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IED exploded outside holding area of Pak Consulate General in Jalalabad
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Airstrikes kill 18 Taliban militants in Ghazni, Balkh and Kandahar	0 [10326]
Afghan Special Forces kill at least 16 Taliban militants in Logar province	0 [10326]
Balkh: 30 Talibs and 3 Afghan troops toes up, Talibs kill kidnapped politico	0 [10325]
Ghazni: 22 Talibs airstruck including 2 Pak jacket wallahs	0 [10326]
Special Forces kill 14 militants, destroy multiple Taliban tunnels and compounds in Uruzgan	0 [10326]
Rocket hits football stadium in Daquq, killing six	2 11:48 Mullah Richard [10326]
Iraqi troops apprehend two Islamic State terrorists in Mosul	0 [10326]
Turkish airstrikes neutralize 9 PKK militants in northern Iraq	0 [10325]
Armed men kill civilian in eastern Baghdad	0 [10325]
Four ISIS militants killed on Iraqi anti-ISIS operation's fourth phase	0 [10327]
Two Hashd fighters killed in Anbar drone attack	0 [10325]
Arab Coalition intercepts and destroys six ballistic missiles	0 [10327]
Minawi holds military parade, says Sudan’s December Revolution was hijacked	0 [10325]
Three rockets fired from Gaza into Israel	0 [10327]
Sudan triggers state of emergency in east over tribal clashes	0 [10325]
Arab Coalition intercepts and destroys two drones launched by the Houthi militia from Yemen’s Sanaa	0 [10326]
Two passers-by killed in attack on security post in Dera Ismail Khan	0 [10326]
Iranian oil tanker pursued by US says it is going to Turkey	3 21:41 Lex [10326]
IED exploded outside holding area of Pak Consulate General in Jalalabad	0 [10326]
Tarhouna Protection Force says Haftar is fighting a losing battle in Tripoli	0 [10326]
Airstrike by Haftar's Air Force kills three civilians	0 [10326]
Studies at Tobruk University to resume after being closed by an armed tribal group	0 [10326]
Chad shuts down borders with Libya, Sudan and the Central African Republic	0 [10326]
Heavy clashes in southern Libya's Gharyan as Haftar's forces advance under air cover	2 08:01 Besoeker [10325]
Air defenses repel Israeli rocket attack on surroundings of Damascus, shoot down most rockets	1 18:33 SteveS [10326]
Army destroys fortifications of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in Idleb countryside	0 [10326]
Somali Govt dispatches troops to Galmudug state capital	0 [10325]
Page 2: WoT Background
The CIA on Twitter wishing a happy National Dog Day	6 21:56 Lex [10327]
Five Turkish Generals Handed In Resignations	4 18:50 Skidmark [10325]
No permanent Turkish army posts will be in buffer zone: SDF spokesperson	0 [10326]
Islamic scholar Ramadan targeted by new rape complaint	3 09:35 Chereting Pelosi1889 [10325]
Iranian journalist accompanying Zarif seeking asylum in Sweden	0 [10327]
Al-Bashir’s party voices its support to Sudan’s prime minister	0 [10326]
SC dismisses Qari Ishaq’s appeal in hate content case	0 [10325]
Revolutionary Guards commander denies Iranian targets hit in Syria air strikes	3 20:17 gorb [10327]
War not our choice, but will fight till the end if it is imposed: Fawad Chaudhry	7 22:29 SteveS [10326]
Iran foreign minister makes surprise visit to G7 summit	0 [10327]
Libya's Interior Minister denies possibility of Misrata-Haftar agreement	0 [10327]
NYPD’s facial recognition software ID’ed subway rice cooker kook	2 20:19 gorb [10326]
Quader: Zia betrayed Bangabandhu	0 [10325]
Home Ministry listing razakars	1 11:52 Mullah Richard [10326]
Separatist leader urges resistance to India's Kashmir move	0 [10325]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Belgian Anti-Racism ~~rabble-rouser~~ Activist Forced To Flee	2 14:39 DooDahMan [10327]
San Bruno, California multicultural fail	2 10:21 Mercutio [10325]
China announces it seeks 'calm' end to trade war, as markets tank and currency hits 11-year flatline	12 21:48 Lex [10327]
Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system	4 18:57 KBK [10326]
Joe Arpaio announces 2020 bid for 7th term as Maricopa County sheriff	0 [10326]
A Hawaiian Volleyball Coach Blasts The Unsafe Practice Of Boys Playing Against Girls. But He Has To Remain Anonymous	11 21:47 Lex [10326]
The Himba of Northern Namibia, Where a Man Comes First	2 15:20 USN, Ret. [10325]
15 Former Spooks Who Work At CNN And MSNBC Now	5 20:00 3dc [10325]
The massive balloons that have made drug smuggling by plane nearly extinct	5 13:28 M. Murcek [10325]
Hasbro Toy Company Purchases Death Row Records	9 21:44 Lex [10326]
Anti-G7 activists march with 'stolen' Macron portraits	0 [10325]
Russia launches SLBM punching through the North Pole's ice.	4 06:54 Lex [10325]
Average of one Venezuelan died violently in Colombia each day in the first seven months of 2019	3 09:40 Frank G [10326]
Video shows MCC inmate using illicit phone for Facebook Live broadcast	3 10:31 Abu Uluque [10325]
HC: Omit 'Kumari' from marriage registration form	0 [10325]
Hong Kong police draw guns, use water cannon in clashes	0 [10325]
7 people injured in shooting at Maryland toddler’s birthday party: cops	17 22:04 USN, Ret. [10326]
East Texas Man Arrested for Allegedly Licking Ice Cream in Walmart Store	11 23:35 Silentbrick [10326]
Personal ad: American flag free to a good home	3 13:03 jpal [10326]
Page 4: Opinion
One Side Will Lose - Compromise is No Longer Possible	8 21:37 Lex [10326]
CNN's 'Reliable Source' Says Trump 'May Be Responsible' For More Deaths Than Hitler, Stalin, And Mao	8 23:07 Varmint Splat1454 [10327]
Conservative Group Has Started Making Journalists Play by the New Rules and the Journalists Are Terrified of What's Coming	3 12:00 gorb [10325]
There is another way for peace in Afghanistan; Strengthening the Security Forces	4 21:54 Lex [10328]
Get Ready For Apocalypse Ruth	12 13:44 trailing wife [10326]
Why Russia and Turkey failed to compromise on embattled Idlib in Syria	3 12:19 Mercutio [10325]
Page 6: Politix
The road not taken: Another FBI failure involving the Clintons surfaces	4 21:34 3dc [10326]
Marianne Williamson is Crazy . 'Nuff said.	14 21:56 trailing wife [10326]
9 Jeffrey Epstein: Another Clinton-related 'suicide'	0 [10326]
French President Macron's G-7 Summit Iran Stunt	2 08:37 Procopius2k [10326]
Joe Walsh to challenge Trump in 2020 Republican primary	9 20:21 ruprecht [10325]
Pete Buttigieg: "Back To Normal Is Not Good Enough," "Getting Rid" Of Trump Is "Not Enough"	8 22:01 Lex [10327]
Biden struggles to hit it off with millennials	8 14:52 SteveS [10325]
Bill Kristol Wants Rick Santorum To Challenge Trump: ‘He’s A Much Better Version Of President Trump’	6 17:12 Airandee [10325]

    
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5	Govt of Iran
5	Arab Spring
5	Taliban
4	Commies
4	Islamic State
4	Sublime Porte
3	Govt of Sudan
3	Govt of Pakistain Proxies
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2	Govt of Pakistan
1	Muslim Brotherhood
1	Govt of Iran Proxies
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Two weeks of WOT

Mon 2019-08-26
IED exploded outside holding area of Pak Consulate General in Jalalabad

Sun 2019-08-25
Taliban militants kidnap a member of Provincial Council from Samangan-Baghlan Highway

Sat 2019-08-24
Afghan Special Forces storm the hideout of a key ISIS facilitator of suicide bombings

Fri 2019-08-23
Gaddafi-loyal commander killed by pro-Haftar forces

Thu 2019-08-22
Iran moves to strike 4 zeroes from its battered currency

Wed 2019-08-21
Taliban chief Mullah Haibatullah was the primary target of Quetta bombing

Tue 2019-08-20
Furniture, books 'torched' at girls school in Gilgit-Baltistan's Diamer

Mon 2019-08-19
Another prayer leader killed near Quetta

Sun 2019-08-18
Explosion Targets Wedding Hall In Kabul; Casualties Feared UPDATE: 63 dead, ISIS claims it

Sat 2019-08-17
Two killed in Pakistan mosque bomb blast

Fri 2019-08-16
Special Forces arrest Khalifa Daud, Haqqani network’s key member in Kabul

Thu 2019-08-15
Iraq anti-terrorism troops kill 10 IS militants, capture 5 others in Anbar

Wed 2019-08-14
On beyond Veritas: Google Insider Turns Over 950 Pages Of Docs And Laptop To DOJ

Tue 2019-08-13
North Macedonia police find 22 migrants packed into SUV

Mon 2019-08-12
UAE-backed forces expel Saudi-backed troops from Yemeni Presidential Palace

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