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Afghan Forces Claim Victory in Major Taliban Battle
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Report: ISIL Selling Oil to Finance Terrorist Operations, Army, Security Forces Main Targets in Lebanon	4 20:01 JosephMendiola [1753]
Sudanese Media: Man Suspected Of Spying For Israel Commits Suicide In Jail	2 07:10 Bobby [1744]
New study evaluates English-language jihadist magazine	0 [1743]
Report: Iraqi Army Retakes Tikrit From ISIS	5 10:10 USN, Ret. [1740]
Four Egypt Police Killed in Sinai Attack	0 [1743]
Good morning	4 15:10 49 Pan [1735]
Egypt to Try Nearly 100 Morsi Backers over Bombing, Murders	0 [1738]
Sudan Rebels Shell Kordofan State Capital	0 [1735]
Afghan Forces Claim Victory in Major Taliban Battle	1 16:35 Bill Clinton [1765]
IDP among two shot dead in Kohat	0 [1739]
Grenade hurled on police post was Russian made	1 09:21 Frank G [1735]
Taliban's Miramshah commander killed in raid: ISPR	0 [1730]
Witness to Bugaighis murder dies in mysterious circumstances; body shows signs of torture	0 [1738]
Hundreds of mourners gather for the funeral of Salwa Bugaighis	0 [1744]
Two RPGs fired at the Sudanese embassy in Tripoli	0 [1738]
Saiqa Special Forces free kidnapped man in Benghazi	0 [1740]
Bodies of colonel and unidentified man arrive at Benghazi Medical Centre	0 [1743]
SSS quizzes alleged sponsor of arrested suspected terrorists in Abia	1 18:14 Flineck Flusock4496 [1766]
Troops Raid Boko Haram Hideout In Borno, Kill 50	0 [1745]
Boko Haram thought to be behind massive explosion at Nigerian brothel which has left 11 dead	4 16:17 Zenobia Floger6220 [1734]
Heavy fighting reported as Iraq army pushes back against insurgents	2 16:03 frozen al [1739]
Shiite Rebels Clash with Pro-Army Tribesmen near Yemen Capital	0 [1732]
Rebels Hit back at ISIL in Syria Border Town	0 [1742]
Two Dead as Bombs Hit Cairo Telecom Center	0 [1746]
Erbil Teenagers Invent Bomb Detection System	0 [1731]
Report: Surveillance Towers to Be Set up to Monitor Illegal Border-Crossings	2 07:53 JohnQC [1740]
Pakistani Jets Kill 17 in Anti-Militant Offensive	0 [1748]
Iraq Troops Advance on Tikrit in Biggest Fightback Yet	0 [1738]
Army Discovers Explosives Cache in Cave in Fnaideq	2 10:31 Shipman [1740]
Pakistani forces arrest senior Al-Qaeda leader, kill 19 militants	1 00:23 Squinty [1738]
Hawk Eye Balloons Boost IDF Search For Kidnapped Boys	2 07:30 Shipman [1742]
Page 2: WoT Background
Saudi king slams religious extremists as Muslims mark Ramadan	2 18:23 Procopius2k [1732]
IDF preparing for possible Gaza offensive	5 15:55 trailing wife [1729]
Hamas presents 'A Kidnapper's Guide to Abduction'	0 [1732]
Military prosecutors charge Bin Laden lieutenant with murder	1 09:36 Frank G [1731]
Al-Qaida-Linked Shebab Has 'Regional Agenda' beyond Somalia, Says the U.N.	0 [1740]
NWA action to destabilise country, says JUI-F	1 18:23 Flineck Flusock4496 [1734]
Seventh polio case in city confirmed	1 09:39 Frank G [1739]
KP police push for arrest of TTP commander behind Peshawar plane attack	0 [1735]
Army, Rangers to secure Pakistan's major airports	0 [1747]
Baloch vows to fight terrorists closing schools in Panjgoor	0 [1731]
Pop star offers Boko Haram virginity in exchange for release of kidnapped girls	0 [1750]
Why 21 Boko Haram Suspects Were Transferred To Abuja By Enugu Police	0 [1735]
114 Boko Haram suspects arrested in Abia return to Jigawa	0 [1735]
Libyan suspect pleads not guilty in Benghazi attack	0 [1731]
Wars Worsen as Sudan's 'Salvation' Regime Marks 25 Years	0 [1733]
Unprecedented Kurdish Peshmerga Deployment in Iraq	0 [1741]
Morocco Eyes Regional Clout as a Moderate Muslim Model	0 [1733]
Russia Will Not Sit Idly By as Jihadists Press Iraq Assault	4 23:07 JosephMendiola [1765]
Shiite Organizations Cancel Daily Iftars over Security Fears	9 19:16 Charles [1752]
[Iraq Supreme] Court Ruling on Kurdish Oil Sales Means Financial Relief for Erbil	0 [1733]
EU Envoy: European States Losing Patience On Settlements	5 18:18 Flineck Flusock4496 [1734]
Page 3: Non-WoT
India strongly reacts to reported Chinese claim on Arunachal	0 [1730]
Space programme will be given more impetus: Modi	6 23:04 3dc [1760]
Chinese troops make bids to enter Indian waters in Ladakh: Reports	1 20:39 JosephMendiola [1764]
Dallas Judge Will House Illegal Kids in Dallas	2 22:23 Thineng Angailet7166 [1754]
Converting to Christianity from Islam	1 19:56 JosephMendiola [1763]
Army's Apache under assault: PC police call helicopter's name racist	12 22:10 Mullah Richard [1749]
Its now official; Barack Obama is worse than Jimmy Carter.	7 20:55 DarthVader [1751]
Ramadan begins today (or yesterday)	12 18:58 Barbara [1760]
Connecticut Groups Want To Ban Insurer From Hiking Premiums Due To Obamacare	4 18:44 SteveS [1752]
Latvia Orders Pig Cull to Stem African Swine Fever	1 04:19 Shipman [1733]
Lawyers help rape suspect flee court	0 [1726]
Pakistani faces life sentence for orchestrating honour killing	2 17:44 Pappy [1751]
Cabinet minsters attack 'cowardly' EU leaders in Juncker row and unite behind Cameron	0 [1731]
Moody's Cuts Russia's Rating Outlook to 'Negative', Cites Ukraine Crisis	4 17:58 Thing From Snowy Mountain [1736]
One Hundred Years Ago Today	4 09:10 Procopius2k [1747]
More Than Two-Thirds of American Youth Wouldn't Qualify for Service	15 16:59 ed in texas [1733]
Harrier no nose gear vertical landing	0 [1731]
Page 4: Opinion
Israel Needs Massive Fence On Eastern Border	4 16:55 borgboy [1730]
Dismal democrats	6 15:56 Alaska Paul [1734]
A gruesome murder	0 [1725]
The continuing threat	0 [1731]
Political drama overshadows police failure on Qadri's return	0 [1732]
Martin Armstrong Warns Civil Unrest Is Rising Everywhere: "This Won't End Pretty"	3 17:09 JohnQC [1731]
Israel Arresting Killers, But Letting Instigators Be	0 [1730]
Page 6: Politix
The Hildebeest is Humpty Dumpty	0 [1727]
Obama's 'woe is me' attitude	4 21:09 Airandee [1754]
Pelosi On The Border: We Have To Use This 'Crisis' As An 'Opportunity'	8 16:59 borgboy [1734]
Barney Fife Meets Delta Force	5 21:49 Thineng Angailet7166 [1758]
Six arrested at immigration rally	2 20:00 Bright Pebbles [1758]
Lois Lerner fights back	6 18:21 Flineck Flusock4496 [1744]

    
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Who's in the News
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6	Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant
6	Boko Haram
6	Govt of Pakistan
5	Arab Spring
3	Govt of Iraq
3	TTP
2	al-Qaeda in Pakistan
2	Hamas
2	al-Qaeda
1	Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami
1	Palestinian Authority
1	Salafists
1	Houthis
1	Taliban
1	al-Nusra
1	al-Shabaab
1	Govt of Sudan
1	Ansar al-Sharia

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Two weeks of WOT

Sun 2014-06-29
Afghan Forces Claim Victory in Major Taliban Battle

Sat 2014-06-28
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Fri 2014-06-27
Syrian planes bomb Sunni targets in Iraq, Maliki rejects calls for emergency government

Thu 2014-06-26
At least 21 killed in rush-hour blast in Nigerian capital

Wed 2014-06-25
Zarb-i-Azb: 47 militants killed in NWA, Khyber blitz

Tue 2014-06-24
Thousands flee North Waziristan region on last day of evacuation

Mon 2014-06-23
Syria Army, Hizbullah Seek to Oust Rebels from Qalamun Foothills

Sun 2014-06-22
30 militants killed in Khyber Agency, N Waziristan air blitz

Sat 2014-06-21
Lebanon security chief escapes suicide attack

Fri 2014-06-20
Zarb-i-Azb operation: 23 militants killed in fresh strikes

Thu 2014-06-19
Iraq Battles ISIL for Control of Baiji Refinery

Wed 2014-06-18
Iraqi PM sacks senior security officers over failure in fighting insurgents

Tue 2014-06-17
Iraq calls for Iranian help to fight militants

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Sun 2014-06-15
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