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Vice News has obtained footage claiming to show ISIS fighters involved in a fatal battle with Kurdish Peshmerga 30 miles outside of Mosul. The headcam footage was recovered from an ISIS fighter’s helmet and finishes with the man getting shot and martyred. Talk and Purpose reports: As VICE rightly points out, the ISIS propaganda wing, comprised of a growing collective of sympathetic media outlets, is prudent in how it represents the group’s battlefield prowess on the internet.

In what will be a closely watched and even more closely scrutinized speech, today at noon Donald J. Trump will hold a speech on foreign policy at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC.  In the speech Trump is poised to demonstrate just how "presidential" he can be, because as Reuters writes, "he is expected to set aside his bad-boy antics and, with the help of a teleprompter to keep him on message, outline what his foreign policies would be if he is elected U.S. president." 

US troops are in Syria and the Pentagon has sent 250 more despite repeated promises to the contrary. President Obama confirmed plans to dramatically increase the American troop presence in Syria by deploying the additional 250 personnel, saying that the troops would help drive out ISIS.

A mysterious deadly virus has hit Ukraine, killing 20 soldiers and hospitalising 200 people, in what is thought to be an ‘accidental leak’ from a U.S. laboratory in the country.  The virus, nicknamed ‘California flu’, is immune to all medicines and originates from a U.S. lab near the city of Kharkov. Newstarget.com reports: “More than 20 Ukrainian soldiers have died and over 200 soldiers are hospitalised in a short period of time because of new and deadly virus, which is immune to all medicines,”Donbass News International reported.

Forget about ISIS – the real threat of World War 3 won’t begin on the battleground using conventional military equipment, but rather it will start in cyberspace, according to former member of the United States House of Representatives, Allen West.  Townhall.com reports: Tuesday the 26th of April is recognized as World Intellectual Property (IP) Day. According to the Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) at the U.S.