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US President Donald  Trump has  reacted to the recent North Korea nuclear test  with another twitter storm. “The United States is considering, in addition to other options,  stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea ,” the US president claimed in one of the tweets. He added that South Korea’s “ talk of appeasement will not work ” and that  the North Korea government “only understand one thing!” . “North Korea is a rogue nation which has become  a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success ,” he said. Trump also said that he will have a meeting with “General Kelly, General Mattis and other military leaders at the White House to discuss North Korea.” These words correspond with the recent Trump’s claims that “ talking is not the answer ” in the case of the North Korea nuclear program. However, “talking” is the only thing that Trump has done successfully ove...

A fully armed MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle taxis down the runway at an air base in Afghanistan on its way to another wartime mission. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson) On Sunday, Afghan officials from Jabal Saraj district announced that a key commander of the Taliban was killed in a US unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) strike in Ezat Khil area of Jabal Saraj district. The airstrike was conducted as a part of an attack of the Afghan Army backed by US-led coalition warplanes in Ezat Khil area, according to the officials. “Troops came from Kabul and they launched a military operation in Ezat Khil and the foreign troops also provided support from the air in which Mullah Agha Gul, a Taliban commander and one of his fighters, were killed,” Masoum Farzayee police chief of Jabal Saraj said. However, Mohammad Asim Asim, the governor of Jabal Saraj district denied that the Taliban commander was killed by the US-led coalition airstrike. Asim claimed that th...

Captured ISIS members Peshmerga forces, a military force of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, have executed  a high number of ISIS members that had surrendered to or had been captured by Kurdish units north of the recently liberated town of Tal Afar  in northern Iraq. According to reports, the number of killed ISIS members is up to 400. If it’s officially confirmed, this will be a major blow to the public image of Kurdish forces in Iraq. Furthermore, the mass execution could easily boost support to ISIS and to trigger a series of terrorist attacks against soft targets in the Iraqi Kurdistan. SF does not release alleged photos of the incident. However, they could be easily found online ( for example, this twitter acc posted them on September 2 ). Captured ISIS members:

On September 3, unknown gunmen tried to assassinate Abu Hamza, a general commander of the newly formed National Front for the Liberation of Syrian (NFLS). The gunmen shelled Abu Hamza car with machine guns on the road between al-Sahw and al-Musifrah villages in the eastern Daraa countryside, according to an official statement of the NFLS. Click to see the full-size image Click to see the full-size image Click to see the full-size image The NFLS statement added that Abu Hamza and his guards were injured. However, Abu Hamza injury was light. He is now recovering. The NFLS was established on August 22 by 11 different Free Syrian Army (FSA) groups from southern Syria. The NLFS claims that it is an independent body working to achieve the goals of the Syrian revolution. The NLFS impendency has pushed some opposition activists to believe that the US-led Military Operation Center (MOC) in Jordan might be behind the assassination attempt. However, others believe that IS...