The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has detained the military commander of Taliban for Qala-i-Zal District of northern Kundoz province.
Commander Qari Sharifullah was arrested along with his deputy Zia-ud-din after a brief clash with NDS personnel in Mazar-e-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province.
A statement released by NDS on Tuesday states that the arrested Taliban were involved in armed clashes in Qala-e-Zal and Chahar Dara districts, and the provincial capital of Kundoz province.
Qari sharifullah was in Mazar-e-Sharif for treatment after sustaining injuries in Kundoz province.
The arrested Taliban admit to have planted several landmines for targeting security forces besides other terrorist activities.
Kundoz saw some of its worst security recently. Militants stormed the provincial capital and staged attacks against security forces in Qala-i-Zal, Chahar Dara and other areas.
However, Taliban soon lost most of the seized areas back to security forces with heavy casualties.
Three landmine planters have been killed in the explosion of their own bomb in eastern Kunar province.
According the Ministry of Interior, the incident took place in Panjshir Naw area of Noorgal District on Monday.
A statement issued by the ministry states that the militants belonging to Taliban group were in the process of planting bomb on a roadside that exploded on them.
The only casualties the explosion had were the militants, the statement adds.
The ministry also reports destroying a huge weapon cache and Radio system of Taliban in Marja District of southern Helmand province.
Weapons, bombs, ammunition and other materials used in attacks were hidden in the depot and the radio was used by Taliban for their propaganda campaign, a statement released by the ministry states.
[AlAhram] Tunisian security forces have detained nearly 20 people this month during "anti-terrorist" operations, foiling attacks on security buildings and hotels, a government source said on Tuesday.
"Seventeen people have been tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... since the beginning of November in several security operations," the source told AFP.
Those held, whose identities were not revealed, were preparing attacks on hotels or buildings used by the security forces, the source added.
Without elaborating, the source said several of them had spent time abroad with members of jihadist organizations such as 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.
The news comes after the interior ministry said Monday seven women have been arrested for posting propaganda on the Internet on behalf of the Tunisian affiliate of ISIS, Jund al-Khilafa.
It also follows an anti-terrorist sweep Sunday on Mount Mghilla in the centre of the country after the gruesome beheading there by jihadists of a 16-year-old shepherd. One soldier and an alleged jihadist were killed during that operation, the defence ministry said. No group has yet grabbed credit for the shepherd's murder.
Thousands of young Tunisians have travelled to Iraq, Syria and Libya to fight alongside Islamic Lion of Islams, according to the authorities in the North African country.
At home, ISIS has said it was behind two attacks targeting foreigners -- at the National Bardo Museum in March, killing 21 tourists and a policeman, and at a hotel in Sousse in June, killing 38 tourists.
Dozens of members of the security forces have also been killed by faceless myrmidons since the 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring.
The Tunisian authorities say they have been particularly affected by the chaos in neighbouring Libya, where ISIS has established a presence. Tunisia has begun building a border wall some 200 kilometres (125 miles) long, with the aim of stemming the flow of contraband weapons across the frontier.
All the smart kids are building walls nowadays.
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It now seems clear that IS cannot continue to sustain personnel losses it has suffered in 2015. Mosul should be lost in the next six months, and Russia will likely bomb Rakka back to the stone age. Thus, look for IS to seek a change of venue, most likely western Libya.
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Libya for training camps, battlefields in Western Europe? They certainly can't retreat to Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, or Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, all of whom are already hard pressed.
[Ynet] A blast struck a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola on Tuesday evening, police said.
The kaboom occurred at a fruit and vegetable market beside a main road in the Jimeta area of Adamawa's state capital around 8pm (1900 GMT). One witness said he counted more than 30 bodies but officials could not provide details of casualties.
Nobody has grabbed credit but the blast bore the hallmarks of bully boy Islamist group 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... which has killed thousands over the last six years in its bid to create a state adhering to strict Sharia law in the northeast.
"The kaboom occurred at the Jimeta by-pass which houses a vegetables, fruits and a timber market but I am yet to get the number of casualties," said Adamawa state police front man Usman Abubakar.
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Bahrain's top court on Monday upheld the death sentences of two men convicted of planting a bomb that killed a police officer last year, the prosecution and lawyers said.
The two are part of a group of 12 people tried over a February 14, 2014 bomb attack in Dair village that killed policeman Abdulwahid Sayid Mohammed Faqeer and wounded several others, the prosecution said in a statement.
"Two of the defendants were found guilty of planting and detonating the explosive device, with 10 others convicted of obtaining and manufacturing explosive devices with the intent to use them in terrorist attacks," said the statement.
The court "upheld the Higher Criminal Court's and the Court of Appeal's decisions to sentence two of the individuals to death, in light of the calculated and carefully planned manner in which Abdulwahid Sayid Mohammed Faqeer was murdered," advocate-general Nayif Yousif said in the statement.
It also upheld the prison sentences handed down to the others, he added.
Six of the defendants, including those facing execution, are in custody, while the other six remain at large, according to lawyers, who charged that confessions had been obtained under duress.
Dozens of the dead and injured were moved to Aden hospitals after the Yemeni army and popular committees ambushed the mercenaries of the Saudi aggression in Omari military camp in Bab al-Mandeb area, according to Yemeni sources.
The sources noted that the Yemeni army and popular committees planted mines and improvised explosive devices in the camp and withdrew from the area.
They added that when the Saudi-led mercenaries advanced towards the camp, the Yemeni forces detonated the explosives and bombarded the terrorists.
RIYADH: Saudi Border Guards have sunk an attempt by Yemenis to smuggle by boat 274 kg of hashish into the Kingdom, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
The smugglers were heading to a site on the Red Sea coast on Saturday when a Jeddah-based patrol vessel stopped them, Border Guards spokesman Sahir bin Mohammed Al-Harbi was quoted as saying by the SPA.
“The passengers threw a number of bags overboard after they were surrounded. Four people were arrested from the boat,” he said, adding that a Yemeni who was waiting for them on the coast was also arrested.
Officers recovered the bags, which allegedly contained the hashish.
The Interior Ministry announced on Sunday that Saudi anti-drug officers seized almost 30 tons of hashish, along with nearly as much heroin and millions of amphetamine pills, during the past Hijra year which ended in mid-October.
In August and September alone, police say they arrested 177 Saudis and 290 others suspected of smuggling drugs and weapons.
Yemen’s national army and resistance fighters seized several Houthi positions as they continued their advance in a major offensive launched on Monday to liberate the Southwestern town, a Yemeni news network reported on Wednesday.
The national allies, backed by Arab coalition air force, occupied a large government complex and a Houthi security headquarters in Wazeya in Taiz outskirts after heavy fighting, Masdar Online said, quoting resistance sources.
The fighters were also engaged in fierce battles with the Iranian-backed Houthis and their allies before seizing Al Shukaira and Ahyouk in that area, it said.
“The sources affirmed that the resistance men seized a large quantity of weapons and ammunition left behind by the retreating rebels,” the report said.
Inside the city, the resistance fighters launched a lightning attack on Taiz University and succeeded in taking part of the building, the report added.
The attacks by the national army and the resistance were launched under heavy air cover by the coalition warplanes, which bombed scores of rebel targets on Tuesday.
Yemeni officials and resistance commanders have said the liberation of Taiz is a matter of time and that it would pave the way for an attack on the capital Sanaa, the main stronghold of the insurgents.
Yemen's President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi returned to the southern port city of Aden on Tuesday to rally forces loyal to him in the country's civil war and oversee a campaign to retake the city of Taiz, a presidency official said.
Hadi's loyalists made advances amid heavy fighting in the southwestern province surrounding the city which killed around 45 fighters from both sides on Monday, medical sources said.
"Twenty-five pro-Hadi fighters were killed in an ambush laid for them by Houthi and Saleh forces at the Bab Al Mandeb, and 20 Houthi fighters were killed in fighting and coalition air strikes," a medic told Reuters by telephone from Taiz, adding that a family of 8 were killed in an air strike on the city.
Residents said warplanes had bombed Houthi militia targets in the city dozens of times on Tuesday.
Mukhtar Al Rahbi, an official in Yemen's presidency, said Hadi had arrived in Aden to oversee the campaign to retake Taiz, which has been battered by fighting. Medics in the city say more than 1,600 people have died there.
"He will also meet with military officials to assess the security situation and to oversee the merging of the resistance forces into the army and security forces," Al Rahbi said.
The coalition has made some progress on the battlefield and took control of Aden in July, but the Houthis still retain control of much of Yemen, despite almost daily air bombardment.
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[AnNahar] British police on Tuesday said they had detained two men for terrorism offenses as they tried to leave the country, adding that the arrests were not linked to attacks in Gay Paree.
Police said the men, aged 22 and 20, were placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! early on Sunday at Dover Eastern Docks, a ferry terminal in southeast England and a popular departure point for ships heading to the port city of Calais, La Belle France.
The men had been living in Hayes on the outskirts of west London and are currently in jug, said police, who declined to reveal their nationalities.
"I would firstly like to confirm these arrests are not linked to the Gay Paree terrorist incidents and there is no immediate threat to the local community," said Ian Hunter, head of investigations of the South East Counter Terrorism Unit.
"These men were trying to leave the UK via Dover and were arrested following good work by Kent coppers at the port."
Britannia has beefed up security at ports, transit hubs and other busy public areas after 129 people were killed in coordinated gun and kabooms in Gay Paree on Friday.
Hundreds of Britons have left to join 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 and Iraq in recent months. Some have attempted to use ferries to make their way there to try to avoid detection.
[RFE/RL] Officials in southern Kyrgyzstan have detained a 19-year-old man suspected of recruiting fighters for Daesh.
The nation's interior ministry said that the Kyrgyz national was detained at Osh's international airport on November 14 as he was accompanying a recruit traveling to Turkey. Police said the alleged recruiter, whose name was not disclosed, is a member of the banned Katibat al-Imam al-Buhari group.
Kyrgyzstan says up to 500 of its citizens might be fighting with Daesh.
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[The Mail] The full scale of the trade in false passports that allows terrorists to slip into Europe was exposed last night. It lets Islamic State fanatics who are bent on murder pose as refugees fleeing war and persecution.
Eight migrants have reached Europe using documents almost identical to those carried by one of the Paris suicide bombers.
He claimed asylum on the Greek island of Leros last month with a fake Syrian passport in the name of 25-year-old Ahmad Almohammad.
In a shocking indictment of the EU's porous borders, yesterday Serbian police revealed they had arrested a man carrying a Syrian passport which was almost a carbon copy of the one found on the IS bomber's corpse on Friday.
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Let Columbia University Admissions do the vetting. Nothing gets past them.
[Rooters] Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the United States were diverted for several hours on Tuesday following anonymous bomb threats, and more than 700 passengers and crew were safely taken off the planes, officials said.
Flight 65, an Airbus A-380 that departed from Los Angeles, landed safely in Salt Lake City, where passengers and crew were escorted into the terminal, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said. The Salt Lake Tribune, citing an airport official, said it was carrying 497 passengers and crew.
The FBI said in a statement that no evidence was found aboard the plane "which would lend credibility to the threats" against the flight.
The airport said operations were not affected, and local Utah media including broadcaster KSL reported that passengers had been cleared to reboard and resume their journey.
Keith Rosso, a passenger who tweeted a photo shortly after takeoff from Los Angeles, said he was "thankful to everyone who has been working to keep everyone calm and make sure air travel is safe. Hope to be taking off again shortly."
A separate Boeing 777 that left Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., Flight 55, was diverted to Halifax International Airport in Nova Scotia, which said 262 passengers and crew members had safely disembarked.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Halifax said on its Twitter feed that police dogs searched the plane for evidence of explosives, but no details were disclosed.
Shots were fired in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis as French police conduct an ongoing operation related to the terrorist attacks last week, the police said.
A raid is being carried out at an address in the Saint-Denis Basilique district, the police said. Two people have been killed in the operation, French newspaper Le Monde reported. The raid is aimed at an armed group cornered in an apartment, AFP said.
Helicopters are circling the area and sporadic shots are being heard, Saint-Denis Mayor Didier Paillard said on France Info radio. All transport in the area has been halted, he said. People living in the area have been told to stay indoors, according to France Info radio.
The attacks on Friday at seven sites in the Paris area killed 129 people and injured more than 300. France has since conducted raids across the country in the search for suspects. The country has also bombed Islamic State targets, destroying a command center and a training site at the terror group's stronghold in Raqqa, Syria.
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killed two (the boombitch blew herself up)
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Found their "safe house." Much more will soon be learned from this raid.
Amateurs the lot. Professionals would have sanitized the facility, with logistical people leaving France before the attack.
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Problem is, Mr. B, that the smarter ones will learn.
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Not necessarily the same cell. My impression, from the number of raids, is they're sweeping up every suspect.
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It would be awfully nice if one of those in this lot were the Paris attacks suicide vest maker. It seems to me that for bomb makers, a professional is someone who survives making a first lot of bombs that didn't blow up until intended.
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The early reports said the vests were made with TATP. Very scary and volatile stuff out of which to make vests. Maker was very skilled or very lucky.
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Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said police had fired 5,000 rounds of munitions into the apartment, which was left shredded by the assault, its windows blown out and the facade riddled with bullet impacts.
[Ynet] A Belgian newspaper said on Tuesday that police found bullets and a possible bomb-making chemical at the Brussels homes of two men being held on suspicion of terrorist offences in connection with Friday's Gay Paree attacks.
The prosecutors office declined comment on the report.
Lawyers for the men have said they are innocent and got caught up in the case because they drove to Gay Paree early on Saturday to fetch Salah Abdeslam, now a prime suspect on the run, after he called them to say his car broke down.
The tabloid Derniere Heure, which did not identify its source, said the two men in jug had ammonium nitrate fertilizer in their homes. The men denied it had been purchased to make explosives, the paper said. Salah Abdeslam's elder brother, Brahim, was one of seven men who blew themselves up in Gay Paree on Friday evening with improvised suicide belts.
The newspaper said police also found ammunition in one of the homes, including bullets used in Kalashnikov assault rifles of the kind used by some of the Gay Paree attackers.
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[Ynet] German police in the western city of Aachen have incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! two women and one man in an operation linked to the attacks last Friday in Gay Paree which killed at least 129 people.
"After (receiving) leads we arrested two women and one man," said a spokeswoman for Aachen police on Tuesday, declining to give any information on the identity or nationality of the three individuals.
German broadcaster ARD had reported the arrests took place in Alsdorf, a small town near Aachen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and close to Germany's border with Belgium and the Netherlands. Other German media quoted a witness as saying police made the arrests in front of a job centre.
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Aachen has long been a center of Islamist recruiting, beginning with Issam Al-Attar, the former leader of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. Attar led failed attempts to overthrow the Syrian government in the nineteen sixties and fled Syria for Europe. He then emerged as the director of the Aachen Islamic Center. In the late nineteen seventies he founded the Talaa'i, a secret Muslim organization centered in Germany and through which he continued his lifelong relationship with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. Today, Aachen is considered a Brotherhood home away from home.
[IsraelTimes] Authorities raid two rooms, apartment in suburbs used as safe houses by hard boyz who killed 129 people in Friday attacks
French police on Wednesday raided two rented hotel rooms and an apartment used as a safe house by some members of the eight-man terror squad that launched the coordinated attacks in Gay Paree on Friday, in which 129 people were killed.
According to the French magazine Le Point, authorities found syringes, needles and empty pizza boxes inside one of the rooms rented by Salah Abdeslam on Bookings.com days before the November 13 attacks. Abdeslam is the only terrorist who took part in the attacks who managed to flee and is currently on the run. An international warrant has been issued for his capture.
Abdeslam's brother, Ibrahim, was also one of the gunnies in the attacks at a series of restaurants and bars in Gay Paree on Friday. He died detonating his boom jacket.
According to the report, the Abdeslam brothers rented rooms 311 and 312 in a hotel in Alfortville, a suburb to the southwest of Gay Paree, from November 11 to 17. The rooms could accommodate up to six people, Le Point reported.
The hotel has no security cameras, but police found DNA traces among the syringes, plastic tubing, pizza leftovers and chocolate cookies found in the rooms, authorities said.
An apartment in the Gay Paree suburb of Bobigny was also rented out by the Abdeslams, according to authorities, to be used as a safe house. Police raided the apartment as well but found it empty except for some cellphones, reportedly belonging to some of the other attackers, according to the Daily Mail.
The woman who rented the apartment to them described the brothers as "nice and proper," to French media. She said they told her they were in Gay Paree on business.
A third brother, Mohammed, was briefly detained by Sherlocks in the wake of the attacks. He has denied all connection to and knowledge of the operation.
"I was accused of committing an act of terrorism... but I have not in the slightest way been connected to the operation in Gay Paree," he said Monday from Brussels, according to the Independent. "I have worked for the local council for 10 years and I've never had a problem with anyone... my parents are completely shocked by the tragedy."
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syringes, plastic tubing, pizza leftovers and chocolate cookies
Comfort food.
The friendly soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled 90 minutes before kickoff on Tuesday due to the suspected threat of a bomb at the stadium.
"We had concrete evidence that someone wanted to set off an explosive device in the stadium," Hannover police chief Volker Kluwe told German TV.
Referring to another bomb threat about an hour beforehand that turned out to be a false alarm, Kluwe said, "After the first object turned out to be harmless, we got a tip that had to be taken seriously that an attack was being planned."
Members of the German government including Chancellor Angela Merkel were not at the stadium, but had arrived in Hannover to attend the match to send a signal that Germany wouldn't bow to terrorism in the wake of the deadly Paris attacks on Friday.
They then bowed...
Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere took responsibility for calling off Tuesday's game. He said indications of a planned attack became stronger as the match approached, and the decision was made shortly after Merkel and her ministers landed. De Maiziere said he could give few details because he needed to protect the source of information, and because "part of these answers would upset the population."
Lower Saxony Interior Minister Boris Pistorius, speaking at the same late news conference, said no explosives had been found by then, and no arrests had been made. Pistorius said there was no confirmation of rumors that an explosive device was placed in an ambulance or another vehicle inside or outside the stadium.
Announcements at the stadium in northern Germany advised people to go home in a calm manner, and that there was no danger to fear. Most fans were still waiting outside when the order came. There were no signs of panic, with most fans seemingly accepting the decision with resignation. Police became more forceful with members of the media who attempted to stay beside the stadium.
Security at the stadium was very tight, with police armed with machine guns and maintaining a very obvious presence in the city.
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French authorities were scrambling Tuesday to find eighth and ninth suspects involved in the deadly terror plot in Paris — as new surveillance footage revealed two gunmen who fired into a bar at one of the attack sites.
Officials had not previously specified how many people were involved in the slaughter at a sidewalk bar on Rue de la Fontaine. Five people were killed and eight were seriously wounded; witnesses report that the shooters were in a black vehicle.
Surveillance video of the shooting obtained by The Associated Press shows a team of three attackers: two black-clad gunmen calmly firing on the bar, then returning slowly toward a waiting car, whose driver was maneuvering behind them.
Three French officials confirmed that an analysis of the series of attacks on Friday indicated that one additional person directly involved in the assault remains unaccounted for. That's in addition to another known accomplice — Salah Abdeslam, 26, who remains the subject of a global manhunt. The second fugitive had not been identified.
Seven attackers died Friday night — three around the national stadium, three inside the Bataclan concert hall, and one at a restaurant nearby.
French and Belgian police were already looking for key suspect Abdeslam, whose suicide-bomber brother, Brahim, died in the attacks Friday night that killed at least 129 people and left over 350 wounded in Paris.
French police appealed Tuesday for help identifying one of the suicide bombers — a man whose face appeared on a Syrian passport bearing another name. The appeal for information and accompanying photo circulated described the individual as the "dead mastermind" of one of Friday's attacks on Paris's Stade de France.
The man's face matched one Greek officials previously said appeared on a Syrian passport bearing the name Ahmad Almohammad which was presented for registration on the Greek island of Leros. French justice minister Christiane Taubira told NBC News the passport used in Greece bearing the name Almohammad was likely not genuine — and the appeal for information appeared to confirm that.
As police teams race to locate the two fugitives believed to have helped the attackers, two men have been charged as accomplices. Hamza Attou and Mohammed Amri are accused of picking up 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam from Paris and taking him back into Belgium early Saturday, Belgian prosecutor spokesperson Eric Van Sypt told NBC News. Abdeslam's brother was among the attackers.
Attou and Amri were among seven people detained following a major sweep in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek on Saturday.
German authorities also confirmed Tuesday that three people were arrested near the city of Aachen in connection with the ongoing investigation, but Abdeslam was not among them.
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They got 8 but most likely missed hundreds, if not thousands.
As ISIS threatens to strike inside the U.S., airlines are keeping their schedules of flights from the U.S. to Paris and back, but U.S. authorities are intensively scrutinizing passenger lists on inbound flights.
Intelligence officials say that U.S. terror databases contain more than 2,700 names with connections to France, and NBC News has learned that 801 of them are considered potential "foreign fighters" who might try to join ISIS in Syria. Authorities are paying particular attention to their attempts to travel.
Only 800? That seems low...
Five of the individuals on the potential foreign fighter list have traveled or tried to travel to or from France in the past three months.
The MSM is almost as good as Snowden at leaking stuff that shouldn't be leaked...
Two of the five travelers flew from Paris to the U.S. in August and October, and a dual U.S./Pakistani citizen traveled from New York to Paris and back in October.
A dual Algerian/French national tried to fly from Paris to Canada earlier this month, but was denied boarding in France. A Syrian national tried to depart from Paris in August, but the outcome of his attempted travel was not known to U.S. officials.
There was no indication that the travelers were involved in terror plotting.
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LAHORE: A man breached security on the Indian side of the international border on Monday and rammed his vehicle into the gate on the Pakistani side of the Wagah-Attari checkpost.
According to initial reports in the Indian media, the man wanted to pay obeisance at Nankana Sahib in Pakistan but could not undergo visa and other formalities because it would take a lot of time.
The incident cautioned border officials and led to the Punjab Rangers writing a letter to the Border Security Force calling for an inquiry into the matter.
A Rangers spokesman said the crash left the gate at Attari ‘badly damaged’ and partially damaged at Wagah. He said the man was arrested by the BSF while his vehicle was seized by Rangers because it had crossed over to Pakistani territory. Later the vehicle was returned on a request by the BSF, he added.
An Indian news website identified the accused as Surinder Singh Kang, 42, originally hailing from Jalandhar, but now has settled in Canada.
He was later handed over to (Indian) Punjab police and a case was registered against him for making an attempt to murder; violating the Passport Act and preventing government officials from performing their duty.
Some media reports suggested that Kang was apparently ‘drunk’.
Quoting a BSF official, NDTV said preliminary investigations revealed that Kang was undergoing psychiatric treatment.
ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Narcotic Force (ANF) carried out six operations in different cities and seized 366kg of drugs, including heroin.
Six suspects, among them a woman and a foreigner, were detained and three vehicles impounded.
The value of the seized drug is estimated to be Rs896 million and most of the seized heroin was to be smuggled to foreign countries.
Sumbal, a resident of Lahore, was taken into custody at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport after 3.5kg of heroin was found in her luggage. The drug was concealed inside the folding of bed sheets.
Sumbal, 35, was to travel to Abidjan via Turkey by a Turkish Airline flight.
An ANF team stopped a suspected mini-truck at Tarnol near Rawalpindi and seized 120kg of hashish and 5kg of opium concealed in secret cavities of the vehicle. Badar Munir and Fahim Khan, residents of Nowshera, were taken into custody.
DERA MURAD JAMALI: Two people were killed and two others injured when suspected robbers opened fire on the car of a tribal elder near the Notal area of Jhal Masgi district.
Levies officials said on Monday that Lehri Khan Magsi, the tribal elder, was travelling with his colleagues late on Sunday night when armed men signalled them to stop near Marorr, an area close to Notal.
The suspected robbers opened fire when the car did not stop. Two of the car occupants were killed and another two injured.
“Two persons identified as Asghar Khan and Hamza Khan died on the spot due to multiple bullet injuries,” said a senior officer, adding that the tribal elder and Naseer Ahmed were seriously injured.
Levies and personnel of the Frontier Corps shifted the bodies and injured to the hospital.
Meanwhile, a man was injured in an armed attack at his house in Sobatpur area of Nasirabad division. Levies sources said armed men entered Ali Murad’s house on Sunday night and took his motorcycle away. However, Mr Murad woke up and resisted.
He was injured when the robbers opened fire.
Separately, three people were injured in two road accidents near Bibi Nani and Mach Bridge area of Bolan district.
KASUR: Five alleged robbers were shot dead ‘accidentally’ by their accomplices during an encounter, police claimed on Monday.
At least 10 suspected robbers attacked Ganda Singhwala police van near Pakki Haveli on Ferozepur Road to get four arrested men released from police custody.
A police party headed by Sub-Inspector Phool Muhammad of Ganda Singhwala police was transporting four allegedly notorious men from Kot Lakhpat and Camp Jail Lahore to interrogate them. On their way to the police station, they were attacked by 10 armed men on a car and two motorcycles near Pakki Haveli on main Ferozepur Road in the Mustafabad police precincts. The assailants got the four arrested released, snatched an official riffle from a policeman and fled.
On receiving information, a heavy contingent of police led by the station house officers of Mustafabad, Ganda Singhwala, Saddar and A Division started a search operation.
The suspects were located near Charewan village but they hid in nearby fields and opened fire on police that was retaliated for about half an hour.
Later, police recovered four bodies from the scene that were identified as Abdul Jabar alias Bao, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Ashraf alias Qilli and Bashart alias Basharti. These were the same men who were earlier in police custody.
They were wanted in more than 60 cases of robbery, house dacoity and murder by Lahore and Kasur police. Police claimed to have recovered the snatched official riffle and a Kalashnikov reportedly belonging to the assailants.
Later, Public Relation Officer Muhammad Sajjid told the media that while searching in the fields police recovered another body that was identified as Arshad alias Sethi. He was wanted in 30 cases of robbery, house dacoity and highway robbery by Kasur and Lahore police. The remaining assailants managed to escape.
District Police Officer Ali Nasir Rizvi constituted teams for the arrest of the fleeing assailants and also claimed all assailants were killed in firing by their accomplices.
[Rudaw] Iraqi armed forces repulsed an assault by 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 (ISIS) in the Jarais area of northern Ramadi, destroying several boom-mobiles the Lions of Islam had planned to use against the military, an officer told Rudaw on Tuesday.
"Iraqi forces were able to defeat an assault by the Islamic State in the area of Jarais in northern Ramadi, destroying four boom-mobiles rigged with heavy explosives," said the Iraqi army's Brig Gen. Ismail Mahlawi.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... a Rudaw news hound in Ramadi added that warplanes from the US-led coalition had bombed two improvised boom-mobiles in the area of Taamim in southwestern Ramadi.
Sources from the Anbar provincial council told Rudaw Tuesday that all ISIS supply lines into Ramadi had been cut off, adding that the city is surrounded by forces loyal to the Iraqi government.
Some 10,000 Iraqi soldiers, coppers, turbans of the Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi and tribal forces have been unsuccessfully fighting to clear Anbar province from ISIS since June. They have been unable to make any significant advances, with several assaults repulsed by the murderous Moslems.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the police announced on Tuesday, that unknown gunmen stormed a house and detained the members of its family and stole 65 million dinars in the area of al-Ghadeer east of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “Two gunmen wearing military uniforms broke into a house in al-Ghadeer east of Baghdad,” noting that, “The gunmen detained the family inside one room of the house at gunpoint and were able to steal the amount of 65 million Iraqi dinars.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The gunmen had managed to flee to an unknown location after carrying out the operation, while the security forces cordoned off the area of the incident and opened an investigation into its circumstances.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday, that ten people were either killed or wounded in a bomb blast north of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded this morning in Hamamiyat area in Taji District north of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding eight others.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “A security force rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital to receive treatment and the bodies of the dead to the forensic medicine department, while opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident and the party that stands behind it.”
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk announced on Tuesday, that 11 elements of the ISIS were killed in an aerial strike that targeted ISIS gatherings southwest of the province.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The international coalition warplanes bombed at dawn today a number of ISIS gatherings on the outskirts of Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk), killing 11 members of the organization.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The bombing came on the back of detecting movements of ISIS militants in the district”, adding that, “This was based on accurate intelligence.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the police said on Tuesday, that two soldiers had been injured in an armed attack that targeted a patrol belonging to the army in northern Baghdad.
The source, who requested anonymity, reported for IraqiNews.com, “This evening, unidentified gunmen attacked a patrol belonging to the 22nd brigade of the army in the district of al-Tarmiyah, located in northern Baghdad, resulting in the injury of two soldiers,” pointing out that, “The elements of the patrol have transferred the injured to a nearby hospital.”
(IraqiNews.com) A source in Nineveh province said, that the security forces had managed to raise the Iraqi flag over the headquarters of Sinjar District Council west of the province.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “The Iraqi flag along with the flag of the Kurdistan region was raised over the devastated building of Sinjar District Council,” adding that, “The administration of Sinjar District had resumed its work since yesterday under a tent.”
Noteworthy the War Media Cell announced on Friday (November 13, 2015), the control of the paramilitary Peshmerga force on the district of Sinjar west of Mosul.
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(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The Security Committee of Khalidiya District Council announced the killing of the so-called “Minister of Information” of the ISIS in the district of Heet west of Ramadi.
The chairman of the committee, Ibrahim Fahdawi, said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The Minister of Information of the ISIS organization, called Salam Islamil Nijm, was killed in an aerial bombing by the international coalition that targeted the ISIS headquarters in the district of Heet,” adding that, “The bombing also resulted in killing and wounding dozens of elements of the organization, in addition to inflicting upon them considerable material losses.
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(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk province announced on Tuesday, that dozens of ISIS elements had been either killed or wounded in an aerial bombing that was carried out by French aircraft on several ISIS sites southwest of the province.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “French aircraft belonging to the international coalition, bombed ISIS sites in Riyadh and Rashad in Hawija district (55 km southwest of Kirkuk), killing and wounding dozens of insurgents.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The bombardment was based on accurate information about the insurgents in those locations.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A source in the police announced on Tuesday, that 13 civilians had been either killed or wounded in the explosion of two bombs in Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “An explosive device that was planted on the side of a road in al-Bawiya area in Madain District southeast of Baghdad exploded before noon today, resulting in the injury of five civilians,” noting that, “Another explosive device that was emplaced near a popular market in al-Hussein neighborhood exploded, wounding seven civilians, including women, and killing another civilian. ”
The source, who asked anonymity, added “Security forces cordoned off the areas of the blasts and opened an investigation into the incidents
[IsraelTimes] No casualties among troops; army says two other shooters locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in attack near Turmus Aya village
Paleostinian gunman opened fire on IDF troops near the West Bank village of Turmus Aya on Tuesday evening. The soldiers returned fire, and one of the gunnies was killed; there were no casualties among the troops.
The military said "shots were fired" at a patrol near the village, and that "forces responded with fire towards the attackers."
"One hit was confirmed and two suspects have been detained at the scene," the IDF said in a statement, with officials confirming the death of one assailant.
[PhilStar] A Malaysian hostage who was kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf from a resort in Malaysia's Sabah state in May was beheaded in Indanan, Sulu after his family failed to pay the ransom. The victim was kidnapped along with restaurant manager Thien Nyuk Fun in Sandakan, Sabah last May. Fun was released earlier this month.
Joint Task Group Sulu chief Alan Arrojado said Bernard Ghen Ted Fen, the remaining Malaysian hostage from the abduction, was beheaded yesterday afternoon. The Abu Sayyaf faction involved were reportedly led by Alden Bagade and Idang Susukan.
Citing intelligence reports, Arrojado said the victim's body was buried near where he was beheaded.
Fen was killed as Philippine troops conducted an air raid on the group's lair. Arrojado said, "It appears that the beheading pushed through almost simultaneously with the bombardment and rocket fire."
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[The Mail] Vladimir Putin has ordered his warships to co-operate with the French military as both countries launched revenge attacks on ISIS targets in Syria.
Russia has hit the ISIS 'capital' Raqqa with cruise missiles - just hours after saying the passenger jet brought down in Egypt had been bombed.
The strikes come after it was revealed French jets had pounded targets in the terrorists' Syrian stronghold, including a command centre and a recruitment base for jihadists.
Now the Russian President wants his missile cruiser Moskva, which is in the Mediterranean Sea, to work with France's military, who are carrying out more airstrikes over Syria tonight after ISIS claimed responsibility for the Paris terror attacks which killed 129 people and injured 352.
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If Raqqa is still standing, there is more work to be done. The U.S. provided intelligence? Why didn't we take out these targets if we knew these targets harbored ISIS resources? The truth of the matter is that we (U.S.) don't have a leader worth squat. The guy was a no-nothing, do-nothing who somehow found his way into the WH. Seems as if he is running cover for the radical Muslims.
Not as many eyes to pinpoint the attack, not as much capacity to shoot back, and night terrors are more real for Arabs than Westerners. Personally, I think around-the-clock carpet-bombing would be more effective, but that's just me.
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OP, even a daylight full on Arclight would be pretty darn scary if you're on the receiving end.
Thermobaric bombs are also very effective.
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OK, how about a compromise: Thermobaric carpet bombing.
The A-10 attack aircraft can't help but keep shredding ground targets in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
The slow, low-flying close air support plane, known as the Thunderbolt II and nicknamed the Warthog, teamed with the AC-130 gunship to decimate a convoy of oil tankers stolen by ISIS militants in Syria. Bwahaha! Was that braaaaaap sound from the Warthog's guns or ISIS tanker drivers $hi++ing their jammies in unison?
As my colleague Richard Sisk reported:
"In the first wave of U.S. airstrikes since the Paris attacks, A-10 Thunderbolt ground attack aircraft and AC-130 gunships raked a convoy of more than 100 ISIS oil tanker trucks in Syria in a stepped-up effort to cut off a main source of terror funding, the Pentagon said Monday ...
The oil convoy attack and the carrier deployment signaled the U.S. intent to intensify airstrikes while increasing efforts to share intelligence with allies in the aftermath of the Paris carnage last Friday that killed at least 129, but President Obama insisted that there would be no fundamental changes in strategy ...
'ISIL is stealing oil from the people of Iraq and Syria' at a rate estimated by the Treasury Department at $1 million daily, [Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis] said. By hitting ISIS-controlled oil facilities and distribution networks, 'We're disrupting a significant source of funding' for terror activities, he said."
Given the battlefield successes of the Cold War-era gunship, it's not surprising that the Air Force has pulled back on its push to retire the aircraft.
As my colleague Bryant Jordan reported last week, the Air Force will probably seek to delay by "a few years" the retirement of the aircraft until 2019:
"Gen. Herbert 'Hawk' Carlisle, head of Air Combat Command, said changes in the production rate of the F-35 Lightning II coupled with increased demand on aircraft means the A-10 will likely remain in the inventory longer than originally planned.
'We will probably move the retirement slightly to the right,' Carlisle told reporters during a breakfast with defense reporters on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. 'Eventually we will have to get there -- we have to retire airplanes. But I think moving it to the right and starting it a bit later -- maybe keeping the airplane around a bit longer -- is something that's being considered.'"
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....You might think those A-10 drivers were in...(puts on sunglasses)...Hog Heaven.
Mike
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" My Precious!" Ah...feel good story of the day...my fav little, ugly, slow, old planes perform well. I'd say heart-warming but exploding oil tankers took care of that for the IS bastards.
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They should take out one of the ocean going tankers. That'll give pause to the folks carrying their oil to market. Of course the enviromentalists would be upset. Funny how they aren't protesting about the oil being spilled by the trucks nailed by the A10's.
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Funny how they aren't protesting about the oil being spilled by the trucks nailed by the A10's
Give 'em time, Grampaw.
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Rob Crawford asks the question of the week. We figured out that oil was Germany's weakness in WWII and went after it. Why haven't we done the same to ISIS?
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#11 - because we were trying to defeat Germany?
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Beat me to it, #12 Frank.
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PJ Media has a claim that the oil tanker fleet was leafleted 45 minutes before the strikes, to allow the drivers to get away.
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Mitch, the should have written the leaflets in Navajo.
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Funny how they aren't protesting about the oil being spilled by the trucks nailed by the A10's
Hey, it came out of the earth, we're just putting it back.
Iranian authorities have arrested a cartoonist and sent him to prison to complete a suspended jail sentence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, joining a growing list of journalists, artists and activists detained on security charges.
Hadi Heidari, a cartoonist at the Shahrvand newspaper, was arrested on Monday and sent to Tehran's Evin prison, his lawyer told Reuters in a telephone interview from Tehran.
"He was convicted two years ago for his cartoons and was sentenced to one year in jail. The authorities had a different interpretation of his cartoons than he had," the lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, said. Heidari had served about a month of the original sentence, Nikbakht said.
The Tasnim news agency, which is close to the hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), said Heidari had telephoned his family from prison and told them his arrest stemmed from the original conviction.
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KOBANE – Militant fighters of the Islamic State group (ISIS) launched an offensive on a Kurdish village near Kobane in northern Syria, causing casualties among civilians, military sources reported on Tuesday.
Speaking to ARA News on the phone, Sarhad Abbas, member the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) said that a number of ISIS terrorists attacked the village of Merasir in the southern countryside of Kobane with mortars, and then infiltrated into the village.
“A group of villagers clashed with ISIS terrorists with light weapons,. The attack caused a state of panic among civilians,” the source reported.
“A unit from the YPG forces arrived in the area and was able to expel ISIS terrorists from the village subsequent to sporadic clashes,” the YPG member Sarhad Abbas told ARA News. At least seven civilians were hardly injured during the ISIS-led offensive on Merasir village.
Earlier this week, ISIS targeted headquarters of the Kurdish YPG forces in the suburbs of Kobane in northern Syria with dozens of mortar shells, military sources reported.
“ISIS militants, who are stationed in the villages of Jarabulus Tahtani and al-Jamel west of Kobane, bombed the YPG’s positions in the towns of Shuyookh Foqani, Nasiriyah and Atto,” the YPG fighter Noureddin Gaban told ARA News in an earlier interview.
Over the past few days, the village of Tuzanji in the southern countryside of Kobane has seen similar attacks by the terror group, which resulted in the displacement of several Kurdish families towards the relatively calm neighboring villages.
ISIS militants have been launching surprise attacks on the countryside of Kobane for months. The group carries out attacks from its positions in Jarabulus city against the Kurdish headquarters in Kobane and its countryside.
In return, the YPG leadership has recently deployed hundreds of fighters alongside the Euphrates River near the ISIS-held Jarabulus city in preparation for storming ISIS bastions in the area.
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Russia struck the Daesh stronghold of Raqqa in Syria on Tuesday with a "significant number" of strikes that may have included long-range bombers and sea-launched cruise missiles, a US defence official said.
There was no immediate confirmation from Moscow, but Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier vowed vengeance as Moscow confirmed a bomb brought down a Russian passenger jet over Egypt last month, killing all 224 people aboard.
"We are aware that over the past several hours Russia conducted a significant number of strikes in Raqqa, some of which may have included sea-launched cruise missiles and long-range bombers," said the official, who made the remarks on condition of anonymity.
"While we do not coordinate or collaborate in any way with Russia on its activities in Syria, I can confirm that the Russians did provide us notice prior to conducting these strikes, via the Coalition Combined Air Operations Center in Qatar, in accordance with the safety protocols agreed to in October," the official said.
"These strikes are not affecting coalition operations, and we have not scrapped any missions as a result," the official added.
In a meeting with his security chiefs, Putin pledged to ramp up Moscow's bombing campaign in Syria in response to the attack. But he but stopped short of blaming any one group.
"We will search for them anywhere they might hide. We will find them in any part of the world and punish them," he said.
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[Ynet] The US-led military coalition on Monday staged 23 air strikes targeting 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 Syria and Iraq, including oil facilities used by the Death Eater group, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operations said.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the task force said six strikes near three Syrian cities hit several fighting positions as well as an Islamic State gas and oil separation point near Abu Kamal and three oil facilities near Dayr Az Zawr, the statement said.
In Iraq, 17 strikes in Iraq near six cities hit numerous targets including Death Eaters' fighting positions, roads, tactical units and a headquarters in Sinjar.
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Three landmine planters have been killed in the explosion of their own bomb in eastern Kunar province.
Bahrain's top court on Monday upheld the death sentences of two men convicted of planting a bomb that killed a police officer last year, the prosecution and lawyers said.
Dozens of the dead and injured were moved to Aden hospitals after the Yemeni army and popular committees ambushed the mercenaries of the Saudi aggression in Omari military camp in Bab al-Mandeb area, according to Yemeni sources. 
Yemen’s national army and resistance fighters seized several Houthi positions as they continued their advance in a major offensive launched on Monday to liberate the Southwestern town, a Yemeni news network reported on Wednesday.
[The Mail] The full scale of the trade in false passports that allows terrorists to slip into Europe was exposed last night. It lets Islamic State fanatics who are bent on murder pose as refugees fleeing war and persecution.
[Rooters] Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the United States were diverted for several hours on Tuesday following anonymous bomb threats, and more than 700 passengers and crew were safely taken off the planes, officials said.
authorities found syringes, needles and empty pizza boxes inside one of the rooms
ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Narcotic Force (ANF) carried out six operations in different cities and seized 366kg of drugs, including heroin.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk announced on Tuesday, that 11 elements of the ISIS were killed in an aerial strike that targeted ISIS gatherings southwest of the province.
(IraqiNews.com) A source in Nineveh province said, that the security forces had managed to raise the Iraqi flag over the headquarters of Sinjar District Council west of the province.
Iranian authorities have arrested a cartoonist and sent him to prison to complete a suspended jail sentence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, joining a growing list of journalists, artists and activists detained on security charges.
Russia struck the Daesh stronghold of Raqqa in Syria on Tuesday with a "significant number" of strikes that may have included long-range bombers and sea-launched cruise missiles, a US defence official said.
