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At least seven people have been killed in a series of coordinated bomb and gun attacks in the the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. A series of explosions went off in central Jakarta, in a terrorist attack involving suicide bombers The blasts were centred around Thamrin Street, a major shopping and business district close to foreign embassies and the United Nations offices. The attackers targeted a busy shopping area in downtown Jakarta ISIS have claimed responsibility saying it was targeting foreign nationals and security forces according to a news agency linked to the group.

Two months after the Paris explosions of November 13, it appears that terrorism has struck again, this time in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta where moments ago, at least six bomb explosions, gunfire and casualties were reported, with at least one of the explosions taking place near the local UN office.

ANTARA NEWS REPORTS SIX EXPLOSIONS IN CENTRAL JAKARTA

JAKARTA POLICE SUSPECTS BOMB AT TRAFFIC POLICE POST: METRO TV

JAKARTA POLICE, GUNMEN CONTINUES SHOOTING: METRO TV

US Government Drives Toward War With Russia

The arrogant stupidity of the US government is driving the West into war with Russia.
NATO members are enabling the drive toward war, and some of the more stupid ones such as Poland are egging on the momentum toward war.

German TV station Tele5 has changed its logo to represent German and Turkish solidarity in the face of the recent terrorist attacks in Istanbul which killed 10 German tourists.  The new logo shows the Islamic star and crescent of Turkey’s flag superimposed on the national tricolor. The change in logo comes just two weeks after the New Year’s Eve sexual assaults on revelers in Cologne by newly arrived migrants, that led to a rise of anti-immigration sentiment in Germany and other European countries.

Back in June of 2014, ISIS - which at the time hadn’t yet rampaged its way into the world’s collective consciousness - took over Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and home to more than 2 million people.

When the city fell, it became immediately apparent that the group was quite serious about its stated goal of creating a medieval caliphate and bringing Sharia Law to the entire region.

The victory wasn’t purely symbolic. ISIS fighters captured 2,300 Humvees parked in the city and looted more than $400 million from Mosul’s central bank.