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>>4750758

somewhere in my digs PR is a place they can go and use the courts to argue new laws, pass bills? not sure how far they can go but those people are insidious and maybe the info was wrong altogether, just throwing my two bits in case it clicks

Why the Kurds matter in Trump’s withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria

WATCH ABOVE: Civilians are seen fleeing from the last area held by ISIS in Syria's eastern province of Deir ez-Zor as U.S. backed fighters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) make gains in the area.

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Kurdish fighters in northern and eastern Syria are suddenly looking to make friends with two rivals of the United States, after President Donald Trump decided to withdraw the U.S. troops who fought alongside the Kurds to secure the region against the Islamic State.

Amounting to about one quarter of Syria, the Kurdish-held area is the largest chunk of territory still outside the control of President Bashar al-Assad, who is backed by Russia and Iran.

READ MORE: U.S.-backed Syrian force says Islamic State in its ‘final moments’

Trump said on Jan. 2 the United States would withdraw slowly “over a period of time” and would protect the U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters as Washington withdraws troops, but without giving a timetable.

Trump vowed in a series of tweets on Sunday to “devastate Turkey economically if they hit the Kurds.” However, he also warned the Kurds against provoking Turkey

Syrian Kurdish leaders fear Turkey will use the withdrawal as an opportunity to launch an assault. Ankara views the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces as terrorists aligned with insurgents inside Turkey.

WATCH BELOW: Turkey calls U.S. Syria conditions a ‘mistake

As a result, the Kurds are in contact with Moscow and Damascus in the hope of making arrangements to protect the region from Turkey while also aiming to safeguard their political gains.

How did the Kurds emerge as a force?

The main Syrian Kurdish faction, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), began to establish a foothold in the north early in the war as government forces withdrew to put down the anti-Assad uprising elsewhere. An affiliated militia, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), secured the region.

Early in the conflict, their control was concentrated in three predominantly Kurdish regions home to roughly 2 million Kurds. Kurdish-led governing bodies were set up.

The area of YPG influence expanded as the YPG allied with the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State (IS), becoming the spearhead of a multi-ethnic militia, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

SDF influence widened to Manbij and Raqqa as IS was defeated in both. It has also reached deep into Deir al-Zor, where the SDF is still fighting IS.

Kurdish leaders say their aim is regional autonomy within a decentralized Syria, not independence.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4844628/syria-kurds-trump-us-troops/

Bomb-packed car blows up near high-security compound in Kabul

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KABUL (Reuters) - A bomb-laden car blew up outside a high-security compound that is home to several international companies and charities in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, causing a number of casualties, security officials said.

An Afghan government security source said the blast occurred on Jalalabad Road in eastern Kabul near the Green Village compound, which has blast walls and security checkpoints.

Police spokesman Basir Mujahid said that a vehicle full of explosives had detonated. “The area is cordoned off…and search operation underway for suspects and attackers,” he said.

“It was a powerful car bomb that knocked (down) a wall between Green Village and the (adjacent) customs office,” a security source told Reuters. The attack caused at least several casualties who were taken to hospital, he said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing. Green Village has come under Islamist militant attack in the past.

Reporting by Hamid Shalizi, Rupam Jain, Charlotte Greenfield and Abdul Qadir Sediqi; Editing by Mark Heinrich

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-blast/bomb-packed-car-blows-up-near-high-security-compound-in-kabul-idUSKCN1P81LI?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29

Elite French police on trial in alleged rape of Canadian tourist

Two elite police officers go on trial in Paris on Monday, five years after a Canadian tourist alleged they raped her at the judicial police’s prestigious headquarters in the heart of the French capital after a late-night encounter at a nearby pub.

It was a scandal that rocked the elite police unit at the centre of the allegations. Five years on, the officers’ trial will take place just steps from the alleged scene of the crime, in the courthouse adjacent to the storied 36, quai des Orfèvres, an address synonymous in France with popular crime fiction and the real-life home for more than a century to Paris’s judicial police, who investigate major crimes. Those offices, on the Ile de la Cité near Notre-Dame, were relocated to northern Paris in 2017.

On the night of April 22, 2014, Canadian tourist Emily Spanton made the acquaintance of a group of off-duty police officers at Le Galway, a quayside Irish pub across the Seine from the headquarters where they worked. After midnight, a pair of officers from the elite anti-gang brigade invited a heavily inebriated Spanton back to the office for a late-night tour. One of the policemen, Antoine Q., ferried the then-34-year-old over by car while a second, Nicolas R., joined them on foot.

The daughter of a Toronto police officer, Spanton would later tell investigators, “I had had a lot to drink. I couldn’t see myself going back to the hotel in that state and I thought that, going to a police station, I’d feel safer.” But the Canadian visitor would exit the building at around 2am in tears, barefoot and no longer wearing her tights, alleging she had been raped by four policemen, an account she later revised to at least three.

>>4750960

wasn't one of the times on the watch at the 40 marker

prob nothing

Anonymous ID: d78aa3 Jan. 14, 2019, 7:58 a.m. No.4751024 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>1089

>>4750960

and one of the 'ppl' that like to use those watches are pilots (and yachters)

Devin Nunes is Portuguese and he has been in the background, starting to surface now with his findings.

them's gonna take down some big folks

Jerusalem Post Breaking News

CAR BOMB EXPLOSION IN KABUL KILLS 4, DOZENS WOUNDED

BY REUTERS JANUARY 14, 2019 18:38

t least four people were killed and more than 50 wounded when a bomb-laden car blew up near a high-security compound in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, officials said.

An Afghan government security official said the blast occurred on Jalalabad Road in eastern Kabul near the Green Village compound, home to several international companies and charities.

"Most of the victims were civilians," said Najib Danish, an Interior Ministry spokesman.

Police spokesman Basir Mujahid said a vehicle full of explosives had been detonated. "The area is cordoned off … and search operation underway for suspects and attackers," he said.

"It was a powerful car bomb that knocked (down) a wall between Green Village and the customs office," a security source said.

An official at Kabul's Emergency Hospital said 15 wounded had been brought there, while a Reuters witness saw dozens of severely injured people being rushed to Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital from the blast site.