War

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned  NATO’s insufficient military presence in the Black Sea and has urged the Alliance to enhance cooperation in the area. He said he was going to ask the alliance to address the issue during an upcoming summit in Warsaw as there was a need to counter the Russian military presence there. RT reports: “I told him [NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg]: ‘You are absent from the Black Sea. The Black Sea has almost become a Russian lake,’” Erdogan said at a meeting of heads of general staff of Balkan nations in Istanbul on Wednesday.

ISIS murdered 45 Jihadis under its command and buried them alive in a mass grave in north-west Iraq. The ISIS fighters were caught fleeing the battle against Kurdish Peshmerga in the village of al-Bashir. Recruitment for ISIS fighters is at a two year low, with the number of foreign fighters joining the terror group down by 90% in recent months. Mass grave found in the village of al-Bashir The Daily Express reports: Today’s brutal execution came after the group of men allegedly fled fierce fighting that was raging against Kurdish Peshmerga forces in al-Bashir village.

Things are deteriorating fast for the cash-strapped Islamic State.

Britain’s security Service, MI5, has increased the threat level to Great Britain from Northern Ireland-related terrorism from moderate to substantial. This means that an attack in England, Scotland or Wales is “a strong possibility”. The Home Office was working closely with the police and other relevant authorities to ensure appropriate security measures were put in place, the home secretary asaid The BBC reports: Home Secretary Theresa May said the level, set by security service MI5, “reflects the continuing threat from dissident republican activity”.

Back in November 2008, then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev made a stark warning to NATO: "Russia will deploy Iskander missile systems in its enclave in Kaliningrad to neutralize, if necessary, the anti-ballistic missile system in Europe."