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Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seen in new video for first time in five years
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Afghanistan
5 Taliban explosives facilitators killed in Parwan
[KhaamaPress] Five Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Improvised Explosive Device planners were killed during an Afghan Security Forces (ASSF) raid in Bagram district, Parwan province, April 26, 2019.

Informed military sources said Sunday that "The nefarious coordinators, who went by the name Luftullah, Baran, Awal Gul, Farid, and Sayed Lala were directly responsible for planning and assisting bully boyz in carrying out high-profile attacks against Afghan National Defense Security Forces and Afghan civilians in the region."

The sources further added that these coordinators specialized in Vehicle Improvised Explosive Device creation.

The anti-government armed bully boyz including Taliban have not commented regarding the report so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Afghan, coalition forces destroy more than 100,000 kilograms of opium drugs in Farah
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan and coalition forces have destroyed more than 100,000 kilograms of opium during an operation which was conducted in western Farah province, the military sources said Sunday.

"Afghan National Army Special Forces in a joint operation with Coalition Forces conducted a large scale operation in Bakwah district, Farah province, in which more than 100,000 KGs of opium drugs were detected and destroyed," the sources said.

The sources further added "Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
turbans were involved in preparing, supplying, securing, dealing and smuggling of the mentioned drugs."
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  From another report: "The sources also added that Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Bakwa district of Farah province and destroyed 300 Kg of heroin and 90,000 pounds of raw products." 300 kg of heroin destroyed is no joke.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 || 04/29/2019 7:17 Comments || Top||


8 militants killed, 6 others wounded in Ghor operations: Zafar Corps
[KhaamaPress] At least eight bandidos faceless myrmidons were killed and six others were maimed in joint air and ground operations which were conducted in North-western Ghor province.

The 207th Zafar Corps in a statement said the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces conducted operations with the close air support of coalition forces in Dolaina district of Ghor province.

The statement further added that eight bandidos faceless myrmidons were killed and six others were maimed during the operations and a vehicle and together with six cycle of violences were destroyed.

The anti-government armed bandidos faceless myrmidons including Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
have not commented regarding the operations so far.

The Afghan armed forces have stepped up operations to suppress the anti-government armed bandidos faceless myrmidons who are attempting to expand their insurgency as part of their spring offensive across the country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Dozens of Taliban killed in latest airstrikes, Special Forces operations
[KhaamaPress] Dozens of Talibs were killed in the latest Arclight airstrikes and operations of the Afghan Special Forces, the military sources said Sunday.

The sources further added that 11 Talibs were killed in the airstrikes conducted in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan province.

At least 17 Talibs were killed and 8 others were detained during separate operations of the Afghan Special Forces which were conducted in Bermal district of Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
, Charkh district of Pashtun-infested Logar, Gelan district of Ghazni province.

An airstrike was conducted in Deh Bala district of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province killed 3 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
fighters, the sources said, adding that Afghan Special Forces conducted an operation in Maimanah district of Faryab province killing 19 Taliban fighters.

The sources also added that Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Bakwa district of Farah province and destroyed 300 Kg of heroin and 90,000 pounds of raw products.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
#GNA advancing on #Tripoli International Airport and intensified its attacks on Soq Ahad to cut #LNA supply route
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


LNA reportedly moving forces towards Sirte
[TWITTER]

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Arabia
Houthi forces launch important offensive in southern Hodeidah
[ALMASDARNEWS] Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
forces launched an imperative offensive in the southern part of the Hodeidah Governorate, today, targeting the areas controlled by the UAE-backed Giants Brigade.

Backed by heavy artillery, the Houthi forces stormed the defenses of the Giants Brigade in the northern part of the Hays District; this would result in a heavy battle that is still ongoing at this time.

According to a field report from the Hays District, the Houthi forces are looking to expel the Giants Brigade from this area and force the remaining UAE-backed troops to leave the southern outskirts of Hodeidah city.

This offensive by the Houthi forces is considered a violation of the U.N.-sponsored ceasefire, which is currently in effect across the entire Hodeidah Governorate.
NO! Reeeeaaallly?
This ceasefire was put in place by the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
at the start of this year; it has remained in tact for the most part, despite repeated violations by all warring parties.

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Bangladesh
Bangladesh jails three Rohingya extremists for 10 years
[DAWN] A Bangladesh court on Sunday sentenced three Rohingya turbans of a now defunct krazed killer group to 10 years in jail for possessing bomb-making materials, a prosecutor said.

The trio were tossed in the slammer
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
in 2014 in Dhaka with materials to be used for making improvised bombs (IEDs), said Salahuddin Howlader, a prosecutor at the Metropolitan Special Tribunal in the capital.

They were found guilty and sentenced immediately under the country's explosives laws, the prosecutor said, adding one of them was sentenced in absentia as he was on the run.

"They were involved with several international krazed killer outfits including the RSO," he told AFP, referring to the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation, a small krazed killer group that was active in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state in the 1980s and 1990s.

Local media, citing the police charge-sheet on the case, said the three men were suspects in the 2014 Burdwan blast in the neighbouring Indian state of West Bengal that killed at least two people and maimed several while they were allegedly making IEDs.

"The charge-sheet read the accused admitted planning sabotage in Bangladesh with the assistance of international Islamist holy warrior outfits," the online edition of the mass circulation Bengali daily Prothom Alo said.

In recent years, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) has emerged as the main Rohingya krazed killer group operating in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state that borders Bangladesh's southeast.

In August 2017, Arsa attacked several police posts in Rakhine prompting a massive military crackdown that forced some 740,000 Rohingya Moslems to flee to Bangladesh, where they are housed in squalid refugee camps. The refugees joined some 300,000 Rohingya who have been living in the camps for years and even decades.

Bangladeshi security officials say no holy warrior groups such as Arsa or RSO operate in the camps, but this week the International Crisis Group said gunnies were increasing their grip on the settlements and were responsible for the murder of at least one Rohingya camp leader.

The conflict research group has urged Bangladesh to step up its police presence in the camps, saying gangs and holy warrior groups were now operating openly in the settlements.

Threats from turbans had left Rohingya leaders fearful for their lives and frequent murders were rarely investigated, the group said.

Bangladesh police said the creation of seven new police posts, the deployment of armed officers and better intelligence had improved security.

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Six Islamic State terrorists apprehended in Mosul city
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi military intelligence forces incarcerated
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
on Sunday six Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
murderous Moslems during a security campaign in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
city.

Acting on information from intelligence officials, troops of the Military Intelligence Directorate launched a security campaign to track down Islamic State murderous Moslems in Makhmour district in Mosul, Almaalomah news website quoted a statement by the Military Intelligence Directorate as saying.

The campaign resulted in "the arrest of six terrorists, who fought against our security forces," added the statement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Security beefed up in Diyala as Iraqis commemorate terrorist attack victims
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) — Security measures have been beefed up in the Iraqi province of Diyala as hundreds of citizens are set to commemorate the victims of a suicide bombing that targeted a popular gathering in 2014, leaving over 50 people dead and wounded.

A local source told Iraqi website Baghdad Today that security forces have been heavily deployed in Basha Kobri district and its neighborhoods to secure a ceremony in commemoration of the victims of the suicide bombing attack that took place near the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in April 2014, leaving over 50 people dead and wounded.

The source added that the commemoration ceremony will be attended by a raft of officials, as well as political and well-placed officials and citizens.

The Islamic State (IS) militant group has been behind attacks targeting crowded areas, including markets, cafes and mosques across Iraq over the past few years.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraqi troops arrest three Islamic State militants in Kirkuk
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi counter-terrorism forces incarcerated
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
on Sunday three members of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
krazed killer group in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.

The Counter-Terrorism Service said in a press statement that its troops "apprehended the trio during a security operation in Tab Zawa district in Kirkuk."

It added that arrest warrants had been issued for the thee jihadists over joining the Islamic State terrorist group.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF Troops In Hebron Attacked With Molotov Cocktail
[Jpost] Paleostinians threw a Molotov cocktail at IDF troops in Hebron on Sunday, Israeli media reported. No one was injured, security forces are looking for the attackers.

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Shin Bet Prevented Hamas Suicide Attack On Election Day
[Jpost] The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) foiled a Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror attack planned to take place around the elections, the agency announced on Sunday morning.

According to the statement, the Shin Bet, along with the IDF, had uncovered a terror cell in the West Bank that had been recruited by senior Hamas operatives from the Gazoo Strip to carry out a boom-mobileing attack near the West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim outside Jerusalem.

Authorities tossed in the calaboose
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
a cell activist and Hamas activist, 23-year-old Yahya Abu Dia, from the village of az-Za’ayyem on March 31. During his investigation, authorities uncovered that he had been recruited by senior Hamas operatives in the Gazoo Strip that he had been in contact with online and that he had agreed to act as a jacket wallah.

As part of his ties with Hamas operatives in the Strip, Abu Dia was asked to buy a car and rent a storage room to prepare a boom-mobile. He was also asked to monitor locations in the Ma’aleh Adumim area, where there was a high concentration of buses, civilians and soldiers to carry out the attack.

"Abu Dia followed the instructions of the cell, carried out observations on civilian sites, and reported to the cell about the best location to carry out the attack, while sending instructions to carry out the attack quickly," read the statement from the agency.

The agency said that as part of preparations for the suicide kaboom, Abu Dia was asked by Hamas activists to film a will that he carried out the attack in the name of Hamas’s military wing. He planned to film the will before he left for the attack, wearing a Hamas military wing bandanna.

The Shin Bet said that he purchased a tripod to film the video.

"Hamas in the Gazoo Strip is constantly recruiting Hamas operatives from the West Bank region to carry out murderous terror attacks in order to undermine security stability in the region," said a senior Shin Bet source. "This activity of the Hamas military wing joins a long list of attempted terrorist attacks directed by Hamas which recruited activists in the West Bank and that have been thwarted by the Shin Bet in recent years and have thus far led to the arrest of many individuals. The Shin Bet security service and other security agencies will continue to act to prevent terrorist attacks by Hamas."

An indictment will be filed in the coming days against Abu Dia.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Israel concerned deteriorating Palestinian economy could collapse PA — report
Going limp?
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu held an urgent meeting with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon earlier today to discuss the deteriorating Paleostinian economy in the West Bank, according to a report on Channel 12 news.

According to the report, Israeli officials are concerned that the Paleostinian Authority will collapse entirely in the wake of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
’ refusal to accept tax revenues collected by Israel, after it withheld part of the money, commensurate to payments made by the PA to the families of Paleostinian attackers and prisoners.

Israel announced in February that it would withhold $138 million in monthly payments to the PA to offset the PA’s payments to Paleostinians tossed in the clink
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
by Israel for terrorism and violence, and to the families of dead terrorists.

The Paleostinians have protested the law, refusing to receive any of the taxes Israel gathers for them on a monthly basis, as long as the Jewish state does not transfer them their full amount.

The taxes Israel collects and transfers to the PA make up hundreds of millions of shekels, more than half of its monthly budget.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Southeast Asia
One killed, three injured in two attacks in Thai south
[The Nation] One man was killed and three others wounded in two separate shootings in Thailand's southernmost province of Pattani on Thursday evening.

In Sai Buri district, a paramilitary ranger volunteer Pathompong Kaewthong and his wife Nureehan Dengla were shot and injured in Tambon Kadunong while riding home on their motorcycle after shopping at a local market. Two men on another motorcycle overtook them on the road and the passenger shot Pathompong in the head. A stray bullet also hit Nureehan's leg.

Police found that Pathompong was on leave and visiting his wife's hometown. They suspect that the assailants had been monitoring him because he worked for the military and attacked him as part of the ongoing southern insurgency.

In Yarang district, ice-cream vendor Rosadee Nidae was gunned down at a market in Tambon Khao Toom. A stray bullet also hit a bystander. Police found that the shooter had brazenly walked among the shoppers, then pulled out a gun and shot Rosadee twice before fleeing with an accomplice, who had kept his motorcycle running so they could make a speedy getaway.

Police are trying to establish if the second attack stemmed from the ongoing unrest or from a personal conflict.
Posted by: ryuge || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Wanted Abu Sayyaf rebel nabbed in Muntinlupa
[Inquirer] An Abu Sayyaf rebel wanted for kidnapping was arrested in Muntinlupa City on Wednesday evening. A police report identified the suspect as Aldemar Murih Sayari. Prior to his arrest, Sayari was working as a private security guard using a fake license.

Police said the private security agency that hired the suspect was also found to be operating illegally since 2014. The establishment was ordered to cease operations in 2016 since it failed to renew its license that expired in 2014.
Posted by: ryuge || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf (ISIS)


Wives of four Abu Sayyaf commanders arrested
[Inquirer] Philippine police on Tuesday arrested four women they said were wives of Abu Sayyaf commanders who took care of their financial transactions, helped obtain guns and bomb parts, and arranged the travels of foreign militants into the country. The women were nabbed in raids on houses in southern Zamboanga City where authorities seized two grenades, a bag of suspected ammonium nitrate and bomb-making parts.

The women worked under Abu Sayyaf leader Hajan Sawadjaan, the main suspect in the January 27 bombing of a Roman Catholic cathedral that killed 23 people in nearby Sulu province’s capital town of Jolo. The cathedral attack by two suspected suicide bombers triggered the latest military offensive against the Abu Sayyaf.

Sawadjaan has been regarded as the current leader of small insurgent groups aligned with the Islamic State. Police officials suspect he may be harboring at least one more potential suicide attacker, an Arab militant, in his jungle encampment near mountainous Ptikul town in Sulu.
Posted by: ryuge || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf (ISIS)


Sri Lanka
Day 9: Sri Lanka raids headquarters of hardline group suspected in church bombings
Day 8 can be seen here.
[DAWN] Sri Lankan police raided the headquarters of a hardline group founded by the suspected ringleader behind the Easter suicide kabooms of churches and hotels, a Rooters witness said, as Sunday mass was cancelled due to fears of further attacks.

Armed police in the town of Kattankudy searched the headquarters of the National Thawheedh Jamaath (NTJ) and detained one man at the premises, a Rooters news hound at the scene said. Police did not comment.

On Saturday the government banned the NTJ under new emergency laws. The authorities believe Zahran Hashim, the founder of NTJ, criminal masterminded and was one of the nine jacket wallahs in the attacks on Easter Sunday which killed 253 people. The hard boy Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group grabbed credit for the attacks.

Police sources told Rooters on Sunday that Zahran's father and two brothers had been killed two days earlier in a shootout with security forces. A relative identified the three men in a video circulating on social media calling for war against non-Moslems.

The Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Ranjith, who had asked churches to suspend Sunday mass due to security fears, delivered a televised special sermon from a chapel at his home. The service was attended by President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and former president Mahinda Rajapaksa. The archbishop said earlier this week that he had seen an internal security document warning of further attacks on churches.

"We cannot kill someone in the name of God ... It is a great tragedy that happened," the archbishop said in his sermon.

"We extend our hand of friendship and fraternity to all our brothers and sisters of whatever class, society or religion that differentiates us." The archbishop and politicians then lit candles to commemorate the victims.

Most of those killed in the Easter Sunday attacks were Sri Lankans. The dead also included 40 foreigners, including British, US, Australian, Ottoman Turkish, Indian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch and Portuguese nationals.

Police believe that radical Moslem preacher Zahran led the NTJ ‐ or a splinter faction ‐ to mount the attacks in Colombo as well as on a church in Batticaloa in the east.

The authorities have named the other group suspected of involvement as Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim.

Neither group were well known before the attacks but the government has come under heavy criticism for not heeding intelligence warnings of the bombings, including one from India's spy service hours before the attacks.
CNN adds:
In Friday's shootout, one wounded suspect fled on a motorbike, and another suspected terrorist could be on the run as well, Maj. Gen. Aruna Jayasekera said.

One of the six suspected terrorists found dead has been identified as Mohamed Niyas, known to the authorities as a prominent member of the National Tawheed Jamath. Earlier in a statement from the army, Niyas was identified as the brother-in-law of the alleged ringleader of the Easter Sunday attacks, Zahran Hashim.

The Sri Lankan army revealed Saturday that one of the suspected Easter Sunday bombers -- Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, who killed himself while detonating a bomb at the Tropical Inn Guesthouse on the outskirts of Colombo — traveled to Turkey with a friend "in the hope of entering Syria." While the friend later joined ISIS in Syria, Mohamed returned to Sri Lanka.

Jihadi John was mentor to Easter bombings ringleader Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed

[THETIMES] Jihadi John, known to his mother as Mohammed Emwazi, was the leader of the brutal ISIS execution cell called ‘the Beatles’, because all the members were English. Unlike some of his buddies, Jihadi John died in Syria by drone zap...

#SriLanka government has banned all types of face covers and veils, will go in effect immediately
[TWITTER]
This article starring:
Jihadi John
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  CAIR must have a branch office.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/29/2019 16:57 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranians Evacuate After Unidentified Aircraft Seen In East Syria
[JPOST] Local sources told Deir EzZor 24 that the aircraft were not Russian, Iranian or Syrian. A large presence of military vehicles has been reported in the area since the aircraft were spotted
"Run Awaaaaaayyyy!"
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  "The incident comes amid heightened tensions between the US and Iran surrounding the Strait of Hormuz."
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 || 04/29/2019 7:12 Comments || Top||

#2  "How do you know it wasn't one of ours?"

"It was flying."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/29/2019 12:16 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seen in new video for first time in five years
[Independent] He no look so great
Posted by: Frank G || 04/29/2019 14:48 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Eating better than his minions.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/29/2019 18:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Did he hold up the cartoon from the NYT for date verification? Just asking.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 04/29/2019 18:39 Comments || Top||

#3  My guess is that he released this and then quickly shaved and put on a burka with the hopes of getting out of Syria alive.
Posted by: Airandee || 04/29/2019 18:44 Comments || Top||

#4  "That fat b*tch. Stop her. Please...she can't run!"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/29/2019 20:40 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2019-04-29
  Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seen in new video for first time in five years
Sun 2019-04-28
  Father, brothers of alleged Sri Lanka bombing mastermind killed
Sat 2019-04-27
  Sri Lanka - Inside help?
Fri 2019-04-26
  Jihadists 'blow themselves up' as soldiers raid suicide vest factory in Sri Lanka
Thu 2019-04-25
  Trump says sending ‘armed soldiers’ to US-Mexico border
Wed 2019-04-24
  Saudi Arabia beheads 37 for terrorism crimes, most of them minority Shiites
Tue 2019-04-23
  IS claims Sri Lanka blasts
Mon 2019-04-22
  Sri Lanka explosions, 24 arrested, 290+ dead, 8 kabooms
Sun 2019-04-21
  3 churches bombed at Easter services in Sri Lanka 262 Dead
Sat 2019-04-20
  Woman killed after shots fired during violent riots in Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Fri 2019-04-19
  Islamic State Declared A New Wilaya In Africa
Thu 2019-04-18
  German Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Recruiting ISIS Members To Syria
Wed 2019-04-17
  Houthis in Yemen introduced a new airburst ballistic missile that spreads 14,000 pieces of shrapnel over a large area
Tue 2019-04-16
  Violence and dozens of arson attacks in Copenhagen after anti-Islam politician throws Koran in migrant neighbourhood
Mon 2019-04-15
  Notre Dame Cathedral is burning

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