Editor's Note Thursday, 28 December 2017 Conflicts, Military, News, Political, Wars, World The computer that I use for this blog is acting very slow today. This tells me that I may have an invited guest on my system. Doing a major scan and clean-up right now. Blogging should be back in a few hours. Tweet Subscribe to receive free email updates: Related Posts :U.S. General: Islamic State Fighters May Have Seized Air-Defense Weapons In Palmyra "Personally, I think they probably took their eye off the ball in Palmyra because they were so focused on Aleppo and they didn't properly s… Read More...Aleppo Ceasefire Collapses. Fighting Has Resumed -- News Updates December 14, 2016 ABC News: Aleppo Cease-Fire Broken, Evacuations Postponed The cease-fire in eastern Aleppo was broken today and the planned evacuation of… Read More...Islamic State Manufacturing Military Grade Weapons On An Industrial Scale In Iraq Al Jazeera: ISIL produced military grade weapons in Iraq: report Arms monitoring group says ISIL has an extensive and organised war produ… Read More...World News Briefs -- December 14, 2016 Reuters: Aleppo hit by air strikes and shelling as evacuation stalls Plans to evacuate besieged rebel districts of Aleppo were under thre… Read More...If The Mosul Dam Collapses It Will Be 'Worse Than A Nuclear Bomb' Al Jazeera: Mosul Dam collapse 'will be worse than a nuclear bomb' Warnings by scientists and environmentalists about an imminent collaps… Read More...