Boko Haram's internal rift probably isn't good news. Here's why.
A Nigerian woman who escaped her Boko Haram abductors is now living at a camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The 4-year-old in the photo also managed to escape, though the whereabouts of her mother and twin sister are unknown. (Jane Hahn for the Washington Post) What’s the latest with the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP), the terrorist group better known as Boko Haram? In early August, the Islamic State named Abu Musab al-Barnawi as the new “Wali” of the group, replacing Abubaker Shekau...>> view originalPowerful 6.8 Earthquake Shakes Central Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar (CBS / AP) – A powerful earthquake measuring magnitude 6.8 shook central Myanmar on Wednesday, damaging scores of ancient Buddhist pagodas in the former capital of Bagan, a major tourist attraction, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of Chauk, an area west of Bagan. It was located fairly far below the Earth’s surface at a depth of about 84 kilometers (52 miles), it said. Deep earthquakes generally cause less..>> view originalWorld's Largest Aircraft Damaged on 2nd Test Flight
LONDON — The developer of the world's largest aircraft says the blimp-shaped airship sustained damage after it made a bumpy landing Wednesday on its second test flight in eastern England.Hybrid Air Vehicles said it is trying to figure out what caused the rough landing of the 302-foot (92-meter) Airlander 10 during its 100 minute flight Wednesday in Bedfordshire, north of London."The Airlander experienced a heavy landing and the front of the flight deck has sustained some damage, which is cur..>> view originalPowerful Earthquakes in Italy Kill Dozens and Shatter Towns
The town’s missing reportedly included two refugees from Afghanistan and three nuns and four elderly guests at a local boardinghouse. The town’s hospital had to be evacuated, but its patients were not injured, the news service ANSA reported. The village of Pescara del Tronto was all but destroyed.“When I arrived at the break of day, I saw a destroyed village, screams, death,” Bishop Giovanni D’Ercole of Ascoli Piceno, who visited the village, told Vatican Radio. He said he had blessed “the b..>> view originalLABOUR LEADERSHIP BETTING: Jeremy Corbyn is unstoppable
Reuters / Rebecca Naden Jeremy Corbyn is the overwhelming favourite to win the Labour leadership contest, despite the embarrassment of the 'traingate' fiasco which has recently distracted his campaign. The current Labour leader is the hot favourite to retain his position with all of the UK's major bookmakers. Paddy Power is currently offering odds of 1/10 for Corbyn to defeat challenge Owen Smith — a huge probability of 90.9%. William Hill, Ladbrokes, and Sky Bet are a..>> view originalThai junta rules out link between latest bombs and tourist-town attacks
BANGKOK Thailand's military government said on Wednesday there was no connection between two bombings overnight that killed one person in the southern town of Pattani and a wave of deadly attacks on tourist spots this month.One Thai person was killed and 30 wounded when two bombs exploded late on Tuesday at a hotel in the deep-south town of Pattani, less than two weeks after a wave of bombings hit towns in seven provinces in the central south.No group has claimed responsibility for the touris..>> view originalNorth Korean Submarine Missile Launch Shows Improved Ability
SEOUL, South Korea — A ballistic missile fired from a North Korean submarine on Wednesday flew about 500 kilometers (310 miles), the longest distance achieved by the North for such a weapon, Seoul officials said, putting all of South Korea, and possibly parts of Japan, within its striking distance.North Korea already has a variety of land-based missiles that can hit South Korea and Japan, including U.S. military bases in those countries. But its development of reliable submarine-launched mis..>> view originalPolice: Man Shouts 'Allahu Akbar' in Australian Knife Attack
SYDNEY — A French man shouting the Arabic phrase "Allahu akbar" stabbed a British woman to death and wounded two men in an attack at a hostel in northeast Australia, police said Wednesday.The 29-year-old suspect did not have any known links to the Islamic State group and appeared to have acted alone, Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said. Police were trying to determine whether the man had been motivated by extremism, or something else."While this information will be fa..>> view originalTurkey sends tanks into Syria to battle ISIS
The aim of the operation, code-named Euphrates Shield, is to secure territory along the border with Syria from the ISIS threat, officials told Turkey's semiofficial Anadolu agency. Turkish artillery units and warplanes belonging to the US-led coalition pounded the ISIS-held Syrian town of Jarablus early Wednesday. Turkish special forces units are also operating along the border, CNN Turk reported. Jarablus lies along the west bank of the Euphrates River, less than a kilometer from Turkey. It's t..>> view original
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