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Suicide bomber kills 65, mostly women and children in Pakistan park
A suicide bomber killed at least 65 people and injured more than 280 others, mostly women and children, at a public park in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday, striking at the heart of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s political base of Punjab. The blast occurred in the parking area of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, a few feet...
ISIS on the RUN: Russia smashes jihadis with 158 air raids in just 24 HOURS
ISLAMIC State has been hit by a devastating 158 air raids from Russian forces in the last day — killing over 100 militants. The attacks have been carried out in the central province of Homs and comes as president Bashar al-Assad's forces reclaimed the historic Palmyra castle. Russian Aerospace said there were 40...
North Korea propaganda video depicts nuclear attack on Washington
North Korea released a dramatic propaganda video Saturday called "Last Chance" that depicts a nuclear strike on Washington, complete with animation of a missile slamming into the earth near the Lincoln Memorial. The four-minute video, backed by a hyper musical score reminiscent of TV Westerns of the 1960s, includes a...
A young Joseph Stalin before the USSR
Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin (1879 — 1953), taken from a police file. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Stalin was not his name. Born in Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1878, Ioseb Jughashvili was the son of a failing cobbler and a housemaid. His father Besarion was an alcoholic, and,...
Ruthless Vladimir Putin helps Syrian forces SEIZE ancient Palmyra Castle from evil ISIS
RUSSIAN forces helped the Syrian army reclaim the ancient Palmyra Castle from the tentacles of the savage Islamic State. Just days after the vile Brussels attack, a joint military operation saw the ancient citadel liberated from ISIS militants – who were forced to retreat during the assault. The heinous jihadi cult was...
Iran to UN: missile launch not a violation
The Iranian government has written to the United Nations defending its recent ballistic missile launch, which was criticized by the United States and other nations. In a letter dated March 23, Iran’s U.N. ambassador, Gholamali Khoshroo, told the Secretary-General and the Security Council that Iran has not taken any...
REVEALED: The UK cities which could be next in evil ISIS’ sights after Brussels bombing
BRITISH cities are on red alert today as security services brace for further Islamic State (ISIS) bomb plots designed to follow up the horrific Brussels massacre. Forces across the country are preparing for the possibility of a fresh terror attack on UK soil after evil jihadis killed at least 31 people and wounded 270 more in...
Israeli soldier ‘shot wounded Palestinian attacker dead’
An Israeli soldier has been detained after a video emerged showing him apparently shooting a Palestinian in the head as he lay wounded and motionless on the ground. The Palestinian was soon declared dead. He was one of two attackers who had earlier stabbed another Israeli soldier in the West Bank city of Hebron. The Israeli...
Iraqi army starts offensive in region around Mosul, State TV says
Iraq's armed forces started an offensive against Islamic State on Thursday in the region around Mosul with air cover from the U.S.-led coalition, pushing the militants out of several villages, according to a military statement read on state TV. The offensive is the first phase of an operation that the Iraqi government aims...
Syrian troops reach palmyra outskirts
Syrian forces backed by Russian airstrikes have advanced to the outskirts of the ancient city of Palmyra in their campaign to retake the area from Islamic State militants. Local officials and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say government forces have closed in on the southern and western sides of Palmyra....
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko given 22-year sentence
A Ukrainian pilot has been found guilty in Russia of charges relating to the deaths of two Russian journalists. Nadiya Savchenko was sentenced to 22 years in jail after being convicted of directing artillery fire which killed them in eastern Ukraine in June 2014. She burst into a folk-style protest song in the courtroom as she...
Death of democracy? Brussels could deploy own ARMY within the EU as migrant crisis deepens
BRUSSELS has been urged to deploy its own armed forces within the EU for the first ever time in a move which would sound the death knell for European democracy. European leaders are being asked to dispatch troops to Greece — the cradle of democracy — to combat the spiralling migrant crisis. If the plan is put into...