It seems fitting that it is this year, when so much has changed, that an unexpected copy of the Declaration of Indepence is rediscovered, Wishing you and yours an Independence Day to remember, dear Reader, full of all the usual pleasures and the joy of seeing the freedoms that generation fought for being taken back from those who believe themselves to be our lords and masters.
[Yahoo] A rare parchment copy of the American Declaration of Independence has been found at a British archive among the papers of an aristocrat who supported the rebels, officials have said.
The manuscript was discovered at the West Sussex Record Office in the southern English city of Chichester by a team of researchers led by two Harvard University academics.
Tests supported the hypothesis that it was produced in the 1780s, West Sussex County Council said earlier this week -- just a few years after the declaration itself was issued in 1776.
The document "is the only other contemporary manuscript copy of the Declaration of Independence on parchment apart from the signed copy at the National Archives in Washington DC," known as the Matlack Declaration, a council statement said earlier this week.
There are other printed parchment copies and handwritten copies on paper but the Sussex Declaration, as it has been dubbed, and the Matlack Declaration in Washington are the only two known ceremonial parchment copies of the declaration.
Researchers said X-ray fluorescence analysis of the document found a high iron content in holes in the corner of the parchment, indicating that nails may have been used to hang it.
DNA tests also revealed the parchment was made of sheepskin.
The parchment is believed to originally belong to Charles Lennox, the Third Duke of Richmond, an army officer and politician known as the "Radical Duke" for his support of American colonists during the Revolution.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Special Forces have jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! a prominent commander of Junbish Milli led by the First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... The local government and military officials confirmed that Commander Nizamuddin Qaisari was arrested following a scuffle in a military compound on Monday evening.
A provincial council member of Faryab Tahir Rahmani confirmed that Commander Qaisari has been arrested by the Special Forces of the Afghan Military.
He said Commander Qaisari started verbal clash with the participants of a security meeting in Maimana city which resulted into a armed clash.
According to Rahmani, at least four security guards of commander Qaisari were killed and at least four others were maimed.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said Commander Qaisari was arrested after a brief clash verbal and armed clash.
Shaheen Corps further added that a security meeting was called in Maimana City which was attended by several security officials as well as Commander Qaisari.
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According to Rahmani, at least four security guards of commander Qaisari were killed and at least four others were maimed.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least five non-combatants were killed or maimed in a suicide car kaboom in central Pashtun-infested Logar province of Afghanistan, the local security officials said.
The incident took place on Monday evening in the vicinity of Puli Alam district, the scenic provincial capital of Pashtun-infested Logar province.
Officials in Pashtun-infested Logar’s security commandment said at least two civilians including a woman and a child were killed and three others were maimed in the attack.
The officials further added that the target of the attack apparently was the convoy of the foreign who were leaving an Afghan army compound.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has grabbed credit behind the attack.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs suffered heavy casualties during the ground operations and Arclight airstrikes conducted by the Afghan and US forces in the past twenty four hours.
The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military said at least three murderous Moslems were killed and four others were maimed during a clash between the Afghan forces and Taliban ...Arabic for students... in Ajiristan district of Ghazni.
In a separate clash in Andar district of Ghazni, at least 7 murderous Moslems were killed and at least 6 others were maimed, the Thunder Corps said, adding that a Ak-47 rifle and a cycle of violence were also confiscated.
The Thunder Corps said at least two Afghan soldiers bit the dust during the festivities with the Talibs.
According to Thunder Corps, at least 9 Talibs were killed and at least 3 others were maimed during an operation of the Afghan forces in Moqor district of Ghazni.
In the meantime, Thunder Corps said the US forces also conducted airstrikes on Taliban positions in Qarabagh district.
The Thunder Corps says at least 8 murderous Moslems were killed and at least 3 others were maimed during the same airstrikes.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least seven Taliban militants were killed and four others were wounded during the airstrikes conducted by the US forces in southern Helmand province.
The governor’s office in Helmand in a statement said the airstrikes were conducted in Nawa and Garamser districts.
The statement further added that a vehicle, four rockets, and five hand grenades were also destroyed during the airstrikes.
At least three compounds and three hideouts of the militants were eliminated in the airstrikes, the provincial government said, adding that the compounds targeted in the airstrikes were famous as Mubarak, Sahir Agha, and Farid Janan.
In the meantime, the provincial government said the Afghan forces have discovered and destroyed at least 51 improvised explosive devices during the operations in various parts of Helmand.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] A senior Somali regional district official says government forces have captured an Al-Shabaab commander during a joint security operation on the outskirt of Qoryoley town.
Speaking to Radio Shabelle on the phone, Mohamed Abdi Abdullahi, the city’s deputy commissioner on the security and political affairs said several militants were also arrested.
The African Union forces, [AMISOM] have helped Somali army detain the Al-shabaab Intelligence officer who is reported to have handed over to Somali spy agency [NISA].
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[AlAhram] The General Command of the Egyptian Armed Forces on Tuesday issued communiqué no. 25 on recent developments in the military’s Operation Sinai 2018.
The armed forces launched Operation Sinai 2018 in February to target terrorist and criminal elements and organizations in north and central Sinai, parts of the Nile Delta and the Western Desert.
Operation Sinai 2018 involves the army, navy, border patrol, air force and police.
The 25th communiqué stated that the following results were achieved over the past days:
Egypt's air force destroyed five vehicles and an administrative supply depot belonging to terrorist elements.
Three "takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... s", who possessed an automatic rifle and munitions, were killed and 59 suspects were enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in north and central Sinai.
The operations also resulted in the destruction of 12 vehicle used by bandidosfaceless myrmidons in attacking security posts.
A fuel depot and a workshop used to armour vehicles used by terrorist elements were also destroyed during combing and raid missions.
The operations also destroyed 285 hideouts and a storage depo in central and north Sinai, where munitions, TNT, wireless communication devices and takfiri books were found.
Army engineers discovered and detonated ten IEDs which were planted to target troops in operation zones.
The communique added that the forces had also discovered and destroyed a number of tunnels in the city of Rafah in North Sinai.
The naval forces continue to secure the country's seas, and to block supply lines to terrorist elements and secure strategic marine posts, the communiqué added.
A conscripted soldier was injured during fighting against terrorist elements, and two non-combatants were killed after an bomb placed to target raiding units in their routes detonated.
As well, border patrol forces on the western strategic front discovered a large number of birdshot rifles, three sniper rifles, an automatic rifle, and hundreds of bullets.
On the same front, the border patrol forces also discovered and confiscated 1,928 kilograms of cannabis, 3 million drug pills, 66 gold items, and eight 4x4 vehicles used in smuggling operations.
The communique explained that these operations come as part "of the sacrifices rendered by the men of the armed forces and the police in chasing and routing the terrorist elements, and to buttress the capacity to secure land and sea borders in all strategic directions."
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues... on the southern front, the border patrol guards and police forces intercepted a truck of three people smuggling half-a-tonne of Heroin and foreign currency. The forces also seized 24 other vehicles and two cycle of violences used in smuggling, as well as 150 sacks of gold rocks.
The communique added that forces stopped 43 people from illegally crossing the international border.
[PRESSTV] Nearly a dozen people have bit the dust and several others sustained injuries when Saudi fighter jets carried out Arclight airstrikes against an arms wedding convoy in Yemen’s northwestern mountainous province of Sa’ada as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its atrocious bombardment campaign against its crisis-stricken southern neighbor.
Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , told Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that the vehicles were traveling along a road in the Ghaferah area of al-Dhaher district when they were attacked.
The sources added that 11 people were killed and as many others, mostly women and kiddies, injured. The corpse count is expected to rise as some of the injured are said to be at death's door.
Separately, a woman was killed when Saudi military aircraft struck a residential building in the Haydan district of the same Yemeni province. The aerial raids reportedly caused extensive damage at the area.
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[PRESSTV] Saudi regime forces have stormed the family home of an executed Shia activist in the kingdom’s Shia-populated and oil-rich Eastern Province as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its brutal clampdown against pro-democracy campaigners and political dissidents. and Iranian catspaws
Local sources, requesting anonymity, told London-based and Arabic-language Nabaa television news network that Saudi soldiers blocked a number of roads in Tarout Island early on Monday, before raiding Zaher al-Basri’s home and violently ransacking it for nearly two hours.
Basri was executed nearly a year ago at the hands of the Saudi regime after being convicted on "terrorism" charges.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... Saudi forces have incarcerated Please don't kill me! Shia holy man Zuhair Hussain bu Saleh on charges of organizing congregational prayers at his home in al-Thuqbah neighborhood of al-Khobar city.
Bu Saleh’s arrest comes as Saudi authorities do not allow Shia Moslems in Khobar, to set up a mosque and converge at the place of worship.
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[IsraelTimes] Vienna says Iranian's diplomatic status to be revoked due to warrant for his arrest over planned attack on opposition group in La Belle France
Austria asked Tehran Tuesday to lift the immunity of an Iranian diplomat suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to bomb a rally by an exiled Iranian opposition group in La Belle France.
The diplomat, who is based at the embassy in Vienna, was detained in Germany on Saturday.
Vienna delivered the request to "lift the immunity of the Iranian diplomat" to Iran’s ambassador to Austria, who was summoned to the foreign ministry after news of the alleged plot emerged on Monday, a ministry front man said.
Austria also informed Iran on Tuesday that the diplomat would be "deprived of his diplomatic status within 48 hours because of the existence of a European arrest warrant" against him, said the front man, Matthias Forenbacher.
The diplomat was one of six people enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in Belgium, La Belle France and Germany over the alleged plot.
The apparent foiled attack was to have targeted a meeting of thousands of Iranian opposition supporters in a northern suburb of the French capital that was also attended by leading US figures, including close allies of 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... Federal prosecutors in Brussels first revealed the arrests, charging a husband and wife they described as Belgian nationals "of Iranian origin."
They said the Iranian diplomat in Vienna was believed to be a contact of the couple.
The arrests were revealed on the day Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... on a visit that Tehran said was of "crucial importance" for cooperation between the Islamic Theocratic Republic and Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... after the US withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear agreement.
Rouhani is also due to visit Austria, which currently holds the six-month presidency of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Iran’s foreign minister dismissed the attack plot as a "false flag ploy" designed to overshadow Rouhani’s tour.
"How inconvenient: Just as we embark on a presidential visit to Europe, an alleged Iranian operation and its ’plotters’ arrested," Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted.
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[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces have launched a raid against ISIS elements in Diyala province, destroying and defusing explosives laid by the group.
The operation took place in dense orchards around several villages in northeastern Baquba town.
"The security forces ... have started their duties at Hawz, Makhisa, Kuba and Chalabi villages. The terrorist groups were using these villages," Duraid Suhail Hassan, a security official in Diyala, told Rudaw.
One member of the security forces was killed in the operation, he said.
Villagers are working with security forces to help clear the orchards of ISIS remnants.
"We had knowledge about the presence of the ISIS sleeper cells at the orchards and thus we launched the operation," Ahmed Khalil, an army soldier, said.
"A lot of bombs were defused and disposed of and a member of the security forces was killed by a sniper," Khalil said.
Militants responded with mortars and sniper rifles during the raid.
Another aim of the raid was to clear homes seized by murderous Moslems and return these to IDPs.
The rise in attacks in these areas has led military officials and community leaders to call for the Peshmerga to be redeployed. Kurdish forces were withdrawn from these disputed areas following the events of October 16.
In late June, Iraq’s military commander for Diyala province called for a joint operation with the Peshmerga to defeat ISIS remnants.
Although the Iraqi government declared the defeat of ISIS in December 2017, there have been sporadic military confrontations between ISIS remnants and Iraqi Security Forces, including the Kurdish Peshmerga ‐ around Makhmour and in the Hamrin mountains in Saladin province and Diyala.
Peshmerga forces carried out a raid in coordination with US-led coalition warplanes to trace the whereabouts of ISIS remnants around Mount Qarachogh on Saturday, killing a number of bad boys, according to an official.
The operation in Diyala also comes after the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) announced that acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict across Iraq killed 76 civilians and injured 129 over the month of June 2018, of which the highest number of the fatalities was in Diyala and Kirkuk.
Diyala Governorate suffered 52 civilian casualties ‐16 killed and 36 injured. This was followed by Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... which suffered 10 killed and 36 injured, and the Iraqi capital Baghdad, which suffered 19 killed and 18 injured.
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ Ottoman Turkish jets bombarded villages in the Amedi district of Duhok on Tuesday morning.
Brigadier Dler Zebari, commander of the border guards in Duhok, told Rudaw they had spotted two Ottoman Turkish jets overhead.
Five villages - Rashava, Barnaje, Sarne, Bebo, and Zewa ‐ as well as Mount Matin were shelled, Bewar Rashavay, a local, told Rudaw.
No casualties have been immediately reported.
Ottoman Turkish armed forces are carrying out a ground and air campaign against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region.
On Tuesday, the army claimed to have killed four PKK fighters in operations against the PKK on Monday in the Kurdistan Region’s Zab and Avasin-Basyan front, and in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... ’s Sirnak province.
They have not yet confirmed Tuesday’s shelling.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Defense Ministry announced late Monday that 16 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.... forces of Evil were killed in an Arclight airstrike in the northern province of Salahuddin.
"The Iraqi Air Force carried out a successful airstrike on Tuz Khurmatu district in northern Salahuddin, leaving 16 IS forces of Evil killed," the ministry said in a statement.
The statement added that the forces of Evil "were hiding inside a building near Tal Farhan in central Tuz Khurmatu" when the airstrike was staged.
"The forces of Evil sneaked into Tuz Khurmatu district from nearby mountains to carry out terrorist attacks against security apparatuses," the statement concluded.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ An Iraqi policeman was killed and two civilians were maimed after 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.... snuffies launched an attack on a village in northern Baghdad last night, a security source was quoted as saying.
"IS snuffies stormed al-Hassan village in al-Daur district, north of Baghdad, last night, leaving a policeman dead and two civilians maimed," the source told Jordanian daily newspaper Arabs Today.
The source added that police reinforcements "were deployed to the clash site and Iraqi warplanes were summoned to control the situation."
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) One Iraqi military commander and 14 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 boyz were killed on Tuesday during encounters in Kirkuk province, Iraq’s paramilitary force and intelligence sources were quoted saying.
The Popular Mobilization Forces media said assistant commander for Eastern Tigris Operations, Ali Khalifa (aka Abu Zahraa al-Abadi), was killed on the Tuz Khurmatu-Kirkuk road. It did not elaborate on the circumstances of his death.
But Shafaq News website quoted intelligence source saying that Iraqi security forces killed 14 Islamic State bully boyz during several operations in Kirkuk.
The sources said the cell eradicated included "Abu Anas al-Iraqi", and had been involved in several killings and kidnappings in the province.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Air Force destroyed on Tuesday three tunnels of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Makhoul Mount, north of Baghdad, the Iraqi Security Media Council said.
"F16 fighter jets raided three tunnels in Makhoul Mount that were used by Islamic State members to target security forces using mortar shells," the center said a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Iraqi website Alghad Press.
According to the statement, the air raid "left the three tunnels completely destroyed."
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[IsraelTimes] Six fires break out near communities in southern Israel, apparently caused by incendiary balloons sent over the border from the Gazoo Strip.
The blazes start in the areas of Kibbutz Kissufim, Kibbutz Be’eri and Kibbutz Nahal Oz, according to local authorities.
Firefighters and KKL-JNF teams are able to get control of all the fires.
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian forces have demolished a tunnel in the Rafah region between the Gazoo Strip and the Sinai Peninsula, according to reports in the Paleostinian territory.
Several Paleostinians are reportedly trapped in the tunnel, and rescue forces are attempting to extract them.
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From the Egyptian Sinai Communique 25 story: The communique added that the forces had also discovered and destroyed a number of tunnels in the city of Rafah in North Sinai.
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I recall the 'old' Egyptians were keen on tombs, also dealing with tomb raiders.
[New Straits Times] A man and his brother-in-law were sentenced to six years and three years in jail respectively for being Abu Sayyaf militants and witholding information related to the terror group. Hajar Abdul Mubin and Abdul Syamir Dabilin were sentenced after they pleaded guilty to being members of Islamic State and intentional omission of information about a terror act.
The judge said Hajar was lucky because the prosecution team decided to offer an alternative charge. He said, "Fleeing to Malaysia is not a short cut for you to escape from involvement in Abu Sayyaf terror group. Your act can threaten the national security."
Earlier, counsel Zaini Bakar who represented the pair pleaded for lenient sentences against his clients. He said, "Hajar has not been a member of Abu Sayyaf since he escaped in 2015 while Abdul Syamir did not report about the former as he believed Hajar had repented."
The two were among 19 people nabbed by police in a series of raids between July 4 and Aug 30 last year, believed to have planned terror attacks during the Sea Games closing ceremony and National Day celebration in Malaysia last year.
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[IsraelTimes] Hudhayfah al-Badri, son 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.... group leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... , was killed during an attack by the jihadists in the central Syrian province of Homs, the IS propaganda agency Amaq announced Tuesday.
Al-Badri was killed in an "operation against the Nussayriyyah and the Russians at the thermal power station in Homs," the group said in a statement alongside a photo of a young man holding an assault rifle.
Nussayriyyah is the term used by IS for the Alawite sect of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... The jihadist presence is now confined to a few holdouts. The Islamic State group is estimated to control no more than three percent of Syria’s territory.
Last December the Iraqi government declared victory over IS but the military has continued regular operations targeting mostly desert areas along the porous Syrian border.
The group’s leader Baghdadi, who has been pronounced dead on several occasions, remains alive in Syrian territory by the Iraqi border, an Iraqi intelligence official said in May. Baghdadi was said to move around with only a small group of followers
Originally from Iraq, Baghdadi has been dubbed the "most wanted man on the planet" and the United States is offering a $25 million reward for his capture.
The Iraqi official said the noose was closing around the jihadist leader after Iraqi forces captured five top IS commanders in an unprecedented raid in Syria on March 24.
Last September, in the last voice message attributed to Baghdadi, the IS leader called on his fighters in Syria and Iraq to "resist" their enemies.
He had four children with his first wife and a son with his second wife.
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[IsraelTimes] Monitoring group says unclear what caused kaboom, with some Arabic-language media blaming Israel
A powerful kaboom was reported Tuesday at a warehouse in southern Syria used by forces fighting on behalf of the Assad regime.
Arab media said the blast occurred at a storage site used by Iranian militia groups in the Daraa province of southern Syria, where the regime of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... has been waging an intense offensive against rebel groups.
The facility was located on the on the Damascus-Daraa road, near the town of Mhajja.
Channel 10 news reported that several Arabic media sources attributed the kaboom to an Israeli strike on the position.
The Israeli military does not generally comment on alleged Arclight airstrikes in Syria, though Israeli leaders have repeatedly vowed to prevent Iran and its allies from entrenching themselves near Israel’s border
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was still not clear if the blast was the result of an attack, and if so, who was behind it.
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Who forgot their anti-static wrist strap?
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Deir Ezzor (Syria News) Anonymous persons assassinated one of the Syrian Democratic Forces leaders in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, Enab Baladi reported on Tuesday.
Syrian news outlets revealed that the SDF Leader Khalaf al-Khabeel was killed, along with one of his lover companions, in the area of al-Atal, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, while pointed out that al-Khabeel was shot by anonymous persons in the area.
Khabeel is considered one of the prominent leaders in the Military Council of Deir Ezzor (one of SDF affiliates), which carrying out offensives 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.... group in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.
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...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
[RADIOSHABELLE] A senior Somali regional district official says government forces have captured an Al-Shabaab commander during a joint security operation on the outskirt of Qoryoley town.
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
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...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
