Putin and Assad Left Obama in The Dust of The Aleppo End Game and other top stories.

• Putin and Assad Left Obama in The Dust of The Aleppo End Game

  Don't be fooled. The current air blitz by Russian jets, Syrian government troops and Iranian-organized ground forces would have happened without the bogus ceasefire that officially ended last week. If President Barack Obama didn't realize that when he made a ceasefire deal with Russia, then Vladimir Putin bamboozled him. Or Obama bamboozled himself. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov signaled the Russian bellicose intent when early in the middle of the ceasefire period, he said that US-ba..

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• Hillary's Iraq Withdrawal Story Has An Obama-Sized Hole In It

  

  5245717Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton blamed former President George W. Bush for President Barack Obama’s decision to withdraw troops from Iraq during Monday night’s first presidential debate. “The only way that American troops could have stayed in Iraq is to get an agreement from the then-Iraqi government that would have protected our troops, and the Iraqi government would not give that,” Clinton said. Clinton’s accusation resurrects a Democratic establishment narrative that Bush’s 2008 s..

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• Police Say Mosque, Congress Center Attacked in Dresden

  

  BERLIN — Two homemade explosive devices were set off outside a mosque and a conference center in the eastern German city of Dresden, police said Tuesday. Nobody was hurt.Dresden police said in a statement that there was no immediate report on the extent of damage from the explosions late Monday."Even though we do not have a letter of confession, we must assume there's a xenophobic background," Police President Horst Kretschmar said.German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere called the attac..

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• Smiler crash: Alton Towers operator Merlin fined £5m

  

  Media captionVictims' solicitor Paul Paxton said "money alone will never replace limbs" Alton Towers operator Merlin has been fined £5m for the crash on the Smiler rollercoaster.Sixteen people were injured in the June 2015 crash, including two teenage girls who needed leg amputations. In April, Merlin Attractions Operations Ltd admitted breaching the Health and Safety Act. The theme park originally said the accident was caused by "human error." But prosecutors argued the fault was with the ..

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• 17 People Killed in Baghdad Suicide Bombings

  

  Suicide bombings killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 50 in Shi'ite districts of Iraq’s capital Baghdad, police and medical sources say. At least eight people were killed and at least 29 wounded Tuesday in the eastern new Baghdad Jadida commercial area when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in a commercial street. Another suicide attack hit a commercial street of Bayaa in western Baghdad, killing at least nine and wounding 22 people, the sources said. On a militant websit..

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