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Afghanistan
2 ANA Soldiers Wounded in Jalalabad Blast
[ToloNews] At least two Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were maimed in a blast in the eastern province of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
on Wednesday morning, sources said.

The incident occurred around 9 am local time in PD8 of Jalalabad city when the vehicle struck a roadside mine, the sources said.

However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the local officials have not yet commented on the blast.

No group including the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
has grabbed credit.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


ANDSF surprised ’10 Taliban suicide bombers’ in an ambush attack
[KhaamaPress] A statement on Wednesday said that 10 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
jacket wallahs were ambushed by ANA forces in the Almar district of Faryab province.

The ministry’s bulletin added, that the Taliban planned to target Afghan national defense and security forces in Almar district last night with a vehicle loaded with explosives.

In the preventive operation conducted three suicide bombers were hit and seven other Taliban affiliates were reported injured.

Earlier in a separate incident, Afghan national defense and security forces backed by air support targeted Taliban fighters in the capital of Almar, killing 12 Taliban Death Eaters and wounding four others.

So far no group including the Taliban has grabbed credit for the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Ministry of Defense: 66 Taliban killed in Kandahar, Zabul
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense in a released statement said that government forces inflicted heavy casualties Taliban
...Arabic for students...
in the Arghandab and Jiri districts of Kandahar province.

MoD stated Wednesday, that Afghan national defense and security forces backed by Afghan Air Force launched a clearance operation in Arghandab and Zherai districts of Kandahar.At least 31 Taliban were reportedly killed and eight others were maimed during the skirmish.

According to the MoD three Taliban vehicle, and some of their weapons and ammunition were also destroyed during the battle.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier...
the Ministry of Defense in another statement indicated that at least 35 Taliban gunnies were killed in southern Zabul.

Afghan national defense and security forces conducted a joint operation facilitated by air support in Mizan and Shahr-e-Safa districts of the province, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Wednesday.

The statement indicated that 35 faceless myrmidons were killed and further 19 affiliated Taliban members were maimed during the raids and two of the group members were detained.

As many villages were cleared of the Taliban influence in Mizan district, ANDSF has seized one vehicle, seven cycle of violences, and two weapons belonging to the murderous Moslem group, the statement added.

In the meantime, a Taliban hideout and ammunition were wrecked and eight mines planted aimed at targeting civilians and the Afghan national army were discovered and later defused by the government security forces in Mizan district.

Taliban have not yet commented on both of the incidents.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Madobe meets with UN envoy hours after Al-Shabaab mortar attack on Halane
[Garowe] Jubaland President Ahmed Madobe on Tuesday night held a meeting with UN envoy for Somalia James Swan in Halane base in Mogadishu hours after his arrival.

Madobe landed in Mogadishu ahead of the pre-election conference that would bring together with the federal government of Somalia leaders and those from member states, as the country strives to unlock the impasse.

Madobe, who has been critical of the government of outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, has often insisted on safety ahead of the talks, further calling for the withdrawal of federal troops from the Gedo region, which has been "grabbed" from regional administrators.

Before his arrival, Madobe's advance security team donned in military combats with Jubaland and Somalia flags arrived at Aden Abdulle International Airport, where they did surveillance before Jubaland state leader landed.

Multiple sources told Garowe Online that the talks will be held around the vicinity of the airport, just within the Halane Base Camp. The date for the talks is yet to be determined, but President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has been calling for a conference to solve the crisis.

Further, sources told Garowe Online that Madobe and his Puntland counterpart Said Abdullahi Deni will be staying at Halane Base Camp throughout the talks. The two leaders want the opposition team to be included in the upcoming talks which are aimed at reviving the September pre-election deal.

His arrival came just hours after Al-Shabaab militants fired six mortar shells at Halane Base Camp which hosts the AMISOM team and several diplomatic missions offices. Both the UN envoy James Swan and the FGS have condemned the attack, which left a number of civilians injured.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Arabia
Royal Saudi Air Force conducted airstrikes on an Iranian-backed Houthi 2K12 Kub (SA-6) air defence launcher
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Saudi-led coalition currently striking Houthi targets around Yemen capital Sana’a
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Houthis Accused of Setting Detention Center on Fire with Ethiopian Migrants Inside
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s legitimate government and human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
activists in Sanaa are accusing Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s of killing dozens of Æthiopian migrants colonists after the Iran-backed turbans set a detention center ablaze in the capital on Sunday.

Houthis burned down the center after the migrants colonists refused to join their ranks.

The number of victims who died in the fire remains unknown, but activist sources are saying the figure exceeded 180.

"The incident left hundreds of African migrants colonists killed or injured," Yemeni Information Minister Muammar al-Eryani confirmed in an official statement.

He exposed the Houthis for having the dead collectively buried in a new graveyard in an attempt to hide the crime.

"The incident came after the Houthis arrested African refugees from streets and markets and asked them to choose between indoctrination courses and then participation in fighting or imprisonment and repatriation, and after the refugees protested against maltreatment in jails that lack the lowest humanitarian criteria," he explained.

Eryani said that the government was urging for an international, transparent, and independent probe into the fire.

The minister called for the release of all the detainees, in conformity with Yemen's commitments in this regard, and for refugees be allowed free movement or voluntary return home.

Earlier on Tuesday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) called on the Houthis to allow humanitarian access to injured migrants colonists.

When the fire started, there were some 900 migrants colonists, most of them Æthiopians, in the crowded detention center, and the hangar area hosted more than 350 migrants colonists, IOM said in a statement.

The group's staff were offering emergency care to more than 170 injured people, of whom at least 90 were at death's door.

Local activists circulated leaked footage showing the burning of dozens of immigrants colonists inside the detention center, confirming that the militias were the only party responsible for the heinous crime.
Posted by: Fred || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Missile strike on military base on outskirts of Yemen’s Marib city
[AlAhram] A Missile strike targeted a military base on outskirts of Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Marib city on Wednesday, two residents told Rooters, adding that sounds of ambulances could be heard rushing to the place.

The base includes the building of the ministry of defense and is located near residential areas, they said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
BrianEntin tried to document what’s happening at growing “George Floyd Autonomous Zone” in Minneapolis
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/11/2021 00:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  A tail wagging the dog story.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/11/2021 9:28 Comments || Top||

#2  "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, "

"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

An arbitrary and capricious decision by a local government executive is apparently sufficient to deprive residents of the US of fundamental civil rights by turning them into subjects of a despotic warlord regime.

The idea of a free and open society, protected by a republican form of government aka "The Free World" is dying with a whimper.

Nuts!
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 03/11/2021 9:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Any place like that where law enforcement is not welcome is exactly where law enforcement needs to be. Send the Marines if necessary but this occupation, this mob rule, this little Antifa insurrection, must be ended. This only differences between this and the January 6 Capitol Building breach are location and the fact that this is unopposed. Biden is derelict in his duty, to say the least, if he doesn't send federal troops to stop it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/11/2021 12:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Not derelict. Deliberate.

By now it should be obvious that Antifa ate the shock troops of our Red Woke-sheviks. Deplorables are the equivalent of the Whites and other counter-revolutionaries.

This is civil war -- but only one side its fighting aggressively and kinetically.
Posted by: Vortigern Shaviting3125 || 03/11/2021 13:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Must have been an eye opener when the enemies of the US realized they didn't have to treat journalists with kid gloves, they could outright abuse them and still get favorable treatment in the press.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/11/2021 15:00 Comments || Top||

#6  What does the "Democracy Dies in Darkness" crowd have to say about this?

Nothing?

Whuttasurprise...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/11/2021 15:00 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Republic Day violence: Man who assaulted cop with spear among two arrested
[OneIndia] Two persons, including a 21-year-old man who assaulted a policeman on duty at Red Fort with a spear on January 26, has been arrested in connection with the violence at the historic monument, police said on Wednesday.

With this, the total number of arrests made in connection with the case of violence at the Red Fort on Republic Day stands at 14, they said.
Inch by inch,
Row by row,
I’m gonna make my garden grow...

Or round up romantic Sikh Homelander Pakistani tools one by one, anyway. Carry on, O Indian Crime Branch police..
The police said that various teams of the Crime Branch Unit probing the Red Fort violence case have been conducting regular raids at different places in Delhi and Punjab. The duo, Maninderjit Singh, 23, and Khempreet Singh, 21, who were actively involved in the violence, were arrested on Tuesday.

According to police, Maninderjit Singh, a Dutch national, settled in Birmingham, UK, was arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airport while trying to flee from India on forged travel documents and posed himself as Jarmanjit Singh. He originally belongs to a village in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.

As per his plans, he was to fly first to Nepal from Delhi and then head to the UK. A look out circular was also issued by the police against him in connection with the case and he is previously involved in two criminal cases, they said.

Another accused Khempreet Singh, a resident of northwest Delhi''s Swaroop Nagar, who police said had assaulted a policeman on duty inside the well area of the Red Fort with a spear, was absconding and willfully evading his arrest.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Monika Bhardwaj said the presence of the accused, Maninderjit Singh, at the Red Fort was established through electronic evidence. There are video footage on record, which shows his presence alongside the unlawfully assembled unruly riotous mob at the Red Fort carrying a spear during farmers agitation on January 26.

"During an investigation, an electronic map was drawn to figure out the possible route taken by the accused to reach the Red Fort on the date of the incident, which transpired that Maninderjit alongside the mob, started moving from the Singhu Border, Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar, Burari, Majnu ka Tila and finally reached the Red Fort.

"Electronic evidence further corroborates the fact that he had also visited the Singhu Border protest site on different dates and took an active part in the violence at the Red Fort," the DCP said.

The officer said that during analysis of videos available on case record, Khempreet Singh, along with his associates, was seen carrying a spear in his hand and assaulting a policeman on duty inside the Red Fort (well area).

"With the help of a technical surveillance, regular raids were being conducted at the possible hideouts of Khempreet. Local informers were also deployed in the vicinity of the available whereabouts of the accused and finally on Tuesday, his location was traced to an area in west Delhi''s Khayala, where he was hiding in a house of one of his relatives. A raid was conducted and he was arrested from there," she said.

During an investigation, Khempreet Singh disclosed that on January 26, he along with his associates, joined the mob from Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar and finally reached the Red Fort after breaching the barricades at Burari and Chatta Rail, the DCP added.

The police said Maninderjit Singh, along with his family, is settled in Birmingham and is employed as a labourer in a construction field. In December 2019, he visited India and due to lockdown last year, he could not go back. He was produced before a court and his four days of police custody remand has been taken.

Khempreet Singh, who along with his family, resides in Swaroop Nagar. He will be produced before a court on Wednesday. He is also a close associate of already arrested accused Maninder Singh, they added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies

#1  Maninderjit Singh, a Dutch national,

Maninderjit Vand Den Borg. Naah, doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/11/2021 6:36 Comments || Top||


Jaish-E-Mohammed terror module busted, 4 arrested: J&K Police
[OneIndia] Police on Wednesday claimed to have busted a module of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) by arresting four men, who were allegedly planning to carry out a car-kaboom on security forces in Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
's Pampore.

"Jaish wanted to carry out a car-kaboom and the Awantipora police was tracking this module. We have arrested four persons in this regard and have also seized the car that was to be used in carrying out the attack," police official Vijay Kumar told news hounds here.

He said JeM had motivated Sahil Nazir, a BA first-year student, through Telegram and other mobile messaging applications to procure a second-hand car for carrying out the attack.

"Using technical as well as human intelligence, police nabbed Sahil, who revealed the plot about the car-kaboom. Kaiser, Younis and Yasir Ahmad Wani, who were involved in hatching the plot, have also been arrested," Kumar said, adding that the car was seized from the house of Younis.

The senior police official further said that Sahil has confessed to his involvement in the plot and also admitted that he had thrown a grenade at security forces in the Pampore area of Pulwama district on January 25.

Kumar said the police have also arrested an overground worker (OGW) of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT) and seized 25 kilograms of explosives from his house in Pampore.

"On the instructions of Omar Khanday, who joined the krazed killer ranks last year, the LeT had planned to carry out a fidayeen (suicide) attack or an IED blast at the municipal committee building in Pampore," he added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jaish-e-Mohammad


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel arrests Al-Aqsa Mosque preacher Sheikh Ekrima Sabri
[AlAhram] Israel arrested the preacher of al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Ekrima Sa’id Sabri
...former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine (1994-2006), appointed by Yasser Arafat. Mahmoud Abbas removed him because of his popularity, and to put his own man in the job...
on Wednesday, according to the official Paleostinan news agency WAFA.

WAFA reported that Sheikh Sabri was arrested at his home in al Sawana neighbourhood in east Jerusalem.

The arrest of al-Aqsa Mosque preacher comes a day ahead of Moslem commemoration of Isra and Miraj, which is expected to be marked by special prayer at the third holiest site in Islam.

Israel has arrested Sheikh Sabri, a vocal critic of normalisation with Israel, on several occasions in the past.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: PLO


Southeast Asia
Singapore Muslim soldier arrested for planning stabbing spree outside synagogue
[IsraelTimes] Amirull Ali intended to ambush and kill at least three Jewish men as they left prayers, security officials say; he also planned to travel to Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
to join Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,.


A radicalized Singaporean Moslem soldier has been arrested for planning a deadly stabbing spree against Jews, officials said Wednesday.

Such cases are rare in multi-ethnic Singapore, where different religious and ethnic groups generally live peacefully side by side.

Amirull Ali, 20, planned to ambush and kill at least three Jewish men as they left a synagogue after prayers, security officials said. Israel’s Channel 12 specified that he intended to target the Maghain Aboth Synagogue.

He became radicalized after researching the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict online and planned to travel to Gaza in the Paleostinian territories to join Islamic terror group Hamas’s military wing, they said.
In a highly tribal society, outsiders don’t generally fare well unless they are both connected and bring lotsa money, a high level of desirable skills, or are good for propaganda purposes, like Rachel Corrie, a.k.a. St. Pancake, the American member of the International Solidarity Movement who got herself run over by an armoured IDF bulldozer.
"Amirull was very serious, he had made detailed preparations, he had a knife prepared for his attack," Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam told local media.

"He decided to target the abdomen area because that’s where the heavy bleeding will cause quick death," the minister said.

But Amirull — who had been doing compulsory national service as an administrative support assistant
...alternate story line: Singaporean Walter Mitty imagines himself a fearsome Lion of Islam...
— shelved his plans as he was uncertain whether he would attain martyrdom.
But he was arrested anyway. How humiliating!
Nevertheless, the defense ministry became suspicious and raised the alarm, leading to his arrest this month.

Amirull was detained under the Internal Security Act, which allows for detention without trial for up to two years.

In December, authorities detained a 16-year-old who planned to attack two mosques in Singapore after being influenced by a massacre of Moslem worshippers in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Singapore, a city-state of 5.7 million, is mostly ethnic Chinese but is also home to a sizable ethnic-Malay Moslem minority. Its Jewish population is tiny, numbering only around 2,500, according to local media.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems


Terror Networks
Biden Halts Drone Strikes outside of War Zones where U.S. Troops Deployed
[AnNahar] U.S. President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
has suspended dronezaps outside of war zones where U.S. forces are operating, reversing the policy of his predecessor Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
, who had given the military free rein in countries such as Somalia.

Any dronezaps planned against jihadist groups outside of Afghanistan, Syria or Iraq will have to be approved by the White House, Pentagon front man John Kirby said Monday.
Goody. A return to the JAG wars, where every possible military attack or defense must first be called in to the lawyers in Washington, DC for approval. Except when the CIA is involved, one imagines...
He described the measure as "interim guidance" that was issued "to ensure that the president has full visibility on proposed significant actions."

"It's not meant to be permanent and it doesn't mean a cessation" of strikes, he told a news conference.

"We are clearly focused on the persistent threat of violent mostly peaceful bad boy organizations. And we're clearly still going to be committed to working with international partners to counter those threats," he said.

The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

said the new guidelines had been secretly passed on to military commanders after Biden came to office on January 20, but were only revealed in recent days.

From his first days in the White House in 2016, Trump had rolled back the controls put in place by his predecessor Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
on armed operations against jihadist bad boy groups, saying he trusted the commanders on the ground.

Drone strikes quickly multiplied after that, becoming the only form of operations in some countries where only a handful of U.S. special forces were deployed in support of local governments, such as in Somalia, where the U.S. has been battling the al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
Islamist group, or in Libya, where they have targeted Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS).

Even though the military says its strikes are "surgical," NGOs have said the attacks often cause civilian casualties, undermining their efficacy in combating extremism.

In a first public report on the US military operation in Somalia published in February, the Pentagon's acting inspector general, Glenn Fine, recalled that part of Africom's stated mission is to ensure that by 2021, Shabaab, the Islamic State in Somalia and other terrorist groups have been sufficiently "degraded such that they cannot cause significant harm to US interests."

But, Fine wrote, "despite continued US Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Somalia and U.S. assistance to African partner forces, al-Shabaab appears to be a growing threat that aspires to strike the U.S. homeland."

At least 10 people were killed Friday when a boom-mobile blew up outside a popular restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu, an attack claimed by Shabaab.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  or at least his puppet masters did. Wasn't Sotero fond of drone strikes? Just sayin'
Posted by: Warthog || 03/11/2021 9:22 Comments || Top||

#2  So, no drone zaps in DC until the NG leaves.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/11/2021 10:27 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2021-03-11
  Saudi-led coalition strikes Houthi targets around Yemen capital
Wed 2021-03-10
  Security forces gun down chief of Al-Badr without any collateral damage
Tue 2021-03-09
  January 23rd drone attack launched on Saudi capital from Iraq, likely by Kataib Hezbollah
Mon 2021-03-08
  Arab Coalition Intercepts 2 Houthi Missiles, 12 Drones
Sun 2021-03-07
  Gov. Abbott Deploys Texas National Guard, State Troopers to Counter Biden's ‘Open Border Policies'
Sat 2021-03-06
  More ballistic missile strikes on other oil markets now in northern Syria, this time near al-Bab
Fri 2021-03-05
  VP vote needed just to get House Covid-19 bill heard on Senate Floor!
Thu 2021-03-04
  an 8.0 Ouch with some 7.3's and tsunami ?
Wed 2021-03-03
  Rockets hit air base in Iraq hosting American troops, US forces say
Tue 2021-03-02
  Israel sentences senior PFLP member to two years in prison
Mon 2021-03-01
  Portland protesters smash businesses as locals scream at them to 'go home'
Sun 2021-02-28
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