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Taliban claim to control 85 percent of Afghanistan
Today's Headlines

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Page 1: WoT Operations
Israeli officials: Belgium airport scare likely Iranian test of Israeli security	0 [11125]
Good Morning	9 12:05 Abu Uluque [11129]
ISIS claims attacks on 68 electricity towers in Iraq	0 [11126]
Taliban claim to control 85 percent of Afghanistan, 2/3rds of Tajik border	5 19:53 KBK [11133]
Five ISIS terrorists arrested in al-Anbar	0 [11132]
Forger trying to list dead terrorists as martyrs arrested in al-Anbar	0 [11128]
ISIS demands 100,000 dollars ransom to release a civilian it kidnapped	0 [11129]
Iran's largest navy vessel, the KHARG, is still leaking fuel in the Gulf of Oman after capsizing	3 12:53 Dale [11127]
Train services in Iran were delayed by apparent cyberattacks on Friday, with hackers posting the phone number of the country's supreme leader as the number to call for information	1 00:16 Raj [11126]
New photos circulating on Telegram showing Commander of Iran's IRGC-Quds Force Esmail Ghaani visiting Liwa Fatemiyoun's headquarters in Syria	0 [11124]
Terror, As Kidnappers Break Walls to Ferret Residents From Homes in Kaduna	2 23:54 Unomose Spawn of the Bunions5019 [11128]
Russian warplanes launch airstrikes on the outskirts of Juzef village in Zawiya Mountain area	0 [11125]
Asayish arrested a member of an ISIS cell during a security operation carried out in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor,	0 [11128]
Turkish forces and their armed opposition factions targeted a number of villages in the countryside of Hasakah	0 [11127]
Iranian media reporting an IRGC member, Reza Safdari, was killed 'during a mission in Syria.'	0 [11127]
Officials Say Taliban Attack Near Kandahar City 'Repelled'	2 00:35 Chris [11126]
Two Border Towns in Western Afghanistan Fall to Taliban, Md Ismail Khan Mobilizes Pop.Uprising Forces to Protect Herat City	0 [11128]
Page 2: WoT Background
Drone attacks by Iraqi militias reflect Iran’s waning hold	0 [11128]
Reports: Hariri to Quit as Discussions over Successor Begin	1 07:48 Too Old To Work [11130]
Israeli settlements amount to war crime: UN rights expert	10 23:30 trailing wife [11129]
Iraqi MP warns of ''unpleasant consequences'' awaiting Iraqi people	0 [11125]
Bahrain Publishes National Terrorism List; Includes Several Libyans	0 [11124]
Russia: No Settlement in Libya Without Withdrawal of All Foreign Forces, Libyan Tribes ditto	0 [11128]
Power sharing only way to avoid Afghan civil war: FM Qureshi	0 [11124]
Pakistan rejects India's denial, says there is irrefutable evidence of India's involvement in Lahore blast	0 [11127]
Syria, Russian allies claim opposition planning violent strikes	0 [11131]
We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build: Biden	5 16:39 ed in texas [11132]
Taliban Says It Will Not Attack Provincial Centers	0 [11128]
Israel link keeps leftist Jewish groups from planned DC antisemitism rally	2 03:40 g(r)omgoru [11128]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Update - Two US fellas involved in Moïse shooting claim to be translators hired by 'Mike'	5 19:26 Raj [11126]
Terrifying moment teenage boy's 88mph golf ball is struck by lightning just a few feet away from driving range during thunderstorm	6 19:58 KBK [11128]
'I had to take off my $800 sneakers and cut my own grass': Mass labor shortage in the exclusive Hamptons leaves the rich to cut their own lawns, do their own laundry and even paint their own nails	14 23:29 magpie [11125]
Illinois Governor Under Pressure to Declare ‘State of Emergency' over Chicago Gun Crime	14 19:08 Chris [11131]
Wyoming rancher survives on BEER for two days after getting pinned under his ATV in rollover crash	4 14:17 Rambler in Virginia [11128]
Tennessee farmer wins injunction against USDA in race-based loan forgiveness program	0 [11127]
William Smith dies at 88: Hollywood veteran actor who famously played Clint Eastwood's nemesis in Any Which Way You Can passes away in hospital	5 11:42 Procopius2k [11127]
So.... what ARE you going to do Joe? Biden calls Putin and warns him for the SECOND time to deal with hackers and says there will be consequences if Russian cyber criminals attack the US again	7 17:38 Procopius2k [11126]
Kamala Harris' Stepdaughter Ella Emhoff Makes Her High-Fashion Runway Debut in Paris	15 19:49 Raj [11132]
Loud blast in Tehran caused by ‘unknown object,’ none hurt	7 23:55 SteveS [11132]
Washington Post Warns: Calling Food 'Exotic' Reinforces Xenophobia, Racism	9 21:51 magpie [11127]
Bug experts get rid of the name 'gypsy moth'	13 21:12 SteveS [11130]
You Can't Lecture Us On Democracy, Zimbabwe President Tells U.S.	6 13:10 Matt [11126]
Celebratory gunfire killed a pregnant mother in Syria's Qamishli; AANES' Interior Minister calls the shooters ''murderers''	0 [11128]
46 foreign recon birds spotted near Russian borders	5 22:45 badanov [11131]
Golf pro killing suspect is rapper who was busted for DUI after murders	4 13:33 Besoeker [11133]
Make a Plan	2 00:39 Adm. Painter [11127]
Texas to be first state to make buying sex a felony	9 20:05 KBK [11129]
Page 4: Opinion
New evidence suggests potentially enough fraudulent votes to prove Trump won in Georgia	3 12:00 JohnQC [11127]
The NSA's spying on Tucker Carlson is the tip of the iceberg	4 13:20 SteveS [11126]
NC Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson speaks (short video)	0 [11131]
It looks like ~~the CIA~~ Fusion GPS is panicking over being forced to disclose communications as Russiagate was being hatched	2 01:11 Besoeker [11128]
The venomous Epstein tapes: When VICKY WARD investigated Jeffrey Epstein, he tried to charm her... then threatened to get her sacked and put a curse on her unborn children. But she recorded it all - and what she reveals about Ghislaine Maxwell is shocking	7 14:51 Skidmark [11123]
Taliban 2.0	0 [11124]
Second Afghan: Will Russia get pulled in?	1 13:33 M. Murcek [11124]
France as a flanking potential of NATO in the war with Russia	5 11:53 Procopius2k [11128]
Wars of the Roses, 1455-1487	1 03:29 Jomp Ebbinemble8193 [11124]
Page 6: Politix
Biden and Dems Want a Global Cartel to Set a One-World Corporate Tax Rate. And Republicans Are Going to Help.	2 09:12 Skidmark [11133]
Office of the Director of National Intelligence photoshops a woman in a wheelchair and a blind man with a guide dog onto the cover of its DIVERSITY report	9 13:54 CrazyFool [11131]
MSNBC Agrees With Radical Race-Baiter: GOP Wants 'American Apartheid'	4 13:41 AlmostAnonymous5839 [11129]
St. Paul police chief disputes DFL Rep. John Thompson's racial profiling claim	0 [11132]
Minneapolis business owner talks about the troubles the neighborhood is going through	8 14:40 Abu Uluque [11130]
Jen Psaki: Hunter Biden has 'right' to 'artistic career' and sales won't be corrupt; Pres. Biden didn't discuss business with Hunter despite docs	1 16:13 Jiling Gravitch9209 v [11124]
Mitt Romney sells $23.5M home after years of backlash from neighbors	8 12:43 swksvolFF [11130]
Dems are losing the multiracial working class on basic lifestyle issues	3 19:23 Raj [11130]
Biden Offers to Send a ‘Strike Force' Against Chicago Gun Crime	12 22:28 SteveS [11132]

    
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6	Taliban
5	Islamic State
4	Govt of Iran
3	Govt of Iran Proxies
2	Govt of Syria
2	Arab Spring
1	Govt of Pakistan
1	Human Trafficking
1	Fulani Herdsmen (Boko Haram)
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1	Antifa/BLM
1	Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
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Two weeks of WOT

Sat 2021-07-10
Taliban claim to control 85 percent of Afghanistan

Fri 2021-07-09
Heavy Fighting Around Ghazni City Reported

Thu 2021-07-08
Ahmad Jibril, Syria-based Paleo terror group PFLP-GC #1, dead at 83; #2 Talal Naji new #1

Wed 2021-07-07
Haitian President Jovenel Moise assassinated in his home

Tue 2021-07-06
AI drone swarm ‘is used in combat for the first time as Israel deploy them to attack Hamas militants'

Mon 2021-07-05
Nine Districts Fall to Taliban as Fighting Continues

Sun 2021-07-04
Happy 4th of July

Sat 2021-07-03
Standoff Between Heavily Armed Men And Police Shuts Down Part Of I-95 In Wakefield

Fri 2021-07-02
Rape and domestic abuse suspect shot by police, is seeking tens of thousands of dollars from the city of Kenosha

Thu 2021-07-01
Government forces target Zayzun power station in Ghab Plain, west of Hama

Wed 2021-06-30
Donald Rumsfeld dead at 88

Tue 2021-06-29
Unidentified persons killed two Syrian IDP sisters in al-Hole

Mon 2021-06-28
Somalia's Puntland region executes 21 al-Shabab fighters

Sun 2021-06-27
Massive Manhunt Ends Up at Black Nationalist Encampment

Sat 2021-06-26
Car-bomb attack wounds 15 UN peacekeepers in north Mali

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