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Once upon a time, roughly two year ago, the US would vehemently deny that any of its weapons made their way to ISIS, Al Nusra, and the various other jihadist groups operating in the middle east and which the US is, supposedly, targeting for eradication as part of the Syria proxy war. Then, little by little it was revealed that not only is the US not targeting said groups, which led to the Russian bombing campaign unleashed in September, but that it was actively arming them.

A Turkish newspaper has published evidence that directly links the Turkish military to ISIS, as documents obtained as part of a court case in Ankara show transcripts of phone calls that took place between Turkish military officers and Mustafa Demir – the ISIS commander in charge of the Syria-Turkey border.  “The issues alleged in the case came to light because of an investigation launched following information given by six Turkish citizens whose relatives joined ISIL,” the Turkish newspaper reports.

Is the Syrian ceasefire deal nothing more than a cynical ploy on the part of Washington’s ‘coalition’ to buy time for the terrorists? The United States and Russia announced a planned cessation of hostilities in Syria that will come into effect at midnight on 27 February. The US has already started making alternative plans should the truce fail.

While Alex Jones is exuberant at the rise of The Donald, he is deathly concerned. Given that "the globalists are pure evil," he exclaims, "they're going to kill Donald Trump."

Moments ago, as part of the ongoing feud between the FBI and Apple over the question of whether or not the US government should be allowed to have a backdoor hack into every iPhone, the Cupertino company filed a 65 page brief in the matter of the "search of the seized iPhone".

As can be seen in the full filing presented below, Apple argues that the government's request is "unprecedented" and violates the company's First Amendment rights. "This case is not a case about one isolated iPhone," Apple said in the filing, reiterating previous comments.