%3D1&edit-text=&act=url

Sept 11, 2016- Thousands of dead fish found in Snake River in Idaho
http://www.king5.com/news/thousands-of-whitefish-dead-in-eastern-idaho/316663613

Sept 11, 2016- Millions of fish have suddenly died in fish farms in Beihai City, China
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shuichan.cc%2Fnews_view-294938.html&edit-text=&act=url

Sept 12, 2016- Thousands of cattle dead due to drought in Machareti, Bolivia
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.erbol.com.bo%2Fgaleria%2F2500_cabezas_de_ganado_mueren_en_machareti%23%2F0&edit-text=&act=url

Sept 12, 2016- Dead turtles found washed up this year, ’cause unknown’ in Baja California
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Sept 13, 2016- Dozens of sea birds found dead along beaches in the Gulf Coast
http://staugustine.com/news/2016-09-13/birds-turning-dead-gulf-coast-beaches#

Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”

Headline:  Category 5 Super Typhoon Meranti is strongest storm of 2016 season

Headline:   Super-Typhoon Lashes South Taiwan Leaving Thousands Without Power

Churning the waters of the Northwest Pacific is the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2016 Northern Hemisphere season: Super Typhoon Meranti. It is the fourth Category 5 storm on Earth this year, which is close to the annual average of between four and five such storms. Super Typhoon Meranti, which according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center had maximum sustained winds of 155 knots, or nearly 180 miles per hour, as of Monday evening eastern time, has southern Taiwan and coastal China in its sights for the middle of the week. Fluctuations in the storm’s intensity are likely before Meranti makes its closest pass to southern Taiwan on Wednesday, but it is likely to still be a powerful Typhoon at that time. Taiwan’s second-most populous city, Kaohsiung City, is located in the southwest part of the island. The forecast calls for the storm to be weaker when it passes close to, if not over, parts of Taiwan on Sept. 14. Computer model projections show the storm may pass through the Luzon strait to the south of Taiwan while weakening from a major typhoon to a Category 1 or 2 storm before it hits the Chinese mainland on Sept. 15.
Sept. 13, 2016

http://mashable.com/2016/09/12/super-typhoon-meranti/#8mlxfmltQmqt

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-14/storm-lashes-south-taiwan-knocking-out-power-disrupting-flights

Headline:      N. Korea says floods ‘worst disaster’ since WWII

Floods in North Korea that have left hundreds dead or missing are the “worst disaster” to hit the country since World War II, state media said on Wednesday. The official KCNA news agency did not give exact numbers of those killed or unaccounted for, but a UN report said 138 people have died and 400 are missing after torrential rains caused devastation in the country’s far north. The floods along the Tumen River, which partially marks the border with China and Russia, tore through villages, washing away buildings and leaving thousands in urgent need of food and shelter. “The flood that resulted from the typhoon that hit North Hamgyong province from August 29 to September 2 was the worst disaster since liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945,” KCNA said. It also provided figures on the flood damage and those displaced for the first time, saying 68,900 people had been forced to flee their homes, compared with a UN figure of 107,000. At least 29,800 homes and 900 public buildings were destroyed, it said, adding that 180 sections of road and over 60 bridges had been severely damaged, and electricity and communication lines were cut.
Sept. 14, 2016

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/n-korea-says-floods-worst-disaster-since-wwii/ar-BBw8HHd?li=BBnb7Kz

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Headline:       Salt Cave Collapses Near Lot’s Wife in Sodom — Family Escapes

An avalanche of rocks caused the collapse of at least one of the salt caves around the area of Sodom, near the site where the formation known as Lot’s Wife stands, as the Sabbath drew to a close on Saturday. The caves are located along the Israeli shoreline of the southern end of the Dead Sea. Members of a family who were reportedly the last people to explore the cave told Ynet they had barely stepped into the cave before hearing the rumble of the rocks. That prompted them to hurry out of the cave. The family said they did not hear or see any signs that anyone else was located deeper in the cave at the time. Rescue teams rushed to the site nevertheless, in order to rule out the possibility that anyone might have been trapped under the rubble. A larger cave system in the same general area known as the “Flour Cave” due to the flour-like consistency of the sandy floor of the cave was officially closed to the public a number of years ago, also due to an avalanche.
Sept. 11, 2016

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/salt-cave-collapses-near-lots-wife-after-avalanche-at-sodom/2016/09/10/

Headline:    Report: Netanyahu and Erdogan will meet

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet for the first time since the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident, Channel 1 News reported on Sunday. According to the report, the meeting will take place next week in New York during the UN General Assembly. The meeting was agreed upon in secret contacts between Jerusalem and Ankara and was made possible after Erdogan added his signature to the reconciliation agreement signed between the two countries, according to Channel 1. Under the deal, Israel will pay Turkey $20 million in compensation for the deaths of 10 pro-Hamas Turkish assailants who attacked Israeli soldiers during a raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship in 2010. Israeli cabinet ministers approved the deal with Turkey in late June but Ankara did not send it to parliament until late August because of time pressure following the July 15 attempted putsch by a rogue military faction. The agreement also provides for normalization of relations, the removal of sanctions the countries have imposed on one another, an increase in the level of diplomatic relations and an exchange of ambassadors.
Sept. 12, 2016

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217643

Headline: Rebels launch new offensive in Golan Heights as ceasefire begins

Headline: IDF: Mortar shell hits Israeli Golan; no injures

Minutes after the commencement of the nationwide ceasefire, the Islamist rebels launched a new offensive in the Golan Heights region of the Al-Quneitra. Led by Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham and Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham, the Islamist rebels stormed the 4th Battalion Base (Tal Taranjeh) and Tuloul Al-Hamr in the Golan Heights; this resulted in an intense confrontation with the Syrian Arab Army’s 90th Brigade. The Syrian Arab Army repelled the first large-scale offensive by the Islamist rebels in the Golan Heights this past weekend; however, this attack is much larger than the previous one. While no gains have been reported thus far, the Islamist rebels have made it clear that they are disregarding the ceasefire agreement.
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Sept. 12, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-rebels-launch-new-offensive-golan-heights-ceasefire-begins/

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4853871,00.html

“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! ² For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. ³ They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. ⁴ They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)

Saudi Arabia

Headline:     UN: Airstrikes on a water well reportedly kill 30 people

Headline: Saudi shoots down Yemen militia missile

A U.N. official says airstrikes launched by the Saudi-led coalition on a water well in northern Yemen have reportedly killed 30 people. The U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Jamie McGoldrick, said in a statement on Monday that the casualties in the village of Beit Saadan (a village of the Arhab region north of the capital)  included first responders and children. McGoldrick says he is “deeply disturbed by the unrelenting attacks on civilians and on civilian infrastructure,” and urges rival parties to resume a cease-fire declared by the U.N. in April. Yemen’s conflict pits the internationally recognized government, which is allied with a Saudi-led military coalition, against Shiite Houthi rebels and forces loyal to a former president. Meanwhile, The Saudi-led coalition battling militias in Yemen said Monday it shot down a missile fired by the insurgents towards an airbase in southern Saudi Arabia. The missile was the latest aimed at the kingdom since the coalition began air raids to support Yemen’s internationally-backed government in March last year. Khamis Mushait air base, in Saudi Arabia’s southwest, has been at the forefront of the coalition bombing campaign against Houthi militias and their allies.
Sept. 12, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/12/un-airstrikes-on-water-well-reportedly-kill-30-people.html

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/09/12/Saudi-Arabia-shoots-down-Yemen-militia-missile.html

Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:         Bombs rain down as truce hopes rise

Air strikes on rebel-held areas of Syria reportedly killed at least 100 people hours after the US and Russia announced plans for a truce. An air strike on a market in Idlib killed up to 60 people while at least 45 died in strikes on Aleppo province, opposition activists say. A 10-day truce is meant to start on Monday, followed by co-ordinated air strikes against jihadist militants. Turkey and the EU welcomed the plan but warned that further action was needed. Turkey said aid must be delivered from the very start while EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini looked towards a “political transition”. A spokeswoman for Syria’s opposition said the plan provided some hope but more details were needed about how it would be enforced. In the capital, Damascus, the government endorsed the deal, the state news agency Sana reported.
Sept. 11, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37328945

Syria Headline:   Ceasefire in Syria due to begin at sundown, opposition wavers

Syria Headline:   Hardline Syrian rebel group rejects truce

A new ceasefire brokered by Russia and the United States is due to begin at sundown on Monday in Syria. It aims to halt fighting between President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and the opposition, but does not apply to Jihadists like the Islamic State group (ISIS). The regime and its allies have backed the truce but with only a few hours to go on Monday the opposition had not yet signed on. The number of different forces and militias involved, together with the complexity of the alliances and enmities between them, have made the Syrian civil war difficult to keep a handle on. To that end, here is a breakdown of the forces involved: Regime and allies, Rebels and backers, Jihadists, The Kurds. Meanwhile, An influential Syrian rebel group, the hardline Islamist Ahrar al-Sham, on Sunday rejected the truce deal brokered by Russia and the United States hours before it was due to begin. A high-ranking member of the group, which works closely with former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front, said in a statement on YouTube that the deal would only serve to “reinforce” the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad and “increase the suffering” of civilians.
Sept. 12, 2016

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217675

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217641

Syria Headline:   Russia: Dissolve US-Arab-Israeli Syria war room

Israeli and Gulf military chiefs see Russia exploiting Syrian truce, taking effect Monday, for a joint offensive with Damascus to capture the southern capital of Deraa.

In another move to grab control of the Syrian arena, the Kremlin marked the start of the US-Russian brokered ceasefire in Syria on Sept 12 with a push for the United States to dissolve the war room that has been running anti-Assad operations from a venue north of the Jordanian capital Amman. debkafile’s military and intelligence sources report that the demand was handed down from the Russian presidential office and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. The US Central Command Forward Command in Jordan has for three years run the command and communications functions of select rebel ground operations against Bashar Assad, especially insofar as US special operations units and air force were involved. Jordanian, Saudi, Israeli, Qatari and United Arab Emirates officers serve alongside American commanders. This forward command has evolved, according to our sources, into the nerve center of the military campaigns waged by this coalition against the Syrian army and its allies in southern Syria and also against the Islamic State in southeastern Syria and parts of western Iraq. In January 2016, President Vladimir Putin had the Saudis talk King Abdullah into establishing a Russian-Jordanian forward command outside Amman alongside the American war room. His pretext was the necessity to avert accidental collisions between the Russian and Jordanian warplanes operating in Syrian air space. But over the past months, the Russian-led command center has gradually nudged the US war room into an inferior role in the control of ongoing operations.
Last week, in the course of the marathon talks on a Syrian truce held by US Secretary of State John Kelly and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva, the American delegation was suddenly confronted with a demand to shut down the Centcom forward command in Jordan and reassign the US officers staffing it to the Russian-Jordanian command center.
Sept. 12, 2016

http://debka.com/article/25658/Russia-Dissolve-US-Arab-Israeli-Syria-war-room

Syria Headline:  Syria Situation Report Sept. 1 – 7, 2016

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/September7%20EDITS%20COT.pdf

Syria Headline:    Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
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http://syriahr.com/en/category/news

Kurdish Headline:       Turkey removes two dozen elected mayors in Kurdish militant crackdown

Turkey appointed new administrators in two dozen Kurdish-run municipalities on Sunday after removing their elected mayors over suspected links to militants, triggering pockets of protest in its volatile southeastern region bordering Syria and Iraq. Police fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse demonstrators outside local government buildings in Suruc on the Syrian border as new administrators took over, security sources said. There were smaller protests elsewhere in the town. There were also disturbances in the main regional city of Diyarbarkir and in Hakkari province near the Iraqi border, where police entered the municipality building and unfurled a large red Turkish flag, taking down the white local government flags that had previously flown. President Tayyip Erdogan said this week the campaign against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, who have waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy, was now Turkey’s largest ever. The removal of civil servants linked to them was a key part of the fight. The 24 municipalities had been run by the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the third largest in parliament, which denies direct links to the militants. It decried the move as an “administrative coup”.
Sept. 12, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-kurds-idUSKCN11H065     

Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above). 

Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.

Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.

Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.

Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Gomer is Eastern Turkey.

Beth Togarmah is Armenia.

Turkey

Headline:      50 Injured by PKK Car Bomb in East Turkey

Turkish authorities are accusing Kurdish militants of detonating a car bomb that wounded 50 people in front of the ruling party’s municipal headquarters Monday in the eastern city of Van. Van Governor Ibrahim Tasyapan told state-run Anadolu news agency that 46 civilians and four police officers were wounded in the attack at a police check point outside the party offices. Tasyapan said two of the wounded were in serious condition, but he did not specify if they are officers or civilians. An earlier statement by the governor’s office alleged the bombers were affiliated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. Hundreds of people have been killed and injured in Turkey in recent months in attacks the government says were carried out by Kurdish militants or the Islamic State group. The governor’s office said security forces are working to apprehend the perpetrators of the car-bombing. The attack came a day after Ankara replaced 28 elected mayors with appointees, mostly in the Kurdish dominated east of the country.  Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party, the country’s main opposition party and the United States all have criticized the move.
Sept. 12, 2016

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/explosion-ruling-party-hq-eastern-turkey-42025382

Iran

Headline:   Rubio demands documents from Obama proving Iran money was not ‘ransom’

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is accusing the Obama administration of trying to “deceive” Congress and the American people about roughly $1.7 billion in payments to Iran — suggesting at least some of the money was a “ransom” for American hostages and demanding official documents for the related transactions. “Each day brings new revelations about your administration’s efforts to deceive Congress and the American people regarding payments of billions of dollars to the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism,” Rubio wrote Saturday in a letter to President Obama. “The America people do not believe the story that your administration did not provide Iran an illicit and potentially illegal ransom payment.” The administration in January announced an agreement between the U.S. and Iran to settle a failed, decades-old arms deal that included Washington returning to Tehran $400 million and an additional $1.3 billion in interest. However, reports in early August revealed the initial $400 million was delivered on Jan. 17 — the same day Tehran agreed to release four American prisoners. And Republicans are calling it a ransom. At least some of the money was in foreign currency, and a video originating on Iranian TV purports to show bundles of the cash on pallets.
Sept. 12, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/12/rubio-demands-documents-from-obama-proving-iran-money-was-not-ransom.html

Afghanistan

Headline:      Gunmen attack hospital in southern Afghanistan

Headline: Afghan Forces Kill Suicide Bombers, End Hospital Siege

Headline: Roadside Taliban Bomb Kills Afghan Provincial Police Chief

Afghan security forces Monday killed two armed suicide bombers to end a two-hour siege of a main hospital in the southern city of Kandahar, officials said. The firefight also left dead an officer of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS). The siege began after two assailants wearing suicide vests stormed the Mirwais Hospital compound in Kandahar and opened fire on security guards there, witnesses and officials said. The assault took place shortly before the provincial governor was due to arrive to inquire about the well-being of patients in connection with Eid festivities, his spokesman, Sameem Khapalwak, told VOA. He said patients, their attendants and hospital staff were all not harmed. There were no immediate claims of responsibility, though suspicions fell on the Taliban because Kandahar is known as the birthplace of the Islamist insurgency.
Sept. 12, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-hospital-idUSKCN11I0P0

http://www.voanews.com/a/afghan-forces-kill-suicide-bombers-end-hospital-siege-/3503192.html

http://www.voanews.com/a/roadside-taliban-bomb-kills-afghan-provincial-police-chief/3502429.html

Libya

Headline:   Gen. Haftar’s forces seize 2 key oil ports

Forces loyal to eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar on Sunday seized at least two key oil ports from a rival force loyal to the UN-backed government, risking a new conflict over the OPEC nation’s resources. Ahmed Al-Masmari, a spokesman for Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), said LNA fighters seized control of Es Sider, Ras Lanuf and Brega, but still faced resistance at the port of Zueitina and around the nearby town of Ajdabiya. The attacks on Libya’s major oil ports by Haftar, who opposes the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), pushes the North African state toward a broader battle over its oil resources and disrupts attempts to restart production.
Sept. 12, 2016

http://www.arabnews.com/node/983331/middle-east

Headline:    15% Over Target: 11,491 Syrian Refugees Admitted Already; 0.46% Are Christians

With three weeks of the fiscal year to go, the Obama administration has exceeded its Syrian refugee admission target by 15 percent, with 11,491 resettled in the United States as of the beginning of this week. Since President Obama’s goal of 10,000 Syrian refugee admissions in FY 2016 was achieved on August 29, the number continues to pick up steadily. August ended with a new monthly record of 3,189 Syrian refugee arrivals, and a further 751 have been ushered in so far in September: 749 Sunni Muslims; two Catholic Christians. State Department Refugee Processing Center data show that of the now total 11,491 arrivals this fiscal year, the vast majority – 11,300, or 98.33 percent – are Sunnis. Just 54 of the 11,491 – 0.46 percent – are Christians. They comprise 14 Catholics, six Orthodox, four Protestants, one Greek Orthodox, plus 29 refugees identifying themselves simply as “Christian” rather than by denomination or sect. The remaining 137 are made of up of 20 Shi’a Muslims, 90 refugees described simply as Muslims, 17 Yazidis, four Jehovah’s Witnesses, five refugees identified as “other religion,” and one as having “no religion.”
Sept. 12, 2016

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/11491-syrian-refugees-resettled-us-15-over-target-046-are-christians

Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword.  Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions)   Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)

Headline:   Three women killed in Kenya after attack on police station

Three women were killed by police Sunday after allegedly trying to stage an attack on the main police station in Mombasa, Kenya. The women entered the police station saying they wanted to report a stolen phone, Mombasa police said. One then pulled a knife and another threw a gas bomb, which started a fire, BBC reported. Two officers were hurt in the incident. Though it is not clear who is behind the attack, authorities suspect the extremist group al-Shabab, which has staged numerous similar attacks in Kenya. BBC reported all of the women were wearing hijab and bullet-proof vests under their clothes. Local media reported the women were wearing suicide vests.
Sept. 11, 2016

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/09/11/Three-women-killed-in-Kenya-after-attack-on-police-station/4441473615099/?spt=sec&or=tn

Headline:    Violence Erupts in Southern India Over Order to Share Water

Violent protests broke out in the southern state of Karnataka on Monday after the Indian Supreme Court ordered the state to release water to the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu, the latest chapter in a longstanding dispute. The authorities in the Karnataka city of Bangalore banned public gatherings and deployed riot police officers as protesters set fire to vehicles and pelted buildings and cars with stones. The police fired on protesters who were setting fire to police vehicles in Bangalore, killing one and injuring two others, said Madhukar Narote, an assistant subinspector for the state police. Protests raged elsewhere in the state as well. Several trucks that were burned had Tamil Nadu license plates, said Chandrashekhar, a deputy commissioner of police in Bangalore who goes by one name. The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Karnataka would have to release 12,000 cubic feet of water, or almost 90,000 gallons, per second to Tamil Nadu every day until Sept. 20 from the Cauvery River, which originates in Karnataka and flows downstream to Tamil Nadu. It is the main source of water for the states’ thirsty rice crops, particularly in the event of a weak monsoon like this year’s in the southwest. The water dispute has provoked ethnic resentments on each side of the border. On Saturday, a Tamil student in Bangalore was publicly beaten, according to local news reports. The attackers took a video of the beating and posted it online, prompting the police in Bangalore to open a case on Monday. On Monday, protesters in Tamil Nadu attacked a hotel owned by a Karnataka native, The Press Trust of India reported. In its ruling, the Supreme Court noted that violence could not be the basis for modifying an order. “The citizens cannot become law unto themselves,” it said.
Sept. 12, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/world/asia/violence-erupts-in-southern-india-over-order-to-share-water.html

Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8 ^“ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass Destruction Zechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”

Headline:      China, Russia launch naval war games in South China Sea

The Chinese and Russian navies launched eight days of war games in the South China Sea on Monday, in a sign of growing cooperation between their armed forces against the backdrop of regional territorial disputes. The “Joint Sea-2016” maneuvers include ships, submarines, ship-borne helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, along with marines and amphibious armored vehicles who will conduct live-firing exercises, according to a Defense Ministry statement Sunday. Tasks will include defensive and rescue drills, anti-submarine exercises and the simulated seizure of an enemy island by marines from both sides. The exercise is part of an annual program which “aims to consolidate and advance the Sino-Russian comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination, and deepen friendly and practical cooperation between the two militaries,” Chinese navy spokesman Liang Yang was quoted as saying. “It will also improve coordination between the two navies on joint defense operations at sea,” Liang said.
Sept. 12, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/12/china-russia-launch-naval-war-games-in-south-china-sea.html

Headline: China said likely to have provided North Korea with submarine missile

A submarine-launched missile that was successfully test-fired by North Korea last week likely was provided to the Kim Jong-Un regime by China, a U.S. analyst said. Bruce Bechtol, a North Korea analyst at Angelo State University in Texas, said the North’s SLBM, known as KN-11, looks like a “carbon copy” of China’s JL-1 submarine missile. … The North Korean missile is believed to be “a JL-1 or a very, very close variant,” Bechtol said. “Just looking at the JL-1 and the North Korean SLBM, they’re looking exactly the same.” Bechtol said that China has a record of providing the North with military hardware, saying the North acquired transporter-erector-launchers (TEL), a vehicle used in carrying and launching missiles, from China in recent years.
Sept. 12, 2016

http://www.worldtribune.com/china-said-likely-to-have-provided-north-korea-with-submarine-missile/

Sept 6, 2016- Thousands of frogs dying due to deadly fungus across California
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/09/06/can-a-new-vaccine-stem-the-frog-apocalypse/

Sept 7, 2016- 15 tons of dead fish found washed up in Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia
https://translate.google.com/translate?act=url&depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.elcolombiano.com/medio-ambiente/mas-de-15-toneladas-de-peces-muertos-en-la-cienaga-grande-HN4935832

Sept 8, 2016- 23,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Guizhou province, China
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/37531/another-bird-flu-outbreak-found-in-china/

Sept 10, 2016- Mystery in Boston after dozens of birds fall from sky
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/09/mystery-in-boston-after-dozens-birds-fall-from-sky.html

Sept 10, 2016- 50,000 fish dead due to ‘mystery disease’ in Bardiya, Nepal
http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2016-09-10/farmed-fish-dying-due-to-mystery-disease.html

Sept 10, 2016- 47 tons of dead fish found in aquatic farms in Central Vietnam
http://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/47-tons-of-fish-found-dead-at-aquatic-farms-in-central-vietnam-3465845.html

Pestilence & Plagues Luke 21:11 & Revelation 6:8 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation)

Headline: Leprosy Suspected in 2 California Kids

Two schoolchildren in California are suspected of having leprosy, but where might they have caught the disease? This week, officials in Riverside Country (which is near Los Angeles) said they are investigating the suspected cases of leprosy, now usually called Hansen’s disease, at an elementary school in the area. Nursing staff at the school first notified officials about the possible infections on Sept. 2, but it will take several weeks to confirm them, according to the Los Angeles Times. Cases of Hansen’s disease in the United States are rare, but they do occur, with about 100 to 200 cases typically reported each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2014, there were 175 new cases of Hansen’s disease diagnosed in the United States, and nearly three-quarters of these cases were reported in seven states: Arkansas, California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York and Texas, according to the U.S. National Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy) Program. There’s currently not enough information provided about these two suspected case to know where they might have originated, Adalja said. But armadillos in the United States are known to harbor the bacteria that cause the disease, and it’s possible for people to become infected through contact with the animals, Adalja said, although the risk of this is low. People can also become infected with leprosy through prolonged close contact with patients who have leprosy, Adalja said. Because the disease is not very contagious, people are unlikely to become infected through casual contact, he added.
Sept. 11, 2016

https://www.yahoo.com/news/leprosy-suspected-2-california-kids-could-contract-190537451.html

Apostasy & Alternative Lifestyles Amos 8:11, 1 Timothy  4:1-3 2 Peter 2:1-3 & Romans1:26-27 “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, ³ forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.” (1 Timothy) “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord.” (Amos) “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions.  For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.  Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due”(Romans) “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.” ~ Leviticus 20:13 “ But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. ³ By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.” (2 Peter 2:1-3)

Headline:   Mexicans march for gay marriage after opponents rally

Supporters of gay and lesbian rights marched to Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral in response to protests on Saturday opposing same-sex marriage. Demonstrators carried banners saying “I respect your family, respect mine.” The cardinal of Mexico City, Norberto Rivera Carrera, denied the Catholic church was behind the protests in cities across the country. In May, President Enrique Pena Nieto proposed a bill which would legalise same-sex marriage nationwide. Gay marriage is legal in Mexico City and three other states. Some states have less formal arrangements. The marches on Saturday were organised by a Catholic organisation, the National Front for the Family. Despite denial of involvement by the Catholic church, in some states priests were seen taking part. There have not been such big marches over government legislation on social and religious issues in Mexico since the 1930s during the country’s civil war, the BBC’s Katy Watson in Mexico City reports.
Sept. 12, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37335629

Persecution Matthew 24:9  & Revelation 6:9  “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for  My name’s sake.” (Matthew) “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.” (Revelation)

Headline:   Pastors could face jail over Mass. anti-discrimination law

Churches in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts have grave concerns about a new anti-discrimination law that could force congregations to accommodate the transgender community – under the threat of fines and jail time. The law, which goes into effect in October, does not specifically mention churches or other houses of worship. However, the attorney general, along with the government commission assigned to enforce the law, have a different point of view. Attorney General Maura Healey wrote that places of public accommodation include: “auditoriums, convention centers, lecture halls, houses of worship, and other places of public gathering.” The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the commission responsible for enforcing the anti-discrimination law, reinforced that interpretation in a document titled, “Gender Identity Guidance.” “Even a church could be seen as a place of public accommodation if it holds a secular event, such as a spaghetti supper, that is open to the general public,” the document states.  “All persons, regardless of gender identity, shall have the right to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any place of public accommodation.”
Sept. 12, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/09/12/pastors-could-face-jail-over-mass-anti-discrimination-law.html

***On Sept. 7^th we brought you this story:

Water to Blood Revelation 8:8-9 & Revelation 16:4 “Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.” (Revelation 8) “Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.”(Revelation 16)

Headline:  River in Russia Mysteriously Turns Blood Red

http://abcnews.go.com/International/russian-river-mysteriously-turns-blood-red/story?id=41914260

today’s post:

Headline: Norilsk Nickel provides reasons for Russian Arctic river turning blood-red

The water of Daldykan River near Norilsk in Siberia was permanently coloured red after a local metallurgic plant accidentally dropped its waste water, Norilsk Nickel, a Russian nickel and palladium mining and smelting company, which owns the plant, said in a statement. The accident does not pose a risk to people or animals, according to the company, and it is taking steps to eliminate the consequences. On September 5 a massive downpour caused one of the plant’s reservoirs to overflow, which caused the water discharge. The company promised to make sure that in future the plant is equipped to deal with natural phenomena that could cause emergencies.
Sept. 12, 2016

https://www.rt.com/news/line/

Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”

Headline:  Tanzania earthquake kills 13 and injures more than 200

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has killed at least 13 people and injured 203 in northern Tanzania, the authorities say. The quake struck close to the border with Uganda and Rwanda near Lake Victoria. Images posted on social media showed significant damage to buildings in Bukoba, a city of more than 70,000 people where most casualties were reported. Tremors were felt as far away as western Kenya. “This incident has caused a lot of damage,” Deodatus Kinawila, the district commissioner of Bukoba, told the BBC. “For now, the situation is calm and under control,” he said later.
Sept. 11, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37330418

     ***All earthquakes are instantly posted to my Facebook page; Please be sure to visit my Facebook page to see ALL the maps of the large earthquakes from March 2014 – today

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.931241630279041.1073741830.353621338041076&type=3

Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes

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Note: Changes in  ETRM  before the new year. For the past 8 years The End Times Research Ministry has been doing what we can to support Pastor Titus in Kenya.  Pastor Titus was under the wing of Pastor Timothy Moore who had visited Pastor Titus in Kenya.  Pastor Timothy was my check and balance for Pastor Titus.  After Pastor Moore passed away I was left to carry on the work in Kenya trusting Pastor Titus’ without anyone actually being in Kenya. Without a doubt we have seen the churches built, and people being helped such as feeding the poor.

Last year in some of my posts I mentioned changing the course of my ministry. Since I do not have anyone in Kenya to monitor the works of Pastor Titus I am no longer going to support the Kenya ministry under Pastor Titus.  I think it is very important that who ever this ministry tries to help have people in the exact area who can act as a checks and balance for the ministry and, since this ministry does not I can no longer keep on supporting the Kenya ministry.   I think it wise that anyone who has been supporting Pastor Titus via Ascent Ministries and still wants  to do so should take a trip to Kenya to visit Pastor Titus to make sure all your blessings go to where they are intended to go.  I am sure that if Pastor Titus’ work has not altered that the Lord will continue to take care of him and his needs.  Pastor Titus has received ample  support  over the past 8 years to get him and his Church on his feet. Now is the time to put Pastor Titus’ faith into action.  (Frank DiMora)

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Headline:       Palestinian High Court suspends municipal elections

Headline:  PA court to make final decision about elections on September 21

The Palestinian Authority municipal elections in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been suspended, putting the holding of the long-awaited contests in jeopardy. The PA High Court of Justice said it suspended the elections, scheduled for October 8, because of the exclusion of Jerusalem from the electoral process, and amid concerns about the legality of local courts in Gaza. “In light of the deprivation of Jerusalem and its suburbs’ citizens of their electoral rights, and [concerns about] the legality of decisions taken by courts in the Gaza Strip… We rule to suspend temporarily the Palestinian government’s decision to hold elections,” said a copy of Thursday’s ruling published on Wafa, the official Palestinian news site. Israel informed the PA in July that it will not allow it to hold elections in any part of Jerusalem. The PA High Court will hold another hearing regarding the future of the elections on September 21.
Sept. 8, 2016
***do you find it a coincidence that this news came out the day after it was discovered that Abbas worked for the KGB? Not forgetting Russia’s current Mideast envoy, the one currently trying to arrange a Netanyahu-Abbas meeting in Moscow, was stationed in Damascus at the same time as Abbas.

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Palestinian-High-Court-suspends-municipal-elections-467199

http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-minister-decision-on-local-elections-on-sept-21/

Headline:  Israeli UN Envoy: Jew-Hatred At ‘Highest Level of Our Lifetimes’

Jew hatred and demonization of Israel are at “the highest level of our lifetimes,” Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations said at a high-level forum on anti-Semitism held on Wednesday at the UN’s headquarters in New York. “Over 1/3 of European Jews are afraid to wear a yarmulke or Star of David in public,” Danny Danon said. “More than half of French Jews have considered emigrating because they don’t feel safe living as Jews in France. Today we hear things about Jews and the Jewish people that we thought belonged to the pages of history. … Anti-Semitism is returning to everyday life without shame.” Danon also said that social media presents a “new kind of threat” in that anti-Semitism goes global very quickly. “We are living in a new era and we face a new kind of anti-Semitism,” Danon said. “Using the tools of online social networks to demonize the Jewish people and the Jewish state, this is Anti-Semitism 2.0.” “The enemies of the Jewish people are using the tools of modern technology to target and harass Jews around the world,” he said, adding that the modern world makes life easier for anti-Semites since “all you need is a wireless connection, a Facebook account, and a deep hatred for the Jewish people.”
Sept. 8, 2016

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/09/08/israeli-un-envoy-jew-hatred-at-all-time-high-anti-semitism-2-0-uses-internet-as-tool-for-hate/

Headline:  Israeli military expects Islamic State attack on its southern border ‘within six months’

Israel is bracing for an Islamic State (Isil) terror attack along its southern border with Egypt within the next six months, a senior Israeli military officer has warned. Wilayat Sinai, the jihadist group’s affiliate in the Sinai desert, has been stealing armored vehicles and anti-tank missiles from Egypt’s military and Israeli expects the weapons will soon be turned against its forces on the Egyptian border. The Israeli officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Telegraph that Wilayat Sinai had stolen at least one Egyptian M60 battle tank and had amassed a supply of Russian-made Kornet missiles, which can strike targets more than three miles away. “It could happen today, tomorrow, in a month but within the next six months we will come into an engagement with Wilayat Sinai,” the officer said. “In the next six months they will try to carry out an attack and try to do something against Israel.”
Sept. 9, 2016

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/09/israeli-military-expects-islamic-state-attack-on-its-southern-bo/

  “Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! ² For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. ³ They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. ⁴ They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)

Saudi Arabia

Headline:        Crowds rally in Iran against Saudi Arabia ahead of hajj

Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets to protest against Saudi Arabia ahead of this year’s hajj pilgrimage. The demonstrators shouted “Death to Al Saud!” — a reference to the kingdom’s ruling family. State media reported similar protests across the country after Friday prayers. Iranians won’t be attending this year’s pilgrimage as diplomatic ties between Shiite power and the Sunni-ruled kingdom remain severed amid tensions between the two Mideast nations. Iran recently stepped up criticism of Saudi Arabia over its handling of the stampede and crush during last year’s hajj. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei even said Saudi Arabia “murdered” hajj pilgrims who were injured in the disaster.
Sept. 9, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/09/crowds-rally-in-iran-against-saudi-arabia-ahead-hajj.html

Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:        Turkish tank hit by missile in northern Syria, three soldiers killed

Three Turkish soldiers were killed and four others were wounded during an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) on two Turkish tanks late on Sept. 6 as Turkish forces push deeper into Syrian soil. The attack took place near the Syrian town of al-Rai on the 14th day of Turkey’s Euphrates Shield operation in northern Syria, the Turkish military announced Sept. 6. Two soldiers were killed on the spot and five were injured when ISIL missiles hit the two tanks in the Wuquf village, the military said. One of the wounded soldiers later died in hospital despite all attempts to save his life, lifting the death toll to three, the military said. Two members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which is backed by the Turkish military in their advance on ISIL in Syria, were also killed while two others were wounded.
Sept. 9, 2016

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/three-soldiers-killed-in-turkish-operation-in-syria-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=103657&NewsCatID=352

http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/17965/Turkish-tank-hit-by-missile-in-northern-Syria-three-soldiers-killed

Syria Headline:       Putin-Erdogan deal for Syria is ME exit for Obama

According to debkafile’s intelligence and Mid East sources, Putin virtually shut the door on further cooperation with the United States in Syria. He highhandedly informed Obama that he now holds all the high cards for controlling the Syrian conflict, whereas Washington was just about out of the game. Putin picked up the last cards, our sources disclose, in a secret deal with Erdogan for Russian-Turkish collaboration in charting the next steps in the Middle East. The G20 therefore, instead of promoting new US-Russian understanding, gave the impetus to a new Russian-Turkish partnership.
Erdogan raked in instant winnings: Before he left China, he had pocketed Putin’s nod to grab a nice, 4,000-sq.km slice of northern Syria, as a “security zone” under the control of the Turkish army and air force, with Russian non-interference guaranteed. This Turkish zone would include the Syrian towns of Jarablus, Manjib, Azaz and Al-Bab. Ankara would reciprocate by withdrawing its support from the pro-US and pro-Saudi rebel groups fighting the Assad army and its allies in the area north of Aleppo. Turkey’s concession gave Putin a selling-point to buy the Syrian ruler assent to Erdogan’s project. Ankara’s selling-point to the West was that the planned security zone would provide a safe haven for Syrian refugees and draw off some of the outflow perturbing Europe. It now turns out that, just as the Americans sold the Syrian Kurds down the river to Turkey (when Vice President Joe Biden last month ordered them to withdraw from their lands to the eastern bank of the Euphrates River or lose US support), so too are the Turks now dropping the Syrian rebels they supported in the mud by re-branding them as “terrorists.” The head of this NATO nation has moreover gone behind America’s back for a deal with the Russian ruler on how to proceed with the next steps of the Syrian conflict.
Sept. 9, 2016

http://debka.com/article/25656/Putin-Erdogan-deal-for-Syria-is-ME-exit-for-Obama-

Syria Headline:     ISIS launches new offensive in southwest Deir Ezzor

The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) launched a new offensive in the Deir Ezzor Governorate on Friday, targeting the Syrian Arab Army’s 137th Artillery Brigade headquarters and Tal Kroum. ISIS began the assault by storming the southwestern perimeter of Tal Kroum, resulting in a fierce battle with the Syrian Armed Forces that is still ongoing at the moment. Meanwhile, west of the 137th Brigade’s HQ, another ISIS unit attempted to bypass the Syrian Arab Army’s defenses along the main road leading to this strategic military installation; however, they were subsequently repelled after a short battle this morning. According to a military source from the 137th Brigade, their forces destroyed 3 armored vehicles that belonged to the Islamic State near Tal Kroum, while also killing another 11 militants that were attempting to infiltrate their positions.
Sept. 9, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/isis-launches-new-offensive-southwest-deir-ezzor/

Syria Headline:     Syria Situation Report Sept. 1 – Sept.7, 2016

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/September7%20EDITS%20COT.pdf

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

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

Iraq Headline:       U.S. sends 500 more troops to help fight 4,500 Islamic State militants in Mosul

The United States has increased its deployed forces by more than 500 troops to assist Iraqi security forces in the operation to claim Mosul from Islamic State control. Col. John Dorrian, spokesman for the United States’ Operation Inherent Resolve mission against the Islamic State, on Thursday said the increase in deployed troops is to help Iraq seize the Islamic State’s Iraqi stronghold, Mosul — where he estimates there are up to 4,500 IS militants remaining. U.S. President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi both hope to seize Mosul before the year’s end, but Dorrian said the operation is “a very tough battle.” The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh, captured Mosul as part of a land grab in 2014 that saw to the militant group’s peak in terms of land acquisition. The battle to directly capture Mosul has been held off, though Iraqi security forces, aided by the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition, have recaptured surrounding areas and targeted IS positions for months. “Prime Minister Abadi has come out and said that he would like to get this done within the year, and we are going to be at the Iraqi security force’s side and be there to try to help pursue that,” Dorrian said. Dorrian said Iraqi security forces are leading the battle for Mosul and that the United States’ role is to train and assist the soldiers, with the aid of airstrikes and special operations missions.
Sept. 9, 2016

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/09/09/US-sends-500-more-troops-to-help-fight-4500-Islamic-State-militants-in-Mosul/4081473428280/?spt=sec&or=tn

Kurdish Headline:     Turkish army bombs Kurdish town northwest Syria, civilian casualties reported

Turkish army forces bombed the Kurdish town of Afrin in Aleppo province in northern Syria with heavy artillery on Thursday, causing casualties among civilians, activists and eyewitnesses reported. At least six civilians were killed and eight others were injured in the Turkish bombardment, which targeted the Sourkeh district in Afrin. “Turkey’s military forces, stationed on the Syrian border, launched dozens of artillery shells on Afrin. At least 50 shells hit residential buildings in the Sourkeh district,” rights activist Roj Musa told ARA News in Afrin. “Six civilians lost their lives so far, and eight others were injured, some of them are in critical condition,” Musa reported. The bombardment also caused huge destruction in residential buildings. Local rescue teams continued searching for survivors under the rubble. In the meantime, the Kurdish administration in Afrin issued a list of the names of the victims, and condemned the Turkish attack.
Sept. 8, 2016

http://aranews.net/2016/09/turkish-army-bombs-kurdish-town-northwest-syria-civilian-casualties-reported/

Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above). 

Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.

Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.

Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.

Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Gomer is Eastern Turkey.

Beth Togarmah is Armenia.

Afghanistan

Headline:       8 killed, 14 wounded in rocket attack in North of Afghanistan

Headline:  Taliban threatens second provincial capital in Afghan south

At least 8 people were killed and 14 others were wounded in a rocket attack in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan, local officials said Friday. The incident took place late on Thursday afternoon in the new city of Baghlan Markazi district after a mortar round landed in the area. Provincial public health officials confirmed 8 civilians including a woman and two children were among those killed. The officials further added that a number of injured civilians are in critical condition amid fears that the death toll could rise. No group including the Taliban militants has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident. In a statement released by Taliban earlier today, the group said they are not involved in the attack. Baghlan is among the relatively volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where Taliban insugents are actively operating in its various districts and often carry out insurgency activities. Meanwhile, The Taliban has launched an offensive to take control of Tarin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province. Its forces have entered the city and are engaged in heavy fighting with Afghan forces there. Tarin Kot is the second provincial capital in the south that is under direct threat of a Taliban takeover.
Sept. 9, 2016

http://www.khaama.com/8-killed-14-wounded-in-rocket-attack-in-north-of-afghanistan-01858

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/09/taliban-threatens-second-provincial-capital-in-afghan-south.php

Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8 ^“ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass Destruction Zechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”

Headline:     North Korea Says Tested Nuclear Bomb, Can Miniaturize Arms

Headline:  UN Security Council to hold closed door meeting on N.Korea’s nuclear test

North Korea drew global condemnation after conducting its fifth nuclear test on Friday, the anniversary of the reclusive nation’s founding, and said it was now able to produce miniaturized nuclear arms. In a statement on state-run television, Pyongyang said no radiation was leaked in the blast. The official Korean Central News Agency said the detonation of a nuclear warhead showed the regime has the ability to attach atomic weapons to rockets. “The standardization of the nuclear warhead will enable the DPRK to produce at will and as many as it wants a variety of smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of higher strike power,” KCNA said, using the acronym for North Korea. “This has definitely put on a higher level the DPRK’s technology of mounting nuclear warheads on ballistic rockets.” The test drew opprobrium from world leaders, including South Korean President Park Geun Hye and U.S. President Barack Obama, and prompted an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council Friday in New York. The blast set off an artificial earthquake around 9:30 a.m. Seoul time, with the defense ministry saying the explosion was 10 kilotons. The United States Geological Survey put the quake magnitude at 5.3. The Pentagon said it will be deploying an aircraft to the region to collect air samples that can help determine the nature of the explosion.
Sept. 9, 2016

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-09/shallow-earthquake-detected-near-north-korea-nuclear-test-site?utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-business

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4852565,00.html

Headline:  Russia Holds Large-scale Military Drills in Crimea

Russia on Friday deployed cruise missiles, multiple rocket launchers, tanks and its latest anti-aircraft system at massive military drills in Crimea. Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 and since then has sent thousands of troops and heavy weaponry there. The Russian defense ministry invited dozens of journalists Friday to a remote firing range at the Black Sea coast to display elaborate war games which involved paratroopers, tanks, cruise missiles launched from a submarine and the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system. The drills, which began across southern Russia and Crimea earlier this week and have involved a total of over 120,000 troops, are some of the largest exercises Russia has held for years. The chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, insisted in emailed comments that there have never been more than 12,500 troops involved in the drills at a given moment, which means that Russia did not violate any international treaties.
Sept. 9, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/russia-military-exercises-ukraine-crimea/3500294.html

Headline:  Al-Qaeda chief threatens ‘thousands’ of 9/11 attacks

Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri threatened the U.S. that the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks will be repeated “thousands of times,” in a video marking the 15th anniversary of the deadly assault. Addressing the United States in a video message posted Thursday on YouTube, Zawahiri blamed 9/11 on “your crimes against us.” He said that if these continue, 9/11 “will be repeated thousands of times.” In the video, Zawahiri cited Washington’s policies towards Arab and Muslim countries, its “occupation” of lands in their countries, and support for their “criminal and corrupt” governments. Zawahiri also urged extremists to unite and urged African Americans to convert to Islam to “save” them from U.S. laws which he said are controlled by “the white majority.”
Sept. 9, 2016

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Sep-09/371373-al-qaeda-chief-threatens-thousands-of-911-attacks.ashx

Economic collapse Revelation 6:5-6 & James 5:1-3– Worldwide– ^“ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. ⁶ And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James)

Headline:  Markets Tumble Around the World

The S&P 500 dropped 1.9 percent to 2,140.11 at 2:27 p.m. in New York. The rout has halted a period of calm that saw the index no more than 1 percent in either direction for 43 days. It also sent the gauge below its average price during the past 50 days for the first time since July 6. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 302.49 points, or 1.6 percent, to 18,177.42. Tranquility that has enveloped global markets for more than two months is being upended as central banks start to question the benefits of further monetary easing, sending government debt, stocks and emerging-market assets to the biggest declines since June. The dollar jumped. The S&P 500 Index tumbled 2 percent in its biggest drop since the Brexit vote emerging-market assets and global equities fell the most since Britain voted to secede from the European Union. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note jumped to the highest since June and the greenback almost erased a weekly slide as a Federal Reserve official warned waiting too long to raise rates threatened to overheat the economy. German 10-year yields rose to zero for the first time since July after the European Central Bank downplayed the need for more stimulus. Fed Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren’s comments moved him firmly into the hawkish camp, sending the odds for a rate hike this year above 60 percent. He spoke a day after ECB President Mario Draghi played down the prospect of an increase in asset purchases, while DoubleLine Capital Chief Investment Officer Jeffrey Gundlach said it’s time to prepare for higher rates. “This is a big, big moment,” Gundlach said during a webcast Thursday. “Interest rates have bottomed. They may not rise in the near term as I’ve talked about for years. But I think it’s the beginning of something and you’re supposed to be defensive.”
Sept. 9, 2016

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/japan-index-futures-signal-bounce-as-ecb-outlook-weighs-on-bonds

Pestilence & Plagues Luke 21:11 & Revelation 6:8 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation)

Headline:    Super-gonorrhoea outbreak could be out of control

An outbreak of super-gonorrhoea in the UK is out of control and efforts to stop it have been unsuccessful, health officials have warned. It is feared the sexually transmitted disease may be becoming increasingly resistant to treatment, prompting concerns further rapid spread could occur. In April, it emerged an outbreak of so-called ‘super-gonorrhoea’ had occurred in Leeds, with cases also noted in the West Midlands, London and southern-England. It began among heterosexual couples but has since been spread among men who have sex with men (MSM). In a report issued today by health agency Public Health England, the group warned: “The outbreak of HL-AziR gonorrhoea in England persists. There have been 17 cases of HL-AziR gonorrhoea reported to date in 2016 compared to 15 cases for the same time period in 2015. Between November 2014 and August 2016 there have been a total of 48 confirmed and two probable cases. “The potential for rapid spread of HL-AziR N. gonorrhoeae among high risk sexual networks including MSM is of particular concern.”
Sept. 9, 2016

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/super-gonorrhoea-outbreak-could-be-out-of-control-as-attempts-to-stop-spread-fail-a7234296.html

Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”

     ***All earthquakes are instantly posted to my Facebook page; Please be sure to visit my Facebook page to see ALL the maps of the large earthquakes from March 2014 – today

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Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes

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Headline:        Jerusalem Biblical Temple floor designs ‘restored’

Archaeologists in Jerusalem say they have for the first time reconstructed likely designs of a Biblical Jewish temple floor using original fragments. Experts reassembled pieces of tiles found amid tons of earth from the site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif. They say the tiles date from the period of the Second Temple, during the time of King Herod about 2,000 years ago. The temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD during a Jewish rebellion. Some 600 segments of coloured stone floor have been found since archaeologists began examining the debris from the hilltop site in 2004.
Sept. 6, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37288925

Headline:    ‘Hezbollah, Syrian army preparing large operation near Israel border’

Headline:    Hizballah units regroup on Israel’s Golan border

Troops loyal to the Syrian regime along with Hezbollah fighters have allegedly been finalizing plans to launch a large-scale operation against Syrian opposition forces near the border with Israel, according to Iranian media. “The Syrian army and Hezbollah fighters have been working on a joint plan to end militancy in Southern Syria, particularly near the Golan Heights,” Iran’s Fars news agency quoted unnamed military sources as saying Monday. The sources added that the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah has already deployed a large contingency of fighters near the Quneitra area, located between Syria and the Israeli Golan Heights. The Fars report did not provide further details on what such a possible attack would involve or when it would take place. On Monday, the former head of the Israeli domestic security agency said the Syrian conflict is entering a highly unpredictable phase, adding that the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah posed a growing threat to Israel despite losing many fighters.
Sept. 7, 2016

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Hezbollah-Syrian-army-preparing-large-operation-near-Israel-border-467003

http://debka.com/article/25654/Hizballah-units-regroup-on-Israel%E2%80%99s-Golan-border

Headline:    UN: Palestinian economy could double without Israeli occupation

The Palestinian economy could easily double, while sky-high unemployment and poverty would plummet if the Israeli occupation were lifted, the United Nations development agency said Tuesday. In a new report, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) pointed to a long list of ways the Israeli occupation stifled the economies of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including the confiscation of Palestinian land, water and other natural resources. The widespread restrictions on the movement of people and goods, destruction of homes, trees and other assets, and the expansion of Israeli settlements were also damaging, it said. Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon charged that “the UN report is filled with half-truths and vicious lies against the State of Israel. I call on the UN secretary-general to reject the conclusions of the report, as they are an ugly distortion of the truth.” Israel’s delegation to the UN said the report was part of a campaign by the Palestinian leadership to move the conflict to the international arena, where they could reach diplomatic achievements without having to negotiate with Israel. “The Palestinians must not be allowed to take over the UN’s agencies and divert them of their original purpose—working for the betterment of the world—thus turning them into ‘lie machines’ that accuse Israel of everything imaginable,” Danon said. “The UN secretary-general must make it clear that continuing to spread lies against Israel will lead to a serious and painful cutback in the budget of the agency preparing the report,” he added.
Sept. 7, 2016

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4851517,00.html

Headline:    Police: Jews may not pray in Muslim Quarter of Old City

A ban on Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount has been extended to the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, police officials say, justifying the series of recent arrests of Jews praying outside of entrances to the Temple Mount. After a number of arrests of Jews praying outside of the gates of the Temple Mount, police justified the arrests during a court hearing on Monday, claiming that the ban on Jewish prayer is not limited to the Temple Mount, but extends to the areas around the entrances to the holy site and even to the Muslim Quarter as a whole. Police representatives Safi Sarahan and Roei Avrahami explained the ban in court, following questioning by an attorney from the Honenu organization representing several girls arrested for praying in the vicinity of the Temple Mount. The officers revealed that prayer by Jews anywhere near the Temple Mount or even in the Muslim Quarter was considered “disturbing the peace”, except where coordinated with the police in advance. “Prayer is permissible anywhere in the Jewish Quarter, but the moment you come without permission and pray in the Muslim Quarter, that causes a public disturbance. Inside the Muslim Quarters and the entrances it is forbidden to pray.” When pressed by the Honenu attorney to cite the law which prohibited Jewish prayer in the Muslim Quarter, the police represents said the matter was within the discretion of the police, under their general responsibility for “keeping the peace”.
Sept. 7, 2016

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217450

Headline:    KGB document said to reveal Abbas was Soviet agent in Syria – The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they unfold

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet spy in Damascus in the 1980s, Israel’s Channel 1 reports, blowing the lid off information uncovered in an archive smuggled out of the USSR. According to reporter Oren Nahari, the famed Mitrokhin archive, kept by KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin, reveals that Abbas was a KGB spy in Damascus in 1983. The documents, obtained by Israeli researchers and scholars Isabela Ginor and Gideon Remez, show that Abbas, who was code-named Krotov (mole) worked under Mikhail Bodganov, who was then station posted in Damascus and is now a top Russian diplomat in the Middle East. Bogdanov was caught in a diplomatic tussle earlier this week after trying to broker a summit between Abbas and Netanyahu in Moscow, with each side saying it was willing to meet and the other side wasn’t. It’s not clear if Abbas, who studied in university in Moscow in the 1980s, was an agent before or after his time in Damascus. Mitrokhin’s notes are considered among the most complete information available to researchers about the KGB. He brought them to the UK in 1992 and his edited notes were released in 2014. His handwritten notes remain classified by MI5. Responding to the report that Mahmoud Abbas was a KGB agent in Syria in 1983, a top Palestinian official says its all malarkey tied to the failed bid for a Netanyahu-Abbas meeting in Moscow. Fatah apparatchik Nabil Shaath calls the report a hollow attempt to evade the Russian invite for a summit in Moscow, according to Israel radio reporter Gal Berger. “He was not an agent of the KGB or any other intelligence agency,” Shaath says. The report of Abbas’s Moscow ties came on the heels of swirling reports of a possible Netanyahu-Abbas meeting in Moscow, though each side accused the other of being unwilling to meet.
Sept. 7, 2016

http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-september-7-2016/

  “Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! ² For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. ³ They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. ⁴ They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)

Saudi Arabia

Headline:     Iran president calls on Muslims to punish Saudi ‘crimes’

Headline:  Saudi Grand Mufti: Iranians aren’t Muslims

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called Wednesday on the Muslim world to unite and punish the Saudi government for its handling of the hajj pilgrimage and wider actions in the region. “Regional countries and the world of Islam should take coordinated actions to resolve problems and punish the Saudi government,” he told a cabinet meeting, according to the IRNA state news agency. “If the existing problems with the Saudi government were merely the issue of the hajj… maybe it would have been possible to find a way to resolve it and put it in the right direction,” he added. “Unfortunately, this government by committing crimes in the region and supporting terrorism in fact shed the blood of Muslims in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.”
Sept. 7, 2016

http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-president-calls-on-muslims-to-punish-saudi-crimes/

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217452

Headline:   Pro-Hadi forces control key posts in Yemen’s Sirwah

Yemen’s national army and pro-government Popular Resistance committees have claimed control over a number of strategic locations in Marib governorate’s Sirwah, Al Arabiya News Channel reported a spokesman as saying on Wednesday. Abdullah al-Shandqi, a spokesman for Popular Resistance committees, said about 35 of the rebels from the Iran-backed Houthi militias and forces loyal to deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh have been killed following clashes in the area. The committees are armed groups, which were formed in several Yemeni provinces during the Yemeni Civil War and after the attempted coup by the Houthis to topple the internationally recognized government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in September 2014. Since the coup attempt, the Houthis have been in control of the capital, Sanaa. Backed by the Saudi-led coalition, the Yemeni army together with the committees are trying to fully liberate Sirwah to finally enter the Khawlan area, considered to be one of the entrances to Sanaa.
Sept. 7, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/09/07/Pro-Hadi-forces-control-strategic-posts-in-Yemen-s-Sirwah-.html

Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:         10 killed in Syrian city hit by suspicious gas, day after suspected chlorine bombing

Syrian activists say at least 10 civilians have been killed in a new airstrike on the neighborhood where a suspected chlorine gas attack struck the previous day. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least one child was among the victims of Wednesday’s strike on the al-Sukkari neighborhood in the contested city of Aleppo. The Aleppo branch of the Syrian Civil Defense search and rescue organization put the initial casualty toll at 20 dead and more than 40 wounded but disparate tolls are common in the aftermath of airstrikes. Medical workers in the city have said the opposition-controlled neighborhood was hit with chlorine gas on Tuesday, though the report could not be independently verified. Activists and medical workers say Syrian government and Russian jets are behind the attacks. At least one person dies and more than 100 injured Tuesday’s bombing, Al Jazeera reported. Syrian activists and rescue workers in the rebel-held part of the contested city said government warplanes dropped the suspected chlorine bombs on Tuesday on a crowded neighborhood. The report could not be independently verified and it was not clear how it was determined that chlorine gas was released. In Tuesday’s attack, a medical report from one of the hospitals in the besieged eastern rebel-held part of Aleppo was shared with journalists via text messages. It said at least 71 people, including 37 children and 10 women, were treated for breathing difficulties, dry cough, and that their clothes smelled of chlorine. The report said 10 of the patients were in critical care, including a pregnant woman.
Sept. 7, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/07/one-reported-dead-100-injured-in-suspected-chlorine-attack-in-syria.html

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

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

Iraq Headline:     Car bombing kills at least 12 civilians in Iraqi capital

A car bombing claimed by the Daesh terror group struck a bustling commercial area of central Baghdad overnight, killing at least 12 civilians, Iraqi officials said on Tuesday. The explosives-laden pick-up truck was left in a parking lot in the Shiite-dominated district of Karradah, near a hospital and shops, a police officer said. Up to 28 people were wounded and at least 15 cars were damaged, he said. A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to the media. Mourners held a funeral procession for some of the dead on Tuesday morning, with men carrying coffins wrapped in Iraqi flags as women wailed and pounded their chests in grief. At the scene of the bombing, shocked residents examined the blood-stained pavement and the damage to nearby shops. Daesh issued a statement saying the suicide attack targeted Shiites. The Associated Press could not verify the authenticity of the statement, but it was posted on militant websites commonly used by the extremists.
Sept. 6, 2016

http://jordantimes.com/news/region/car-bombing-kills-least-12-civilians-iraqi-capital

Iraq Headline:  ISIS attacks Iraqi Army at Tanf border-crossing

The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) carried out a powerful assault near the Syrian border on Tuesday, targeting the Iraqi Army controlled Tanf Crossing in the Al-Anbar Governorate. ISIS began the assault by attempting to overrun the Iraqi Army’s checkpoints near this strategic border-crossing; however, they were unsuccessful after a short battle. The terrorist group attempted to hype up the battle by posting pictures of their personnel with heavy weapons, but this did very little to change the outcome of the firefight.
Sept. 7, 2016

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/isis-attacks-iraqi-army-tanf-border-crossing/

Iraq Headline:    Iraq Situation Report Aug 31- Sept 6, 2016

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/iraq%20SITREP%202016-09-06.pdf

Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above). 

Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.

Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.

Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.

Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Gomer is Eastern Turkey.

Beth Togarmah is Armenia.

Turkey

Headline:      Turkey-backed forces may go deeper into Syria

Headline:  New Syria group vows to “resist” Turkish military incursion

A group claiming to represent “national Syrian forces” has vowed to fight Turkey’s military incursion in Syria, announcing its formation in a north Aleppo town that is under the administrative control of the de-facto autonomous Kurdish government. On Tuesday, the Syrian National Resistance held a press conference in Tel Rifaat to introduce its founding declaration, which was read out by Rezan Hedo, an independent member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces’ political wing. “Oh Syrian brothers, people of the region have suffered from the decades of Turkish-Ottoman rule, [which] has left us with only ignorance, backwardness, hatred, sectarianism and fighting between brothers at the same time as our wealth was taken away as well as parts of our land,” the speech, which was replete with nationalistic terminology, began. The new group went on to launch further broadsides against Turkey, accusing Syria’s northern neighbor of perpetrating “the worst forms of genocide” against people in the region, including Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Chaldeans. “Today, [Turkey] has returned with a new look but with the same [old] mentality; to occupy other parts of our Syrian land after sowing discord and infighting between Syrians through their support for terror,” the statement added, in reference to Ankara’s military operation in northern Syria.
***see also Sept. 2^nd post : http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/17864/Syrian-Kurds-call-Iraqi-brothers-to-the-flag-against-Turkey
Sept. 7, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/09/07/Syrian-opposition-Assad-must-leave-six-months-into-transition.html

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/567339-new-syria-group-vows-to-resist-turkish-military-incursion

Afghanistan

Headline:     Taliban militants advance on Uruzgan provincial capital

The capital of Afghanistan’s central province of Uruzgan is on the brink of falling into militants’ hands in the wake of an advance by Taliban, who have taken position within a few kilometers of the city. Abdul Karim, the head of Uruzgan provincial council, on Wednesday warned of the collapse of the city unless authorities in Kabul provide air support and ground reinforcements. “If there is no significant air support and ground reinforcement, Tarin Kot will collapse,” Karim said. Local Afghan officials say many of the embattled police and soldiers around Tarin Kot are fighting with minimal reinforcements and often with insufficient food and ammunition. Afghan security forces have halted Taliban’s advance about two kilometers (1.2 miles) from the volatile city’s prison. The militants seek to free inmates from the jail.
Sept. 7, 2016

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/09/07/483628/Afghanistan-Taliban-Uruzgan-Tarin-Kot

Headline:    Obama nominates first Muslim federal judge

President Barack Obama has nominated a Washington lawyer to the US District Court bench who would become the country’s first Muslim-American federal judge if he is confirmed. Abid Riaz Qureshi is a lawyer at the Latham & Watkins law firm in Washington, specializing in health care fraud and securities violations, according to the White House. Obama nominated him Wednesday to serve on the US District Court for the District of Columbia. “I am pleased to nominate Mr. Qureshi to serve on the United States District Court bench,” Obama said in a statement. “I am confident he will serve the American people with integrity and a steadfast commitment to justice.” Muslim-American activists hailed the President’s move. “The nomination of Abid Qureshi to fill a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sends a message of inclusion that is welcomed by the American Muslim community and by all Americans who value diversity and mutual respect at a time when some seek division and discord,” said Nihad Awad, the National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Sept. 7, 2016

http://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/political-news/obama-nominates-first-muslim-federal-judge

Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8 ^“ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass Destruction Zechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”

Headline:    Russian jet flies within 10 feet of US Navy spy plane, defense official says

Headline:  Iran vessel ‘harasses,’ sails close to U.S. Navy ship in Gulf: U.S. officials

Headline:  Russia defends intercepting US spy planes over Black Sea

A Russian jet zoomed within just 10 feet of a U.S. Navy spy plane over the Black Sea on Wednesday, the latest in a string of daring maneuvers involving Russian aircraft and the U.S. military, a defense official with knowledge of the incident told Fox News. The Russian Su-27 flew dangerously close to a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft used primarily for anti-submarine warfare while on routine patrol, a senior defense official said. Fox News is told a classified photo of the close call exists, but officials have not decided whether to release it. The incident occurred Wednesday, but the senior official did not give a specific time. Two officials speaking to Reuters described the maneuver as “unsafe and unprofessional.” Meanwhile, A U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship changed course after a fast-attack craft from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps came within 100 yards (91 meters) of it in the central Gulf on Sunday, U.S. Defense Department officials said on Tuesday. It was at least the fourth such incident in less than a month. U.S. officials are concerned that these actions by Iran could lead to mistakes.
Sept. 7, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/07/russian-jet-flies-dangerously-close-to-us-navy-spy-plane-over-black-sea.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-navy-idUSKCN11C1TL

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/World/2016/Sep-07/371009-russia-defends-intercepting-us-spy-planes-over-black-sea.ashx

Aug 31, 2016- Thousands of dead fish wash up on a lake in Alberta, Canada
http://www.spjournal.com/article/Ripples-of-shock-greet-news-of-fish-kill-at-Stoney-Lake-20160830

Aug 31, 2016- Masses of dead anchovy wash up on the coast of Chanaral, Chile
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adnradio.cl%2Fnoticias%2Fnacional%2Fmasiva-varazon-de-anchovetas-en-playa-de-chanaral-preocupa-a-sernapesca-atacama%2F20160831%2Fnota%2F3232330.aspx&edit-text=&act=url

Sept 2, 2016- Thousands of dead fish wash up in a harbor in Mississippi
http://www.wdam.com/story/32995423/pass-harbor-filled-with-dead-fish

Sept 5, 2016- Thousands of dead fish wash up on a beach near Vokolida, Cyprus
http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/09/05/dead-fish-wash-north-beach/

Sept 5, 2016- Dead fish found in a temple pond in Tamil Nadu, India
http://www.ndtv.com/tamil-nadu-news/thousands-of-dead-fish-at-tamil-nadu-temple-tank-1454633

Sept 6, 2016- Dead fish found washed up along a river in Fuengirola, Spain
http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2016/09/06/hundreds-of-dead-fish-wash-up-on-fuengirola-river-bed/

Sept 6, 2016- Fish kill strikes a river in North Dakota
http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Fish-kill-strikes-walleye-pike-perch-in-Des-9207013.php

Sept 7, 2016- Dolphins dead after stranding in Florida Bay, Florida
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article100278122.html

Sept 7, 2016- Hundreds of dead fish and crabs found in a harbor in Baltimore
http://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/water-testing-underway-after-hundreds-of-dead-fish-found-in-baltimore-harbor

Water to Blood Revelation 8:8-9 & Revelation 16:4 “Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.” (Revelation 8) “Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.”(Revelation 16)

Headline:  River in Russia Mysteriously Turns Blood Red

Startled residents of a Russian city inside the Arctic Circle have been posting photos of a local river that has mysteriously turned blood red. Photos published on Russian social media appear to the show the Daldykan River near the city of Norilsk flowing crimson. Russian authorities have yet to establish a reason for the river’s unusual appearance, but local people quickly linked it to a giant metals plant upstream. Russia’s Environment Ministry said it was investigating the plant as the likely cause. Norilsk is known as one of the most polluted cities on earth, built around factories mostly belonging to the vast metals company Norilsk Nickel. Some Norilsk residents wrote in a local social media group that they believe the river’s biblical shade is linked to runoff from a nearby smelting plant. Some suggested the color was being produced by wastewater mixed with mineral ore leaking into the river from the Hope Metals Plant.
***please read the Bible verses carefully, understanding the most likely cause of THIS incident is chemical run-off.
Sept. 7, 2016

http://abcnews.go.com/International/russian-river-mysteriously-turns-blood-red/story?id=41914260

Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”

Headline:              Tropical Storm Newton kills 2, to bring ‘life-threatening’ conditions to U.S.

At least two people have died due to Tropical Storm Newton, which is spreading heavy rains into Arizona and New Mexico on Wednesday after making landfall as a hurricane in Mexico’s mainland. A shrimp boat capsized in the Gulf of California amid rough seas. At least two people died and three others were missing. BBC News reported that officials said the five people ignored warnings against going out to sea. Tropical Storm Newton is expected to generate up to 3 inches of rain in the central part of the Baja California peninsula. Mexico’s Sonora state is expected to see rain accumulation up to 6 inches — possibly 10 inches in isolated areas. Southeastern Arizona and southern New Mexico are expected to get from 1 inch to 3 inches of total rain through Thursday. “This heavy rainfall may cause life-threatening flash floods and mud slides in areas of mountainous terrain,” the NHC said. Mexico’s government has changed a hurricane warning into a tropical storm warning for the northwestern coast of mainland Mexico. The storm system, which is near Mexico’s Bahia Kino, has maximum sustained winds of 70 mph and is moving north at a speed of 17 mph.
Sept. 7, 2016

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/09/07/Tropical-Storm-Newton-kills-2-to-bring-life-threatening-conditions-to-US/4311473247290/?spt=sec&or=tn

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Headline:        Israeli PM Netanyahu considering Putin’s offer to host Palestine talks in Moscow – statement

Benjamin Netanyahu is considering Russia’s offer to host Israeli-Palestinian talks in Moscow, a statement from the Israeli PM’s press service said. “[Netanyahu] presented Israel’s position whereby he is always ready to meet [Abbas] without preconditions and is therefore considering the Russian president’s proposal and the timing for a possible meeting,” the statement reads, as cited by Reuters news agency. The statement came after Netanyahu held talks with Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Envoy to the Middle East, Mikhail Bogdanov. If agreed upon, the talks would be the first between the two leaders in several years, amid the ongoing rift in the region. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there is currently no agreement regarding the talks. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accepted an offer to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow, though the exact date of the meeting is yet to be determined, Palestinian Ambassador to Moscow Abdel Hafiz Nofal told RIA Novosti on Monday. “There is an agreement in principle to meet in Moscow, however, there are still some points that need to be settled. There is no information available about the timing of the meeting,” the ambassador said. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said that he doubts Netanyahu is ready to fulfill the conditions needed for the talks to take place. Israel must stop building settlements in the West Bank, as well as release a number of Palestinian detainees, he said. “In this framework we do not oppose holding the meeting […] between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu under the aegis of Russia. But it seems to us that Netanyahu is not currently ready for such a step,” al-Maliki said, according to Al Ayam newspaper, as cited by Sputnik.
Sept. 5, 2016

https://www.rt.com/news/358283-netanyahu-putin-abbas-moscow/

Headline:      ‘ISIS kilometers away from Israel’s northern border’

The jihadi organizations that have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group have allegedly launched joint operations recently mere kilometers from Israel’s border on the southern Golan Heights. A new video released by Islamic State media shows the ISIS-affiliated coalition advancing on the Yarmouk Valley region located in the triple border junction between Israel’s Golan Heights, Jordan and Syria, Channel 2 reported Sunday night. According to the report, the video shows the militants fighting under the banner of ISIS advancing on Syrian rebel positions in the volatile Daraa province where Syrian military troops have fought with opposition forces throughout the Syrian civil war. By confiscating heavy artillery weaponry, including tanks, Islamic State has allegedly sought to strengthen its influence in the region adjacent to Israel’s northern border. There have also been multiple previous reports of ISIS using chemical weapons in the embattled region.
Sept. 5, 2016

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/ISIS-kilometers-away-from-Israels-norther-border-466906

  “Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! ² For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. ³ They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. ⁴ They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)

Saudi Arabia

Headline:  15 Yemen soldiers killed in rebel attacks

Headline:  Fighting in Yemen oil region kills 26

At least 15 pro-government Yemeni soldiers were killed in rebel attacks in the north and in a suspected extremist bombing in Aden on Sunday, military and security sources said. Shiite Houthi rebels and their allies launched twin attacks to try to retake the port of Midi in the northern province of Hajja, after loyalists had captured it, military sources said. Also on Sunday, in Yemen’s main southern city of Aden, a roadside bomb killed four soldiers and wounded one at a checkpoint in the Sheikh Othman district, a security official said. Meanwhile, at least 26 fighters were killed in clashes on Monday between pro-government troops and rebels over control of an oil-rich region east of the Yemeni capital, military sources said.  Pro-government forces launched a military operation today to retake Sarwah,” a loyalist military source said of the only part of Marib province still held by the militia who have controlled nearby Sanaa since September 2014. Clashes and air raids by the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen’s internationally recognized government “killed 16 rebels and left dozens wounded”, the source said. Ten pro-government soldiers were killed and 12 wounded in the fighting, he added.
Sept. 5, 2016

http://jordantimes.com/news/region/15-yemen-soldiers-killed-rebel-attacks

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/09/05/Fighting-in-Yemen-oil-region-kills-26.html

Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:          Multiple bomb blasts in Syrian cities kill at least 43

A string of bombings, including a suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State group, struck in and around several Syrian cities on Monday, killing at least 43 people, mainly in government-controlled areas. The SANA news agency reported blasts around the coastal city of Tartus, Homs, Damascus, and Hasakeh. The attacks were timed closely together, but authorities have not determined whether they were linked. The IS group claimed responsibility for the blast in Hasakeh.

Attackers detonated two bombs along the international coastal highway to the government stronghold of Tartus, SANA said, killing 35. A car bomb at the Arzoneh bridge was followed by a suicide bomber, who targeted a crowd that was gathering. The city, a stronghold of support for President Bashar Assad, is home to a major Russian naval base. The Observatory said the twin blasts killed 35 people, including an army colonel, and wounded dozens more.

The governor of Homs province said a car bomb struck a military checkpoint in the provincial capital, killing three soldiers and a civilian, and wounding 10 others.

One of Monday’s attacks took place in the heavily guarded suburb of Sabbourah, marking a major security breach. SANA said the attack killed one person, while the opposition-run Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three people were killed.

An Islamic State attacker on a motorcycle blew himself up in the northeastern city of Hasakeh, killing eight, SANA said.
Sept. 5, 2016

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/multiple-bomb-blasts-in-syrian-cities-kill-at-least-43/ar-AAivAB2?li=BBnb7Kz

Syria Headline:      Syrian Army recaptures rebel-held academies, cuts off militant supply route

The Syrian Army has regained control over three military academies in Aleppo, cutting off the supply route used by militants in the eastern part of the city. RT’s Lizzie Phelan talked to the soldiers who’ve been taking the city back, stone by stone. “Sheikh Said neighborhood is the main gate to East Aleppo that is under the control of terrorists,” a soldier told RT. The army, backed by aerial and artillery attacks, managed to recapture the strategic complex comprising of three military academies in the Ramosa district, on Aleppo’s southwestern outskirts, on Sunday. The battle was a tough one, the soldiers said. “[The militants] were using TOW, 22mm anti-air craft guns, mortars, rocket launchers, tanks and hell canons,” another soldier said. The complex had been held by rebels – mainly consisting of Jaish Al-Fateh militants, previously known as Al-Nusra Front – since early August, when they broke through the pro-government army lines. Over the past few weeks, the army has engage in heavy fighting to retake the area, as it held the key to Aleppo’s east. By retaking the academies, the army has technically cut the militants’ supply route.
***See also Turkey below
Sept. 5, 2016

https://www.rt.com/news/358308-siege-aleppo-academies-syria/

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

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

Kurdish Headline:             Turkey attacks Syrian Kurdish protesters near Kobane, two killed and 97 injured

At least two civilians were killed and 97 more were injured after Turkey started to shoot gas grenades and bullets against Syrian Kurdish protestors near Kobane that resisted Turkish attempts to build a barrier wall on the border. People of Kobane on Sunday buried those killed by Turkish fire, amid condemnation to Turkey’s intervention in Syria and their attempt to build a barrier wall on the borderline. Bazan Ehmed (17) and Ehmed Hesen (16), two victims of the Turkish security forces, were buried in Kobane where hundreds of people gathered to show support to their families. In the meantime, protests continued on Sunday, but no civilians were injured. Turkey says the aim of the wall is to secure the Turkish border after terrorist attacks hit Turkey, but Kurds reject this as an excuse to create obstacles for the Kurds to create an autonomous region in Syria.
Sept. 5, 2016

http://aranews.net/2016/09/turkey-attacks-syrian-kurdish-protesters-near-kobane-two-killed-and-97-injured/

Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above). 

Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.

Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.

Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.

Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Gomer is Eastern Turkey.

Beth Togarmah is Armenia.

Turkey

Headline:      After Jarablus, Turkish army entering Syria’s Aleppo

After capturing the Syrian border city of Jarablus, Turkish army forces continued their advance and entered Aleppo province, military sources reported on Sunday. “At least 20 Turkish tanks and five armoured vehicles, accompanied by a large number of Turkish troops, have arrived in the northern countryside of Aleppo province,” spokesman for the Shamiya Front rebel group Saleh al-Zein told ARA News. Also, hundreds of rebels from the Turkey-backed Sultan Murad Brigade and other Turkmen rebel factions accompanied the Turkish army in the advance towards Aleppo. “The Turkish forces and allies have taken over al-Rai town north of Aleppo, turning the town into a military zone after claiming to have expelled ISIS militants from the area,” rebel spokesman al-Zein told ARA News. “However, there has been no fight between the Turkish forces and ISIS in al-Rae, which shows that ISIS has actually handed the town over to Turkey,” he added. This comes just one day after the Turkish government sent military reinforcements to the Syrian northern city of Jarablus, that’s been taken by the Turkish forces and allied rebels of the Euphrates Shield Brigades on August 24 without resistance from ISIS.
***ISIS took this city from rebels on April 11th
Sept. 5, 2016

http://aranews.net/2016/09/after-jarablus-turkish-army-entering-syrias-aleppo/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syrian-war-more-turkish-tanks-cross-border-into-al-rai-as-operation-against-isis-and-kurds-enters-a7224271.html

Afghanistan

Headline:   Twin Kabul explosions ‘kill 24 people’

Headline:  Huge explosion reported in Kabul hours after deadly twin blasts

Headline:  Another district in eastern Afghanistan falls to the Taliban

Twin bomb blasts in the Afghan capital Kabul have killed at least 24 people and injured 91 others near the defence ministry, officials say. The first bomb was detonated remotely while the second was triggered by a suicide bomber, local media reported. An army general and two senior police officers are among the dead, a ministry of defence spokesperson told the BBC. The Taliban, who have carried out frequent attacks in Kabul, claimed the blasts. Deputy defence ministry spokesman Mohammad Radmanish told the Associated Press news agency that the suicide attacker struck as security forces gathered near the ministry to deal with the first blast. As night fell, another loud explosion was heard in Kabul, followed by gunfire. There was no immediate word on the cause of the blast or details of any casualties. Meanwhile,  Taliban and Afghan officials confirmed that the jihadist group overran the district of Omna in the eastern province of Paktika after Afghan forces retreated earlier today. The district is the second in the east to fall to the Taliban in the past week as the group continues to press operations in all areas of the country.
Sept. 5, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37278556

https://www.rt.com/news/358356-huge-explosion-in-kabul/

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/09/another-district-in-eastern-afghanistan-falls-to-the-taliban.php

Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword.  Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions)   Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)

Headline:           Brazil: Police use tear gas at anti-Temer protest

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Brazil to demonstrate against the government. Organisers said 50,000 people – a record number – turned out in Sao Paulo alone for a seventh day of protests against the new President Michel Temer. Mr Temer took office after Dilma Rousseff was removed from the presidency in an impeachment trial. The rally began peacefully but police used tear gas, stun grenades and water cannon as clashes broke out at the end. They said they had been forced to take the measures to avoid vandalism. Several people were reportedly injured including a BBC journalist. Some protesters responded by throwing bottles and stones at riot police, and building and setting fire to barricades. Mr Temer said the protests were “small groups, not popular movements of any size”. Brazil’s Senate voted to remove Dilma Rousseff from office last week, for manipulating government accounts to hide a shortfall in the government’s budget. It put an end to the 13 years in power of her left-wing Workers’ Party. Ms Rousseff had denied the charges.
Sept. 5, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37273027

Headline:        Islamic State’s Sahara branch claims first attack in Burkina Faso

Islamic State forces loyal to Adnan Abu Walid al Sahrawi, the emir of the Islamic State’s Sahara branch, claimed an attack in Burkina Faso yesterday according to Mauritanian news agency Al Akhbar. The claim, which has not yet been confirmed in a statement from the Islamic State, marks the first time this fledgling branch has claimed an attack in its one year of existence. Al Akhbar, which has previously published statements from Sahrawi and other Saharan-based jihadists, reports that Sahrawi sent a message claiming that an attack on Sept. 2 in Burkina Faso, near the borders with Niger, was the work of his men. The assault, which occurred on a Burkinabe gendarmerie post in Markoye, left a border agent and a civilian dead. If confirmed, this would mark the first operation claimed by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS). However, the group has issued threats to North African states in the past. In May, Sahrawi sent an audio statement to Al Jazeera in which he threatened “attacks on the United Nations mission in Western Sahara, Western tourists in Morocco, the headquarters of Moroccan security, and on foreign companies,” according to the report.
Sept. 4, 2016

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/09/islamic-states-sahara-branch-claims-attack-in-burkina-faso.php

Headline:     Philippine Bomb Attack Tests Fight Against Muslim Rebels

An apparent terrorist attack in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown, which is normally known for its public safety, will escalate the government’s battle with violent Muslim rebels and could change the course of decades of civil conflict. Terrorist group Abu Sayyaf has taken credit for a bombing late Friday at a night market in Davao that killed 14 people and injured 70, according to Philippine news reports. Some reports say the group retracted its statement. The bombing is the first major retaliation after Duterte – known as a crime fighter unafraid of using extrajudicial violence — took office June 30 and began strikes against Abu Sayyaf in its stronghold near the southern island Mindanao. Those attacks killed 12 troops and 22 rebels last month. The same group is known for kidnapping foreigners, including a Canadian national who was beheaded in April.
Sept. 5, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/philippines-bomb-attack-tests-fight-against-muslim-rebels/3493893.html

Headline:     Some 100 protesters injured in Kashmir clashes

Around 100 people have been injured when Indian troops fired tear gas and shotgun pellets to break up a massive protest in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. Violent clashes broke out between the troops and thousands of stone-pelting protesters in Shopian district in southern Kashmir on Sunday. The angry protesters also torched a government office in the district, which is located 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of Srinagar, the main city in the disputed valley. The latest rally came in response to a call from separatist groups challenging India’s rule over the Muslim-majority region.
Sept. 4, 2016

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/09/04/483154/India-Kashmir-Shopian

Headline:  Putin’s Gambit in Ukraine: Strategic Implications

Headline:  How Syria, Ukraine crises tie in with US elections

Vladimir Putin has mobilized military forces in Crimea and on Ukraine’s northern and eastern borders.  He has raised the level of fighting in eastern Ukraine to levels not seen in over a year and then arranged a ceasefire.  He has moved advanced air defense systems into Crimea and is raising new Russian divisions near Ukraine.  Analysts are baffled.  Some note that this unprecedented mobilization makes little sense if Putin does not mean to fight Ukraine soon.  Others dismiss it as the normal activities of a great power’s military.  Neither view is correct.  There is nothing normal about this mobilization, but neither does Putin desire a war with Ukraine.  He intends, rather, to use this mobilization and escalation of conflict to create leverage to weaken EU sanctions, destabilize the Ukrainian government, undermine NATO, and present the next American president with a series of faits accomplis.  He is likely to succeed in all these aims.
Sept. 3, 2016

http://iswresearch.blogspot.com/2016/09/putins-gambit-in-ukraine-strategic.html?utm_source=Putin%27s+Gambit+in+Ukraine%3A+Strategic+Implications&utm_campaign=Putin%27s+Gambit+in+Ukraine&utm_medium=email

http://debka.com/article/25651/How-Syria-Ukraine-crises-tie-in-with-US-elections

Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8 ^“ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass Destruction Zechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”

Headline:   North Korea ‘fires three ballistic missiles into sea’

North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles into the waters off its east coast, say South Korean officials. The missiles were launched from the Hwangju region, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on Monday, according to the Yonhap news agency. There was no information on the types of missile fired or how far they flew. North Korea is barred from testing nuclear or ballistic missile technology, but recent months have seen it carry out a string of missile tests. It last fired a ballistic missile just two weeks ago from a submarine off its eastern coast, as South Korea and the US began annual military drills which routinely anger the North. On that occasion the KN-11 rocket that was fired flew for about 500km (300 miles) before falling into the Sea of Japan. This latest test takes place as world leaders meet at the annual G20 economic summit, being hosted for the first time in China.
Sept. 5, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37241649

Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”

Headline:            Typhoon Namtheun makes landfall at Nagasaki, mudslides and flooding feared

Typhoon Namtheun made landfall early Monday at Nagasaki in southwestern Japan bringing possible heavy flooding and landslides, authorities said. Wind speeds of 40 miles per hour were recorded at Nagasaki airport after 1a.m., officials at the Japan Meteorological Agency said. As the Namtheun seems be turning eastward about 9 miles per hour, heavy rain falls on northern Kyushu, dumping nearly two inches of rain per hour. Authorities have said landslides are possible in Kumamoto Prefecture. Through Monday, officials have forecast up to 7 inches of rain over the city of Osaka and another 5 inches over the city of Hiroshima.
Sept. 4, 2016

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/09/04/Typhoon-Namtheun-makes-landfall-at-Nagasaki-mudslides-and-flooding-feared/4041473038586/?spt=sec&or=tn

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Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes

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Headline:     Netanyahu Weighs International Criminal Court Prosecutors’ Request for Israel, West Bank Visit

Headline:    Israel to allow ICC visit on Gaza war mission

Israel is weighing the possibility of permitting representatives of the prosecution of the International Criminal Court to visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the coming weeks, senior officials in Jerusalem told Haaretz. The visit would be in the context of a preliminary inquiry into Palestinian complaints against Israel’s 2014 Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, and settlement construction in the West Bank, according to the officials, who requested anonymity due to the issue’s sensitivity. The aim of the visit by representatives of ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s office would be to engage in a dialogue about the prosecution’s work, Israel’s legal system and the preliminary inquiry process, the officials said. The officials stressed that the delegation would not gather any evidence or look into the Palestinian complaints. Their goal, instead, was what the prosecutors call “outreach and education.”
Sept. 2, 2016

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.739905

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-allow-icc-visit-on-gaza-war-mission/

  “Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! ² For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. ³ They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. ⁴ They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)

Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:         Jets bomb Syrian rebels as they wage big attack in Hama province

Syria Headline:     Syrian rebels destroy helicopter in Hama offensive

Areas of Syria’s Hama province captured by Syrian insurgents came under heavy air attack on Thursday as government forces sought to counter a major rebel assault in an area of strategic importance to President Bashar al-Assad. The rebel thrust in Hama marks a new challenge to Assad and his allies in a part of Syria where he has tried to consolidate his grip on power against a more than five-year-old insurgency. The attack that began on Tuesday is the biggest coordinated rebel offensive in Hama province since 2014, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group. The Observatory said at least 25 people including six children had been killed in the air strikes overnight. Syrian state television said the air force had carried out “concentrated strikes” against what it described as terrorists in the area, saying tens of them had been killed. An official in one of the rebel factions waging the attack, Jaish al-Nasr, said both Syrian and Russian jets were involved in what he described as heavy air strikes. Russia has been bombing anti-Assad forces for almost a year.
Sept. 1, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-hama-idUSKCN1173W8

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Sep-02/370230-syrian-rebels-destroy-helicopter-in-hama-offensive-activists-rebels.ashx

Syria Headline:   Syria strikes kill 25 as another Damascus suburb surrenders

Syria Headline:   Syria regime threatens besieged Damascus town with “total war”

Syria’s government secured a deal to restore its authority over another rebellious Damascus suburb on Thursday. The Syrian capital’s western suburb of Moadamiyeh, which a UN report said was gassed with toxic sarin in 2013, has suffered a three-year government siege that left its estimated 28,000 residents with dwindling food and medical supplies. On Thursday, Moadamiyeh’s residents agreed to let President Bashar Assad’s government restore its security presence and political institutions in the suburb, according to Hassan Ghadour, a resident and leading negotiator of the deal. Ghadour said 200 gunmen who did not wish to give up their arms would be allowed safe passage to rebel-held areas in Syria’s northwestern Idlib and Aleppo provinces. The implementation to the agreement is expected to begin Friday. A local activist in the suburb, Dani Qappani, said the residents had no desire to negotiate with Assad’s government but that their “circumstances grew too difficult.”
Sept. 2, 2016

http://www.timesofisrael.com/syria-strikes-kill-25-as-another-damascus-suburb-surrenders/

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/567318-syria-regime-threatens-besieged-damascus-town-with-total-war

Syria Headline:   Syria Situation Report Aug 25 – Sept.1 , 2016

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/September1%20EDITS%20COT.pdf

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

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

Iraq Headline:   ISIS fighters bomb Iraqi town’s pipelines leaving rivers of oil and streets on fire- PHOTOS

Fleeing ISIS fighters tried to raze an Iraqi town to the ground by flooding the streets with oil and setting it alight. The murderous jihadists had been forced to retreat from Qayyara by Iraqi soldiers, in the latest US-backed push towards Mosul in the north of the country. But as they fled, ISIS bombed pipelines and set fire to nearby oil wells, creating an endless cloud of black smoke that blocked out the sun and left the town shrouded in darkness. The Iraq military’s official Twitter account posted images of the aftermath, showing the streets of Qayyara flooded with black oil, some of them on fire. The apocalyptic scenes brought back imagery from the 1991 Persian Gulf War, when Iraqi military forces torched Kuwaiti oil wells while retreating from advancing coalition forces.
Sept. 2, 2016

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/apocalyptic-scenes-fleeing-isis-fighters-8755738

Iraq Headline:    Nine Iraq forces killed in clashes with ISIS north of Baghdad

Fighters from the ISIS group killed nine members of the Iraqi security forces in clashes that broke out in a remote area north of Baghdad, security officials said Friday. The clashes broke out when ISIS fighters based in the mountain range attacked army and police forces in an area called Mutaibijah, 110 kilometers (70 miles) north of Baghdad. The area lies on the banks of the Udhaim river, near the mountain hideouts where pockets of extremists remained after Iraqi forces reconquered most regions east of the Tigris in 2015 and 2016. “We have nine killed and 24 wounded among the security forces,” an army lieutenant colonel from the Samarra operations command told AFP. “The attack started around 10:00 p.m. last night,” he said. A lieutenant colonel in the federal police said “Daesh (ISIS) fighters came down the river and down the mountain to attack security checkpoints.” He said that ISIS fighters eventually pulled back and that the security forces were back in control of the area.
Sept. 2, 2016

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Sep-02/370188-nine-iraq-forces-killed-in-clashes-with-isis-north-of-baghdad.ashx

Kurdish Headline:           Syrian Kurds call Iraqi brothers to the flag against Turkey

The Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) leader, Salih Muslim, Friday called on Iraqi Kurds to cross the border and fight with their YPG militia against the invading Turkish army in northern Syria. The PYD leader issued his appeal to Irbil from Brussels where he told reporters he had evidence of links between the Erdogan government in Ankara and the Islamic state terrorists. DEBKAfile: The autonomous Kurdish Republic of Iraq’s Peshmerga force is 50,000 strong.
Sept. 2, 2016

http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/17864/Syrian-Kurds-call-Iraqi-brothers-to-the-flag-against-Turkey

Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above). 

Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.

Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.

Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.

Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Gomer is Eastern Turkey.

Beth Togarmah is Armenia.

Turkey

Headline:     North Syria cleared of ISIS, Kurdish militia

Headline:  Erdogan: Syrian Kurd militia didn’t move east of Euphrates

Turkey has swept ISIS militants and Kurdish YPG militia from an area of northern Syria, but Syrian Kurdish forces have still not met a Turkish demand to withdraw to the east of the Euphrates river, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday. Erdogan told a news conference early on Friday that the operation dubbed “Euphrates Shield” had been successful in clearing ISIS and Kurdish YPG from a 400-sq-km (150-square mile) area. But he dismissed claims that the Kurdish YPG, which Ankara calls a terrorist group, had withdrawn to a Kurdish-controlled canton to the east of the Euphrates River. The YPG says it has done so and US officials agree that is mostly the case. The outlawed Kurdish militant PKK has squandered the opportunity for a political peace process with Turkey by continuing its insurgency against Ankara, Turkey’s prime minister said on Friday. The autonomy-seeking Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has launched a spate of attacks since a ceasefire broke down last year, returning to arms in its three-decades-long insurgency in southeast Turkey.
Sept. 2, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/09/02/Erdogan-North-Syria-cleared-from-ISIS-Kurdish-militia-.html

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217263

Iran

Headline:         Report: US secretly agreed to waive Iran nuclear restrictions

Headline:     Obama spokesman hasn’t read it but denies report of secret U.S.-Iran deal on uranium limits

Headline:  Iran, Russia to start work on two nuclear reactors at Bushehr

The Obama administration may have secretly agreed to waive restrictions placed on the Iranian regime’s nuclear program as part of the landmark 2015 deal. According to a soon-to-be-published report by the Institute for Science and International Security, the US and fellow negotiating partners secretly agreed to permit the Islamic regime to ignore some restrictions on its nuclear program, thereby paving the way for the removal of economic sanctions against the rogue state. The report, which was reviewed by Reuters, was co-authored by the institute’s president, David Albright, cites government officials who participated in the negotiation process prior to the signing of the deal last July. Albright, himself a former United Nation’s weapons inspector, told Reuters the US and its allies had colluded to create “loopholes” for the Iranian regime. “The exemptions or loopholes are happening in secret, and it appears that they favor Iran,” he said.
Sept. 2, 2016

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217233

http://www.worldtribune.com/obama-spokesman-hasnt-read-it-but-denies-report-of-secret-u-s-iran-deal-on-uranium-limits/

http://jordantimes.com/news/region/iran-russia-start-work-two-nuclear-reactors-bushehr

Afghanistan

Headline:  Iran, Afghanistan Joining Forces to Fight Creation of ‘Islamic Caliphate’

Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani has paid an official visit to Iran to discuss a raft of hot-button issues, including closer security cooperation and a joint fight against terrorism. During his talks in Tehran with his Iranian colleague Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Afghan foreign minister said that a stable and secure Afghanistan was a strategically important factor in bilateral relations, and prioritized regular consultations and information exchanges between the two countries. Meanwhile, the security situation in Afghanistan keeps worsening with the eastern districts of Paktia province being besieged by Taliban and Daesh terrorists, and the strategic Khanabad district in the country’s northwestern Kunduz province changing hands in continuous firefights between government forces and jihadist terrorists. The situation in western Afghanistan is equally worrisome with anti-Iranian Daesh forces posing a serious threat to Tehran, which is now recruiting local Afghan refugees to fight the terrorist organization. In an interview with Sputnik, Iranian political analyst Pirmohammad Mollazehi underscored the all-importance of closer security exchanges between Iran and Afghanistan.
Sept. 2, 2016

http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160902/1044882195/iran-afghanistan-security.html

Libya

Headline:     Pentagon: IS Down to 3 Neighborhoods in Former Libyan Stronghold

Islamic State forces have been reduced to just three neighborhoods in Sirte, Libya, a city once considered to be a stronghold for the group, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday as the U.S. extended its air campaign over the city for up to another 30 days. The U.S. military estimates that IS forces in Sirte now number fewer than 200, Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis told reporters. “They’re literally with their backs against the ocean at this point,” Davis said. Libyan ships have secured the waters around Sirte in case IS fighters try to escape by sea, he added. The U.S. started conducting airstrikes in and around Sirte on August 1 at the request of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA). These strikes — 108 in total as of Thursday — have aided forces aligned with the U.N.-backed government in Libya as they push IS out of the city. Unlike strikes against IS in Syria and Iraq, “each and every one of those strikes” was requested by the GNA, Davis said.
Sept. 1, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/pentagon-islamic-state-down-three-neighborhoods-sirte-libya/3490285.html

Headline:    ISIS’s Campaign in Europe: July 16-August 18, 2016

ISIS’s network in Europe accelerated small scale attacks in July and August 2015 as part of a deliberate transition to the next phase of its global war between Muslim and non-Muslims.  The recent death of ISIS’s spokesman, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the primary architect of ISIS’s global campaign, will likely not suppress this terror campaign. On the contrary, Adnani’s death may provoke additional attacks in the region intended to punish the West. ISIS-linked militants carried out numerous attacks since July 5 2016 in Europe, using diverse weapons such as a truck, a bomb, and knives and machetes. Political responses to these attacks, such as new restrictions on Muslim ways of dress and places of worship, support ISIS’s goal to polarize the West and encourage increased disillusionment among Muslim communities. ISIS focused its attacks during this period on Germany, the center of Europe where ISIS can exploit political tension over refugees and accelerate its polarization and destabilization campaign. The trend of small-scale attacks suggests that ISIS instructed individual attackers and handlers to conduct semi-autonomous attacks rather than await instruction to coordinate larger spectacular attacks. The increase in rapid claims of these attacks by ISIS’s Amaq News Agency suggests that ISIS is also instructing attackers and handlers on how to communicate their operational plans beforehand, a sign of control and adaptation. Larger spectacular attacks remain a threat to Europe despite this trend.
Sept. 2, 2016

http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/isiss-campaign-europe-july-16-august-18-2016

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/ISIS%20Europe%202016%20AUG%2018%5B1%5D.pdf

Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword.  Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions)   Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)

Headline:           Gabon violence: More than 1,000 arrested after disputed election

Security forces in Gabon have arrested more than 1,000 people during a second day of violence following disputed presidential elections. Three people were killed in clashes in the capital, Libreville. Protests began after the announcement that President Ali Bongo had been narrowly re-elected in Wednesday’s vote. Opposition leader Jean Ping, who is in hiding, told the BBC that his party headquarters had been bombed. The UN, US and former colonial power France have called for restraint and greater transparency about the results. Security forces cracked down after protesters attacked the national assembly building late on Wednesday, tearing down its main gate and setting parts of it on fire. On Thursday the building’s facade was blackened by fire and its windows were smashed. Burned-out cars littered nearby streets. “Democracy does not sit well with an attack on parliament,” Mr Bongo said. Police used tear gas to prevent crowds from gathering there again and arrested people as they emerged from remains of the building. The BBC’s Charles Stephane Mavoungou in Libreville says people there have been unable to access the internet.
Sept. 2, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37252778

Headline:        Pakistan blast at court leaves several dead in Mardan

Headline:  Pakistan military admits Daesh presence

A suicide bomber has attacked a court in the northern Pakistani city of Mardan, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 50, officials say. The attacker threw a hand grenade before running into the court area and detonating a bomb, police told the BBC. Also on Friday, four suicide bombers targeted a Christian neighbourhood near Peshawar before being shot dead. Both attacks took place in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and were claimed by Taliban faction Jamaat-ul-Ahrar. Ijaz Khan, deputy inspector general of police for Mardan district, told reporters three lawyers and two police officers were among the dead at the courthouse. The suicide bomber attempted to reach the court’s bar room, where several lawyers had congregated – but was shot by police before he could enter, Mr Khan said. The president of the Mardan Bar Association, Amir Hussain, told reporters he was in a neighbouring room when the blast happened. “There was dust everywhere, and people were crying [out] loud with pain,” he said.
Sept. 2, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37253739

http://www.arabnews.com/node/978816/world

Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8 ^“ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass Destruction Zechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”

Headline:   Russia will deploy a division of troops about 50 miles from the US

At a recent event, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that a division of troops would be stationed in Chukotka, Russia’s far-east region, just slightly more than 50 miles from Alaska. “There are plans to form a coastal defense division in 2018 on the Chukotka operational direction,” said Shoigu. He said that the deployment was “to ensure control of the closed sea zones of the Kuril Islands and the Bering Strait, cover the routes of Pacific Fleet forces’ deployment in the Far Eastern and Northern sea zones, and increase the combat viability of naval strategic nuclear forces.” Japan and Russia dispute ownership of the northern Kuril Islands, where Russia plans to deploy missile-defense batteries. The Bering Strait is the narrow waterway that separates Alaska from Russia. Broadly, Russia has taken the lead in militarizing and exploring the Arctic region, as melting ice caps open up new shipping lanes between the East and West. In that context, the deployment of a division to the sparsely populated Chukotka region makes sense. In the past, Russia has bemoaned NATO and US troop deployments near to its borders. How the US will respond to this deployment remains to be seen.
Sept. 1, 2016

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-going-deploy-division-troops-200127157.html

Economic collapse Revelation 6:5-6 & James 5:1-3– Worldwide– ^“ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. ⁶ And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James)

Headline:  National debt hits $19.5 trillion

Headline:  94,391,000 Not In Labor Force

The national debt hit $19.5 trillion for the first time ever this week, a little more than seven months after it hit the $19 trillion mark. The debt clocked in at $19.51 trillion at the end of Wednesday, the Treasury Department reported Thursday afternoon. Precise debt figures on any given day are released on the following business day. The national debt hit $19 trillion for the first time ever on Jan. 29. When President Obama took office in early 2009, the total debt was $10.63 trillion, which means it has almost doubled under his watch. The Congressional Budget Office reported in August that the debt-to-GDP ratio will match levels not seen since 1950 by the end of the current fiscal year. The debt is the sum total of annual budget deficits, plus interest, and those annual deficits are soon expected to rise again in the coming years. President Obama has boasted of cutting the annual budget deficits by more than two-thirds over the last few years. But it was under his administration that those deficits soared north of $1 trillion, and only in the last few years did they return to the highest deficit levels ever seen under his predecessor, President George W. Bush.
Sept. 1, 2016

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/national-debt-hits-19.5-trillion/article/2600823

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/94391000-not-labor-force-labor-force-participation-stuck-628

Headline:  The Coming Storm for Global Financial Markets

Global growth is weak, and will be eroded further by Brexit. Oil prices are low, and likely to plunge further. The world has excess capacity and a wage-depressing labor surplus. Corporate profits are shaky. And deflation is laying bare the impotence of central banks. So where would you logically expect financial markets to be going, given that economic, financial and political environment? You’d expect to see increased demand for safe-haven U.S. Treasuries, a soaring dollar, falling commodity prices, and increasing investor aversion to junk bonds, emerging market debt and equities and other low-quality securities. But that’s not the case. The 10-year Treasury yield has been flat for months, as has the dollar against the euro. Commodity prices in general and oil in particular have risen this year. Money has poured into emerging market bonds as well as junk bonds, depressing their yields. How can current security prices be justified in the face of the fundamental picture, at least as I see it?
Sept. 2, 2016

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-02/a-storm-is-brewing-in-global-financial-markets

Pestilence & Plagues Luke 21:11 & Revelation 6:8 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation)

Headline:      Reports of paralysis spike in countries hit by Zika

Headline:  Malaysia reports first Zika virus infection

Earlier this month, Puerto Rico announced its first death from Guillain-Barre syndrome, a condition causing temporary paralysis that, in this case, was linked to the Zika virus. Now incidences of Guillain-Barre are said to have risen in seven countries in tandem with outbreaks of Zika, per a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. The New York Times notes that while the CDC remains wary of saying Zika can cause GBS (it simply says GBS is “strongly associated” with Zika), this research offers further evidence that Zika may indeed be responsible—worrisome news, as about 500 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean are vulnerable to becoming infected with it. “It’s pretty obvious that in all seven sites there is a clear relationship,” says lead author Dr. Marcos A. Espinal of the Pan American Health Organization.
Sept. 2, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/09/02/reports-paralysis-spike-in-countries-hit-by-zika.html

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/09/01/482699/Malaysia-Zika-virus-first-case-Singapore

Godlessness 2 Timothy 3:1-5 & Matthew 24:12 “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: ² For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, ⁴ traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold”

Headline:    Milwaukee’s Flynn addresses ‘deadliest month’ in 25 years

A woman beaten to death with a lamp in an act of domestic violence. A man fatally stabbed during an argument outside a tavern. A man shot and killed while returning from a funeral for his grandfather. Those are just three of the 24 homicides recorded in August — what Milwaukee police have termed the “deadliest month” in 25 years. It is the highest monthly total since July 1991, when the victims of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer were discovered, Milwaukee police said. “We’ve had a slight increase in domestic violence homicides this year, but the biggest driver of our homicides is arguments and fights and retaliation among people with criminal records,” Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said Thursday. “Some of our challenge is simply consistently being able to deter armed offending through the criminal justice system,” he added. “The penalties are too weak.” Although Chicago has captured national headlines for having its deadliest month in nearly two decades, Milwaukee had a higher per capita rate of killings (4 per 100,000 people) in August compared with its neighbor to the south (3.3 per 100,000 people), according to Milwaukee police.
Sept. 1, 2016

http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2016/09/01/flynn-address-deadliest-month-25-years/89732548/

Persecution Matthew 24:9  & Revelation 6:9  “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for  My name’s sake.” (Matthew) “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.” (Revelation)

Headline:     Militants attack Christian area in Pakistan, one guard dead

At least four suicide bombers attacked a Christian neighbourhood in northwestern Pakistan early on Friday, killing at least one security guard, the military said. Authorities “promptly responded” and all four attackers were dead, army spokesman Lt. General Asim Bajwa said in a message on social network Twitter. In a separate statement, the military’s information wing said one security guard of the Christian residential area was killed at the start of the attack, at 5:30 a.m. The attackers, wearing suicide vests and carrying firearms, exchanged fire with security forces and were killed, the statement said. Two solders, a policeman and two civilian security guards were wounded, it added. The official said the attackers might have been attempting to enter an adjacent security installation, by exploiting weaker security arrangements in the residential area.
Sept. 2, 2016

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4849480,00.html

Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”

Headline:         Hermine is 1st hurricane to hit Florida coast in a decade

Hermine tore across northern Florida on Friday as the first hurricane to hit the state in more than a decade, killing one person, raising a storm surge that destroyed beachside buildings and toppling trees into homes. As the system pushed into Georgia, it knocked down many power lines in both states. Hundreds of thousands of people were without electricity. Hermine was expected to move into the Carolinas and roll up the East Coast, bringing the potential for drenching rain and devastating flooding through the Labor Day weekend. As of 11 a.m. EDT Friday, it had weakened from its peak wind speed of 80 mph to a tropical storm. The National Hurricane Center issued tropical storm watches and warnings as far north as the Connecticut-Rhode Island border. “Anyone along the U.S. East Coast needs to be paying close attention this weekend,” center spokesman Dennis Feltgen said. A homeless man in Marion County, south of Gainesville, was killed when he was hit by a tree, Gov. Rick Scott said at a news conference. Although damage was still being assessed, the governor said he knew of no other “major issues” besides the power outages and damaged roads. It was unclear whether he had received word of damage to remote and sparsely populated beach areas just south of the Big Bend, where the peninsula meets the Panhandle.
Sept. 2, 2016

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hermine-hits-florida-coast-1st-hurricane-decade-055427501.html

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Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes

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Headline:    UN Security Council to convene meeting on Israeli settlement building

The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on October 14 to address Israeli settlement building. News of the upcoming meeting emerged after UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov appeared in front of the Security Council on Monday and slammed Israel for continuing to build settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Mladenov said Israel’s actions go against the Quartet’s recommendations, which were published in July. The Quartet’s report outlined what the group believes are the threats to the two-state solution and offered practical recommendations to enable an eventual return to peace negotiations. “Its recommendations continue to be ignored, including by a surge in Israeli settlement- related announcements and continuing demolitions,” Mladenov said. “We heard that settlement construction is not an impediment to a two-state solution; that ‘a few houses’ are not a problem for peace,” he added.
August 30, 2016

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Security-Council-to-convene-meeting-on-settlement-building-466389

Headline:   Israel Approves Hundreds of Homes in West Bank Settlements

Israel approved on Wednesday the construction of hundreds of new housing units in West bank settlements and retroactively legalized dozens more. The plan has already been approved at the political level. The Civil Administration’s High Planning Committee approved the building of 234 homes in Elkana, which are designated by the plan as a nursing home, 31 homes in Beit Arye, and 20 homes in Givat Ze’ev. The committee has also legalized 178 housing units which were built in Beit Arye the 1980s. Another plan to build 30 housing units in the Efrat settlement was expected to be approved during the meeting but was ultimately not discussed. According to sources familiar with the details, the plan was pulled from the agenda at Netanyahu’s request due to fear of U.S. pressure. According to one source, Netanyahu told the parties involved in promoting the plan that it would be frozen until after the U.S. presidential election in November, and its future will depend on the election’s result. The Civil Administration confirmed that the plan was removed from the agenda in the last minute.
August 31, 2016

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.739582

Headline:   US appeals court tosses out $654 million verdict against PLO

A US appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a $654 million jury verdict against the Palestine Liberation Organization for terrorist attacks in the early 2000s in Israel that killed or wounded Americans, saying the US courts lack jurisdiction because the attacks were random and not aimed at the United States. The United States government said last year that the case threatened to financially destabilize the Palestinian government and harm the region. Wednesday’s written decision by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the attacks in 2002 and 2004, which killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more, were “unquestionably horrific.” But the three-judge panel said they were fortuitous and “not expressly aimed at the United States.” The decision, written by US District Judge John G. Koeltl, who was sitting on the court temporarily, said offices maintained by the PLO and Palestinian Authority in Washington were used to promote the Palestinian cause in speeches and media appearances and to retain a lobbying firm. It said those purposes were insufficient to give US courts jurisdiction over the groups for random attacks abroad.
August 31, 2016

http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-appeals-court-tosses-out-654-million-verdict-against-plo/

  “Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! ² For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. ³ They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. ⁴ They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)

Lebanon

Headline:   Bomb blast in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley kills one, wounds 11: Red Cross

A bomb blast on a road in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley on Wednesday killed at least one person and wounded 11 other people, the Lebanese Red Cross said. The explosion took place at a roundabout near the city of Zahle, the source added, without elaborating. Local media reported the person killed was a woman, but gave no further details. TV images from the scene showed broken glass littering the road near the roundabout, and people trying to treat someone lying on the ground with what looked like a head injury. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Several security incidents have hit Lebanon in recent months, including an attack by eight suicide bombers who blew themselves up killing five other people in a Christian village in the north in June. Lebanon has been repeatedly jolted by the five-year-old civil war in neighboring Syria, where powerful Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah is fighting on the side of President Bashar al-Assad.
August 31, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-lebanon-bomb-idUSKCN116193

Headline:     UN warns against Israel-Lebanon truce breakdown

The UN Security Council warned Tuesday that violations of the cessation of hostilities agreement between Lebanon and Israel could lead to a new conflict “that none of the parties or the region can afford.” The council’s warning came in a resolution adopted unanimously Tuesday extending the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon that monitors the cessation of hostilities until Aug. 31, 2017. It maintained the mission’s ceiling at 15,000 troops, supported by international and local civilian staff. The council expressed concern “at the limited progress made towards the establishment of a permanent cease-fire.” It urged all parties “to make every effort to ensure that the cessation of hostilities is sustained, exercise maximum calm and restraint and refrain from any action or rhetoric that could jeopardize the cessation of hostilities or destabilize the region.”
August 31, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/08/31/UN-Israel-Lebanon-ceasefire-breakdown-could-spark-war.html

Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:       ISIS launches major offensive in Deir Ezzor City

The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) launched a major offensive inside Deir Ezzor City on Wednesday, targeting the government-controlled districts of Al-‘Arfi and Mouzafeen. ISIS began the offensive by sending three VBIEDs (vehicle borne improvised explosive device) towards the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) defenses at both the Mouzafeen and Al-‘Arfi districts; however, all three were destroyed before they could reach their intended targets. Following the failed VBIED attacks, the Islamic State terrorists simultaneously the Al-‘Arfi and Mouzafeen districts; this resulted in a series of intense firefights that ended with the militants retreating from one of the areas. According to a military source at the Deir Ezzor Airport, the Syrian Arab Army’s 137th Brigade seized a caged bulldozer from the Islamic State terrorists, while also destroying two of their armored vehicles that were mounted with anti-aircraft machine guns. The ISIS terrorists are now surrounded inside the Al-‘Arfi District after their other units withdrew from Al-‘Arfi earlier today.
August 31, 2016

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

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

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

Iraq Headline:     Iraq Situation Report Aug 23- Aug 30, 2016

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/iraq%20SITREP%202016-08-30.pdf

Kurdish Headline:         Erdogan tells US: Stop backing the Kurds

US-Turkish discord over the Turkish army’s onslaught on the Kurds of northern Syria reached a new low Wednesday, Aug. 30, when the presidential palace spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said in Ankara: “The US must revise its policy of supporting Kurdish forces.” The demand came after a senior US official called on “all the armed actors in the fight against the Islamic State in northern Syria to stand down,” in an effort to contain the new conflict dragging northern Syria into further chaos. The call was addressed equally to Ankara to freeze its military operations in Syria and to the Kurdish PYD-YPG militia to halt the flow of fraternal reinforcements for defending Mabij, the Syrian town the militia wrested from ISIS earlier this month with US assistance. debkafile’s military sources report that the Turkish army and Kurdish forces are already tensely aligned for a decisive battle over Manbij that will determine the outcome of the Turkish invasion of Aug. 24.
***see also Turkey below
August 30, 2016

http://debka.com/article/25637/Erdogan-tells-US-Stop-backing-the-Kurds

Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above). 

Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.

Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.

Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.

Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Gomer is Eastern Turkey.

Beth Togarmah is Armenia.

Turkey

Headline:     Turkish Incursion into Northern Syria Signals Turning Point in Anti-ISIS Fight

Turkey is unraveling America’s anti-ISIS partner in northern Syria in order to position itself as a major power broker in planned operations to retake Raqqa City. Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) crossed into Syria to seize the ISIS held border town of Jarablus alongside numerous Turkish- and U.S.-backed Syrian armed opposition groups on August 24. The operation, titled Euphrates Shield, is a turning point in American-Turkish relations and the war against ISIS by fulfilling longstanding American demands for more Turkish involvement in the anti-ISIS fight. Euphrates Shield also aims to prevent the expansion of Kurdish control along the border, however. The U.S. ordered the Syrian Kurdish People’s Defense Forces (YPG) to withdraw to the east bank of the Euphrates River in accordance with Turkish demands at the start of the operation. Turkey is leveraging Syrian opposition groups it trusts in Jarablus and intentionally sidelining groups that joined the Syrian YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), bringing U.S.- and Turkish- backed opposition factions into direct conflict with the American-backed SDF. The SDF opposed the Turkish incursion and attacked the joint Turkish-Syrian opposition force on August 27. A U.S. defense official announced that the two sides agreed to a “loose” truce on August 30. An unidentified Turkish military source, however, subsequently denied the existence of any such agreement. The Turkish intervention has meanwhile inspired local resistance against the SDF and YPG in Sunni Arab areas including Manbij City, south of Jarablus, and the northern Raqqa countryside. Turkey may exploit this local resistance to unseat the SDF from Manbij City and replace it with a military force that opposes the YPG.
August 30, 2016

http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/turkish-incursion-northern-syria-signals-turning-point-anti-isis-fight

Headline:   Turkey hits out at US over Kurds comments

Headline:   Russia calls on Turkey not to strike Syrian Kurds, others fighting IS

Headline:   Iran urges Turkey to quickly end Syria intervention

Turkey has hit out at the United States over criticism of its ongoing role in the conflict in Syria. Turkish forces have targeted so-called Islamic State (IS) inside Syria, but have also gone after Kurdish fighters in the same region. The pursuit of Kurdish forces, whom Ankara considers terrorists, has led to criticism by the United States. Ankara contacted the US ambassador on Wednesday over comments the foreign ministry called “unacceptable”. A US military spokesman had expressed hopes on Tuesday that, rather than see Turkey pursue Kurdish fighters, “all parties involved are going to stop shooting at each other and focus” on IS. On Wednesday, Russia added its voice, with the foreign affairs ministry calling on Turkey to avoid strikes in Syria on opposition and ethnic groups fighting Islamic State, including Syrian Kurds. “Turkey is a sovereign state, it is a legitimate state,” said Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik. “To suggest it is on a par with a terrorist organisation and suggest there are talks between them, that a deal has been reached between them, this is unacceptable.”
August 31, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37231760

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-turkey-idUSKCN1161LV

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Aug-31/369802-iran-urges-turkey-to-quickly-end-syria-intervention.ashx

Iran

Headline:          Iran’s Khamenei says need to boost offensive military capabilities

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that Iran needs to boost its offensive military capabilities. “In order to secure our population, our country and our future we have to increase our offensive capabilities as well as our defensive capabilities,” he said at a military expo in Tehran where a number of top military officials gathered, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). The Shi’ite leader spoke a week after a U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that had approached two U.S. ships, according to a Pentagon spokesman. The Pentagon also said that Iranian vessels had harassed a U.S. warship near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil and gas shipping channel, early last week. For its part, the Iranian military accused the United States of sending a drone into its air space on Monday, according to the Tasnim news agency. It said the drone left Iranian air space after a warning. President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist, has presided over a limited thaw in Iran’s relations with the West, with a 2015 nuclear deal with six world powers his most notable achievement. But Iran’s military and security services that answer to the hardline Khamenei continue to see Western states as adversaries. Khamenei also said that expanding defensive capabilities was necessary “so that oppressive powers feel threatened”, an allusion to the United States and key European allies.
August 31, 2016

https://www.yahoo.com/news/irans-khamenei-says-boost-offensive-military-capabilities-164107576.html

Libya

Headline:    Obama extends Libya bombing mission against ISIS, officials say

Headline:  More than 100 US airstrikes against Islamic State in Libya in August

President Obama has extended the U.S. military’s combat mission in Libya for another month at the request of senior military leaders, two defense officials with knowledge of the order told Fox News. The decision keeps two U.S. Navy warships off the coast of Libya to continue striking ISIS and assist Libyan ground forces fighting the terror group in the coastal city of Sirte. One of the U.S. warships had been scheduled to go to the Persian Gulf in September to begin airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria and keep an eye on Iran, a week after four provocations between Iranian gunboats and U.S. Navy ships — one of which resulted in warning shots being fired by a U.S. warship. The other, a U.S. Navy destroyer, was supposed to head to the Black Sea near Russia next month. But both plans will be put on hold, according to one defense official. USS Wasp, a large amphibious assault ship loaded with over 1,000 Marines as well as Harrier jets and Cobra attack helicopters, will remain off the coast of Libya – as will her escort ship, USS Carney, a guided-missile destroyer.
August 31, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/31/obama-extends-libya-bombing-mission-against-isis-officials-say.html

http://www.stripes.com/news/more-than-100-us-airstrikes-against-islamic-state-in-libya-in-august-1.426465

Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword.  Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions)   Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)

Headline:          Car bomb outside Somali president’s palace kills 12

At least 12 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Tuesday when a car bomb claimed by Al-Shabab exploded outside the Presidential Palace and also damaged two nearby hotels, an official said. Information Minister Mohamed Abdi Hayir told state radio that a meeting of security officials was under way inside one of the hotels, the SYL, at the time of blast and that one minister and some state radio journalists were injured in the attack. The hotel is frequented by government officials and police said it believed the facility was the likely target.
The SYL and another hospitality facility, both located near the Presidential Palace, were partially destroyed by the blast, Major Mohamed Ali, a police officer, told Reuters. “The blast killed 12 (people) including soldiers and civilians and at least 30 others were wounded,” Ali said.
August 31, 2016

http://www.arabnews.com/node/977786/world

Headline:         Car bomb attack in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

A car driven by a suicide bomber has exploded after ramming the gates of the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, officials say. The suicide bomber died and three embassy employees, all Kyrgyz nationals, were injured, Deputy PM Zhenish Razakov said. China’s foreign ministry condemned the bombing as an “extreme and violent attack”. No-one has yet said they were behind the suicide bombing. Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said: “China is appalled and strongly condemns the violent act.” She said China had “demanded that Kyrgyz authorities take all necessary measures to ensure the safety of Chinese institutions and personnel in Kyrgyzstan, launch a thorough investigation to find out the truth of the incident and harshly punish the perpetrators”.
August 30, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37217712

Headline:   Teenager killed in fresh Indian Kashmir clashes

A teenager was shot dead in Indian-administered Kashmir on Wednesday as thousands of protesters engaged in fresh clashes with security forces after weeks of deadly violence, police and witnesses said. Paramilitary troops fired live rounds as residents demonstrated against an earlier raid by soldiers searching for protest leaders in the northern village of Nadihal, a police officer said on condition of anonymity. “The boy died in the firing. Five other protesters also received bullet injuries,” the officer, who is not authorised to speak to the media, told AFP. Locals said he was aged 18. Protesters also clashed with troops who fired shotgun pellets and tear gas in other areas of the northern Himalayan region including in the main city of Srinagar, another senior police officer and witnesses said. “We have reports about 50 protesters were injured in Anantnag, mostly with pellets,” the police officer said of the southern town. Kashmir has been reeling from almost daily protests against Indian rule since the death of a popular rebel leader on July 8 in a gunbattle with soldiers. Some 70 civilians have been killed and thousands injured in the worst violence to hit the Muslim-majority territory since 2010. Two police officers have also died during the seven weeks of unrest. Residents also set fire on Wednesday to a lawmaker’s house in the southern area of Kulgam as they returned from a rally, a local police officer confirmed. No one was injured in the blaze.
August 31, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/asia/2016/08/31/Teenager-killed-in-fresh-Indian-Kashmir-clashes.html

Headline:   100,000 Russian troops stationed in Crimea, Donbas and around Ukraine

Headline:   Is Russia Conducting A Massive Mobilization Of Troops For An Invasion Of Ukraine?

A new wave of Russian aggression is looming on Ukraine’s horizon as Moscow amasses its army in Donbas, Crimea and along the border. Russia has amassed a 100,000 troops in occupied Crimea and separatist-held parts of Donbas as well as along the Ukrainian border. The divisions consist of tanks and airborne brigades, Ukraine’s military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said in an interview with RFE/RL, according to UNIAN. ‘There are some 40,000 troops in Donbas along the northern border and nearly 50,000-60,000 in the east. This group constantly changes and evolves’, Lysenko said. He added, approximately 700 tanks were located in militant-controlled bits of Donbas alone. ‘Any escalation of the conflict will have bloody consequences both for Russia and our side, so the Russian aggressor is weighing its strength. It is conducting a very thorough reconnaissance,’, Lysenko stated.  On August 26 President Putin announced sudden combat readiness check of his army.
August 31, 2016

http://uatoday.tv/news/100-000-russian-troops-stationed-in-crimean-donbas-and-around-ukraine-kyiv-737262.html

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/winds-of-war-is-russia-conducting-a-massive-mobilization-of-troops-for-an-invasion-of-ukraine

Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8 ^“ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass Destruction Zechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”

Headline:   Russian Anti-Access and Area Denial

Russia has altered the security balance in the Black Sea, Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East by establishing large anti-access/area-denial (A2AD) exclusion zones. Russia’s power projection in these regions has been further extended by the deployment of the S-400 air defense system to Crimea in August 2016 and to Syria in November 2015.Advanced air defense systems create A2AD “bubbles” that prevent Russia’s opponents from establishing air supremacy in strategically significant theaters. The Baltic States, much of Ukraine and the Black Sea, northern Poland, Syria and parts of Turkey fall under Russian A2AD bubbles created by S-300 and S-400 air defense systems. Russia operates advanced air defense not only within its own territory, but from sites in Syria and occupied Crimea, as well as cooperatively through the Joint Air Defense Network in Belarus and Armenia. Russia can use these systems to impede the ability of the U.S. to defend its NATO allies by disrupting the ability of US air forces to access conflict zones in the event of a crisis.
August 29, 2016

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Russian%20A2AD%20AUGUST%202016_1.pdf

http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-anti-access-and-area-denial-a2ad-range

Headline:   North Korea soldiers ‘given nuclear backpacks’ as tensions rise over US-South Korean military exercises

Elite North Korean soldiers are being armed with “nuclear backpacks”, a source has claimed as tensions increase over the authoritarian state’s attempts at military escalation. An anonymous source told Radio Free Asia special units have been formed since March to carry the weapons and had been taking part in simulated training exercises with dummy bombs. “Outstanding soldiers were selected from each reconnaissance platoon and light infantry brigade to form the nuclear backpack unit the size of a battalion,” the source from North Hamgyong province was quoted as saying. The supposed weapons were said to weigh between 10 and 30 kilograms and be able to “spray radioactive material”, possibly uranium, on the enemy.
August 31, 2016

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north-korea-news-latest-soldiers-nuclear-backpacks-kim-jong-un-tensions-us-south-korean-military-a7217401.html

Aug 29, 2016- Mass die off of fish ‘due to pollution’ in the River Seyhan, Turkey
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.birgun.net%2Fhaber-detay%2Fseyhan-nehri-ndeki-kirlilik-baliklari-oldurdu-126046.html&edit-text=&act=url

Aug 29, 2016- Tens of thousands of fish die in a river in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Vietnam
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbaodatviet.vn%2Fchinh-tri-xa-hoi%2Ftin-tuc-thoi-su%2Fca-chet-hang-loat-tren-song-cha-va-lai-thieu-oxy-3317564%2F&edit-text=&act=url

Aug 29, 2016- Freak lightning storm kills 323 reindeer in Norway
http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-norway-lightning-reindeer-death-idUKKCN1141PR

Aug 29, 2016- Large die off of fish, ‘a mystery’ in a lake in Cordoba, Argentina
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.minutouno.com%2Fnotas%2F1506537-preocupa-cordoba-la-misteriosa-muerte-peces-calamuchita&edit-text=&act=url

Aug 30, 2016- Massive die off of fish in fish farms in Boyolali, Indonesia
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.solopos.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fperikanan-boyolali-bencana-ikan-wko-mati-merembet-ke-kemusu-749025&edit-text=&act=url

Aug 30, 2016- Thousands of dead fish found is ‘unprecedented’ in a lake in Sverdlovsk, Russia
http://www.pravdareport.com/news/russia/economics/30-08-2016/135467-dead_fish-0/

Aug 30, 2016- 100 tons of fish have died suddenly in Lake Maninjau, West Sumatra, Indonesia
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnasional.republika.co.id%2Fberita%2Fnasional%2Fdaerah%2F16%2F08%2F29%2Focoaas284-dkp-100-ton-ikan-danau-maninjau-mati-mendadak&edit-text=&act=url

June 23, 2016- Mysterious ‘zombie bee’ scourge reaches southern US
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ZOMBIE_BEES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-06-23-13-46-54

 July 28, 2016- Thousands of dead bees found by bee keeper in Avalats, France
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ladepeche.fr%2Farticle%2F2016%2F07%2F28%2F2392164-plusieurs-milliers-d-abeilles-mortes-par-intoxication-agricole.html&edit-text=&act=url

Aug. 29, 2016- Millions of bees dead ‘due to insecticide spray’ in South Carolina
http://abcnews4.com/news/local/summerville-beekeeper-says-her-colony-was-wiped-out-by-insecticide-spray

Pestilence & Plagues Luke 21:11 & Revelation 6:8 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation)

Headline:     Zika virus: Singapore confirms 41 locally transmitted cases

Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of the Zika virus which were locally transmitted. Most of those infected were foreign construction workers, and all lived or worked within the same region of the country, said the health ministry. None were known to have travelled to Zika-affected areas recently. Singapore declared its first imported Zika case in May, a 48-year-old local who had travelled to Brazil, where the outbreak started. On Saturday, it announced that a 37-year-old Malaysian woman had contracted the virus locally. She is the only confirmed female case so far. Thirty-six of the 41 cases announced on Sunday were foreign workers who worked in the same construction site. Work at the site has been halted after housekeeping was found to be “unsatisfactory with potential breeding habitats favourable to mosquito breeding”. The ministry said in a statement that it could not “rule out further community transmission, since more of those tested positive also live or work in other parts of Singapore”. “We expect to identify more positive cases,” it added.
August 29, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37211647

Persecution Matthew 24:9  & Revelation 6:9  “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for  My name’s sake.” (Matthew) “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.” (Revelation)

Headline:    Experts fear ISIS terrorist knifemen will target Western church for their next attack

Counter-terror experts fear ISIS extremists armed with knives will target a Western church for their next attack. Christian leaders are being warned to increase security and avoid wearing dog collars in public. New counter terrorism advice is being urgently issued to vicars and churches across the UK this week over fears an attack on British religious institutions is now likely. The new measures follow the murder of a priest by two ISIS terrorists in France last month, amid fears the same could now happen in the UK. Experts warn that a terrorist attack on churches “is coming.” Places of worship in the UK, which are ‘easy targets’ for extremists, are now being urged to take precautions and beef up security. A draft of the measures being issued and seen by Mirror Online – called Counter Terrorism Advice for Churches – urges religious leaders to prepare for incidents and to be on alert for attackers, who are likely to be armed with knives.
August 30, 2016

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/experts-fear-isis-terrorist-knifemen-8702162

Headline:   Christian Leader Arrested in Russia as Law Banning Evangelism Outside of Churches Goes Into Effect

The first reports of Christian leaders being arrested in Russia following the passing of new anti-terrorism laws that ban evangelism outside of churches have started coming in. The Moscow Times reports that Sergei Zhuravlyov, a representative of the Ukrainian Reformed Orthodox Church of Christ the Savior, was arrested earlier this month while he was preaching before the St. Petersburg Messianic Jewish community, and was charged with violating a provision of the law that bans illegal missionary activity. Law enforcement officials later told Interfax news agency that Zhuravlyov is being accused of “fomenting negative attitudes toward the Russian Orthodox Church,” and of having ties to the Ukrainian nationalist political party called Right Sector, which is banned in Russia. Ukraine and Russia remain in a state of conflict following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, which has also sparked violent clashes between Russia-backed separatists and government forces in the eastern parts of Ukraine.
August 31, 2016

http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-leaders-arrested-russia-law-banning-evangelism-outside-churches-goes-into-effect-168852/

Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”

Headline:        An ‘Unprecedented’ Pair of Hurricanes Is Churning Toward Hawaii

In what’s being hailed a meteorological first, two back-to-back hurricanes are marching toward Hawaii, both of them threatening torrential rains and rip-roaring winds this week. The closer of the two, hurricane Madeline, could break a second meteorological record as the first hurricane to strike the Big Island since bookkeeping began in 1949. Rumbling west at approximately 9 mph, Madeline is currently packing Category 3 windspeeds of 120 mph. Its latest track has the storm passing south of the Big Island on Thursday, although as meteorologists Bob Henson and Jeff Masters point out over at Weather Underground, it’s too early to rule out the possibility of landfall on the island of Hawai’i. In any case, the storm is expected to bring heavy rains and 40 to 50 mph wind gusts to the island later this week. A hurricane watch is in effect for Hawaii County. “What’s concerning is that even if Madeline stays offshore, that’ll put the Big Island on the righthand side of the storm,” Henson told Gizmodo. “That’s more dangerous because of how winds rotate in a hurricane, and because those winds will be pushing up very high mountain slopes, which will squeeze out a torrential amount of rain.” Following closely on Madeline’s heels is Hurricane Lester, which also wields Category 3 windspeeds and is slowly gaining ground on its sister storm, moving west at 14 mph. Roughly 1,000 miles east of Madeline at the present, Lester is tracking in a more northwesterly direction, and is expected to pass several hundred miles north of Hawaii on Saturday. Nevertheless, this storm could also bring torrential rainfall and powerful surf to towns and cities that haven’t had a moment to catch their breath.
August 30, 2016

http://gizmodo.com/two-unprecedented-hurricanes-are-churning-toward-hawaii-1785935499

Headline:      At Least 9 Dead as Typhoon Hits Northern Japan

At least nine elderly people were killed when their nursing home was flooded in northern Japan after Typhoon Lionrock dumped heavy rains on the area. The bodies of all nine residents were found at a nursing home in the town of Iwaizumi in Iwate prefecture, when police were checking another facility in the flooded neighborhood, said Takehiro Hayashijiri, an official at a prefectural disaster management division. Hayashijiri said identity of the bodies or other details, including whereabouts of their caretakers, were not known. NHK said the nursing home was for the residents with dementia. Japan’s NHK national broadcaster said authorities have found two more bodies in another town in Iwate. Its footage showed the nursing home partially buried in mud, surrounded by debris apparently washed down from the mountains. A car by the home was turned upside down. “We’re making a government-wide effort to assess the extent of damage,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters. The government sent Self-Defense Forces to help in the rescue and cleanup of the damage caused by the typhoon.
August 31, 2016

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/typhoon-threatens-bring-flooding-northern-japan-41736380

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 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 August 25, 2016 Edition written by Frank DiMora 

There isn’t much to laugh about in our world anymore but we remember those who over the years made our lives better by making us laugh. On a sad note we have to say goodbye to Gene Wilder. Gene was one of the people I used to love to watch! 

Hope we meet in Heaven Gene.

Priest is Chosen by Sanhedrin, Temple Service Could Be One Week Away

Headline:     Sanhedrin Appoints High Priest in Preparation for Third Temple

A significant step was recently taken towards reinstating the Temple service when the nascent Sanhedrin selected Rabbi Baruch Kahane as the next Kohen Gadol (high priest). The selection was made as a precaution for Yom Kippur. If the political conditions should change, allowing the Jews access to the Temple Mount, they will be required by Torah law to bring the sacrifices. Rabbi Kahane is confident that if that should happen, Temple service could begin in less than one week. This year has already seen much Temple-oriented activity: the Temple Institute has created a registry of kohanim; established a school for educating men of the priestly class in the details of the Temple service; and performed reenactments on all the holidays, including the especially significant Passover sacrifice. “We do not need a miraculous occurrence like the sudden appearance of a Temple descending from heaven onto the Temple Mount to make this decision relevant,” explained Rabbi Weiss. “The only obstacle preventing the Temple service today is the political issue. If that should suddenly change, as it very well could, we would be required to begin the Temple service immediately. It is therefore necessary that we have a candidate prepared to fill the role of the High Priest, especially now that we have kohanim prepared to serve in the Temple.”
August 29, 2016

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/74772/sanhedrin-appoints-high-priest-preparation-third-temple/#XE95H4jSfXQ00sJL.97

Headline:  Hamas recently opened offices in Tunisia, official says

Hamas recently opened up official offices in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, a senior leader from the terror group revealed on Sunday. Moussa Abu Marzouk told the Tunisian news channel el-Bilad that Hamas has “new-old” offices in Tunis, publicly acknowledging the headquarters for the first time. The Hamas leader said the offices were opened with the blessing of the Tunisian authorities. He did not specify when the offices were opened. The Islamist terror group kept its main offices in Damascus until 2012, when war and political upheaval forced the group’s political leadership to move to Qatar. Hamas also keeps official offices in Turkey.
August 29, 2016

http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-recently-opened-offices-in-tunisia-official-says/

  “Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! ² For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. ³ They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. ⁴ They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)

Saudi Arabia

Headline:       Yemen suicide attack claimed by IS ‘kills dozens’ in Aden

Headline:  ISIL moves in on Yemen war with massive suicide bomb attack

Headline:  Rockets hit Saudi border town as Yemen war flares anew

At least 60 people have been killed in a suicide car bombing at a military facility in the southern Yemen city of Aden, doctors say. A training camp, or compound used by the pro-government Popular Resistance militia, was hit, reports say. So-called Islamic State said it carried out the attack. It comes amid a fresh push to end Yemen’s 17-month-old war between Saudi-backed government and rebels that the UN says has left 6,600 people dead. Some 2.5 million Yemenis have also been displaced.
August 29, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37212473

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-idUSKCN1140HJ

http://www.worldtribune.com/isil-moves-in-on-yemen-war-with-massive-suicide-bomb-attack/

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Rockets-hit-Saudi-border-town-as-Yemen-war-flares-anew-466348

Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash

Iraq                              Syria                          Kurdistan

Syria Headline:     Turkish air strikes kill at least 35 civilians in Syria

Turkey’s army and its allies thrust deeper into Syria on Sunday, seizing territory controlled by Kurdish-aligned forces on the fifth day of a cross-border campaign that a monitoring group said had killed at least 35 villagers. Turkish warplanes roared into northern Syria at daybreak and its artillery pounded what security sources said were sites held by Kurdish YPG militia, after the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported fierce overnight fighting around two villages. The Observatory, a Britain-based monitoring group with a network of sources in Syria, said Turkish-allied forces had seized two villages south of Jarablus, Jub al-Kousa and al-Amarna, that were held by militias loyal to the SDF. The fighting killed 20 civilians in Jub al-Kousa and 15 in al-Amarna, while scores more were wounded, the group said. The Observatory said rebels backed by Turkish tanks fought until dawn against rival militias allied to the SDF around al-Amarna. SDF-allied militia damaged three Turkish tanks, it said. Turkish security sources said warplanes and artillery had hit Kurdish YPG militia sites south of frontier town of Jarablus and towards Manbij, a city captured by Kurdish-aligned SDF this month in a U.S.-backed operation.
August 29, 2016

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Turkish-air-strikes-kill-at-least-35-civilians-in-Syria-466226

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-idUSKCN11305C

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

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

Iraq Headline:   Suicide attackers kill 18 at wedding party in Iraq

Daesh group has claimed it was behind a suicide attack that killed 18 people near Karbala, southwest of Baghdad. Five attackers armed with suicide vests, rifles and grenades killed its victims at a wedding party in the oasis town of Ain Al-Tamer, southwest of Baghdad, local officials said Monday. All the attackers were killed by security forces. “They were carrying Kalashnikovs, hand grenades. One of them blew himself up and the others were killed by the security forces,” the head of the central Euphrates operations command, Qais Khalaf, said. A member of the local council and a source at the provincial health directorate confirmed the death toll in the attack, which took place late on Sunday, and said at least 26 people were also wounded. A statement on the Amaq news agency that supports Daesh said the attack was carried out by four of its suicide fighters against a “gathering of Shiites.”
August 29, 2016

http://www.arabnews.com/node/977086/middle-east

Kurdish Headline:       Turkey: Kurds must not reach the sea

Kurdish Headline:    PKK vows to defend YPG from Turkish invasion into northern Syria

Turkey on Monday said one of the key aims of its unprecedented operation in northern Syria was to prevent the creation of a corridor stretching from Iraq to the edge of the Mediterranean controlled by Kurdish militia. The goal of the operation was to rid the region of Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists and prevent the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia “from completing an end-to-end corridor” across Syria, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus was quoted as saying by NTV television. “If that happens, it means Syria has been divided,” he added. He added that all relevant parties had been informed of Turkey’s operation in Syria which began on Wednesday, including the regime of President Bashar al-Assad who is a bitter enemy of Ankara. “All the parties concerned had been informed… including the Damascus administration. They have been informed through Russia. We are sure of this,” he said. Russia is a key remaining ally of Assad. After the Turkish army sustained its first fatality of the operation at the weekend, Kurtulmus denied Turkey was at war.
August 29, 2016

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217076

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/pkk-vows-defend-ypg-turkish-invasion-northern-syria/

Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above). 

Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.

Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.

Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.

Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Gomer is Eastern Turkey.

Beth Togarmah is Armenia.

Turkey

Headline:     All-out Turkish-Kurd war. Barazani goes to Tehran

Headline:  No one has right to tell Turkey who it can fight

An all-out Turkish-Kurdish war has boiled over in northern Syria since the Turkish army crossed the border last Wednesday, Aug. 24 for the avowed aim of fighting the Islamic State and pushing the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia back. Instead of falling back, the Kurds went on the offensive and are taking a hammering. This raging confrontation has stalled the US-led coalition offensive against ISIS and put on indefinite hold any US plans for campaigns to drive the jihadists out of their Syrian and Iraqi capitals of Raqqa and Mosul. The Kurdish militia ground troops, who were backed by the US and assigned the star role in these campaigns, are now fully engaged in fighting Turkey. And, in another radical turnaround, Iraqi Kurdish leaders (of the Kurdish Regional Republic) have responded by welcoming Iran to their capital, in retaliation for the US decision to join forces with Turkey at the expense of Kurdish aspirations. The KRG’s Peshmerga are moreover pitching in to fight with their Syrian brothers. Together, they plan to expel American presence and influence from both northern Syria and northern Iraq in response to what they perceive as a US sellout of the Kurds. debkafile’s military analysts trace the evolving steps of this escalating complication of the Syrian war and its wider impact
August 29, 2016

http://debka.com/article/25637/All-out-Turkish-Kurd-war-Barazani-goes-to-Tehran

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/No-one-has-right-to-tell-Turkey-who-it-can-fight-EU-minister-466336

Iran

Headline:        Iran deploys long-range missiles to Fordo nuclear site

Headline:  Iran confrontations with US Navy double from last year

Headline:    Iran arrests nuclear negotiator suspected of spying

Tehran has deployed a recently delivered Russian-made long-range missile system to central Iran to protect its Fordo nuclear facility, state television said Sunday. Protecting nuclear facilities is paramount “in all circumstances” General Farzad Esmaili, the commander of Iran’s air defences, told the IRIB channel. “Today, Iran’s sky is one of the most secure in the region,” he added. A video showed an S-300 carrier truck in Fordo, raising its missile launchers toward the sky, next to other counter-strike weaponry. The images were aired hours after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave a speech to air force commanders, including Esmaili, in which he stressed that Iranian military power was for defensive purposes only. “Continued opposition and hype on the S-300 or the Fordo site are examples of the viciousness of the enemy,” Khamenei said. “The S-300 system is a defence system not an assault one, but the Americans did their best for Iran not to get hold of it.” The Fordo site, built into a mountain near the city of Qom has stopped enriching uranium since the January implementation of a nuclear deal with world powers.
August 29, 2016

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-deploys-long-range-missiles-fordo-nuclear-213812868.html

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/29/iran-confrontations-with-us-navy-double-from-last-year-more-frequent-than-thought.html

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4847180,00.html

Afghanistan

Headline:        Taliban storms district in eastern Afghanistan

Headline:     Afghan Forces Readying to Launch Offensive to Retake Eastern District

Afghan security forces are preparing to launch an operation to retake an eastern border district a day after it fell to the Taliban, officials said Sunday. The Islamist insurgency overran and captured Janikheil district in the eastern Paktia province on Saturday, and local authorities confirmed that dozens of Afghan forces were killed in the fighting. A spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry, Dawlat Waziri, told VOA Sunday “enough” forces are in the area under the leadership of the regional crops commander and preparing to stage a counter-offensive to take back Janikhil. “It is not difficult to retake the district from the Taliban but security forces are moving carefully because the insurgents have heavily mined roads in the area,” Waziri noted, adding teams of experts are currently engaged in clearing the explosives. District governor Abdul Rahman Solamal told Afghanistan’s Tolo TV Sunday a prolonged presence of the Taliban in Janikheil would improve its mobility to threaten security in neighboring provinces. The governor insisted his repeated calls for urgent help were not responded to, leading to the fall of Janikheil and he confirmed killing of at least 30 Afghan security forces in fierce battles after around 1,200 Taliban insurgents launched a decisive assault on Friday night. Janikheil sits at a key transit route that includes links to neighboring Khost province and Pakistan.
August 29, 2016

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/08/taliban-storms-district-in-eastern-afghanistan.php

http://www.voanews.com/a/afghan-forces-readying-to-launch-offensive-to-retake-eastern-district/3483752.html

Headline:  Afghanistan Partial Threat Assessment: August 28, 2016

Taliban militants are successfully expanding their territorial control across several regions of Afghanistan during their 2016 summer offensive, Operation Omari. The ANSF’s counter-offensive, Operation Shafaq has repulsed individual Taliban operations, such as the August offensive to isolate Helmand’s provincial capital, but the ANSF remain unprepared and under-resourced to conduct operations in more than one region simultaneously, despite NATO and U.S. assistance. Taliban offensives continue to limit the Afghan government’s control of terrain, thereby expanding ungoverned and remote areas where extremist networks such as ISIS and al Qaeda can reconstitute. The Afghan unity government faces a political crisis because of deadlines in September imposed by the original agreement through which it came to power. If Afghanistan remains on this course, global extremist organizations will reconstitute their sanctuaries in Afghanistan’s ungoverned spaces and pose enduring threats to U.S. national security.
August 28, 2016

http://post.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/August%2028%20AFG%20Partial%20Threat%20Assessment_4.pdf

Libya

Headline:     Heavy casualties as Libyan forces advance on IS in Sirte

Militia loyal to Libya’s unity government have suffered heavy casualties as they push into the last two areas of Sirte held by the so-called Islamic State group (IS). Hospital sources told reporters that 34 government soldiers had been killed and 150 wounded in fierce fighting. Overnight, Libyan and US warplanes carried out air strikes and mortar bombardment of districts one and three in the north of the Mediterranean city. Tanks and rocket-propelled grenades were used in the battle. The brigades loyal to the government said IS militants had deployed five car bombs on Sunday to try to stop the advance.
August 28, 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37210552

Tunisia

Headline:  Militants kill 3 Tunisian soldiers in ambush near Algerian border

Islamist militants killed three Tunisian soldiers and wounded seven others on Monday, opening fire on them with rifles and rocket propelled grenades after their patrol hit anti-tank landmines, an army spokesman said. Militants use the remote, mountainous region along the Algerian border as a base and the military has been hunting them down in the rugged terrain with patrols and air strikes on suspected training camps. Army spokesman Belhassen Ouslati said the three soldiers had been killed in the landmine blast and that clashes were continuing after the ambush in the Mount Sammama area. Since the 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s democracy has been held up as a model for a region wracked by violence and instability. But Islamist militants are one of the key challenges for the new Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, who officially took office on Monday. A local Al-Qaeda affiliate, Okba Ibn Nafaa, has been based in the Mount Chaambi range. Some of its leadership is Algerian while some foreign militants fled there after the French intervention in Mali. Militants occasionally carry out attacks on army patrols and checkpoints in the remote areas around Mount Chaambi, and occasionally raid local homes for food and supplies. ISIS has also drawn several thousands Tunisian militants to its ranks in Syria, Iraq and more recently in neighboring Libya. Tunisian authorities are concerned about returning jihadist carrying out attacks at home.
August 29, 2016

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/africa/2016/08/29/Militants-kill-3-Tunisian-soldiers-in-ambush-near-Algerian-border-.html

Headline:    10,000th Syrian Refugee Arrives in US for Resettlement

U.S. President Barack Obama’s goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. this fiscal year will be achieved one month ahead of schedule Monday. “On behalf of the president and his administration, I extend the warmest of welcomes to each and every one of our Syrian arrivals, as well as the many other refugees resettled this year from all over the world,” National Security Advisor Susan Rice said in a statement. Obama’s resettlement program has emerged as a controversial issue in the U.S. presidential campaign after Republican nominee Donald Trump claimed Syrians are a potential security threat to the U.S. and proposed a ban on Muslims entering the country. Governors of more than 30 U.S. states have tried to block such refugees from settling in their states, despite having no authority to do so, according to legal experts.
August 29, 2016

http://www.voanews.com/a/ten-thousandth-syrian-reaches-us-this-week-in-resettlement-program/3484643.html

Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword.  Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions)   Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)

Headline:         Tension mounts across Venezuela as protesters gear up for Sept. 1 anti-Maduro rally

The political mood in Venezuela is starting to heat up as Sept. 1, the day picked for a massive pro-referendum rally, approaches. On that day, the opposition is hoping hundreds of thousands will descend on Caracas to demand a vote to decide whether President Nicolas Maduro should stay in power. They are calling it “La Toma de Caracas” or “The Caracas Takeover.” Last week, two separate groups started to walk hundreds of miles from the heartland all the way to the capital city encouraging Venezuelans to join, while Liliana Tintori, wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, started a set of daily protests throughout the country. But days before the anticipated event on Sept. 1st, violence is already a concern. Government supporters are allegedly trying to boycott the different groups rallying, as more and more people seem to spontaneously be joining the initiative and walking to Caracas from their hometowns. On Saturday, the government issued a decree banning all private aircraft and drones over Venezuelan territory until Sept. 5 — no was explanation given, but many are connecting it to the ongoing rallies.
August 29, 2016

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2016/08/29/tension-mounts-across-venezuela-as-protesters-gear-up-for-sept-1-anti-maduro/

Headline:       Twelve soldiers die in clash with Islamist militants in the Philippine south

Twelve soldiers, including a young lieutenant, were killed in a clash with Islamic State-linked rebels on a remote southern island in the Philippines, an army spokesman said on Monday as the army offensive entered its fifth day. Major Filemon Tan said five soldiers were also wounded in an 1-1/2 hour firefight in the jungles of Patikul town on Jolo island as troops pursued a large formation of the small but brutal Abu Sayyaf group. “The fighting was really intense, we lost 12 men,” Tan said. “You can really expect heavy casualty from both sides due to volume of fire from both sides. We don’t know how many from the enemy died but there could be more than 30 rebels.” A young army lieutenant leading the troops was killed in a rebel ambush. More than 20 Abu Sayyaf rebels had died since Thursday when the military launched an air-and-ground offensive in Patikul, an Abu Sayyaf stronghold, after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered troops to “destroy” the militant group. The Abu Sayyaf, known for kidnapping and beheading captives, has dogged successive Philippine governments, entrenching its network with vast sums of ransom money in what has become one of Asia’s most lucrative kidnapping rackets.
August 29, 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-militants-idUSKCN1141TY

Headline:   Indian troops use force to curb fresh protests in Kashmir

A fresh wave of violence erupts in Indian-controlled Kashmir where New Delhi’s troops have used force to curb renewed protests by pro-independence demonstrators. Fierce clashes broke out between Indian troops and hundreds of stone-pelting protesters in Srinagar, the region’s main city, on Monday. Protests and clashes were also reported in many other areas of the disputed valley. Angry protesters chanted slogans like “We want freedom” and “Go India, go back” as they hurled stones at government forces across the Muslim-majority region. Indian forces fired live ammunition, shotguns and tear gas at protesters who responded by hurling stones in the city of Srinagar and elsewhere. Several civilians were reportedly injured in the latest fierce clashes. Earlier, Indian authorities lifted a 52-day curfew in the Himalayan region except the town of Pulwama and some parts of Srinagar. However, they reimposed it later in most of Srinagar after anti-India protests and clashes erupted in several neighborhoods.
August 29, 2016

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/08/29/482252/India-Srinagar-Kashmir-New-Delhi-Pulwama-Pakistan

  Economic collapse Revelation 6:5-6 & Daniel 2:41-43– Decline of the Euro ^“ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. ⁶ And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.  As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” (Daniel 2:41-43)

Headline:  Banks prepare for ‘economic nuclear winter’ Senior banking analyst warns of EU APOCALYPSE

A series of political shocks – including Britain’s vote to leave the EU – have led to fears the entire Union could crumble, the currency could collapse and economic nightmares could become a reality. Now it has been revealed this kind of “economic nuclear winter situation” is being prepared for by major banks. Weak corporate earnings, a banking crisis, and the Brexit vote have sparked disaster planning for the worst case scenarios in the second half of the year. A major lender told CNBC: “This could mean triggering Article 50, a referendum in other European nations leading to a break-up of the euro or sterling hitting below $1.20 or lower. “The banks are ready for anything now.” After the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in June, there have been talks a similar referendum may be held in France, the Netherlands and other countries. The source added: “Markets hate uncertainty and the events this year have unfortunately created a lot of mystery around what is going to happen next.”
August 29, 2016

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/704996/Banks-preparing-for-economic-nuclear-winter-Senior-banking-analyst-warns-of-EU-APOCALYP

Aug 27, 2016- Thousands of dead fish wash up in Portland Harbor, Oregon
http://wgme.com/news/local/thousands-of-dead-fish-seen-in-portland-harbor

Aug 27, 2016- Thousands of fish found dead in Long Island Huntington, New York
http://pix11.com/2016/08/27/officials-thousands-of-dead-bunker-fish-wash-ashore-on-li/

Aug 27, 2016- Hundreds of thousands of dead mussels wash up on a beach in Jamesport, New York
http://riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2016/08/75843/high-temperatures-may-have-caused-mussel-die-off-scientists-say/

Aug 27, 2016- 20, 000 dead fish wash up in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey
http://www.app.com/story/news/local/emergencies/2016/08/27/dep-15000-20000-dead-fish-little-egg/89492056/

Aug 28, 2016- Thousands of dead fish wash up in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
http://www.app.com/story/news/local/monmouth-county/land-environment/2016/08/28/more-dead-fish-wash-ashore-atlantic-highlands/89514062/

Aug 28, 2016- 11,500 chickens killed due to avian flu in Lome, Togo
http://africa.tvcnews.tv/2016/08/28/bird-flu-togolese-govt-slaughters-11000-chickens/#.V8PqxfBTHVI

Pestilence & Plagues Luke 21:11 & Revelation 6:8 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation)

Headline:    Indestructible strain of E.coli ‘has reached the US’, researchers warn

Researchers have discovered America’s first untreatable strain of E. Coli bacteria. The unique new superbug has mobile genes that make it resistant to two types of antibiotics, which are now considered last-line defenses against life-threatening bacteria. It was discovered in a 76-year-old man who was treated in 2014 for a complicated urinary tract infection. Scientists have spent months analyzing the patient’s blood and urine samples to understand why his infection was so challenging to treat. And now, recent tests have shown the bacterium carried mcr-1, a gene that creates resistance to the last-ditch antibiotic colistin. It was also shown to carry blaNDM-5, a gene that blocks effectiveness of carbapenems. Carbapenems are considered medicine’s most reliable current antibiotics now that bacteria have found ways of outwitting other families of antibiotics. Previous studies have shown colistin resistance in E.coli infections. But the mobility of the genes of this specific strain is thought to be unprecedented.
August 29, 2016

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3763819/Indestructible-strain-E-coli-reached-researchers-warn.html

Apostasy Amos 8:11 &  1 Timothy 4:1 & 2 Peter2:1-3  “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord.” (Amos)  “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons” (1 Timothy 4:1)  “ But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. ³ By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.” (2 Peter 2:1-3)

Headline:          Satan worship on rise in America

Satanists are not merely mystical eccentrics wearing black Gothic garb, sacrificing animals and operating in shady and secret societies. They are now ordinary people who call themselves ‘secular’ and praise reason and the individual freedom of thought. In the US, explicitly satanic groups have begun drawing attention to themselves in the context of public governmental ceremonies. Just this month, a member of the so-called Satanic Temple was allowed to make an opening prayer to Lucifer at a local council meeting in Alaska. Assembly members stood around in a circle while the Satanist asked them to “embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge.” She then ended the surreal prayer with the words, “Hail Satan.” Thoughtfully, meeting attendees were reminded that they did not have to participate in the opening ritual. The Satanic Temple (TST) is a fairly new organization. Founded in 2013, it fights for political change by pointing out the ostensibly preferential treatment Christianity enjoys in politics. TST has seven chapters in the USA and Europe, and claims a membership of 100,000. One of the group’s objectives is to embed Lucifer in the public school system by establishing afternoon clubs, adoringly dubbed “After School Satan”, which is TST’s response to a Supreme Court ruling allowing evangelical programs to operate in schools. Currently nine clubs are listed under the program, including in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Washington DC. The clubs will focus on “rationalism, free inquiry … and fun”, according to a promotional video. TST itself emphasizes that it seeks to implement “After School Satan” in locations where active Christian children’s clubs operate. TST said it is “not interested in operating After School Satan clubs in school districts that are not already hosting the Good News Club.”
August 29, 2016

https://www.rt.com/op-edge/357523-what-hell-satan-worship-america/

Persecution Matthew 24:9  & Revelation 6:9  “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for  My name’s sake.” (Matthew) “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.” (Revelation)

Headline:  Christians as “Target Practice”

• “We will show the Armenians and the Christians who we are… We have been ordered not to leave any Armenians in the area.” — Islamic rebels, Aleppo, Syria.
• Thousands of Christians are fleeing Eritrea due to extreme persecution. A report describes Eritrea as “one of the world’s fastest emptying nations” and the “North Korea of Africa.” The majority of the 40,000 who fled to Italy last year are Christians.
• “The government of Iran continues to engage in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, including prolonged detention, torture, and executions based primarily or entirely upon the religion of the accused.” — Report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
• A new study claims that as many as 40,000 Christians — including Muslims who wish to convert to Christianity — are being attacked and harassed by Muslims in migrant homes. According to the report, “Now in European asylum homes they are finding more and more that they are in as much danger from radical Muslims in Europe as they were in their home countries.”

August 28, 2016

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8771/christians-target-practice

Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”

Headline:      Eruption of Iceland’s largest volcano feared after 2 earthquakes

Iceland was rocked by the largest earthquakes in 39 years, prompting fears its largest volcano will erupt after almost a century of dormancy. Two quakes — of magnitudes 4.5 at 1:41 a.m. and 4.6 at 1:47 a.m. Monday — rocked the crater of south Iceland’s Katla in the Myrdalsjokull glacier, the Icelandic Meteorological Office reported. They are the largest quakes to hit Katla since 1977, when a 5.1 earthquake was measured there, according to the Iceland Review. Katla, which is 90 miles east of Reykjavik. has not erupted since 1918, when it lasted 24 days and caused major glacier river floods. But the office considers it one of the country’s most active volcanoes. Katla has erupted 21 times in the last 1,100 years, and 18 broke through the ice cap in the volcano’s central crater, according to the Catalog of Icelandic Volcanoes. Icelandic scientists are watching the volcano, according to Icelandic Meteorological Office.
August 29, 2016

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/08/29/Eruption-of-Icelands-largest-volcano-feared-after-2-earthquakes/9031472495498/?spt=sec&or=tn

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Headline:    What’s shaking? List & map of USGS Earthquakes

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