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Syria's Idlib IS-Free after 'Surrender' Tuesday
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
North Korea, Myanmar in a sanctions-busting embrace	0 [11124]
Turkish Base in Iraqi Kurdistan Attacked Tuesday	1 08:24 Injun Bucket8891 [11126]
Operation Sinai 2018: 15 turbans permanently unwound, 153 arrested, underground/den/mountain weapons caches develop massive secondaries, and more	0 [11124]
Syria's Idlib IS-Free after 'Surrender' Tuesday	0 [11130]
Turkey Creates New 'Observation Point' in Syria's Idlib	0 [11127]
Rantburg Exclusive: 2/15/2018 Battle Field Report Turkey VS YPG/SDF Afrin	1 09:20 Injun Bucket8891 [11124]
Good morning	6 18:34 Besoeker [11126]
Mandera Police Kill Two KDF Soldiers In Friendly Fire	0 [11125]
Kenyan Forces Kill 3 Al-Shabaab Militants	0 [11129]
8 militants killed, 5 wounded in Faryab clashes	0 [11125]
Pakistan Army destroys Indian post in retaliation to cross-border firing, killing 5: ISPR	1 22:58 3dc [11127]
Syrian Army uncovers large web of tunnels belonging to ISIS in Deir Ezzor	0 [11135]
Lebanese Army arrests Nusra-linked terrorist inside Arsal	0 [11126]
Twenty Islamic State militants killed as two attacks repulsed in Mosul	0 [11126]
Iraqi school guard stands up to Islamic State militants, foils attack	2 12:21 Frozen Al [11125]
Islamic State’s military emir dies of injuries caused by airstrike in Diyala	0 [11124]
Page 2: WoT Background
China’s latest move in the graveyard of empires	4 17:42 Raj [11131]
Video of Brotherhood leader’s son with Daesh affiliate not unprecedented: Expert	0 [11126]
Radical widows and orphans in Europe.	0 [11130]
Follow the money and the drugs.	0 [11124]
A background involving the Russian Wagner group.	3 09:13 Besoeker [11128]
Galmudug State Accuses UNDP Of Failing To Pay Its Police Force	0 [11128]
Rodrigo Duterte offers 'per head' bounty for rebels	7 19:32 CrazyFool [11127]
Egypt urged to halt cluster-bombs use in North Sinai	6 21:51 CrazyFool [11128]
Taliban piously calls for dialogue in new letter addressed to the American nation	5 15:22 gorb [11129]
Ethiopia: PM Hailemariam Desalegn Resigns After Mass Unrest	0 [11126]
Pakistan on global lobbying campaign against placement on terror-financing watchlist	0 [11127]
Mashal Khan lynching: Shooter Imran Ali, 12 others challenge convictions in high court	0 [11125]
US continues to supply Kurds with arms, provoking Turkey -- Russian FM	6 16:40 Zhang Fei [11127]
500 displaced militants’ families fear revenge back home in Iraq’s Anbar	1 07:08 Frank G [11129]
Hamburg: It Started With One Woman	1 06:09 Elmerert Hupens2660 [11128]
US Demands Pakistan Arrest ‘Hit List’ of Top Haqqani & Taliban Leaders	2 10:09 Procopius2k [11128]
Drone tanker refueling drones.	0 [11126]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Presiding Judge of the Surveillance court tells Congressman Nunes he's good-to-go.	2 17:01 U. Snavique2820 [11128]
China nearly done militarizing South China Sea	3 19:26 Alaska Paul [11128]
Putin prefers Aramco to Trump’s sword dance	1 13:00 3dc [11126]
IRS still paying bonuses to tax cheat employees	5 18:44 Besoeker [11127]
Canada Hosts A Pride House At The Winter Olympics In South Korea	3 19:00 Besoeker [11130]
Shackled Florida gunman appears in court, ordered held without bond for killing 17 in school massacre	8 11:53 Abu Uluque [11125]
Nicolas Maduro vows to attend Summit of Americas	2 00:55 Raj [11126]
Nepal: Former revolutionary sworn in as prime minister	0 [11127]
Air Force Academy First Sergeant Reprimanded For Telling Cadets To Dress Properly	14 19:40 CrazyFool [11133]
Half of Ukrainian front line deaths in January were suicides	2 07:53 Mercutio [11124]
Ramaphosa Sworn in As President of South Africa	0 [11125]
Desmond Tutu aka 'The Red Bishop' Retires As Global Ambassador of Scandal-Hit Oxfam	3 08:27 SteveS [11136]
Saudi cleric endorses Valentine's Day as 'positive event'	0 [11126]
ATC reserves judgement in Zainab murder case	0 [11125]
Two pistols used in Asma murder: report	0 [11124]
Two more cases against spinal fluid scam suspects	2 17:59 Bertie Lumumba3675 [11129]
Gertz: FBI investigating Confucius Institutes	4 18:40 Omeger Gray6606 [11128]
A federal agent shoots and kills intruder inside her Pinecrest home	5 14:56 Blackbeard Bumble5724 [11128]
Page 4: Opinion
WSJ - Fauxachantis has a Rough Week, Lots of smoke in the Teepee	13 16:49 Zhang Fei [11125]
‘Police State' Chatter in the Face of Five Police Funerals	0 [11126]
CIA Argues The Public Can't See Classified Information It Has Already Given To Favored Reporters	3 09:57 Besoeker [11130]
Mercer: The Malevolent Matriarchy is Gunning for Chief of Staff John Kelley	2 14:47 Besoeker [11125]
Leaked Julian Assange Message: Hillary Is A ‘Well Connected, Sadistic Sociopath'	8 18:08 JohnQC [11129]
Why Random, Meaningless Sex Is a Bad Idea for Women	3 17:49 JohnQC [11127]
Limbaugh: FBI ‘Really Busy' Tracking the Entire Trump Administration Looking for Additional Sexual Harassers	17 22:23 DooDahMan [11129]
The Judicial Resistance Reveals Itself	5 20:49 newc [11130]
Banning terror groups	0 [11126]
President Trump: Have Education Department Mandate Active Shooter Protocols	1 10:05 rjschwarz [11126]
The Machiavellians in our Universities	4 15:32 Procopius2k [11129]
Page 6: Politix
Mueller Accuses Russians of Pro-Trump, Anti-Clinton Meddling	12 19:42 charger [11129]
Sheriff: The Guns didn't change, We changed. (Video)	4 19:17 swksvolFF [11132]
UN staff ‘responsible for 60,000 rapes in a decade'	2 13:24 Procopius2k [11127]
Adam Schiff Confirms Democratic Memo Contains ‘Sources and Methods'	4 12:33 newc [11126]
With McCain's retreat, some turn to Romney to carry his torch	7 21:52 CrazyFool [11129]
'Former' Klingon analysts write anti-Nunes Opinion Piece for yes, CNN	13 14:37 Sock Puppet of Doom [11129]
State Department Nominee Confirms FBI Was Blocked From Arresting Chinese Security Officials	5 15:08 Sgt. D.T. [11125]
Demoted DOJ Official Failed to Disclose Wife Nellie Was Paid By Firm That Compiled Trump Dossier	7 23:34 JohnQC [11127]
White House Kneecaps Lindsey Graham For Acting Like ‘Chair Of Democratic Conference’	5 11:30 3dc [11127]
The Media has stopped Reporting the Russian Collusion Story	15 17:09 U. Snavique2820 [11125]

    
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7	Commies
6	Govt of Pakistan
6	Islamic State
4	Sublime Porte
3	Taliban
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1	Antifa
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Two weeks of WOT

Fri 2018-02-16
Syria's Idlib IS-Free after 'Surrender' Tuesday

Thu 2018-02-15
Rebels strike western Syria’s primary power grid to leave millions without electricity

Wed 2018-02-14
'White powder' sent to Pres.Obama's DC office just 24 hours after Don & Vanessa Trump got similar package

Tue 2018-02-13
Drone strike kills six Al Qaeda suspects in Yemen

Mon 2018-02-12
Sword-wielding man injures 4 worshipers at Indonesian church

Sun 2018-02-11
Jaish-e-Mohammad targets sleeping families at Sunjuwan Army camp, kills two soldiers

Sat 2018-02-10
TTP splinter group chief Khan Said ‘Sajna’ reported killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan

Fri 2018-02-09
Houthi leader killed in precision strike along with 35 others

Thu 2018-02-08
US kills more than 100 Assad regime fighters in largest deliberate strike against Syrian government forces

Wed 2018-02-07
Israelis kill Ahmad Nasser Jarrar, terrorist behind murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevah

Tue 2018-02-06
Chlorine gas dropped in rebel-held territory of Idlib, Syria

Mon 2018-02-05
Russian, Syrian warplanes unleash all-out attack on ISIS in northeast Hama as army prepares to eliminate pocket

Sun 2018-02-04
Bomb blast kills top military commander in S. Yemen Zoom

Sat 2018-02-03
Ahrar Al-Sham’s top commander in northern Idlib has been assassinated

Fri 2018-02-02
Four Migrants Critical after Being Shot in Calais Brawl

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