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33 IS
militants killed in Iraqi operation:
At least 33 Islamic State (IS)
militants were killed on Thursday in
an operation by Iraqi security
forces in Salahudin province's
Shirqat town, officials said.
Iraqi army
says it recaptured key town south of
Mosul:
Iraqi forces backed by air strikes
from the U.S.-led coalition gained
complete control of the northern
district of Shirqat on Thursday,
bringing the military a step closer
to a main push on Mosul later this
year.
Security
forces liberate 2 areas near Ramadi,
4 ISIS members killed;
“This morning, the security forces,
backed by tribal fighters, liberated
al-Jard and al-Taysa that are
located between Heet and Baghdadi.
Four ISIS members were also killed
in the operation.”
Iraq; Isil in
suspected first chemical attack on
US troops
: The rocket, filled with mustard
agent, landed at the Qayara air base
in Iraq on Tuesday, where US and
Iraqi troops are based, CNN reported
officials saying.
Abadi:
Presence of Turkish troops hinders
ISIS elimination:
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi
confirmed that the presence of
Turkish troops on the Iraqi
territories is hindering the
elimination of ISIS group.
Opposition
'minister' among 12 dead in Syria
bombing: rebels;
A "minister" in Syria's opposition
government was among at least 12
people killed in a car bomb attack
in the south of the country on
Thursday, the body's spokesman said.
Russia:
Mossad, other foreign agents killed
in Aleppo strike:
Citing ‘battlefield sources,’ state
media says its warships bombed 30
officers from Israel, Qatar and
Western countries
Warplanes set
rebel-held Aleppo ablaze:
Rebel-held areas of the northern
Syrian city of Aleppo saw the
heaviest air strikes in months
overnight, activists say, as a
week-old truce collapsed.
Lavrov: No
More Unilateral Pauses in Syria
(Video):
Russia’s Foreign Minister, has said
during the United Nations Security
Council meeting on Syria that there
will be no more unilateral
‘ceasefire’ pauses in Syria.
According to Lavrov it can’t even be
discussed because all pauses have
been used by militants, incluinng
Jabhat al-Nusra, to regroup and get
reinforcements.
Dozens of
rebels quit Syria's Homs under deal
with govt:
Homs governor Talal Barazi told
reporters that "123 armed men and
157 civilians from the families of
the armed men left to northern Homs
province". The evacuees were headed
to Dar al-Kubra, which is under
rebel control.
US airstrikes
on Syrian troops were ‘intentional,’
lasted nearly 1 hour – Assad to AP
: “It was not an accident by one
airplane; it was four airplanes
which kept attacking the position of
the Syrian troops for nearly one
hour or maybe a little bit more than
one hour,”
In propaganda war -
US demands
Russia and Syria ground all aircraft:
John Kerry, the US Secretary of
State told a session of the United
Nations Security Council on
Wednesday that only a grounding of
all aircraft could protect civilians
from Bashar al-Assad’s regime and
said Vladimir Putin must face a
“moment of truth” over the bombing
of a UN aid convoy last Monday.
Russian
Defense Ministry spotted 'Predator'
drone in area where UN convoy was
attacked:
According to the Russian Defense
Ministry, the drone had taken off
from Turkey’s Incirlik air base
Military
Sources Warn of High Likelihood of
Direct US-Syria Military
Confrontation:
"After the US-led warplanes attacked
the Syrian army's military base in
Deir Ezzur, the Syrian army has
become more resolved not only to
fight the terrorists, but also to
directly confront the US,"
Russia to
send aircraft carrier to
Mediterranean:
Russian aircraft carrier the Admiral
Kuznetsov will join the country’s
naval group operating in the eastern
Mediterranean, the Defense Ministry
has announced. Officials say the
carrier could be used to aid the
anti-terrorist mission in Syria.
Russia does
not rule out strikes against Jaysh
al-Islam and Ahrar Al-Sham;
"We are witnesses to the continuing
merger of these groups [Jaysh
al-Islam and Ahrar Al-Sham - TASS]
with the organizations that have
been universally recognized as
terrorist
More talks at
UN as Syria's future 'hangs by a
thread'
: The United States
and Russia on Thursday are chairing
a meeting that will bring together
the 23-nation International Syria
Support Group (ISSG), set up to push
for a ceasefire
UK Government
has no strategy, no plan and only
‘phantom’ allies in Syria, scathing
Commons report reveals:
Analysis - As ceasefire sits on the
brink of collapse, MPs’ report
paints a damning picture of
Britain’s bombing campaign
Has Turkey
Occupied Northern Syria?
: Turkish President Erdogan recently
commented that “operations against
terrorist organizations will
continue until the end” and has
shown no inclination to pull his
military back across the border.
Turkey in
Syria: A replay of Israel in
Lebanon?;
President Erdogan also announced
that as part of “Operation Euphrates
Shield,” Turkey may expand the area
it occupies in Syria from the
present 900 km2 to an area of some
5000 km2
25 residents
killed, 73 injured in Saudi
airstrikes Yemen;
Warplanes struck their residential
quarter in the Red Sea port city of
al-Hodayda, medical officials said
on Thursday.
17 killed in
Yemen in battle for strategic
heights
Heavy fighting
between Yemeni government forces and
Shia rebels for control of the
heights overlooking the strategic
Bab al-Mandab strait has left 17
combatants dead, the loyalist
commander said on Wednesday.
US kills 3
Qaeda suspects in Yemen: officials:
An apparent US drone strike killed
three suspected Al-Qaeda members
Thursday in Yemen, including a
mid-ranking commander, security
officials said.
Yemen's
exiled government return to Aden:
Prime Minister Ahmed bin Dagher flew
from Riyadh to the port city of Aden
as rebels continue to rule Sanaa
Senators
Struggle With Geography to Support
Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Intervention:
The Strait of Hormuz would be
threatened if Houthi rebels had
taken over all of Yemen before Saudi
Arabia launched a military
intervention last year, they agreed
before leading colleagues to shoot
down a bid to block the arms sale.
27 U.S.
Senators Rebel Against Arming Saudi
Arabia:
In addition to providing Saudi
Arabia with intelligence and flying
refueling missions for its air
force, the United States has enabled
the bombing campaign by supplying
$20 billion in weapons over the past
18 months.
Abbas,
Netanyahu clash over settlements at
UN;
"What the Israeli government is
doing in pursuit of its expansionist
settlement plans will destroy
whatever possibility is left for the
two-state solution along the 1967
borders," Abbas warned.
Abbas to UN:
Great Britain must apologize for
Balfour Declaration
: "This Paved the way for the Nakba
of the Palestinian people; their
dispossession, their displacement
from their land."
Boeing Wins
U.S. Permit for First Iran Jet Sales
Since Shah Era
: Boeing is still
finalizing terms to provide as many
as 109 jets to Iran Air, the
Chicago-based planemaker said in an
e-mailed statement.
'Nineteen
dead' in clashes with ISIS in
Libya's Sirte:
Ten extremists and nine
pro-government fighters died in
clashes Thursday around the last
positions of ISIS in the Libyan
coastal city of Sirte, medical and
military sources said.
DRC: 7
civilians killed in an attack:
The attack which occurred between
Wednesday and Thursday night was
carried out by the Ugandan rebels of
the Allied Democratic Forces, ADF
Afghanistan
inks peace deal with warlord
'butcher of Kabul':
Afghanistan Thursday signed a peace
agreement with notorious warlord
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, paving the way
for him to make a political comeback
despite a history of war crimes and
after years in hiding.
South Korea
confirms it has military plan to
remove Kim Jong Un;
South Korea's defense ministry is
planning a special force that could
remove Kim Jong Un from power.
Poll suggests
war tops Russians’ fears while
economic worries wane:
International tension still tops the
list of Russians’ fears for a second
month in a row, while concerns over
the economic situation are fading,
Biden warns
Ukraine on reforms, says EU
sanctions on Russia at risk:
U.S. Biden warned that Ukraine needs
to live up to its promises on
economic and political reforms or
risk seeing the European Union walk
away from its sanctions on Russia.
German vice
chancellor says Ukraine has to
fulfill its obligations, too:
Germany should undertake efforts to
make the Ukrainian authorities start
fulfilling their obligations to the
Minsk agreements (‘Minsk-2’) on
settling the country’s conflict
Ukraine,
rebels agree troop pullbacks in
three areas: OSCE:
Ukrainian negotiator says that
Ukraine and the rebels pledge to
withdraw troops and weapons by one
kilometre on each side in three
"security areas": Stanytsya Luganska
and Zolote in Lugansk region and
Petrovske in Donetsk region
Trump Leaves
Ukraine Hanging at the UN General
Assembly:
In fact, Trump’s office didn’t even
respond to Poroshenko’s RSVP,
according to Politico—but the
Ukraine leader did sit down with
Hillary Clinton.
MI6 chief
warns Isil terror threat will last a
lifetime as agency hires 1,000 more
spies
: Britain’s top spy
has warned that terrorist groups
like so-called Islamic State pose a
“persistent threat” that is set to
last a “professional lifetime”.
Prospect of
President Trump is causing the
Mexican currency to crash, says
Mexican president:
Enrique Pena Nieto, struggling with
low approval ratings, partly blamed
Mr Trump for the peso's fall to 20
pesos to the dollar.
Heroin,
Nazis, and Agent Orange: Inside the
$66 Billion Merger of the Year:
These companies used to sell heroin
and Agent Orange. Now, they want to
form the world’s largest supplier of
seeds and pesticides.
OECD Warns
Fed, BOJ, ECB of Asset Bubbles,
“Risks to Financial Stability,”
Pinpoints US Stocks & Real Estate;
But the Fed is steadfastly blind to
bubbles & their consequences.
Most Small
Businesses Are Barely Saving Any
Money, New Study Shows:
According to the Small Business and
Entrepreneurship Council, they
account for roughly 50 percent of
gross domestic product and more than
50 percent of new job creation
Report
highlights rising poverty:
Among the troubling statistics in a
new report released Tuesday was the
rising concentration of poverty in
city neighborhoods, and expanding
number of census tracts where the
poverty rate stood at 40 percent or
higher....
Charlotte,
N.C. in state of emergency after
second night of violence:
One person was on life support after
being shot by a civilian late
Wednesday as riot police used tear
gas, rubber bullets and flash-bang
grenades to try to disperse
demonstrators who looted stores and
threw rocks, bottles and fireworks.
Trump calls
for nationwide 'stop-and-frisk'
policy;
“I would do stop-and-frisk. I think
you have to. We did it in New York,
it worked incredibly well and you
have to be proactive and, you know,
you really help people sort of
change their mind automatically,”
Poll: Most US
voters 'disgusted' with presidential
race:
Poll shows that many US voters will
support a candidate in the
presidential election because they
dislike the other. |
