The US is refusing to bomb oil production facilities operated by ISIS in Syria, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The oil fields earn ISIS tens of millions of dollars in revenue every month and provide the terror organization with their main source of income which is used to promote global jihad.
According to CNN Turk, a shooting has been reported at a restaurant in the Fatih district of Istanbul, According to initial reports 3 persons have been injured in the shooting.
Images from shooting scene in Fateh, #Istanbul; 3 persons injured; reports claims shooting is personal conflict, not terrorism#Turkey pic.twitter.com/H7UhQAqYsV
— Mhamad Kleit (@kleitm) January 4, 2017
With the Senate already having launched the process of repealing Obamacare when, as reported yesterday, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi released a 2017 budget resolution setting up the process to partially repeal Obamacare early in Donald Trump’s administration, on Wednesday vice president-elect Mike Pence met with Republican congressional leaders to plot the strategy of how to repeal Obama's signature healthcare law.
Donald Trump has ripped the CIA a new one over faulty claims that Russia influenced the US election and helped him win. Trump blasted the agency on Twitter late on Tuesday, criticising their decision to postpone a scheduled briefing with him to present their case for the claim that “Russian hackers” infiltrated Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Russia-insider.com reports: The tweet is a devastating and unparalleled public display of lack of confidence in the US government’s official position by a US president-elect. He is throwing down the gauntlet to the US intelligence establishment.
Russia has accused the US government of allowing ISIS militants to steal oil in Syria in order to earn hundreds of millions of dollars. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov warned that the US-led international coalition deliberately avoided bombing oil production facilities run by ISIS due to the fact that the US had a vested interest in the illegal oil sales.