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Boko Haram leader declares Islamic caliphate in Nigeria
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Active shooter reported at US Army's Fort Lee in Virginia	9 17:30 49 Pan [11129]
Good morning	0 [11124]
ANSF Drive Taliban Away from Kunduz Districts	0 [11127]
Hundreds of Insurgents Attack Districts of Faryab	0 [11126]
War planes attack Libyan capital again	0 [11123]
Israeli strike kills Hamas finance official	2 21:01 Old Patriot [11132]
liveblogging Israel-gaza active conflict day 49	1 19:51 3dc [11126]
Syria army kills 32 rebels in Daraa province ambush	0 [11126]
Tripoli International Airport in flames	0 [11124]
Assema TV studios attacked, again	0 [11124]
7 killed in Indian Kashmir clashes	0 [11129]
Syrian forces evacuate Tabqa military airport	0 [11126]
Hamas fires volley of rockets into Israel	1 21:06 Old Patriot [11129]
Shrine caretaker & two devotees, two ASWJ men shot dead in city	0 [11124]
Israeli army attacks civilians near Gaza hospital	4 21:07 Old Patriot [11127]
AU troops seize militants' stronghold in SW Somalia	0 [11123]
Boko Haram Takes Over Madagali, Other Adamawa Villages	0 [11125]
Child injured in grenade attack in Peshawar	0 [11125]
Military court sentences Shaboobs to death amid international outcry	4 17:18 M. Murcek [11129]
Libya's Islamist Militias Claim Control of Tripoli	0 [11122]
Iran says it has downed Israeli drone near nuclear site	1 10:50 Mike Kozlowski [11125]
American Peter Theo Curtis Freed From Captivity in Syria After Two Years	4 15:06 USN, Ret. [11123]
China executes Tiananmen attack 'masterminds'	0 [11122]
Violence rages in Iraq amid diplomatic efforts to restrict 'Islamic State'	1 22:50 JosephMendiola [11126]
Boko Haram leader declares Islamic caliphate in Nigeria	3 12:45 Shipman [11129]
Islamic State militants seize Syrian airbase	0 [11122]
U.S. Airstrike Kills ISIS Press Officer, and Former Syrian Host of John McCain, Abu Mosa	2 12:41 Paul D [11130]
Page 2: WoT Background
Afghan Government Responds to Release of Pakistani Prisoners	0 [11129]
Zintan "ordered" to withdraw from Tripoli by HoR	0 [11123]
New Chief of Staff appointed by parliament but Obeidi refuses to go	0 [11124]
OIC, GCC condemn Iraq mosque massacre	0 [11130]
Egypt mufti: Extremists no 'Islamic State'	1 23:05 JosephMendiola [11127]
Key Jeddah talks add weight to anti-IS push	0 [11126]
Iran's FM reaffirms support for Iraqi premier	0 [11124]
Pro, anti-government protests held in Sana'a	0 [11125]
Israel says it found Hamas training manual in Gaza	0 [11126]
18 PML-N men granted pre-arrest bail	0 [11127]
UAE to set up rehab centres for those lured by terror cells	0 [11125]
Army will never utilise 'musical show' for power, says Fazl	1 19:50 SteveS [11124]
PTI resignations should not be accepted: Sirajul Haq	0 [11124]
China targets Uighurs with beards, burqas	0 [11123]
Shahbaz denies resignation 'rumours'	0 [11122]
Dan Rather to Pundits Calling for War: Send Your Own Kids or 'Don't Even Talk to Me'	26 17:40 Anice Nim [11127]
Iraq Calls for International War Against Islamic State; Iran Vows Solidarity	2 23:12 JosephMendiola [11135]
Rights Group to US: Stop Hamas Execution of 'Collaborators'	10 23:45 Silentbrick [11130]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Chicagoland: Crime Drops Dramatically after Concealed Carry Permits Surge	9 16:47 JohnQC [11129]
Ebola: Life and death on the frontlines	1 15:24 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [11127]
Fighting continues in southeast Ukraina	1 05:39 g(r)omgoru [11126]
Four killed, 24 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings	6 22:27 Mullah Richard [11134]
Attack on church kills 5 in Ukraine's Kirovske	0 [11126]
Congo declares Ebola outbreak in northern Equateur province	0 [11127]
Page 4: Opinion
British jihadists: How Britain became the Yemen of the West	6 14:34 rjschwarz [11123]
Isil: the world must tackle this mass psychosis	6 23:24 newc [11127]
Page 6: Politix
Al Sharpton Suggests He's The Frederick Douglass Of Our Time	15 19:35 Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 [11129]
Voter Citizenship Issue Goes Before Federal Court	8 15:30 JohnQC [11127]
Scott Brown Surges In New Hampshire	3 10:19 Pappy [11129]

    
                23:45 Silentbrick

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                        23:24 newc

                        23:12 JosephMendiola

                        23:05 JosephMendiola

                        22:50 JosephMendiola

                        22:27 Mullah Richard

                        21:38 Barbara

                        21:15 Old Patriot

                        21:07 Old Patriot

                        21:06 Old Patriot

                        21:01 Old Patriot

                        20:58 JosephMendiola

                        19:51 3dc

                        19:50 SteveS

                        19:35 Ebbomosh Hupemp2664

                        19:28 Ebbomosh Hupemp2664

                        17:40 Anice Nim

                        17:30 49 Pan

                        17:18 M. Murcek

                        17:09 Besoeker

                        16:58 Rumble Bumble

                        16:57 Capsu78

                        16:47 JohnQC

Who's in the News
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9	Islamic State
6	Govt of Pakistan
5	Arab Spring
4	Hamas
2	Boko Haram
2	Govt of Iran
1	Govt of Syria
1	Houthis
1	Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami
1	Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
1	Taliban
1	TTP
1	al-Nusra
1	al-Qaeda in Pakistan
1	Ansar al-Sharia
1	Commies
1	East Turkestan Islamic Movement
1	Govt of Iraq

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Two weeks of WOT

Mon 2014-08-25
Boko Haram leader declares Islamic caliphate in Nigeria

Sun 2014-08-24
Boko Haram Executes Two People For Smoking Cigarettes

Sat 2014-08-23
Syrian army ambushes 140 IS fighters in al-Raqqa

Fri 2014-08-22
Boko Haram Takfiris seize town in NE Nigeria

Thu 2014-08-21
Israeli Fire Kills 31 in Gaza as Hamas Warns Foreign Airlines, Declares Truce Talks Over

Wed 2014-08-20
Geelani, Yasin Malik meet Pak envoy after India calls off talks

Tue 2014-08-19
Kurdish PKK trains Yazidis to fight back against Islamic State.

Mon 2014-08-18
Apple employee took assassin's bullets for British colonel

Sun 2014-08-17
Jihadists kill dozens in north Iraq 'massacre': officials

Sat 2014-08-16
Iraq Sunni Tribes Take Up Arms against Jihadists

Fri 2014-08-15
ISIS jihadist poses with severed head as Caliphate seize more key towns

Thu 2014-08-14
Boko Haram Appoints New Emir for Gwoza

Wed 2014-08-13
Prince Saud: Israel has no right to self-defense

Tue 2014-08-12
"Convert by noon today or we will kill all of you"

Mon 2014-08-11
Iraq PM to sue president, security forces deploy across Baghdad

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