The Afghan Taliban overran an Afghan military base and paraded its troops through the bazaar in Kajaki in northern Helmand province, the jihadist group claimed.
The Taliban made the claim in a video produced by Al Emarah and released on Voice of Jihad, its official propaganda outlet. Images from the video were also compiled by a Taliban-linked Twitter account.
The release, entitled "Azm Operations in Helmand Province, Graveyard of the British Empire," shows a suicide bombing on an Afghan military checkpoint and a mortar attack on the base in the southern Afghan province. In one scene, several US-made Humvees are used by the Taliban. A Humvee and several weapons were taken as "spoils" from the battle.
After taking over the base, the jihadists then claimed to have taken over large portions of Kajaki. The release shows images of fighters parading through the district, including Kajaki's bazaar.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan cops thwarted a plot by the murderous Moslem groups to carry out an attack in capital Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... by detonating a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED).
Officials in Kabul police department said the VBIED was confiscated by police forces from the vicinity of 15th police district.
The officials further added that the murderous Moslems were looking to carry out an attack during the Eid days using the vehicle packed with explosives.
Some weapons including Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) launchers were also confiscated by the police forces, the officials added.
This comes as the Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant since the group announced its summer offensive earlier this year and since then launched numerous attacks across the country including capital Kabul.
The Talibs launched coordinated suicide kaboom on NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... troops convoy and the Afghan intelligence compound in capital Kabul nearly two weeks ago.
According to the security officials at least three people were maimed in the attack on NATO troops convoy while a security guard of the NDS compound was killed along with three jacket wallahs in the second attack on the intelligence compound.
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[Al Ahram] African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... troops said Sunday they had launched a new offensive against Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab rebels in southern Somalia, vowing to flush the bully boyz out of rural areas.
The African Union Mission in Somalia, or AMISOM, said "Operation Jubba Corridor" was launched on Friday in the Bay and Gedo regions south of the capital Mogadishu along with Somali government troops.
Officials and witnesses confirmed heavy fighting was raging near the Shabaab strongholds of Dinsor and Bardhere, and said the bandidosbully boyz hit back with a suicide car kaboom against a convoy of Æthiopian troops, who are leading the offensive.
"The operation will ensure that all the remaining areas in Somalia will be liberated and peace restored," AMISOM said in a statement.
A Somali military official in the region, Mohammed Osman, confirmed heavy fighting between AMISOM and Somali troops on one side and the Shabaab on the other.
"There are heavy festivities going on between our forces and Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... militia along the road that leads to Dinsor. The bandidosbully boyz ambushed a military convoy," he said.
Witnesses who live close to the battleground said a suicide kaboomer struck the convoy with a boom-mobile loaded with explosives. There were no immediate reports on casualties.
The offensive was launched days after Kenyan government reports that a US drone strike in the region killed at least 30 Shabaab rebels, among them several commanders.
It also comes several weeks after last month's Shabaab assault on a AMISOM base which left dozens of Burundian soldiers dead in one of the single deadliest incidents since AMISOM soldiers arrived in Somalia eight years ago.
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[ALMANAR.LB] At least 11 soldiers have been killed in an attack by myrmidon myrmidongunnies west of Algeria's capital.
The ambush took place on Thursday night at the start of celebrations marking the end of Ramadan.
Armed groups were active in the region, Ain Defla, in the 1990s.
Correspondents say although Algeria is now much more stable, gunnies with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL operate in parts of the country, mostly in remote mountain areas.
Thursday night's attack took place in a forest in Ain Defla, 240km (150 miles) from Algiers, a police commander told News Agency that Dare Not be Named - speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... as an official statement has not yet been released.
The attack was also reported by a security source and the local media, although they gave few other details.
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[al-Alam] Egypt's military front man says the corpse count from the Sinai Peninsula a day earlier has climbed to seven soldiers after a series of ISIS claimed attacks.
The statement from Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir on Sunday said the military killed 59 bully boyz during the day's operations, which involved air cover.
The front man initially said that a shell struck a single checkpoint Saturday, killing three soldiers and wounding four. Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because they were not authorized to speak to journalists, said bully boyz attacked two checkpoints.
In its daily radio broadcast, the ISIS group said its fighters attacked multiple checkpoints and military installations Saturday in North Sinai, naming at least two checkpoints and saying festivities took place near a local airport.
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[AA.TR] The Nigerien army announced Sunday that it killed 31 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... in a military operation it carried out during the middle of the week.
"The armed forces launched a military operation against Boko Haram, following an attack carried out by the latter on one of the towns in the country, during the middle of last week, which led to the deaths of 15 people and four other being injured," military front man Colonel Moustapha Ledru said in a statement.
Ledru said that 31 Boko Haram forces of Evil were killed in the operation, which also led to the arrest of a high-ranking official in the group.
Boko Haram launched a number of assaults on Niger last June, which led to more than 50 casualties.
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[Al Ahram] Yemeni pro-government forces on Sunday sought to tighten their control of Aden as Iran-backed rebels mounted resistance in some districts, two days after the regime declared the city "liberated".
Backed by air support from Saudi-led warplanes and troops freshly trained in the kingdom, forces loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi have managed wrest back control of most of the port city.
Two ministers of the exiled government returned to Aden this weekend, shortly after Prime Minister Khaled Bahah heralded its "liberation", four months after the Shia Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels entered the city.
On Sunday, fighters from the pro-Hadi Popular Resistance advanced towards the rebel-held district of Al-Tawahi, a military source said.
The neighbourhood is home to Aden's presidential residence, where Hadi had taken refuge when he escaped house arrest under the rebels in Sanaa in February, before being forced to flee for Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... Swathes of the southern city have been reduced to rubble by the four months of ferocious fighting.
Warplanes from a Saudi-led Arab coalition have kept up the air campaign launched in March in support of Hadi and against the Huthis and renegade troops loyal to former president 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... Around 15 air strikes targeted rebel positions in Al-Tawahi and on the northern outskirts of the city where rebels had brought reinforcements, military sources and witnesses said.
Fighting also went on in the district of Crater where some rebels remain holed up, according to pro-Hadi fighters.
Nine rebels were killed in a raid on Khormaksar neighbourhood, witnesses said.
The interior and transportation ministers headed a delegation of the exiled government that landed in Aden on Friday night. They took part in a meeting on Saturday aimed at securing the city.
The government-run news agency said the meeting looked into reopening the airport and the port to allow the flow of much-needed aid, as well as the restoration of electricity and water.
Loyalist forces had secured Aden airport shortly after they launched an assault on Tuesday against the rebels dubbed "Operation Golden Arrow".
Some displaced residents of Aden returned to assess the damage to their houses and neighbourhoods.
"There is no life! No hospitals, no electricity, nor water. If it was not for the two wells of the neighbourhood, people would have died of thirst," said Crater resident Moatez al-Mayssuri.
A rebel front man dismissed the government's claims on Saturday that it had seized control of Aden as "psychological warfare and an attempt to improve the crushed morale" of loyalist fighters.
On Sunday, a front man of the Huthis' Ansarullah movement said the rebels had "regained the lead and repelled several attacks by the mercenaries".
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[Al Ahram] Authorities in Bahrain said an kaboom on Sunday as a police patrol passed by in the Shia-majority village of Ekr was a "terrorist act", adding that nobody was injured.
The interior ministry said on Twitter that an investigation was under way into the second such incident in 24 hours.
On Saturday, another police patrol was targeted in Krana, another village near the capital Manama, it said.
The ministry on Wednesday said a man was killed while trying to plant a bomb in Ekr. It did not identify him.
Shia-led protests since 2011 demanding reforms in the minority Sunni-ruled kingdom have sparked festivities with security forces in which at least 89 people have been killed, human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... groups say.
Since an Arab Spring-inspired uprising was crushed four years ago, protesters have clashed frequently with security forces in Shia villages outside Manama.
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[ARABNEWS] A bombardment in Aden by the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia and forces loyal to deposed President 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... killed 43 people and injured 173 on Sunday, the Health Ministry said two days after the city was declared liberated.
More than 100 were maimed when the Dar Saad neighborhood in the north of the port city was targeted, local health chief Al-Khader Laswar said.
Clashes continued in the city's northern districts as local fighters backed by the Riyadh-based government and a Saudi-led Arab coalition pushed to seize remaining parts of Aden. Those fighters and Yemeni army forces loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi seized Aden's airport and other central areas in an assault dubbed "Operation Golden Arrow." Their advance was aided by Gulf efforts to train and equip Yemeni army forces loyal to Hadi and transport them to Aden.
The interior and transportation ministers took part in a meeting aimed at securing the city. The meeting looked into reopening the airport and the port to allow the flow of much-needed aid, as well as the restoration of electricity and water services.
"There is no life! No hospitals, no electricity, no water. If it was not for the two wells of the neighborhood, people would have died of thirst," said Crater resident Moatez Al-Mayssuri.
Elsewhere, firefighters managed to extinguish a huge blaze at a gas depot southwest of Taiz after Iran-backed rebels shelled it. On Sunday, fighters from the pro-Hadi Popular Resistance advanced toward the rebel-held district of Al-Tawahi, a military source said. The Popular Resistance captured Al-Anad Triangle located in restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Local fighters and army forces in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... have wrested two military bases from Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces overnight, residents and officials said, building on a week of gains against the country's dominant faction.
The advances come a day after Yemen's government in exile declared the key southern city of Aden "liberated," in their biggest victory yet in a Saudi-led air campaign and civil war that has raged almost four months and killed more than 3,500 people.
Saudi-backed Yemeni forces backed up by air strikes seized the Labuza army base in restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province north of the port city and the headquarters of the 117th armored division in eastern Shabwa province some 230km (145 miles) away.
Officials in the anti-Houthi forces say the offensive was planned for weeks and benefited from training and arms deliveries from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United Arab Emirates.
The war in Yemen has pitted the Sunni Moslem Gulf states, which support the exiled government, against the Shi'ite Houthis allied to Iran, in a conflict that has further raised the stakes as the Middles East grapples with regional rivalries and sectarian strife.
But power struggles have simmered for years in the impoverished and conflict-wracked country, and fighters in Yemen's south -- the setting for most of the recent battles -- have long sought independence from the North, the Houthis' home.
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At least 10 people were killed when an explosion ripped through the Turkish town of Suruc near the Syrian border on Monday, broadcaster NTV said, and a security official said at least 20 more people were wounded.
The Turkish security official, who declined to be identified, said that around 20 to 25 people were wounded in the blast.
[ARABNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's security forces detained nearly 500 people attempting to cross the border from war-torn Syria on Saturday, the army announced.
"A total of 488 people were detained by the land forces command border units while trying to cross into Turkey from Syria and 26 while attempting to cross into Syria from Turkey," the army said on Sunday in a statement posted on its website.
The army statement did not reveal the nationalities of those detained.
Turkey has often boasted of an "open-door" policy championed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... and taken in 1.8 million refugees since the Syrian conflict started in 2011 but has repeatedly complained that it has been left to shoulder an unfair burden.
Several hundred thousand refugees are sheltered in camps along the border with Syria but the vast majority of them are scattered throughout the country including the mega city Istanbul.
Turkey has long been under international pressure to tighten the security of its volatile 911-km border with Syria to cut the flow of faceless myrmidons who try to join the ranks of Daesh.
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[RUDAW.NET] -Two police officials in Iraq's eastern Diyala province say authorities are restructuring a town's police department after an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -claimed truck bombing there killed 115 people.
The officials say the police chief in Khan Beni Saad and three officers have been fired in the wake of the attack on a crowded market as residents began to mark the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. They say two other officers are being investigated. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren't authorized to talk to journalists.
At least 115 people, including women and kiddies, were killed in Friday night's attack in the mostly Shiite town and more than 170 were maimed. It was one of the deadliest attacks to strike Iraq since US troops left in 2011.
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[al-Alam] Iraqi security forces have tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! those linked with a deadly terrorist boom-mobileing that killed 120 people in Khan Bani Saad in the province of Diyala on Friday, a minister said; Al-Alam News Network reports.
Iraq's Interior Minister Muhammad al-Ghaban announced on Sunday that suspects linked with the suicide kaboom have been captured, according to Iraqi TV.
Back on Friday, at least 115 adults and children were killed when a boom-mobilewent kaboom! in a busy market in Khan Bani Saad, a mostly Shiite town about 35 kilometers (21 miles) north of Baghdad.
The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group grabbed credit on Twitter for the bombing.
People were celebrating the end of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan when the explosive-laden vehicle went off, marking one of the single deadliest acts of terror the notorious group has claimed.
The blast brought down several buildings in the city.
By Saturday, the corpse count had risen to 120, according to Muthana al Tamimi, governor of Diyala province. But with 140 more maimed in the blast, the number may go up.
The suicide boom-mobileer was carrying around three tons of explosives in a truck, offering a discount for sale of ice as a trap to lure more people.
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[IsraelTimes] Dual-purpose materials essential for the terrorist group's activity are being smuggled into the Gazoo Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing
The Moslem holy month of Ramadan ended on Friday, signaling the start of Eid al-Fitr celebrations for Gazoo's inhabitants. The faithful fasted from dawn to dusk each day for a month in the heat of June and July, not knowing what the future held for the Gazoo Strip.
The members of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, did the same. They have received only a few hundred shekels instead of their full salaries for the past four months because of Hamas's financial hardship. Full salaries are supposed to be paid out this month due to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's decision to resume transferring grants from Iran in light of his agreement with the P5+1.
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[IsraelTimes] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, gang, which includes prisoner released in Shalit deal, bumped off Malachy Rosenfeld in a drive-by shooting last month
Four members of a seven-strong Hamas cell behind a deadly terror attack in the West Bank last month have been detained by Israel, the Shin Bet security service said Sunday. Two others are being held by the Paleostinian Authority.
Malachy Rosenfeld was killed, and three others were maimed, when gunnies opened fire on their car near the West Bank settlement of Shvut Rachel, north of Ramallah, as they returned from a basketball game.
The cell also carried out an attack on an ambulance close to the settlement of Beit El on June 27, in which no one was maimed; they had attempted to carry out a separate attack on June 6.
The four men were detained in a joint operation between the Israel Police and the Israel Defense Forces, according to the Shin Bet. Two other cell members, including its operations leader, are being held by the Paleostinian Preventive Security Services.
The Shin Bet said Sunday that the seventh man, Ahmad Najjar, who orchestrated and funded the shooting attack from Jordan, was among the prisoners released by Israel for captured Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011. He has not been apprehended.
Maath Hammad, who allegedly pulled the trigger, and another suspect are being held by the Paleostinian Authority but questioned by the Shin Bet, the security service said.
Six members of the group are from the town of Silwad northeast of Ramallah. The seventh, who is also the father-in-law of one of the other suspects and not identified as a Hamas member, lives in nearby Kusra, the agency said.
Israeli news site Ynet reported that Najjar was previously imprisoned for several shooting attacks, including one that killed six Israelis during the Second Intifada.
The cell members admitted that they had intended to carry out additional shooting attacks in June.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon praised the security forces for apprehending the suspects.
He also accused The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... of hosting a Hamas big turban actively planning attacks.
Attempts to activate Hamas cells in the West Bank originate in "Hamas headquarters in Gazoo and Istanbul, from where Salah Aruri plans severe attacks against us by proxies in the West Bank and in neighboring countries," he said in a statement.
"Salah Aruri is acting from Turkey -- a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... member, which at the same time allows a terror base on its territory," Ya'alon charged.
Ynet has photos and details about the individual miscreants here.
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the seventh man, Ahmad Najjar, who orchestrated and funded the shooting attack from Jordan, was among the prisoners released by Israel for captured Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011.
[ABS-CBN] Four civilians, including a two-year-old boy, were injured after an improvised explosive device exploded in Jolo, Sulu Saturday night.
Col. Alan Arrojado said the IED was hidden by Abu Sayyaf militants on a parked motorcycle in front of a karaoke bar. Preliminary investigations showed that the black motorcycle, where the IED was hidden, was parked by the suspects in front of the bar about two hours before the explosion.
Arrojado, citing a "reliable source," said the attack was perpetrated by Abu Sayyaf members Alkam Udiaman and Almuktar Suddung, along with an unidentified trainee.
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[Inquirer] A 21-year-old woman was injured when an improvised bomb, thought to have been planted by communist militants, went off near a police station in Mabini, Compostela Valley, on Saturday. Witnesses said a motorcycle sped off moments after the blast near the vicinity of the town police station.
Saturday's attack came a day after five Philippine troops were injured in an ambush by New People's Army militants in nearby Pantukan municipality. Captain Alberto Caber said, "(Soldiers and militiamen) from the 101st Division Reconnaissance Company were on security patrol when fired upon by NPA rebels. A 30-minute firefight ensued, wounding a militiaman and four regular soldiers."
Last week, suspected communist hit men gunned down an unarmed Army ranger who was taking his son to school in San Antonio village, also in Mabini.
[The Nation] An arrest warrant was issued yesterday for a man from Pattani province allegedly involved in a deadly motorcycle bombing at a karaoke bar in Padang Besa, Songkhla province on July 10. Sulaiman Samoh is also accused of being the man who parked a car bomb at Songkhla's Hat Yai district police station last year.
Sulaiman was identified by one of the three injured victims (three people were killed) as the man who parked the motorcycle bomb at the scene. He faces charges of terrorism; attempted murder; conspiring to damage property; causing an blast that led to deaths, injuries and property damage; and having and using illegal explosives.
[Bangkok Post] A volunteer militiaman was gunned down in Narathiwat province on Sunday morning. The incident on a road in Cho Airong district. Chaisit Malai had been returning home on a motorcycle from a plantation when pillion rider on another motorcycle that had followed him for some time opened fire at him with an AK47, instantly killing him.
[AnNahar] Five Czechs who disappeared Saturday in the Bekaa region were likely kidnapped in connection with the Czech Republic's recent arrest of a man suspected of having ties to Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , a media report said Sunday.
Citing "intersecting security reports," MTV said the Lebanese driver who vanished with the Czechs, Saeb Taan, is "a brother of Ali Taan, also known as Ali Fayyad, who was apprehended in the Czech Republic during the recent wave of arrests that targeted Hizbullah security cadres in Europe."
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[AnNahar] Ten suspected Death Eaters were placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Sunday evening in the northern Bekaa region, according to media reports.
"Army intelligence agents apprehended in the northern Bekaa town of al-Labweh ten individuals suspected on belonging to a terrorist organization," state-run National News Agency reported.
"They were on their way from the outskirts of (the border town of) Arsal to areas inside Leb," NNA said.
"They were referred to the relevant judicial authorities," it added.
LBCI television meanwhile said the ten men are all "Syrians who belong to terrorist groups."
It said they were heading to the North and Western Bekaa.
Al-Jadeed TV said the detainees are members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... krazed killer group, which has seized vast swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, adding that they were arrested in "several ambushes on al-Labweh road."
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[Al Ahram] Syrian regime air raids on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area near the capital on Saturday killed 12 civilians, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported five people killed in regime barrel bomb raids in the Aleppo region in the north, taking to 82 the civilian corpse count in such attacks in the province this week.
Around the capital, the air force carried out five raids on Arbin in Eastern Ghouta, killing the 12 who included three women and two children, and wounding dozens, the Britannia-based Observatory said.
It also said helicopters dropped 28 barrel bombs in the Zabadani area, the last rebel bastion near the border with Leb.
Two people were killed in four air raids on the town, the Observatory said, adding that three rebels were killed trying to infiltrate the nearby town of Douma.
Syrian government forces backed by fighters from Leb's Shiite Hezbollah militia have been on the attack in the Zabadani area for the past week.
Zabadani, 47 kilometres (29 miles) northwest of Damascus on the road to Beirut, is strategic to Hezbollah and rebels have been under siege there for more than two years.
Many residents have left as stocks of food and medicines dried up because of the siege, but activists say there are still a few thousand civilians there, mostly in eastern districts.
In Aleppo province, the Observatory said regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs on Aysheh village near Al-Bab, killing five people including a woman and a baby.
For more than a week government forces have been targeting Al-Bab which is controlled by the jihadist Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
Al-Bab is strategically important because it is one of IS's closest positions to regime-held parts of Aleppo.
The Observatory said 82 civilians -- among them 12 children and 15 women -- have now been killed in regime raids on the northeastern region of Aleppo since July 11, mainly in Al-Bab.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Syrian Army units killed increasing numbers of murderous Moslems as they continued operations in various areas, foiling several infiltration attempts.
Aleppo
In the northern Aleppo province, an army unit killed all members of a terrorist group that attempted to infiltrate from al-Khabieh market into al-Sweiqeh area in Old Aleppo in the city.
Army units also targeted terrorists' positions in several neighborhoods in Aleppo city, inflicting losses and casualties in their ranks.
The operations took place in the neighborhoods of Bani Zaid, al-Rashidin, al-Sukkari, Bab al-Nairab, al-Salihin, al-Jazmati roundabout and al-Lairamoun.
The military source also confirmed that gatherings and movements of al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... murderous Moslems were targeted in the towns of Bianoun, Hayan and Ritian and in Hreitan city and Qal'et Najm village in the northern countryside of Aleppo province.
Several terrorists' hideouts and some vehicles equipped with machine guns were destroyed during army operations in the towns of Maer and Kafr Hamra and in Daret Ezza city in the northwestern countryside.
Army units also eliminated gatherings of ISIL murderous Moslems in the surroundings of the Air Force Academy, located on the highway leading to the northeastern Raqqa province.
Idleb
In the neighboring Idleb province, the army air force targeted gatherings of murderous Moslems and destroyed their vehicles that were equipped with heavy machineguns in Abu al-Duhour town and the villages of Um Jerin, al-Mjass, Qare' al-Ghazal and al-Tur'a in the eastern countryside of the northern Idleb province, a military source told SANA on Sunday.
In the southwestern countryside of Idleb province, the army air force hit gatherings of murderous Moslems and targeted their movements in the villages of Bzeit, Jannet al-Qura and Taoum to the southeast of Jisr al-Shughour city.
Tens of the terrorists' vehicles with all arms, ammunitions and equipment onboard were destroyed.
Quneitra
In southern Syria, An army unit killed a number of al-Nusra murderous Moslems and destroyed their arms in a special operation targeting their dens in the villages of Ufania and Abu Shattah near Jabata al-Khashab in the northern countryside of Quneitra province.
Another army unit targeted terrorists' hideouts in Um Batina village, 6km to the east of Quneitra city, inflicting heavy losses upon the murderous Moslems in personnel and equipment.
Homs
The army air force targeted in a series of strikes hideouts of ISIL murderous Moslems in Palmyra city and in the areas of Bir Abu Tawala, Rasm al-Tawil, al-Kadim, Marhajan, al-Bardeh, to the north of Wadi Abiyad dam, Shiha, Buraq al-Nashmi and to the north of Tal Nashma in Palmyra countryside in Homs province.
Many ISIL bad boyz were potted and their vehicles, which were equipped with machineguns, were destroyed in the air strikes.
Army units inflicted casualties upon ISIL murderous Moslems and losses upon their vehicles as they targeted their positions at the municipality's building and in the vicinity of the Justice Palace's building in Palmyra city.
The army air force also targeted hideouts and movements of ISIL murderous Moslems to the north of al-Shaer and Jazal oil fields, destroying vehicles equipped with machineguns and killing many terrorists.
More ISIL bad boyz were potted and their vehicles were destroyed in air strikes on their hideouts and gatherings in al-Shindakhiyeh al-Janoubiyeh, 70 km to the east of Homs.
Latakia
Many bad boyz were potted and their vehicles were destroyed in army air strikes that targeted their positions in Jeb al-Ahmar and Kabani in the northern countryside of Latakia province.
Hasaka
In the northeastern Hasaka province, an army unit clashed with ISIL murderous Moslems positioned in building blocks near the cemetery in the southeastern side of Ghweiran neighborhood in Hasaka city.
Field sources told SANA that the festivities left a number of murderous Moslems killed, while the rest were hemmed in separate sites in the surroundings of the cemetery.
Sporadic festivities also break out between the army units and the national backup forces on one hand and ISIL murderous Moslems on the other on the outskirts of the neighborhoods of al-Nashwa al-Gharbiyeh and al-Nashwa Villat and the youth housing compound.
The murderous Moslems suffered casualties during the festivities, according to the sources.
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[BESTANEWS] YPG Press Office has reported that constant military operations conducted by joined forces of the People's Defense Units (YPG) and the Women's Defense Units (YPJ) continue to confront the ISIS gang group attempting occupation efforts near the city of Hesekê, Rojava.
Conducting operational forces in the east of Hesekê, the Defense Units last night advanced from Aziziyah neighborhood to the south of the city and from the Mt. Kezwan to the east, and reached each other -- in a substantial method to complete a sieging perimeter on Hesekê. In this way, all ISIS supply routes from rural districts to localities of Nashwa, Khweran and Panorama were cut off.
In west Hesekê, YPG/YPJ units last night progressed toward the Nashwa distric where sporadic festivities occurred between YPG/YPJ troops and ISIS gangs near the village of Um Hijra.
To rescue their beleaguered forces from the siege, ISIS gangs tried to carry out attacks from the town Hawl, eastern Hasakah, and the village of Malabiyah to the south of Hesekê. After an effective response, the two attempts were defeated; while there was no immediate word on ISIS attackers' possible dead or maimed.
The statement further reported that leading unceasing military campaigns, the Defense Units continue to attack ISIS gangs in far eastern/southern countryside of Kobanê.
In south Kobanê, security forces were informed last night that two suspected ISIS fighters have attempted to infiltrate in areas under YPG/YPJ Units' initiative. To capture these gang forces, YPG/YPJ troops began an operation and eventually killed the two gang operatives after a short time contact.
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So all of those leaflets are now wadding for artillery charges?
[al-Alam] ISIS chief singer-songwriter has been killed in an airstrike in Syria, according to pro-ISIS social media accounts. Maher Meshaal died in the strategic city of Hasakah which has been bombed by both United States-led forces and the Syrian government.
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[Ynet] US-led forces targeted Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... holy warriors with 16 air strikes in Iraq and nine in Syria on Saturday, the US military said.
The air strikes hit or destroyed tactical units, tunnels, buildings and weaponry in six Iraqi cities, with the most strikes - six - centered on Ramadi, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement Sunday.
In Syria, the coalition said eight air strikes around Hasakah - where Islamic State holy warriors launched an offensive last month - hit six fighting positions, three vehicles, two weapons caches and a bunker system. The ninth strike was near the Death Eater stronghold if Raqqa, it said.
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Six fighting positions, three vehicles, two weapons caches, one bunker system and a partridge in a pear tree.
General Curtis LeMay has to be rolling his eyes at the daintiness of it all.
[RUDAW.NET] A US-led coalition dropped new leaflets over the de facto capital of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Syria, promising those below that "freedom will come" to the region, activists said Sunday.
An anti-Islamic State group called Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered and the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the leaflets had drawings showing dead forces of Evil and their flag turned upside down. Four fighters with the main Kurdish militia, the People's Protection Units, or YPG, walked down a street in the picture, with two words in Arab below: "Freedom will come."
The latest leaflet drop comes as YPG fighters have been advancing in northern Syria as close as 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Raqqa.
Coalition warplanes have dropped such leaflets in the past. One previous had a cartoon showing masked Islamic State forces of Evil at a "hiring office" feeding people into a meat grinder.
Also Sunday, the forces of Evil gave Internet cafes in Raqaa four days to stop offering wireless Internet connections to nearby homes, the Observatory and Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered said. The move comes two weeks after forces of Evil released a video purporting to show the killing of two Syrian men in Raqqa, allegedly for spying.
The Islamic State group holds about a third of Syria and neighboring Iraq in its self-declared "caliphate."
On Friday, a truck bombing by the group in Iraq's eastern Diyala province killed 115 people at a crowded market. Authorities there have fired the local police chief and three officers, while two others are being investigated, said senior Iraqi police officials speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... Sunday as they weren't authorized to talk to journalists.
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That alleviated the toilet paper shortage for the day.
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.
[Inquirer] A 21-year-old woman was injured when an improvised bomb, thought to have been planted by communist militants, went off near a police station in Mabini, Compostela Valley, on Saturday. Witnesses said a motorcycle sped off moments after the blast near the vicinity of the town police station.
[ALMANAR.LB] Syrian Army units killed increasing numbers of 
[al-Alam] ISIS chief singer-songwriter has been killed in an airstrike in Syria, according to pro-ISIS social media accounts. Maher Meshaal died in the strategic city of Hasakah which has been bombed by both United States-led forces and the Syrian government.
