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(Worthy News) – The American-led coalition in Syria conducted an airstrike on pro-regime forces after an “unprovoked” attack on the headquarters of the Syrian Democratic Forces Wednesday.

Operation Inherent Resolve stated the attack from the pro-regime groups on the SDF was unprovoked, and in response, the coalition, led by the U.S., conducted strikes against the pro-Assad attackers, operation officials stated Wednesday.

“In defense of coalition and partner forces, the coalition conducted strikes against attacking forces to repel the act of aggression against partners engaged in the Global Coalition’s defeat-Daesh mission,” the statement read. [ Source: Washington Examiner (Read More…) ]

(Worthy News) – On Tuesday, the Ohio Supreme Court lambasted two abortion clinics in Ohio with rulings that prompted praise from pro-life advocates. The court ruled in favor of the Ohio Department of Health’s 2014 decision to shut down an abortion clinic, Capital Care of Toledo, because of health violations and risks to patients there. Justices also ruled that Preterm of Cleveland can’t sue over abortion-related restrictions which were in the state’s budget bill back in 2013.

Both rulings are examples of how state regulations enforced in some unique way have aided in reducing abortions and have lately become a more successful strategy of the pro-life movement.

In their case, Preterm argued budget provisions in the bill added administrative burdens on the clinic. The court said Preterm didn’t demonstrate true or threatened harm from the regulatory changes. In a separate ruling, but in many ways similar, the court upheld the Ohio Department of Health’s license revocation of Capital Care of Toledo which was the last remaining abortion clinic in Toledo, because it lacked a transfer agreement with a local hospital. Last fall, just before the Ohio Supreme Court heard this case, the Ohio Department of Health issued a $40,000 fine against Capital Care, because health investigators discovered Capital Care had been violating health and safety standards. [ Source: Washington Examiner (Read More…) ]

(Worthy News) – The U.S. government has traced some of the $1.7 billion released to Iran by the Obama administration to Iranian-backed terrorists in the two years since the cash was transferred.

According to knowledgeable sources, Iran has used the funds to pay its main proxy, the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah, along with the Quds Force, Iran’s main foreign intelligence and covert action arm and element of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

The U.S. money supplied to Iran as part of an arms settlement dating back to the 1970s also has been traced to Iran’s backing of Houthi rebels seeking to take power in Yemen. Iran has been supporting the Yemen rebels as part of a bid to encircle and eventually take control of Saudi Arabia. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

(Worthy News) – The U.S. official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking says the Russians successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Jeanette Manfra, the head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, said she couldn’t talk about classified information publicly, but in 2016, “We saw a targeting of 21 states and an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated.”

Jeh Johnson, who was DHS secretary during the Russian intrusions, said, “2016 was a wake-up call and now it’s incumbent upon states and the Feds to do something about it before our democracy is attacked again.” [ Source: NBC News (Read More…) ]