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"The U.S. is taking measures against a possible counter-terror operation led by Turkey in Syria's northern Manbij district," the state-run news agency wrote.According to the report, the reinforcements were deployed near the Sajur River, located near a contact line between Turkey-led forces and the area controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), described by Ankara as a terrorist group, is the core of the SDF.
Comment: The U.S. Coalition sent reinforcements to the northern Aleppo district of Manbij, the Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency reported on Sunday.
Citing "trustworthy local sources," the Anadolu Agency claimed that the U.S. military sent at least 300 soldiers to Manbij in a convoy comprised of several armored vehicles and construction machines.
The U.S. Coalition has not commented on this Anadolu report.
The article continues to ignore a central fact: Israel killed 15 Palestinians, and injured as many as 1000 more, but not a single Israeli soldier got as much as a scratch.
International law forbids lethal violence unless your own life is in danger, so whatever the Israeli army says it should be presumed guilty of crimes.
The article appears a day after the Times ignored the story entirely, and American cable news channels have also blacked out news from Gaza. The omission in the Times was particularly suspicious because its first story prompted 1013 comments, suggesting the public is interested.
Comment: 'Eating sadness': The deadliest day in the Israel-Palestine conflict since 2014
- Israeli army uses live fire, rubber bullets, tear gas against Palestinian protesters; 12 dead, 1,000 hurt
- Israel suppresses unarmed protesters against siege of Gaza with chemical weapons and live gunfire from snipers: 16 Palestinians killed, thousands injured
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Christians in Syria attend Good Friday mass and procession in Aleppo marking the beginning of Catholic Easter.
Christians in Syria attend Good Friday mass and procession in Aleppo marking the beginning of Catholic Easter.
As Catholics around the world celebrated one of the most significant Christian holidays on April 1, commemorating the resurrection of Jesus, thousands in the war-ravaged Syria, including in the capital Damascus and liberated Aleppo swarmed the streets.
People filled the square in front of the Holy Cross Church in Damascus, the seat of the Greek (Melkite) Catholic Church. Ahead of the festivities, which also saw uniformed Scouts of Syria parading through the city center, the cathedral was visited by Asma al-Assad, the country's first lady.
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Oil workers in Sakir, Bahrain.
Oil workers in Sakir, Bahrain.
The resource, which is said to "dwarf" Bahrain's current reserves, was found at the end of last year following an order to intensify the search for deposits of crude. "Initial analysis demonstrates the find is at substantial levels, capable of supporting the long-term extraction of tight oil [light crude] and deep gas," Bahraini Oil Minister Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa al-Khalifa told the agency. It is the largest find in nearly 90 years.
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Palestinians attend a tent city protest along the Israel border with Gaza, demanding the right to return to their homeland, east of Gaza City
Palestinians attend a tent city protest along the Israel border with Gaza, demanding the right to return to their homeland, east of Gaza City
A Palestinian boy was hospitalized to Gaza hospital with a bullet wound on Sunday, reported the Jerusalem Post. The boy said he thought he was safe at the Land Day protest as long as he did not touch the barrier or throw stones.
"I was just standing there when I felt something hit my leg and it pushed me to the ground," the boy, Bashar Wahdan, told reporters. According to Jpost.com, the bullet cut through blood vessels and broke a bone.
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Members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War march around the Capitol here, as part of their week-long demonstration against the Vietnam War.
Members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War march around the Capitol here, as part of their week-long demonstration against the Vietnam War.
The first months of 2018 demonstrated that the protest movement in the United States is alive and well. In January, millions of women - energized by the Hollywood-inspired #MeToo movement - took to the streets of America to voice their displeasure at Donald Trump's first tumultuous year in the White House, as well as sexual discrimination against females.
In March, another protest rocked America as thousands of protesters - moved by the Parkland high-school shooting, which left 17 people dead in Florida - assembled in Washington, DC in a call for stricter gun control. In light of the disturbing frequency of shooting sprees in the US, it would be wrong to question the importance of such a movement. Yet, however tragic is the sight of innocent Americans being slaughtered by some deranged shooter, those deaths pale in comparison to the number of innocent people being killed in foreign lands as a direct result of US military incursions, many of them absolutely illegal.
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Forensic officers in Gillingham, Dorset,United Kingdom, where they removed a vehicle in the latest development following the Russian spy Sergei Skripal attack.
Forensic officers in Gillingham, Dorset,United Kingdom, where they removed a vehicle in the latest development following the Russian spy Sergei Skripal attack.
McFaul is a former ambassador to Russia and current Stanford professor, who persistently pushes against Russia. He took to Twitter on Sunday to denounce RT for publishing an article with the headline: "UK may have staged Skripal poisoning to rally people against Russia - Moscow." The article details a highly newsworthy statement made by Russia's envoy to the UK, Alexander Yakovenko, concerning the poisoning of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
While speaking to Russia's NTV channel, Yakovenko said that "we have very serious suspicion that this provocation was done by British intelligence," adding: "The Britons are claiming a leading role in the so-called containment of Russia. To win support from the people and the parliament for this containment of Russia, a serious provocation was required. And the Britons may have done a really savage one to get this support."
A murder epidemic is sweeping London. On Sunday, an unnamed man in his 20s became the 12th person in just 19 days to be gunned down or stabbed to death in the capital
The 16-year-old boy is the latest victim of violent crime after an incident in Bow, east London, at about 6.05pm on Sunday night.
It is thought the teen was stabbed near a parade of shops just off the A12 and witnesses described seeing two people being stretchered away from the scene.
The teenage victim was in a critical condition last night and two men were arrested.
Yet the American Idiocracy is moving to equate merit-based institutions with institutionalized racism.
Tucker Carlson, likely the only merit-based hiree at Fox News, recently divulged that a member of the Trump administration was overheard (by a thought-police plant) expressing a preference for merit-based recruits for his department.
Egad, and what next!
Google, a tool of the Idiocracy, appears to have scrubbed its search of this latest episode in "The Closing of the American Mind." However, it's no secret that the education system already excludes the most naturally gifted, independent-minded individuals from fields in which they'd excel.
Comment: Elon Musk - The PT Barnum of our time