[Tolo News] Nimroz Governor Amir Mohammad Akhunzada has confirmed that five attackers on Monday afternoon ambushed the security department building of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) in Delaram district of southwestern Nimroz proving killing one police and wounding another.
According to the governor, one of the assailants detonated his explosives after the police identified him and the other four were gun downed by security forces.
Initial reports show that in the encounter one personnel was killed and another injured. No group has grabbed credit for the attack.
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NAIROBI: Two buses driving on a busy highway in the Kenyan capital Nairobi were struck by explosive devices on Sunday, ripping a huge hole in one of the vehicles. A Reuters reporter saw blood and broken glass next to the two buses that were about 1 km from each other heading out of town.
There was no word on casualties and no immediate claim of responsibility but Kenya has blamed similar attacks on the al Qaeda-linked Somali group al Shabaab, which killed at least 67 people at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi last September.
Four people were killed on Saturday when attackers threw an explosive device at passengers at a bus station in Mombasa, and also targeted a luxury hotel in the coastal city.
Police spokesman Masoud Mwinyi confirmed that there were two separate explosions targeting two buses along Thika Super Highway, which connects the capital to the outskirts of the city. Mwinyi had no immediate comment on the number of casualties.
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[Egypt Independent] Moslem Brüderbund students at Cairo University on Monday broke the glass facade of the legal affairs building and stormed it.
Witnesses said that a Brotherhood student, who was accused of recent violent acts on campus, was being interrogated inside by a legal affairs investigator and clashed with him, prompting the investigator to beat him.
They said the student ran out of the building and called 20 of his friends, who smashed the glass facade, stormed the building and fired fireworks, all in the absence of the administrative security.
After storming the building, the students marched around campus to demand the release of their colleagues.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... a bomb squad defused an improvised bomb found on Monday close to Al-Azhar University's main gate in Nasr City.
Security forces have stepped up their presence outside campus in anticipation of any violence.
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[Beirut Daily Star] At least two people were killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... turbans on a military police outpost in northern Cameroon early on Monday, state radio and a government front man said.
The Nigerian Boko Haram group has been using Cameroon's Far North region as a base for attacks in neighbouring Nigeria and is suspected to be behind a number of kidnappings in the region in recent months.
It was reported on Monday to have grabbed credit for the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... .
Cameroon state radio said some 30 suspected members of the armed Islamist group attacked a gendarme post at around 2 a.m. (0100 GMT).
"In the heavy exchange of gunfire, a gendarmerie chief warrant officer was rubbed out," the radio said.
"A man in a cell was also rubbed out, while two other men in the cell were seriously maimed."
The attackers freed a suspected Boko Haram bully boy detained there and escaped with weapons, it said.
"I can confirm that an attack took place but we are still waiting for more details," Communication Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary told Rooters.
Cameroon said in March it would send 700 soldiers to its northeastern border as part of regional efforts to tackle the gang.
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[Beirut Daily Star] More than 100 people have been killed in fierce fighting in the past 10 days in the Central African Republic, as charity Doctors Without Borders said it would reduce its work after a bloody attack on a hospital.
Among the dead were many civilians, with one eyewitness claiming children had been thrown alive onto fires.
Some 75 people died in fighting close to the country's northern border with Chad, an official with the African peacekeeping force said on Monday.
The festivities pitted fighters from the former rebel Seleka coalition against members of the Fulani tribe, the source said on condition of anonymity.
Around 55 people were killed near the town of Paoua, while another 20 people perished near Markounda, said a military official. Both towns are located close to the border with Chad.
The official added that the killings were carried out over a period of "several days" in an area patrolled by armed fighters from the Seleka rebels and the Fulani tribe.
"They attacked nearly 10 villages around Markounda between Wednesday and Friday. They also attacked more than 40 villages near Paoua on the Chadian border," said the same source.
One anonymous source told AFP by phone that the corpse count could rise.
"The atrocities committed by these gunnies are indescribable."
One resident of Markounda, Yetina Isaac, described how rebels attacked by banging "doors, shooting the occupants and then setting houses on fire".
"The injured and helpless perished and burned alive, while the bodies of those already dead were also burnt."
Isaac added that she saw children being "thrown alive on the fire".
News of the deadly festivities in the north came as it was announced that almost 30 people were also killed in fighting in the Mala region, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) north of the capital Bangui.
The deaths there were a result of fighting between Seleka rebels and the Christian vigilante groups known as the anti-balaka, another official from the African peacekeeping force MISCA told AFP, with locals forced to flee to neighbouring areas.
Residents told AFP by phone that Seleka fighters still occupied Mala and were committing atrocities.
"They kill, loot, rape and steal with impunity. There is no one to protect the population from their abuses. Even the Catholic Church in Mala was attacked and those seeking refuge inside were fired upon and had to flee," said Eric Ketegaza, one of those who fled Mala.
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Three unidentified armed suspects were killed in an apparent intergang gunfight in Ciudad Mier municipality, as Mexican security forces in the form of Mexican Army and naval infantry units seized weapons, munitions and drugs in several encounters and raids in northern Tamaulipas municipalities over the weekend, according to official Mexican news accounts.
According to a news release posted on the state government's website, a Policia Militar unit had been dispatched Friday at around 0300 hrs to a location near a funeral home near the intersection of Libramiento 5 de Junio and Bulevar El Huizache in Mezquital colony on the basis pf an anonymous citizen's complaint, where the military unit found two armed suspects killed by gunfire. A third body was found inside the funeral home five hours later.
Mexican naval infantry units conducted several raids and engaged in a brief firefight with armed suspects in northern Tamaulipas municipalities.
In Reynosa Sunday night a marine unit was dispatched via a citizen's complaint to Las Seybas colony where marines found a tunnel with two vehicles parked inside. The tunnel itself was 60 meters long by six meters wide by three meters high. Vehicles found inside include one Ford Super Duty pickup truck and one Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. Marines also found 11 weapons magazines for rifles, 1,121 rounds of ammunition and three radios.
In Rio Bravo municipality marines seized contraband including 11 rifles, one pistol, one grenade launcher, 293 weapons magazines, 1,167 rounds of ammunition, two grenades and packages of marijuana, cocaine and crystal methamphetamine. One Toyota Tacoma and one Ford Lobo (F-150) pickup truck, along with military uniforms and four radios were seized at the location as well.
Also on Sunday at night, between San Fernando and Matamoros municipalities, a marine unit exchanged gunfire with armed suspects, forcing the suspects to abandon their vehicles and flee the scene.
According to the government's account, armed suspects were traveling aboard two vans when the occupants opened fire on the marine road patrol.
Earlier in the day closer to Matamoros, a marine road patrol conducted a traffic stop, detaining one suspect who was driving a pickup truck.
The detainee was identified as Sergio Alejandro Lopez MuĂąoz, reportedly a member of an unidentified criminal group. Inside the truck marines also found one AR-15 rifle, one weapons magazine, 300 rounds of ammunition and one kilogram of marijuana.
Meanwhile, Mexican Army units conducted three raids in Reynosa and Cruillas municipalities, netting 14 suspects and a number of contraband items.
In Reynosa municipality a Mexican Army unit was dispatched to a residence in Rancho Grande colony because a citizen filed a complaint about armed suspects in the area.
Soldiers detained nine unidentified suspects total, including six Mexican nationals, two from Guatemala and one from Nicaragua. Contraband seized included two rifles, three pistols, 151 weapons magazines, 694 rounds of ammunition and two vehicles.
A second Mexican Army road patrol stopped a vehicle and detained three unidentified suspects. The government report said the suspects were in the area working as lookouts for a local criminal group. Soldiers seized two radios.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[Yahoo] An Australian mother was Monday charged with supporting terrorism after she was incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! trying to board a flight from Sydney with her four young children.
The trickle continues. Well done, Ozzies!
Reports said she was allegedly carrying cash and equipment -- believed to include camouflage gear -- for her husband fighting in war-torn Syria, although police would not confirm this.
So he'll get killed, she'll spend some years in jail, and four small children will be reoriented through the experience of foster care.
"This arrest relates to Operation Duntulm that has a focus on foreign incursion offences," police said in a statement.
"She was charged with supporting incursions into a foreign state with the intention of engaging in hostile activities."
The 29-year-old, who was arrested on Saturday evening, was granted strict conditional bail and will appear in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court on June 2.
Officials have previously said more than 100 Australian citizens have travelled to fight alongside rebels in Syria with the government earlier this year expressing concern after several reported deaths.
Attorney General George Brandis has said he was worried about Australians returning radicalised and with new skills to commit bully boy acts.
Under Australian law, it is an offence to travel to a foreign state -- or assist someone to travel -- with the intention to engage in hostile activity, or to train or be trained regarding hostile activities.
[Pak Daily Times] Security forces in Sadda area of Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... foiled a major terrorism bid by gunnies by recovering fifteen IEDs that were laid to target security personnel. According to official sources, political officials of the Kurram Agency had received information that turbans have laid large number of IEDs at different points on Dama Khurd Road near Sadda. On receipt of information, Lower Kurram Tehsildar Ali Zai Akbar Iftikhar and Levies force officials reached the spot and cordoned of the area.
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[DAWN] MARDAN: A lawyer was among two persons rubbed out and as many were maimed when two rival groups exchanged fire in Saroshah area of Takhtbai tehsil here on Sunday.
Saroshah cop shoppe officials said two rival groups, one led by Irshad and the other by Shah Naseem, shot up each other. They said Irshad was struck down in his prime while a passer-by identified as Rahimullah, a lawyer, and two others were maimed. They said that the lawyer was taken to Lady Reading Hospital, 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. at death's door, but he died there.
The police named the other two injured as Khalid and Arshad of Piranodaga area. They were hospitalised where doctors declared them out of danger.
The police registered case on the complaint of Toheed, relative of slain Irshad, against the accused, Shah Naseem, Shamsul Hadi and Fazal Hadi. The officials said Junaid Hadi and Hamaad from the family of the accused had been tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! , and efforts were being made to arrest the persons nominated in the case.
On the other hand, activists of Jamaat-e-Isami and Shabaab-e-Milli blocked the Mardan-Malakand road for several hours to condemn killing of Irshad, who belonged to JI.
Former JI politician Mian Nadar Shah, Shabaab-e-Milli district president Umair Ali and others demanded of the government to arrest the killers forthwith.
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I guess some people just don't like lawyers. Or maybe the killer got taken to the cleaners in his divorce and Rahimullah represented him.
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Most people do NOT like the way Lawyers twist the law, some practice law honestly, but they're far outnumbered by those who look at the practice as a permit to twist (break) the law to get rich.
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[DAWN] Frontier Corps (FC) personnel on Monday claimed to have killed 10 forces of Evil 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 troubled Panjgur district.
Khan Wasey, a front man for the para-military force, said that the FC launched an operation against miscreants involved in assassinations and bomb kabooms in Panjgur district's mountainous areas.
He said ten suspected forces of Evil were killed whereas three FC soldiers were seriously maimed during the operation.
"Both sides used heavy weapons during exchange of fire", Wasey said.
The injured personnel were rushed to Panjgur for medical treatment.
Moreover, the FC personnel also claimed to have destroyed three suspected bully boy hideouts and two vehicles.
He said the forces initially faced resistance from the forces of Evil who were hiding in the mountains adding that the exchange of fire netween the security forces and forces of Evil continued for more than two hours.
"The dead forces of Evil belong to a banned Baloch bully boy group", he said.
Panjgur is considered to be one of the troubled districts of Balochistan.
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[Pak Daily Times] Dozens of assailants attacked NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... containers in the Wazir Dhand area of Jamrud in the tribal areas on Monday, killing two drivers, private TV channel quoted security officials as saying.
Gunmen attacked three container trucks carrying NATO supplies en route to Afghanistan, killing two people, the officials said. Two other drivers were kidnapped by the attackers, the channel reported. It was reported that there were more than 20 assailants who fired at the NATO trucks and later set the containers on fire.
"The three container trucks were on their way to Afghanistan when gunniesshot up them in Wazir Dhand area, killing two drivers and wounding two others," senior government official Ali Sher told AFP. He said two of the drivers were missing since the incident and it was not clear if they had escaped or if Death Eaters had kidnapped them.
Another local official also confirmed the incident and said the attackers had fled. A doctor at the government-run hospital in Jamrud said two bodies and two injured were bought to the hospital. "One of the injured was at death's door and he has been shifted to 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. for further treatment" he said requesting not to be named.
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[DAWN] Another businessman in the city has received threatening calls from extortionists asking him to pay Rs40 million, police said on Sunday.
Rashid Wasim, a resident of Mohanpura, who owns a factory in the industrial area of Islamabad, complained to the Ganjmandi police that since March 19 his family had received three calls by an alleged member of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
He said the calls were received at his own landline and the mobile phone numbers of his brother and father.
The complaint said the caller threatened him that his family members would be kidnapped and killed if he failed to pay the Rs40 million. Mr Wasim claimed that the threatening calls were made from Wazoo.
The police said they had started the paperwork but haven't done much else and started an investigation on Sunday.
It may be noted that two traders in the city had also fallen victims to the extortionists during the last about one week.
The traders, however, reported the incidents to the police only after meeting the demands of the extortionists.
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TTP are just gangsters controlling the heroin trade.
[Pak Daily Times] An ambush by heavily armed militants in Panjot area of Swat injured one security official, on Sunday. According to media reports, the exchange of gunfire reportedly lasted for several hours, as the security forces conducted an operation against the militants. The security forces retaliated in response to the militants firing.
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Communist militants who seized 39 gold prospectors on Mindanao have released all but three of them, officials said Monday. The area's governor, Arturo Uy, said the New People's Army (NPA) released 36 of the miners they had abducted on Saturday as government troops closed in on them. It was not known why the NPA had held onto the remaining three.
Uy said, "They were used as human shields," following negotiations that secured the release of most of the captives in the gold-rich Compostela Valley.
The NPA had seized the miners as the military was conducting a major operation against them in a mountainous area that has over the years attracted prospectors who operate illegal gold mines. Entire villages have been set up around such mines, which have also become a lucrative source of extortion money for the militants.
In the nearby town of Asuncion on Sunday, three soldiers were injured when the NPA set off a bomb to ambush a patrol, police said.
An immense explosion has been heard throughout the northern Iranian city of Qazvin, semi-official Fars news agency reported, and many casualties are expected from the blast. hmmmm
Around 1.1 million people live in the city, which is located about 100 miles north of Tehran.
The blast may be related to nuclear development in Iran, according to the Los Angeles Times. Iranian officials in the past have strongly denied claims by Mujahedin Khalq Organization, or MKO, a cult-like Iranian exile group, that it has a secret nuclear enrichment facility in Abyek, near the major city, according to the daily. "Baby Milk Factory"
The source of the blast remains undetermined. Several mystery explosions have been reported in the past several years in the region, none of which were ever verified.
A fire has now broken out in the city, local reports say, and as many as 50 people are injured. State media blames an oil depot for the blast.
State news agency IRNA reports that firefighters are on the scene. "Firefighters are trying to prevent the spread of the fire at a car oil storage facility," Ali Mohammad Ahani, the director general of Qazvin governor's disaster management authority, stated. Ahani added that no reports of casualties have been recorded
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"The blast may be related to nuclear development..."
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if it was nuclear related we would know from radiation detectors
more likely, it was rocket fuel -- a relatively small amount of rocket fuel can make a very big bang and furthermore, inept handling of the oxidizer and the propellant is a very real danger especially in a country that hasn't an experienced professional tradition in that area
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Eric Holder should send the FBI, the department of energy and jimmy carter to investigate.
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inept handling of the oxidizer and the propellant is a very real danger especially in a country that hasn't an experienced professional tradition in that area
welllll, they're experienced now :-)
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Better hope it's Rocket Fuel. If it's Nuclear and there's a fire, Chernobyl the second might be happening.
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[Beirut Daily Star] Clashes raged Monday in the Yarmouk neighborhood in southern Damascus around the Paleostinian refugee camp as the latest mediation effort got underway to end the regime blockade of the rebel-held area.
Syria's deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, met with a Paleostinian delegation led by PLO officials Zakaria Agha and Ahmad Majdalani, the Paleostinian labor minister, state news agency SANA said.
Syrian authorities say that the camp is being "blockaded" by gangs, while opposition supporters level the same charge at government military forces.
Agha expressed his satisfaction with the "ongoing consultation and coordination" of the Syrian and Paleostinian leaderships and "the necessity of seeing the exit of fighters and their organizations" from Yarmouk.
Prior to his trip, Agha had declared the latest visit to the Syrian capital would follow-up on previous meetings to find a solution for deteriorating conditions in the camp, where dozens have died due to malnutrition and lack of medical treatment.
He also stated that "pending issues related to Paleostinian refugees, such as those who have been detained and those who have disappeared," would also be raised during his meetings with Syrian officials.
Fighting between gangs based in the camp and regime troops claimed the life of one man Monday, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group of activists.
UNRWA front man Chris Gunness used words such as "frustrating" and "utterly ashamed" in describing the pace of aid distribution over the last two days. He said the distribution was interrupted Monday by a bout of gunfire, which injured a civilian and saw only 162 food parcels passed out to camp residents.
"Only 180 civilian families received food in Yarmouk. I feel utterly ashamed. We all should," he tweeted, describing Sunday's aid effort targeting an estimated 40,000 camp inhabitants.
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[Beirut Daily Star] Leb's military investigative judge Monday sought the death penalty for 10 suspects tied to last year's bombings in the northern city of 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... , including a Syrian intelligence officer.
In his indictment regarding the Aug. 23 double boom-mobileing, Judge Riad Abu Ghayda requested the death penalty for eight Lebanese nationals as well as Syrian Intelligence officer Capt. Mohammad Ali and Khodr al-Ayrouni.
The Lebanese were identified as Sheikh Ahmad Gharib, Mustafa Houri, Hayyan Ramadan, Youssef Diab, Khodr Shdoud, Ahmad Merhi, Salman Asaad and Nasser Joban.
The judge also recommended a three-year sentence for the head of the Arab Democratic Party and former MP Ali Eid, a prominent pro-Assad figure in Tripoli, along with his driver Ahmad Ali, Samir Hammoud and Shehada Shdoud.
Eid was accused of aiding Merhi to flee to Syria with the help of his driver. The Alawite figure is also accused of asking Shdoud to help Sukaynah Ismail flee.
Ismail accompanied the two people who drove the explosive-rigged vehicles from Syria into Leb along with two children.
The indictment cites the confessions of Gharib and Houri saying that Syrian intelligence planned the bombings and recruited Ali, the Syrian officer, as well as Gharib and Hayyan to carry out the attacks.
The judge said that the detained suspects also confessed that two boom-mobileings were intended to assassinate political and religious figures, namely Salafist Sheikh Salem al-Rafei, Justice Minister and former chief of police Ashraf Rifi, Future MP Khaled Daher, former Future MP Mustafa Alloush and retired Brig. Gen. Amid Hammoud.
The plan also stipulated that additional boom-mobiles should target any protests in response to the original attack, which Abu Ghayda said killed 51 people and maimed over 300.
Gharib planned the attacks by meeting with the Syrian officer and carefully studying the location of Al-Taqwa Mosque and its interior, including the spot where the preacher usually stands. The two also discussed the transportation of the explosives-rigged vehicle from Syria's Tartous to Tripoli.
Gharib also recruited Houri and tasked him with monitoring political and religious figures, given his profession as a journalist. He allegedly asked Houri to recruit someone to assassinate the former brigadier general in return for $10,000 and another person to park the vehicle outside al-Taqwa mosque.
The indictment noted that Syrian intelligence also recruited Hayyan from the Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen. Hayyan, in turn, recruited Diab, Merhi, Asaad and Shdoud to carry out the attacks.
Diab and Shdoud parked an explosives-rigged vehicle outside Al-Salam Mosque and detonated it before fleeing on a cycle of violence while Merhi and Asaad carried out the attack against Al-Taqwa mosque.
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[Beirut Daily Star] Hundreds of residents of the Damascus suburb of Douma Monday attended the funeral of a leading local rebel commander who was assassinated the day before by unknown gunnies.
Adnan Khubbieh, known as Abu Ammar, was praised as a dedicated and accomplished rebel commander, famous throughout the capital's Ghouta suburbs. Khubbieh's body was reportedly wrapped in the green, white and black independence flag.
He was a commander in the Douma Martyrs rebel group. The outlets noted that the murder of Khubbieh, who was reportedly shot by the occupants of a car on a main road in Douma, came five days after the liquidation of Adnan Flitani, a prominent local civilian activist, also from Douma, a rebel stronghold.
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Joined the Douma Martyrs, got martyred in Douma. What are the odds?
[Beirut Daily Star] Fighting between rival jihadist groups in eastern Syria killed 63 people Monday, despite a call from Al-Qaeda's chief for a cease-fire, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The festivities between Al-Qaeda's Syrian branch the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) have prompted 60,000 people to flee towns in the province.
The Observatory, a group of activists, said 58 fighters on both sides had been killed in the festivities Monday, along with five civilians.
The deaths bring to 150 the toll since the latest confrontation between the groups erupted last week in Deir al-Zor, bordering Iraq.
It comes after Islamist and moderate rebels eventually joined by Nusra launched an offensive against ISIS in early January. The fighting has killed around 4,000 people, according to the Observatory.
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This is just too good to be true!! You actually mean Jihadists are popping EACH OTHER?
That's better than Lunch. But then they ARE Moslems and nobody said you had to have brains to be one.
Killing each other. Yeah.( Do a little dance )
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If you can't kill the one you hate
Kill the one you're with.
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[Beirut Daily Star] More than 100 people have been killed in fierce fighting in the past 10 days in the Central African Republic, as charity Doctors Without Borders said it would reduce its work after a bloody attack on a hospital.
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Communist militants who seized 39 gold prospectors on Mindanao have released all but three of them, officials said Monday. The area's governor, Arturo Uy, said the New People's Army (NPA) released 36 of the miners they had abducted on Saturday as government troops closed in on them. It was not known why the NPA had held onto the remaining three.
