Rantburg

Today

Wed 05/27/2020

Tue 05/26/2020

Mon 05/25/2020

Sun 05/24/2020

Sat 05/23/2020

Fri 05/22/2020

Thu 05/21/2020

Archives

		582797 articles and 1984932 comments are archived on Rantburg. Today: 70 articles and 182 comments as of 8:43.
Post a news link Post your own article

Area:	WoT Operations	WoT Background	Non-WoT	Opinion	Politix
UN committee urges France to prevent execution of convicted jihadists in Iraq
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Good afternoon	6 17:24 Besoeker [1771]
Will It Be War? Venezuela Escorts Iranian Tankers in 'American Lake.' U.S. Considers a Strike	12 16:21 lord garth [1787]
3 IRGC members killed by airstrike in eastern Syria - report	0 [1780]
Libya conflict heats up as Turkish air force increases activity	0 [1754]
Angry locals have blocked the Ahvaz-Gheyzaniyeh highway to demand drinking water.	0 [1746]
Iraq has reached an agreement with Saudi companies to invest in the Okaz gas fields	0 [1755]
GNA forces storm Tripoli International Airport in Qasir Ben Ghashir district in south Tripoli	0 [1780]
Haftar sends an audio message to his militia groups urging them to continue the fight	2 17:58 Mullah Richard [1780]
Activists in Bani Walid town release photos of what they say a group of Wagner mercenaries driving in the town	0 [1752]
LNA photos purportedly of a UAV downed near Qaryat	0 [1757]
Photos during the execution of Terrorist Hisham Ashmawi	0 [1747]
Photo purportedly showing Russian fighters withdrawing from positions south of Tripoli	0 [1751]
Take That Limeys! French Coast Guard escorts boat migrants to British waters	3 06:22 g(r)omgoru [1757]
Egyptian police kill 21 terrorists who plotted attacks on Eid El-Fitr	0 [1756]
Two ISIS leaders killed in eastern Syria raid: Coalition	0 [1765]
Prominent Taliban commander succumbs to injuries in Kunduz province	0 [1757]
Airstrike kills 6 Taliban militants a day after similar raids killed 31 in Jawzjan	0 [1765]
146 Afghan Civilians Killed Since Ramadan Start: ONSC	0 [1768]
Taliban Announces Three-Day Ceasefire for Eid	0 [1759]
‘Key' Taliban Member Arrested in Herat by NDS	0 [1756]
Page 2: WoT Background
1,000 Israeli websites are hacked to show images of Tel Aviv in flames	2 09:50 Clem [1786]
Indian link to deported Al-Qaeda man: Agencies to probe further	0 [1789]
‘Tablighi Jamaat members added to initial spread of Covid-19 in Indore, Bhopal’: Madhya Pradesh CM	0 [1788]
Suspect killed in Texas Navy base shooting identified as Syrian-born U.S. citizen, Updated	1 07:56 Richard Aubrey [1795]
Rise in violent Iranian regime supporters in Berlin - Intel report	0 [1805]
Protest rallies of workers in front of Mahshahr governor's office in protest of non-receipt of 4 months' salary have been postponed	0 [1756]
Rouhani: Iran to retaliate over any US ‘trouble’ for Venezuela-bound tankers	0 [1751]
US ambassador voices need to end flow of Russian, other foreign arms and mercenaries into Libya	8 22:04 Phugum Spump3764 [1784]
Libya's Grand Mufti Sheikh Sadiq Al-Gharyani urges the Ministry of Economy and traders to import all goods from Turkey	0 [1746]
UNSMIL: We are concerned about death sentences issued in Eastern Libya	1 15:15 Skidmark [1750]
UAE activists rail against Palestinians for rejecting medical supplies	0 [1808]
UN coronavirus aid going to Palestinian terror-linked groups	0 [1764]
PA reportedly assures Israel its security forces will prevent breakout of intifada	2 10:36 g(r)omgoru [1743]
UN committee urges France to prevent execution of convicted jihadists in Iraq	1 15:25 Chris [1809]
Page 3: Non-WoT
New Disturbing Details Emerge In Case Of Elderly Man Who Was Beaten At Michigan Nursing Home	8 23:22 Varmint Splat1454 [1782]
White House concerned with coronavirus spread in LA area, asks CDC to investigate	0 [1751]
Guccifer 2.0's Hidden Agenda	2 12:37 Clem [1761]
EU Planning "Vaccination Passport" Since 2018	2 13:02 g(r)omgoru [1752]
Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery's death used vehicle to 'confine' and 'detain' him	3 16:42 lord garth [1819]
Myrtle Beach, S.C. criminal activity is totally out of control	1 09:59 Besoeker [1749]
SF Bay Area Docs warn: We see more deaths by suicide during quarantine period than deaths from COVID-19	8 18:09 Iblis [1785]
Dramatic footage reveals full extent of damage from massive fire that tore through warehouse on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf causing its roof and walls to collapse	9 18:05 trailing wife [1768]
Incredible moment US Navy uses new high-energy LASER WEAPON to shoot down a drone during its first ever at-sea test	1 16:32 Silentbrick [1785]
Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit is poised to make history today as it sends satellite-launching craft on first test flight to space	0 [1750]
‘We have to resist': Hundreds in Hong Kong protest China's proposed security measures for city	3 14:33 Frank G [1753]
Georgia's Giant Lizard Invaders	10 15:36 Clem [1780]
New Report Reveals China's Massive Surveillance Build-Up in Africa	3 06:37 Percy Flotle3938 [1745]
US adding 33 Chinese companies, institutions to economic black list	4 11:00 AlanC [1754]
Coronavirus roundup	2 08:25 Skidmark [1748]
Community medical officer sexually assaults minor in Tangail hospital	1 06:55 g(r)omgoru [1747]
No survivor in the Pakistani plane crash in Karachi: Mayor	2 11:23 Barbara [1751]
Ukrainian MP Found Dead With Gunshot Wound To The Head	9 20:18 Marilyn Tojo7566 [1777]
CMP Rifle Stores to Open June 4th By Appointment Only	1 15:29 Skidmark [1775]
Kim Jong Un makes appearance at military meeting, state media reports	0 [1754]
Virus accelerates across Latin America, India, Pakistan	0 [1771]
Egypt producing 7.2 bcf per day of natural gas: Cabinet	1 09:51 b [1748]
Trump donates quarterly paycheck to HHS to study coronavirus treatments	0 [1753]
End of the dream-job era in the Arabian Gulf	4 17:58 trailing wife [1777]
Canada: 81 percent of Coronavirus Deaths are in Nursing Homes	6 15:14 Clem [1749]
White House Considers Panel To Investigate ‘Left-Wing Bias’ In Silicon Valley	2 13:09 charger [1750]
Page 4: Opinion
How L.A. County became coronavirus epicenter: Slower shutdown, density, poverty among theories	0 [1753]
Ronald Reagan - Memorial Day Tribute, 31 May 1982	1 16:04 Bobby [1771]
Several Universities Attempt to Block Release of Documents Regarding China Ties	3 10:40 magpie [1745]
Scientists walk back prediction that US could be coronavirus-free by fall	14 15:04 M. Murcek [1741]
Ilanna Mercer - Real Societies Use Prophylactics	0 [1757]
The leading expert on women's brains says they are more likely to get Alzheimer's	3 13:01 Glenmore [1753]
Page 6: Politix
Judge Sullivan - ordered to explain his reasons for not granting the DOJ motion to dismiss - has hired a lawyer to apparently do his work for him.	16 11:47 g(r)omgoru [1788]
How Russiagate Began With Obama's Iran Deal Domestic Spying Campaign	5 14:23 Tom [1760]
Across Biden Charitable Organizations, A Refusal to Disclose Funding	9 19:12 trailing wife [1774]
Dems Block China Investigation Even After Communist Regime Threatens U.S. Senators by Name	8 22:57 Whiskey Mike [1784]

    
                23:22 Varmint Splat1454

                        22:57 Whiskey Mike

                        22:34 newc

                        22:04 Phugum Spump3764

                        21:10 Frank G

                        20:59 b

                        20:18 Marilyn Tojo7566

                        19:27 Zhang Fei

                        19:12 trailing wife

                        19:02 trailing wife

                        18:22 Thing From Snowy Mountain

                        18:09 Iblis

                        18:05 trailing wife

                        17:58 trailing wife

                        17:58 Mullah Richard

                        17:24 Besoeker

                        16:42 lord garth

                        16:32 Silentbrick

                        16:21 lord garth

                        16:10 Mike Kozlowski

                        16:04 Bobby

                        15:36 Clem

                        15:33 Phugum Spump3764

                        15:29 Skidmark

Who's in the News
32	[untagged]
6	Arab Spring
5	Commies
5	Govt of Iran
5	Taliban
4	Islamic State
3	Sublime Porte
2	al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
2	Palestinian Authority
1	PFLP
1	Govt of Pakistan
1	Govt of Iraq
1	Tablighi Jamaat
1	Govt of Iran Proxies
1	Moslem Colonists

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 2020-05-24
UN committee urges France to prevent execution of convicted jihadists in Iraq

Sat 2020-05-23
Large cyber attack against Israel conducted from Gaza, Turkey, North Africa

Fri 2020-05-22
PA refuses UAE aid sent via Israel, won’t be ‘tool for normalization’ – report

Thu 2020-05-21
Iraq security forces arrest the new ISIS leader

Wed 2020-05-20
Abbas says the PA sees itself free of all agreements with Israel and the U.S. - including on security matters

Tue 2020-05-19
GNA captures al-Watiyah Airbase from the LNA

Mon 2020-05-18
Afghan president inks power-sharing deal with rival

Sun 2020-05-17
Pak Doctor on H-1B Visa Wanted to Attack U.S. for ISIS

Sat 2020-05-16
Tomb of Mordechai and Esther in Iran reportedly set ablaze

Fri 2020-05-15
France: Pro-Refugee Activist Murdered by Migrant He Was Sleeping With

Thu 2020-05-14
Nangarhar Funeral Bombing Death Toll Rises to 32

Wed 2020-05-13
President Ghani, in light of attacks, orders Afghan forces to resume attacks on the Taliban

Tue 2020-05-12
GNA militia evacuate their headquarters in Abuslim

Mon 2020-05-11
Iran navy own goal in Oman Gulf exercise; 24 dead

Sun 2020-05-10
GNA militias lines collapsing quickly
in Abuslim and Salah AlDin with a LNA advance

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.

216.73.216.168

Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:

Better than the average link...

San Remo Manual (Laws of War at Sea)
The Geneva Conventions and their Commentaries
Internet Outages Map
E. W. Dijkstra Archive

WoT Operations (20)

WoT Background (14)

Non-WoT (26)

Opinion (6)

Politix (4)