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ISIS declares Tal Afar as a separate kalifate
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Turkish Police Kill 5 Suspected IS Jihadists, Detain 233	0 [11125]
2 Americans volunteering with Syrian Kurds, die battling ISIS	1 09:31 lord garth [11129]
Tripoli brigades announce victory in Garabulli	0 [11126]
Misrata says forces attacking east Tripoli not from Misrata	0 [11126]
5 die in mortar attack in Deir Ezzor	0 [11126]
Suicide bomber kills and injures scores in Syria’s Idlib province	0 [11127]
Syrian forces hit rebel positions in Latakia Mountains	0 [11125]
10 die in airstrike in Hasakah	0 [11123]
Aleppo hit with artillery	0 [11127]
Two militants reportedly killed in Gedo fighting	0 [11125]
Five dead in car bomb explosion at security checkpoint near Mogadishu	0 [11127]
6 ISIS Bad Guys die in artillery strike in Diyala	0 [11127]
Taliban commander killed in Nangarhar infighting	0 [11128]
Afghan intelligence foil coordinated attack plot by Haqqani network in Gardez city	0 [11126]
17 ISIS Bad Guys die in failed counterattack in Mosul	0 [11127]
Protests erupt in Srinagar after Indian troops kill suspected separatists	0 [11128]
Gunmen kill at least seven abductees in Afghanistan	0 [11125]
Drivers who smuggled terrorists into Israel to be charged with negligent homicide	0 [11126]
Four female suicide bombers kill 19, injured 23 in Maiduguri, Nigeria: Police	0 [11126]
Abu Sayyaf executes third Vietnamese hostage	1 05:28 Mike Kozlowski [11127]
Two troops killed in friendly-fire bombing in Marawi	3 14:40 Shipman [11127]
Big C bomber gunned down at Pattani mosque	1 08:56 Frank G [11127]
Two Palestinians said killed in clashes with IDF troops in Jenin	0 [11128]
Page 2: WoT Background
300 Displaced Syrians Return Home from Arsal	0 [11126]
100,000 and Counting: No Letup in Turkey Coup Purges a Year On	1 08:11 Skidmark [11124]
UAE slams Al-Jazeera for anti-Semitism over imam’s sermons	0 [11126]
Amazigh say Beida government’s fatwa authority incites genocide	0 [11127]
Abadi: We will not issue amnesty for the ‘murderous terrorists’	0 [11124]
ISIS declares Tal Afar as a separate kalifate	3 16:40 Glenmore [11130]
Ex-Al Jazeera staff 'linked to Egypt security agency'	0 [11129]
UK refuses to publish report on 'funding of extremism'	0 [11127]
'Unfathomable pain and suffering' in Yemen	2 14:46 Shipman [11123]
Rangers’ policing powers in Karachi extended for 90 days	0 [11125]
Trudeau defends apology, multimillion $ payout to Gitmo terrorist	3 12:53 Vast Right Wing Conspiracy [11127]
Number of fatal terrorist attacks in western Europe increasing, data show	2 09:02 DarthVader [11124]
Turkey issues detention orders for 34 former state TV personnel	0 [11125]
Indonesian president signs regulation banning Hizbut Tahrir	0 [11128]
Page 3: Non-WoT
AI Creates Fake Obama	5 22:40 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [11132]
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Reprot: Russia, China undermining U.S.	3 16:51 Procopius2k [11128]
Largest US newspapers requesting anti-trust exemption from Congress to compete with smaller, online content providers	6 22:22 Frank G [11130]
Decline of the West: Sweden now burning books. Pippi Longstocking because Racism	2 16:55 Seeking cure for ignorance [11124]
Lawmaker Vicky Hartzler takes aim at military coverage of transgender surgeries	0 [11124]
POTUS cancels Obama's special ~~visa~~ immigration program for foreign entrepreneurs	2 13:05 746 [11126]
NYC announces $32 million plan to reduce rat infestation	11 19:05 ed in texas [11129]
DR Congo: 38 mass graves discovered in Kasai	1 08:57 Skidmark [11125]
Sri Lanka: Buddhism to remain paramount in new charter	0 [11130]
Shell agrees to compensate Bahawalpur victims after Ogra threatens legal action	0 [11125]
'Where is the accountability for judges, army?' asks Javed Hashmi	0 [11125]
Nine-year-old boy dies in Abbottabad due to landlord's brutal 'punishment'	0 [11126]
Speculations about Pak PM’s successor: Shahbaz seems to tread cautiously	0 [11125]
Pastors lay hands on Donald Trump in the Oval Office	6 20:55 JohnQC [11131]
Fisherman killed by whale after freeing it from tangled ropes	3 20:58 JohnQC [11129]
Scientists store movies and pictures in bacteria DNA	3 11:00 AlmostAnonymous5839 [11127]
UK observes its first gay Muslim wedding	2 17:15 Seeking cure for ignorance [11126]
And so it begins: China has deployed personnel to set up its first overseas military base in Djibouti, Horn of Africa	4 22:26 Frank G [11131]
Page 4: Opinion
This Time We Liberals Have Totally Got Trump	0 [11125]
The other problem with cultural codes in a meritocracy	0 [11126]
Hermitage Capital's William Browder on Natalia Veselnitskaya (Video)	4 19:09 Anomalous Sources [11135]
An interesting Veselnitskaya timeline, possibly nothing more, but interesting nonetheless	1 08:39 Vast Right Wing Conspiracy [11128]
Private military contractors aren't going to do a better job in Afghanistan. Here's why.	7 16:53 Glenmore [11128]
North Korea, The Case for War	9 10:45 rjschwarz [11126]
Mosul recapture	0 [11126]
Lal Masjid siege	0 [11128]
End of the Sharif era?	0 [11125]
Why is Netanyahu courting Africa?	0 [11127]
Z Man: Why Conservatism Died	2 09:54 rjschwarz [11132]
'Too stupid for sandwiches': NYT columnist mocked for writing about leaving gourmet sandwich shop with friend who has 'just a high school degree' because she felt overwhelmed by the fancy meats on the menu	15 20:59 swksvolFF [11131]
Page 6: Politix
EVIDENCE: Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Was ‘Hacked' By Obama Officials	5 20:31 Rob Crawford [11135]
House Dems want to know why a major Russian money-laundering case was abruptly settled	9 19:30 JohnQC [11132]
Russian oligarch hired lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr and also paid the shadowy research company behind dirty dossier - then settled $230m money laundering case for just $6m	0 [11127]
Gorka: Clinton Campaign Sent Operatives to Ukraine Embassy to Influence Election	0 [11125]
Trump on Putin: "we get along very, very well"	3 14:45 g(r)omgoru [11123]
Soetoro's DOJ let Russian lawyer into US	4 19:01 JohnQC [11131]
Lawsuit accuses US of turning away asylum seekers	1 19:16 JohnQC [11128]
As Democrats seek to repair national image, party passes law in Oregon requiring insurers to cover abortion at no cost	4 11:09 Abu Uluque [11128]
Curiousor and Curiousor – Natalia Veselnitskaya Pictured With Obama Officals in DC on June 14th, 2016…	8 21:48 JohnQC [11134]

    
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Who's in the News
34	[untagged]
8	Islamic State
6	Govt of Pakistan
3	Arab Spring
2	Taliban
2	al-Shabaab (AQ)
2	Commies
2	Govt of Syria
2	Moslem Colonists
2	Sublime Porte
1	Govt of Qatar (MB)
1	Abu Sayyaf (ISIS)
1	Hamas
1	Haqqani Network
1	Hezbollah
1	Hizb-ut-Tahrir
1	Houthis
1	al-Nusra
1	Jamaat-e-Islami
1	Boko Haram (ISIS)
1	Maute group (IS)
1	Govt of Pakistain Proxies
1	al-Qaeda

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Two weeks of WOT

Thu 2017-07-13
ISIS declares Tal Afar as a separate kalifate

Wed 2017-07-12
Amnesty: All sides violated international law in Mosul

Tue 2017-07-11
ISIS: Al-Bagdadhi baghdeadi

Mon 2017-07-10
Frenchman held for planning terror attack with Belgian pair

Sun 2017-07-09
Iraqi forces take Mosul

Sat 2017-07-08
Turkey detains 29 IS group militants in raids in Istanbul

Fri 2017-07-07
40 ISIS troops die in battle with Iraqi forces in Salahuddin

Thu 2017-07-06
Haftar's forces declare victory in battle for Benghazi

Wed 2017-07-05
Baghdadi’s “mail man” killed in security ambush in Diyala

Tue 2017-07-04
US-backed SDF breaches Raqqa's Old City wall

Mon 2017-07-03
British soldier drowns ISIS thug in puddle after being ambushed

Sun 2017-07-02
Palestinian Forces Hand Over Most Wanted Fugitive in Ain Hilweh

Sat 2017-07-01
ISIS abandons Aleppo

Fri 2017-06-30
Raqqa fully encircled

Thu 2017-06-29
ISIS Number 4 and human shield deaths west of Mosul

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