[Tolo News] At least 10 Taliban holy warriors and an Afghan policeman were killed in a clash in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... early Friday after hundreds holy warriors attacked the military outposts, said local officials.
Five krazed killers, one policeman and an Afghan soldier were maimed in the attack.
The festivities took place at around 4:30 a.m. on Friday morning in Ghaziabad and Narai districts of the province when more than 800 Taliban holy warriors attacked the military's outposts with support of the Pak military, said officials of the 201st Selab Military Corps in eastern Afghanistan.
Officials said more troops have been sent to the area and that the festivities still continue. There were no civilian casualties during the festivities.
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) air forces were also supporting the Afghan forces.
The Taliban have not yet commented about the attack.
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[Tolo News] Seven Afghan coppers including the police chief were killed in a clash with a police commander in Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province on Thursday night, local officials said.
The incident cross-fire happened after a verbal fight between Police Chief Shayesta Khan and Mohammad Reza, the police commander, said Dawa Khan Menapal, front man for the provincial governor.
"First they were verbally abusing one another and then they started shooting at one another, in which Shayesta Khan and the brother of Mohammad Reza, who was a policeman, was among the seven coppers killed," Menapal said.
He added that the clash was not politically related.
"Preliminary investigations are showing that the incident happened because of private matters."
The police are now searching for Reza who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after the shooting.
Khan was Spin Boldak's police chief for more than three years.
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[Tolo News] Talibs hanged five civilians on Friday morning in Kajaki district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, according to local officials.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said that Lions of Islam hanged the five civilians at 10:00 am on Friday in the Gandum Rez village.
"Unfortunately, the Taliban again hanged five civilians accused of spying for the government in front of people at 10:00 a.m. in a village of Helmand province," said Najeeb Danesh, the Deputy Spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior.
A number of representatives from Helmand confirmed the incident but said that the individuals killed were actually members of the Taliban who had failed to do their jobs properly during the Sangeen district operation.
"Based on the information that I have, and I have spoken to local people, these people were Taliban members who had failed to target the Sangeen district governor so the Taliban hanged them in front of people so that others learn from them," Helmand MP Abdul Hay Akhundzada said.
This incident took place after Talibs recently rubbed out 16 civilians in Sar Jungle district of Ghor province, including a newly married couple.
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but Talibs are "our partners in peace", right, Karzai, you f*ck?
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Heavy fighting broke out in Mogadishu on Friday as Somali government and African Union troops battled a powerful militia warlord in a bid to disarm him, security officials said, reporting a number of casualties.
"Government forces and African troops are conducting security operations in Mogadishu, and this morning militiamen confronted them," government security official Mohamed Yusuf said.
Bursts of gunfire and heavy explosions were reported before dawn, with witnesses reporting at least five dead. Rocket-propelled grenades were fired by both sides, witnesses said.
Somalia's government launched a disarmament campaign earlier this month, with troops backed by the AU mission in Somalia (Amisom) on Friday fighting to seize weapons from militia leader Ahmed Dai.
Government troops said they had taken control after several hours of fierce battle.
"Forces are continuing with their operations," Mr Yusuf said, saying that while there were casualties, he was unable to confirm details.
But militia commander Dai told reporters the only guns he had were for "self-defence."
"Amisom and security forces raided my house early this morning and we defended ourselves," Mr Dai said, saying several people had died, but without giving a precise toll.
"If they are claiming the operation is aimed for disarmament, then I have got no weapons, except a few for self-defence purposes," he said.
Mr Dai is based in the capital's Madina district, a neighbourhood close to the heavily defended airport zonet, the headquarters of the 22,000-strong AU force. Mr Dai's militia opened fire and a "firefight ensued," Amisom said, adding that the "militia was overpowered and 20 were arrested".
Mr Dai himself was not captured.
Almost as if he skadaddled at the very beginning...
The clashes come just two days after UN Security Council envoys briefly visited a fortified zone within the dangerous capital, where they promised to support the first elections in decades, scheduled for 2016.
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[AnNahar] Three people were killed as supporters and opponents of Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi clashed after Friday prayers, security officials said, a day after five people died in sporadic violence.
Supporters of Morsi have attempted to stage rallies since Thursday, the first anniversary of a deadly police crackdown in Cairo that left hundreds dead, but security forces have swiftly quashed them.
On August 14, 2013, after then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi had removed Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president, police cracked down on his supporters at protest camps in Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares.
On Friday, two people were killed when pro-Morsi supporters clashed with their opponents after the weekly Moslem prayers in Cairo's western neighborhood of Faisal, a security official said.
Clashes erupted when pro-Morsi marchers set off fireworks close to shops and residences in the area, the official said, adding the two men were killed by live ammunition and birdshot.
Riot police later intervened and also clashed with pro-Morsi protesters. A security officer and three conscripts were maimed in Faisal, the security official said.
The interior ministry said that "an armed and masked Morsi supporter" was killed by security forces south of Cairo when they intervened to break up a clash between the two groups.
Five people including a police officer were maimed in a separate protest in north Cairo.
Nationwide, 29 people were jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! during protests, security officials and state news agency MENA reported.
On Thursday, four people were killed by gunshots across Cairo when Morsi supporters clashed with riot police and civilian opponents.
A policeman was also bumped off in the city by unknown assailants on Thursday. The interior ministry blamed Morsi supporters for his killing.
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The US Department of State announced today that three employees were killed in what was described as "a unforeseen and regrettable act of violence".
The names of the employees were not released, but according to an anonymous source, their last names were Mohamed, Mohamed and Mohamed.
[MAGHAREBIA] The Algerian army this week began a large-scale operation to eliminate the last remaining terrorist pockets in Tizi Ouzou wilaya, Liberte reported on Thursday (August 14th).
ANP troops are conducting airstrikes in the rugged Yakouren region.
The operation was launched earlier this week, following information from local sources about the presence of a terrorist group in the area.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Morocco dismantled a network that recruited young jihadists for the "Islamic State" (ISIS) terror group in Syria and Iraq, MAP reported on Thursday (August 14th).
According to the interior ministry, nine suspects were enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! . The cell, which sent recruits to training camps, was operating in the cities of Tetouan, Fnideq and Fes.
"The operation, based on detailed investigations carried out in close collaboration with Spain, stems from a proactive security approach aimed at battling terrorist threats," the ministry said in a statement.
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[Nigerian Tribune] RESIDENTS of Hadaija community, in Doron Baga, Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State, said they lost six members of the community, alleging that about 100 young men were kidnapped on Sunday, when members of 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... attacked the community.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that thousands of people were displaced and now seeking refuge in some parts of Borno and Yobe states.
Speaking with some of the victims of the attack, who had fled their homes and headed for Gashua in Yobe State at the Borno Express terminus, Maiduguri, a young woman, Halima Alhaji Adamu, told the Nigerian Tribune that she lost her husband and six people from her immediate family.
She also said Hadaija community had about 100 of its young men kidnapped by the turbans for recruitment.
According to her, several other communities within Doron Baga also lost many people, just as many were kidnapped by the holy warriors.
Speaking on why she and the rest of her family could not take advantage of the refugee camps, she said she had her family members in Gashua, where they intended to go and stay before the unfortunate incident occurred.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... victims of insurgency attacks in Gwoza town, Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, have said contrary to claims that military men were in Gwoza, fighting terrorists, realities on ground states otherwise.
The victims, who were brought into Maiduguri on Thursday by one of the renown activists, Professor Hauwa Biu, gave the revelation on arrival.
According to one Zakariya Ibrahim, there was no military presence in Gwoza town in the last 10 days, "except the military authorities wanted to tell Nigerians that those occupying the troubled town were not Boko Haram holy warriors."
Speaking to newsmen, Ibrahim said it was only God who knew why they were still alive.
"What we have seen with our eyes is something we never thought we could see in our lifetime. Corpses are littered everywhere in Gwoza and every street has been turned into a graveyard. It was the women burying corpses, as no able-bodied man is spared by the sect members, who took control of our town."
Narrating their ordeal, he said they started hearing gunshots at about 5.00 p.m. that fateful day while sitting in front of their shops and before they knew it, the sect members were everywhere and "we took to our heels. We could not wait to carry those who fell by their bullets; we did not know how we made it to the mountains.
"We got there anyway; some with broken limbs, others with torn muscles, broken arm or wounds. They pursued us to the mountains and we continued through the night until God, in his mercy, helped us to escape."
He said anyone that came from behind came with a news.
According to them, the last of their group met them at Madagali on Wednesday and the news remained the same -that there was no soldier in Gwoza, as the sect members continued to kill whoever they sighted.
Another victim, Binta Sani, told the Nigerian Tribune that she ran with her sisters because the sect members told them that they were bringing their women to settle with them in Gwoza.
According to her, they left their aged parents and their sick brother at home with faith in God for their safety.
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[ALLAFRICA] No fewer than 50 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... members and over 30 soldiers were feared killed in an encounter around Pilka, Kirawa and Gwoza communities of Borno State in the last one week, reliable security source has confirmed.
It will be recalled that following the military take-over of Damboa Council Headquarters which was captured by terrorists, suspected Boko Haram gunnies in their hundreds beat feet from Damboa and Sambisa Forest where they invaded and captured Gwoza town in Borno State, following last Wednesday=s multiple attacks on several houses, a cop shoppe, secretariat complex, and the Emir's place.
In the latest Gwoza attacks, even the new Emir, who took over from his late father, who was killed by Boko Haram, Alhaji Muhammed Idrisa Timta narrowly escaped being killed.
A top security source confirmed to our correspondent in Maiduguri that "the deployment of military to Gwoza, weekend, led to serious casualties from both sides, as more than 30 soldiers were ambushed and killed by Death Eaters in Pilka, Kirawa and other villages on the Maiduguri Bama Gwoza troubled road.
"Also, over 50 of the forces of Evil were killed in the encounter, but unfortunately, military troops in Kirawa withdrew and returned to Bama where they were reunited with their colleagues at the military barracks following the fire-power from the murderous Moslems. They could not go to Gwoza as directed by their commanders.
AAt T Junction on Banki Road, the Death Eaters also ambushed the military post where both sides suffered several casualties, although I don't have details of those killed yet," the source said.
He added that it was difficult for security operatives to enter Gwoza town where Death Eaters had a field day, because, most of the villages along the road leading to Gwoza where its inhabitants were sacked, were occupied by Death Eaters who climbed on trees and opened fire on military operational vehicles.
A text message sent to Director, Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade to confirm the incident was not replied.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... following months of making strategies on the best ways of rescuing the over 200 kidnapped girls of the Government Seconday School, Chibok, the Defence headquarters, yesterday, disclosed that Nigerian soldiers have infiltrated and taken positions in Sambisa forest, the den where the girls and several other hostages were being kept.
Director of Defence Information, Major General Olukolade, who made the disclosure, said that Sambisa Forest is a wide expanse of land covering over 6,000 square kilometres with several communities living inside, noting that this explained why the military could not just go into the forest and bomb the whole place.
Explaining that the armed forces were not relenting in a bid to bring back the girls, General Olukolade said the military wanted to avoid collateral damage in the process of rescuing the Chibok girls, insisting that the foreign collaboration in efforts at achieving this goal was assisting in this regard.
On the take-over of Gwoza town by Boko Haram and the subsequent hoisting of their flags, and counter attacks by soldiers to re-take the town, he said that no portion of Nigeria was available for Death Eaters to occupy, adding that "if they (terrorists) appear to be doing so now, it was only a joke."
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[ISLAMICINVITATIONTURKEY] Suspected turbans from 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... radical group have kidnapped dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , loading them onto trucks and driving them off, witnesses have said. The kidnappings come four months after Boko Haram, which is fighting to reinstate a medieval caliphate in religiously mixed Nigeria, kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok.
Several witnesses who fled after the Sunday's raid on Doron Baga, a sandy fishing village near the shores of Lake Chad, said the turbans had burned several houses and that as many as 97 people were unaccounted for.
"They left no men or boys in the place; only young children, girls and women," said Halima Adamu, sobbing softly and looking exhausted after a 180 km road trip on the back of a truck to the northern city of Maiduguri.
"There was confusion everywhere. They started parking our men and boys into their vehicles, threatening to shoot whoever disobeys them. Everybody was scared."
The villagers said six older men were also killed in Sunday's raid.
Boko Haram, seen as the number one security threat to Africa's top economy and oil producer, has dramatically increased attacks on civilians in the past year, and the once-grassroots movement has rapidly lost popular support as it gets more blood thirsty.
Its solution — kidnapping boys and forcing them to fight and abducting girls as sex slaves — is chilling echo of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, which has operated in the same way in Uganda, South Sudan and central Africa for decades.
The military did not respond to a request for comment. A security source said they were aware of the incident but were still investigating the details.
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Will Michelle be frowny-pouting on the beach, displaying #bringbackourboys sign now?
[AnNahar] Members of more than 25 prominent Sunni tribes took up arms against jihadists and their allies west of the Iraqi capital on Friday, a tribal leader and officers said.
The uprising in Anbar province, where jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) group and turban allies hold major areas, came a day after Nuri al-Maliki, the incumbent premier who is widely reviled by Iraqi Sunni Arabs, abandoned his bid for a third term.
Anbar was the birthplace of a 2006 U.S.-backed uprising against murderous Moslemmurderous Moslems that helped bring about a sharp reduction in violence.
The current effort could potentially be a major turning point in Iraq's two-month conflict against an IS-led offensive.
"This popular revolution was agreed on with all the tribes that want to fight IS, which spilled our blood," Sheikh Abduljabbar Abu Risha, one of the leaders of the uprising, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
IS-led murderous Moslems launched a major offensive in June that swept security forces aside and overran large areas of five provinces, including Anbar, where parts of picturesque provincial capital Ramadi and all of the city of Fallujah had already been outside government control since January.
Anbar police chief Major General Ahmed Saddak said security forces were backing the uprising, which began at 6:00 am (0300 GMT) on Friday.
"The battles are continuing until this moment," he said, putting the toll at 12 murderous Moslems killed and adding: "We will not stop until the liberation of Anbar."
The push by rustics and security forces began with attacks on multiple areas northwest of Anbar picturesque provincial capital Ramadi, Abu Risha and Saddak said.
Police Colonel Ahmed Shufir, meanwhile, said that Kataeb Hamza, a group that fought against al-Qaeda-linked murderous Moslems in past years, has been reformed and is based out of the town of Haditha in Anbar province.
Its forces aim to fight against murderous Moslems who hold areas west of the town, he said.
Abu Risha said that the effort had been in the works for weeks and was not linked to Maliki's announcement on Thursday night that he would step aside.
But the departure of the divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... Shiite premier likely makes Sunni Arab cooperation with Baghdad more palatable.
It also clears the way for the formation of a broad-based government that the United States and other power brokers hope would boost the fight against jihadists.
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[AnNahar] Jihadist fighters blew up a Shiite prayer hall in the Iraqi town of Jalawla on Friday and publicly executed the muezzin, witnesses and a regional police chief said.
Islamic State (IS) fighters detained the muezzin, who calls for Moslem prayers, and blew up the Jalawla husseiniyah, a term used for a Shiite place of worship.
"Then they shot him dead in front of his mosque," said the police official for Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad.
Witnesses confirmed the execution, which came four days after IS gunnies wrested control of the town from Kurdish peshmerga forces following two of deadly fighting.
In Sayed Ahmad village north of Jalawla, IS fighters also executed six coppers, the same sources said.
Kurdish forces lost at least 10 fighters in the battle for Jalawla, a strategic choke-point 130 kilometers (80 miles) northeast of Baghdad.
The IS's Sunni Lion of Islam fighters conquered large swathes of Iraq's Sunni heartland in June, while Diyala province is mixed.
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[AAWSAT.NET] Leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and self-proclaimed caliph Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi fled the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to return to Syrian territory after the US authorized Arclight airstrikes on ISIS positions in Iraq, a Kurdish official said.
In comments to Asharq Al-Awsat, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) front man Saeed Mamo Zinni said: "Caliph of the Islamic State Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi left Mosul for Syria a few days ago."
"According to our intelligence sources, Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi traveled to Syria as part of a convoy of 30 Hummer vehicles after fearing being targeted by US Arclight airstrikes," Zinni said. He added that Kurdish Peshmerga forces have been able to kill a number of ISIS big shots.
Zinni, a media official for the KDP regional office in Nineveh, went on to claim that Kurdish Peshmerga fighters had repelled an ISIS attack in the Zammar district of Diyala province.
ISIS continued its attack on Iraqi Yazidis on Wednesday despite US Arclight airstrikes.
An informed source in Mosul, speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat on condition of anonymity, said that ISIS had killed all Yazidi men in the villages it had besieged around Sinjar after a deadline for them to convert to Islam expired. "[ISIS fighters also] raped the women and girls, and took the children to Mosul," he added.
The traditional choices...
The source claimed that ISIS had recruited several young men from Mosul, and that many of the new recruits were sent to fight in the arid Jazeera region in Syria.
The source said: "Whoever has authorization from ISIS is transferred to areas near Mosul. Others are sent to the fighting in Syria after three days of military training at the Kindi training camp."
Golly. Instead of being headless, they now get to be cannon fodder far from home, protecting the same people who offered that choice to them.
The source added that ISIS have taken over an entire floor of Mosul Hospital, after suffering a large number of casualties in recent battles with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, and had also launched a drive for local residents to donate blood to the maimed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Peshmerga Ministry announced on Wednesday the arrival of French military aid.
Brig. Gen. Halgurd Hikmat, the official front man of the Peshmerga Ministry, told Asharq Al-Awsat: "Many countries expressed willingness to help the Peshmerga forces militarily, including the US, Britannia, La Belle France, Finland, Italia and Canada."
"The French military aid arrived over the past few days. Aid from the US and other countries also arrived, but I do not want to name those other countries now . . .We are still waiting for more arms from our allies," he added.
Hikmat said the new arms were a mixture of light and heavy weapons, and that 130 additional US military advisors had also arrived in the region to assist Peshmerga with advice and planning. He added that a number of foreign countries had also offered to train Kurdish troops in the use of their new weapons.
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MilBloggers claim the ISIS/ISIL is holding back most of their firepower, + instead are using only those captured US equipment, MBTS, + CSVS, etc. from the defeated Iraqi Army garrisons in Mosul to fight the Kurds + Yazidis???
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Syria, most likely. The other possible is Baghdad and environs, once they close the southern gap.
My take is that ISIS is using the crazies and fanatics as shock troops.
The captured equipment is bonus; it it's destroyed, no big deal. There's also maintenance and support base for it, so they'll use it until it breaks.
I'll go so far as to say the "self-proclaimed caliph" is not much more than a distraction. The hardcore element is safely ensconced someplac eelse , possibly in another, non-affected country.
The U.S. military conducted new airstrikes against Islamic militants Friday as sources tell Fox News members of the group killed 90 male members of Iraq's Yazidi minority in a northern village and kidnapped "dozens" of women and children.
The Kurdish-speaking ethnic and religious group, which numbers in the hundreds of thousands in Iraq, has been persecuted in the north by Islamic State militants, with at least 500 killed prior to Friday's news, according to Iraq's human rights minister.
The U.S. military said in a statement Friday that after receiving reports of civilians being attacked, U.S. forces conducted airstrikes on Islamic State vehicles in the village of Kawju. The village is located south of the village of Sinjar.
"[Militants] arrived in vehicles and they started their killing this afternoon,'' senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters. "We believe it's because of their creed: convert or be killed."
A Yazidi lawmaker and another senior Kurdish official also said the killings had taken place and that the women of the village were kidnapped. Iraqi and Yazidi leaders say the brutal Islamic State fighters have buried Yazidi men alive, killed children and kidnapped women to be slaves.
"We have striking evidence obtained from Yazidis fleeing Sinjar and some who escaped death, and also crime scene images that show indisputably that the gangs of the Islamic States have executed at least 500 Yazidis after seizing Sinjar," Sudani told Reuters Sunday.
Sinjar is the ancient home of the Yazidis, but also one of several towns captured by the Sunni militants who view the community as "devil worshipers" and demand conversion to Islam under threat of death.
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[ArutzSheva] Six wanted Arab holy warriors were incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in Judea and Samaria overnight Thursday/Friday, according to IDF sources.
Four of them were arrested in Deir Istiya, southeast of Qalqilya, and another Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terrorist was arrested in Beit Ummar, southwest of Bethlehem. They were interrogated by security forces.
In addition, Duvdevan special forces apprehended a Hamas member in the Aida "refugee camp" in Bethlehem. The suspect evaded arrest, causing IDF forces to open fire, wounding him. The man was transferred to a hospital for treatment and later interrogated by security forces.
Arrests in Judea-Samaria have increased over the past week, as security forces crack down on terrorism following calls to begin a third intifada in the region. The crackdown has paid off; during a wave of twelve arrests overnight Tuesday/Wednesday, the IDF arrested a Hamas terrorist in Kafr Samoa, south of Hevron, who was actively planning a terror attack against the IDF and Israeli civilians.
On Sunday night, security forces killed a Fatah terrorist during a joint operation of the IDF and Border Police undercover unit, south of Shechem (Nablus), after he resisted arrest and opened fire on the soldiers, forcing the IDF to return fire.
Preparatory measures for 'Day of Rage'?
At least part of the IDF crackdown can be attributed to Hamas's repeated calls for a third intifada over the past several months - a call which surfaced again late this week.
On Thursday night, Hamas called on Paleostinian Arabs throughout Judea-Samaria to participate in mass demonstrations on Friday supporting Gazoo in light of Israel's self-defense operation, Operation Protective Edge.
A procession of terrorist and Lion of Islam forces are expected to participate in a major demonstration in Ramallah on Friday after morning prayers, under the banner "We are outraged for you, Gazoo Strip!"
In Hevron, a march will take place under the title "We are all Gazoo"; additional marches are taking place in Bethlehem, Shechem (Nablus), Qalqiliya, and Tul-Karem.
Past demonstrations have featured not only blatant incitement to violence, but also chaotic rioting, and often festivities with IDF forces.
Saturday, August 16, the 40th day of Operation Protective Edge. A five-day truce began amid rocket fire midnight Wednesday, but held through Thursday and Friday. On Friday an Egyptian newspaper published details of Cairos 11-point ceasefire offer, and accounts varied on whether Hamas and Israel were close to clinching a deal or whether differences remained too great. Israels negotiators are due back in Cairo Saturday night
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After months of review and marathon workshops, the peace panels of the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have finally arrived at a mutually acceptable draft Bangsamoro Basic Law.
In a joint statement Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. and Bangsamoro Transition Commission head and MILF chief negotiator Mohagher Iqbal said, "We have concluded discussions on the various issues involving the draft BBL originally drafted by the Bangsamoro Transition Commission and submitted to the President last April. The parties have agreed that the resolutions arrived at by both parties will be incorporated into the final draft Basic Bangsamoro Law that will be prepared and submitted to President Benigno Aquino III."
The draft BBL aims to establish a Bangsamoro political entity that will replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. Both panels have earlier committed to submit the draft BBL to the Office of the President by August 18.
Meanwhile, hardline Filipino Muslim militants said Friday they have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, the extremist jihadis who now control large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Video clips have been uploaded in recent weeks onto YouTube showing both Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and the Abu Sayyaf militants pledging support to the Islamic State (IS).
BIFF spokesman Abu Misry Mama said, "We have an alliance with the Islamic State and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," referring to the group's leader.
Misry confirmed that a YouTube video uploaded on Wednesday, showing a BIFF leader flanked by armed men reading a statement of support for the IS, had come from his group.
A purported Abu Sayyaf video has also been uploaded onto Youtube showing one of the group's most senior leaders, Isnilon Hapilon, mentioning al-Baghdadi as he read out a statement that pledged allegiance to the IS. He was filmed linking arms with more than a dozen men, some with faces swathed in cloth, as they stood at a forest clearing to pray and listen to his statement.
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Two security personnel were killed and three others injured in two separate roadside bomb attacks in Yala and Narathiwat provinces yesterday.
In Yala's Kabang district, a seven-man special operations team on four motorcycles was hit before noon while escorting teachers. Lance Corporal Sarawuth Choothanom was pronounced dead at a hospital, while the patrol leader was sent to a hospital/
In Narathiwat's Muang district, a military transport truck carrying three Army paramilitary rangers was targeted by bomb fastened to a motorcyle parked by a main road. The blast killed one, who was pronounced dead at a hospital, and injured the other two soldiers. The truck was transporting several barrels full of gasoline, but the blast did not ignite any of the barrels.
Police said that insurgents stole the motorcycle used in the attack from a 62-year-old woman on Tuesday after gunning her down and then repainting the bike blue.
[AnNahar] At least 22 people were killed Friday when a boom-mobilewent kaboom! in front of a mosque in Daraa province of southern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Among the dead in the blast in the rebel-controlled town of Namar were a woman and a child, the Britannia-based monitoring group said.
In northern Syria, the Observatory reported 10 people killed when regime helicopters dropped explosive-packed "barrel bombs" on Aleppo city.
The attacks targeted the Bab al-Nairab district of the Old City and the southern Salahin neighborhood.
North of Aleppo city, the Observatory said jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) group extended their advances, seizing Baghaydin village near the border with Turkey.
On Wednesday, IS fighters captured eight villages in the area between Aleppo and the border from rival rebel groups.
Those advances came after festivities that killed at least 40 fighters from rebel groups, as well as 12 IS fighters, according to the Observatory.
The successes open the way for IS to move towards two strategic prizes -- Aazaz and Marea.
Marea is a stronghold of the Islamic Front, a coalition of Islamist groups that is among those fighting against IS.
Aazaz sits next to a border crossing with Turkey, which would be a valuable asset as IS seeks to expand its self-declared "caliphate" in the territory it holds in Syria and neighboring Iraq.
IS emerged from al-Qaeda's one-time branch in Iraq, and initially fought alongside Syria's opposition, including more moderate rebels and Al-Nusra fighters.
But its abuses and harsh brand of religion prompted a backlash from rebel groups that pushed it out of many opposition-held areas earlier this year.
Since then, it has staged a comeback, bolstered by weaponry obtained in advances across the border in Iraq.
One analyst warned Friday that the fate of Syria's "Western-backed opposition in northern Syria hangs quite literally on a knife-edge" as IS advances in northern Aleppo and regime forces advance in Aleppo city.
In an opinion piece published on CNN's website, Charles Lister of the Brookings Doha Center said Syria's rebels were facing an "existential threat".
Lister said IS was likely to move into Aazaz, cutting rebel supply lines to Syria, and into Marea, from which it could launch attacks on rebel-held parts of Aleppo city.
Aleppo has been divided between rebel control in the east and regime control in the west since shortly after fighting began there in mid-2012.
In the face of regime advances around the eastern outskirts of the city, coupled with IS advances farther north, the remaining rebels inside Aleppo are increasingly beleaguered.
Fighting in the province has left civilians there "living in appalling conditions", the International Committee of the Red Thingy said on Friday.
The ICRC said it was working with Syria's Red Islamic Thingy to deliver medical aid to all parts of the province, in both rebel- and regime-held territory.
"Stepping up aid distributions in the governorate has been the ICRC's priority ever since we established a permanent presence in the city over a year ago," it said.
More than 170,000 people have been killed in Syria since the beginning of its conflict in March 2011, according to the Observatory.
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