Mid East update Adjust content blockingContent Blocking fathersecrets Rank: #485 Channel: FJNN next random Comment Top Next Comment Egypt: nine militants killed in Sinai Security forces have killed nine militants in Sinai Peninsula clashes and in a separate incident also destroyed 15 vehicles transporting weapons into Egypt across its western border, the military said in statements on Sunday. The extremists were killed in two separate incidents in the middle of the Sinai, but the military did not say when they took place. Both involved the air force and “law enforcement forces.” The military said a planned “hostile act” was foiled after “a highly dangerous terrorist” group was discovered and tracked, and six militants were killed in a mountainous area. In a separate incident, three “highly dangerous” extremists were killed and another was arrested. A four-wheel-drive vehicle and five caches containing “large amounts of explosives and ammunition” were destroyed, the military added. On Egypt’s western border with Libya, warplanes have attacked and destroyed 15 four-wheel-drive vehicles carrying weapons, ammunition and contraband over the past 24 hours, the military said on Sunday. The air strikes took place following intelligence that “criminal subjects were gathering to sneak into Egypt,” it said. The military has boosted its operations on the border, repeatedly expressing concern about militants crossing the frontier to launch attacks. www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-says-nine... Iraqi Kurdistan will make its choice on independence On Sept. 25, the people of Iraqi Kurdistan will decide in a binding referendum if they want independence or to remain part of Iraq. The vote will resolve a conflict as old as the Iraqi state itself between the aspirations of the Kurdish people and a government in Baghdad that has long treated Kurds as less than full citizens of the country. Iraqi Kurdistan's exercise of its right to self-determination threatens no one and may make a volatile region more stable. It will not alter the borders of any neighboring state and, if done right, will make for a much stronger relationship between Iraq's Arabs and Kurds. Kurdistan's case for independence is compelling. One hundred years ago, in the peace negotiations that followed World War I, the Kurds were promised their own state. Instead they were divided against their will, their lands carved up among Turkey, Iran, Syria and Iraq. The newly established state of Iraq was supposed to be an equal partnership between Arabs and Kurds. That hopeful dream soon gave way to a grim reality. All Iraqi governments suppressed the Kurds. The resulting atrocities culminated in the 1980s, when Saddam Hussein used poison gas extensively on Kurdish towns and villages, leveled more than 5,000 Kurdish villages and deported Kurds to the south, where they were murdered and buried in mass graves. During this period, 182,000 Iraqi Kurds (nearly 5 percent of the Kurdish population). www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary... Macron calls for new Israeli-Palestinian talks After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Paris, Macron said that "everything should be done so that negotiations restart" with the aim of reaching a two-state solution, as the international community has long sought. Macron also condemned an attack last week that killed two Israeli police officers at a Jerusalem shrine revered by Jews and Muslims. Macron's office said he is concerned about Israel's security but also about growing Jewish settlement building, and worried that Netanyahu is backing away from commitment to a two-state solution. The two leaders also discussed fighting extremism in Syria and elsewhere, and improving economic cooperation. www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-... Erdogan attacks EU, backs restoring death penalty President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday defiantly stepped up his attacks on the European Union, saying Turkey had to go its own way and vowing to bring back the death penalty if parliament passed it. At the opening ceremony of a memorial dedicated to the roughly 250 people who died in last year's failed coup, Erdogan accused Brussels of "messing about" with Turkey's decades-long bid to join the bloc. The speech in the early hours of Sunday wound up a marathon session of public appearances by Erdogan in both the capital and Istanbul overnight to mark the anniversary of last year's defeated coup. "The stance of the European Union is clear to see ... 54 years have passed and they are still messing us about," he said, citing what he said was Brussels' failure to keep promises on everything from a visa deal to aid for Syrian migrants. "We will sort things out for ourselves. There's no other option." Ties with the West were strained when European governments voiced alarm at the scale of the crackdown that followed the coup. Some 150,000 people have been sacked or suspended from their jobs and more than 50,000 detained on suspicion of links with the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the attempted putsch. Erdogan also said he would approve, "without hesitation" the death penalty, if parliament voted to restore it -- a move that would effectively end Turkey's bid to join the EU. "I don't look at what Hans and George say. I look at what Ahmet, Mehmet, Hasan, Huseyin, Ayse, Fatma and Hatice say," he said, to cheers from a flag-waving crowd. www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-sec... Maryam Mirzakhani, First and only woman awarded the equivalent of Nobel prize for math, dies aged 40 Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and only woman to receive the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for mathematics, died on Saturday aged 40 after a battle with breast cancer. Officials at Stanford University, the California school where she taught, confirmed the death of the Tehran-born Mirzakhani, who specialized in theoretical mathematics. It came three years after she received the Fields Medal at an event in Seoul. The prize is handed out every four years to honor mathematicians under 40 who make major contributions. Mirzakhani was 37 when in 2014 she became the first woman to win the prize, which was established in 1936 and is equivalent to the Nobel Prize for mathematics. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4699... next +111 Views: 12321 Submitted: 07/17/2017 Facebook Twitter Google+ Tumblr Pinterest Unblock User's Content Block User's Content Unblock Channel Content Block Channel Content Related Top Content: Rest in peace Arnaud 2755 What a Twist 2587 Well.. that's one way to deal with overpopulation 1096 Finally, an end to the bloodshed 698 Korean War vet kills home intrunder with one shot 2146 Stefán Karl Stefánsson's Cancer Reappears 2041 I love this timeline 2036 Scumbag Instagram Model Beats Dog 2011 I KNEW IT! 1960 Sadly it failed but good try. 1909 Italy first 1881 Facebook, delete yourself 1872 Care Home Aids & Abbeds Pakistani Muslim Rape Gangs In UK 1689 This ----ing Bitch! 1620
