[Shabelle] Fighting's occurred at different regions in Somalia between AMISOM troops,Æthiopian troops and SNA troops against Alshabab fighters .
In Baidoa, Alshabab troops attacked government troops which forced the SNA troops to retaliate.
Heavy artillery was used against each other; residents were terrified by the deafening blasts as the battle continued for hours.
Government troops finally took full control of the strategic city as the Shabaab fighters withdrew back
On the other hand, fighting also broke up in some parts of the lower Shabelle region of Somalia.
The fighting occurred at Shalanbod and Janale towns controlled by the Somali government.
Omar Arabey, the deputy governor of the region told Shabelle radio station that they (government) retaliated and forced back Alshabab fighters who launched a surprise assault in the towns.
Casualties caused by the fighting's have not been released for now
Alshabab fighters have called for increased attacks on government bases as Mohammedans observe the holy month of Ramadan
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[Ynet] At least one person was killed in Egypt's Alexandria overnight in festivities between supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and his opponents. A security source said 35 were maimed.
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[Al Ahram] Two soldiers were maimed in an attack by unknown assailants on a security checkpoint in Arish in North Sinai on Wednesday, state news agency MENA reported.
One of the soldiers, Mohamed Gamal Mohamed, 22, was shot in his knee and the other, Islam Abdel-Moneim Mohamed, 22, suffered from a gunshot wound to his arm.
The armed assailants shot at a security checkpoint located at the ring road out of Arish. Security forces shot back but the assailants managed to escape.
Earlier on Wednesday, army front man Ahmed Ali released a statement with the results of the police and army's crackdown on "terrorism and jihadists" in Sinai from 5 July to 4 August.
The crackdown resulted in apprehending 227 individuals -- 103 of which were tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and 124 are either of dead or injured, Ali said in a statement released via Facebook.
The army statement comes hours after the murder of a Mubarak-era parliamentarian by unknown assailants in Egypt's Sinai Penninsula. Attackers fired from four bullets a moving vehicle at Abdel Hamid Silmi, 58, as he left a mosque early on Wednesday after dawn prayers.
Critics of the Moslem Brüderbund accuse the group of instigating violence in Sinai -- charges much repeated after senior Brotherhood figure Mohamed El-Beltagi stated last month that violence in Sinai would immediately end should Morsi be reinstated.
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[Al Ahram] Army front man Ahmed Ali released a statement Wednesday with the results of the police and army's crackdown on "terrorism and jihadists" in Sinai from the period 5 July to 4 August.
The statement, released on Ali's official Facebook page, says that the crackdown resulted in apprehending 227 individuals -- 103 of which were placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! and 124 are either dead or injured.
The 103 individuals arrested, from across Sinai, are currently being interrogated. From among the 124, 60 were killed in festivities between security forces, while 64 were maimed.
Sinai has suffered a security vacuum since the January 2011 uprising toppled Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's regime. The situation escalated with the ouster of Moslem Brüderbund-backed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi 3 July. Militants have attacked police and security forces on a daily basis in response to Morsi's overthrow.
Ali also announced that 102 tunnels between Egypt and the Gazoo Strip have been destroyed. The tunnels, according to the statement, were used as an entry point by terrorists, as well as for smuggling weapons, drugs and cars, among others things.
The UN released a statement late July claiming that the army's crackdown closed 80 percent of Gazoo's tunnels, many of which have been used to smuggle basic necessities into Gazoo, leaving the UN concerned "that already difficult economic and humanitarian conditions in Gazoo will further deteriorate."
Ali also stated that 40 petroleum tanks containing 2.7 million litres of gas and diesel, intended to be smuggled into Gazoo, have been destroyed.
The armed forces have also destroyed four houses that reportedly sheltered terrorists. The Death Eaters allegedly used the houses to initiate attacks on security forces.
Some 38 cars reportedly used by Death Eaters to carry weapons have been seized by authorities.
The army statement comes hours after the murder of a Mubarak-era parliamentarian by unknown assailants in Sinai. Attackers fired from a moving vehicle four bullets at Abdel Hamid Silmi, 58, as he left a mosque early Wednesday after dawn prayers.
Members of Silmi's prominent Fawakhreya tribe gathered amid a charged atmosphere at Al-Arish General Hospital, where Silmi was moved following the shooting outside Abu-Bakr Al-Seddiq Mosque.
According to Rooters, 40 people have been killed by forces of Evil attacking security checkpoints since Morsi's ouster.
Critics of the Moslem Brüderbund accuse the group of instigating violence in Sinai -- charges much repeated after senior Brotherhood figure Mohamed El-Beltagy stated last month that violence in Sinai would immediately end should Morsi be reinstated.
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[Al Ahram] Gunmen have killed three coppers in an ambush in the eastern Algerian region of Kabylie and lost one of their own, daily newspaper El-Watan reported on Wednesday.
"A police patrol was attacked by a group of faceless myrmidons on the road to the new hospital in Azeffoun" on Tuesday afternoon, some 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of the city of blood-stained Tizi Ouzou, the paper said.
A major manhunt was launched for the assailants, who fled into a nearby forest.
Last week four soldiers were killed in Kabylie and in the Biskra region, in the south of the country.
Violence attributed to Islamists has declined considerably in recent years, but groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb frequently attack security forces in Kabylie, in areas around the capital and in the south.
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[Al Ahram] Yemeni security forces have foiled a plot by Al-Qaeda to take over oil and gas export facilities and a lovely provincial capital in the eastern part of the country, a government official said on Wednesday.
Rajeh Badi, press advisor to Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwa, said the plot involved using dozens of Al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons dressed in Yemeni army uniforms to storm the facilities on the night of the 27th of Ramadan, which was on Sunday, and hold them.
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[Ynet] A suspected US drone strike killed seven alleged al-Qaeda Death Eaters Wednesday in southern Yemen, security officials and residents said, as the Arab nation remained on high alert following threats of a terror attack targeting Western of government interests.
It was the fifth strike in less than two weeks in Yemen.
The US has dramatically stepped up its use of drone strikes in Yemen in its covert fight against al-Qaeda's branch there, which is considered one of the most active of the terror network. Washington also has been backing a Yemeni military campaign to uproot al-Qaeda Death Eaters and their radical allies who had taken over a string of southern cities and towns. The Death Eaters have largely been driven into the mountains and countryside, and Yemeni intelligence officials say the current threat may be retaliation for that offensive.
The drone strike killed the Death Eaters in Shabwa province, setting two vehicles on fire, security officials said. All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Residents in the province's Markha area, who also declined to be identified, fearing retaliation, said they saw several bodies on fire in two burning cars.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... an News Agency that Dare Not be Namednews hound in Sanaa said a drone has been buzzing overhead for most of the day. Authorities have set up checkpoints across Sanaa, searching cars and individuals. Top government officials, along with military and security commanders, were told to stay vigilant and limit their movements.
While the United States acknowledges its drone program in Yemen, it does not confirm individual strikes or release information on how many have been carried out.
The terror network's Yemeni offshoot, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has been bolstering its operations in Yemen over the past few years after key Saudi operatives fled there following a major crackdown in their homeland.
The group overran entire towns and villages in 2011, taking advantage of a security lapse during nationwide protests that eventually ousted Yemen's longtime ruler, President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... . Backed by the US military, Yemen's army was able to regain control of the southern region, but al-Qaeda Death Eaters continue to launch deadly attacks on security forces.
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Probably, given that Yemenis are rather dark, a white hispanic drone.
[Bangla Daily Star] The Eid holidaymakers suffered a lot stranding on a 50-kilometer long tailback as the activists of 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... and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... , blocked the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong Wednesday night.
The party men staged the rowdy demonstration and resorted to arson and vandalism protesting the killing of a Jamaat men, reported our Chittagong correspondent quoting witnesses.
When police tried to clear the highway to minimise the sufferings of homebound people, the Jamaat-Shibir men engaged in a chase and counter-chase with the law enforcers.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... no injury was reported when this report was filed around 11:00pm.
The incident erupted around 7:15pm when Abdullahel Russell alias Babu was stabbed dead in Baradargah area of the upazila, locals said.
As soon as the news spread, nearly one hundred Jamaat and Shibir men put barricade in Sitakunda bazaar area on the highway protesting the killing, resulting the 50-km traffic congestion ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest festival of Mohammedans.
Protesting the killing, the party men torched three CNG-run three-wheelers and vandalised several vehicles on the highway.
Some activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... (BCL), the student wing of ruling Awami League, stabbed dead the 28-year-old Babu, an activist of Jamaat, claimed Mahmudullah, publication secretary of Chittagong city unit of the party.
No comment of BCL was available immediately.
Contacted, Zahirul Islam, a sub-inspector and also the in-charge of Chittagong Medical College and Hospital police outpost, told The Daily Star that Babu was declared dead after being taken to the hospital.
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[Dawn] Not satisfied with the view from the ground, 17-year-old Abdul Basit ran towards the roof of a shop to get a good look at the football match taking place 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... 's Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... Town.
The match was part of a series of games in the Youth Football Tournament which began with the month of Ramzan in Lyari's Chakiwara No. 2.
As it always happens, the area where the match was organised was decked up with lights.
One man was assigned the task of asking people in Balochi vernacular to either settle down to watch the game or leave the street that served as the match's venue.
Newly-elected Pakistain People's Party (PPP) MPA Jawed Nagori was one of the chief guests at Wednesday's match in the tournament, which neighbourhood elders said was organised to motivate the children.
Playing right next in a street at Bizenjo Chowk, children, most of them in their teens, had been preparing for over a month for the tournament to take place. As soon as the prizes were distributed by MPA Nagori, a loud kaboom occurred just a few feet away from the politician's parked vehicle. Though the MPA was quickly escorted out of the area, the children were caught in the blast, with some of them dying on the spot.
Wednesday's game turned out to be the tournament's last and final one and Abdul Basit who until the end of the match stayed on the roof became the first one to take the fall on the ground. His brothers Yasir and Saddam who were close by said it took them 20 minutes just to find him.
"By the time we reached him, he had already bled profusely. And although we were hopeful that he would live, doctors at the hospital pronounce him dead..."
At Basit's home, his mother cries uncontrollably as women from the neighbourhood sit around her at a loss for words. "What can I possibly tell her? How can we pacify a mother who has just lost her son?" says one neighbour, Zarnaz Bibi.
Who is behind the attack?
Hours after the blast and a few minutes before the call for Zuhr prayers, shopkeepers try to fix the bent shutters outside their shops. Men, women and kiddies gather at the site of the kaboom, wondering who could have carried out the attack which claimed at least seven lives.
A shopkeeper named Inayat Ali said some people saw a man park his cycle of violence near the shops lined a few feet away from the street where the match took place.
"Nobody knows exactly what he looked like, but I'll speak for myself, I just saw the cycle of violence and no owner," Ali said.
Moreover, Akram Baloch who heads the media cell of the proscribed Lyari-based Peoples Amn Committee (PAC), an organization rumoured to be enjoying the support of PPP, said Nagori had been receiving threats from Death Eater groups for sometime.
"During the past few months, a number of Death Eaters were tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! from Lyari and they blame the PAC for providing the intelligence etc. The attack is similar to the one carried out during an election meeting in Kumharwara three months ago," Baloch said.
'I lost my friend'
The attack has left a terrifying impression on the children of the neighbourhood for whom football enjoys as sacred a status as cricket does in much of Pakistain.
Near the street where the kaboom occurred, twelve-year-old Deedak stands huddled in a corner with his friends. "I lost my friend; he played in the match. I was here to see him."
Deedak adds that this was one of the tournaments for Ramzan before which "we keep a cricket match in which children from Singhu Lane, Aath Chowk and Chakiwara come to participate".
Following the blast, the ambulances took most children to nearby hospitals to swiftly provide them with medical treatment. A number of children were taken to the city's Civil Hospital and Lyari General Hospital.
Dr Tariq Ayubi, head of the emergency department at Civil, said the facility had received three bodies and 18 injured. "Some of the people were taken to LGH who later gave up the ghost. They have not yet been registered with us," he explained.
Inside Civil Hospital's Surgical Ward, 15-year-old Sahad Ashraf is in a deep sleep while his family members sit anxiously beside him. With injuries on his chest, pelvis and thighs, the family says it is a miracle young Ashraf survived.
Ashraf's grandmother who is seated right next to him says: "He had gone to watch the match. This is the only thing our children know and care for. What can you possibly say to those who attack children?"
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"What can you possibly say to those who attack children?"
They are doing the will of Allah...that moonstone dildo idol all the monkeys idolize...
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[Dawn] An kaboom occurred near a shopping centre in Mastung area of 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... killing two persons, including a child, and injured 15 persons on Wednesday, DawnNews reported.
The bomb was planted near a shopping centre and targeted eid shoppers.
The victims were shifted to a nearby hospitals for treatment whereas three people, who were reportedly at death's door, were shifted to Quetta.
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[Dawn] Police in Bannu defused three low-intensity bombs planted in different areas in the limits of the city's Miryan cop shoppe on Wednesday foiling a terrorist attack.
On a tip off that faceless myrmidons had planted bombs at three locations in the city, police rushed to the sites along with a bomb disposal squad and defused all three bombs.
The bombs had been planted at a school, at the Hujra of Sardar Yusuf Khan and by a roadside.
Had the bombs gone off, they would have brought massive loss of life and property, police said.
Moreover, an investigation was initiated into the matter.
The northwestern town of Bannu, which stands at the gateway to Wazoo, is 150 kilometres southwest of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , capital of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province.
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[Dawn] Chuttiana police placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! four passengers of blast-hit Shalimar Express for interrogation on Monday.
Sources said the detained belonged to Sindh and were returning to their hometowns after a visit to Raiwind Tableeghi centre. Six of their fellows were among the injured.
A police official said the four were tossed into the calaboose for questioning.
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[An Nahar] Violence killed seven people on Wednesday, including three coppers and a young girl, officials said, as authorities struggle to contain the worst violence to hit Iraq since 2008.
The attacks are the latest in a wave of unrest that has made the holy Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan the bloodiest in years, with more than 800 people killed nationwide.
Militants have struck targets ranging from cafes where Iraqis gather after breaking their daily Ramadan fast to mosques where extended evening prayers are held during Ramadan.
In Wednesday's deadliest attack, a bomb killed three coppers and maimed a fourth near Dhuluiyah, north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... Another bomb went kaboom! near a police patrol in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, killing a young girl, while police potted two snuffies attempting to plant a bomb.
And in the Mussayib area, south of Storied Baghdad, a magnetic "sticky bomb" on a bus killed one person and maimed two.
Other attacks, including a boom-mobile that went kaboom! near a Kurdish political party office in the northern city of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... maimed dozens more.
Violence has markedly increased this year, especially since an April 23 security operation at a Sunni Arab anti-government protest site that sparked festivities in which dozens died.
Protests erupted in Sunni-majority areas in late 2012, amid widespread discontent among Sunnis, who accuse the Shiite-led government of marginalizing and targeting them.
Analysts say Sunni anger is the main cause of the spike in violence this year.
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"Happy Ramadan!"
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Actually Iraq seems like an oasis of calm compared to Syria, Egypt, Yemen etc.
I guess we can compare Bush's diplomatic skills with Obama's "leading with his behind."
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[Al Ahram] Jordanian police are questioning two Syrians who allegedly tried to smuggle a large cache of arms including surface-to-air missiles into the kingdom, a security official said Wednesday.
The official said earlier that preliminary reports indicated that five had been arrested near the northern Syrian border early Tuesday. He said the reason for discrepancy in the number was not immediately clear and declined to elaborate further.
He said anti-tank missiles, surface-to-air missiles and assault rifles were seized with the two men.
He declined to say if the alleged smugglers were affiliated with any side in Syria's civil war.
"There is an investigation now to determine if the two men were rebels seeking to hide weapons in Jordan, or that they smuggled them in with the malicious intention of staging attacks here," he said.
His account was confirmed by another security official. Both insisted on anonymity because they are not allowed to publically comment on a security matter under investigation.
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"There is an investigation now to determine if the two men were rebels seeking to hide weapons in Jordan, or that they smuggled them in with the malicious intention of staging attacks here"
They left out transit to the West Bank, Sinai, and Lebanon.
[Ynet] Malaysia police said Wednesday that they have locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! an Iranian man accused of running a passport forging syndicate and believed to have ties with terrorist and human trafficking groups. Fuzi Harun, who heads the federal police anti-terrorism taskforce, said police jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Seyed Ramin Miraziz Paknejad and his wife on Saturday.
Fuzi said Paknejad, 45, was first detained in Thailand last year on suspicion of providing fake passports to human trafficking and drug rings, as well as Death Eaters who plotted bombings in Bangkok, Harun said.
Those Iranians sure are busy. What on earth does that corner of the world have that's so interesting to them?
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian state television broadcast footage on Thursday of President Bashar al-Assad attending prayers at a Damascus mosque to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr after opposition reports of an attack of his motorcade.
Islam Alloush of the rebel Liwa al-Islam Brigade told Reuters earlier on Thursday that rebels fired rockets which hit Assad's motorcade as he was heading to attend the prayers at Anas bin Malek Mosque in the Malki district, where his residence is located.
Other activists also reported rockets were fired into the Malki area. Assad appeared unharmed in the footage.
[Ynet] State news agency says rebels killed by Assad forces near Damascus suburb were members of al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra
Syrian government forces killed more than 60 rebels Wednesday in an ambush near Damascus, a blow to opposition fighters confronting a regime offensive in the capital, activists said.
The state news agency SANA confirmed the ambush near the Damascus suburb of Adra at dawn, saying "dozens" were killed. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 62 rebels died. It did not report any government casualties.
SANA said the rebels were members of the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra or Nusra Front. It added that they included imported muscle.
Syrian troops have been on the offensive in the past few months in an attempt to clear out Damascus suburbs used by opposition fighters to threaten Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's seat of power.
State-run television broadcaster Al-Ikhbariya aired footage of bloodied corpses, some in camouflage. It said they were killed in an ambush as they were on their way to attack an army post near Damascus.
The bodies were gathered in what appeared to be a desert area.
Al-Ikhbariya also showed a Tunisian passport of a man who was born in 1978. The picture on the passport was of a bearded man. It also showed Islamic headbands and automatic rifles that were apparently carried by the rebels.
Mohammed Saeed, an activist who is based near Damascus, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that 65 rebels were on their way from the eastern suburbs of the capital to the nearby area of Qalamoun. He added that the rebels were walking the 30-kilometer (19-mile) route because it is dangerous to drive in the area as it is watched by regime forces.
"The regime forces riddled them with heavy machine gun fire," Saeed said via Skype. He added that 62 were killed and three escaped and reached Qalamoun.
"It seems that the regime discovered the secret road that the rebels were using," Saeed said.
In the north, a missile struck the rebel-held city of Raqqa, killing three people and wounding dozens including children, the Local Coordination Committees activist group said. The Observatory said that two children were among the three killed.
Amateur videos showed at least three children who suffered wounds and were rushed away in a pickup truck.
A boy, with minor wounds to his mouth, knees and feet, screamed as he was held by a man in the pickup truck and shouted "Dad!" The man holding him tried to calm him down, saying: "Dad will come soon."
The videos appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting on the events depicted.
Wednesday's missile attack came after Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... said missiles fired by the Syrian army into populated areas have killed hundreds of civilians in recent months.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start tasting his third quart... the Observatory said that Kurdish gunnies captured about 70 government troops Wednesday who fled the air base of Mannagh in the northern province of Aleppo. The base was captured by rebels Tuesday after months of fighting.
The Observatory also reported fighting and shelling in the mountains of the coastal province of Latakia, an Assad stronghold. Rebels captured 11 Alawite villages in an offensive earlier this week and troops launched a counterattack to retake it.
Syria's conflict has taken on an increasingly sectarian tone in the last year, pitting predominantly Sunni Mohammedan rebels against members of Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Syria's crisis started as a largely peaceful uprising against Assad's rule in March 2011. It turned into a civil war after opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown. More than 100,000 people have been killed in the violence.
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pattern of past two months continues
assad forces gaining ground in the southwest
anti assad forces gaining ground elsewhere
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[An Nahar] Four Israeli soldiers were maimed in a landmine blast along the northern border with Leb, media reports said on Wednesday.
A Lebanese army communique said that the "Israeli patrol violated Leb's illusory sovereignty."
"An infantry patrol of the Israeli army penetrated 400 meters inside Leb in the Labbouneh area at 00:24 local time," the statement said.
"An kaboom took place and the soldiers were maimed, with blood found at the scene. A military committee has opened an investigation in coordination with UNIFIL," the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Interim Force in Leb, it said.
An Israeli military spokesperson said Wednesday that the soldiers were hurt during "overnight activity adjacent to the northern border." It did not say if they were maimed in training or in combat, and refused to elaborate further.
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[An Nahar] A man and a woman were nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on Wednesday evening in Beirut's southern suburbs on charges of plotting an act of sabotage, according to media reports.
"A man and a woman, both Syrian nationals, were arrested in Dahieh after the interception of their phone conversations with a group in Majdal Anjar revealed that they were plotting a security operation against Dahieh," a Hizbullah stronghold, al-Jadeed television quoted a security source as saying.
MTV said the duo were apprehended by agents from the army's Intelligence Directorate.
Hizbullah sources told al-Jadeed that "Dahieh's security is a priority and the army is handling the matter."
"Investigations are underway in a normal manner to know more details about the arrested group which was plotting attacks," the sources added.
An Egyptian national was killed and two other people were maimed on Sunday when they were setting up bombs in Mount Leb's Iqlim al-Kharroub's region.
Several other bombs were found at their house in addition to a map containing three target places for kabooms -- al-Saadiyat, Wadi al-Zeina and Hadath.
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I remember when MTV did music videos
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Something, Something, Dance Like An EgyptianShe Finded Me With Science a Kittuah Lament, I remember those.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bangla Daily Star] The Eid holidaymakers suffered a lot stranding on a 50-kilometer long tailback as the activists of 
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
