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Presented without comment other than to say that the boy pictured below is among thousands of Mid-East refugees stranded in the Idomeni camps near the Macedonian border that have been described as "a modern Dachau."

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that one of the terrorists behind the bomb attacks in Brussels that killed over 30 people, was caught in Turkey in June 2015, detained and later deported to Belgium. BREAKING: Turkey’s Erdogan: one of the Brussels attackers was caught in Turkey in June, deported to Belgium. — The Associated Press (@AP) March 23, 2016 Hindustan Times reports: “One of the Brussels attackers was detained in Gaziantep (in southern Turkey close to the Syrian border) and then deported” to Belgium, Erdogan told reporters in Ankara.

The Syrian army is 850 meters away from retaking the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria which has been systematically destroyed by the Islamic State/IS/ISIS. The city has become encircled by Syrian troops aided by Russian helicopters targeting armored ISIS vehicles. China Xinhua reports: The Syrian force also used motorcycles in their attack on the IS in Palmyra due to the geographical nature of that area.

In a new interview with Bloomberg Politics, Donald Trump fleshed out aspects of his national security strategy that include weighing whether NATO is obsolete, an emphasis on the virtues of unpredictability on the part of an American president and the potential use of nuclear weapons against the Islamic State as a last resort.

Donald Trump explains...

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Trump on earning the respect of the Muslim world:

There was more than a little confusion on Wednesday morning when Belgian media reported that ISIS bomb maker Najim Laachraoui had been arrested in Anderlecht.

Laachraoui is now Europe's most wanted man after being identified as the third suspect shown in a screengrab from CCTV footage recorded in Brussels airport before Tuesday's terrorist attacks that killed 11 and wounded dozens more.