[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrikes were carried out on the hideouts of the anti-government armed turbans in northeastern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan said the latest airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of Tashkan district.
The source further added that the airstrikes left at least four turbans dead while two others were maimed.
The airstrikes also resulted into the destruction of two hideouts of the myrmidons, the Ministry of Defense added.
The anti-government armed myrmidon groups including Taliban ...Arabic for students... bandidos bad boys have not commented regarding the report so far.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] AT least two Talibs were killed while planting Improvised Explosive Devices on a roadside in northenr Baghlan province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said the incident has taken place in the vicinity of Imam Qatiba area.
The source further added that the two bandidosturbans were looking to plant IEDS on a road frequented by the Afghan security and defense forces but were killed after one of the IEDs went off prematurely.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A series of Arclight airstrikes were carried out on the hideouts of the anti-government armed holy warriors in northeastern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan said the latest airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of Tashkan district.
The source further added that the airstrikes left at least four holy warriors dead while two others were maimed.
The airstrikes also resulted into the destruction of two hideouts of the bully boys, the Ministry of Defense added.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Security forces in Kilifi are looking for three al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... recruiters who are behind a syndicate luring youths to join the terror gang in Somalia.
The three Mohammed Ali, Abdalla Shekue and Yusuf Ali allegedly coordinated a plan to recruit 13 youths unknowingly to join the al-Shabaab in Somalia.
The thirteen recruits including 11 from Magarini Sub County and two from Lamu were rescued by Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) in Somalia after spending one month in the war tone country.
They were flown to Malindi from Kiunga at the Kenya Somali border on Monday evening and have so far united with their families.
Kilifi county commissioner Magu Mutindika said the three suspects offered the 13 youths lucrative fishing job in Somalia and gave them Sh 5,000 before they took off for Somalia.
Speaking during the official handing over of the ’returnees’ to their parents at the Malindi Police station, Mutindika said two of the suspects are from Kilifi while one is from Lamu.
"There was no fishing job it was recruitment, they have changed tactics, the youths were given money before leaving,’’ he said.
The returnees are aged between 18 and 38 years.
After being recruited Ali reportedly handed the unsuspecting youths to Abdalla Shekue a boat owner in Kiunga who took them to Somalia.
Mutindika said the returnees were recruited on March 26, 2018, and KDF managed to rescue them on April 29 after some reported to their families and the matter brought to the attention of security personnel.
While in Somalia the youths were handed over to Yusuf Ali on the pretext that they were going to go fishing.
During their one month stay in Somalia, the boys moved from Mdoa to Bula Haji with the intention to be recruited into al-Shabaab activities.
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[Libya Observer] Updated at 1:55pm: The death toll from the attack rises to 16 and 19 wounded, the health ministry reports
IS claims responsibility IS (also known as ISIS) terrorists claimed responsibility for the attack on their media platform “Wilayat Trabulus” and Reuters also cited Amaq (ISIS media platform) as claiming the terrorist attack.
The Director Manager of the HNEC, Saad Al-Gadibi, said the gunmen stormed into the building and killed a number of the security personnel in gun-to-gun clashes before two of them blew themselves up leaving the HNEC building ablaze.
Condemnations weighed in
Libya’s Fatwa House condemned the attack and offered condolences to the families of the victims, calling on the concerned authorities to take the needed measures to secure the capital and all of Libya against such crimes.
Presidential Council also condemned in a statement the suicide attack saying it would never let them down and make them stop the electoral track and the democratic privilege of all Libyans.
While the High Council of State denounced the attack on the HNEC, calling for the need to go for constitution referendum and end the transitional phase by uniting all Libyan state institutions.
House of Representatives (HoR) in eastern Libya also weighed in and condemned the “terrorists act” that establishes chaos and takes the lives of the innocent, adding that such crimes get in the way of democracy in the country.
Likewise, the UNSMIL condemned the attack calling “a terrorist act” offering condolences to the families of victims and to all Libyans, adding on Twitter that such attacks won’t affect Libyans’ will to have a state of law and national unity.
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[PRESSTV] Snipers of Yemen's popular 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 have killed three Saudi troops in the kingdom's southern regions.
Yemen's al-Masirah television network reported on Wednesday that the Saudi soldiers were killed during Yemeni operations in the Najran 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.... region.
A large number of Saudi forces and mercenaries were also injured in the Yemeni attack.
Earlier in the day, the Yemeni military announced that at least 82 Saudi forces were killed and 41 injured in the Saudi provinces of Jizan, Najran and Assir in April.
It also noted that 55 were killed and 53 maimed in March.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick...... the Ansarullah movement announced that it would be increasing its strikes on 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 oil facilities in retaliation for the kingdom's war on its impoverished neighbor.
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[IsraelTimes] The Tunisian Justice Ministry reportedly claimed Wednesday that one of the suspected operatives behind a 2016 hit on a Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-linked engineer attributed to Israel has been locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in Croatia.
Both Hamas and Hezbollah have accused the Mossad of killing Mohammed Zouari, 49, who was shot to death at the wheel of his car outside his house in the Tunisian port city of Sfax in December 2016.
Hamas claimed last year that Israeli spies used Bosnian passports to enter Tunisia and assassinate Zouari, who also held Belgian citizenship.
Hebrew media reports, citing the Tunisian Justice Ministry source, said the suspect was arrested two months ago in Croatia, but authorities were refusing to extradite him to Tunisia.
Zouari, an aviation engineer and Tunisian national, was confirmed by Hamas to be a central figure in its weapons development. The terror group called him a pioneer in developing its unmanned drones.
Israel has not responded to the accusation by Hamas that it was behind the Tunisian engineer’s death.
[Ynet] 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.... grabbed credit on Wednesday for a deadly gun attack near the Iraqi town of Tarmiya.
A security source had told Rooters that eight unarmed non-combatants were killed in the assault 25 km (15 miles) north of Baghdad on Tuesday.
Islamic State said it killed 22 people, describing them all as members of a government-backed Sunni Moslem tribal force called the Tribal Mobilization Forces.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The High Commission for Human Rights in Iraq has revealed the total number of foreign females, who had death sentences issued against them, over involvement with 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 remarks on Wednesday, Ali al-Bayati, member of the commission, said "the total number of female members who had death sentences issued against them reached 28 women."
Iraqi judiciary, according to Bayati, "sentenced them to death over involvement with the milinat group as well as carrying out terrorist crimes against security personnel and civilians."
Bayati also added that the number of these females is from the beginning of the year, saying that their nationalities were Ottoman Turkish, Russian, French, Azeri and Kyrgyz.
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[AAWSAT] The ISIS terrorist group grabbed credit on Wednesday for a drive-by shooting in a town north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad that left 8 people dead.
The group, which usually exaggerates the number of casualties, put the figure at 22, describing them all as members of the Tribal Mobilization Forces.
A security source had told Rooters that Death Eaters killed eight unarmed civilians in the assault in Tarmiya, 25 km (15 miles) north of Baghdad on Tuesday.
The attack saw button men in two speeding cars open fire on civilians in Tarmiya.
Iraq declared victory in December over ISIS, which had seized control of nearly a third of the country in 2014. But the group continues to carry out attacks and bombings in Baghdad and other parts of the country.
Iraq is heading into parliamentary elections on May 12 ‐ the first balloting since the government declared ISIS defeated in Iraq earlier this year.
Among the casualties in Tarmiya were workers who were putting up election campaign posters for candidates running for parliament, police officials said. The officials and eyewitnesses spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
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[Ynet] After Gazook rioters send incendiary kite across border into Israel, firefighters battle to contain Be'eri Forest blaze intensified by high temperatures, strong winds and dry weather, as masses of woodland is slowly incinerated.
An incendiary kite flown Wednesday from the Gazoo Strip by Paleostinian faceless myrmidons caused a huge fire in the Be'eri Forest in southern Israel that continued to rage into the evening. No casualties were reported.
The conflagration is the biggest to have erupted since Paleostinians in the strip began flying the incendiary kites across the border.
By 7:30pm, the fire continued to slowly reduce hundreds of dunams of woodland to ash, as ten firefighter teams scrambled to contain the it, battling high temperatures, dry weather and strong easterly winds that fanned the flames.
Incendiary kites are the latest improvised weapon to have been added to the Paleostinian rioters' arsenal as part of the weekly "March of Return" protests on the Gazoo Border, enabling Paleostinian rioters to wreak havoc on Israel's southern towns without approaching the border fence and risking their lives.
Around three to four of the kites are sent across the Gazoo-Israel border each day, and have so far incinerated agricultural lands in Israel's southern region, with wheat fields being set aflame and ecological damage caused to the country.
Gadi Yarkoni, head of the Eshkol Regional Council, where most of the incendiary kites tend to fall, called on the Israeli government to find a solution to the issue and urged it to compensate local farmers for the damage already caused.
"The issue of (incendiary) kites has preoccupied us very much in recent days and requires an answer," he said. "There is damage to the wheat and barley fields (in the area). The security personnel and the farmers in the settlements are working overtime to extinguish the fires and not to let them spread and cause more damage.
"It will not break us and we will continue to work our lands up to the last meter," he stressed, adding that the locals "expect the state to compensate us for the damages. Our fields are the livelihood and the beating heart of the Eshkol Regional Council."
Head of Merhavim Regional Council Shai Hajaj and Head of Sdot Negev Regional Council Tamir Idan expressed their exasperation over the government's lackadaisical handling of the pressing issue, adding that the High Court of Justice's seemingly out of touch deliberations on the Gazoo border protest are only preventing the issue from being resolved.
"While the court in Jerusalem (meaning the High Court of Justice) is discussing a petition by left-wing organizations to tie the hands of the soldiers facing the Gazook rioters who want to break through the fence, the arson of the farmers' fields continues," they said in a joint statement.
"It is not redundant to remind Paleostinian rights organizations and judges that stone throwing and burning of fields also constitutes violence," they added. "Violence that has already caused, and still causes, severe economic damage but also threatens human life.
"The burning of fields by Paleostinian rioters is no longer limited to the weekly Friday demonstrations, but has become a daily occurrence. We demand an end to this violence."
"The burning of fields by Paleostinian rioters is no longer limited to the weekly Friday demonstrations, but has become a daily occurrence. We demand an end to this violence."
Since the offensive began some five weeks ago, hundreds of incendiary kites have been sent to Israel, setting ablaze about 800 dunams of agricultural fields and causing property damages worth an estimated half a million shekels.
"We do not really have the ability to cope with this," lamented Reuven Nir, the field crops manager for the kibbutzim of Kfar Aza and Mefelsim in the Gazoo vicinity.
"We stay alert and as soon as we see a kite landing in a field, we rush to the place to stop the fire before it spreads to more and more areas," he said. "We have experience here in the Gazoo vicinity. We went through everything. Rockets, tunnels, military operations, demonstrations, and what not. But this phenomenon is intolerable."
Largest blaze since Gazooks started new arson tactic burns for six hours.
Israeli soldiers succeeded in preventing another fire on Wednesday, reaching a kite bearing a container of burning fuel from Gazoo as it touched down inside Israel and putting it out with handheld fire extinguishers.
[Ynet] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, security prisoner sentenced to 30 years in jail for attempted murder moderately wounds warder at the Eshel Prison during cell inspection; inmate transferred to solitary confinement, prison guard taken for treatment at Soroka Medical Center.
A warder at the Eshel Prison in Be'er Sheva was moderately maimed Wednesday afternoon after being attacked by a security prisoner affiliated with Hamas.
It was reported that the prisoner, a 53-year-old former resident of east Jerusalem who had already spent four years in the prison out of 30 he was sentenced to for attempted murder, poured boiling water over the prison guard, wo suffered burns all over his body as a result.
The prsioner was immediately tackled and subdued by several other guards and transferred to solitary confinement.
A front man for the prison said the incident occurred while its guards were carrying out an inspection.
The maimed warder was treated at the site and taken for further treatment at the Soroka Medical Center in the city.
The prison stated that the incident is being investigated investigated and that necessary steps would be taken against the prisoner.
[IsraelTimes] The Jerusalem District Court sentences a East Jerusalem resident to three years in prison over his involvement in a Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede,-affiliated organization that operates on the Temple Mount.
Nahed Sagheer was an activist in the religious organization known as al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia... al-Aqsa, which was classified as a terror group in 2011.
The Shin Bet has said that in addition to stoking violence on the Temple Mount to deter non-Moslem visitors, members of the group have also carried out a number of deadly terror attacks, including an October 2016 shooting in which two Israelis were killed at the capital’s Ammunition Hill light rail stop and during a subsequent shootout with police.
As part of the plea bargain, Sagheer admits to "management of a terrorist organization" and is fined NIS 10,000.
[AAWSAT] Israeli occupation authorities announced the arrest of a Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-linked cell in Jerusalem that was planning to carry out attacks against Israel.
Israel’s internal security agency, Shin Bet, said that three Paleostinians, who were said to be part of a Hamas terror cell in east Jerusalem's Sur Baher neighborhood, near the East Talpiot neighborhood, have been nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... .
Security forces' investigation found that the detainees were in contact with Hamas operatives expelled to the Gazoo Strip as part of the prisoner swap deal securing the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011.
According to indictments from Jerusalem District Court, the three defendants were accused of contact with a foreign agent, membership in a terror group and conspiracy to commit terrorism.
The defendants are Nasim Hamada, 39, who was the group's leader and chief recruiter, Ezzedine Aton, 24, and Obeida Amira, 29. The identity of another person involved with the group has been withheld.
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"A Russian fighter plane Su-30SM crashed over the Mediterranean Sea at 9:45 Moscow time, just after taking off from Hmeimim airfield. The two pilots, who fought for the plane until the last minute, according to a report, are dead, "reads the statement.
The cause of the disaster could be a bird sneaking into the engine of the plane, the statement said.
"There was no flaming impact on the plane," concluded the Russian Defense Ministry.
Some photos that show the crash were posted on social networks.
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...Russian seats are amazing, but it makes no difference how good they are if you wait too long to pull the bang handles. On top of that, I think there's probably a lot of pressure on Russian aircrew not to lose any aircraft - they don't have the reserve they used to, and it's doing some serious damage to their supply and logistics stocks to keep the few they have operating out there.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian government officially established control over the northern part of Yarmouk Refugee Camp in southern Damascus after jihadi Lions of Islam had left to the country’s north.
Troops from the Syrian Army have been deployed to Paleostine Street located just on the frontline with the ISIS-held parts of the Camp and Hajar Aswad to the south.
More reinforcements poured into the recently-liberated neighborhood with the aim to open a new front against 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.... murderous Moslems.
Militants from the al-Qaeda-linked Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham surrendered the parts under their control from the Yarmouk Camp following negotiations with the Syrian Army.
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[PJ] WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department today announced the first Guantanamo detainee transfer of the Trump administration, sending Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi
...brother-in-law of Al Mihdhar, one of the 9/11 hijackers, and an Al Qaeda weapons instructor, among other responsibilities...
back home to Saudi Arabia.
The transfer of al-Darbi, 43, had been part of a plea agreement but was in limbo for a few months as administration officials discussed the move.
Al-Darbi, a Saudi citizen, was arrested traveling through Azerbaijan in June 2002 and held for his knowledge of the USS Cole bombing and other al-Qaeda maritime attack plans. Four years ago, al-Darbi pleaded guilty to planning a 2002 attack on a French oil tanker. Under the Obama administration, he struck a deal to be released to a rehabilitation program this February.
"In accordance with statutory requirements, the secretary of defense informed Congress of the United States' intent to transfer this individual and of the secretary's determination that this transfer met the statutory standard," said the Pentagon in a statement. "...The United States coordinated with the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to ensure the transfer took place in accordance with established standards for security and humane treatment."
During February hearing, it was revealed that al-Darbi -- who began his stay at Gitmo as a feces-throwing belligerent inmate -- had evolved into a cooperating witness with his own cottage-type accommodations including a kitchen stocked with halal meat and a Magic Bullet blender, a veggie garden, a laptop computer with Rosetta Stone to learn English, an exercise bike, Under Armour and Nike workout gear, Turkish coffee, and art supplies. He was also allowed to make phone calls to his wife and kids, enjoyed his own PlayStation 3, munched strawberry Oreos and binged on Netflix re-runs of "Arrested Development."
Just before his State of the Union address in January, President Trump signed an order directing Defense Secretary James Mattis to review the nation's military detention policies and keep Guantanamo open.
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.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] AT least two Talibs were killed while planting Improvised Explosive Devices on a roadside in northenr Baghlan province of Afghanistan.
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[Libya Observer] Updated at 1:55pm: The death toll from the attack rises to 16 and 19 wounded, the health ministry reports
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Troops from the Syrian Army have been deployed to Paleostine Street located just on the frontline with the ISIS-held parts of the Camp and Hajar Aswad to the south.
