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Israel’s opposition leader plans to separate Palestinian districts in the occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem) from the Jewish areas with higher walls and checkpoints. Under Isaac Herzog’s proposal, 28 Palestinian neighborhoods would be separated from Jewish districts and settlements in the city by miles of new concrete barriers and smart fences. Press TV reports: The plan, if implemented, would transform al-Quds into sectarian cantons linked with tunnels.

Back in October, when Iran test-fired a next-generation, surface-to-surface ballistic missile dubbed “Emad,” Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said the following about the future of Iran’s vaunted missile program: “We don’t ask anyone’s permission to enhance our defense power or missile capability and will firmly pursue our defense plans, particularly in the field of missiles.”

Iran test fired several long range ballistic missiles in an ongoing military drill in different parts of the country on Tuesday. The test was intended “to show Iran’s deterrent power and also the Islamic Republic’s ability to confront any threat against the Revolution, the state and the sovereignty of the country,” according to a statement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. The US has imposed missile-related sanctions against Tehran over the testing of the new intermediate-range Emad ballistic missile.

Everyone knows America’s campaign in Afghanistan has been an enormous foreign policy success.

The Taliban harbored al-Qaeda before and after 9/11 so naturally, the US had to oust Mullah Omar and company on the way to chasing Osama bin Laden through the mountains whilst laying waste to whatever civilization existed prior to the American invasion.

ISIS gunmen staged a mutiny near their de facto capital of Raqqa on Monday killing one of their own senior commanders in northern Syria. Tunisian jihadi Abu Ali al-Tunisi, commander of the military wing of ISIS’ northern Syria branch, was killed by disgruntled jihadi fighters under his charge as the terror group is wracked by internecine fighting, according to Kurdish news reports.