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Africa Horn
Radio journalist shot dead in Baidoa
BAIDOA, Somalia -- Unidentified gunmen have brutally gunned down a radio journalist in Bay regional capital of Baidoa of southwestern Somalia late on Wednesday night according to relatives, Garowe Online reports.

Late Daud Ali Omar was killed along with his wife after the assailants broke their way into his residence in Baidoa’s Bardaale neighborhood. The attackers also shot and killed male carpenter along a nearby street while fleeing, sources confirmed.
Brave, brave lions of Islam...
The journalist had been working for Radio Baidoa as a program producer, and his killing is the latest in string of assassinations targeting media workers in war-torn Somalia.

At least three clerics aligned with the Paramilitary group of Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jamea have been killed by suspected Al Shabaab gunmen in Baidoa for the last two months alone.

International press watchdogs have ranked Somalia one of the worst places to be a journalist, with larger number being targeted, largely in volatile Mogadishu in 2014.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa North
One Killed, Six Taken Hostage in North Mali Attack
[Al Manar] Dozens of gunmen stormed a northern Mali town, killing one and taking six other people hostage in an attack blamed on Tuareg rebels, officials told AFP Friday.

"More than 50 armed men from the Coordination for the Movements of Azawad (CMA) came Thursday to sow terror in Bintagoungou. They killed a man and took six hostages with them," said Hama Aboubacrine, mayor of the town about 90 kilometers to the west of Timbuktu.

"Everyone knows each other here. (The attackers) had a CMA flag," added the mayor.

The gunmen also pillaged several shops and a pharmacy, and made off with two vehicles.
Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Angola Opposition: Police Reprisals Create ‘Environment of War’
[Voice of America] JOHANNESBURG—Angola's main opposition parties say authorities have killed hundreds of people in attacks on a religious sect. The alleged attacks followed the death of nine police officers as police tried to seize the leader of the sect.

Two weeks ago, nine police officers were killed during a raid in Huambo province aimed at capturing Jose Kalupeteka, leader of an outlawed sect called "The Light of the World."

The country’s main opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, UNITA, contends that authorities killed hundreds of people in retaliatory attacks.

Angolan officials deny the accusation. They say the popular firebrand preacher Kalupeteka was captured and just 13 sect members were killed.

Numbers have been difficult to verify as access to the affected area has been sealed off. But several locals have described what happened as “an environment of war."
Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


3 Killed in Burundi Grenade Attack
[Voice of America] BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI — Three people have died in grenade attacks in Burundi, a spokesman for the ministry of public security said Saturday, during a week that has seen street protests against President Pierre Nkurunziza's controversial decision to seek a third term.

Two police officers died in one attack on a police station in the capital's central market and a civilian died in another attack in the capital's Kamenge area, said Pierre Nkurikiye. Seventeen people were wounded in the grenade attacks which occurred Friday night, he said.

Police have arrested two suspects but the motive of the attacks is not known, said Nkurikiye. At least six people have been killed in clashes with the police this week, according to the Burundi Red Cross. A funeral for one of those killed in the protests was held Saturday.
Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Nigeria Rescues more Hostages, Fate of Chibok Girls Uncertain
[Al Manar] Nigeria troops have freed some 700 women and children from Boko Haram's Sambisa forest stronghold over the past week, but uncertainty remained on Saturday over the fate of 219 girls seized from their school in Chibok last year in a kidnapping that sparked global outrage.

In the latest rescue, "234 women and children were rescued through the Kawuri and Konduga end of Sambisa forest on Thursday," the defense headquarters said in a statement late Friday.

"They have been evacuated to join others at the place of ongoing screening," it said, adding that the latest batch was "in addition to the previous individuals earlier rescued during the ongoing operation in the area."

Around 500 women and children have already been freed by the military from the extremists in the past few days.

The military said the "assault on the forest is continuing from various fronts and efforts are concentrated on rescuing hostages of civilians and destroying all terrorists camps and facilities in the forest."

Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman told Agence France Presse Saturday the hostages were freed without much resistance.

"In the latest rescue operation there was no much resistance from the terrorists like the one encountered in the two previous operations," he said.

"So, there were no casualties sustained among the rescued hostages this time. They are traumatized and some of them are sick," he said.

Usman said the hostages would undergo screening to "determine their status, whether they are hostages or terrorist fighters."

"Terrorists are known to use women in their terrorist acts and have used them as suicide bombers. Therefore there is need for thorough investigation to establish their true identities".
Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram

#1  Still holding this damn "#bringbackourgirls" sign......
Posted by: Michelle || 05/03/2015 12:16 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudis: those troops newly deployed in Aden aren't ours
Saudi Arabia has denied reports of a limited ground-troop deployment in Yemen's second city of Aden to support loyalist militia fighters. A Saudi spokesperson who issued the denial confirmed, however, that the Arab coalition remained engaged in the fight in the Arabian Peninsula nation.

"There are no foreign forces in Aden but coalition continues to help fight against the Houthi militia," Brigadier General Ahmed al-Asiri said in a statement.
"These aren't the drones you're looking for..."
Yemeni officials had earlier said at least 20 Arab coalition soldiers landed in Aden, a southern port city, on Sunday on a "reconnaissance" mission.

The Arab coalition has been conducting an air war against Iran-allied Shia Houthi fighters since March 26.

"A limited coalition force entered Aden and another force is on its way" to the city, AFP news agency had quoted an official, who requested anonymity, as saying.

A leading member of the Popular Committees, a locally recruited militia loyal to exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, also told AFP the ground force "will start helping us in fighting" the Houthis.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/03/2015 08:20 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  why are we supporting saudi arabia against the houthis?
Posted by: anon1 || 05/03/2015 11:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Because the Houthis are backed by Iran? Which is kinda odd Because the Houthis are aligned with ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a formerly US-backed Shia (who backed Saddam Hussein) and a ruthless bastard in his own right.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/03/2015 12:17 Comments || Top||

#3  thanks pappy - but why would we support KSA over Iran?
Posted by: anon1 || 05/03/2015 13:08 Comments || Top||

#4  A bloody draw would be nice...
Posted by: Steve White || 05/03/2015 13:10 Comments || Top||

#5  thanks pappy - but why would we support KSA over Iran?

Because they are our...um...friends?
Posted by: Devo || 05/03/2015 13:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Ask the guy who bows to foreign kings.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/03/2015 13:37 Comments || Top||

#7  An outside strait, we are drawing and hoping
Posted by: Shipman || 05/03/2015 13:38 Comments || Top||

#8  if only they could both lose...
Posted by: anon1 || 05/03/2015 13:56 Comments || Top||

#9  If you could quarantine the region and let them kill each other until they exhaust their countries and want to quit, that would be good.

Unfortunately, they are sitting on a huge supply of oil, on which much of the world depends, which forces others to get involved in dealing with ME madness.

It has been my opinion since the 1973 ME oil embargo responsible nations need to become independent of ME oil. This would strengthen relations between functional nations and force the dysfunctional nations to deal with with their issues or die.

They need us more than we need them.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 05/03/2015 14:29 Comments || Top||

#10  " but why would we support KSA over Iran?"

Iran has killed more Americans than any other Nation world wide in recent past.
KSA is very controllable, Iran is not.
Posted by: newc || 05/03/2015 15:10 Comments || Top||

#11  A good part of it is control of the sea lanes. Iran has made it clear that it will attempt to shut off the Straits of Hormuz if conflict breaks out. Yemen sits at the entrance to the Red Sea. An Iranian controlled Yemen means a potential choke-point to the Red Sea and ultimately the Suez Canal.

Nearly all the KSA oil ends up in Europe and Asia (mainly Japan.) Obviously that would be affected. But so would general maritime traffic. It's not much of an imaginary stretch to consider that impact on the global economy.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/03/2015 16:26 Comments || Top||

#12  The Saudis are pretending to be our friends.

Keeping up this pretense imposes restrictions on Saudi Arabia's freedom to act against us.

Iran is a mortal enemy operating under no such restrictions.

Saudi Arabia is the lesser evil.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 05/03/2015 16:57 Comments || Top||

#13  IRAN is vowing to NOT let Yemen fall to devious foreigners, + also that it will protect its interests in Yemen.

As for those alleged Saudi non-Saudi troops ...

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [LA Daily News] OFFICIALS: ARAB COALITION "RECONNAISSANCE TROOPS" IN YEMEN.

Paving the way for larger ground force to follow???

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > "LIMITED" COALITION FORCE ON GROUND IN ADEN [another on the way to same]:YEMENI OFFICIAL.

Iff these mystery troops are "non-foreign", are they pro-Saudi anti-Iran Yemeni units???


VERSUS

* JERUSALEM POST > GULF STATES WANT QUID PRO QUO US ASSURANCES, [advanced US] WEAPONS, FOR SUPPORT ON [Nuclear = P5+1] IRAN DEAL.

Whatevar! NucWeaps Iran develops or acquires, the smaller GCC States want a reliable-n-effective US-Allied defense agz same + latest Conventional, etc. MilTechs.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/03/2015 21:24 Comments || Top||


3 soldiers killed as KSA repels Houthi attack
[Arab News] Three Saudi troops and “dozens” of Houthi rebels were killed as Saudi ground forces repelled a major attack from inside Yemen, officials said.

A statement by the SPA said the attack on “border posts and control points” Thursday night took place on its southern border near the town of Najran. Saudi ground troops exchanged fire with Iran-backed Houthi Shiite rebels and called in airstrikes, said the SPA. “Dozens of the militiamen were killed. Three soldiers of the ground troops were martyred,” according to the statement.

The attack was the first major incursion into the Kingdom by the Houthis since the Saudi-led coalition began carrying out airstrikes inside Yemen more than a month ago.

Jazan is about 200 km east of Najran and about 10,000 tribesmen from Jazan have volunteered with their own weapons to stand at the border alongside the Saudi soldiers, commanders in the area say.
Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Soddy Warplanes Strike Targets in Sanaa
[Al Manar] The Saudi warplanes struck the area of Saawan in Yemen's Sanaa killing or injuring dozens of civilians, including mainly widows and orphans

The Saudi air raids also targeted the residential and commercial buildings in Hijja and Saada province.

The Yemeni army, backed by the popular committees, advanced in the province of Abyan after expelling Qaeda terrorists from several areas.

The popular committees captured the drone, which had parachute landed due to a technical fault, while patrolling the area on Friday.

Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-US coalition. Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive president Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.

On April 21, Saudi Arabia declared the end of the aggression, dubbed “Decisive Strom”. However, the Saudi-led warplanes are still conducting airstrikes on several areas across Yemen.

More than 3,500 people were martyred by the Saudi aggression, most of them are civilians. Thousands more were injured.
Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's starting to look like all the US's efforts in the Middle East were like watching a guy finally get his old lawn mower to start on the 775th pull. It's chuggin' and smokin' now, let's see if it can actually mow the lawn...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2015 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Your vivid imagery wants me to buy a tanker truck of Round-Up. Beat up old mower with a 1.5 hp B&S motor needing rings and bearings .,r
Posted by: Shipman || 05/03/2015 13:43 Comments || Top||


Europe
40 Person Mob Assaults 2 Jews on Paris’ Boulevard Voltaire
[The Algemeiner] Two Jewish residents of Paris were assaulted on the street by a gang of about 40 people on Friday, Israeli French JSS News reported on Friday.
How many more hints do the Jews of Europe need...
The attack against the two Jewish residents, both in their 20s, occurred about 2:30 p.m. on Boulevard Voltaire in Paris’ 11 arrondissement, according to the report. Police launched an investigation into the incident and warned local Jewish businesses owners to be extra vigilant, JSS News said.

Witnesses on the scene said members of the Jewish community volunteered to watch over the many local Jewish businesses on Boulevard Voltaire, according to French antisemitism watchdog group the Bureau National de Vigilance Contre l’Antisemitisme.

The gang of attackers were associated with anti-Israel groups Gaza Firm and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, said security personnel responsible for protecting the Jewish community.

The attack marks the latest in a growing antisemitic trend in France and Europe as a whole. Earlier this year, Islamist gunmen seized a Kosher supermarket in Paris and killed four Jewish hostages. Just a few weeks later, a security guard was killed in Copenhagen when a lone gunman opened fire in front of the city’s Great Synagogue.

In 2006, a French Jew was kidnapped from his cell phone store from the same Boulevard Voltaire, tortured and ultimately killed.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Military: Pakistani Air Strikes Kill 44 Militants
[AnNahar] Pak air strikes on Saturday killed at least 44 bully boyz in the country's lawless tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, the military said, part of a massive operation against the Taliban.

In Khyber district's Tirah valley where troops are battling Talibs and Islamist groups, air strikes killed 28 Lion of Islams, the military said in a statement.

While in North Wazoo, another northwestern tribal district bordering Afghanistan and a Taliban stronghold, air strikes killed 16 Lion of Islams, it added.

The military began its latest offensive in Khyber in October 2014 carrying out Arclight airstrikes and using artillery, mortars and ground troops.

The Tirah valley is considered a stronghold of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and other Lion of Islam groups.

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

Pakistain has been battling a homegrown Islamist insurgency for over a decade following the late 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, though the fighting has at times proved unpopular among those who believe Moslems should not wage war on their co-religionists.

Public opinion however has shifted heavily against the Taliban in recent times after a series of brazen attacks on civilian targets, including a school in 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.
where more than 150 people -- mostly children -- were killed.

Most of the fighting is now concentrated in the tribal districts of North Waziristan and Khyber.

The Pakistain army has been waging a major campaign against Taliban and other Lion of Islam strongholds in the North Waziristan tribal area since June last year.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Rao Anwar escapes attack on life, five assailants killed
[Dawn] KARACHI: Former SSP Malir Anwar's convoy came under attack in the Malir area of Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
where assailants hurled hand grenades and opened fire on the police vehicles. The coppers escaped unhurt, however, five attackers were killed in retaliatory fire, said Anwar.

The SSP said he was returning from slain DSP Fateh Muhammad Sangi's residence, who was martyred earlier on Friday, when person or persons unknown, in one car and three cycle of violences, hurled hands grenades and shot up his convoy.

Anwar stated that he was heading to inspect the incident site where DSP Sangi was killed when his convoy came under attack. "Police retaliated promptly to the attack, killing five attackers, who appear to be from Taliban," said the SSP.

He further said that weapons and hand grenades were recovered from the killed attackers; however, their identities were still unknown.

DSP Sangi along with his security guard and driver was rubbed out on Friday morning in a gun attack that police believed was the job of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain.

The four attackers riding cycle of violences intercepted the car at 'Bata Mor' in Gulshan-e-Hadeed Phase-I and opened fire on it from three different directions, leaving all the three officials dead on the spot, said Karachi-East SSP Pir Mohammed Shah who had just taken the additional charge of Malir SSP after the late night transfer of SSP Rao Anwar.

Sindh Police Inspector General (IG) Ghulam Hyder Jamali had on Thursday transferred Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rao Anwar from Malir.

The provincial police chief said Rao Anwar "misused" his authority following which he has been transferred from Malir district.

The police spokesperson said the IG's orders came after Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah took serious notice of Rao Anwar's presser earlier in the day, in which he leveled serious allegations against Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
(MQM).

The SSP had claimed that the MQM has links with Indian spy agency RAW, and that the party sent workers to India to get them trained by RAW and eventually use that training to spread terror in Pakistain.

"MQM is a terrorist organization and it should be banned," SSP Anwar had argued, while narrating that members of MQM went to India through Indian-held Kashmire, were trained there by RAW and then came back to Pakistain to spread terror.

"We have solid evidence to prove these allegations. The two people we incarcerated
You have the right to remain silent...
have confessed all of this and they are ashamed of their activities. We recovered a large amount of explosives, hand grenades, 9mm pistols from these suspects. We will investigate further during the remand," he had said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


At least 12 militants killed in Khyber airstrikes
[Dawn] 12 suspected bully boyz were killed and eight others were maimed in Arclight airstrikes conducted by military jets in Khyber Agency's Tirah Valley on Saturday.

According to security sources, military jets and helicopters targeted murderous Moslem hideouts in Tirah Valley's Kokikhel area.

Twelve bully boyz were killed and eight others were reportedly injured in the air sorties which destroyed targeted hard boy hideouts.

Khyber is one of Pakistain's seven semi-autonomous regions governed by tribal laws and lies near the Afghan border. The Tirah Valley in the region is home to bully boyz from the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and an allied group called Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver....
The Arclight airstrikes come amid the ongoing Khyber-2 operation launched by the army in the tribal region and are part of the military's stepped-up efforts since a murderous Moslem attack in Dec 2014 killed 150 people, mostly children, at 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.
's Army Public School.

The Peshawar incident came months after the army launched Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
, a grand operation in the North Wazoo tribal region, following a Taliban-claimed attack on the Jinnah International Airport in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Since the beginning of Zarb-e-Azb, bully boyz have fled to other tribal regions, including to Khyber and its Tirah Valley that borders Afghanistan. They appear to be moving across the border and seem to operate from both sides of the Durand Line.
About that. I realize I am completely unqualified to advise The Army of the Pure on military strategy and tactics, but it nonetheless seems to me all this would be much more effective if you added an anvil to that hammer.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Explosives, suicide jackets recovered
Summary: We found all sorts of nasty, nasty stuff, sez police. Dunno whose they are, but we'll find 'em, by Gum!
[Dawn] The police claimed on Friday to have recovered a big quantity of explosives, toy bombs and suicide jackets during a search operation in limits of Paharipura cop shoppe here.

A police front man said the explosives included toy bombs, 350 kilogram explosives packed in bags, suicide jackets and detonators.

The official said that it was yet to be known who had left the lethal materials, and that police had launched efforts to arrest the culprits.

However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
another source said that some Afghan nationals were involved in keeping the lethal materials for sabotage attempts. But police foiled their bid by timely recovering the explosives.

The front man said the police had launched search and strike operation across the 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.
district to arrest the people involved in different crimes.

He said many tenants, who failed to share the required information with police, had also been tossed in the slammer
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  350 Kg. of explosives? Why is it that there is little reporting on the source of same?
Posted by: Clyde Borgia7976 || 05/03/2015 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Look up "arms markets in Pakistan."
Posted by: Pappy || 05/03/2015 12:25 Comments || Top||

#3  On this site. :)
Posted by: Shipman || 05/03/2015 13:44 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraq: At Least 6 Killed in Suicide Attack West of Baghdad
[Voice of America] BAGHDAD—A suicide car bomber on Saturday attacked Iraqi forces west of the capital, Baghdad, killing at least six troops, officials said, as the Canadian prime minister paid a surprise visit to Iraq.

The attacker drove an explosive-rigged Humvee into a military headquarters in the town of Garma, where government forces and allied militias have been battling Islamic State militants, a police officer said.

The dead included three soldiers and three militia members, he added. Nine other troops were wounded. A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.

Backed by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition, Iraqi government forces have been trying to dislodge the militants from Garma, east of the IS-held city of Fallujah. Security forces have reported slow progress in recent weeks.

Recapturing Garma is an essential step to tighten the grip around the city of Fallujah, about 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of the capital, which has been under IS control since early last year.

Meanwhile on Saturday, Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi received his Canadian counterpart, Stephen Harper, in Baghdad. Canada is part of the U.S.-led international coalition that supports the Iraqi military with airstrikes, training and weapons.

Al-Abadi hailed Canada's role in that coalition as “essential” and called on the international community to join forces against the extremist threat as “terrorism is not only threatening Iraq, but the region and the whole world.”

Harper pledged to continue his government's support for Iraq, before heading north to meet with Kurdish officials.

Al-Abadi lauded his country's security forces and vowed to retake all IS-held areas. The militant group controls large areas of Anbar province and Iraq's second largest city, Mosul.

“Daesh is now retreating, Daesh is now weak,'' he said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group. ``We liberated all areas in Diyala (province), the majority of Salahuddin (province), Baghdad is more secure than any time before, we are now liberating Anbar and after it, we will go to Mosul.''
Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraqi Forces 37 ISIL Terrorists in Ramadi
Iraqi security forces have killed 37 ISIL militants Saturday in clashes that took place in the city of al-Karma in the western province of Anbar, an army source said.

Major General Mohamed al-Delimi told The Anadolu Agency that the Iraqi forces were advancing toward central al-Karma to capture it from ISIL.

4 suicide bombers of ISIL also killed in this attack. Security forces also managed to defuse 175 improvised explosive devices between the al-Hareriyat area and central al-Karma, al-Delimi said.
Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Southeast Asia
Militant gunned down in Pattani clash
[The Nation] A militant was killed in a clash with security forces in Pattani province yesterday morning, while another militant was arrested and yet another surrendered.

A 12-hour standoff between officers and three suspects at a local school in Muang district ended yesterday evening. Officials believe the suspects had fled from the scene, so they withdrew from the area.

The officers surrounded the school and used Muslim leaders to try and negotiate with the militants by megaphone but they got no response. A 10-minute gun battle erupted at about 5 a.m. when the officers surrounded the school. Mahamawu Jehheh was gunned down, while Waesohoh Doloh was arrested. After an hour of talks, Suriya Taha surrendered.

Meanwhile, a homemade bomb, discovered at a wooded area in Songkhla province, was defused by a bomb squad on Friday night. Officials believe that Songkhla Governor Thamrong Charoenkul was the target of the bomb.
Posted by: ryuge || 05/03/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Activists: Suspected chemical attacks in Syria injure 40
[Ynet] Suspected chlorine gas attacks by Syrian government helicopters injured some 40 people and killed a child in the country's northwest, activists said Saturday, a day after an international chemical weapons watchdog said it was ready to investigate a series of newly claimed attacks.

Videos shared by the Syrian Civil Defense activist group showed medics and residents rushing children to a local hospital as they coughed, some gasping for air in Saraqeb, a town in Idlib province. A video from Nareb, another town in the province where a coalition of bully boy groups has made gains in recent days against troops loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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, showed a medic receiving oxygen himself after rescuing people from another attack.
Real or Palliwood? If real, who of the many possibilities most likely did the deed, including those who reported it?
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Lebanon: Terrorists in Arsal Barrens Hand Over Corpses of Army Soldier, Civilian
[Almanar News] The Lebanese army intelligence received the corpses of a soldier and a civilian from the terrorist groups in Arsal barrens, according to Al-Manar correspondent.

The two corpses were moved to the military hospital to conduct the DNA tests.

Militants of the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) terrorist group, who took refuge inside the Lebanese eastern town of Arsal escaping blows of the Syrian army inside Syria, had kidnapped 29 soldiers of the Lebanese security personnel in August 2014. Four of them have been executed so far, amid covert negotiations between the Lebanese government and the terrorist groups.
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52 Dead in Coalition Strikes in Syria
US-led air strikes allegedly targeting the ISIL group killed at least 52 civilians in a village in northern Syria, a monitoring group said on Saturday.

"Air strikes by the coalition early on Friday on the village of Birmahle in Aleppo province killed 52 civilians," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the UK-based opposing Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

"Seven children were killed, and 13 people are still trapped in the rubble," he said.

A statement released on Friday by the joint task force for the coalition said it had conducted six air strikes near Kobani on ISIL tactical units.

Prior to Friday's strikes, the coalition's raids had killed 66 civilians since it began attacking ISIL positions in Syria in September 2014.

According to Observatory, the air campaign has killed more than 2,000 people in total, including at least 1,922 ISIL fighters.
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Lebanon: Schoolbag Loaded with Explosives Found in Lassa
[Al Manar] A school bag stacked with ammunitions has been found today near Lassa Village highway in the hilly district of Jbeil.

Explosives, upon inspection by Lebanese army bomb-disposal experts were found to be unready for use.
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