Reuters: U.S.-led warplanes destroy fleet of Islamic State oil tankers in Syria
U.S.-led coalition planes destroyed 168 Islamic State oil tanker trucks in Syria, the coalition said on Friday, in the largest strike of its kind and the latest instance of what U.S. officials say has been a successful effort to starve the militant group of revenues.
The air strikes targeted the truck fleet near Palmyra, Syria on Thursday, a coalition statement said. Their destruction means lost revenues of about $2 million to Islamic State, the estimated value of fuel in the trucks, the coalition said.
The strikes are part of a campaign by the U.S.-led coalition to target oil infrastructure controlled by Islamic State, which occupies swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.
The group has been on the backfoot as an Iraqi military campaign with U.S. coalition air support has succeeded in wresting back significant territory, including a series of oil fields.
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MIDDLE EAST
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Iraq says it destroys Mosul car bomb factories.
U.S. strikes Islamic State's command center in Mosul.
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Turkey's Erdogan cements his power.
ASIA
U.N. council meets on North Korea human rights despite China opposition.
Park Geun-hye: South Korea Parliament votes to impeach President; PM Hwang Kyo-ahn takes reigns. South Korean president is impeached in stunning fall.
US pledges continued support for Afghanistan post-Obama. U.S. defense chief reassures Afghans amid questions over Trump's policies.
Deaths in Kashmir gun battle trigger anti-India protest.
Rodrigo Duterte: Philippine senators tell President drug crackdown must be legal, punish rogue police.
Rescue operations near end in Indonesia's quake-stricken Aceh.
China's Xi Jinping wants universities to show more allegiance to Communist Party.
Diplomats call on Myanmar to let aid into Rakhine State.
AFRICA
Ghana's president concedes election defeat after tense day.
Somalia: Presidential election postponed for fourth time.
U.N. to hold session on rights situation in South Sudan.
Schoolgirl suicide bombers kill 56 in Nigerian market: official.
Egypt violence: Six police officers killed by militants in Cairo.
Islamic State looks to regroup in Libya after losing Sirte.
Ghana opposition is 'confident' it has won election.
Hospitals in Kenya deserted, patients dying during ongoing doctors' strike.
Hundreds of African refugees storm Spain's killer fence.
Algeria deports hundreds of West African migrants to Niger.
EUROPE
OSCE members urge parties to Ukraine conflict to meet commitments.
EU to extend economic sanctions on Russia after leaders meet on December 15.
Romania set to go to polls as anti-graft party eyes kingmaker role.
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AMERICAS
Giuliani pulls out of consideration to serve in administration: Trump.
Obama orders sweeping review of international hacking tied to U.S. elections.
US government scrambles to respond to surge of migrants at Mexico border.
Joe Biden: World needs Canada 'very badly'.
Peace deal will help Colombia battle cocaine, president says.
Chapecoense crash: Bolivian official accuses bosses of a cover-up.
Amazonian tribe in Peru says it will block new oil drilling plans.
Guatemalans burn Trump effigies to scatter evil spirits.
Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas turns 100.
Canada: More than half of B.C.’s most expensive homes owned by secret shell companies spurring money laundering fears.
TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR
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ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS
Trump's threats chill corporate investment plans in Mexico.
Facebook admits to miscalculating more of its advertising metrics.
Russia to hold additional talks before OPEC, non-OPEC meeting.
Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox bids $14.1 billion for UK's Sky.
Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart to buy Kidman estate.
4 comments:
"Terror suspect arrested in Rotterdam with loaded Kalashnikov."
A loaded Kalashnikov? Bet it was cheap vodka.
Meanwhile the really important stuff is being taken care-of by the bright and so very courageous paragons of virtue that call themselves judges.
CIVILIZATION DEATH WATCH: GEERT WILDERS CONVICTED OF HATE SPEECH
“Moroccan Dutch people have felt robbed of their dignity and a heightened sense of discrimination."
The utter POS also known as Obama
would not hit ISIS tanker trucks or oil refineries for fear of environmental damage.
Then Putin came into the picture. Putin targeted tanker trucks among other things.
Po 'lil Obama feared that Putin was making headway in winning the war against ISIS. So Obama had to drop the act and start seriously bombing ISIS too.
Otherwise Putin would get credit for defeating the scourge and Obama would look liker the Chump that he is.
Obama did not hit ISIS oil because of ‘environmental damage’
https://www.aei.org/publication/obama-did-not-hit-isis-oil-because-of-environmental-damage/
Ex-CIA chief: Fear for environment stays US hand on ISIS oil wells
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/261283-ex-cia-chief-fear-for-environment-stays-us-hand-on-isis-oil-wells
Obama’s Former CIA Director Morell: Obama Didn’t Hit ISIS’s Oil Because Of Environmental Damage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp98RwWRay0
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