After a US-backed coalition of Kurds, Shiite militias and Iraqi forces pushed ISIS out of Mosul earlier this year, a similar coalition of US-backed Arab and Kurdish fighters – supported by US airstrikes – has declared victory over ISIS in Raqqa, reclaiming the terror group’s de facto capital for the first time since ISIS first rose to prominence in 2014.
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
New photos of a recent highway construction in China could be part of a contingency plan to invade North Korea or amass a huge army on their shared border.
Experts fear this newly uncovered plot could stoke the fires of World War 3, inevitably involving the United States.
Iraq's military has effectively gained control of major assets and government buildings in Kirkuk city, and is now set to fully pacify it after overnight clashes at a moment when oil prices rose toward a six month high as the conflict now threatens output.
After years of undermining the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al Assad, an effort that has seen Israel countenance ISIS training camps near its borders and launch recurring missile strikes on Syrian territory and its army bases while threatening to bomb Assad's palace, the simmering conflict between the two nations broke out into the open once again overnight.
Submitted by Elijah Magnier, Middle East based chief international war correspondent for Al Rai Media