Rantburg

Today

Wed 05/22/2019

Tue 05/21/2019

Mon 05/20/2019

Sun 05/19/2019

Sat 05/18/2019

Fri 05/17/2019

Thu 05/16/2019

Archives

		556929 articles and 1922995 comments are archived on Rantburg. Today: 53 articles and 192 comments as of 1:49.
Post a news link Post your own article

Area:	WoT Operations	WoT Background	Non-WoT	Opinion	Politix
Islamic State in West Africa Forming ‘Jihadist Proto-State’ in Nigeria
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Two guards killed in suspected Islamic State attack outside Libyan oilfield	0 [11132]
Iraq farmers go in night watches as mysterious fires hit wheat farms	3 13:26 Penguin_of_ the_Desert [11131]
Iraqi military destroys Islamic State camp in Anbar	0 [11125]
Mosul clearance continues: turbans burn 12 houses, 2 innocents kaboomed by cycle of violence	0 [11125]
Three ‘militants’ killed in Kalat	0 [11129]
NPA leader and his son killed in Butuan battle	0 [11123]
Three Philippine soldiers injured in ambush	0 [11126]
Peshawar High Court sets aside conviction of ‘militant’	0 [11127]
Mexican Border State Homicide Chief Gunned Down	1 09:25 Raj [11131]
Syria says air defenses intercept Israeli missiles, in 2nd incident in 24 hours	1 07:40 Jiggs Hupiting5931 [11132]
Two masked suspects break into settlement, flee after encountering patrol	0 [11131]
Page 2: WoT Background
‘Weapons in our hands' Venezuelan Military warns it is ready to slaughter US troops	18 16:53 Procopius2k [11131]
Hang the ISIS Beatles, says CIA boss: Spy chief who helped hunt down and kill Jihadi John says putting his fellow Londoners on trial in the UK would be an 'epic disaster'	9 13:24 Roger Smith [11130]
Sudan army rulers say talks with protesters to resume Sunday	0 [11130]
IRGC chief: US will collapse with one strike just like the World Trade Center	4 15:15 Airandee [11125]
Jamiruddin Sircar: Khaleda hanging between life and death	2 11:32 Mad Eye Sligum2117 [11127]
Iran warns US: ‘Our missiles can reach your ships’	4 18:30 magpie [11130]
Trump threatens to deport all illegal immigrants	6 14:32 746 [11126]
Police told to ensure security as Naqeeb’s father facing life threats	0 [11128]
Iran FM discounts prospect of war with US	0 [11126]
COAS briefed on border fencing, development progress in North Waziristan	0 [11124]
Islamic State in West Africa Forming ‘Jihadist Proto-State’ in Nigeria	0 [11131]
EU to examine hate in Palestinian textbooks	2 12:22 Mercutio [11129]
U.S. drug czar to travel to China to press government to stop fentanyl trafficking	4 21:11 Tyranysaurus Clavith3514 [11129]
Bahrain asks its citizens to leave Iran, Iraq "immediately", Exxon evacuates foreign staff	2 10:59 M. Murcek [11125]
Palestinian activists don’t understand why they can’t enter the US	4 08:08 Woodrow [11126]
Mubarak remembers: Ashraf Marwan was a double agent and was hanged in Israel	1 11:29 Mad Eye Sligum2117 [11128]
Page 3: Non-WoT
What YOU Can do to Save the Planet	3 15:40 DarthVader [11125]
North Korea Seeing Worst Drought in a Century	8 22:22 Ebbavirt Clunk4147 [11128]
Malaysian teen took own life after Instagram poll	0 [11127]
UK PM May says Brexit legislation new and improved with 50 percent fewer calories	2 11:33 Whiskey Mike [11125]
Woodstock 50 festival announces new funding to get show back on	11 15:13 Abu Uluque [11126]
Russia to deliver more supplies to Venezuelan military	1 12:53 NoMoreBS [11126]
Orphaned bear cub finds refuge in Bosnian village	0 [11125]
3 policemen among four arrested in Rawalpindi rape case	0 [11123]
Man-Eating Tigers Could Hunt Down More Humans Due To Climate Change	10 21:42 SR-71 [11126]
Ozzie election results 2019: Conservative Coalition wins, Labour front man to stand down in wake of party defeat	3 08:15 Frank G [11128]
Meet the 11 companies competing to put humans back on the moon by 2024: NASA reveals top picks to develop prototypes under $45M award including SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Boeing	1 08:53 Mercutio [11125]
White House proposal to tap Pell Grant fund casts a pall over NASA's moon plans	4 19:44 3dc [11128]
With Six Days to go Brexit Party Hits 35 Per Cent While Tories Sink to Single Figures	4 12:52 Alaska Paul [11125]
Page 4: Opinion
Inside Google's Civil War	13 19:28 Steve [11129]
Drone strikes, hunger strikes: Kurds in Turkey up the ante	1 07:36 Dale [11127]
Taiwan on the precipice	4 19:48 3dc [11125]
Iran, North Korea and the lessons of 2007	1 09:48 Frank G [11125]
Syria’s US-led repositioning	0 [11125]
Sahel-Sahara: The next IS stronghold	0 [11129]
How ‘moderate’ and ‘secular’ is Fatah?	0 [11123]
Page 6: Politix
Ilhan Omar Says Attacks On Her And Rashida Tlaib Are ‘Designed To Silence' Muslim Voices	18 21:45 SR-71 [11136]
The Morning Briefing: A.G. Barr is Getting 'Inadequate' Answers	6 21:20 Sock Puppet of Doom [11128]
Trump 'deserves' Khashoggi treatment, Maher guest Fran Lebowitz says before backpedaling	10 20:55 Tyranysaurus Clavith3514 [11126]
Nancy Pelosi: ‘We Have Never Not Said There Was a Crisis’ at U.S.-Mexico Border	13 21:22 Sock Puppet of Doom [11129]
Devin Nunes: Mueller knew there was no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion on day one	3 14:25 Sock Puppet of Doom [11127]
Warren Calls for Federal Government Intervention to Keep Abortion Legal	15 20:14 Deacon Blues [11125]

    
                22:22 Ebbavirt Clunk4147

                        21:45 SR-71

                        21:42 SR-71

                        21:22 Sock Puppet of Doom

                        21:20 Sock Puppet of Doom

                        21:11 Tyranysaurus Clavith3514

                        21:01 Tyranysaurus Clavith3514

                        20:55 Tyranysaurus Clavith3514

                        20:14 Deacon Blues

                        19:48 3dc

                        19:44 3dc

                        19:28 Steve

                        19:22 Steve

                        18:30 magpie

                        17:34 Spanky Whuter1088

                        17:33 Spanky Whuter1088

                        16:57 Procopius2k

                        16:55 Procopius2k

                        16:53 Procopius2k

                        16:36 Glenmore

                        16:35 Mullah Richard

                        16:27 Thing From Snowy Mountain

                        16:25 Thing From Snowy Mountain

                        15:49 Sheba Cleretch8493

Who's in the News
24	[untagged]
8	Islamic State
5	Commies
3	Govt of Pakistan
3	Govt of Iran
1	Govt of Iran Proxies
1	Govt of Pakistain Proxies
1	Fatah
1	Govt of Sudan
1	Govt of Syria
1	Baloch Liberation Army
1	Narcos
1	PLO
1	Palestinian Authority
1	Sublime Porte

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

Sun 2019-05-19
Islamic State in West Africa Forming ‘Jihadist Proto-State’ in Nigeria

Sat 2019-05-18
Drone strike kills notorious ISIS leader and his fighters in East of Afghanistan

Fri 2019-05-17
Fighting grips Hodeidah port, complicates peace moves

Thu 2019-05-16
F-16 with live ordinance crashes in Riverside CA.

Wed 2019-05-15
Iranian ballistic missile platforms in Basra city directed towards the Gulf, Exxon evacuating, German mil. trainers evacuating

Tue 2019-05-14
The Latest: Norwegian Tanker's Hull Punctured off UAE Coast

Mon 2019-05-13
Gunmen kill six during Catholic mass in Burkina Faso

Sun 2019-05-12
Security guard killed as terrorists storm Pearl Continental Hotel in Gwadar: ISPR

Sat 2019-05-11
B-52s in Al Udeid AB Qatar

Fri 2019-05-10
U.S. revokes citizenship of Portland mosque's imam for ties to ObL

Thu 2019-05-09
Rotherham abuse scandal: 40 arrests made in last two months

Wed 2019-05-08
Pompeo suddenly in Iraq

Tue 2019-05-07
400-strong Christian mob attacks Muslim shops in Sri Lankan town hit by Easter bomb

Mon 2019-05-06
19 killed in Gaza, four in Israel in Sunday’s escalation, say officials

Sun 2019-05-05
Iran money man zapped in Gaza

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.

216.73.216.231

Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:

WoT Operations (11)

WoT Background (16)

Non-WoT (13)

Opinion (7)

Politix (6)