MOGADISHU -- Explosions hit Mogadishu leaving several solar powered street lights destroyed on Monday, Garowe Online reports.
What idiot came up with putting solar powered street lights in Mog? Must have been a western NGO idiot...
Three of nearly dozens of street lights lined along Mogadishus 30th Street, one of the citys busiest roads, were destroyed. Local sources said "no one was targeted" as the explosive devices were detonated at recently installed street lights in Mogadishu.
I heard very big blasts after Fajr [morning] prayer and they rocked in Al Baraka village of Hodon district, we went out to see what happened but we saw the wreckage of the solar powered street lights witnesses reported.
Nobody claimed its responsibility but Banadir regional administration accused Al Shabaab extremists of detonating the blasts. A spokesman for Banadir regional administration said: Al Shabaab will take the explosions responsibility because they so far targeted those street lights and they oppose their installation for public safety."
The targeted road connects four districts in Mogadishu and local residents welcomed the installation of solar powered street lights to increase public safety and businesses stay open late.
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Good, Let the animals destroy everything.
No Benefits for you.
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Free lights at night, Why, THAT'S UNISLAMIC we have the right to slaughter anybody we want to, WITHOUT detection.
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Street lights prevent crime. Battle space prep.
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Juice cooties brought this to mind. Strangely, it fits:
Midnight
And I'm a-waitin'
On the twelve-0-five
Hopin' it'll take me
Just a little farther down the line
Moonlight
You're just a heartache in disguise
Won't you keep my heart from breakin'
If it's only for a very short time
Playing with the queen of hearts
Knowin' it ain't really smart
The joker ain't the only fool
Who'll do anything for you
Laying out another lie
Thinkin' 'bout a life of crime
'Cos that's what I'll have to do
To keep me away from you
Honey, you know it makes you mad
Why is everybody tellin' everybody
What you have done
Baby, I know it makes you sad
But when they're handin' out the heartaches
You know you got to have you some
Playing with the queen of hearts
Knowin' it ain't really smart
The joker ain't the only fool
Who'll do anything for you
Laying out another lie
Thinkin' 'bout a life of crime
'Cos that's what I'll have to do
To keep me away from you
[Ynet] An Egyptian military source said that heavy military equipment and soldiers have arrived in the city of El-Arish in Sinai. According to the Paleostinian news agency Maan, the forces include more than 25 tank carriers, armored vehicles and rocket launchers, as well commandos, paratroopers and soldiers from the Egyptian infantry.
Maan reports that these are the first reinforcements sent to the border of the Gazoo Strip to deal with what was defined as an "outside disturbance."
[An Nahar] Egypt's first government since the military ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi almost two weeks ago was officially sworn in on Tuesday, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
The 35-member cabinet, including caretaker prime minister Hazem al-Beblawi, individually took their oath before army-appointed interim president Adly Mansour.
Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general behind the popularly backed coup that toppled Morsi on July 3, was appointed first deputy prime minister and minister of defense.
A former ambassador to Washington, Nabil Fahmy, took the post of foreign minister, while Mohammed Ibrahim, who served as interior minister in Morsi's government, retained his job.
There are three women ministers in the new cabinet, including health minister Maha El-Rabat. One of the women is a Coptic Christian.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... the Moslem Brüderbund rejected later on Tuesday the legitimacy of Egypt's newly appointed cabinet soon after it was sworn in Tuesday, two weeks after the military ousted Morsi.
"We don't recognize its legitimacy or its authority," front man Gehad El-Haddad told Agence La Belle France Presse, speaking after the 35 ministers took their oath before army-appointed interim president Adly Mansour.
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It's nice to recall that Egypt was once civilized, though modern Egypt has as much in common with the land of the Pharaohs as modern Italy has in common with Rome...
TRIPOLI: A Libyan air force colonel was shot dead in the eastern city of Derna, a military spokesman said on Tuesday, an Islamist stronghold plagued by attacks on security officials. Unidentified assailants shot Colonel Fathi al-Omami on Monday evening after as he visited a shop he owned in Derna, overlooking the Mediterranean coast.
He was trying to open the shop. A car was apparently waiting for him and those inside shot him, said Ali Sheikhi, spokesman for the army chief of staffs office.
The state news agency LANA said residents carried Omami to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Derna is known across the region as a recruitment centre for militants who have joined wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
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[Ynet] A Saudi who was freed by US authorities from detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to become second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has been confirmed dead, AQAP said on Wednesday.
Said al-Shehri was killed in a US-led drone strike in Yemen, senior AQAP official Ibrahim al Rubaish said in a video statement posted online. He did not say when the strike occurred.
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The Daily Mail points out this is the fourth time we have killed the gentleman in question...
In January, Yemen's official Saba news agency reported that al-Shihri died of wounds from a drone strike three months earlier.
In 2009 it was announced that he was killed by an American cruise missile and in September 2012, Yemeni news sites reported he was eliminated by a U.S. drone strike.
[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir activists continued to be on the rampage and clashed with law enforcers in different parts of the country yesterday, the second day of hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... in protest at the verdict in the war crimes trial of ex-Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... chief Ghulam Azam.
The violence left three persons and a child dead and scores of others, including 10 coppers, maimed in the districts of Satkhira, Dinajpur and Gazipur yesterday. The corpse count rose to nine in two days.
In contrast, the hartal called by the youths of Shahbagh and 10 left-leaning student organizations passed peacefully.
They observed the shutdown yesterday demanding the death penalty for Ghulam Azam, who was sentenced by International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday to 90 years in prison for criminal masterminding genocide and other crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
The Jamaat has also called for another daylong shutdown today and threatened to extend it to 24 hours, if the party's secretary general, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, is convicted of wartime offences by the tribunal which is set to deliver the verdict this morning.
The country virtually has fallen into a hartal trap with five continuous shutdowns beginning from Sunday. There will be no working day until next Sunday if the Jamaat enforces hartal tomorrow.
Already suffering from the heat of political unrest, the economy is facing another spell of damage when the country is trying to get rid of a stigma by holding trials of those who actively opposed the birth of Bangladesh and collaborated with the Pakistain occupation army.
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One terrorist militant was killed but another escaped in shootout with policemen in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Monday, July 15.
According to the statement, policemen were on patrol early Monday morning, when they detected a car parked near a forest. The statement said, As policemen attempted to check documents the driver of the car cast a grenade at them and opened fire. He was killed in return fire.
As the shootout began another assailant opened fire on law enforcers from the forest and then fled the scene. No police officers were injured in the shootout.
[Dawn] Personnel of Rangers rubbed out a taxi driver in a Gulistan-e-Jauhar locality when he did not stop his vehicle on Tuesday, officials said.
It is the second such incident in recent weeks as last month another unarmed civilian was killed by Rangers in Shah Faisal Colony for the same reason.
"The taxi driver, identified as Murid Abbas, was buying fruit across the road near Kamran Chowrangi when the Rangers personnel signalled him to stop," said SSP-East Imran Shaukat.
The driver backed up and it appeared to the Rangers personnel that he was trying to escape, he said, adding that one of them, identified as Lance Naik Ghulam Rasool, fired five shots at him.
Mr Abbas, whose two-year-old son was also with him in the taxi, suffered multiple bullet wounds and was taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim! Later, the body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem examination.
Gulistan-e-Jauhar SHO Malik Salim told Dawn that the victim sustained five bullet wounds in the abdomen, chest and arm.
The SSP said that three other Rangers personnel realised the gravity of the situation, disarmed the lance naik and produced him before their company commander, who handed over his custody to the police.
"He is in police custody and an FIR has been lodged against him on murder charges on a complaint of the victim's widow, Dua," said the SSP.
Three other personnel had been made witnesses of the incident, he added.
Ms Dua told the media that she was at her home and her husband along with their two-year-old son had gone to buy fruit when she got the tragic news of his killing.
"He was the sole breadwinner of our family and now we have been left abandoned," she said. "My husband was innocent, we are poor and we want justice."
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck in the tree roots and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... a Rangers front man said that the director general of the Rangers had taken serious notice of the incident and removed the company commander from his post. "The Rangers personnel have been taken into custody and an inquiry has been initiated. A legal action would be taken against all responsible personnel."
He said that the Rangers had intensified snap checks following continuous attacks on the paramilitary force. An armed suspect was placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on Tuesday who wanted 'to attack the Rangers', he added.
"Today, during checking near Kamran Chowrangi, a cycle of violence squad signalled a taxi driver but he accelerated the car in reverse. The Rangers personnel opened fire on him, resulting in injuries to the driver who later on died in the hospital," said a press statement issued by the Rangers.
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[Dawn] Police 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... say they have jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! the criminal mastermind behind a deadly bombing which killed nine people and injured senior Sindh High Court (SHC) judge Justice Maqbool Baqar.
In an operation carried out early Wednesday in Karachi's Surjani Town area, police arrested Bashir Leghari, suspected of being the criminal mastermind of the attack on the judge's convoy last month, along with two of his accomplices, said DIG South Dr Ameer Sheikh.
The operation was carried out with the help of of an intelligence agency, said the senior police official.
Leghari was injured in the exchange of fire during the operation, while a policeman was also maimed, he said.
The suspect is said to belong to the 'Asif chotu group' of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... , a banned bully boy outfit involved in several sectarian killings.
On June 26, a powerful bomb kaboom had targeted Justice Baqar's convoy as it was passing through the busy Burnes Road area. The senior judge was maimed, but his driver and eight security personnel escorting him suffered fatal wounds.
The bomb was reported to have been planted in a parked cycle of violence and detonated by a remote control on the busy road in a high security zone of the city, yards from the Sindh High Court building and close to the Sindh Assembly, the Sindh Secretariat, and the headquarters of the provincial government.
Justice Baqar, a member of the Shia community, was said to be on the hit-list of religious bully boys, including the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
A front man for Tehrik-e-Taliban had grabbed credit for the attack on the senior judge, claiming he was targeted due to his "anti-Taliban and anti-Mujahideen decisions".
The jurist had served as the administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts in Karachi and initially heard terrorism cases in this capacity.
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DIAMER: The law enforcement agencies personnel have nabbed eight people accused of the murder of former Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) deputy speaker and recovered arms from their possession, on Tuesday.
According to details, police conducted a raid at a house located in village Darail of Chilas, the headquarters of district Diamer of GB. During the raid the LEAs personnel arrested eight proclaimed offenders, including Pir Muhammad, a key accused in the murder of former GB deputy speaker Syed Asad Zaidi who was shot dead in 2009. The security personnel also recovered arms, including a machinegun, Kalashnikov, hundreds of rounds and armed forces uniforms from the possession of the accused.
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QUETTA: A 12-inch diameter gas pipeline was blown up near Mach town in the early hours of Tuesday. According to details, unidentified miscreants planted an explosive device on the main gas pipeline supplying gas to various areas of Balochistan, in Jetani near Mach. The bomb went off with a big bang, destroying a portion of the pipeline. The miscreants managed to flee from the scene. Later, levies personnel carried out a search operation in the area to arrest the culprits but to no avail. The explosion disrupted gas supply to several areas in Balochistan.
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Same idea, Destroy the progress and die.
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QUETTA: Three persons, among them a religious scholar, were gunned down on Khudaay Dad Road in the provincial capital, between the night of Monday and Tuesday.
Police sources said that religious scholar Molvi Mohibullah, his brother Amanullah and a colleague were sitting at a cold drinks shop on Khudaay Dad Road when unidentified armed men on a bike came there and opened indiscriminate fire at them, leaving them dead and three others injured. The rescue teams shifted the dead and injured to Civil Hospital. The dead had received multiple bullets which caused their death on the spot, while the three injured received serious bullet wounds, doctors said. Later, the injured were referred to the Combined Military Hospital due to their serious condition.
The police have registered a case against unidentified accused and launched an investigation into the incident.
Meanwhile, police arrested two suspects and recovered bomb-making material from their possession from a village in Kuchlak teshil of Quetta District, on Tuesday.
Police told APP that a patrolling police team, on a tip-off, raided a house in village Killi Landi of Kuchlak Tehsil, some 25 km off Quetta city and arrested two suspects.
During interrogation, on the indication of the arrested suspects, the police also recovered explosives and the material used in bomb blasts that included time device circuit-167, remote control receiver-183, remote control signal-3, remote control double-5, pressure circuit shoes-20, remote control-20, batteries-9x volts and battery cell-30, police said.
The arrested men have been shifted to police station where a special investigation team has been interrogating them.
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[Ynet] Armed cell takes over unmanned IDF post, Israeli force identifies cell, gunfire ensues; no injuries reported
Two armed Syrians, most likely affiliated with rebel forces, infiltrated an unmanned IDF post in the south Golan Heights Tuesday night.
During a routine patrol by an IDF Nahal unit, soldiers observed the suspects in the post in Tel Faris. The Israeli force was then fired at, most likely from Syria, by Assad forces targeting the rebels in the IDF post.
The IDF unit then fired back. No injuries or damage were reported.
The armed Syrians managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been... before additional IDF troops arrived. Soldiers were combing the area in search of the assailants.
Earlier Tuesday, Some 25 mortar shells went kaboom! in Israeli territory. The IDF said the firing was part of Syrian infighting involving rebels and army forces in the village of Al-Madriya.
The mortars hit open areas and no damage or injuries were reported.
#5
Hard boyz don't have to hit what they aim at, they just have to look muy macho when they spray rounds of bullet all over the place...
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"Aim," Steve?
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#4 u made me laugh, It is not that easy these days, thanks
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Why are Arabs such lousey shots?
It's hard to aim when you're firing over an obstacle such that your arms are exposed but not your head. With the exception of a tiny cadre of suicide bombers who are wasted in suicide attacks, Islamist warriors have a very well-developed sense of self-preservation. This is why the Taliban has inflicted fewer casualties on US troops in the course of 12 years than Communist Vietnamese troops inflicted in a single year. Taliban losses have been similarly been light compared to Communist Vietnamese losses of 100K per year. Bottom line is that the Taliban are way overrated.
#9
When the Special Forces went into Afghanistan during the start of US/Taliban festivities the Afghan allies never aimed. One SF soldier asked why they didn't aim. One Afghan said, "It is against Islam to kill another Muslim so we fire our weapons without aiming. If an enemy gets hit by a bullet it must be the will of Allah."
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[An Nahar] The Syrian government approved on Tuesday a law imposing penalties ranging from fines to imprisonment for people caught hoarding food in the war-torn country, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
"A draft law penalizing those who raise food prices or hoard food has been approved" by the cabinet, said the broadcaster.
The decision was passed amid an unprecedented financial and food crisis sparked by the 28-month conflict that a monitoring group says has killed more than 100,000 people.
The penalties "range from imprisonment to a fine, depending on the crime committed," said state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Some traders in Syria are trying to take advantage of the civil war, hoarding food until they are able to sell them at higher prices.
"There is no difference... between those who carry weapons to kill people and those who prevent others from living by blackmailing people," state news agency SANA quoted Industry Minister Adnan al-Sukhni as saying.
State media says the price of raw materials has risen by 300 percent in recent months, though residents say they may have soared by 400 percent in the past few weeks.
The government has imposed several increases on the price of fuel in recent months, which has impacted prices in general.
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Just friggin' great! Now Champ will find this out when somebody reads the news to him, and anybody who has been prudent and doing some stocking up will be punished. especially those fly-over house wives that will be doing a lot of canning real soon......
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I would strongly encourage you to withdraw that fear crime posting USN, Ret. While so-called home canning may be prohibited under the Equal and Fair Calories clause of the provisional constitution, the Ministry of Plenty (Miniplenty) oversees shortage and famine. Private ownership of weapons ammunition is already prohibited. Your concerns regarding food are totally unfounded.
Five thousand people a month are dying in the Syria war which has now thrown up the worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, UN officials said on Tuesday. A host of top officials called on the divided UN Security Council to take stronger action to deal with the fallout from the 26-month-old civil war in which the United Nations says up to 100,000 people have died.
Stronger action? Like what, exactly -- a more strongly worded letter?
"The extremely high rate of killings nowadays -- approximately 5,000 a month -- demonstrates the drastic deterioration of the conflict," UN assistant secretary-general for human rights Ivan Simonovic told a council meeting on Syria.
Nearly 1.8 million people are now registered with the United Nations in countries around Syria and an average of 6,000 people a day are now fleeing, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres added.
"We have not seen a refugee outflow escalate at such a frightening rate since the Rwandan genocide almost 20 years ago," Guterres said. He said the gesture of Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and other countries to accept refugees was "saving hundreds of thousands of lives."
"This crisis has been going on for much longer than anyone feared with unbearable humanitarian consequences," he added.
UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said the international community may have to consider cross border operations to get aid into Syria.
Let the Turks and Jordanians lead it. We'll watch from way back here...
They call it leading from behind. It's all the rage in certain circles, donchaknow.
Amos said $3.1 billion was still needed for operations in and around Syria for the rest of the year. She said four million people inside Syria need assistance and "considerable restraints" have been imposed on aid agencies by the government and opposition groups.
Amos highlighted the Old City in Homs where the government has stepped up a siege in the past month. The UN estimates that 2,500 civilians are trapped.
"Opposition group have so far not enabled them safe passage to leave and the government of Syria has refused to allow agencies to deliver assistance into the Old City," she said.
Amos appealed for the lifting of bureaucratic obstacles but also the designation of "priority humanitarian routes" and prior notification of military offensives.
Just what the rebels want to do -- announce when and where they'll blow something up. Brilliant, Valerie, just brilliant...
Amos said there should be "humanitarian pauses" to allow aid access and "cross-border operations, as appropriate."
You see Valerie, the reason it's called a 'civil' war is that the two sides aren't too civil towards each other...
The cross-border aid is controversial as it is opposed by the Syrian government. Russia, President Bashar Al Assad's key international backer, has also resisted discussion of such operations at the United Nations.
Turkey's deputy UN ambassador Levent Eler backed the call, however. "The council needs to consider alternative forms of aid delivery, including cross-border operations," he said. Eler said the Syria crisis was turning into "the biggest humanitarian tragedy of the 21st century."
So just do it already. Russia can't stop you; you're next door.
They want our money. Turkey is living off Saudi loans, they haven't any money of their own.
Lebanon's UN ambassador Nawaf Salam told the meeting that it was now "urgent" for the Security Council to act on the refugee crisis.
"Increasing cross border fire and incursions from Syria in Lebanon are threatening the security and stability of my country," he told the 15 ambassadors on the council.
Salam said the UN has registered 607,908 refugees in Lebanon but the government estimates the true figure at 1.2 million. He estimated the number would grow 20-fold during 2013. Lebanon has a population of about four million and he said the influx was the equivalent of 75 million refugees flooding the United States.
I'd almost feel sorry for Lebanon if it weren't for the fact that a fair bit of the population actively canoodled with the Syrians for the past few decades...
Syria's UN ambassador Bashar Jaafari disputed the UN death toll as "unprofessionally sourced" and criticised the use of an American company to collect data.
But Simonovic said that "rigorous" methods had been used to check a death toll of more than 92,900 given one month ago. He said each death was checked by name and date and cross checked with at least three sources.
UN leader Ban Ki-moon has since said that "up to 100,000 people" have been killed in Syria.
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For lack of a better term, we'll simply call it man-caused natural selection. Removal of parasitic DNA is key to our survival. Leave it [the process] alone.
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Except Threater Flusoper9823, of course, for the remaining Christians and other infidels still trapped in Syria, or who still consider it home and would rather not leave.
But that's a big part of the problem, too - so many Moslems are "infidels" to other activist Moslems. Shia, Alawites etc. are not "real" Moslems to the Sunnis with an attitude problem.
It wasn't too long ago that Catholics were looked down on, (like 1960), and if you go back far enough, there were Christians killing other Christians for not being the right "flavor" of Christianity. Interesting parallel, eh?
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I don't recall ANY "Christians" Beheading anyone, and bystanders Cheering about it.
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Heretics were generally burned at the stake, though drawing and quartering did occur. And Charles I decapitation may have been accompanied by silence or moans, depending on your source. We don't do it any longer, but it wasn't that long ago.
At least nine Syrians, including a child, were executed by regime forces at a checkpoint in Damascus province, a watchdog said on Tuesday.
"Nine citizens, including a child, were shot dead by regime forces near the town of Qara, in the Qalamun area of Damascus province, yesterday (Monday) evening," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The nine were "executed" at a military checkpoint in the area, the group said, citing local activists.
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A roadside bomb exploded Tuesday beside a convoy of SUVs believed to be carrying members of Hezbollah, reportedly killing one man and wounding two others. The attack on a main road in eastern Lebanon is the latest in a slew of recent incidents targeting Hezbollah, marking the fulfillment of a long warned-about retaliation for its battlefield support of the Syrian regime. It was the fourth roadside bomb attack in five weeks to target suspected Hezbollah vehicles in the Bekaa Valley.
The bomb exploded mid-afternoon as three SUVs passed along the highway between Masnaa, a town on the Lebanon-Syria border, and Majdal Anjar, a town known to harbor Sunni radicals, according to local reports. One report claimed that the targeted SUV came under gunfire after the bomb exploded. Although the size of the bomb is unknown, it is believed to be the first to cause casualties since the roadside attacks began last month.
Although no one has claimed responsibility, it was almost certainly carried out by Sunni militants in retribution for the Lebanese Shiite militant groups help crushing the Syrian opposition forces.
Gunmen backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have killed seven members of a reconciliation team working in Homs province.
The killings happened Monday in the village of Hajar Abyad. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the area is a stronghold for pro-government militia, and that the men were Sunni Muslims.
The reconciliation committee members were part of an effort to convince warring parties in Syria to halt the fighting that has stretched on for more than two years.
Homs is located at a strategic crossroad linking the capital, Damascus, with army bases in coastal regions controlled by Mr. Assad's Alawite sect. The Alawites are an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that has dominated majority Sunni Syria for decades.
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[An Nahar] Egypt's first government since the military ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi almost two weeks ago was officially sworn in on Tuesday, state television
[Ynet] A Saudi who was freed by US authorities from detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to become second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has been confirmed dead, AQAP said on Wednesday.
[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir activists continued to be on the rampage and clashed with law enforcers in different parts of the country yesterday, the second day of
One terrorist militant was killed but another escaped in shootout with policemen in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Monday, July 15.
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At least nine Syrians, including a child, were executed by regime forces at a checkpoint in Damascus province, a watchdog said on Tuesday.
