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Iraq arrests Islamic State cell, including Baghdadi aide, in Nineveh
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Israel demolishes Palestinian homes near West Bank barrier	0 [1756]
Mexican Federal Police Harrasses At Migrant Shelter -Report	2 07:01 g(r)omgoru [1767]
Syrian opposition: Israel killed senior Hezbollah officer by Damascus	2 08:19 Mercutio [1758]
Eight Civilians Killed In Logar Airstrike	0 [1763]
Airstrikes kill 7 Taliban militants in Helmand, Kunduz and Uruzgan provinces	0 [1770]
NDS Special Forces storm Taliban leader’s compound in Kunar province	0 [1747]
Taliban militants suffer heavy casualties in Faryab clashes	0 [1750]
‘Heavy Clashes’ Ongoing In Key District In Badakhshan, or possibly the Taliban have already won	0 [1756]
Cobra Strike Forces kill 4 Taliban militants in Helmand province	0 [1759]
U.S. airstrike kills Taliban deputy intelligence chief in Ghazni	3 16:21 SteveS [1771]
Iraqi security apprehend two terrorists in Kirkuk province	0 [1754]
Six Shiites Dead in Nigeria Clashes over Imprisoned Leader	0 [1774]
Iraq arrests Islamic State cell, including Baghdadi aide, in Nineveh	0 [1789]
Cruise ship rescues 111 migrants off Greece	0 [1760]
Cops shoot, injure Palestinian man who tries to stab them in Hadera	0 [1758]
Four Palestinians reportedly shot, injured during rioting on Gaza border	0 [1770]
Libyan Air Force carries multiple strikes on positions of Haftar's forces	0 [1755]
Haftar's "Zero Hour" to enter Libya's capital foiled by Libyan Army	0 [1766]
Libya's Foreign Ministry asks Tunisian authorities for coordination regarding Haftar's aircraft	0 [1754]
Murder accused killed in ‘gunfight’	0 [1746]
Somali army captures suspected Al-Shabaab members	0 [1763]
Civilian air strike death toll in northwest Syria tops 40	0 [1759]
17 dead, 28 wounded in Somalia bomb blast	0 [1744]
Libya’s Mitiga airport halts air traffic after it is targeted by air strike	0 [1752]
‘Our friends were behind the last bombings,’ a Qatari businessman linked to the Qatari emir said after an attack in Somalia’s Bosaso city	0 [1751]
Cellphone footage shows teens throwing buckets of water on New York City cops while they were making an arrest	4 22:32 Silentbrick [1780]
Roadside bomb injures four Thai rangers	0 [1751]
Police arrest ‘most wanted’ NPA leader	0 [1755]
US border patrol arrested more than 1,000 African migrants trying to cross into the country from Mexico in the past two months	4 12:55 Mercutio [1769]
Page 2: WoT Background
Another Iranian F-14A Tomcat Just Bit the Dust	1 14:53 M. Murcek [1751]
Russia Is Jamming the Air Force's F-35s and F-22s near Iran	5 19:30 ed in texas [1777]
US general: Cartels are using migrants to distract from drug smuggling at the border	6 21:02 Frank G [1770]
EU suspends migration control projects in Sudan amid repression fears	1 07:05 g(r)omgoru [1758]
Mexico says US-border crossings down by 30%	1 08:17 Mercutio [1736]
Rumor: Erdogan dead of heart attack	7 18:14 Charles [1758]
EU Parliament Gives Platform To Well-Known PFLP Member	1 07:06 g(r)omgoru [1762]
Turkey will launch operation in Syria if safe zone not established - minister	0 [1762]
Telecom Companies In Balkh Shut Down Services At Nights	0 [1747]
Can win the war in Afghanistan in a week but don’t want to kill 10 million people: Trump	11 13:03 Mercutio [1749]
U.S. officials, Pakistani Army Chief to hold talks on Afghanistan	0 [1750]
Turkey to expel Syrians living illegally in Istanbul	0 [1749]
Detained Saudi cleric Awad Al-Qarni said the war on terror "is one of the tools of the West through which it establishes a new era of colonialism"	2 08:16 Mercutio [1739]
Saudi blogger visiting Israel attacked by Palestinians at Temple Mount	2 21:46 trailing wife [1780]
Egypt hands out 11 life sentences for joining Islamic State	0 [1750]
Jeremy_Hunt calls taking of British ship by #Iran an act of piracy	2 08:10 Vernal Hatrick [1754]
Release tanker and crew immediately, Britain tells Iran	5 11:22 SteveS [1757]
Trump says the ‘report of Iran capturing CIA spies is totally false.	1 07:31 Procopius2k [1753]
Russia denies its planes bombed rebel-held Syrian city	0 [1756]
Hamas group visiting Iran has met with the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei	0 [1749]
Britain will seek to put together a European-led maritime protection mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz	1 18:39 SteveS [1748]
Trump offered to mediate the decades-long Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan	0 [1746]
Israeli minister boasts his country 'is the only one that's been killing Iranians' amid heightened tensions in the Gulf	2 08:15 Mercutio [1762]
Page 3: Non-WoT
As The Border Crisis Continues, Africa Gets In On The Action	0 [1750]
Atlanta tries again to host Nobel Peace summit - and hopefully more	5 12:41 chris [1754]
China tells U.S. to remove 'black hands' from Hong Kong	9 14:44 3dc [1758]
South Korea: We fired warning shot at Russian aircraft in our airspace	0 [1762]
HRW Says 4 Civilians Killed, Woman Raped by Army in Cameroon	1 06:56 g(r)omgoru [1765]
Imam arrested for raping multiple women, girls	3 19:03 3dc [1778]
Combat actions today in #Donbas	0 [1756]
Reports of another massive electrical outage in Venezuela	1 07:33 Procopius2k [1758]
Woman Forced To Close Business After Refusing To Wax Male Genitals Of Pudgy Transgender Person	14 21:00 Fat Bob Javish1936 [1784]
Kenya's finance minister, top officials arrested for graft	1 04:25 gorb [1756]
San Diego Congressional Delegation Offers Bills to Stop Tijuana River Pollution	4 22:10 rjschwarz [1769]
Guy leaps off balcony, missing swimming pool by inches	8 22:08 Skidmark [1781]
Predatory lender: Jeffrey Epstein had network of female assistants he would suggest to pals including Charlie Rose - who hired 3 and 'sexually harassed at least one'	2 13:39 Abu Uluque [1756]
Microsoft to invest $1 BILLION in AI startup co-founded by Elon Musk that aims to make computers smarter than humans	11 13:31 M. Murcek [1741]
Page 4: Opinion
Spicy Diet Linked To Dementia	9 23:00 Phaick Uneretle6310 [1787]
Hot New Presidential Candidate Larry The Cucumber Promises Everyone A Water Buffalo	3 19:10 3dc [1777]
Liberal nightmare: Takeover of federal judiciary by "larval Scalias is devastatingly close to completion"	6 19:12 3dc [1786]
Iran's waiting game in the Gulf	0 [1764]
Media: The SDNY Will Take Down Trump	10 16:05 Angaiting Thising6508 [1745]
How to Alienate Voters and Lose Elections	2 18:00 charger [1748]
The Democrats’ 2020 Campaign Theme Is 'You Americans Are Terrible'	4 18:10 charger [1744]
Page 6: Politix
On Regulation, Trump Exceeds His Campaign Promises	2 20:05 Bobby [1779]
Comey's inside man at White House emerges as DOJ inspector general finalizes FISA abuse report	6 13:18 Mercutio [1764]
Woman Suffering From TDS Gets SUV Stuck In Barbed Wire Fence After Vandalizing ‘Trump 2020' Sign	7 17:17 Beavis [1750]
Paul Krassner, radical activist, dies at 87	3 19:19 3dc [1767]
Al Franken Says He ‘Absolutely’ Regrets Resignation From Senate	14 14:13 gorb [1749]

    
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Who's in the News
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8	Taliban
6	Govt of Iran
4	Arab Spring
2	Hamas
2	al-Shabaab (AQ)
2	Commies
2	Govt of Pakistan
2	Govt of Syria
2	Islamic State
2	Moslem Colonists
2	Sublime Porte
1	Narcos
1	PFLP
1	Salafists
1	Govt of Qatar (MB)
1	Islamic Movement of Nigeria (Iran)
1	Hezbollah
1	Thai Insurgency

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Two weeks of WOT

Tue 2019-07-23
Iraq arrests Islamic State cell, including Baghdadi aide, in Nineveh

Mon 2019-07-22
Iran claims to catch 17 CIA spies, sentences some to death

Sun 2019-07-21
Kurdistan: Killer of senior Turkish diplomat arrested

Sat 2019-07-20
Saudi King approves additional deployment of US troops

Fri 2019-07-19
'HOSTILE ACT' Iran seizes British oil tanker in the Gulf with 23 crew on board days after clash with Royal Navy

Thu 2019-07-18
Iran seizes foreign tanker with 12 crew accused of smuggling oil

Wed 2019-07-17
Pakistani police arrest Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed (again)

Tue 2019-07-16
United Arab Emirates oil tanker vanishes after drifting into Iranian waters

Mon 2019-07-15
Car bomb and all-night hotel siege kill 26 in Somalia's Kismayo

Sun 2019-07-14
African Migrants Turned Church Into Base to Deal Heroin

Sat 2019-07-13
Kismayo attack: 26 dead as gunmen storm Somali hotel

Fri 2019-07-12
Labor Sec. Alex Acosta Resigns Amid Pall of Jeffrey Epstein Investigation

Thu 2019-07-11
Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boats tried, failed to seize British oil tanker in Persian Gulf

Wed 2019-07-10
Egyptian Court Convicts Al-Azhar Professor, Others For Spying For Iran

Tue 2019-07-09
Hafiz Multan, Taliban’s deputy Red Unit commander killed in Kandahar

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