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Click to see the full-size map On Sunday, the Iraqi Army continued its advance in the 15 Tammoz district in the western part of the Iraqi city of Mosul captured the 30 Tammoz Street in the northern part of the district. Separately, the Iraqi 16th Division successfully crossed the Tigris River to support other Iraqi forces on the right side of Mosul. Click to see the full-size map Iraqi forces continued its advance in the Al-Haramat district, where they reportedly destroyed 12 vehicles belonging to ISIS. Furthermore, according to local sources, the Iraqi Army is advancing rapidly in the Hawi al-Kanisah area northeast of the right part of Mosul. From its side, ISIS claimed that two Abrams tanks and three BMP-1 belonging to the Iraqi Army were damaged in the Al-Musheirfa district as a result of an ISIS VBIED attack. The ISIS-linked news agency Amaq published photos of clashes between ISIS militants and Iraqi forces in the outskirts of the Al-Musheirfa district. Clic

Five ISIS suicide bombers attacked the Kiwan military base operated by Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the US military in Iraq. The ISIS-linked news agency Amaq claimed that the base was being used by US forces to oversee landing operations against important ISIS sites or commanders in Syria and Iraq. Amaq said that the base includes 2,000 US soldiers who arrived two months ago. Amaq claimed that ISIS members managed to destroy two Humvee vehicles during the attack after infiltrating the base. One of the attackers blew himself up at the entrance to the base. Two suicide bombers blew up themselves with some Peshmerga forces inside the base. Amaq argued that the clashes continued for two hours ending with the killing of all the attackers. According to published photos, the attackers appeared to be mostly young men or even teenagers. Click to see the full-size image Click to see the full-size image Click to see the full-size image After major defeats in Iraq and Syria, I

By William Cox   During the Korean War, the United States dropped more bombs and napalm on North Korea than was used against the Japanese during World War II. The carpet bombing destroyed all of the cities and most of the villages in North Korea. More than 3,000,000 Korean civilians died in the war—most were in the North. Since the war ended with a cease fire in 1953, the North has been governed by the Kim family dictatorship, which uses the threat of American aggression to maintain its ironfisted physical and mind control of the North Korean people. President Trump is now threatening another destructive war against the North Korean people and their society. He must not be allowed to do this—there is another way to deal with the problem. As a matter of policy, Trump can redirect his energy and efforts onto the person of Kim Jong-un, the country's dictator, who not only threatens the safety of other nations, but who holds his own people in slavery. Why should the United

Sauron Rules in Washington By Paul Craig Roberts “The problem is that the world has listened to Americans for far too bloody long.”   — Dr. Julian Osborne, from the 2000 film version of Nevil Shute’s 1957 book,  On the Beach   A reader asked why neoconservatives push toward nuclear war when there can be no winners. If all die, what is the point? The answer is that the neoconservatives believe that the US can win at minimum and perhaps zero damage. Their insane plan is as follows: Washington will ring Russia and China with anti-ballistic missile bases in order to provide a shield against a retaliatory strike from Russia and China. Moreover, these US anti-ABM bases also can deploy nuclear attack missiles unknown to Russia and China, thus reducing the warning time to five minutes, leaving Washington’s victims little or no time in which to make a decision. The neoconservatives think that Washington’s first strike will so badly damage the Russian and Chinese retaliatory capabil

Originally appeared  Zerohedge After 9 gigabytes of Macron-linked documents and emails were released on an  anonymous pastebin website  on Friday afternoon in what  Macron’s campaign said was a “massive and coordinated” hacking attack , France – fearing a similar response to what happened with Hillary Clinton after 35,000 John Podesta emails were released one month before the US presidential election – cracked down on the distribution of the files, warning on Saturday it would be a “criminal offense” to republish the data, and warning the French media  not to publish  content from any of the hacked emails “to prevent the outcome of the vote being influenced.” Quoted by  Reuters , the French election commission said in a statement that “on the eve of the most important election for our institutions, the commission calls on everyone present on internet sites and social networks, primarily the media, but also all citizens, to show responsibility and not to pass on this content, so