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Iran ammonium-nitrate stash in London and around the world ignored for 2015 Iran deal
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Africa North
Libya's PC deputy head asks US to end Egypt, Saudi Arabia's support for Haftar
[Libya Observer] The deputy head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Ahmed Mitig, has requested the US to exert pressure on its allies that are meddling in Libya by backing up Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
's attack on Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
and make them stay out of Libya.

"We urge the US administration to use its leverage to end the support provided by Egypt and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
to Haftar." Mitig told Fox News on Saturday.

Mitig is on a formal visit to Washington D.c., where he met with a number of senators, including Republican Lindsey Graham
... the endangered South Carolina RINO, fellow maverick of Honest John McCain...
, and discussed the US policy toward Libya amid the offensive on the capital that was launched by Haftar on April 04 in an attempt to seize power.

"I'm going back to Libya's capital Tripoli with a message from the US that says the White House is in support and standing by the Government of National Accord as the only legitimate government in Libya." Mitig told news hounds in Washington.

He also told Fox News in the interview that what his government wants from the US is not financial or military support, but politicianship.

Mitig reminded Fox News that the Presidential Council's commanded coalition of forces "Al-Bunyan al-Marsous" cooperated with the US to defeat ISIS and that the Libyan Presidential Council's government cooperated with the US in oil production progress, political process and the preparations for elections in Libya.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Bangladesh
PM Hasina accuses Myanmar of being reluctant in taking Rohingyas back
[Dhaka Tribune] Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
has accused Myanmar of being reluctant in repatriating over a million Rohingya nationals defying their promise and feared that some international aid agencies to tend to keep the crisis alive.

"The problem lies with Myanmar as they don’t want to take back the Rohingyas by any means though Naypyidaw
...generally translated as royal capital, seat of the king or abode of kings because the general in charge had a massive ego. It was founded in 2002 because Rangoon was worn out. Traditionally, Naypyidaw was used as a suffix to the names of royal capitals, such as Mandalay, which was called Yadanabon Naypyidaw in Burmese...
signed an agreement with Bangladesh promising to repatriate them," she said while briefing media at her residence Ganabhaban on Sunday.

The premier simultaneously feared that some international aid and voluntary agencies too were unwilling to resolve the crisis saying: "They never want the refugees to return their home."

"This is what I see," Sheikh Hasina told the presser, a day after her return home following her tri-nation tour to Japan, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and Finland, reports BSS.

Asked for comments about a perception that three major countries ‐ China, Japan and India ‐ took Myanmar’s side in the crisis, the premier said Dhaka separately held talks with these countries where all of them acknowledged Rohingyas as Myanmar nationals and agreed that they should return there.

"(But) they (three countries) simultaneously argued that if all of them confront Myanmar over the issue, then who will be there to convince them (Naypyidaw)," she said.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army

#1  The rohingya are practically like the creatures in 'aliens'. Sure, they have babies and women and for publicity the cameras can make them look innocent and all. But the truth is, they're a vicious, tribal, insane community of inbreds completely radicalized and driven to mass murder and mayhem.

The global media agenda to 'humanize' them is based only on muslim activists and know-nothing bleeding hearts who they put up the victim act for. Why would countries that typically tolerate crime and terrorism on a daily basis selectively throw out these bastards ? A lady like Suu Kyi, known for her patience and perseverance wanted their removal, by buddhists no less. They're the Myanmar cousins of the Chinese Uighur, which are in aspect the same as them. Hence the big enforcement on Xinjiang by the CCP. If they could escape world ridicule, these nations would simply annihilate these communities.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/10/2019 5:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Back? Shouldnt they be asking Bangladesh that not Burma?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/10/2019 5:50 Comments || Top||

#3  The muzz madness
won't end
Before the Western blindness
does.

Burma Shave
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/10/2019 6:08 Comments || Top||

#4  I wouldn’t want them back either.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 06/10/2019 6:46 Comments || Top||

#5  But the truth is, they're a vicious, tribal, insane community of inbreds completely radicalized and driven to mass murder and mayhem.


And this is different from all other Muslims, how?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/10/2019 7:16 Comments || Top||

#6  I thought and thought, Alan. The answer is, not much.

These are particularly vile though. Add a history of cannibal tribalism to black magic and multiply by an islamic coefficient of two.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/10/2019 7:55 Comments || Top||

#7  An October 2012 report:
Oo Hla Saw blamed local authorities for failing to heed rumors of impending violence, and Islamist radicals for inflaming tensions. For many Rakhines, he adds, the term Rohingya has jihadist overtones associated with the "Mujahid," autonomy-seeking rebels in northern Rakhine State from 1949 to 1961, who called themselves ethnic Rohingya. (Independent historians say the rebels did popularize the term "Rohingya," but cite a few references to it since the 18th century.)
Even today, Oo Hla Saw said, the Rohingya want "to set up an autonomous Islamic community. They are systematically scheming to do that."

Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 || 06/10/2019 8:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
California Dems agree to full health benefits for many low-income illegal immigrants, in swipe at Trump
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/10/2019 04:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mexico City calls the shots in Sacramento. They're just taking care of their own.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/10/2019 10:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Good luck trying to finance that. California is already broke as hell.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/10/2019 10:21 Comments || Top||

#3  They're looking for the high tech profits to come home.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/10/2019 10:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Always other peoples money. Either today or by indenturing future generations.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2019 11:08 Comments || Top||

#5  California government regime will tax the techs to finance their nightmare dreams until even the techs eventually leave.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 06/10/2019 11:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Immigrant subsidies largely finally accrue to the establishment
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/10/2019 14:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Good, move them all there. They can hang with the 50k+ homeless.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 06/10/2019 14:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Obviously the Dims have given up tryibg to help their own citizens living in the streets.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 06/10/2019 20:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Dems need a big turn out for 2020 with so many Donk states committing their citizens to the vote of the 10 most populated cities in America. Strike down the requirement for the census to identify citizens, every one will get the vote in CA. Otherwise it would look as crooked as it is when more people vote in the districts than there are citizens living there.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2019 21:29 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
The Long Arm of Turkey's Erdogan
Key bits:
[AmericanThinker] Sports and politics have always been uncomfortable bed-fellows, despite the best efforts to keep sports as a unifying nonpartisan activity. From Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics to the American hockey team from the 1980 Miracle on Ice, sports heroes have had a way of rankling authoritarians.

And so it is for Enes Kanter, a Ottoman Turkish-born NBA star currently playing for the Portland Trailblazers, following the failed Ottoman Turkish coup in 2016. Kanter has been made a wanted man for his criticism of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
’s President Tayyip Erdogan. He was not able to travel with his New York Knicks teammates back in January to play the Washington Wizards in London for fear of being kidnapped or killed. And in December 2017 he was sentenced to four years in prison in absentia. Enes Kanter’s father was also fired from his university position and is now serving a fifteen-year sentence in prison, some say as backlash for his son’s criticism of the government.

Now however, Erdogan’s long authoritarian arm has apparently reached even youth sporting. On June 2nd, Kanter published this message on his Twitter feed:

One reply to Kanter’s tweet declares Islamic Association of North Texas (IANT) Richardson as the organization that initiated the boycott of the basketball camps.

A Twitter user by the name of THEOLOG writes, "I knew it, Yusuf Kavakci was an Islamist and Erdoganist Imam whose daughters and even grand children have governmental positions in Turkey. Shame on this masjid, I led some salahs when I was there! They are so political and erdoganist sadly!!!"

The Twitter user THEOLOG makes a valid point. Yusuf Kavakci was previously a board member for the Moslem Brüderbund-affiliated Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and for a time was president of the Islamic Tribunal that caused such a stir for openly stating that it would use Sharia to resolve disputes within the Moslem community during the tenure of Mayor Beth Van Duyne in Irving, Texas.

As previously reported in the American Spectator, Erdogan’s regime is increasingly using connections with domestic-based U.S. Islamist groups, like Moslem American Society (MAS), Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) to exert political influence in the United States. And now Erdogan is utilizing those connections to put pressure on a children’s basketball clinic held in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/10/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Iraq
UN: 70 pct of explosive hazards “still underneath rubble” in Iraq
A reminder why we want to keep war far from our homeland.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
on Sunday warned against bad effects of explosive hazards on the afflicted communities in Iraq, claiming that 70 per cent of explosives are still underneath the rubble.

"Explosive hazards continue to have an adverse effect on afflicted communities in Iraq. Our primary mandate is to facilitate the safe and voluntary return of IDPs to their homes. We cannot do that when an estimated 70 per cent of explosive hazards still lie underneath the rubble," said Pehr Lodhammar, Senior Programme Manager of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Iraq.

"Risk education and the clearance of explosive hazards always come together. To avoid accidents, it is crucial to teach affected communities which behaviors to adopt when encountering explosive hazards." added Pehr Lodhammar.

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
British Chargé d’Affaires in Baghdad John Tucknott said his country is the largest contributor to the Voluntary Trust Fund for Mine Action in Iraq.

"UK aid supports UNMAS in clearing explosive hazards, educating vulnerable communities on how to stay safe and helping to train Iraq’s National Demining Authority. It also supports search and clearance teams clearing important infrastructure such as schools, hospitals and roads, enabling Iraqis to safely return to their homes," Tucknott said.

"We are particularly pleased that in Sinjar these teams are gender-balanced and include members belonging to different religions and ethnicities," he added.
It’s important to have priorities...
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/10/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  UN delegates should personally go help find an dispose of the ordinance
Posted by: chris || 06/10/2019 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Also, somebody forgot to extract the potentially flammable liquid underneath.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/10/2019 8:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Likely little kids playing in the rubble are also mining for explosives.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/10/2019 10:41 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan president sacks intelligence chief over Easter attacks probe
[DAWN] Sri Lanka’s president has sacked the national intelligence chief and will not cooperate with a parliamentary investigation into security lapses before the Easter suicide kabooms, officials said on Saturday.

Maithripala Sirisena summoned an emergency cabinet meeting on Friday night to oppose a parliamentary select committee probe into the April 21 attacks that killed 258 people, including 45 foreigners, and maimed nearly 500.

Chief of National Intelligence Sisira Mendis was sacked after testifying to the inquiry last week that the attacks could have been averted.

He also said the president had failed to hold regular security meetings to assess the threat from Islamic faceless myrmidons who carried out the bombings on three hotels and three churches.

Sirisena’s office did not give a reason for the sacking. Halfway through the testimony, the live telecast of the proceedings was stopped on the president’s orders, official sources said. A ministerial source said Sirisena has refused to allow any police, military or intelligence personnel to testify before the committee.

The source added that the heated cabinet meeting ended "inconclusively" without taking a decision on whether to suspend the parliament probe.

Sirisena’s office did not comment on the meeting, but said the president had told senior coppers on Friday that he will not allow any serving officer to testify.

Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Modi makes unscheduled stop at bombed Sri Lanka church
[DAWN] India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday made an unscheduled stop at a Catholic church bombed during the Easter suicide attacks ahead of his official welcome to Sri Lanka.

Modi's entourage made a detour to St Anthony's shrine on their way to President Maithripala Sirisena's office, where a red carpet military parade awaited.

"I am confident Sri Lanka will rise again," Modi said on Twitter while posting photos of himself at the church.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran unveils new air defense system capable of intercepting 6 targets at once. Really.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iranian Defence Ministry has presented its new domestically-designed air defence system Khordad 15 capable of shooting down six targets at the same time, the Tasnim news agency reported, citing Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami.

The new air defence system, equipped with phased array radar and independent launch pads, can detect both warplanes and intruding drones within a range of 150 kilometres (93 miles) and track them at a range of 120 kilometres, according to the Tasnim news agency.

Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  ...And all I can hear right now is Sesame Street's The Count:

"I can intercept six - six Zionist targets, ha, ha, ha, ha!!"

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 06/10/2019 4:21 Comments || Top||

#2  It's that seventh plane you have to worry about.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 || 06/10/2019 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Six targets that are at the same range, same bearing, and stationary.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/10/2019 8:24 Comments || Top||

#4  It's that seventh plane you have to worry about.

Yeah, that. File under "Rolling back the defense"

They can probably track 6 targets at once. Shooting them down is a bit more complicated and then there is that "reloading" thing. A bit slow & labor-intensive according to the video we saw the other day.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/10/2019 9:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Entertaining how the missile containers are made to look like Patriot containers. It's a step up from welded oil barrels "S-300 SAM".
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Bucket8539 || 06/10/2019 9:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Go ahead, turn on your search and targeting radar and see what happens.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 06/10/2019 11:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Iran: "Always after me charms...
With science and lasers and HARMs.
No radar! I'd rather
Rely on me nazar
And pointy-toed slippers than arms."
Posted by: Glaimp Glimble1038 || 06/10/2019 17:21 Comments || Top||


Iran urges Europe to normalise economic ties with it or face consequences
[DAWN] Iran said on Sunday that Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
was not in a position to criticise Tehran for its military capabilities, and called on European leaders to normalise economic ties with the Islamic Theocratic Republic despite US sanctions or face consequences.

President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
last year withdrew the United States from a nuclear deal with Iran and reimposed sanctions. Trump has condemned a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, signed by his predecessor Barack Obama
That’s just how white folks will do you....
, as flawed for not being permanent and for not covering Irans ballistic missile programme or its role in conflicts around the Middle East.
"Be our good friend or we'll beat you up!"
The European signatories to the deal ‐ La Belle France, Britannia and Germany ‐ share the same concerns as the United States over Irans ballistic missile programme and regional activities.

However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
they have defended the nuclear accord saying that at least it puts curbs on Iran's nuclear programme and can be the basis for future talks.

"Europeans are not in a position to criticise Iran for issues outside the JCPOA," Zarif was quoted as saying by the state broadcaster, using the acronym for the nuclear deal.

"The Europeans and other signatories of the JCPOA should normalise economic ties with Iran ... We will halt our commitments or will take action in accordance to their measures."

Iran last month stopped some commitments under the nuclear deal and warned that in 60 days it would scale back more commitments if Europeans fail to shield it against the US sanctions.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas will visit Iran this week, during which he will explore options for preserving the fraying nuclear non-proliferation pact.

Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani on Sunday also criticised French President Emmanuel Macron for saying last week in a meeting with Trump that they shared the same objectives on Iran.

Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  An essentially flat on its back economic entity lecturing a teetering one. Popcorn.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/10/2019 6:26 Comments || Top||


Iran Warns U.S. Navy and ‘Zionist’ Military: Prepare to Be Crushed
[BREITBART] U.S. Navy forces now gathered in the Persian Gulf region will be hit with "unimaginable reciprocal blows" if any attack is made on Iran, a top military aide to the country’s leadership said Sunday.
"Zionists" were also warned they face the same fate in the announcement.

General Rahim Safavi told the local Fars newsagency Iran has the ability to hit far beyond its borders and its enemies should take note. He said:

We are not the starter of any war and aggression against any country and this has several times been stated by Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei who is also commander-in-chief of the Iranian Armed Forces]. But if enemies, including the Zionists or the Americans, make a move against us at any level, we have a strong defense and deterrence power too and will hit unimaginable reciprocal blows on them and their interests and military bases.

He claimed Iran "is stronger than all its 15 neighbors, except Russia, in the military field," and said Tehran and Moscow have joined together in a military alliance across the Middle East. Such is Iran’s claimed military might, the country "will inflict the most crushing and most surprising strikes on them not just in areas around the country but also beyond in the seas."

This not the first time Iran has issued blood-curdling threats against its real and perceived enemies.

As Breitbart News reported, last month the U.S. military presence in the Middle East was dismissed as its "weakest in history" by a deputy commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards.

Admiral Ali Fadavi, a deputy Guards commander, made the accusation but failed to add any evidence to back his claim.

"The Americans have been present in the region since 1833 and they are now at their weakest in history in West Asia," Fadavi is alleged to have said.

Tehran has previously described U.S. military moves as "psychological warfare" and a "political game"designed to hurt the Iran people.

Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  We are not the starter of any war and aggression against any country...

Pull the other one... it's got a JDAM on it.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/10/2019 7:57 Comments || Top||

#2  "unimaginable imaginary reciprocal blows"
FIFY
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/10/2019 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  I see your spittle flecked lunatic threats and raise you two aircraft carriers and some B-2s.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/10/2019 9:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Pakistan and Turkey which border Iran are more powerful than Iran.
Posted by: Bernardz || 06/10/2019 13:12 Comments || Top||

#5  We have bombs that are smarter than Alah.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 06/10/2019 20:43 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Iran ammonium-nitrate stash in London and around the world ignored for 2015 Iran deal
[Twitter and Telegraph - behind a paywall] Terrorists linked to Iran were caught stockpiling tonnes of explosive materials on the outskirts of London in a secret British bomb factory, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

Radicals linked to Hizbollah, the Lebanese militant group, stashed thousands of disposable ice packs containing ammonium nitrate - a common ingredient in homemade bombs.

The plot was uncovered by MI5 and the Metropolitan Police in the autumn of 2015, just months after the UK signed up to the Iran nuclear deal. Three metric tonnes of ammonium nitrate was discovered - more than was used in the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people and damaged hundreds of buildings.

Police raided four properties in North West London -...
Twitter links mention 3 tons in London and similar amounts elsewhere all covered up because of Iran Deal



Posted by: 3dc || 06/10/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Oh yeah.
600 brigades with cached munitions.

Imagine 1 coolant pack in each family freezer.
(3,000,000/5 member family~600,000 IED packs)
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/10/2019 10:38 Comments || Top||

#2  The state doesn't care about terrorism as long as the establishment continues to profit.

GCHQ and MI5 and MI6 are there to spy on and suppress the British people so the establishment can continue it's looting.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/10/2019 10:52 Comments || Top||

#3  It’s been a quarter century since Hezbollah blew up that Jewish community center in Argentina...
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/10/2019 11:12 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2019-06-10
  Iran ammonium-nitrate stash in London and around the world ignored for 2015 Iran deal
Sun 2019-06-09
  Tunisian-German couple in court over ‘ricin attack plot’
Sat 2019-06-08
  U.S., Mexico: Trump Announces Deal With Mexico, Suspends Tariff Threat
Fri 2019-06-07
  Houthis kill imam, 9 worshippers for following Saudi Eid al-Fitr moon sighting
Thu 2019-06-06
  ISIS claiming to exterminate a Pakistani Intel agent
Wed 2019-06-05
  Nanagarhar: Senior ISIS leader hailing from India killed in Afghanistan airstrike
Tue 2019-06-04
  Sri Lanka Muslim ministers resign en masse over Easter bombings
Mon 2019-06-03
  Houthi rebels launch a drone attack on a military parade for Saudi-led coalition forces in the port city of Aden
Sun 2019-06-02
  Al-Quds rally rejects ‘deal of the century’
Sat 2019-06-01
  Islamic Jihad chief says Gaza groups can fire 1,000 rockets a day at Israel
Fri 2019-05-31
  COAS endorses death sentence for retired brigadier, a civilian for 'espionage, leaking information'
Thu 2019-05-30
  IDF Destroying Hezbollah's Last, Largest Cross-Border Attack Tunnel
Wed 2019-05-29
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