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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck and Rise ...
by side pocket
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on Sun Mar 13, 2022 at 09:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame and jck. ...
by side pocket
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on Sun Jan 26, 2020 at 09:00 PM PST
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I know it is a deadly sin in DK to make assumptions based only on observation with no tangible proof (AKA Conspiracy Theory) so I let my thoughts simmer until I saw someone with credentials say something. On January 9th David Nakamura of the Washington...
by Epimetheos
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on Tue Jan 14, 2020 at 12:08 PM PST
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Ever since U.S. drones took out Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 2, there have been undefined claims that the action halted some “imminent attack” that was a danger to hundreds, if not thousands of Americans. However, despite multiple appearances...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Jan 09, 2020 at 12:14 PM PST
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U.S. troops will be evacuating from Iraq under fire. Will it wake MAGA's up to their false idolatry? The occupation of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad by unarmed militia members was a statement by Iran to Trump that they are in control of our destiny in Iraq. But because Trump is an impetuous child and can’t track an issue past 280 characters, he didn’t...
by B12love
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on Fri Jan 03, 2020 at 02:56 PM PST
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The US air strike on an Iranian general in Baghdad is sending shock waves around the world. While it’s difficult to grasp just how serious this is, some idea can be gained by a better understanding of who the target was. From the BBC link above: Iran's...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Jan 03, 2020 at 09:13 AM PST
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An attack on the Baghdad International Airport has resulted in the death of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force General Qasem Solemani, and the United States has taken responsibility. The strike was first reported by Iraqi State TV on Friday....
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Thu Jan 02, 2020 at 06:03 PM PST
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The multi-day siege of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad has come to an end—for now—after Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi stated that he would require U.S. troops to leave Iraq, and militia leaders instructed those in and around the enormous embassy...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Jan 02, 2020 at 05:50 AM PST
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*** Edit *** Originally Published HOURS before the announcement of the assassination of high-profile commander of Iran's secretive Quds Force, Qassim Suleimani, and the subsequent flood of "War with Iran" diaries. Just <s>bragging</s>...
by OnlyWords
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on Thu Jan 02, 2020 at 02:24 PM PST
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Robert Burns of the Associated Press reports that the US will send an additional detachment from the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group to guard the enormous US Embassy in Baghdad after supporters of the Iraqi Shiite militia group Kata’ib Hezbollah...
by Lincoln green
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on Tue Dec 31, 2019 at 10:25 AM PST
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On Sunday, the United States conducted a series of airstrikes against sites in Iraq and Syria supposedly under control of a Shiite militia group supported by the government of Iran. But on Tuesday morning, protesters enraged by those airstrikes...
by Mark Sumner
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on Tue Dec 31, 2019 at 06:30 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Aug 02, 2019 at 09:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, interceptor7, Magnifico, ...
by side pocket
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on Sun Jun 23, 2019 at 09:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, interceptor7, Magnifico, ...
by side pocket
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on Sun Jun 10, 2018 at 09:00 PM PDT
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The end is nigh for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
To be sure, ISIS affiliates in Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, and elsewhere will remain dangerous. And its fighters and sympathizers will ...
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Apr 23, 2017 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Yesterday VP biden went to Iraq to try to sort out the current dysfunction of our shia/kurd iraqi government. Factions are once again vying for power and there is some sort of concern that things are falling apart that whoever is currently the head...
by andyfrombrooklyn
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on Fri Apr 29, 2016 at 04:53 AM PDT
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by Ruby JM
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on Sat Nov 14, 2015 at 08:53 PM PST
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A planning commission in Sterling Heights, Michigan voted 9-0 earlier this week to deny a zoning use exemption for a proposed mosque . As the team petititioning for the mosque proposal (they were ...
by subir
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on Tue Sep 15, 2015 at 11:43 AM PDT
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Things did not go well the last time Jeb Bush tried to blame President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for Dubya's calamity in Iraq. After comically flip-flopping as to whether he ...
by Jon Perr
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on Wed Aug 12, 2015 at 12:22 PM PDT
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Even as Islamic State fighters battle Iraqi forces in western Iraq near a base where hundreds of American troops are currently stationed, the government in Baghdad is facing a new ...
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Feb 15, 2015 at 12:33 PM PST
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