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Funny man Harith aims to go the distance

Edit Topix 08 Nov 2016
KUALA LUMPUR ... Harith Iskander will soon make his way to Helsinki, Finland, for the next stage of the competition organised by Laugh Factory - a chain of comedy clubs in the United States - after beating 88 others, including Malaysian doctor-turned-comedian Dr Jason Leong, in the first round ... ....

Forces enter 2 towns near Mosul

Edit Arkansas Online 08 Nov 2016
NEAR BASHIQA, Iraq -- Iraqi Kurdish fighters exchanged heavy fire with militants Monday as they entered a town held by the Islamic State extremist group east of Mosul, and troops advancing south of the city discovered a mass grave containing about 100 decapitated bodies ... Smoke rose from the town throughout the day, with explosions sending dark clouds into the sky ... Gen. Iskander Khalil Gardi ... Gen ... Earlier Monday, army spokesman Brig ... Col....

Iraqi Kurdish forces advance into ISIS-held town east of Mosul

Edit LA Daily News 07 Nov 2016
NEAR BASHIQA, Iraq — Iraqi Kurdish fighters exchanged heavy fire with militants early on Monday as they advanced from two directions into a town held by the Islamic State group east of the city of Mosul. The offensive to reclaim the town of Bashiqa is part of the broader push to drive IS out of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city and the militants’ last major urban stronghold in the country ... Iskander Khalil Gardi....

The Election and Nukes: We Are Playing a Game of Chicken with Nuclear Strategy

Edit Alternet 07 Nov 2016
Of greatest concern to Western analysts in this regard is their deployment of the Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile, a modern version of the infamous Soviet-era “Scud” missile (used by Saddam Hussein’s forces during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988 and the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991). Said to have a range of 500 kilometers (just within the INF limit), the Iskander can carry either a conventional or a nuclear warhead....

Whose Finger on the Nuclear Button?

Edit Antiwar 07 Nov 2016
Of greatest concern to Western analysts in this regard is their deployment of the Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile, a modern version of the infamous Soviet-era “Scud” missile (used by Saddam Hussein’s forces during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988 and the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991) ... In other words, as with the Iskander-M, ......

Kurdish forces advance into Islamic State territory east of Mosul

Edit Belfast Telegraph 07 Nov 2016
Iraqi Kurdish fighters exchanged heavy fire with militants as they advanced from two directions into a town held by the Islamic State group east of the city of Mosul ... Share Go To ... "We have the coordinates of their bases and tunnels, and we are targeting them from here in order to weaken them so that our forces can reach their targets more easily," said Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga commander Brigadier General Iskander Khalil Gardi....

Iraqi Kurdish forces advance into IS-held town east of Mosul

Edit The Roanoke Times 07 Nov 2016
BASHIQA, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Kurdish fighters exchanged heavy fire with militants early on Monday as they advanced from two directions into a town held by the Islamic State group east of the city of Mosul. The offensive to reclaim the town of Bashiqa is part of the broader push to drive IS out of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city and the militants' last major urban stronghold in the country ... Gen. Iskander Khalil Gardi ... Col. Hussein Aziz ... ....

ISIL battles to hold on to town east of Mosul

Edit The National 07 Nov 2016
NEAR BASHIQA, Iraq // Iraqi Kurdish fighters exchanged heavy fire with militants early on Monday as they advanced from two directions into a town held by ISIL east of the city of Mosul ... "We have the co-ordinates of their bases and tunnels, and we are targeting them from here in order to weaken them so that our forces can reach their targets more easily," said Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga commander Brigadier General Iskander Khalil Gardi....

Mass grave found near Mosul as Kurdish forces clash with Islamic State

Edit Belfast Telegraph 07 Nov 2016
The Iraqi military says it has found some 100 decapitated bodies in a mass grave south of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul ... Most were reduced to skeletons. Share Go To ... "We have the coordinates of their bases and tunnels, and we are targeting them from here in order to weaken them so that our forces can reach their targets more easily," said Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga commander Brigadier General Iskander Khalil Gardi ... AP ... ....

Iraqi Kurdish forces advance as mass grave found near Mosul

Edit Boston Herald 07 Nov 2016
NEAR BASHIQA, Iraq — Iraqi Kurdish fighters exchanged heavy fire with militants on Monday as they entered a town held by the Islamic State group east of Mosul, while troops advancing south of the city discovered a mass grave with some 100 decapitated bodies ... Smoke rose from the town throughout the day, with large explosions sending dark clouds into the sky ... Gen. Iskander Khalil Gardi ... Most were reduced to skeletons, said Brig. Gen ... Col ... ....

Kurdish forces enter town near Mosul as Iraqi troops find mass grave

Edit The Guardian 07 Nov 2016
Forces advancing south of Mosul uncover evidence of Isis brutality while peshmerga goes on offensive to recapture Bashiqa ... Arab forces to lead fight to recapture Raqqa from Isis, US says. Read more ... “We have the coordinates of their bases and tunnels, and we are targeting them from here in order to weaken them so that our forces can reach their targets more easily,” said Iraqi Kurdish commander Brig Gen Iskander Khalil Gardi ... Read more ... ....

Mass grave off 100 decapitated bodies discovered near Mosul

Edit Belfast Telegraph 07 Nov 2016
The Iraqi military says it has found some 100 decapitated bodies in a mass grave south of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul ... Independent.ie ... Go To ... 25, 2016 ... 25, 2016 ... 25, 2016 ... "We have the coordinates of their bases and tunnels, and we are targeting them from here in order to weaken them so that our forces can reach their targets more easily," said Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga commander Brigadier General Iskander Khalil Gardi....

Interview with Minister Witold Waszczykowski in Greek newspaper “To Vima” (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Nov 2016
(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland) ... Waszczykowski also pointed to the direction that attempts to resolve the migration crisis should lead ... 'Putting it mildly, we don't feel comfortable knowing that the large part of Polish territory and border areas with Germany will be within the impact area of the Iskander ballistic missile armed with a nuclear warhead, located in the Kaliningrad region ... Source. 'To Vima'....
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