“The deadliest poisons don’t kill you fast. They keep you alive just long enough to call the sickness normal.” -- Mark Twain
by Tyler Durden
China, the world's largest oil importer, is bidding up crude prices across Africa, Canada, and Latin American markets as disruptions in the Hormuz chokepoint and limited Iranian supplies intensify competition for alternatives. The scramble is squeezing smaller Chinese refineries that once relied on heavily discounted Iranian barrels, according to a new Bloomberg report.
On September 3, shortly after sunset, U.S. surveillance drones began carrying out reconnaissance missions in two areas of the Al-Miskad mountains in Puntland, Somalia, according to Puntland security officials that spoke with Drop Site. The two localities—Togga Miraale and Togga Baalade—are considered strongholds for ISIS militants by local authorities.
by Dave De Camp, antiwar.com
His announcement came a day after Israel's defense minister said ethnic cleansing was the only 'real solution' for Gaza
by Dave De Camp, antiwar.com
Turkish F-16 fighter jets have carried out airstrikes outside Mogadishu as US-backed Somali federal government forces have been locked in a major battle with al-Shabaab over Basra, a village about 22 miles northwest of the Somali capital.
The Pentagon is set to withdraw nearly 200 U.S. troops from Nigeria, following their deployment to the central African country earlier this year.
The New York Times first reported on the troop drawdown, citing U.S. officials. It’s the second time in two months that the U.S. has pulled some combat forces deployed to the country as part of a surge of American military power.
Around 80.5 percent of asylum seekers from North African countries were accused of one or more offenses in Switzerland, underlining the massive amount of criminality present in this foreign population. The data comes from the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM).
For asylum seekers as a whole, the rate of criminality is much lower, with only 12.5 percent having been accused of one or more offenses. Nationals from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia are therefore extremely overrepresented compared to other asylum seeker groups.