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Pakistan Airstrikes Kill 17 Militants
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Afghanistan
Taliban Capture 15 ANA Officers After Downing Helicopter
[Tolo News] Taliban hard boyz this week shot down an Afghan National Army (ANA) helicopter in Faryab province, killing three and taking the remaining 15 on board hostage, officials said Friday.

According to officials the incident took place in Pashtoonkot district in Faryab. Early reports indicate it was a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) that brought down the chopper.

The ministry of defense has not yet commented but local Faryab officials report that 18 ANA personnel were on board at the time of the incident. They said efforts are underway to secure the safe release of the hostages.

Video footage received by TOLOnews shows Taliban hard boyz taking the personnel hostage.

The footage also shows that some ANA officers sustained burn wounds during the crash.

According to local officials, three of the 18 crew member on board the chopper were killed in the incident.

"Indirect contact is being made with the Taliban but I do not have direct contact with them. However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
efforts by the members of the peace council, tribal elders including some charity organizations which operate here are underway to release the hostages. So far the Taliban has not made any demands for their release," Faryab governor Sayed Anwar Sadaat said.

"It is the responsibility of the government to take firm steps and ensure the release of the hostages from the Taliban so that they can be reunited with their families," a member of Faryab provincial council Sibaghatollah Selab said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Over 100 Foreign Troops Deployed To Kunar
[Tolo News] Kunar security officials said that at least 150 foreign troops have been deployed to the capital city Assadabad and other parts of the eastern province in the past week, in a bid to strengthen security in the province.

Kunar police chief Abdul Habib Sayed Kheli told TOLONews that the foreign troops have been redeployed after a two year break. This will help Afghan cops maintain law-and-order in the province. The troops will also help with reconstruction projects in the province, Kheli said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream...
a number of Kunar provincial council members and residents welcomed the move and said they hope that the troops will help secure the province.

A member of Kunar provincial council said the foreign troops will play a vital role in maintaining security in the province and that they should prioritize the fight against insurgency there.

Residents of Kunar called on the foreign troops to work closely with Afghan cops in order to prevent civilian casualties in the province.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336065 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Bandits Threaten Economic Artery Between Faryab-Balkh
[Tolo News] Faryab residents on Saturday voiced their growing concerns over the deteriorating security situation along the key Faryab-Balkh highway which links Maimana and Mazar-e-Sharif respectively.

According to them, traffic along this key economic highway is often brought to a standstill by gunnies who regularly stop motorists and rob them of their belongings.

Some residents said these gangs will also not stop at taking the lives of motorists if so deemed.

Tolonews journalist, Sayed Arif Musave, reports from the area that such incidents along the highway are also making it difficult for babus government employees to use the route. They said all government officials are now having to be escorted by Afghan security personnel.

The key highway that connects Faryab to the northern provinces is one of Afghanistan's major routes. Residents and motorists who use this highway are however running out of patience and are putting pressure on government to improve security.

"Lootings are done on way toward Maimana and Mazar-e-Sharif, robbers loot and there is no security. Security also does not exist in Andkhoi and Dawlat Abad," a Maimana resident Abdul Qadeer said.

This comes despite the deployment of a security force unit to the area. But according to some officials, this has made no difference, especially for government officials.

"Checkpoints are far away from each other, we want the highway to be focused on so that we can protect the safety of the civilians and Afghanistan's institutions," MP Bashir Ahmad Tayanj said.

Afghan officials have meanwhile also asked government to deploy more troops and establish more check points along the highway so that the security can return to normal. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
these MPs have paid homage to the efforts of security forces that work around the clock to remove threats.

"There must be coordination between national army, national directorate of security and national police, this will help them to maintain security and secure the passengers," MP Hashim said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head...
newly appointed governor of Faryab province, Sayed Anwar Sadaat, said Saturday that his administration was determined to work on new programs aimed at curbing threats and providing satisfactory security to the residents and motorists and passengers.

"I promise to work for implementation of justice, rule of law, justice, reconstruction, renovation and development projects and we will work honestly," Faryab governor Sayed Anwar Sadaat said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336063 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Afghan intelligence foil car bomb attack by Haqqani network in Kabul city
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A deadly car kaboom plotted by the Haqqani terrorist network was thwarted by the Afghan intelligence operatives in Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
city.

A statement by National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) said a would-be jacket wallah was jugged
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
along with two other individuals for organizing the attack plot.

The statement further added that the group was looking to detonate a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) in one of the busiest parts of the city.

Without disclosing further information regarding the exact target location of the terrorist, NDS said the detained murderous Moslems have confessed they were looking to target a busy part of the city.

Found in the late 1970s by Jalaluddin Haqqani, the terrorist network is accused of staging numerous cross-border attacks from their base in North Wazoo, including the 19-hour siege at the US Embassy in Kabul in September 2011.

The network is allied with al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban and cooperates with other terrorist organizations in the region and was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization on September 7, 2012 by the US Department of State.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under: Haqqani Network


NDS seizes terrorist training center on Kabul-Kandahar highway
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) -- Afghanistan's intelligence agency has seized a terrorist training center on Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
-Kandahar highway.

A statement released by NDS on Saturday states that the hub was discovered during a joint operation with police in the jurisdiction of Zabul province.

Three hard boyz were detained with guides of making bombs, the statement states, adding that Several home-made bombs and a number of heavy and light weapons were also recovered during the raid.

According to the statement, decisions of terrorist activities to include attacking passengers along the highway, placing landmines and blowing up bridges were being taken from this center.

Kabul-Kandahar highway is one of dangerous routes in Afghanistan where kabooms, kidnappings and armed conflicts between security forces and Taliban often take place.

Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336064 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Militant group Ansar Dine claims deadly attack on UN base in Mali
[AlAhram] The holy warrior group Ansar Dine (Defenders of the Faith) told AFP it was responsible for Saturday's attack on a United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
base in Mali that killed two UN peacekeepers and a civilian contractor.

The attack was "in response to the violation of our lands by the enemies of Islam," one of the group's senior figures, Hamadou Ag Khallini, told AFP by phone.

Three Dead in Rocket Attack on U.N. Base in North Mali

[AnNahar] Two U.N. peacekeepers and a civilian were killed and 14 others were maimed in a rocket attack Saturday on a U.N. base in the northeastern Malian town of Kidal, U.N. and local sources said.

"Our camp in Kidal was attacked early this morning by turbans using rockets," said an official from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA), adding that two Guinean U.N. peacekeepers and a civilian contractor were killed. A local official confirmed the report.

Another U.N. source said 14 others were maimed in the attack, including three seriously.

The attack came eight days after a siege at a luxury hotel in Mali's capital Bamako, in which 20 people died including 14 foreigners.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336077 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  not militant

that is like terrorist

it means nothing

they were Islamists
Posted by: anon1 || 11/29/2015 21:46 Comments || Top||


IS affiliate in Egypt claims responsibility for killing Giza policemen
[AlAhram] An ISIS-affiliated myrmidon group in Egypt, Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, grabbed credit for killing four coppers in Giza on Saturday.

Masked assailants on a cycle of violence opened fire on a police vehicle, killing those inside on the Sakkara Road, south of Cairo near the Giza pyramids.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under: Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (IS)


Tripoli endowments ministry head released after questioning about IS support
[Libya Herald] The head of the Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
office of the religious endowments ministry, Mohammed Atkitek, has been released by the capital's Rada (deterrence) forces according to a ministry statement. It said that he was freed at 4am this morning and was in good health.

He was grabbed from his office two days ago and questioning about his organization's relationship with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) organization. The arrest served to fracture even further the various factions in the city, with Sheikh Sadik Ghariani labelling those who jugged
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
Atkitek as criminals and demanding Rada sack them.

Itself seen as a strongly Islamist organization, Rada is investigating possible support to IS from the ministry.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Test
Posted by: Sherry || 11/29/2015 21:22 Comments || Top||


Shelling in Benghazi's Ard Zwawa district kills two
[Libya Herald] Two people were killed and at least 12 injured, including two children, shortly after 9 am this morning when rockets smashed into a number of buildings and vehicles in Benghazi's Ard Zwawa Al-Bahria district. Rockets have also hit Tipolino district on the other side of the city, near Garyunis.

Zwawa was crowded with people busy shopping when the rockets hit, a local resident told the Libya Herald. There was panic, he said, as people fled the area, which close to Sabri, and shops shut.

A couple of rockets narrowly missed an elementary school, he added, which was being used for examinations for high-school students. The examinations had been long delayed and had just started today.

Locals in Zwawa have blamed the attacks on the Islamist umbrella group the Benghazi Revolutionaries' Shoura Council, some of whose fighters are still based in Sabri. They also said that this not random shelling, that Zwawa was deliberately targeted.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336063 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
Twin suicide attacks kill five people in north Cameroon: Sources
[AlAhram] Suspected Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
gunnies detonated two suicide bombs in a village in northern Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
on Saturday, killing at least five people, security sources and an official told Rooters.

"The provisional toll is seven dead, including the two jacket wallahs, as well as two soldiers injured," said a senior government source, requesting anonymity.


Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Kenya arrests two nationals over Iran-linked plot
[IsraelTimes] Police chief says country has 'irrefutable evidence' that the suspects 'were recruited into an Iranian spying ring'

Kenyan police have jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
two men who were allegedly recruited by an Iranian group accused of plotting attacks in the east African nation, the police chief said Saturday.

Police chief Joseph Boinett said they believed the two Kenyan men had traveled to Iran several times, identifying them as Abubakar Sadiq Louw, 69, and Yassin Sambai Juma. Kenyan media gave the latter's age as 25.

"We have irrefutable evidence they were recruited into an Iranian spying ring," Boinett told news hounds in the capital Nairobi, indicating that other unidentified security agencies had helped "uproot this network".

"The mission of that ring was to mount terror attacks in this city, not only targeting Western interests but targeting our people as well."

Louw was recruited "a number of years ago" and had been instructed to "recruit other Kenyans into the network", including Juma, with the pair making "a number of trips to Iran in which they met their handlers" and where they had been "given targets and given money."

Police gave no further details about the alleged Iranian group the men were linked to.

The announcement was made a day after Pope Francis ended a three-day visit to Kenya, where security was a major concern.

Iranians are treated with particular suspicion in Kenya, which is a close ally of Israel.

In May 2013, a Kenyan court sentenced two Iranians to life in prison for terror-related charges, including possessing explosives allegedly to be used in kabooms. Ahmed Mohammed, 50, and Sayed Mansour, 51, were found guilty of possessing 15 kilos (33 pounds) of the powerful explosive RDX, which police found hidden in a hole on a golf course.

At the time, the court said they were believed to have links to a network planning bombings in Nairobi and the eastern port of Mombasa, the country's second largest city. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Iran of plotting anti-Israeli attacks in Kenya.

Israeli businesses in Kenya have been targeted in the past, including the al-Qaeda-claimed bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa in 2002, in which 18 people died, as well as a failed missile strike on an Israeli charter plane at the same time.
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Arabia
Coalition jets bomb rebel weapons ship
Arab coalition jets attacked a large vessel carrying weapons for the Iranian-backed coup rebels off the Yemeni coast in the Gulf of Aden, a news network reported on Sunday.

The warplanes carried out eight raids against the ship off the Southern Shabwa governorate on Saturday, Masdar Online said, quoting a military source.

It said the vessel was destroyed while many crew members were killed or wounded in the attack off the port of Rodoom.

The network quoted the source as saying the Saudi-led coalition sent its warplanes to strike the ship after receiving information that it was carrying arms for the insurgents.

It did not mention where the ship had come from but noted that the Houthis and their allies have not issued any statement about the attack.

Coalition jets have attacked several naval targets off Yemen to stop Iran from sending weapons to its coup allies in the conflict-battered Arab country.
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Coalition forces set for sweeping attacks on Taiz
Arab coalition forces, led by Saudi Arabia, successfully destroyed the operations room of the rebels in the border areas of Saudi.

Coalition forces with support from popular resistance forces conducted at least seven air strikes in Taiz, including raids in the east of the governorate, according to a report in ‘Al Bayan’.

The raids come as part of coalition forces’ preparation to launch sweeping attacks in Taiz.

One of the air strikes on the mountainous area affected the tunnel, which is used by rebel leaders.

Meanwhile, the Yemeni president urged the residents of Taiz governorate to close their ranks and back the national army and resistance forces on all fronts to cleanse the city of Taiz from the rebels.
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Europe
Spanish police arrest 3 for links to Islamic militants
[Ynet] Spanish police say they have nabbed
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
two men and a woman in northeastern Catalonia on suspicion of being involved in a network that recruited holy warriors for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

The men, aged 32 and 42, are both from Tangiers in Morocco and shared the same Barcelona address. Investigators say they used the internet and social networks to disseminate "extremist ideology" aimed at attracting followers to send to conflict areas in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

A statement said police also arrested a 24-year-old Spanish woman in the northeastern city of Granollers Saturday. It said the woman had been radicalized and now shared the same ideology as the bandidos Death Eaters and was preparing to travel to Afghanistan.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Sixth Person Charged in Belgium over Paris Attacks
[AnNahar] A Belgian judge on Friday charged a sixth suspect with terrorism offenses in connection with the Gay Paree attacks, prosecutors said, as the country pushes on with its investigation into links to the November 13 atrocities.

"Yesterday a person has been tossed in the slammer
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
in Brussels for interrogation. The investigating judge has remanded him in jug and charged him with terrorist murders and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization," the federal prosecutor said in a statement.

The prosecutor gave no further details about the suspect.

Also on Friday a Brussels court remanded two other people charged with terror offenses -- French national Ali Oulkadi, 31, and an unnamed man arrested on Tuesday -- in jug for another month.

Oulkadi's lawyer said on Friday that Oulkadi had driven key Gay Paree attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam across Brussels the day after the atrocities without knowing he had been involved.

"No one knew that Salah was wanted, he (Ali Oulkadi) did not know," Olivier Martins said after his client appeared in a Brussels court under armed guard as investigations continued into the November 13 Gay Paree massacre which left 130 people dead.

Two people detained for questioning after searches in the eastern town of Verviers -- where two jihadists were killed in a gunbattle with police in January -- were released on Friday, the prosecutor said.

The first two people to be charged in Belgium over the Gay Paree attacks were Mohammed Amri, 27, and Hamza Attou, 20, who were accused on November 16 on suspicion of helping Salah Abdeslam escape to Brussels after the carnage.

The last known sighting of Abdeslam was at a police check in Cambrai, La Belle France, in a Volkswagen Golf along with two people believed to be Amri and Attou, but he was not stopped.

Lazez Abrimi, a 39-year-old Moroccan from the Molenbeek district of Brussels, an area which has been linked to several of the suspects, was meanwhile charged last week with terrorism offenses after two guns and traces of blood were found in his car, the prosecutor said.

Belgium on Tuesday also issued an international arrest warrant for Mohammed Abrini, 30, who was filmed along with Salah Abdeslam at a petrol station in Ressons, La Belle France on the motorway to Gay Paree, in a Renault Clio which was later used in the attacks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336082 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Arabic graffiti found daubed on planes in France
[IsraelTimes] EasyJet says writing on fuel tank panels and toilet door is 'nothing more than graffiti'
But why there, and why now?
An investigation has been launched after graffiti in Arabic was found scrawled on four planes belonging to budget airline easyJet at airports in La Belle France.

An email detailing the discovery was sent to easyJet employees by the company's cabin safety manager, Lisa King, Sky News reported Saturday. The email said that the discovery involved to "four aircraft in La Belle France with written inscriptions on the inside of the fuel panel, and toilet door in Arabic script."

Details of what the graffiti said were not provided, Sky reported, adding that the company does not believe it posed a threat and no passengers were removed from the aircraft involved.

"EasyJet assessed this issue, each time working in full consultation with the authorities, and is entirely satisfied it is nothing more than graffiti," a spokeswoman for easyJet said, according to the report. "EasyJet takes very seriously any security related issue and would not operate a flight unless we are entirely satisfied it is completely safe to do so.

"EasyJet operates its fleet of aircraft in full compliance with all regulations. The safety and security of its passengers and crews is always easyJet's highest priority."

The location of the planes involved has not been revealed for security reasons, and the investigation is seeking to establish who was behind the incident, the report said.

La Belle France has been on high alert since a November 13 multi-pronged attack in Gay Paree claimed by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
killed 130 people and maimed hundreds more. French President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
has sworn to eradicate the Islamist murderous Moslem group.
Ynet reports that the company is not taking this lightly:
The staff and crew of European low-cost carrier easyJet were placed on high alert after Arabic graffiti was found scrawled on four different passenger jet fuel panels, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday.

According to the report, "The graffiti was found daubed next to fuel tanks on four jets parked at French airports."

Company employees and crew were reported to have been instructed to increase vigilance and take extra precautions after the graffiti was found on the fuel panels, an area of the jet which is among the most secured.

easyJet has not released the content of the writing, but the incidents have sparked fears that a more sinister plot could be in the making, according to the report.
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The Grand Turk
Top Kurdish Lawyer Shot Dead in Turkey's Southeast
[ALMANAR.LB] A leading Kurdish lawyer was rubbed out Saturday in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
after unknown attackers opened fire on a gathering in the mainly Kurdish province of Diyarbakir, triggering a shootout with police, hospital sources and witnesses said.

According to witnesses, unknown assailants opened fire on Tahir Elci and 40 other activists as they were giving a press statement near a mosque in Diyarbakir's Sur district.

The police immediately returned fire, they said.

Tahir Elci, head of the bar in Diyarbakir who were tossed into the calaboose in October for alleged "terrorist propaganda", died of gunshot wounds to the head, hospital sources told AFP.

Three coppers and an unknown number of journalists were maimed in the festivities, the witnesses said.
A hunt for the attackers was underway.

Turkey's southeast has been hit by the worst violence in years after a two-year old ceasefire between the Turkish government and the PKK Death Eaters collapsed in July.

Elci was released pending his trial over an interview in which he said the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was not a terrorist organization. He had risked up to seven years in prison.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Twin explosions rock Quetta
QUETTA: Two low intensity blasts hit Chashma Achozai area close to the airport Saturday afternoon.

Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by miscreants went off in a deserted area close to the railway track, said officials. Security officials rushed to the site and cordoned off the area after the first explosion. As officials gathered to investigate the site, another blast took place close by. Police sources said there was no loss of life as a result of the twin blasts, which caused panic among people. Chashma Achozai is located on Quetta’s airport road and is considered a peaceful neighbourhood. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts.

Quetta has in recent years witnessed numerous instances of terror, including suicide explosions, sectarian killing and targeted killing of security officials. Last month, a blast in a local bus killed at least 10 people, two of them children, on Quetta’s Sariab Road. Twenty-two people were injured in the incident, six of them seriously. Law-enforcement agencies have intensified their operations against terrorists in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan.
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Eight terror suspects arrested from Vehari
VEHARI: Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and police have arrested eight terror suspects and seized arms during a raid on Saturday.

Acting on a tip-off about the presence of anti-state elements, the police and CTD conducted a joint operation in Adda Quarter locality of Vehari during which eight suspects, who statedly belong to a banned outfit, were apprehended. They have been shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation. Sources said more arrests are expected.
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Pakistan Airstrikes Kill 17 Militants
[ALMANAR.LB] Pak fighter jets killed 17 hard boyz Friday in Arclight airstrikes carried out in the country's remote tribal belt near the Afghan border, the military said in a statement.

The strikes in the Rajgal area of the Khyber tribal district also destroyed four bully boy hideouts and an ammunition dump, it said.

"Seventeen faceless myrmidons including some foreigners were killed in the aerial strikes in the remote area of Rajgal," a brief military statement said.

The strikes were part of a major offensive aimed at clearing Taliban and Al-Qaeda strongholds that began last year in North Wazoo, one of seven Pak tribal districts bordering Afghanistan.

The conflict zone is remote and off-limits to journalists, making it difficult to verify the army's claims, including the number and identity of those killed.

The military began the offensive in Khyber in October 2014, carrying out air strikes and using artillery, mortars and ground troops.

The army then intensified and expanded its offensive after the Taliban massacred more than 150 people, the majority of them children, at a school in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
last December.
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336080 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Iraq
Khurmatu car bomb kills 5, wounds 15
[Rudaw] At least five people were killed and 15 others injured in the town of Tuz Khurmatu when a jacket wallah set off his car bomb against Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi Saturday.

"The Hashd al-Shaabi's checkpoint is located in a market in the Shiite neighborhood," Khurmatu Police Chief Farouq Ahmad told Rudaw, adding that his forces have been sent to the kaboom sight to control the security situation.

No further details were given on the identity of the victims and no group has yet grabbed credit for the suicide kaboom.

Khurmatu is a majority Kurdish city located in Salahadin province 55 miles south of Kirkuk. The city still has substantial Kurdish and Arab populations however, and the mostly Shiite Arab Hashd al-Shaabi have in past months feuded with Kurdish Peshmerga forces despite both factions also fighting the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
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Mass grave laced with explosives discovered in Shingal
[Rudaw] At least three mass graves were discovered in Shingal on Friday, and several more are expected to be discovered, said Mahma Khalil, the city's mayor.

"On Friday three mass graves were discovered in Shingal containing the remains of 113 Kurdish Yezidis," Khalil told Rudaw.

He added, "One of the graves was planted with explosives
The wonder is that such things haven't been discovered sooner, or every time. They booby trap everything else they leave behind. By the time ISIS is wiped out, the Kurds will be able to hire out experienced bomb disposal units to the rest of the world in quantity.
and we did not let anyone get closer until the bomb disposal team arrived and cleaned the area."

After Shingal's liberation from the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
earlier this month, two mass graves have been discovered - one containing the remains of 80 Yezidi women and the other containing 50 Yezidi men.

Qasim Simo, head of Shingal security, had told Rudaw there are at least 15 mass graves in the area, and thousands of Yezidi women and kiddies are still missing.
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Peshmerga thwart ISIS chemical weapons attack
[Rudaw] An Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) plot to use chemical bombs against Peshmerga frontlines in Makhmour was foiled, according to a Peshmerga statement.

"In a bid to target Peshmerga stockades in the village of Baqirt on the Makhmour front, ISIS bandidos turbans wanted to explode mortars rigged with chemical weapons," according to the statement issued Saturday.

Before ISIS could carry out the attack, "the Peshmerga foiled the attack, and later bomb disposal teams defused the mortars," the statement said.

ISIS has used chemical weapons against the Peshmerga, including on the Makhmour front, as an alternative tactic to thwart Peshmerga advances.

After a suspected chemical weapons attack by ISIS on the Peshmerga in early August, tests proved that ISIS had used mustard gas against Kurdish fighters on the Gwer- Makhmour front, wounding several fighters. A Peshmerga official confirmed to Rudaw that 45 mortars were fired at Peshmerga positions in just one night.
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ISIS AD commander dies near kirkuk
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – War Media Cell announced on Saturday the death of the ISIS official who is responsible for the air defenses in al-Zab District during an aerial bombardment southwest of Kirkuk.

The cell said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The hawks of the air force, in cooperation with the National Security Agency, conducted an air strike in which they managed to kill the so-called air defenses official of the ISIS organization in the district of al-Zab.”

The statement added, “The aerial bombing also resulted in the destruction of a large accumulated store of weapons and explosives in the district of Hawija.”
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Iraqi koppers detain pro ISIS mufti
(IraqiNews.com) The Federal Police Command announced on Friday the arrest of the ISIS Mufti in the area of al-Jelam and his driver during a security operation east of Salahuddin.

The federal police captain, Raed Shakir Jawdat, said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The 17th brigade of the federal police, in coordination with the intelligence, arrested the ISIS Mufti in al-Jelam, known as Abu Abdullah al-Badri, along with his driver,” adding that, “The arrest resulted from a security operation in the area of Albu Badri east of Salahuddin province.”

“The force has transferred the detainees to a security center for interrogation,” he also added.
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Iraqi militia destroys sniper in Salahuddin
(IraqiNews.com) The leader in al-Hashed al-Sha’bi militia, Jabbar al-Mamouri, announced on Friday the killing of a sniper belonging to the ISIS organization in Makhoul Mountains north of Salahuddin.

Mamouri said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “A special combat force of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi advanced into the valleys surrounding Makhoul Mountains north of Salahuddin and succeeded in killing a sniper that was hiding in a small cave to target the patrols of the security forces and al-Hashed al-Sha’bi.”

He also added, “al-Hashed al-Sha’bi has special combat forces that have a hight capacity of hard skills in the performance of duties, especially in rugged areas including mountains and valleys.”
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#1  One shot then GET OUT!!!!!!
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Takfiri Suicide Bomber Kills Six in Flashpoint Iraq Town
[ALMANAR.LB] A takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
jacket wallah killed six people on Saturday in the Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu, officials said.

The bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a checkpoint in the town, also wounding 16 people, according to Shallal Abdul Baban, the official responsible for the area, and a police colonel.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but suicide kabooms are a tactic employed by murderous Moslems in Iraq, including the ISIL terrorist group.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian woman arrested for attempted West Bank knife attack
[IsraelTimes] With blade in hand, would-be attacker runs towards troops at Jordan Valley checkpoint; her companion also detained

IDF placed in durance vile
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
a Paleostinian woman at a West Bank checkpoint on Saturday morning after she ran at them with a knife.

The woman got out of a car at the approach to the Beka'ot checkpoint in the Jordan Valley, and began to run toward the soldiers with the knife in her hand, the Walla news website reported.

The man who was accompanying the woman in the car got out and began to run after her. Neither managed to reach the troops, and both were detained for questioning.
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Bedouin Israeli arrested for aiding Kiryat Gat terrorist
[IsraelTimes] Zuhair al-Huzayal from Rahat allegedly drove Muhammad Tarada to town where he stabbed 4 people, including 13-year-old

A resident of the Bedouin town of Rahat was placed in durance vile
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
Thursday night by police and security forces on suspicion that he helped a terrorist carry out a stabbing attack in southern Israel last Saturday.

Ashkelon Magistrate's Court on Friday extended the remand of the suspect, named as 37-year-old Zuhair al-Huzayal, the Haaretz daily reported.

Huzayal is alleged to have driven the attacker from the Hebron area of the West Bank into Israel. The arrest marks the second time a Bedouin has been implicated in involvement in a terror attack.

Three other people -- the stabber and two other alleged accomplices -- have already been arrested. Huzayal is also suspected of other instances of driving Paleostinians with no entry permit into Israel.

Four people were maimed in the November 21 stabbing attack in Kiryat Gat, including a 13-year-old girl. The terrorist, identified as 18-year-old Muhammad Tarada, was caught by police after a five-hour manhunt.
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Soldiers find NIS 62,000 in cash for Hamas in Bethlehem raid
[IsraelTimes] Overnight operation in Bethlehem refugee camp also turns up cache of knives, observation equipment

IDF forces found knives and cash in an early Friday raid in a refugee camp in Bethlehem which the army said were intended for use by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to carry out terror attacks.

The raid in the Al-Ayda refugee camp was carried out by the Kfir infantry brigade and Homefront Command forces.

Some 62,000 shekels (about $16,000) in cash were found and transferred to the Israel Police.

A large cache of knives, along with observation equipment.

In separate operations, three Hamas members were tossed in the slammer
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
throughout the West Bank overnight Thursday.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkmens flee Russian bombardments near site of downed Russian jet
Consequences.
[Rudaw] At least 7,000 people from the Syria-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
border area--mostly ethnic Turkmens--have fled into Turkey following heavy Russian Arclight airstrikes near the area where Turkey shot down a Russian warplane on November 24, according to a Rudaw correspondent.

"At least 7,000 people, mostly Turkmens, and some from [Syrian Kurdistan] alongside a minor numbers of Arabs, are displaced due to Russian Arclight airstrikes," according to Mohamad Ezadin.

According to Ezadin, Russian Arclight airstrikes are heavily attacking areas where a Russian Su-24 jet was shot down by Turkey on November 24. One of the pilots who parachuted from the Su-24 was killed, while another was rescued. Russia has reported that one of its marines involved in the rescue of the downed pilots was also killed during recovery operations

Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu responded to his country shooting down the Russian fighter jet by saying Ankara had exercised its "national duty" after the Russian aircraft violated its airspace while conducting air raids in Syria. Russia has claimed the aircraft never crossed the Turkish border.

Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
has warned that the "tragic incident" would bring "serious consequences" for Turkey.

Ezadin reported the refugees were welcomed by Turkish officials and more than 1,000 tents have been set up to be used as shelters and 100 tons of food has been provided for the refugees
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#1  One'd thought that Turks learned not to mess with somebody called Vlad.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/29/2015 4:50 Comments || Top||

#2  "The Caliph versus the Czar - now on pay-per-vew!"
Posted by: Pappy || 11/29/2015 12:22 Comments || Top||

#3  For this particular engagment, pater, sultan "vs" defender of the raighteous & glorious (pravoslavnia) faith.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/29/2015 13:24 Comments || Top||

#4  So now Turkey has a refugee problem.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/29/2015 14:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Grom: you must mean Vladimir I
Posted by: badanov || 11/29/2015 14:23 Comments || Top||

#6  sultan "vs" defender of the raighteous & glorious (pravoslavnia) faith

1. It doesn't have the same marketing cachet.

2. I'm too cynical to believe it's gotten to the religious level here.
Posted by: Pappy || 11/29/2015 15:00 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm too cynical to believe it's gotten to the religious level here.

What did Prof Noccolo said on ruler's piety?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/29/2015 15:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Grom: you must mean Vladimir I

I mean, look up "Russia, third Rome". They been planing to liberate Constantinople for half a millennium.

Talking of Vladimirs', how about Vladimir III of Wallachia?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/29/2015 15:39 Comments || Top||

#9  What did Prof Noccolo said on ruler's piety?

Granted.

Though I much preferred his Discourses over Il Principe.
Posted by: Pappy || 11/29/2015 17:18 Comments || Top||

#10  Not the same bloodline, grom.
Posted by: badanov || 11/29/2015 17:42 Comments || Top||


YPG advances near Turkey’s border
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's semi-official Anadolu news agency reported that the People's Protection Units (YPG) were backed by Russian aircraft Saturday in an advance into the Azaz region of Syria near the Turkish border.
Oh? Poor future neo-Ottoman Sultan Recep Tayyip I "The Bilious" must now be very sorry indeed that he indulged himself by giving that shoot down order.
Russian warplanes have reportedly facilitated the advance of YPG fighters by carrying out three Arclight airstrikes against the road linking the district with the Bab al Salameh border checkpoint.

Anadolu also reported that last week Russian aircraft bombed opposition forces in eastern Syria's Deir Cemal and Meryemeyn in an effort to open corridors for the YPG and Syrian Democratic Forces.

Turkey's National Security Council in October denounced a new self-proclaimed Kurdish enclave in Syria - Tal Abyad, or Gire Spi - and called on the international community to condemn the YPG as terrorists. Turkey has called the region of Tal Abyad "a campaign to change the demographic make-up of northern Syria."

Turkey's council assembled after representatives of ethnic communities in the now Kurdish-controlled city of Tal Abyad met Wednesday to declare the region autonomous.

Control of the region is significant for the YPG because it links together many predominantly Kurdish villages in northern Syrian.

Turkey has warned the United States and Russia it will not tolerate any Kurdish region to be held by the PKK, which is deemed a terrorist group by NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
"This is clear cut for us and there is no joking about it," a Turkish official told Rooters in October.

Turkey fears advances by Kurdish forces on the Syrian side of its 900 km (560-mile) border will fuel separatist ambitions among Kurds in its own southeastern territories. But Washington has supported YPG fighters as an effective force in combating Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, Rooters added.
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After loss, ISIS reestablishes new MSR
ARA News

ERBIL – The radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) started a project on the Syria-Iraq border aimed at opening a highway linking Mosul in northwestern Iraq to Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa in northeastern Syria, local sources reported on Saturday.

The move comes after the Kurdish Peshmerga forces took over the strategic Yezidi region of Sinjar (Shingal), cutting-off the supply lines between ISIS-held areas in Syria and Iraq.

Speaking to ARA News in Mosul, journalist Abdullah al-Mulla said that ISIS has moved dozens of workers, engineers, technicians and engineering vehicles from the municipalities of Mosul and Tal Afar to the district of al-Baaj on the Syrian border.

“ISIS wants to renovate the road connecting the district with Sufuk police outpost, after losing the road between Sinjar in northern Iraq and Syria’s al-Hawl and Raqqa to the Kurdish Peshmerga and allied local fighters,” he added.

Al-Mulla pointed out that Mosul is experiencing an acute shortage of food amid unprecedented rise of prices as a result of the Peshmerga’s control of the highway.

Last week, warplanes of the U.S-led coalition targeted some 116 ISIS oil tankers coming from the Iraqi province of Nineveh to al-Bukamal and al-Mayadeen east of Deir ez-Zor in Syria, paralyzing traffic in the area.

“The new ISIS-held highway is also expected to connect the group’s major stronghold Raqqa with Deir ez-Zor. The trucks take their way from Deir ez-Zor to Hasakah reaching al-Sour down to Sufuk outpost on the border with Iraq, and finally reaching al-Baaj and Tal Afar,” an ISIS-linked informed source told ARA News on the condition of anonymity.

The source concluded that the trapped people in Mosul and other districts in northern Iraq receive fuel and medicines that come from Turkey and Syria.

“The gas comes from the Syrian regions, while food products and clothing come from Turkey,” the source added.

ISIS took over Mosul in mid-June 2014. Since then, the northwestern Iraqi city has been besieged by the Kurdish forces and Iraqi government troops. Mosul currently depends on the goods and basic supplies that enter from Syria and Turkey.

Reporting by: Sarbaz Yousef
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Syrian Army retakes Kweires air base
ARA News

ALEPPO – Syrian army forces were able to recapture territory from the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) east of a key military airport in Aleppo countryside, army officials reported on Saturday.

The army seized a number of villages and towns on the highway linking Aleppo with the ISIS’s de facto capital of Raqqa.

The areas recaptured are located east of the Kweires air base, which was seized by ISIS on Nov. 10.

After several offensives by the Syrian regime’s army, with support from Russian airstrikes, Iranian forces, and Lebanese Hezbollah militia, the army regained the villages of Kaskis and Agoula (60 km east of Aleppo) along with large swaths of agricultural land, including ISIS tunnels, state agency SANA quoted army officials as saying.

Special units from the army have reportedly dismantled dozens of land-mines planted by the radical group around the Kweires base.

Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, media activists Muhannad al-Jasim confirmed Wednesday that the army forces have advanced in the vicinity of the Kweires air base, seizing all the farms located on the road between the base and the town of Deir Hafer in the vicinity of Aleppo city.

“After two hours of clashes, in which both sides used medium and heavy weapons, ISIS militants withdrew towards Deir Hafer and villages near the Kweires base,” al-Jasim added.

Syria security forces stationed at the Kweires air base targeted the ISIS-held cities of al-Bab and Deir Hafer with rockets and artillery shells.

In the meantime, Russian warplanes launched four airstrikes on ISIS’s positions in the vicinity of Deir Hafer, causing the destruction of a machinegun (14. 5) and a troop carrier, without knowing the death toll in the group’s ranks.

The Syrian regime and its allies have also made gains against ISIS in southeastern Homs.

Also on Saturday, pro-regime troops waged an offensive against moderate rebels in the coastal province of Latakia, recapturing several villages in the province, local sources reported.

Reporting by: Muhammad Ali

Source: ARA News
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Syrian Army Strikes More Terrorists across Country
[ALMANAR.LB] The Syrian Army units continued on Saturday military operations against the terrorists' hideouts and gatherings in several provinces, eliminating a huge number of gunnies and destroying their weaponry.

Deir Ezour

The Army units clashed with gunnies of ISIL who were trying to attack many residential neighborhoods in Deir Ezour city and its military airport, field sources said Saturday.
Continued on Page 49
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Terror Networks
US, allies launch 20 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
[Ynet] The United States and its allies targeted Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
with 17 air strikes in Iraq and three in Syria on Friday, the US military said.

Seven of the strikes in Iraq hit two Islamic State tactical units, buildings and a fighting position near Ramadi, the military said.

The attacks in Syria were near Ayn Isa, hitting a tactical unit and Islamic State vehicle, the statement issued on Saturday said.
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