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ISIS captures new ground in eastern Syria after launching powerful attack against Syrian Army forces
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Border Patrol K-9 shot and killed in El Paso, Texas	6 16:14 swksvolFF [11]
IDF attacks Hamas weapons production site following rocket fire from Gaza	0 [6]
Lebanese mob attacks cleric’s office, burns Christmas tree over divisive video	0 [15]
Taliban Attack Repulsed in Ghazni, 11 Taliban Killed: Officials	0 [10]
Special Forces raids, airstrike kill or wound 16 Taliban militants in 3 provinces	0 [19]
Shin Bet arrests 50 PFLP terrorists, thwarting upcoming attack	0 [12]
Indonesia police question suspected Islamic militants arrested in Papua	5 13:37 jpal [14]
Impeach foh'ty fahve!	4 12:41 The peanut gallery [12]
Haftar-led Libyan Army scores new advance around Tripoli	0 [10]
ISIS captures new ground in eastern Syria after launching powerful attack against Syrian Army forces	0 [26]
Haftar-led Libyan Army allegedly cordons off Tripoli after new advance	0 [10]
Russian, Syrian jets launch nonstop strikes over northwest Syria as army offensive approaches	0 [17]
Palestinian Archbishop Atallah Hanna rushed to hospital after being poisoned	2 16:44 jpal [5]
Shin Bet has unconverted a big PFLP terror cell considering of 50 militants in the #WestBank	0 [5]
3 'top militants' of 'Allahr Dal' arrested	0 [14]
One person killed, 3 injured in airstrike on Sirte Protection Force	0 [15]
Libya’s western and central cities declare state of mobilization to end #Haftar's aggression	0 [6]
Haftar's militia groups shelled residential areas in Salah Eddine district in south #Tripoli	0 [5]
IDF shoots, arrests Palestinian throwing Molotov cocktails at Israeli cars	3 10:45 Silentbrick [11]
Page 2: WoT Background
'Drag Corpse to Parliament, Hang for 3 Days': - Order for Musharraf Execution	9 18:42 Zhang Fei [21]
Pelosi hints at postponing the sending of articles of impeachment to the Senate.	11 15:20 JohnQC [15]
Elle Magazine's ‘Women Of Color In Politics To Watch' List	5 22:11 Gerthudion Glererong4555 [15]
American Airlines mechanic with 'ties to ISIS' pleads guilty to sabotaging a plane with 150 passengers on board by gluing Styrofoam inside the aircraft's nose	2 10:56 SteveS [12]
Minnesota Muslim woman gets $120G settlement after claiming jail forced her to remove hijab	4 15:13 rjschwarz [9]
Abbas says no elections unless Palestinians in East Jerusalem can vote	0 [12]
UN: Israel has advanced 22,000 housing units since 2016 anti-settlement measure	0 [4]
IDF prepares to raze home of terror leader in attack that killed Israeli teen	0 [11]
Mexican children shiver in tents at US border as temperature freezes	6 11:34 Dron66046 [11]
Hezbollah membership increasing in Germany ahead of ban vote	0 [10]
Man whose number found on NJ shooter was selling arms	3 20:04 Frank G [14]
Egypt and allies seek to confront Turkish involvement in Libya	1 09:50 b [7]
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Hamas) in San Diego Saturday, but Location Kept Secret for Safety	5 16:19 swksvolFF [11]
Saad Hariri announces he wont accept candidacy to form new government	0 [8]
Inauguration of President-elect Tebboune: Algeria ushers in new era	1 13:43 SteveS [8]
Senate votes overwhelmingly to pass a bipartisan $738 billion defense policy bill which included the prohibition of Turkey from participating in the American F-35	0 [5]
State Department plans to dramatically downsize the number of US personnel in #Iraq	2 14:53 magpie [7]
UN study: Israeli military control costs Palestinians $2.5b each year	9 12:27 lord garth [5]
Greater Tripoli welcomes decision by major cities to end the battle against Haftar	0 [4]
ICC warns Haftar: Watching closely recent attack on Tripoli	1 12:33 g(r)omgoru [9]
Iran confirms it is testing new centrifuges	0 [13]
Erdogan says Turkey was forced to launch Syria operation over lack of aid	1 08:38 Mercutio [14]
F-35 can identify and destroy cruise missiles - Lockheed Martin	14 15:41 Procopius2k [16]
Israel allows Qatari donation of 20 emergency vehicles into Gaza	0 [4]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Pakistan Seeks Removal of Judge for Ordering Public Hanging of Musharraf	0 [12]
The Portillo Expedition - Andy Giles, Dick Portillo, Bill Faulkner, and Admiral Yamamoto (lengthy Video)	2 18:03 Besoeker [3]
Today in history: Goa, Daman and Diu were annexed to India from Portuguese rule	1 13:44 Dron66046 [5]
Panic as CDC warns that the SAME three children with measles may have exposed thousands of holiday travelers across the US to the highly-contagious virus in a matter of hours as they flew from LAX to Denver	8 17:04 Iblis [6]
Fifth Pentagon official announces resignation in seven days	19 23:56 Gerthudion Glererong4555 [8]
Satellite footage captures a dozen mystery objects on the runway of clandestine Tonopah Test Range Airport near Area 51 in Nevada	5 13:31 SteveS [4]
Australian government created fake, negative horoscopes to deter Sri Lankan asylum-seekers	6 15:42 Dron66046 [5]
Google security engineer says she was fired for daring to remind Googlers they do indeed have labor rights	7 12:01 Angating the Wide5629 [4]
Academic Wants to Ban the Insults "Nerd" and "Geek" as Hate Crimes	9 16:32 swksvolFF [6]
Farage: Anti-EU Revolt is Spreading Across Europe	6 21:22 Rodney King [9]
Who is pretending to look surprised? Epstein's 1st suicide video is missing	3 14:32 lord garth [10]
Jews to repair earthquake-struck home of Albanian Muslim whose father saved Jews	2 10:04 Dron66046 [4]
Israel cutting power to West Bank Palestinians over debt	5 12:49 Mullah Richard [6]
Operation Against Qaisari Over House Ownership	0 [8]
N.H.-Bound Coal Train Kept Rolling, Despite Activists On The Tracks	10 14:49 rjschwarz [5]
Florida Cop: Ex-cop gets 10 years for ordering teens to strip, run naked	3 09:16 Skidmark [4]
Prince Chuck to make first official Israel visit for Holocaust Memorial Day	4 20:25 European Conservative [12]
Nine of the 20 richest counties in the US are in the Washington DC suburbs as the capital outstrips Silicon Valley in earning power	5 23:13 Varmint Splat1454 [10]
Tony Blair blames 'revolutionary socialism' for Labour defeat	2 17:29 g(r)omgoru PB [8]
Mormon Church misled members on tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower claims	2 12:10 Airandee [10]
ACLU calls for tampons in men's rooms in order to achieve 'menstrual equity'	23 18:13 g(r)omgoru PB [2]
Exorcists Condemn Children’s Book on Summoning Demons	4 15:30 swksvolFF [6]
Mormons pulling 400,000 youths out of struggling Boy Scouts	0 [9]
SS, Seattle Version: Municipal Employees' Homeless Response Team Fights Oppression with Transgender Stripper, "Beyoncé Black St. James"	8 20:03 Frank G [11]
Rivit Joint and Cobra Ball watch for Kim's "Christmas Surprise"	2 04:15 Skidmark [8]
Russia to modernize Syria port, build railway across Syria and Iraq	1 04:20 Skidmark [14]
Page 4: Opinion
Mark Levin: Impeachment is About Blocking Trump From Getting Another Supreme Court Pick	6 18:38 Lex [11]
Why No 'White Lives Matter'?	2 14:31 Elmerert Hupens2660 [14]
Donald Trump and Boris Johnson Are the Avatars of the Future	0 [14]
Free Matt Drudge Now	0 [6]
Devin Nunes Says FISA Court Did ‘Absolutely Nothing' When He Warned of FBI Abuse Last Year	7 12:56 Besoeker [14]
Toxic Femininity	4 07:57 Procopius2k [6]
Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan Now	8 18:41 Rightwing [10]
Thiessen: Past few weeks have been the best of Trump's presidency	4 07:39 Glenmore [10]
Page 6: Politix
AOC slams Tulsi Gabbard over ‘present’ vote on impeachment articles	6 19:13 g(r)omgoru [14]
Is a January Surprise Coming for Impeachment?	11 22:50 ruprecht [10]
REWIND: Jan. 29, 2018, FBI Dir rebuts Nunes Memo on FISA abuses- Now we know Wray, too, was lying	12 12:10 Abu Uluque [10]
Bloomburg sez Biden unfit to be prez	6 16:44 Mullah Richard [7]
Maxine Waters flashes the ''white power sign'' at impeachment hearing	4 15:49 Dron66046 [10]
Brennan admits 'there were mistakes made' in FISA applications	6 12:34 Abu Uluque [12]
Brit Hume: One Of The Wonders Of Modern Media Is Its Failure To See Through Adam Schiff	10 16:19 AlanC [15]
Maxine Waters's Unhinged Russia Conspiracy Theory Push	6 09:08 Deacon Blues [8]
Seven indisputable facts about this ‘historic’ impeachment that historians will use to condemn it as ‘folly’	14 15:32 JohnQC [5]
Paul Manafort has New York state fraud prosecution DISMISSED because of 'double jeopardy'	2 15:44 JohnQC [14]

    
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                        22:50 ruprecht

                        22:11 Gerthudion Glererong4555

                        21:22 Rodney King

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                        21:06 European Conservative

                        20:57 European Conservative

                        20:49 Elmerert Hupens2660

                        20:27 Herb McCoy 

                        20:25 European Conservative

                        20:06 Frank G

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                        19:53 Lex

                        19:19 charger

                        19:14 g(r)omgoru

                        19:13 g(r)omgoru

                        19:07 Procopius2k

                        18:42 Zhang Fei

                        18:41 Rightwing

                        18:38 Lex

Who's in the News
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8	Arab Spring
3	Palestinian Authority
3	Islamic State
3	Sublime Porte
3	PFLP
2	Taliban
2	Govt of Iran
2	Hamas
1	Hezbollah
1	Human Trafficking
1	Govt of Qatar (MB)
1	Moslem Colonists
1	Govt of Iraq
1	Govt of Iran Proxies
1	Commies
1	al-Nusra

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Thu 2019-12-19
ISIS captures new ground in eastern Syria after launching powerful attack against Syrian Army forces

Wed 2019-12-18
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Tue 2019-12-17
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Mon 2019-12-16
Iran claims the whole Persian Gulf. Both sides!

Sun 2019-12-15
Attempt to assassinate the son of the political spokesman of Muqtada al-Sadr

Sat 2019-12-14
Haftar-led Libyan Army claims new advance near Tripoli

Fri 2019-12-13
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Thu 2019-12-12
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Wed 2019-12-11
Iraqi protesters defiantly turn out in the capital Baghdad

Tue 2019-12-10
Jersey City shooting - possibly 6 dead at JC Kosher grocery

Mon 2019-12-09
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Sun 2019-12-08
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