A Banner Terrorist Weekend ISIS retakes Palmyra in Syria and jihadists strike four other cities.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-banner-terrorist-weekend-1481500261
The Journal is reporting that the Pentagon is putting together options for the Trump Administration to intensify the campaign against Islamic State, and right on time. ISIS jihadists re-entered the ancient city of Palmyra on Sunday, driving out Syrian government troops despite Russian bombing. President Obama asserted last week that the campaign against Islamic State is making steady progress, but the militants have other ideas.
Meanwhile, terrorists struck no fewer than four cities around the world in an especially murderous weekend. The carnage began Saturday afternoon in the Yemeni port of Aden. A suicide bomber detonated his vest near a barracks where troops had gathered to pick up their paychecks, killing 48. A pair of suicide bombers attacked Istanbul’s Vodafone Arena in Turkey the same day after a soccer match. At least 38 died, most of them police officers guarding the arena. A pair of suicide bombers, almost certainly the work of ISIS’s Boko Haram affiliate, maimed 17 in Nigeria on Sunday. And in Egypt, a nail-bomb at Cairo’s St. Mark’s Cathedral killed at least 25 Coptic Christian worshippers. Though no one had taken credit as we went to press, Egypt is besieged by more than one Islamist group. The Trump Administration is inheriting a dangerous world.
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