At least 20 Taliban militants were killed in clashes with Afghan security forces in Faryab province in Afghanistan's north, local officials said Saturday.
The battle started in Dawlat Abad district in Faryab on Friday night and continued for few hours by the midnight.
District governor Abdul Salam Nahzat confirmed the report and said the clash continued for three hours in which Taliban suffered heavy casualties.
Nazhzat said at least 11 security check posts and 10 villages in the district are under control of the Taliban.
He added that government forces will launch a military operation to retake those areas.
Three soldiers were wounded in the fighting, he said.
[Libya Observer] Dignity Operation MiG23 warplanes conducted an Arclight airstrike on Hajaj heights district on the east coast of Derna in eastern Libya.
The Arclight airstrike led to material damage in people's properties as the bombs hit an area nearby residential areas. No casualties were reported, local sources from Derna said.
A delegation from the High Council of National Reconciliation announced that it had delayed a visit to Derna after Haftar told them to do so to leave a space for holding a meeting between Dignity Operation and Derna Shura Council to review the conditions for a truce.
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... later after that, the delegation was assaulted by pro-Haftar gang as they were in an al-Bayda hotel, which obliged the delegates to leave to 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... Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... the front man of Derna Shura Council, Mohammed al-Mansouri, denied the news circulated on media outlets about the communication between them and pro-Dignity Operation military and political parties in order to disband the council and surrender its fighters and their weapons.
"That news is untrue and is being promoted by proDignity Operation parties for different intentions." al-Mansouri remarked.
Earlier, the House of Representatives' member, Khairallah al-Turkawi, said Derna Shura Council fighters have collapsed and are willing to surrender themselves and their weapons to Dignity Operation, which has been laying a tightened siege on the city for about two years.
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[AnNahar] Egyptian forces have killed 30 snuffies during several days of security operations in the Sinai Peninsula involving the army, air force and police, the military said Saturday.
The military did not specify to which group the 30 snuffies belonged but described them as "extremely dangerous".
Five others were incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! as Egyptian forces imposed a "tight siege" on the North Sinai picturesque provincial capital El-Arish and the cities of Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah, a military statement said.
[DAWN] Kuwait has protested to Leb over the alleged training by Hezbollah of 21 Shias that were convicted on charges of forming a "terror cell" in the Sunni-majority emirate last month.
It demanded that pressure be put on the Shia bully boy group, which has ministers in the Lebanese government, to ensure there was no repetition.
The protest follows Kuwait's expulsion of 15 Iranian diplomats on Thursday over Tehran's alleged links to those convicted.
The letter delivered by Kuwait's ambassador in Beirut late on Friday said the emirate's supreme court had found that "Hezbollah took part in contacts, coordinating meetings, paid funds and provided arms and military training in Leb" for the defendants.
It called on Leb to take "necessary measures to curb these disgraceful practices" by Hezbollah as it is a partner in the government, ambassador Abdulaal al-Quenai told the official KUNA news agency.
Unlike neighbouring Sunni powerhouse Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Kuwait maintains diplomatic relations with Shia-majority Iran. Shias make up around one third of the emirate's population. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... sectarian issues remain sensitive.
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[AnNahar] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's police have rubbed out three men wanted for "terrorist" attacks in the country's Shiite-majority east, the interior ministry of the Sunni-ruled kingdom said Friday.
The men -- two Saudis and a Bahraini -- were killed in an exchange of gunfire with police in the city of Saihat in the district of Qatif on July 14, the ministry said.
Police seized three machine guns, a pistol, ammunition and more than 10 kilos (22 pounds) of explosives, official news agency SPA reported a ministry front man as saying.
He said the men were wanted for their involvement in deadly attacks against the police, as well as an attack on a vehicle used to transport cash, abductions and weapons trafficking.
Al-Jazirah newspaper on July 15 reported the death of one of the Saudis, Jaafar al-Mobireek, killed in Qatif, which has seen a string of attacks on security forces in recent weeks.
Most of Saudi Arabia's Shiites live in the oil-rich east, where they have long complained of marginalization.
The area has been rocked by unrest since 2011, when Shiite protests erupted to demand equality in the Gulf kingdom.
Authorities have blamed the violence on "terrorists" and narcos.
Teen Girl Found Dead, Stuffed Into Freezer In Alleged Honour Killing
22 July
A 19-year-old girl in Kingston, south-east London was found dead, her body stuffed into a large freezer, in what some suspect as having been an honour killing. The girl was kidnapped along with her cousin and taken to a large
Parliament Report Admits Migrant Data ‘Woefully Inadequate’ and ‘Flawed’
21 July
The UK will struggle to control immigration after Brexit as it does not have the capacity to measure numbers arriving, leaving, and staying, a parliamentary report has acknowledged.
Police tell Grenfell Residents: We Are ‘Not Interested’ in Illegal Immigrants
21 July
Police say they are “not interested” in pursuing Grenfell residents who should not have been in the country or were illegally or sub-letting their flats, because “That’s not what we are here for.”
Council spends £28,000 putting a family of five Syrian refugees up in a Holiday Inn hotel for TEN MONTHS after they became locked in an immigration row with the Home Office
21/07/17
The family-of-five moved into the three star hotel in Clayton, Staffordshire, in September believing it was a temporary measure as they fight their case to stay in the UK.
Incredible moment suspected illegal Sudanese migrant tries to hitch a lift to Birmingham on the M40 - only to be arrested after the driver reports him
20/07/17
After allegedly leaping off the back of the HGV near Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, the migrant was attempting to make the 100-mile journey to Birmingham on foot.
Moroccan drug addict criminal who has committed more than 40 offences wins £40,000 payout for being locked up too long - his SECOND slice of compensation over failed efforts to kick him out of the country
20/07/17
Khalid Belfken, 27, has been awarded substantial damages for unlawful detention. Belfken was only 15 when he arrived in Britain in 2005 and almost immediately embarked on a prolific life of crime.
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A Scottish midwife has revealed how she deals with cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) on an almost daily basis
"Barbaric!"
- Bob Herrick
From gathering rosebuds, no urgin'
Deters the Mohammedan surgeon --
Not rhyming nor reason --
From seizin' the season
To cut and preserve every virgin.
German refugee office falling behind in processing asylum requests
22 July
[DW] Employees at Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) are failing to meet set targets for the number of asylum requests that must be processed per day. Workers managed to process an average of just 2.5 asylum requests per day during the first week of July, well below the 3.5 target set by the office, according to German media reports on Saturday. In total, around 13,000 requests were processed during the first week of July.
Earlier this year it was revealed that the BAMF was dealing with a backlog of almost 500,000 unprocessed requests. While the number of people who entered Germany seeking refuge in 2016 was markedly lower than the year before, many people who arrived during the 2015 migrant crisis only made their applications the following year.
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[DW] Interpol has circulated a list of 173 alleged "Islamic State" (IS) fighters who might be trained to carry out suicide attacks in Europe. The list was compiled using US intelligence from operations in Syria and Iraq.
France jails two Britons for migrant smuggling by plane
22 July
[DW] The two men were each sentenced to 30 months jail after admitting making several flights to England carrying migrants. They were caught earlier this week leaving an aerodrome close to the port town of Calais. Pilot David Green and his accomplice Edward Buckley admitted in a French court on Friday they had flown several migrants from the Marck aerodrome, near Calais to Britain, charging passengers £10,000 (11,120 euros, $13,000) each. The pair were caught on Monday as they tried to leave the airfield in a four-seater Cessna plane with four Albanians on board, British and French media reported. They were placed on fast-track trial just four days later.
Greece: 35 Arrested in Migrant Camp Clashes
19 July
[Breitbart] Clashes have broken out for the second time in eight days at a crowded migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Syrian citizen sentenced to 3 years in prison in Germany
18 July
[Ynet] A German court has sentenced a 25-year-old Syrian citizen to three years in prison for membership in a foreign terrorist organization. The man's defense had claimed that as part of the Nusra Front he was fighting the IS extremist group, "which is being fought against by the entire free world," but the court said fighting in a terrorist group cannot be justified because it is battling another terrorist group.
Goodness. The arguments it has never occurred to me to make
.The court's statement said the man arrived in Germany in 2015, but didn't provide any further details.
Nina Queer: drag queen and SPD tolerance ambassador apologizes for racist remarks
18 July
[DW] The tolerance ambassador for the Berlin SPD has called for the deportation of five teens who assaulted a gay couple. The offenders reportedly spoke Turkish to each other. The Social Democrats' tolerance ambassador apologized on Tuesday for comments percieved by many as racist.
Nina Queer, a prominent Berlin drag queen, called for the deportation of a group of teens who assaulted a gay couple in Neukölln on Monday. "It makes me sick," Nina Queer wrote on Facebook on Monday evening, linking to an article on the assault. "Deport them immediately! Whether they are born in Germany or not! If you want to have stress, you can definitely find a great war zone."
"Due to the arrival of migrants from countries such as Eritrea, Somalia and Iraq, we have recorded a huge increase in the number of affected women and threatened girls," Terre des Femmes spokeswoman Charlotte Weil told DPA on Tuesday.
Weil, who has authored a report on unrecorded female genital mutilation (FGM) in Germany, estimated that there are 58,000 women in the country who have been victims of female circumcision. The mutilation of the female sexual organs is practised in many African countries, as well as a few in Asia. It is illegal in Germany.
"We don't know of any cases where a girl was mutilated in Germany. It either takes place on a holiday back in their homeland, or during a visit to a practitioner in a city such as Paris or Amsterdam," said Weil.
Migrants make 'first ever' attempt to cross from France to UK by light aircraft
18 July
[TheLocal.fr] Four Albanian migrants tried to fly from France to Britain in a light aircraft, in what is believed to be a first, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The four, including two women and a child, were arrested along with the British pilot and two suspected British people smugglers as the plane prepared to take off from an airfield in Marck, near the northern port of Calais.
Child Abuse Trial After Woman Took Kids To Join Islamic State
18 July
[Breitbart] A female Islamic state support in Germany is facing trial on charges of child abuse for taking her young children to join the terror group. The unnamed woman, born in Dresden in 1976, is said to have dragged her four
How Berlin's Lebanese mafia clans work
13 July
[DW] A Lebanese organized crime family is said to be behind the spectacular theft of a giant Canadian gold coin - "the Big Maple Leaf" - from a museum in Berlin. But who are the "family R?"
Alleged 'Islamist mole' who worked for German intelligence released
12 July
[DW] A regional court in Düsseldorf has said it will only pursue some of the charges raised against the intelligence worker. The suspect was arrested last year on suspicion of sharing secret information on Islamist web sites.
Germany is now home to around 700 Islamists thought to pose a terror threat, warns police chief
21/07/17
The federal police chief Holger Münch said the group posed the biggest threat to Germany, which has been rocked by terror attacks prompting criticism of Angela Merkel's open-door immigration policy.
Germany's media failed in their duty to cover the migrant crisis responsibly and treated anyone critical of Merkel's open door policy as racist, influential German institute study finds
21/07/17
Researchers at Germany's Otto Brenner Institute said they studied thousands of articles published by daily newspapers during the mass influx of refugees in 2015 and 2016.
Austria tells Italy to stop bringing migrants to mainland Europe and offering 'a ticket to the continent' as Sicilian mayor vows to block far-right activist ship looking to disrupt rescues
21/07/17
A dozen far-right millennials from Europe and North America announced a plan to set sail next week to 'defend Europe' from what they call a migrant invasion from Africa.
'Overwhelmed' German legal system is on the verge of 'collapse' because so many migrants are appealing against decisions to expel them from the country, judge warns
21/07/17
There are currently around 250,000 asylum decisions waiting to be challenged in German courts, prompting a warning that 'at some point, everything will collapse'.
Italian mayor BARRICADES abandoned hotel to stop migrants moving into it as country reaches breaking point over the crisis
17/07/17
Vincenzo Lionetto Civa, mayor of Castel'Umberto, Sicily, wrote a post advising residents that the local prefect had just informed him that the 30 or so migrants would be transferred to a local hotel.
EU limits the sale of inflatable boats to Libya in a bid to stop the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean
17/07/17
Foreign ministers agreed to allow member countries to ban such export or supply 'where there are reasonable grounds to believe that they will be used by people smugglers and human traffickers'.
Migrant Sex Attacks in German State Double From Last Year
21 July
The number of sexual assaults by asylum seekers recorded in the German state of Baden-Württemberg in 2016 close to doubled from the 2015 recorded figure. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the number of crimes of a sexual nature
Efforts to Educate Migrants Stall as Just Three Per Cent Want to Try Learning
21 July
The Swedish government has found that only between three and four percent of newly arrived migrants with a poor standard of education have any interest in attending further schooling or training. The new report, which comes from the Swedis
Town Launched Gender Segregated Asylum Homes After Child Sex Abuse
21 July
The Swedish municipality of Falkenberg is one of the few local governments to implement female-only asylum homes for underage girls, after a number of cases of sexual abuse by young boys. The gender segregation has been in place in the municipality
‘I Want to Die for Allah’ Shouted Migrant Who Stabbed Police Officer
21 July
An immigrant shouted ‘I want to die for Allah’ as he was escorted away after attacking a police officer with a knife in Italy.
Study: German Media Was Wholly ‘Uncritical’ During Migrant Crisis
21 July
A new study has slammed German media companies accusing them of promoting the government line and being entirely uncritical of the migrant crisis, instead, spreading only the ideas of “welcome culture.”
Report: Immigration Crisis Causing ‘Unprecedented’ Shift in Italy’s Demographics
20 July
A deadly combination of a plummeting birthrate and massive immigration portend that native Italians will make up an increasingly small percentage of Italy’s overall population, a new study reports.
Group of Syrian Migrants Brutally Beat Man After Accusing Him of Being Homosexual
19 July
Syrian origin 31-year-old Gabriel Chabo claims that he was severely beaten by a group of Syrian migrants in the Swedish town of Södertälje after the men claimed that he was homosexual.
Dogwalker Hospitalised After Attack By Somalian Migrant Who Said ‘Dogs are Unclean'
18 July
A middle aged woman had to be hospitalised in Vienna following a brutal beating in broad daylight by a veiled Somali asylum seeker offended by her pet dogs.
[DAWN] The Pakistain Army has cleared the "highest and craggiest" mountaintop near the Pak-Afghan border, killing "many" murderous Moslems and forcing others to flee to Afghanistan, a statement issued by the army's media wing said Saturday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said a terrorist hideout was dismantled during the operation at Brekh Muhammad Kandao mountaintop, a part of ongoing Operation Khyber-4 in Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... A cache of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), arms and ammunition was also recovered, ISPR said, adding that troops had established posts at over 12,000 feet after clearing the mountain top.
Army troops including Special Services Group (SSG) commandos took part in the action during which "many terrorists" were killed while some managed to flee to Afghanistan.
"This mountaintop was being used as main observation point and its base as a transit/storage point," ISPR said.
The mountaintop was planned to be cleared a little later as per the initial plan "but with high tempo operation [sic] it has been cleared well ahead of planned timing", the ISPR said.
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[DAWN] Two Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) personnel on patrol were martyred by person or persons unknown on the RCD Highway in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Chaghi district on Saturday night, Levies sources told DawnNews.
The two soldiers were patrolling the highway on a cycle of violence in the Killi Dawoodabad area when miscreants opened fire on them and fled, the Levies sources said.
A large number of FC and Levies personnel reached the site of the gun attack as an investigation into the incident went underway. A search operation was launched in the area following the attack, the Levies sources said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
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[DAWN] Twenty-six foreigners, including two men, eight children and 16 women were placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... from the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and taken to Baghdad by Iraqi authorities, three Iraqi intelligence officials told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named (AP) on Saturday.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... as the information is not yet public, revealed that some of the arrested foreigners are from Chechnya, and the women are from Russia, Iran, Syria, La Belle France, Belgium and Germany.
Among them are four German women of Moroccan, Algerian, Chechen and German descent. The Moroccan woman has a child. The arrests were made about 10 days ago.
The officials said that the women had allegedly been working with the bully boyIslamic 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) group in the police force. Their husbands were IS fighters but their fates are not known.
According to official sources, the French and German embassies have visited the women. They expect that the children will be handed over to the countries they belong to and the women will be tried on terrorism charges.
A 16-year-old German girl who had run away from home shortly after converting to Islam was also found in Iraq.
Prosecutor Lorenz Haase from the eastern German city of Dresden said the teenager, only identified as Linda W in line with German privacy laws, is getting consular assistance from the German Embassy in Iraq.
Haase did not confirm media reports on Saturday that the teenager from Pulsnitz in eastern Germany had been fighting for IS in Mosul.
He told AP, "Our information ends with the girl's arrival in Istanbul about a year ago."
Several female foreign IS fighters have also been detained by Iraq's military in Mosul recently, but Haase couldn't confirm that the German girl was part of that group.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three civilians were wounded in an IED blast northern Baghdad, a police source has said.
“A bomb, placed on the side of the highway at al-Taji region, north of Baghdad, exploded on Friday leaving three civilians injured,” the source told AlSumaria News.
“Security troops arrived at the accident spot and transferred the injured to a nearby hospital for treatment,” the source, who asked to be unnamed, added.
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State Sunni extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
More than 700 Iraqis were killed and wounded during the month of June as result of violence and armed conflicts, according to a monthly count by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) which excludes security members deaths. Baghdad ranked the second place with 22 deaths and 88 injuries.
Bombings and armed attacks are seen on on almost a daily basis against security members, paramilitary groups and civilians since the Iraqi government launched a wide-scale campaign to retake IS-occupied areas in 2016.
According to observers, IS is believed to constitute a security threat even after the group’s defeat at its main havens across Iraqi provinces.
(IraqiNews.com) Ten Islamic State militants were killed as the Shia-led paramilitary troops thwarted an attack near the Iraqi-Syrian borders, the media service announced.
In a statement on Saturday, the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) said, “troops of the first and 13th brigades confronted on Saturday an attack by IS militants near the Iraqi-Syrian borders.”
“Ten IS members were killed, while a vehicle was burnt as the troops foiled the attack,” the statement added.
In May, Hadi al-Amiri, head of Badr Organization, which works under the umbrella of the PMUs said troops reached to Iraqi-Syrian borders.
The target behind expanding the control of borders, according to PMUs officials, is to prevent infiltration of of IS militants from Syria to Iraq.
Previously, the troops liberated the remaining villages in the vicinity of Qairawan, a main Islamic State bastion which links between Tal Afar town and the Syrian borders, and Baaj, after the troops announced full liberation of Qairawan.
PMUs, an alliance of more than 60 mostly Shia militias, are recognized by the government as a national force under the Prime Minister’s command.
Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has recently vowed to keep the PMUs for several years and announced increase of their budget to raise the fighters’ wages.
The group has been actively engaged in the Iraqi government’s war against IS, and has recently claimed full control over Iraq’s borders with Syria, but has been operating only on ground with air support from the Iraqi army warplanes.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Three senior Islamic State leaders were killed in Tal Afar town, west of Mosul, the Shia-led paramilitary troops said on Friday.
A statement by Saraya al-Jihad militia, affiliated to al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) said troops “identified the bodies of IS members, who were killed on Thursday while infiltrating behind the troops in Tal al-Zalat region, west of Mosul.”
The militants included “Abu Iman, in charge of Islamic police, Abu Abd Zu’aizei’a, in charge of recruitment, and Naser abdullah Khedr al-Badrany,” the statement said. “They were in charge of planning to attack the PMUs from the back.”
Despite declaring victory over IS, the group have reportedly carried out attacks against security forces over the past few days.
Earlier this month, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi congratulated Iraqi forces and citizens on the victory over IS militants who had held the second largest Iraqi city since 2014. More than 25000 militants were killed throughout the campaign.
The town of Tal Afar and few surrounding areas are still held by the group in Nineveh province.
PMUs, an alliance of more than 60 mostly Shia militias, are recognized by the government as a national force under the Prime Minister’s command.
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) A series of powerful blasts have rocked the western suburbs of Tal Afar town, west of Mosul, as airstrikes targeted huge amount of explosives, a local source from Nineveh province was quoted saying.
“Huge blasts hit the western suburbs of Tal Afar, located west of Mosul, after airstrikes targeted a building, which included a huge amount the C4 explosives, used by Islamic State militants in manufacturing bombs and booby-trapping,” the source, who preferred anonymity, told AlSumaria News on Saturday.
“The losses inflicted on IS are unidentified due to the huge blasts that made the nearby houses collapse,” the source said adding that the group “depend on secret workshops at the residential areas to manufacture the C4 substance.”
Lt.Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah, of the Nineveh Operations Command, had said that the fourth phase of liberation will be launched soon to free Tal Afar and other regions to complete the liberation of the whole province.
In late June, a top leader in the town declared during a a sermon of Friday prayer that the town has become a temporary headquarter for the Caliphate.
A source was quoted earlier this month as saying that non-Iraqi IS militants executed the last local leader in Tal Afar and the town is currently run by Arab and foreign members after eliminating all the Iraqi leaders.
Tal Afar is one of the important strongholds still held by IS in Nineveh since August 2014.
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Seventeen Islamic State female members were killed and injured as a missile was shot on a building, west of Mosul, a source from Nineveh province said on Saturday.
“An unknown missile targeted a two-storey building, which was the headquarters of the IS al-Khansaa brigade, in Tal Afar town, west of Mosul,” the source was quoted by AlSumaria News as saying. “The brigade included wives and sisters of IS members and leaders as well as foreigners.”
“According to our information, between seven to ten women were killed, while seven others were injured. Most of them were leaders in brigades,” the source said adding the members are working on recovering the bodies from under the rubble.
“Wife of the emir of the so-called soldiers department, known as abu Youssef, were among the killed ones,” the source, who asked to remain unnamed said adding that her identity is still unknown.
Earlier on the day, news reports mentioned that powerful blasts have rocked the western suburbs of Tal Afar west as airstrikes targeted a building with huge amount of explosives inside.
Lt.Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah, of the Nineveh Operations Command, had said that the fourth phase of liberation will be launched soon to free Tal Afar and other regions to complete the liberation of the whole province.
Tal Afar is one of the important strongholds still held by IS in Nineveh since August 2014.
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Baqubah(IraqiNews.com) A policeman’s wife was injured in a bomb blast that exploded in western Baqubah, a local source from Diyala said.
Speaking to AlSumaria News on Saturday, the source said “an IED placed outside a house of a policeman in al-Jahiza region, west of Baqubah, exploded in the afternoon, leaving the policeman’s wife wounded and the house damaged.”
IS holds pivotal regions that link between each of Diyala, Salahuddin and Kirkuk, posing threats to the liberated regions.
Some areas in Diyala have seen a surge over the past months in bombings and armed attacks against security members, paramilitary groups and civilians, which urge Iraqi forces to prevent the militants infiltration between Salahuddin and Kirkuk provinces, especially the regions stretching along Hamreen mountains and Al-Azeem town.
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State Sunni extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
More than 700 Iraqis were killed and wounded during June as result of violence and armed conflicts, according to a monthly count by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), which excludes security members’ deaths. Baghdad ranked the second place with 22 deaths and 88 injuries.
[IsraelTimes] Earlier, IDF mapped family home of 19-year-old terrorist Omar al-Abed in preparation for its likely demolition.
Dozens of Paleostinian rioters on Saturday hurled stones at IDF soldiers near the central West Bank village of Kaubar, home to the terrorist who stabbed three Israelis to death a day earlier in the settlement of Halamish, close to the city of Ramallah.
The soldiers responded to the violent protests with riot dispersal means. There were no immediate reports of injuries
Earlier Saturday, the IDF raided the home of the Paleostinian terrorist who murdered the three Halamish family members, and tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! his brother. Troops were searching the village of Kaubar for weaponry and suspects.
They also mapped the family home of 19-year-old Omar al-Abed, in preparation for its likely demolition. An army official told Ynet the terrorist’s parents were known to be affiliated with the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group. Hamas hailed the attack late Friday as "heroic."
Security forces have enacted a closure on Abed’s village, and only humanitarian cases were being allowed through as the operations inside continued.
Abed’s brother Monir, 21, was arrested. Officials said they suspected Monir aided his brother in carrying out the attack. Security forces said they were looking for any additional suspects in the Halamish attack.
Also Saturday, the army said shots were fired overnight at a synagogue in the settlement of Avnei Hefetz in Samaria, west of Tulkarm. Residents reported hearing gunfire overnight. A search conducted in the morning revealed a bullet hole in a wall of the synagogue. The military was investigating.
The army also said it would further boost forces in the West Bank, in addition to the reinforcements already provided due to tensions surrounding new Temple Mount security checks.
[IsraelTimes] The Paleostinian terrorist who stabbed to death three members of an Israeli family while they were eating Shabbat dinner at home Friday night, was tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... three months ago by security forces of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , his uncle said Saturday.
Ibrahim al-Abed said his nephew Omar al-Abed spent two weeks in PA detention and was violently interrogated about alleged plans to attack Israelis before he was released.
The terrorist’s father said that his son was upset over the loss of Paleostinian lives following violent festivities over escalating tensions at the Temple Mount and wanted to protect the "honor" of the Jerusalem holy site.
"The honor of Moslems is only the Haram," Mohammed al-Abed said. "If it’s gone, the Moslems’ honor is gone. This was the motive for my son."
Al-Abed said in a pre-attack Facebook post that he expected to be killed in the attack. He wrote that he wanted his body to be covered by a banner of the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group and a photo of Abbas’s predecessor, Yasser Arafat.
Israel has repeatedly accused Abbas and his Paleostinian Authority of permitting anti-Israeli incitement in the public Paleostinian discourse.
[IsraelTimes] Border guards enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a Paleostinian teenager in the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday night after finding a razor blade hidden on his person, police said.
The 17-year-old was walking through a checkpoint near the Tomb of the Patriarchs holy site when he "aroused the suspicions" of the officers stationed there. They pulled him aside and searched him more thoroughly, finding a razor blade tucked in his clothes, "with which he planned -- according to assessments -- to carry out a terror attack," police said in a statement.
"The suspect was arrested for further investigation by security forces," the statement said.
[Ynet] Israeli Arabs and Paleostinians clash with Israeli security forces in east Jerusalem neighborhoods and elsewhere in West Bank; masked men block roads, burn tires, launch fireworks and throw Molotov cocktails and rocks; At-Tur resident: 'We're ready to fight to the death.'
Given the report yesterday that West Bank president Mahmoud Abbas had allocated $25 million to support this kind of activity, it's no surprise there is such enthusiasm today.
A Paleostinian man was killed during festivities in the West Bank on Saturday night, the fourth to die this weekend in violent protests against Israel's decision to set up metal detectors at the entrances to the Temple Mount, following a deadly terror attack at the site.
A 24-year-old Paleostinian was killed in uncertain circumstances in the village of al-Eizariya east of Jerusalem.
According to the same article, he had been wounded and subsequently died of his injuries.
Following a relatively quiet day, violence resumed late Saturday near the epicenter of the current crisis in the Old City of Jerusalem. After hundreds of Moslem worshippers defiantly held their evening prayers outside the Jerusalem holy site, resuming their protest against security measures Israel imposed after a deadly attack there, festivities unfolded with police firing tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters.
Violent festivities raged in Jerusalem's Old City by the Lions' Gate on Saturday evening--with protesters throwing stones, bottles and other objects at security forces--as rioting continued elsewhere in the capital and in various hotspots in the West Bank. On route 444 near Tayibe rioters burned tires. Protesters set a tire on fire in Kafr Kanna as well and then pelted police forces that arrived at the scene with stones. There were also festivities Saturday afternoon and evening in Qalandiya, At-Tur, Shuafat, Isawiya and in the village of Kabor, the home of the terrorist who killed an Israeli grandfather and his two adult children in the nearby settlement of Halamish on Friday.
Rioters also threw stones and glass bottles at Israeli forces near the Mount of Olives. An IDF officer was lightly hurt when a stone hurt his upper body during festivities in Kafr Qaddum in the Samaria region of the West Bank.
The police also reported that four other suspects from the Old City were jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! overnight, including a young man, for participating in Friday's disturbances.
Following the deaths of the three Paleostinians on Friday, a general strike was declared in east Jerusalem neighborhoods, and a partial strike was declared in the Old City.
Demonstrations were also taking place in Arab communities throughout Israel, among them the Arab city of Tayibe, with another demonstration planned there for Saturday evening. Additional demonstrations are planned in the Arab cities of Nazareth, Umm al-Fahm and Qalansawe.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said 41 Paleostinians in total were taken to hospitals or clinics with injures from live ammunition, rubber bullets and beatings Friday. About 150 Paleostinians were treated for tear gas inhalation. The IDF and the Border Police also arrested 17 people in the West Bank, as dozens of Paleostinians were maimed in several incidents on the Gazoo Strip border, with participants burning tires and throwing rocks at the fence and IDF forces.
In conclusion, fewer than 200 were injured, not the 400 the Arabs initially claimed.
[Ynet] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council will meet on Monday to discuss the bloodiest spate of Israeli-Paleostinian violence for years, diplomats said on Saturday.
Sweden, Egypt and La Belle France requested the meeting to "urgently discuss how calls for de-escalation in Jerusalem can be supported," Sweden's Deputy U.N. ambassador, Carl Skau, posted on Twitter.
Raqqa (Syria News) Syrian warplanes carried out several air strikes against the Islamic State group (IS) in an urban area, east of Raqqa Province, and near the borders with Deir Ezzor Province, a military source told the state television on Saturday.
The source said that the Syrian warplanes carried out air strikes on the Islamic State headquarters in Ma’dan and Be’r al-Sabkhawi urban areas, in the eastern countryside of Raqqa, destroying several headquarters and vehicles, as well as killing many members of the radical group.
Meanwhile, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that for the first time in weeks, the Syrian Army carries out an attack in this area, near the station point of the US-backed Syrian forces.
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Deir Ezzor (Syria News) Warplanes belonging to the US-led international coalition carried out heavy air strikes on the city of Mayadin, in the countryside of Deir Ezzor, leaving several casualties, a source told Qasioun News on Friday.
The source said that the international coalition warplanes carried out heavy air strikes on the governmental building of al-Saray in the city of Mayadin, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, leaving several casualties.
Moreover, coalition aircraft bombarded al-Baloum area in the city of Mayadin, using high-explosive missiles, leaving several civilian casualties.
It is noteworthy that the Islamic State group renewed its shelling, using mortar missiles, on the Syrian regime-held al-Jawra and al-Qusour neighborhoods, but no casualties were reported.
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Aleppo (Syria News) Violent clashes broke out between the Syrian rebels and Syrian Democratic Forces militias (SDF), in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo, a source told Qasioun News on Friday.
The source said in a statement that clashes broke out between the Syrian rebels and Syrian Democratic Forces militias (SDF) on the outskirts of al-Muhsenli Village, in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo.
The clashes were followed by a mutual mortar shelling, but no casualties were reported, the source added.
Meanwhile, Syrian army forces shelled, using heavy artillery, the residential neighborhoods in Zaitan Village, in the countryside of Aleppo, destroying civilian property.
Yesterday, Syrian regime forces shelled several villages and towns in the southern countryside of Aleppo, without leaving any casualties.
Homs (Syria News) Several members of the Syrian regime forces and their affiliated militias were killed in a surprise attack launched by the Islamic State group on the Syrian-Iraqi borders.
Qasioun News reported that a surprise attack launched by the Islamic State radical group on the headquarters of the Syrian regime forces and their affiliated militias, located in Wadi al-Waer on the Syrian-Iraqi borders, killing more than 20 security members.
The attack allowed the terrorist group to retake al-Waer area and Dam, as well as capturing three soldiers and destroying two cannons and several vehicles, Qasioun added.
Meanwhile, similar clashes broke out near al-Hail oil field, east of Palmyra, amid mutual rocket and artillery shelling, leaving several casualties.
It is noteworthy that the Islamic State militants managed in the last few days to launch several attacks on the headquarters of the Syrian regime forces, retaking a number of areas.
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[Al Jazeera] Syrian troops and members of Leb's Hezbollah have advanced against Syrian rebels on the second day of an assault to drive them from their last foothold along the Syria-Leb border, pro-Damascus media reported.
The government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media (SCMM) said Shia Hezbollah fighters and Syrian troops captured several strategic hills on Saturday in areas between the Lebanese town of Arsal and the Syrian village of Fleeta.
The offensive began on Friday and targets Sunni Moslem fighters from the former Nusra Front, a group that was aligned to al Qaeda.
It is now known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and controls the barren zone of Juroud Arsal in the Qalamoun Mountains.
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(IraqiNews.com) Ten Islamic State militants were killed as the Shia-led paramilitary troops thwarted an attack near the Iraqi-Syrian borders, the media service announced.
