[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan armed forces pounded the hideouts of the ISIS Lions of Islam with heavy artillery strike in eastern Nangahrar province of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Army in the East said the hideouts of the terror group were targeted in the vicinity of Deh Bala district.
The source further added that at least ten Lions of Islam affiliated with the terror group were killed during the artillery shelling and a connective trench was also destroyed.
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[Al Jazeera] At least eight people, including children, have been killed and several others maimed in a kaboom in Afghanistan's western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province, according to a government official.
Explosives planted in an auto-rickshaw [a three-wheeled vehicle] detonated late afternoon on Monday near a mosque in the Shindand district, Jillani Farhad, the Herat governor's front man, said.
He said the kaboom took place at a busy market in the district.
The provincial ambulance services head told Pajhwok news agency that 17 people had been injured in the blast.
Images circulating on social media showed the debris and damage in the aftermath of the kaboom.
The Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... denied via Twitter involvement in Monday's attack.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The troops of Somalia’s central Federal member state of Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... took over the military bases in Dhusamareb after the withdrawal of Æthiopian forces on Sunday, a governor said.
Speaking in an interview with Radio Shabelle, Galgadud regional governor Nur Ahmed Hassan said the state troops are now in control of the all camps deserted by the Æthiopians.
Hassan added that the pull-out of the Æthiopian forces from Dhusamareb did not result any impact on the city’s overall security as their forces were already on standby for the move.
"Galmudug forces are capable of securing all areas under the state control," he said.
Æthiopian forces who are partly serving with the 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... Mission in Somalia, known as "AMISOM" have previously left several towns in central Somalia in what they described as military tactics.
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[PRESSTV] At least 22 civilians have bit the dust and several others sustained injures when Saudi warplanes carried out multiple Arclight airstrikes against residential areas across 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... as the Riyadh regime continues with its atrocious bombardment campaign against its impoverished neighbor. Saudi weaponry is rigged so that it kills only civilians.
According to Yemen's Arabic-language al-Masirah satellite television network on Monday, three non-combatants were killed and four others maimed when Saudi fighter jets pounded border areas in Razeh district of the northern province of Sa’ada.
The report, citing local sources, added that a separate airstrike in the same province killed at least four people, including a maiden of tender years and old woman, and injured a child.
Earlier on Monday, Saudi warplanes also carried out a number of airstrikes on Mohoal area in Kodeer district in the southwestern province of Ta’izz, killing 15 members of a family. Moreover, one civilian was killed and five others were maimed in a separate strike in the same area.
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[PRESSTV] Yemeni army troops, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-manufactured ballistic missile at a military base in 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... ’s southern border region of Najran ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces.... in retaliation for the Saudi regime’s military campaign against the war-ravaged country, Yemeni media report.
Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network cited an unnamed military official as saying that Nahouqa military base had been targeted with short-range Zelzal-2 (Earthquake-2) missile on Monday evening, adding that the projectile had hit the designated target with high precision.
The report further said that gatherings of Saudi forces at the base and behind it were also targeted with multiple artillery shells, adding that the attack killed and maimed an unspecified number of Saudi troopers and mercenaries.
A Saudi military vehicle was also destroyed in al-Sadis military base in the same region after Yemeni forces hit it with rockets, the report added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often...... in a separate attack on Yemen's western coastline, the Yemeni army troops and fighters 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 ... Ansarullah movement managed to kill and wound a number of Saudi mercenaries after hitting their gatherings with artillery shells. According to al-Masirah, the attack also inflicted damage to military hardware and vehicles of the Saudi forces.
Additionally on Monday, at least nine Saudi mercenaries were killed after their vehicle hit a mine planted by Yemeni fighters in al-Ajasher desert in Yemen’s northern province of Jawf, al-Masirah further reported, citing an unnamed military source.
Al-Masirah also reported earlier in the day that Yemeni snipers had managed to kill at least eight Saudi mercenaries and maimed two others who were attempting to advance towards the gatherings of Yemeni forces in Asifera area in the southwestern province of Ta’izz.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Footage has been released over social media showing the gruesome aftermath of an engagement between the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (national militia; abbreviated as PMU) and a group of 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.... fighters in Kirkuk province.
According to sources, an assault group of the PMU’s 16th Brigade (Turkmen) were conducting an operation near the village Hamirah when ISIS faceless myrmidons belonging to a local sleeper cell emerged.
Upon identifying one another, the two sides clashed with the end result being five Islamic State fighters killed in action and one captured alive; it is unclear whether or not any PMU troops were killed or maimed.
Following the defeat of its Levantine empire at the end of 2017, ISIS has since switched to a low-insurgency method of operation involving the use of sleeper units to conduct liquidations, roadside kaboomings and hit and run attacks.
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Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi security forces killed on Monday the right-hand man of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on the outskirts of Kirkuk, intelligence sources were quoted as saying.
“Abu Walid al-Shishany, one of Baghdadi’s closest aides, was in a desert area on the outskirts of Kirkuk when Iraqi forces shot him dead,” the sources told Sky Press.
“The death of Shishany deals a big blow to the IS group as he was mainly tasked with plotting terrorist attacks against civilians in Kirkuk,” the sources added.
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – Pro-government troops launched in the wee hours of Monday a military operation in al-Hawija district in Kirkuk, managing to kill five foreign militants of the Islamic State group, a military source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Baghdad Today, the source said: “A force from al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) 16th brigade launched a manhunt for IS militants in al-Humayra village in Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk.”
“Five foreign IS insurgents were killed in the operation,” according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) Iraq security forces found a new mass grave of tens of employees massacred by 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.... bully boys, a security source was quoted saying on Monday.
BasNews quoted Cap. Adnan Marwan, from Nineveh province police, saying that security forces found the mass grave near al-Sham gate, an entrance to the western region of Mosul.
He said the remains were of more than 40 people, mostly security personnel and former clerks at the country’s elections commission. They were handed to forensic experts to identify them and their relatives.
As Iraqi troops recaptured areas held by Islamic State forces of Evil since 2014, they have regularly run into mass graves of civilians and security agents executed by forces of Evil for fleeing the group’s havens or collaborating with security forces.
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Anbar (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Four suicide kaboomers were killed Monday in a shootout with security forces in Anbar as Iraqi troops continue hunting for dormant cells 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.... (IS) group nationwide.
"Security forces repelled an attack launched by three Islamic State forces of Evil on a house in Haditha district, west of Anbar," Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, the front man for the security media center, told Alghad Press.
"The troops managed to kill the three assailants," Rasool pointed out.
He further noted that another suicide attacker was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Haditha.
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Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) ‐ An Iraqi court sentenced on Monday seven key 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.... (IS) leaders to death as they were found guilty of killing scores of innocent people in Nineveh.
Speaking to the official al-Sabah newspaper, judge Mohammed al-Badrani of the Nineveh Criminal Court said: "Seven IS leaders were handed down death sentences as they were convicted of killing 200 civilian people in Nineveh."
The genocide took place after the IS faceless myrmidons took control of the vital city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on June 10, 2014, according to the judge.
Badrani pointed out that his court is still interrogating over "400 IS bully boys, who have been recently jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and brought to trial," adding that the court will issue sentences against them soon.
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[NYP] Russia has hampered American military operations in Syria by jamming some of its drones after several suspected chemical weapons attacks on civilians, according to a report.
Four US officials told NBC News that Moscow was concerned that the US would retaliate for the attacks in rebel-held eastern Ghouta, so it began jamming the GPS systems of some smaller drones.
Todd Humphreys, chief of the Radionavigation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, said blocking or scrambling a drone’s reception of signals from GPS satellites can be quite simple.
"GPS receivers in most drones can be fairly easily jammed," said Humphreys, who warned that jammed drones may malfunction aand even crash.
"At the very least it could cause some serious confusion" for the drone operator if the unmanned aircraft reports an incorrect position or is lost, he told NBC News.
American analysts first noticed the Russian military jamming drones in eastern Ukraine after the invasion of Crimea four years ago, Humphreys said.
The jammers "had a pretty significant impact" on UN surveillance drones, which were grounded for days after gathering intelligence from the air.
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I wonder if the AGM-88 can be tuned to attack the jammer? Unlike a GPS omnidirectional antenna, the HARM should be able to focus on a point emitter.
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If a drone gets jammed up it needs to fail over to a pre loaded program that will lead it to strike a target area, if that is the mission, or that will bring it back home without guidance.
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Syria is a complex battlespace. The U.S. would be retards to believe that their drones would work in that space. Put an F-18 into the space, and no one would fuck with that. But put in some dopey drone -- yah that is our bitch.
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A caravan arrives one day
From snowy land of spammers,
Its camels bearing many sacks
Of rusty scythes and hammers,
And such a song and dance is seen
That each Mohammed clamors,
"By Allah, I need better drones
And lotsa Russian jammers!"
[AnNahar] The Army Command-Orientation Directorate said on Monday that four Israeli warplanes have breached Leb's airspace.
According to the army’s statement, the warplanes violated the Lebanese airspace at 3:25 a.m. flying over the sea to the west of Jounieh, adding that they had flown east over the city of Baalbek and then left the country’s airspace at 3:35 a.m.
Syrian state media had said that a number of missiles have struck Monday at dawn the Tayfur airport base in the central province of Homs killing and wounding several.
Leb’s airspace and territorial waters have been constantly breached by Israeli enemy.
They say four, the Russians and Syrians say two, but no comment on whether they were F-15s or F-16s. Oh well.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Tehran declared on Monday that four of its military advisers have been killed in "Israel’s overnight Arclight airstrikes on T4 airbase in the Syrian province of Homs."
According to a statement carried by Fars News, two Israeli fighter jets attacked the Syrian army’s T4 military base in Homs province from the Lebanese airspace on Sunday night, killing and wounding over a dozen personnel, including 4 Iranian military advisers.
The Iranian casualties have been identified as Seyed Ammar Moussavi, Medi Lotfi Niyasar, Akbar Zawwar Jannati, Mehdi Dehqan Yazdeli. The Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday that Israeli F-15 fighter jets targeted Syria’s airbase.
Y’all are certain they’re F-15s?
The warplanes fired eight guided missiles, but Syrian air defense units shot down five before they could hit the airfield. Three of the missiles reached the Western part of the airfield. "The Israeli fighters did not enter Syrian airspace and launched the strikes while flying over Leb," the agency said.
F-15 war planes
Syrian state media, citing a military source, said on Monday that Israeli F-15 war planes
Definitely F-15s, then.
had conducted the overnight missile attack on a major air base in central Syria.
"The Israeli aggression on the T4 airport was carried out with F-15 planes that fired several missiles from above Lebanese land," state news agency SANA said. Russian military sources also said that two Israeli F-15 war planes had carried out strikes on a Syrian air base on Sunday.
Interfax cited the Russian Defence Ministry as saying the Israeli war planes had carried out the strikes from Lebanese air space, and that Syrian air defence systems had shot down five of eight missiles fired. Asked about the Russian statement, an Israeli military front man said he had no immediate comment.
Syrian state TV said on Monday the United States was suspected of striking an air base hours after US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... warned of a "big price to pay" as aid groups said dozens of people were killed by poison gas in Douma, a rebel-held town.
The US denied it was conducting air strikes in Syria. "At this time, the Department of Defense is not conducting air strikes in Syria," a Pentagon front man said.
"However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... we continue to closely watch the situation and support the ongoing diplomatic efforts to hold those who use chemical weapons, in Syria and otherwise, accountable."
Iranians killed
The strike killed 14 fighters, including allied Iranian forces, a monitoring group said on Monday. "At least 14 fighters were killed in the strike on the T-4 airport, among them Iranian forces," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor.
[Ynet] Iranian drone shot down two months ago by Israel came out of the T-4 airbase, which was attacked overnight, while one of Iranian 'military advisers' killed in the attack was reportedly a member of a division that operates drones.
The target of an Arclight airstrike early Monday at the T-4 airbase in Syria was apparently an Iranian drone base.
While Russia, the United States, Syria and Iran have all attributed the strike to Israel, Jerusalem has neither confirmed nor denied it.
The T-4 complex in the eastern Homs province, 60km east of Palmyra, has recently been used by Iranian-backed militias fighting in Syria. It was built at a strategic location, close to Syrian gas fields, and was under ISIS control until the Syrian army, with backing from Russian forces, reclaimed it.
Two months ago, an Iranian drone coming out of the T-4 base was shot down by Israel. During a retaliatory IAF strike on the drone's point of origin in Syria, one Israeli F-16
... not an F-15...
was shot down by Syrian aerial defense. Israel struck back with a larger scale attack, hitting 12 targets in Syria. It is likely the Iranians have been working to rebuild the infrastructure destroyed in the Israeli attack.
Mehdi Dehqan Yazdeli was reportedly a member of the Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force, a division that operates drones, which further strengthen the assertion Iran's drones array in Syria was the target.
Syria initially accused the US of carrying out the strike in retaliation for an alleged chemical weapons attack Saturday in Douma, which was attributed to the Syrian regime. Washington denied the charges, and later confirmed Israel was behind the attack, and that the IDF informed the Americans of its intentions beforehand.
Russia too accused Israel of carrying out the airstrike, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying the air strike "was a dangerous development."
La Belle France did not carry out a missile strike on a Syrian government air base early Monday that reportedly killed several people, the French army said.
"It was not us," armed forces front man Colonel Patrik Steiger told AFP.
[Ynet] The United Nation's special envoy to Syria said Monday the international body was unable to determine who was behind the strike on the T-4 base in Syria.
"The United States and La Belle France had specifically denied responsibility for that attack, while the Russian Federation and Syria had suggested that Israel was responsible. The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... was unable to independently verify or assign responsibility for that attack, but it urged all parties to show restraint," Staffan de Mistura said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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