tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356155002024-03-04T20:17:06.533-08:00Is Iraq today the Babylon of Jeremiah 50-51?Complete desolation in our timeJeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.comBlogger331125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-70146718466995587132015-03-25T08:01:00.001-07:002015-03-25T08:01:57.020-07:00Iraq security forces burn Sunni villagers homes 'to the ground' after liberating town from Isis
THE INDEPENDENT (www.independent.co.uk) reported Wednesday, March 25, 2015 that Iraq's security forces "destroyed entire villages and displaced thousands of Sunni residents" after freeing Amerli in northern Iraq from Isis, according to claims of Human Rights Watch (HRW).
In a 31-page report, the human rights organization asserted government forces carried out a "campaign of destruction" after Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-5530049598488302252014-10-21T12:49:00.001-07:002014-10-21T12:56:27.541-07:00Fresh wave of militant bombings kill 26
CP24.com of Toronto, Canada published a report today from TEHRAN, Iran, written by Sameer N. Yacoub of the Associated Press that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will "continue to provide Baghdad with military advisers and weapons" in the face of continued attacks in an "escalating Sunni insurgency."
Civilians gather at the scene of a car bomb explosion in a commercial area of Karbala, 50 Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-49513920221023027462014-10-21T07:21:00.001-07:002014-10-21T07:26:18.369-07:00ISIS forces launch multiple attacks on Kurdish territory in Iraq, officials say
CNN's Brian Walker reported Monday, October 20, 2014 that ISIS militants launched about 15 near-simultaneous attacks on Kurdish forces in northern Iraq on Monday in what Kurdish government officials and the news agency Rudaw said was a fierce and renewed push for territory.
ISIS also launched attacks against Mosul Dam and renewed its offensive on the Sinjar mountain range in northern Iraq.
Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-55160902433006790032014-10-17T14:23:00.002-07:002014-10-17T14:24:31.493-07:00Kurds push back in Kobane
UK's Daily Mail Online report of October 17, 2014 is headlined, "'We've reduced ISIS to just two pockets of hold-outs' boast Kurds after bloody fightback to stop fanatics taking control of border town of Kobane."
Power: Smoke rises in Kobane after a U.S. airstrike destroys an ISIS-held building. (Getty Images)
The article by John Hall notes the "remarkable fightback" by Kurdish troops, "Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-84794042769526109972014-10-09T09:59:00.000-07:002014-10-09T09:59:20.673-07:00Turkey's fear of a reignited Kurdish flame
Supporters of the Kurdish fighters in Kobane clash with police on the streets of Istanbul
Mark Lowen reports for BBC News from Istanbul, Turkey October 8, 2014 that protests in Turkey reflect a reignited Kurdish anger towards the Turkish government after Ankara refused to engage Islamic State fighters who are assaulting Kurdish villages along the border with Syria.
"Troops on the streets, Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-32986996358867961612014-10-06T08:48:00.004-07:002014-10-06T08:50:19.580-07:00U.S. using Apache helicopters, Australia and Indians join fight
(Credit: Courtesy of U.S. Army, Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway/Wikimedia Commons)
In various news reports today, October 5th, 2014, we learn that the U.S. is now using Apache helicopters to attack Islamic State militants in Iraq (READ HERE...), while Australia has entered the conflict, providing air support with F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jets (READ HERE...).
RAAF Super Hornets. Source: SuppliedJeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-48182806470216165342014-10-02T08:47:00.000-07:002014-10-02T08:47:15.719-07:00Kurds seize Iraq/Syria border post; Sunni tribe joins fight against Islamic State
reuters.com by Isabel Coles and Jonny Hogg
ARBIL Iraq/MURSPITPINAR Turkey Tuesday Sep 30, 2014
Members of the Kurdish security forces stand guard against Islamic State militants (background), behind sandbags on the Mullah Abdullah bridge in southern Kirkuk September 29, 2014
(Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish troops drove Islamic State fighters from a strategic border crossing with Syria on Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-3234853535575050482014-09-25T12:27:00.000-07:002014-10-02T08:57:40.512-07:00US, allies target Islamic State oil supplies in Syria
A foxnews.com video report of September 25, 2014 describes a new round of airstrikes by U.S. and Arab allies against Islamic State militants in eastern Syria, targeting a dozen small oil refineries.
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
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Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-79021591592318793522014-09-22T08:54:00.000-07:002014-09-22T08:54:48.920-07:00Iraqis protest American "occupation"
euronews.com September 20, 2014
Thousands of Iraqis gathered in central Baghdad on Saturday to protest against American intervention.
Demonstrators waved Iraqi flags and held up pictures of leading Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who says the country should not cooperate with what he calls US "occupiers."
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Jeremiah the prophet predicted that the invading coalition of "Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-77740910408280277672014-09-16T15:39:00.001-07:002014-09-16T15:47:03.967-07:00"It's time for the Kurds to set up their own nation"
Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, is another of my favorite correspondents on world affairs, the other being Michael Totten. Pipes writes today, Sept 16, 2014, for Newsweek about his change of heart regarding Kurdistan independence:
"Before welcoming the emerging state of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, I confess to having opposed its independence in the past," begins Pipes' opinionJeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-68656240784259951072014-09-16T09:53:00.000-07:002014-09-16T09:53:01.615-07:00Kurdish forces start push into the plain of Mosul
The BBC reports Sep 16, 2014 that "Kurdish troops on the ground are preparing to start a push to retake the plain of Mosul."
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The Jeremiah 50 - 51 prophecy sees the "Medes" -- the modern-day Kurds -- rising up into a formidable fighting force capable of defeating the armies of the "land of Babylon" -- modern-day Iraq.
The advances the Kurdish forces make against Islamic StateJeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-16340842896367465072014-09-16T09:34:00.002-07:002014-09-25T07:18:57.440-07:00Syrian Kurds "most successful at fighting the Islamic State"
An Associated Press report published at abcnews.com Sep 15, 2014 by Bassem Mroue claims that "Kurdish fighters captured more than a dozen villages from militants of the Islamic State group in heavy fighting across northeastern Syria," according to a Kurdish official.
Mroue wrote that "Kurdish fighters have been repelling the advances of the Islamic State militants for more than a year in Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-37270751212283760402014-09-15T11:04:00.001-07:002014-09-15T11:04:18.050-07:00"Iraq has proven to be all but unfixable"
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I really like the way Michael Totten writes. He is so prophetic. In his latest article on the ISIS crisis for the New York Daily News, published Sept. 14, 2014, he wrote: "Iraq has proven to be all but unfixable..."
My other favorite prophet, Jeremiah, wrote 2,600 years ago: "Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail over her! Bring balm for her pain; perhaps Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-15868048549551089762014-09-15T08:47:00.000-07:002014-09-15T08:49:18.634-07:0030 countries pledge Iraq support
A September 15, 2014 article at BBC News online reports that thirty countries have pledged to help Iraq fight Islamic State militants "by all means necessary", including "appropriate military assistance."
French President Francois Hollande said the threat posed by IS militants required "a global response."
United States Secretary of State John Kerry, who attended the conference of foreign Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-19152080689847929492014-09-03T09:31:00.000-07:002014-09-03T09:31:20.724-07:00Peshmerga forces to unify
In an August 25, 2014 article by Nawzad Mahmoud published online at Kurdish news outlet Rudaw.net dateline SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region, Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani was reported to have ordered Peshmerga forces to restructure themselves under a single, unified command.
Peshmerga forces faced shortcomings in clothing and food, but a lack of unified command posed a far more Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-17962009454036696382014-09-03T07:48:00.001-07:002014-09-03T07:48:32.602-07:00Obama sending 350 more military personnel to Iraq
An article at cbsnews.com from Sep 2, 2014, dateline WASHINGTON, reports that U.S. president Barack Obama is sending 350 more military personnel to Iraq, presumably to help protect U.S. facilities and already deployed personnel in Baghdad, citing a White House release Tuesday night.
The White House claimed the additional deployment will "provide a more robust, sustainable security Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-87156953061188370102014-09-02T09:15:00.002-07:002014-09-02T09:18:52.432-07:00Australia to join international operation to supply weapons to Kurdish fighters
The Telegraph World News
The prime minister, Tony Abbott, says Australia will provide assistance to the Peshmerga to stem the advance of Isil
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire a recoiless rifle towards Islamic State (IS) positions during heavy clashes in Tuz Khurmatu (PHOTO: AFP/GETTY)
By Flynn Murphy 01 Sep 2014
Australia's air force will join an international operation to Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-3131276423899561832014-08-28T10:34:00.001-07:002014-09-02T09:16:19.525-07:00Iran speeds weapons deliveries to peshmerga forces
An article at foxnews.com by James Rosen published August 27, 2014 reveals that Iran has "begun arming the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq" in support of the KRG peshmerga forces pushing back the Islamic State advances.
The Islamic State fighters have "seized large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, and recently came close to overrunning Erbil, the capital of the KRG in the Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-21193552710868476062014-08-28T10:20:00.001-07:002014-08-28T10:20:34.189-07:00ISIS burn oil wells as Kurds attack
An August 28, 2014 article at Lebanon's dailystar.com Middle East news site relays an Agence France Presse report from Kirkuk that "retreating jihadists set three wells ablaze at a northern Iraq oil field Thursday as they battled Kurdish forces who launched a major attack nearby," citing officials.
Peshmerga fighters stand on a vehicle with a Kurdish flag as they guard Mosul Dam in northern Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-23734772453430043802014-08-26T07:58:00.000-07:002014-08-26T07:58:00.584-07:00"Why control of a terrifying dam in Iraq is life or death for half million people"
"Why Control of a Terrifying Dam in Iraq is Life or Death for Half Million People" is the headline of an article at abcnews.com from August 7, 2014 by Lee Ferran and Mazin Faiq. The authors refer to the Islamic State take over of the Mosul Dam on the Tigris a few weeks ago, later re-taken by Kurdish Peshmerga forces with U.S. air support.
The article points out the critical question such Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-60576491859275617322014-08-22T13:27:00.001-07:002014-08-22T13:27:21.349-07:00Kurdistan oil pipeline export capacity to double
A Reuters.com article by Humeyra Pamuk and Orhan Coskun from August 19, 2014 claims that "the capacity of Iraqi Kurdistan's independent oil pipeline will almost double to at least 200,000 barrels per day by the end of this month," citing industry sources and officials.
The pipeline runs to Turkey's Mediterranean export terminal at Ceyhan. According to the article, the Kurds have "managed to Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-54518877162783054162014-08-22T12:58:00.002-07:002014-08-22T13:27:42.527-07:00Kurdish rivals unite to fight Islamic State
An article at Aljazeera.com from August 16, 2014 by Wladimir van Wilgenburg asserts that, despite historic struggle for leadership over "approximately 30 million stateless Kurds", Kurds of Turkey and Syria represented by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Kurds from Iraq's Kurdish region, represented by KRG President Massoud Barzani, have joined together to fight a common enemy, the Islamic Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-5871950945514800592014-08-22T08:30:00.003-07:002014-08-22T08:30:46.774-07:00Militants kill at least 46 in Iraq mosque
An Associated Press article at FoxNews.com published August 22, 2014 from Baghdad reported that militants killed at least 46 people and wounded over 50 at a Sunni mosque in Imam Wais village in Diyala province, about 75 miles northeast of Baghdad on Friday.
The report claims a suicide bomber rushed into the mosque during weekly prayers and detonated his explosives before gunmen rushed in and Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-36912133259521055782014-08-20T08:57:00.003-07:002014-08-20T10:07:02.885-07:00Italy to arm Kurdish forces
In an Associated Press article at CBC News | World posted August 20, 2014, it is reported that Italian Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said that Italy intends to supply "light, portable arms for the Iraqi Kurdish forces battling ISIS."
The article states that the "ISIS blitz has forced some 1.5 million people to flee their homes since June, while thousands more have died, prompting the UN to Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35615500.post-70260256414282435842014-08-20T08:39:00.000-07:002014-08-20T08:39:16.722-07:00Mosul "purged of Christians"
An article by Benjamin Hall at FoxNews.com from August 19, 2014 describes the escape of thousands of Christians from Mosul and Qaraqosh in northern Iraq after Islamic State jihadists overran those towns and demanded Christians "convert to Islam or die."
74-year-old Munira Aziz, her hip broken and her voice a raspy whisper, described the attack on her home in Mosul: "We heard the gunshots Jeff Ahrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13791834986770874471noreply@blogger.com0