[KhaamaPress] At least 21 Death Eaters were killed during the latest operations of the Afghan Special Forces and Arclight airstrikes in three provinces of the country.
According to informed military sources, Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Zankhan district of Ghazni province in the past 24 hours killing 9 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters.
The sources further added that during the clash, airstrikes targeted two barricaded shooters in two structures.
The Afghan Special Forces conducted an operation in Qaisar district of Faryab, supported by the Afghan Air Force, which killed 4 Taliban fighters and maimed 4 others.
An airstrike was also carried out in Kajaki district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province which left 2 Taliban leaders dead, the sources added.
The anti-government armed Death Eaters including Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far.
[KhaamaPress] Deadly festivities continue between Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and ISIS Khurasan holy warriors in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan as the Afghan military confirm that the ongoing festivities have inflicted casualties on both sides.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said at least one Taliban holy warrior and nine ISIS Khurasan holy warriors have been killed so far.
According to a statement released by 201st Silab Corps, at least 9 ISIS Khurasan holy warriors have also been killed and 14 others have sustained injuries during the festivities.
The statement further added that the festivities continue in Chapa Dara district and one Taliban fighter identified as Hezbullah has been killed and another Taliban holy warrior identified as Faqir has sustained injuries.
The 201st Silab Corps in another statement said the Afghan armed forces carried out strikes against ISIS Khurasan holy warriors using heavy and light weaponry to protect the lives and properties of local residents.
According to 201st Silab Corps, at least 9 ISIS Khurasan holy warriors were killed and 14 others were maimed during the same strikes.
The anti-government armed holy warriors including Taliban and ISIS Khurasan holy warriors have not commented regarding the festivities so far.
[KhaamaPress] At least five Talibs were killed during an operation of Afghan Special Forces in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
According to informed military sources, the murderous Moslems were killed in Bihsud district of the province.
"Afghan Special Force conducted a raid in Bishud district of Nangarhar killing 5 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters and destroying a land mine," the sources said.
Also, an Arclight airstrike in Taktai Valley, Achin district of Nangarhar targeted two defensive fighting positions.
The anti-government armed murderous Moslems including Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far.
Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces but the murderous Moslems have expanded their foothold in some of its remote districts during the recent years.
[KhaamaPress] A Burqa-clad assailant was rubbed out by the Afghan armed forces in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan, the Afghan military announced Sunday.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said the bully boy was rubbed out around 11am local time on Saturday.
According to a statement released by 209th Shaheen Corps, the bully boy was trying to assassinate security personnel by disguising in women’s dress and Burqa.
The statement further added that the bully boy was killed in Sherin Tagab district of the province.
The anti-government armed Lions of Islam including Taliban ...Arabic for students... have not commented regarding the report so far.
Faryab is among the relatively volatile provinces in North of Afghanistan. Militants are active in some remote districts of the province and often attempt to target the government and security institutions.
[AAWSAT] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... 's Court of Cassation in Ankara upheld 37 life sentences issued for a squad of soldiers accused of the attempted liquidation of Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... on the eve of the failed July 15 coup attempt in 2016.
The 37 defendants, all military personnel, were found guilty in October 2017 of attempting to assassinate Erdogan on the night of an attempted coup on July 15, 2016, as well as the murder of two coppers. They were accused of conducting a helicopter raid on a hotel in Marmaris, a resort town on the Aegean Sea, where Erdogan was on holiday.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Erdogan had escaped the premise unharmed.
Turkey's authorities linked the squad and the attempted coup to the Gulen Movement, headed by Fethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... . The group, however, vehemently denied having any connection to the liquidation attempt or the coup.
On par with Erdogan’s policy for vilifying the Gulen movement, the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday ordered the detention of 108 lawyers along with 18 others as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting Gulenists ... the Turkish version of the Boogie Man, who set fire to the Turkish Reichsstag... The addresses of 12 of the suspects could not be determined or records showed they had left the country, the statement issued by the prosecutor’s office said, adding that operations spread over 37 provinces to detain the remaining 114 people were continuing.
In a separate operation on Friday, the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office said it had ordered the detention of 18 suspects accused of links to the Gulen movement who were working as engineers for the defense industry company Havelsan.
Ottoman Turkish lawyer Selcuk Kozagacli, former president of the now-closed Progressive Lawyers’ Association (CHD) who has been behind bars since November 2017 on terrorism charges was also handed down a sentence of 11 years, three months.
Istanbul’s High Criminal Court rendered the sentence for conviction of membership in a terrorist organization. Six other defendants received sentences of varying length.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Three suspected ISIS jacket wallahs blew themselves up on Sunday in northern Iraq, the army said, a day after the bully boys’ "caliphate" was wiped out in neighboring Syria.
Army spokesperson Yahya Rassoul said the incident took place in a region near the Syrian border, where ISIS sleeper cells are believed to be present.
He said the suspects died as troops surrounded them, but there were no casualties among government forces.
Local officials said the suspects were killed as they were trying to attack troops in the village of Qayrawan, south of the mountainous region of Sinjar which borders Syria.
Fighters of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Saturday pronounced the death of the nearly five-year-old ISIS "caliphate" which once stretched across a vast swathe of Syria and Iraq.
Their victory was hailed as a significant landmark in the battle against the bully boy group, but there have also been numerous calls for "vigilance" with many saying the fight is far from over.
Top SDF commander Mazloum Kobane on Saturday warned that a new phase had begun in anti-ISIS operations and appealed for continued assistance from the US-led coalition to help smash "sleeper cells."
Diehard gunnies continue to have a presence in mountainous or desert regions between Syria and Iraq, which had declared victory over ISIS in December 2017.
In Iraq, some of these regions remain inaccessible to security forces.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi paramilitary forces killed on Sunday 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.... jacket wallah, who was planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Makhoul hills in northeastern Diyala.
"Acting upon accurate intelligence reports, the pro-government troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi launched a security operation to track down Islamic State remnants in Makhoul hills," Almaalomah news website quoted the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi as saying in a press statement.
"The operation resulted in killing an IS terrorist wearing an boom belt, and destroying a tunnel that was used by the snuffies for hiding and launching attacks against security forces and citizens," the statement read.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi army killed on Sunday three 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.... jacket wallahs wearing boom belts in Sinjar district in Nineveh province, a security expert said.
Speaking to Almaalomah news website, Fadel Abu Reghif said that army troops surrounded three Islamic State suicide bombers, who planned to blow themselves off in Sinjar district in Nineveh.
"The IS gunnies were bumped off before they could detonate themselves," Abu Reghif added.
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Everybody important scuttled for the deep tunnels as soon as that rocket headed toward Tel Aviv this morning. It’s only the human shields who are left at home.
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hopefully the tunnels will collapse. IMO none of the paleos are important.
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Propane is a heavier than air gas, if one can find an opening into the tunnel system. And the subsequent explosion should pinpoint other (former?) openings.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Israel has deployed its two infantry brigades and armoured units to Gazoo border, the country’s media outlets reported on Monday.
The reported deployment comes after the Israeli military accused Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", of carrying out a rocket strike from the Gazoo Strip earlier this day.
In a separate development on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would cut his visit to the United States and return to Israel to take charge of a response to the attack from Gazoo.
"In the light of the events related to the security, I have decided to shorten my visit to the United States. In a few hours I will meet with [US President Donald] Trump and immediately return to Israel to control our actions on the spot", Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu is due to meet Trump at the White House for the expected signing of an order recognizing Israel’s illusory sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
His statement came after at least seven people, including children, were maimed in the early hours of Monday by a Paleostinian shell that hit a crowded residential neighbourhood in Israel.
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#BREAKING: Military wing of Hamas- the al-Qassam Brigades calls on all Gaza armed groups to respond urgently and aggressively to the ongoing Israeli strikes
All of the biggest cities in the Sharon region will be opening their bomb shelters. Specifically in : Hertzliya , Raanana , Kfar Saba, Hod HaSharon#Israel#Gazahttps://t.co/mhEcMuCUnv
Looks like the PIJ (Pal. Islamic Jihad) in Gaza with Iranian missile crossed a tough line. Will be interesting in a casual way to see how very very badly this goes for Gaza.
One thing is for certain. Its not just Gaza. I mean Gaza has been the launch point for those long range rockets, but with the declaration of support for an Israeli controlled Golan Heights and Syrian SSM reports, We may be in a "bases loaded" situation here with all 3 commands
MDA has now raised its alert level nationwide to the highest levels.
HOMEFRONT COMMAND URGENTLY ORDERS TO OPEN ALL PUBLIC BOMB SHELTERS UP TO 40 KM FROM #GAZA
Air Space closed around Gaza until March 31
IAF hellicopters swarming to southern israel
Hamas commander has been killed by IDF airstrikes in central Gaza
The operation began on March 25 with multiple air strikes at around 17:40.
Terrorist leaders and commanders had already disappeared into underground bunkers in the Gaza Strip in anticipation of a large-scale IDF operation following a rocket attack on central Israel and a spiraling series of terrorist assaults on Israel civilian and military targets. A short time earlier, the IDF stated: Explosions will soon be heard as part of IDF offensive action. Extra vigilance is advised in line with directives.” The heads of local towns and districts in the South reacted by ordering their populations to open shelters, close schools and call off outside activity. Throughout the day, the IDF built up its strength along the Gaza border fence and mobilized reserves, while consolidating the Iron Dome ring of anti-rocket batteries ready to intercept Palestinian rocket fire at population centers including the Tel Aviv region.
The rail service between the southern town of Ashkelon and Sderot, just outside the Gaza Strip, has been suspended and car traffic thinning out on the roads.
Sources inside the Gaza Strip are describing preparations for a broad confrontation between the Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian terrorist groups and the Israeli military. Their bases and command centers have been evacuated and equipment removed. Hamas and Jihad have gone to ground in their large network of underground bunkers. Their rocket arrays are on war preparation.
The rocket attack on Moshav Mishmeret, a town 20km northeast of Tel Aviv, was traced to a Hamas pad near Rafah in southern Gaza, and identified as a home-made weapon with a range of 120km. It wrecked a home and injured seven people, three of them children, and inflicted more serious injuries on a woman of 60. They got off with relatively light injuries due to having reach the fortified room in their house in the nick of time before it took a direct hit.
The IDF’s last major counter-terror assault on the Gaza Strip was Operation Protective Edge on July 8, 2014. On July 17, Israeli ground troops entered the Palestinian enclave.
In the left margin their breaking stories scroll upward, while 3dc’s Twitter link keeps adding posts downward.
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Attacking "agricultural land" in the northern Gaza Strip
Israeli raids destroyed an insurance company's building in #Gaza.
Airstrikes reported in Khan Younis governorate these moments
Badr and Askalan sites hit repeatedly in North Gaza
Israeli strikes reported in Jabal Sourani east of Al-Shujaeah neighborhood, eastern Gaza.
Strike east of Rafah
At least around 18-20 targets in Gaza attacked by Israeli strikes so far. And now, as I said earlier, it looks like Israel is expanding its operations. Wait for more details.
Gaza City pounded by multiple Israeli airstrikes in the past few minutes
Additional strike reported east of Deir Balah in the central #Gaza Strip
Incidentally, President Trump signed a proclamation recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. There are implications in that for those contemplating mayhem without repercussions.
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Palestinian sources report a roof-knock Israeli strike on the house of Abu Hamam al-Dib in the Jenin neighborhood. Abu Hamam al-Dib is a clerk in the Interior Ministry of Hamas. #Gaza
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"Nasrallah (leader of Hezbollah) discussed with the Hamas delegation the developments in Palestine region and the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip"
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Nasrallah (leader of Hezbollah) discussed with the Hamas delegation
Meanwhile, the prime minister of Israel is in Washington discussing all sorts of things with the president of the United States, whose air force is about to be at loose ends following the end of the Baghouz mission on the far side of Syria...
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"Nasrallah (leader of Hezbollah) discussed with the Hamas delegation the developments in Palestine region and the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip"
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"The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said it was in contact with the Egyptian security apparatus to press the Israeli government to stop the attack on the Gaza Strip"
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was in contact with the Egyptian security apparatus to press the Israeli government to stop the attack on the Gaza Strip"
Last I heard, the Egyptians were deeply displeased that Hamas bargaining in bad faith. Interesting that PFLP has contacted them for this, not Hamas of Islamic Jihad.
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JOINT GAZA FACTION IS WAR ROOM HAD DECLARED THE FAILURE OF THE EGYPTIAN MEDIATION FOLLOWING THE STRIKE ON HAMAS POLITBURO CHIEF HANIYEHS OFFICE BUILDING , PROMISES TO “MAKE SURE THAT THIS NIGHT WILL BE HELL FOR ISRAELIS”
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#Iranian activity not far from the #Israeli-#Syrian border was detected: 400 km range balistic missiles were moved to silos 200 feet under the ground. Drones pre placed at Dimas airport 20 km from Israel and Scud missiles of the 155th Syrian brigade is now under their control.
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IIUC, Israel has a small munition which goes more pop than boom, and they fire it at an impending target to let the occupants know that a big boom is inbound as a way to prevent civilian casualties and clear human shields.
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#28 IIUC, Israel has a small munition which goes more pop than boom, and they fire it at an impending target to let the occupants know that a big boom is inbound as a way to prevent civilian casualties and clear human shields.
A courtesy call, if you will.
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How civilized of them. Surely they'll be repaid in kind.
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fuck a ceasefire. i wish the Israelis would hurt them good, tired of hearing about civilians since hamas doesn't seem too mind if they get hurt. It's beyond time for this too be done right.
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[Aljazeera] Israeli military says rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a home in Mishmeret, a town north of Tel Aviv.
A rocket fired from Gaza struck a home in central Israel on Monday wounding six people.
The sounds of air raid sirens woke up the residents of the residential Sharon area and a strong sound of an explosion followed. The Israeli military said it identified a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip and was investigating.
Police and medics said a home was hit and caught fire, and six people were wounded.
The incident in Mishmeret, an agricultural settlement town north of Tel Aviv, came at a time of high tension ahead of the anniversary of Gaza border protests and an April 9 election campaign in Israel.
#BREAKING Severe rioting in Ktsi’ot jail by Hamas terrorists jailed there, 2 workers were stabbed (1 critically and 1 lightly wounded) , more then 30 Hamas prisoners wounded (at least 3 critically)#Israel’i prisoners service says that the situation is currently under control.
[IsraelTimes] Second officer lightly injured in riot at Ketziot Prison; 11 inmates maimed in dispute over attempts to block mobile phone usage; prison services say situation under control.
Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, prisoners stabbed two guards at the Ketziot prison in southern Israel on Sunday, injuring one of them seriously, according to prison services. The attack sparked a riot in which 11 inmates were also reported hurt.
The badly maimed guard sustained stab wounds to the neck, while the second, lightly hurt officer had a hand injury. The guards were airlifted to the nearby Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba for treatment.
The hospital later said the condition of the guard had stabilized and he was listed in a moderate condition.
According to Hebrew reports, the guards were attacked with improvised weapons fashioned into knives. The riot came as security prisoners were being moved between cells. The attack came as part of an ongoing effort by Israel to restrict cellphone usage by the prisoners, including the installation of jamming systems.
Eleven prisoners were also injured and hospitalized after security forces quelled the riot. Seven of the prisoners were also airlifted to hospital by the IDF, the Haaretz daily reported. Their condition was not immediately clear, with the Israel Prison Service saying they were "in various conditions."
The prison service said the situation was under control, but gave no details on how it put down the riot.
The incident came a week after Hamas prisoners in the Ramon prison torched 14 beds, setting a fire in the wing.
The blaze was quickly extinguished and no injuries were reported. In that incident too, prisoners were protesting restrictions on cellphone usage.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said the attack "was very serious and proves once again that the prisons service is on the front-line of the war against terror."
Erdan vowed the jamming would continue, saying that blocking their ability to use mobile phones was an important step in attempts to prevent "terror attacks being directed from within the prison against Israeli civilians."
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gave no details on how it put down the riot
hopefully hard and painfully
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[IsraelTimes] Arson device from Strip lands in open field in Eshkol region; in separate case, explosive detonates in Sha’ar Hanegev, causing neither injury nor damage.
An Israeli tank targeted two Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, posts along the Gazoo border on Sunday night, following a number of cross-border attacks throughout the day, the military said.
"An Israel Defense Forces tank attacked a military post belonging to the Hamas terror group in the northern Gazoo Strip, in response to bombs that were thrown [at the security fence] and balloons carrying bombs that were launched throughout the evening," the army said in a statement.
A short while later, the military said it had conducted a second tank strike on a Hamas post in response to continued border violence.
There were no immediate reports of Paleostinian injuries, but the Strip’s Red Islamic Thingy emergency medical service said one of their ambulances was damaged in the IDF’s first strike.
On Sunday afternoon, a shepherd was lightly injured by a balloon-borne incendiary device flown, into southern Israel from the Gazoo Strip, local authorities said.
The object landed in an open field in the Eshkol region. It was at least the second such device of the day to touch down in Israel from the Strip, following a particularly violent Saturday night along the Gazoo border.
The Bedouin shepherd who was standing nearby sustained burns to his hand, an Eshkol spokesperson said, calling for people to contact security officials in such cases.
He was taken to Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center and treated before being released home, a hospital spokesperson said.
The incident was one of the few cases of a person being directly injured by the thousands of incendiary and bombs that have been launched into southern Israel from the Gazoo Strip over the past year.
A short while later, an bomb that was also apparently flown into southern Israel from the Gazoo Strip detonated in a community in the Sha’ar Hanegev region.
The blast caused neither injury nor damage, a regional spokesperson said.
"An kaboom was heard in one of the communities in the region. Following a search, the site of the blast was found," Sha’ar Hanegev said in a statement.
The bomb appeared to have been sent into the community by a cluster of balloons from the Gazoo Strip, but this had yet to be confirmed, the regional spokesperson said.
On Sunday morning, a suspected bomb landed in a field in the nearby Sha’ar Hanegev region.
A police sapper was called to the scene to remove the object, which was flown into Israel from Gazoo by a cluster of balloons.
The device caused neither injuries nor damage, a Sha’ar Hanegev spokesperson said.
On Saturday night, Israeli military aircraft bombed Hamas targets in Gazoo after a rocket alarm sounded in some Israeli communities bordering the Strip, triggered by a powerful improvised bomb thrown at the border during late-night riots.
A Paleostinian was killed by Israeli fire during the festivities early Sunday, authorities in the Strip said. The 24-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest and two others were maimed, the Hamas-run health ministry said.
There was no immediate comment or confirmation by the Israel Defense Forces.
The military said aircraft struck two Hamas reconnaissance posts in response to "the multitude of bombs that were thrown and went kaboom! during the night."
Nighttime riots in Gazoo have been led by so-called "confusion units" organized by the Hamas terror group, the Strip’s de facto ruler. On Saturday, the units said they would step up activities, with a week of nightly riots from 7 p.m. until dawn along the border, and more airborne incendiary devices launched into Israel.
[Jerusalem Post] Lebanon said the 40-year old suspect tried to recruit others to spy on Hezbollah and obtain information on missing Israeli pilot Ron Arad.
A Lebanese-Canadian dual national was arrested in Beirut on suspicion of spying for Israeli intelligence, Lebanese authorities said.
"Within the frame of its fight against espionage for the Israeli enemy entity and the dismantlement of its rings inside Lebanon, the General Directorate of the General Security has arrested Lebanese-Canadian F.G., born 1978, upon the notice of the military prosecution," Lebanon’s General Security intelligence agency said in a statement.
While there were no details on when or where the suspect was detained, according to Lebanese media reports, he confessed during interrogation that he was recruited in 2013 by a Lebanese fugitive who belong to an Israeli army intelligence network called "Unit 504."
He confessed to spending six years spying on Hezbollah, trying to gather intelligence on Hezbollah operatives. He was also attempting to gather information on Israeli pilot Ron Arad, who has been missing since 1986 when his plane was shot down over southern Lebanon and was supposedly handed to the terror group.
"F.G." had also been told to recruit other Lebanese citizens to infiltrate into Hezbollah.
[World Tribune] A British SAS soldier killed at least 30 Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists with his grenade launcher during the battle which ultimately marked the end of the terror organization’s "caliphate" in Syria.
The SAS’s D Squadron was working alongside U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters who had forced the terrorists into a small pocket inside the town of Baghouz. The SAS teams were moving around the outskirts of the town when they came under fire from ISIS jihadists located inside a former bank.
A source told the Daily Star Sunday that "After the SAS and Kurdish fighters came under attack, one SAS trooper opened fire with the grenade launcher to allow other members of the patrol to get into cover."
At least six grenades were fired directly into the building.
"When Kurdish troops returned a few days later they discovered at least 30 bodies inside the shattered building ‐ all were ISIS fighters and most had died from shrapnel wounds from the grenades fired into the building," the source said.
One member of the SAS was slightly injured by a bullet ricocheting off the ground before the soldier blasted the building with a grenade machine gun (GMG).
The GMG, a favorite weapon of the SAS, has a range of around 2,000 meters and can fire 350 high explosive rounds per minute.
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said that it liberated Baghouz on March 23. It was the last stronghold in ISIS’s so-called "caliphate" that once ruled over 8 million people in Iraq and Syria.
"On this unique day we commemorate thousands of martyrs whose efforts made the victory possible," SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali tweeted.
"Three days ago we clutched our weapons, trying to break forward even a few meters," an SDF fighter called Rami told AFP. "But now we’ve finished with ISIS and its black banner and we’ve hoisted our own instead."
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[Rudaw] Dozens of 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 jihadists emerged from tunnels to surrender to US-backed forces in eastern Syria on Sunday, a day after their "caliphate" was declared defeated.
Syria’s Kurds warned that despite the demise of the proto-state, the thousands of foreign jihadists they have detained are a time-bomb the world urgently needs to defuse.
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[Rudaw] Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who are holding thousands of 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) members, are trying to piece together a picture of what happened to the people who were held captive by the terror group.
"We rescued some of them, but not many in the past five years," Redur Khalil, SDF spokesperson and bigwig, told Rudaw at the ceremony to mark the territorial defeat of the group’s so-called caliphate on Saturday.
When ISIS swept across northern Iraq in the summer of 2014, they kidnapped 6,417 Yezidi women and youth. As of early March this year, 3,371 have been rescued and the whereabouts of 3,046 remains unknown, according to figures from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
The Yezidis were not the only ones who had their children kidnapped by the turbans and subjected to the group’s brutal ideology. Four Turkmen boys from Tal Afar were among 13 children rescued during the battle to defeat ISIS in Baghouz, eastern Syria this month.
Hope has dwindled for the families who have waited years for news of their missing loved ones as they watched the SDF and the global coalition slowly tighten the noose on ISIS in Syria until their ultimate defeat, announced on Saturday.
Wadiha Ibrahim’s husband, three sons, and one daughter have been missing for more than four and a half years.
"We had hoped they [would] return. We were waiting. But they never returned," she told Rudaw earlier this month, sitting outside the tent that is her temporary home in a camp in Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province.
The world is also waiting for news of hostages from around the globe who disappeared into the black ISIS void.
There was a brief flicker of hope in January that British journalist John Cantlie might still be alive. Used as a mouthpiece by ISIS, he was last heard from in 2016 until there were rumours he had been spotted in Hajin, Syria in January.
As the battle raged, the SDF said they could not confirm whether hostages like Italian priest Paolo Dall’Oglio or Lebanese journalist Samir Kassab were alive or dead.
The SDF is holding at least 10,000 ISIS jihadists ‐ mainly Iraqis and Syrians as well as imported muscle. They have also screened tens of thousands of family members of the hard boys.
"We interrogate [them] about what happened to those they held captive. Where did they go? What is their fate and whereabouts? These investigations continue, but unfortunately, we have not reached a clear result yet," explained Khalil.
"It is very painful and saddening," he said.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] For the first time since 2017, the jihadist rebels have attacked the town of Slunfeh in the northern countryside of the Latakia Governorate.
According to a military communique from Slunfeh, the jihadist rebels launched a number of projectiles towards the town on early Sunday.
The military communique added that the missiles landed in the town’s open fields and local farms, but no one was harmed by the jihadist attack.
The last time the jihadist rebels attacked Slunfeh was in 2017 when they used armed drones to bomb the town.
It was initially thought that the Israeli military had bombed the Syrian military; however, it was later revealed to by the jihadist rebels after they released a statement.
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... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
... the Turkish version of the Boogie Man, who set fire to the Turkish Reichsstag...
Hamas central military cmd.
[Aljazeera] Israeli military says rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a home in Mishmeret, a town north of Tel Aviv.
