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Tensions along the border between North and South Korea have boiled over into an artillery exchange between the two countries on Thursday.

But Saudi Arabia and Iran are facing off in a bid for influence in the country, each sponsoring their own schools emphasizing their own national religious traditions in an attempt to gain influence and a foothold in the country. The sectarian tensions that are so familiar in the Middle East have largely been alien to Mali, which has a more tolerant, pluralist religious tradition. Iran and Saudi Arabia are waging a quiet battle to fund competing Sunni and Shiite schools in the West African country, FP contributors Paul Raymond and Jack Watling write. Similar “green on blue” attacks have killed 147 coalition service members and wounded hundreds of others since 2007, when the Defense Department started tracking them. A scathing Washington Post story details the Greene family’s complaints over what they see as the lackluster report on the attack, and the lax security provided for Greene and his soldiers at the site. Greene, the highest-ranking American officer killed in combat since the Vietnam War, is unhappy with the Army’s investigation into the deadly August 2014 attack in which when an Afghan soldier opened fire on Greene as he reviewed an Afghan Army training site. He blamed paid “infiltrators” for the disruption, insisting that “we are united,” since “we want more training and supplies.”

But all is not lost, according to sheik Hamid Shawkat, head of Anbar’s tribal council. Please pass them along to or on Twitter: or meeting to discuss ways to unite the Sunni tribes of Anbar province against the Islamic State devolved into a fistfight this week, as tribal sheiks accused others from rival families of working with the jihadists, causing bodyguards and sheiks to start throwing punches and chairs. Other major agencies included in the dump include the State Department, whose domain includes 33 entries.Īs we ease into another Thursday morning, we would just like to say thanks again for reading, and offer a gentle reminder that we’re still interested in any tips, notes, or otherwise interesting bits of information that you may have at your disposal. The government-related domains with the biggest user community on the site are: us.army.mil with 6,788 entries, navy.mil, with 1,665 entries, and usmc.mil with 809. Unless The Muppets’ Kermit the Frog really is stepping out on Miss Piggy.) But there is going to be some pain. (Shockingly, not all accounts on the site are legit. Of the 36 million hacked accounts registered with Ashley Madison - a dating website which advertises itself as a discreet way to have an affair - tens of thousands feature. Turkey has take the opportunity to also hit the PKK in Iraq, launching air strikes on Kurdish militant camps across the border in northern Iraq, and detaining more than 2,500 suspected members of radical Kurdish and Islamic groups. The new fighting in Turkey comes just after weeks after Ankara jumped into the war against the Islamic State by opening up its air bases to the U.S.-led coalition hitting the jihadists in Syria. governments, has been recruiting teens heavily, and claims to have hundreds of armed volunteers ready to take the fight to Turkish government forces. The PKK, declared a terrorist organization by both the Turkish and U.S. The Turkish government has estimated that 50 security officials, 400 Kurdish PKK members and several civilians have been killed since June. The southern region - where the borders of Syria, Iraq, and Turkey converge - have become a hotbed of unrest, featuring running street battles between government forces and Kurdish militants in recent months. In Turkey, unidentified gunmen opened fire on police in the capital on Wednesday, while a bomb killed eight soldiers in the country’s restive southeast. In response to the violence, the government of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has pushed through a tough new anti-terrorism law that offers a sweeping definition of terrorism and sets harsh punishments, including fines for journalists who don’t parrot the opinions of the government.

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The bombing comes amid a series of attacks on government forces which have included bombings in Cairo by Islamic State-affiliated militants, the destruction of a naval vessel off the country’s Mediterranean coast, and the assassination of Egypt’s attorney general by a car bomb in Cairo.

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In Cairo, a large car bomb exploded early Thursday morning close to a national security building, ripping the facade off of the front of the structure and blowing out windows for blocks. allies, as Turkey and Egypt were each forced to deal with a series of domestic attacks on their security forces. Wednesday was a bloody day for two key U.S.

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