War

US Special Forces have been filmed fighting ISIS on the front-lines in Syria, despite assurances from the Pentagon that soldiers were not engaging in the conflict.  The fighters were seen alongside the Kurdish militia in northern Syria who are attempting to drive ISIS out of the city of Raqqa. RT.com reports: A photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP) took pictures of the American special operatives in what The Washington Post identified as the village of Fatisah, roughly 30 miles (48 km) north of Raqqa.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Romania and Poland could be caught in the ‘crosshairs’ of Russian rockets for hosting the U.S. missile shield that Moscow considers a threat. Putin said that his country has “no choice” but to target Romania, which had recently opened a NATO missile defense base, and Poland, which plans to do so within two years.

If you’re Donald Trump, you can’t buy publicity like this from his enemies in San Diego yesterday:

As hundreds of protesters outside his rally here Friday afternoon chanted obscenities, waved Mexican flags and clashed with police, Donald Trump reveled on stage in the drama his candidacy has created.

More:

Eighty percent of the ISIS terrorists killed in the battle of Fallujah come from foreign countries, according to the director of Iraq’s al-Nakheel News Agency, Mohammad Ali al-Hakim. He added that the terrorist group were supported by Israel and Saudi Arabia who are playing a key role in the destruction of Iraq. Fars News Agency reports: “The figures show that 80 percent of ISIL casualties in the Fallujah operations are foreigners,” Al-Hakim told FNA on Saturday.

An ISIS child rapist who gained notoriety for being the group’s slave negotiator in Iraq has been captured on the outskirts of Fallujah by the Iraqi security forces. The man was featured in a 2014 video from Mosul, showing him getting excited at the prospect of raping captured Yazidi women and other sex slaves. The laughing jihadi was willing to exchange his pistol for a captured Iraqi woman or girl. ISIS have enslaved and abused “hundreds, if not thousands” of Yazidi women and children, according to Amnesty International in 2014.