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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Subway Attacker Who Severely Beat Elderly Woman On Camera Was Wearing A Palestinian Keffiyeh
[Brightstart] A brutal attack on a New York City subway was captured on video. The short clip has been viewed millions of times on social media and clearly depicts a black man severely beating an elderly black woman.

Of course, because New York City is under the control of Democrat Socialists, and the culture there grows coarser by the hour, nobody did a damn thing to stop the attack.

It’s awful.

One thing that seems to have gone largely un-noticed by anyone in mainstream media is that the suspect was clearly wearing a Palestinian Keffiyeh, the radical symbol of muslim supremacy over the Jews of Israel (Sold on Amazon, of course!).

Now, imagine the attacker was wearing a MAGA hat, and tell us it’s not relevant. Should Palestinians now be subjected to the same group backlash from Democrats that Trump supporters face over fake attacks that never even happened?

Of course not. Nobody should be subjected to Democrat tactics.

Something tells us they’ll catch this guy quickly by visiting the local chapter of the Nation of Islam. Just a hunch that the local members know exactly who this is.

Update: MAIL - Suspect is arrested after attacking a woman who told him to stop 'manspreading' on the New York subway
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2019 06:36 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You mean it wasn't the APB of a white man wearing a MAGA hat?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2019 7:44 Comments || Top||

#2  If the old lady really told him to stop manspreading, then she needed a smack. But he went too far.
Posted by: Captain Oppressor of the Giants5753 || 03/24/2019 15:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Unless he was manspreading while standing. Which is unsurprising from one of his ilk.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/24/2019 17:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Manspreading update appears to be an old story. In current arrest story, our hero and his affianced (on family outing with kid, supposedly) claim... victimhood.
Posted by: Jomble Bucket2505 || 03/24/2019 23:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Y'know what I hate about this case (other than the obvious stuff)? I hate that I knew, after just a few seconds of skimming enraged tweets, before I'd seen a pic or description of either victim or perpetrator, that both of them absotively, posilutely hadda be black (or at least blackish).

And I say that as the annoying a-hole who, when everybody's running the "they didn't say it, so he's gotta be black" tape, mutters, "probably not this time," and turns out to be right. Getting weary of it all. The crime was annoying enough... like, thirty years ago... but this whole nationwide (and then some) complex of ignorance and delusion that's grown up around it? Wouldn't have believed it possible.
Posted by: Crock Thromoger7201 || 03/24/2019 23:45 Comments || Top||


More than 27,000 pounds of cocaine seized off US coast
[Washington Examiner] Another massive round of cocaine shipments was seized off the Florida coast, with the Coast Guard saying that shipment was worth well over $350 million.

Coast Guard officials offloaded more than 27,000 pounds of cocaine Friday on their base in Miami Beach after the bust. The cocaine shipments, which were headed to the U.S. from Mexico, Central America, and South America, were seized from 12 different vessels by six separate Coast Guard units throughout the Caribbean in an operation that started in January.

"They all teamed together to catch this in bulk form," U.S. Coast Guard Vice Adm. Daniel Abel told WSVN Miami on Friday.

"For each metric ton, it’s estimated that that metric ton could kill 11 Americans," Abel added. "That metric ton could send a thousand to an emergency room with an overdose. That metric ton could start 11,000 American citizens on an addiction."

Coast Guard officials are pleased with the result of the cutters, saying that every kilogram of the drug seized in the sea means less grams of cocaine on the streets.

"It’s definitely an experience when that alarm goes off at 3 in the morning and you’re gone for the next 12 to 14 hours, during that boarding and seizing the contraband, bringing the members back on board," Boarding Officer Michael Black said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2019 05:05 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Cops bust suspect seen kicking elderly woman in the head on subway
[NYPOST] Cops busted the monster caught on video beating up an elderly woman on a Bronx subway train

"The subject wanted for the brutal subway attack of an elderly woman IS IN CUSTODY. The victim was treated & released from the hospital & is getting the care, advocacy & support needed," Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea announced Saturday.

Charges are pending against the man, whose name was not immediately released.

The viral video shows the man attacking the 78-year-old victim as she is sitting in a northbound No. 2 train around 3 a.m. March 10, police said.

She tried to defend herself as her attacker kicked her in the face and body ‐ while straphangers can be heard shouting in the background, but doing nothing to intervene.

As the train was stopped at Nereid Avenue, the man yells something at his victim before turning around, looking at the camera and shouting, "WorldStar that, my n‐a." ‐ referring to the popular social media page that is filled with violent videos. He then got off the train.

Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So who took the video? Sounds like an accomplush.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/24/2019 2:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Busted his arms or his legs?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2019 4:26 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Fire breaks out at Sudan’s old presidential palace
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Thick plumes of smoke billowed into the sky Saturday as a fire destroyed Sudan’s old presidential palace in the capital Khartoum.
named after a horse's head in The Godfather
Police cordoned off the streets heading to the palace, built in 1832 on the bank of the Blue Nile, as smoke billowed from the building.

The fire broke out due to a short circuit in some of the offices on the second floor of the palace, the presidency said.

"Most offices in the old republican palace are not in use... the fire has now been brought under control," Mohammed Saleh, an official at the presidency said in a statement.

He did not say whether there were any casualties.

The palace was the official seat of the Sudanese government in the decades following the country’s independence in 1956.

But in recent years, President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
had shifted to a new palace from where he runs his administration’s daily affairs.

The 75-year-old leader is facing a wave of angry protests against his iron-fisted rule of three decades, with demonstrators calling on him to step down.

Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
'Belt and Road' puts Egypt at forefront of China's new renewable energy projects
[AlAhram] Step by step, China aims to reach a clean, pollution-free society and set a plan several years ago for a fully clean environment by 2020, by expanding the use of new and renewable energy and eliminating the use of coal to generate electricity.

The continent of Africa, led by Egypt, Æthiopia, Tunisia and Algeria, is at the forefront of China's efforts to build joint ventures in new and renewable energy and to share its fruits.

On Friday evening, the China-Africa Solar Forum, with the participation of the embassies of most African countries took place.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 03/24/2019 00:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Saturday Italy joined Belt and Road.
What does that mean for NATO?
Posted by: 3dc || 03/24/2019 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Saturday Italy joined Belt and Road.

Precisely. They’ve been saying China will be the next big fight — and we can see them shaping the battlefield.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/24/2019 9:36 Comments || Top||

#3  China aims to reach a clean, pollution-free society and set a plan several years ago for a fully clean environment by 2020, by expanding the use of new and renewable energy and eliminating the use of coal to generate electricity.

Maybe AOC should go and be one of their strategic planners.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2019 10:27 Comments || Top||


Britain
Multi-billion-pound deal for early warning radar aircraft
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Russian troops arrive in Venezuela


Posted by: 3dc || 03/24/2019 02:10 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Venezuela is sitting on top of the largest proven oil reserves in the world (300,878 million barrels) and Russia wants that potentially powerful reservour.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 03/24/2019 2:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought China already bought Venezuela.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/24/2019 9:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Troops or Wagner employees? The contractors are expendable and deniable in Putin's eyes
Posted by: Flomp Unusoling7393 || 03/24/2019 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  The Russians did what?!? Those imperialists. The US would never send troops to a foreign country.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/24/2019 9:51 Comments || Top||

#5  But Remember, They Say They're No Longer Communists.

(Doo Dah Man, take Putin's, Obama's, and Xi's dicks all out of your mouth when you say that, maybe it won't sound like mumbling to the rest of us. I've been watching pseudo-isolationist-"conservatives" and communists both here and abroad cheer on the Chavista grinding down of Venezuela for the last twenty years, saying stuff about Imperialist America every step of the way.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/24/2019 12:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Someone's rather touchy because someone else didn't use a /sarcasm tag, aren't we?

Also - lighten up, Francis.
Posted by: || 03/24/2019 12:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Thing, I believe Doo-Dah Man just forgot to put sarcasm tags on his post.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/24/2019 12:41 Comments || Top||

#8  That was me at #6.

If you have a problem with someone, try o deal with it a bit more, shall we say, professionally. I don't see the need for a regular poster to slam another regular with that cocksucker bullshit.
Posted by: Raj || 03/24/2019 12:54 Comments || Top||

#9  I’m really bad at discerning sarcasm and humour when on a computer instead of face to face, as so many here have discovered the hard way, so I am no lnger surprised when others fail to understand mind. This is why LOL, ;-), and /sarc were invented.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/24/2019 12:59 Comments || Top||

#10  I was under the impression that the sarcasm tag was implicit here at the 'Burg.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/24/2019 13:07 Comments || Top||

#11  it's my middle nym
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2019 13:25 Comments || Top||

#12  Very well, I'm sorry, and I'll try to relax.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/24/2019 13:58 Comments || Top||

#13  I have some meds...
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2019 14:04 Comments || Top||

#14  TFSM - I've been guilty of this more than a few times myself (conveniently omitted from my scolding posts!), so maybe I'm not the best spokesman for proper conduct.

We're good - carry on...
Posted by: Raj || 03/24/2019 18:31 Comments || Top||

#15  Russian army general Vasily Tonkoshkurov was in the group of 100.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/24/2019 19:18 Comments || Top||

#16  I was under the impression that the sarcasm tag was implicit here at the 'Burg.

No doubt. Nonetheless, as seen here that’s one of those more-honoured-in-the-breach thingies. Which is why I’ve had to apologise so often over the years.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/24/2019 21:09 Comments || Top||


Kazakhstan renames capital to honour ex-leader
[Al Jazeera] Astana has been renamed as Nur-Sultan, as a tribute to former leader Nursultan Nazarbayev, who resigned on Tuesday.
It's kinda like the old Soviet Union, where Volgagrad was renamed after former Chairman of the Central Committee Joseph Vissarionovich Volga, or Saint Petersburg was named after the head of the Bolsheviks, Vladimir Ilich Saint Peter..
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Cabello: Roberto Marrero asked us to leave only President Maduro
[ELUNIVERSAL] Betraying President Nicolás Maduro, and leaving him alone on the political stage, was the main focus of Roberto Marrero on January 22, during the supposed meeting he attended with Juan Guaidó with government figures, said Diosdado Cabello.

The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) offered the information this Saturday, in transmission of Venezolana de Televisión, prior to the beginning of the march "anti-imperialist" and in favor of the Government.

"This gentleman was in the meeting we had with the self-proclaimed on January 22, and he was there with him and in that meeting the most reactionary approach was his (Marrero) because Guaidó was scared. He (Marrero) proposed that we should leave only Nicolás, " said Cabello.

The Chavez leader said that the "national right" only seeks to develop a terrorist plan against the public services of the country. "They are wrong, there is going to be justice, be it Guaidó or Marrero, all in due time," he ratified.

He added that the conscience of the people is more strengthened after the attacks perpetrated on the National Electric System (SEN), on March 7, and stressed: "We are in victory, we defeated them."

Roberto Marrero was jugged
Please don't kill me!
on Thursday of this week for being the head of a "terrorist cell" that planned "selective killings", and is being investigated for his alleged involvement in the frustrated liquidation against President Maduro, on August 4, on Avenida Bolívar de Caracas, during a military act, reported Minister Néstor Reverol and the Office of the Prosecutor.
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Removing Maduro must include detaining Cilia Adela Gavidia Flores de Maduro (Maduro's wife). She is the consumate tyrant's wife who would continue his legacy with a vengence.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 03/24/2019 2:03 Comments || Top||


Government denounces presence of "Central American paramilitaries" who seek to "destabilize" the country
[ELUNIVERSAL] Minister Jorge Rodríguez said that they possess intelligence information in which this irregular group is linked to opposition factors, including Juan Guaidó and Roberto Marrero

Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "Gulenists, all of 'em!"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2019 9:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Which side is Allan on in this fight? I'm having a hard time keeping up.
Posted by: jpal || 03/24/2019 9:34 Comments || Top||

#3  This is totally different from the guys Venezuela was sending into Columbia to help the revolutionaries. Totally.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/24/2019 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Sooo...they aren't Russian?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2019 14:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Sooo...they aren't Russian?

Of course not. These guys want to destabilize, while the Russians want to stabilize Venezuela (as in make it a permanent hellhole.)
Posted by: Frozen Al || 03/24/2019 15:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Having read the article, they are making a very big deal out of nothing. There are supposedly 60 people training for action, of which 30 have been introduced so far.

Even if it's true, it is very small potatoes.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 03/24/2019 15:23 Comments || Top||


Estimate that it will take up to $ 70 billion to restore the economy
[ELUNIVERSAL] The team of Guaidó hopes to resort to an extraordinary fund of the International Monetary Fund for catastrophes and war situations that could amount to between "60,000-70,000" million dollars

Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies


China-Japan-Koreas
North Korean Border Defense Official Arrested on Smuggling-related Charges
[RFA.ORG] North Korean authorities on March 15 incarcerated
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
the commander of one of the country’s border defense regiments, who is alleged to have embezzled funds earned in a state-sanctioned car smuggling scheme.

Sources say the arrest seems out of place, as smuggling is rampant along the border with China, and carried out by or with the connivance of state agencies.

Residents find it odd for authorities of North Korea, which rejects the international trade sanctions that the smuggling is trying to evade, to be suddenly concerned about the smuggling trade, leading some to believe that is the result of political tension, while others believe it is a simple cash grab.

"The commander of the border defense regiment from the Hyesan area was arrested by the defense security command [on the 15th]. He has continually been involved in car smuggling, and [the authorities] didn’t seem to care. But then suddenly a crackdown has begun," said a source from Yanggang province to RFA’s Korean Service on March 16.

"Many people have doubts about the reasons for the [sudden] crackdown," said the source.

The source explained that Hyesan, situated on the southernmost point of Yanggang province’s border with China, has been a traditional hotbed for the smuggling business, where authorities either look the other way, or even assist smuggling operations.

"People here say that Hyesan is the best smuggling route in the whole country, so that’s why there are so many smugglers bringing goods through from China," the source said.

"Border guards in Hyesan are tight with state-run agencies and they aid smugglers," said the source.

The source revealed that in many cases the authorities are themselves smugglers.

"The state-run trade agencies are all involved with smuggling themselves, and it’s really just another way of conducting trade for the nation in a way that allows them to avoid U.N. sanctions," the source added.
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies



N. Korean Diplomats Return to Their Posts After Pyongyang Visit
[WORLD.KBS.CO.KR] North Korea's Ambassadors to China and the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
have arrived back in Beijing after visiting Pyongyang earlier in the week.

Ambassador to China Ji Jae-ryong and Ambassador to the United Nations in New York Kim Song arrived in the Beijing Capital International Airport on Saturday morning via an Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang.

Ji is expected to return to his post immediately while Kim is expected to take a flight to New York after taking a rest at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing.

Along with more than seven other diplomats, including the North's Ambassador to Russia Kim Hyong-jun, the two diplomats returned to Pyongyang on Tuesday. Their simultaneous trip sparked speculation that they would meet North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
and other top leaders to discuss its nuclear negotiation strategy following the breakdown of last month's summit with the United States in Hanoi.

A diplomatic source says the diplomats' return to their host countries means that North Korea has decided on a new strategy toward the United States.

Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


India-Pakistan
Notice taken of alleged forced conversion, underage marriages of 2 minor girls in Ghotki: Fawad
[DAWN] Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday said the government has taken notice of reports of the alleged forced conversion and underage marriages of two teenage girls in Ghotki.

"The two girls wanted to convert to Islam since long influenced by its teachings, but first act after conversion was underage marriage," he said.
The father and brother of the girls ─ who belong to a Hindu family ─ in videos circulating on social media say that the two sisters were kidnapped and forced into changing their religion from Hinduism to Islam. However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
a separate video of the minor girls is also making rounds, in which they say that they accepted Islam of their own free will.

Lawyer and activist Jibran Nasir was among those who raised the issue on Twitter, sharing a video which he said was of the two sisters, one aged 14 and the other 16.

In the video, a holy man can be seen next to the girls and two men who they were married to. The holy man says the girls were inspired by Islam and alleges that their family is spreading "false propaganda" and is threatening their lives.

Nasir said the sisters were converted at the Dargah Barchundi Sharif. "As per Dargah, girls wanted to convert to Islam since long influenced by its teachings, but first act after conversion was underage marriage," he said. The girls were reportedly taken to Rahim Yar Khan following their marriages.

Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Driver in Karachi shot by employer in confrontation over alleged rape of maid's daughter: police
[DAWN] A man working as a driver for a prominent political family of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
was shot and maimed by his employer in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
on Saturday over allegations of raping the minor daughter of a domestic helper, according to police.

Gizri Station House Officer Khan Mohammed Bhatti told Dawn that the 20-year-old driver, Mohammed Irfan, was shot at and maimed inside the Defence Housing Authority residence where he worked.

The officer said that an initial probe revealed that the maimed man had allegedly raped the teenage daughter of the family’s maid inside the home two days ago. The mother had complained to her employer, who then called the driver to question him. He stated his innocence and claimed that it was a false accusation against him.

"The owner of the house was not satisfied with his response, and in order to frighten him, resorted to firing a shot and the bullet hit the driver," said the officer, sharing the initial findings of the case.

The driver was taken to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) where he was found to be out of danger, according to Dr Seemin Jamali, executive director of the hospital. The bullet struck his right thigh.

Later on Saturday night, SHO Bhatti told Dawn that the police have registered a rape case against the injured driver on the complaint of the victim's mother. The officer said the girl is around 13-14 years old. The police will get a medical examination done from the hospital on Sunday, he added.
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Iraqi PM seeks sacking of governor after Mosul boat capsize
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has formally requested that parliament sack Nineveh Governor Nawfal Hammadi al-Sultan after a river ferry accident killed at least 90 people in the placid provincial capital, djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
The capsize of the boat, which was carrying families to a recreational spot on an island in the Tigris River on Thursday, was the most deadly incident in the northern city since it was recaptured from ISIS in a bloody and destructive conflict in 2017.

Since the turbans were driven from Mosul nearly two years ago, relief has given way to impatience over alleged corruption as reconstruction of the destroyed city has stalled.

"Due to the obvious negligence and dereliction in performing duties and responsibility, and the presence of evidence proving misuse of public funds and abuse of power.. we suggest that you dismiss the governor and his deputies," Abdul Mahdi wrote in a letter addressed to the speaker of parliament that was published by his office late on Friday.

Iraqi law gives the federal parliament the right to sack provincial governors based on the suggestion of the prime minister.

Scores of angry protesters swarmed Iraq’s president and the governor on Friday, forcing them to leave the site of the accident. The crowd threw stones and shoes at Sultan's car, which sped off hitting two people, one of whom was taken to hospital.

Protesters blamed negligence by the local government for the accident. The boat was loaded to five times its capacity, according to a local official.

Abdul Mahdi had said on Thursday those responsible would be held accountable. Five ferry workers were enjugged
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!


Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2019-03-24
  More than 130 killed in Mali massacre as UN visits
Sat 2019-03-23
  It’s official: SDF declare ‘total elimination’ of ISIS caliphate
Fri 2019-03-22
  Final Islamic State Stronghold in Syria Falls
Thu 2019-03-21
  HTS captures infamous ISIS commander in rural Idlib
Wed 2019-03-20
  Colombia seizes assets to the ELN guerrillas
Tue 2019-03-19
  Three Dead in Utrecht Shooting, Police Identify Turkish Suspect
Mon 2019-03-18
  Syria force says 'thousands' still inside last IS pocket
Sun 2019-03-17
  1 killed, another wounded in a magnetic bomb explosion in Kabul city
Sat 2019-03-16
  TV details how Hamas ‘accidentally’ fired at Tel Aviv
Fri 2019-03-15
  Over 40 killed as gunmen open fire in two mosques in New Zealand
Thu 2019-03-14
  Niger Says It Killed 33 Boko Haram 'Terrorists'
Wed 2019-03-13
  SDF close in on ISIS in Baghouz
Tue 2019-03-12
  Baghouz: ISIS militants retreat underground as coalition offensive resumes
Mon 2019-03-11
  Foreign ISIS brides isolated after attacking ‘infidel’ refugees at Syrian camp
Sun 2019-03-10
  More than 60 Taliban militants killed in Special Forces operations and airstrikes
Sat 2019-03-09
  JuD offices in Muridke, Lahore taken over


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