Rantburg

Today

Fri 04/14/2017

Thu 04/13/2017

Wed 04/12/2017

Tue 04/11/2017

Mon 04/10/2017

Sun 04/09/2017

Sat 04/08/2017

Archives

		556872 articles and 1922824 comments are archived on Rantburg. Today: 62 articles and 242 comments as of 5:06.
Post a news link Post your own article

Area:	WoT Operations	WoT Background	Non-WoT	Opinion	Politix
ISIS shells east of Mosul with chlorine gas, 10 casualties
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
White House: 'Massive' Evidence Shows Sarin Came from Assad Base	8 21:27 Sock Puppet of Doom [11131]
Yemen clashes kill more than 40 in 24 hours	0 [11126]
Drone strike in southern Sinai said to kill one person	0 [11126]
Egyptian police kill 7 suspected Islamic State militants in shootout	0 [11130]
Hamas: 'We arrested a suspect in the assassination of Mazen Fukha'	3 14:10 Whitch Turkeyneck3879 [11129]
Syrian teen convicted in Germany for IS bomb plot	0 [11130]
Troops gun down Boko Haram bomber in UNIMAID	0 [11131]
Boko Haram kills eight, abducts women in NE Nigeria	0 [11127]
Niger forces kill 57 members of Boko Haram	0 [11127]
Benghazi Defence Brigades quit Jufra as PC defence minister orders action against LNA	0 [11126]
Three soldiers killed in Dignity Operation airstrike in south Libya	0 [11127]
Army commander says recaptured 28 districts out of 38 targeted in Mosul	0 [11131]
Al-Hashd al-Shaabi detonates 10 IS vehicles carrying equipment in Tal Afar	0 [11130]
Mosul Governor survives assassination attempt	0 [11128]
Nine Kurdish Yezidis freed from IS	0 [11127]
Airstrikes kill IS militants, destroy havens west of Anbar	0 [11131]
IS leaders flee Tal Afar toward al-Ba’aj, local leaders executed	0 [11133]
ISIS shells east of Mosul with chlorine gas, 10 casualties	0 [11135]
Pakistan sentences Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav to death	0 [11131]
Suicide bomber killed in car bombing in East of Afghanistan	0 [11131]
19 ISIS militants killed in Afghan commandos operation in Nangarhar	0 [11127]
2 anti-corruption judicial center employees shot dead in Kabul	3 17:17 gorb [11130]
Afghan Ulemas angrily reacts at Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman’s remarks	0 [11129]
ISIL’s Deir Ezzor HQ goes up in flames after powerful Syrian Army assault	0 [11127]
Terrorists responsible for Egyptian church bombing had fought in Syria	0 [11127]
Syrian Army fights off rebel offensive in Daraa	0 [11129]
ISIS kills civilians attempting to flee Mosul, hangs bodies on electricity poles	0 [11133]
Syrian government negotiating Nusra in southern Damascus for evacuation deal	0 [11130]
IDF takes down memorial to Palestinian assailant in Hebron during overnight raids	0 [11137]
Page 2: WoT Background
'We are losing sight'	7 20:05 rammer [11131]
Vladimir Putin says US is preparing to bomb Syrian capital and will blame devastation on Bashar-al Assad's forces	10 21:20 Frank G [11132]
French migrant camp burns to ‘ashes' following massive brawl	5 18:00 rjschwarz [11128]
Westminster Terror Killer Was Public Contact Point for Extremist UK Mosque, Friend of Suicide Bomber	0 [11129]
IDF to partially lift West Bank closure to let Palestinian Christians into Jerusalem for Easter	1 15:27 Skidmark [11126]
Nigeria's military frees 593 people cleared of Boko Haram ties	1 15:28 Skidmark [11127]
Egyptian terror attack could be repeated in Libya if LNA not armed: HoR	0 [11128]
UAE restates support for Hafter and LNA	0 [11129]
Military mayor of Benghazi resigns	1 15:30 Skidmark [11127]
NSA hacked Pakistani mobile system: Wikileaks	2 09:14 Procopius2k [11135]
Hezbollah issues stern warning against targeting Mid-East Christians	3 20:39 Frank G [11129]
EU naval probes hijack of cargo ship off Somalia	4 15:33 Skidmark [11127]
Are refugees more criminal than the average German citizen?	6 17:34 gorb [11129]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Hill County In Dispute With Man Who Wrote '$exual Favors' On Property Tax Check Memo Line	1 18:44 swksvolFF [11133]
RBG Calls Sen. Graham One Of The 'Women Of The Senate'	9 18:50 Regular joe [11132]
Brucer Jenner now leaning directly over porcelain	14 21:45 rammer [11134]
I'll have the Greek salad with Chiroptera strips please	2 10:48 Pappy [11130]
Daily Mail update on Koreas	3 17:07 SteveS [11126]
150,000 Chinese troops sent to North Korean border	7 17:19 Crusader [11131]
Marvel removes 'secret, coded anti-Christian and anti-Jewish messages inserted into X-Men Gold comic	5 15:35 magpie [11130]
United Airlines CEO Apologizes After Video Shows Man Dragged Off Flight	39 23:02 rjschwarz [11132]
'Best banker in America' blamed for Wells Fargo sales scandal	3 14:18 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [11129]
Gorsuch sworn in as 113th Supreme Court justice	1 17:14 Crusader [11130]
Page 4: Opinion
'I Felt Them Inside My Brain' Brain-Invading Worm Attacks Are On The Rise – And Climate Change Could Be To Blame	6 18:24 Vespasian Stalin8312 [11127]
U.S. Options in Syria Don't Include Ground Troops	14 18:29 charger [11129]
Russia Is Emboldening A Libyan Strongman	7 16:32 Skidmark [11132]
Nasty, brutish, and short ‐ what the next Korean War will look like	22 21:14 rammer [11141]
Icon of peace	5 14:13 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [11125]
Page 6: Politix
Schumer: If Trump Doesn't Release His Tax Returns, ‘It's Going To Make Tax Reform Much Harder'	9 17:36 gorb [11130]
UCLA religion professor attacks Trump and Pence as ‘arrogant Christians in the White House’	18 23:48 Zenobia Floger6220 [11135]
Rice claim on Syria chemical weapons gets 'four Pinocchios'	6 21:52 rammer [11133]
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley expected to resign before sunset	9 21:37 Besoeker [11135]
Democrats have zero leverage after Gorsuch	8 21:25 rammer [11132]

    
                23:48 Zenobia Floger6220

                        23:02 rjschwarz

                        21:52 rammer

                        21:45 rammer

                        21:37 Besoeker

                        21:34 rammer

                        21:34 Sock Puppet of Doom

                        21:32 Besoeker

                        21:27 Sock Puppet of Doom

                        21:25 rammer

                        21:20 Frank G

                        21:14 rammer

                        21:04 Zenobia Floger6220

                        21:03 rammer

                        21:02 Nero White 3083

                        20:39 Frank G

                        20:10 Crusader

                        20:05 rammer

                        19:50 rammer

                        19:41 CrazyFool

                        19:00 phil_b

                        18:54 Rob Crawford

                        18:50 Regular joe

                        18:44 swksvolFF

Who's in the News
21	[untagged]
12	Islamic State
6	Arab Spring
4	Boko Haram (ISIS)
3	Commies
2	Govt of Syria
2	Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (IS)
2	Govt of Pakistan
2	Moslem Colonists
1	Hamas
1	Hezbollah
1	Houthis
1	al-Nusra
1	Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami
1	Taliban
1	Pirates
1	Govt of Pakistain Proxies

On Sale now!

A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.

Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...

Steve White

Seafarious

tu3031

badanov

sherry

ryuge

GolfBravoUSMC

Bright Pebbles

trailing wife

Gloria

Fred

Besoeker

Glenmore

Frank G

3dc

Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT

Tue 2017-04-11
ISIS shells east of Mosul with chlorine gas, 10 casualties

Mon 2017-04-10
Man steers car into town hall in Germany, fire breaks out

Sun 2017-04-09
Church bombing north of Egypt's capital kills 26

Sat 2017-04-08
Iranian brigadier general killed by jihadist militants in northern Hama

Fri 2017-04-07
U.S. launches cruise missiles against Assad's forces

Thu 2017-04-06
Al-Qaeda assassinates prominent Free Syrian Army commander in Idlib

Wed 2017-04-05
Global outcry over suspected Syria chemical attack

Tue 2017-04-04
ISIS raid in Yemen leaves scores of Houthi troops dead on the battlefield

Mon 2017-04-03
Reports of an explosion(3) in a metro station in central #StPetersburg, #Russia

Sun 2017-04-02
IS second-in-command killed in airstrike: Iraqi State TV

Sat 2017-04-01
South Carolina man charged with trying to join Islamic State

Fri 2017-03-31
Mortars hit near Somali Presidential Palace, 2 hurt

Thu 2017-03-30
503 militants surrender in Homs

Wed 2017-03-29
Taliban commanders among 21 killed in Helmand airstrikes: MoD

Tue 2017-03-28
33 ISIS troops die in Nangarhar airstrike

Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.

216.73.216.50

Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:

WoT Operations (29)

WoT Background (13)

Non-WoT (10)

Opinion (5)

Politix (5)