03-28-2016 (Photo: ‪ISIS destroys main prison in Palmyra: Before and after; Social media website, Reuters: 2015) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Syrian Army & Russian Air Retake Palmyra. Massacres in Lahore & Brussels. Tom Joscelyn, Bill Roggio, FDD. “BY THOMAS JOSCELYN | March 28, 2016 | tjoscelyn@gmail.com | @thomasjoscelyn The Syrian Army and its Iranian-backed allies have retaken the ancient city of Palmyra from the Islamic State. After several days of heavy fighting, Bashar al Assad’s regime claimed victory over the so-called caliphate’s fighters. “The Islamic State initially tried to deny that the Syrian government was making progress. On Mar. 24, the Amaq News Agency, which is one of the group’s propaganda outlets, released a video supposedly showing the jihadists in complete control of the city. Within days, however, Assad’s military was claiming victory. “The Islamic State captured Palmyra in May 2015. A few months later, in August 2015, the group also seized the nearby town of Qaryatain. But that town and others surrounding Palmyra are now reportedly being targeted by forces loyal to Assad and his partners. The Syrian regime hopes to follow up its success in Palmyra by pushing the Islamic State out of Qaryatain….” http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/03/syrian-army-allies-retake-palmyra-from-islamic-state.php

“BY BILL ROGGIO | March 28, 2016 | admin@longwarjournal.org | @billroggio The spokesman for a faction of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan said that the group intentionally targeted Christians in a suicide bombing which killed and wounded hundreds of women and children on Easter Sunday. “The target was Christians,” Ihsanullah Ihsan, the official spokesman of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, said according to a statement obtained by The Long War Journal. “Ihsan also said that Jamaat-ul-Ahrar wanted to “send a message to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that we have entered Lahore.” The group has been operating in Punjab province for nearly two years…” http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/03/the-target-was-christians-pakistani-taliban-says-of-lahore-easter-attack.php