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Former President Obama gave away the store, including $1.7 billion in cash, in a desperate, narcissistic attempt to create a legacy with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Iran is nonetheless moving forward with a long-range missile program, and late last month it unveiled the Khorramshahr ballistic missile at a military parade in Tehran that commemorated the 36th anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war. The missile supposedly has a range of approximately 1200 miles and contains a warhead weighing 4,000 lbs. ZeroHedge  reported  that the Iranian regime continues its defiant posture. [President] Rouhani addressed [the September 22] parade in Tehran, noting that Tehran would not halt its missile program and would continue to boost military capabilities, despite US threats to scrap the landmark 2015 agreement that capped Iran’s nuclear activities in return for the lifting of international sanctions on Iran. Shortly after Rouhani’s remarks, Iran released footage of the test firing of the miss

FILE IMAGE: mod.gov.sy The Syrian Arab Army and its allies have liberated an area of 8,000km2 and taken control over the entire Jordanian border with Rif Dimashq Governorate,  the Syrian state-run media outlet SANA reported on Tuesday . According to SANA, government forces fully cleared the area from terrorists. However, these reports have still to be confirmed. If the report is confirmed, this will allow the army and its allies to free a signficant force that could be used on other frontlines across Syria. The ISIS-held city of Mayadin  and the T-2 Pumping Stations are obvious targets for the government operations.

PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol in Washington is pictured on Oct. 31, 2016 Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned international news network,  admitted  on October 9 that it had installed an undercover reporter inside pro-Israel organizations last year in Washington, D.C., and that it is planning to air a documentary film based on the reporter’s work. The announcement came shortly after a British government regulation agency  rejected  the complaints against an earlier documentary broadcast by Al Jazeera, in which an undercover reporter joined pro-Israel organizations in the United Kingdom, which resulted in the resignation of an Israeli Embassy official who had been filmed plotting to “take down” British lawmakers. The official, Shai Masot, was recorded by an undercover Al-Jazeera reporter discussing his wishes to engineer the downfall of several British Members of Parliament, including Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan, a supporter of a Palestinian state and outspoken critic of the Isr

A spokesman for the US-led coalition announced on October 10 that the so-called Raqqah Civil Council [a political group linked to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces] and “Arab tribal elders” work to protect and evacuate remaining civilians from the ISIS-held part of Raqqah city. The released statement says that the Raqqah Civil Council “is leading discussions to determine the best way to enable civilians trapped by Daesh to exit the city, where some are being held as human shields by the terrorists.” The statement came amid continued clashes in Raqqah where the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are still unable to break the ISIS defense in the city center. View image on Twitter  Follow OIR Spokesman   ✔ @OIRSpox # Raqqa  Civil Council & Arab tribal elders work to protect/evacuate remaining civilians trapped by  # ISIS  terrorists in Raqqa.  # defeatDaesh 21:21 - 10 Oct 2017   9 9 Replies     97 97 Retweets     111 111 likes Twitter Ads

FILE IMAGE The Russian Defense Ministry has accused the United States and its “coalition against ISIS” in “sumulating” the war against ISIS in Iraq. The ministry noted a low number of the US-led coalition’s airstrikes on ISIS in September when the terrorist group’s members were crossing into Syria. According to the ministry, the US-led coalitino reduced a number of airstrikes on ISIS in Iraq while terrorists were redeplyoing for a battle against Syrian government forces in the province of Deir Ezzor. “ In the western part of Iraq, from where the terrorist forces are arriving to the eastern bank of the Euphrates River (where the Russian Aerospace Forces are not operating), the [ISIS]IS-controlled territory continues growing, and it is manifold larger than in Syria ,” Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Tuesday. He added that the analysis of the statistics provided by the Pentagon on the sorties as part of the campaign to fight ISIS allows “to see so

Helmet and flack jackets of the members of the 1 parachute battalion of the South African contingent of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), in a photo dated 14 February 2008. (UN Photo/Marie Frechon) The United Nations  said  on October 9 that it has pulled staff out of two districts in southern Malawi where a vampire scare has triggered mob violence in which at least five people have been killed. The United States embassy in Malawi has temporarily  withdrawn  its team of Peace Corps volunteers from the four districts in southern Malawi and advised its citizens not to visit the area. As reported by local police, vigilantes killed six people suspected of drinking blood for ritualistic purposes since mid-September in Malawi.  The police have deployed more than 100 riot officers to the region in response to the killings. According  to police spokesperson James Kadadzera, the most recent attack came on October 8 when an angry

Ankara  continues  to support Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the press-conference with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev on October 9. According to Erdogan, Ankara won’t recognize Crimea’s annexation. He said that Turkey supported the Crimean Tatars loyal to Ukraine, and declared that they intended to cooperate with Ukraine regarding the matter, despite him  dozing  off during the talks. Poroshenko said that Turkey and Ukraine were focused on bilateral relations and economic cooperation. The same day Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu  said  that Ankara could back out of the deal with Russia to purchase S-400 air defense systems, unless Moscow shares the production technology. According to him Russian President Vladimir Putin said that joint production is a possibility. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov  said  in response “I can say that the contacts and negotiations are continuing at the

USS Michigan (SSGN-727) in Guam in 2012. The boat will be the first US submarine with female enlisted sailors by 2016. US Navy Photo The USS Michigan nuclear-powered submarine is dispatched to port at Busan, South Korea to stand ready in case of escalation on the Korean Peninsula. The USS Michigan Ohio-class nuclear-powered submarine is one of the 18 subs active with the US Navy that can be armed with 24 Trident I and Trident II ballistic missiles. Each Trident I can carry up to eight 100 kiloton warheads, while the Trident II carries 14, or eight warheads with a payload of a frightening 475 kilotons. The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier will be also dispatched to South Korea next week,  Sputnik  reported. South Korea is ready to deploy graphite “blackout” bombs that will paralyze North Korea’s electrical power plants in the event of war breaking out on the peninsula, according to the  Telegraph . South Korea has been actively looking to increase its defensive capabilit