The Mystery of Ephraim

“Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke” Hosea 5:9

Gill: Ephraim shall he desolate in the day of rebuke,…. The country of the ten tribes shall be laid desolate, the inhabitants of them destroyed either by the sword, or famine, or pestilence, and the rest carried captive, as they were by Shalmaneser . . . 

Two American drones reportedly COLLIDE & go down over Syria’s Idlib, reports RT.

A pair of American drones crashed following a midair collision in Syria, destroying both craft, the Military Times reported. The cause and exact circumstances of the smash-up remain unclear, however, leaving rumors to swirl.

The alleged collision took place over the Idlib province on Tuesday, an anonymous defense official told the Times, though offered few other details about the mishap, declining to confirm what caused the crash or what type of drones were involved. Whether the aircraft were fired upon at any point during the incident is also not known, the official said.

Photos and videos circulating online – which show debris falling from the sky and flaming wreckage on the ground – indicate that at least one of the craft was an American MQ-9 Reaper drone (each costs $16M), used for both surveillance and armed missions.

With no official explanation for the incident, however, speculation was rife on social media, with some suggesting the drones were shot down by Turkish-backed militants, while others posited that a Russian drone had been downed, despite the Times report pinning both craft as American.

The reported collision comes days after a US assassination strike on a jihadist trainer based in Idlib, Abu Yahyah al-Uzbeki, who was alleged to work alongside the al-Qaeda-linked Hurras ad-Din group. The strike is believed to have used an R9X Hellfire missile, a special non-explosive munition that unleashes six sword-like blades before impact – dubbed the “ninja bomb.”

Though Damascus has repeatedly slammed the American presence in Syria as illegal and a violation of the country’s sovereignty, Washington continues military operations in several regions, carrying out intermittent strikes around Idlib and embedding soldiers with Arab and Kurdish proxy groups in the south and northeast. Backed by the Pentagon throughout Syria’s war, the Kurdish-led factions now control valuable oil resources, with US plans to train a 2,200-man “oilfield guard” in the Hasakah region, according to a recent Inspector General report.

For the full RT report, click HERE

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A drone flying close to Air Force One!

The Air Force is investigating whether a small drone flew close to Air Force One as it came in for a landing at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Sunday, following President Donald Trump’s weekend trip to New Jersey.

Several passengers accompanying the president described seeing a small drone. Bloomberg News reported the drone was “yellow and black and shaped like a cross” and flew off the right side of the plane, a modified Boeing 757 used when an airport cannot accommodate the larger VC-25A aircraft.

“We came very close to hitting it, per [Agence France-Presse’s Sebastian Smith], who had a window seat,” tweeted Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs.

Full report by Military News HERE

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~ by Joel Huan on August 20, 2020.

Posted in Ephraim, US