[AlAhram] Heavily armed Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters destroyed bridges near the central city of Ghazni on Saturday, closing the main highway between the capital Kabul and southern Afghanistan, officials said.
Sporadic festivities erupted between Afghan soldiers and Taliban murderous Moslems who were trying to gain control over parts of Ghazni province nearly two months after being pushed back from the city by U.S.-backed Afghan forces, officials added.
Mohammad Arif Noori, the governor's front man in Ghazni, said fighting was ongoing and the Afghan army had deployed helicopters to prevent the bandidosmurderous Moslems from entering the city centre.
"We are fully prepared to attack them. This time the province will not fall into the hands of the Taliban," Noori said.
Five bandidosmurderous Moslems were killed as they were planting bombs on three bridges on the Kabul-Kandahar highway, Noori added.
The attack on Ghazni was a show of strength for the Taliban, underscoring how volatile the security situation remains two weeks before the parliamentary elections.
Polling has already been called off in Ghazni province after the Taliban overran it in August and besieged the city for five days.
That confrontation killed 150 Afghan cops and 95 civilians dead, as well as hundreds of Taliban fighters, said officials then.
President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. 's Western-backed government pledged $20 million for relief and reconstruction of Ghazni after security forces defeated the Taliban fighters in that battle.
Afghan forces said on Saturday they were also fighting Taliban murderous Moslems to retake a highway linking Ghazni and Paktia provinces. The Taliban took control of the arterial road in August and had imposed a tolls on civilians using the highway.
Rohullah Khalil Ughlo, an Afghan army commander, said 22 Taliban murderous Moslems were killed and 17 were maimed in festivities to secure the highway.
"The operation will end soon and the highway will be open for traffic. People will not have to pay illegal taxes anymore," said Ughlo.
Meanwhile residents of Qarabagh district, 55 km (35 miles) south of Ghazni city, said the bandidosmurderous Moslems had set up checkpoints and were preventing vehicles from passing through several residential areas.
[ToloNews] Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Saturday claimed that at least 57 armed holy warriors were killed during Afghan forces ground and air strikes in the past 24 hours in different parts of the country.
According to the ministry during the operation at least eight other holy warriors were maimed.
The operations were conducted in Kunar, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Baghlan, Kandahar, Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , 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... , Ghazni, Badakhshan, Urozgan, Nimroz, Paktia, Faryab, Khost, Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... and Pashtun-infested Logar province.
During the operations enemies’ hideouts and weapons were also destroyed during air strikes in Farah province, MoD said.
No details were given on civilian or security forces casualties.
[KhaamaPress] At least four bully boyz affiliated with 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.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) were killed and two of the training of the terror group were destroyed in U.S. dronezaps in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the dronezaps were conducted in Khogyani district of Nangarhar, targeting the training compounds of the group in Machine Dara area of the district.
The statement further added that the dronezaps did not inflict casualties to the local residents.
The anti-government armed holy warrior and terrorist groups including ISIS-K loyalists have not commented regarding the report so far.
Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan but the Talibs and ISIS loyalists have been attempting to expand their foothold and activities in this province.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the Afghan and U.S. often conducted counter-terrorism operations and Arclight airstrikes to suppress the anti-government armed holy warriors.
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[KhaamaPress] At least eleven people were killed or maimed after coordinated kabooms targeted the security personnel in capital Kabul earlier today.
A front man for the Kabul Police Commandment Basir Mujahid confirmed the incident and said the kabooms took place in the vicinity of 16th police district of the city at around 7:30am local time.
Mujahid further added that the first kaboom took place due to an improvised bomb planted on a roadside targeting a police vehicle and leaving one police officer dead.
He said the second kaboom took place moments later when the security forces and civilians had gathered in the site of the incident.
According to Mujahid, the second kaboom also left a security official dead and nine others maimed, including six coppers and three civilians.
No individual or group including Talibs has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
Green on green, clearing each other out of the shallow end of the gene pool.
[KhaamaPress] Several Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS forces of Evil along with two children were killed or maimed during a clash between the Taliban and ISIS loyalists in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the clash broke out between the two sides in Watapur district on Friday.
According to a statement released by 201st Silab Corps, at least four Talibs were killed during the clash and three others sustained injuries. The statement further added that four forces of Evil affiliated with 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.... of Iraq and Syria were also killed during the fighting.
In the meantime, the 201st Silab Corps said two children were also killed or maimed during a clash, including a two-year-old girl who lost her life while a one-year-old girl sustained injuries.
The anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups including Taliban and ISIS forces of Evil have not commented regarding the report so far.
[LibyaHerald] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) documented 40 civilian casualties ‐18 deaths and 22 injuries ‐ during the conduct of hostilities across Libya during the month of September.
Victims included 14 men and four boys killed, and nine men, five women, one boy and one girl injured. The sex of six other injured individuals could not be determined. The actual number of civilian casualties is believed to be higher.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In a string of military operations in north of Saada, the Yemeni national army liberated major areas overlooking Baqim directorate in the governorate.
A senior military source said that the fighting resulted in the killing and wounding of a number of 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 ... elements, in addition to the arrest of two members of the coup militia, pointing out that the army recovered ammunition and weapons, including sniper machine guns and radio communications equipment.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... the Houthi militias closed down the University of Sanaa on Saturday, deploying tanks and armored vehicles around the building before kidnapping around 55 students and taking them to an unknown location.
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Saada a poor people. Just at the southern border of Saudi Arabia. Iran has had its eye on this region for some time now. Saudi should provide military and economic assistance.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Abdulraqib Fatah, Yemeni Minister of Local Administration, Chairman of the Higher Committee for Relief, said that the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias were holding up to 10 oil and commercial vessels in the port of Hodeidah, and have prevented unloading of its cargo.
He added that some ships have been detained for nearly six months.
The ship, which is known as Distya Pushti, which arrived on September 28 with 10,955 tons of diesel and 9,025 tons of gasoline, and the ship RINA which arrived on October 3, carrying 5,700 tons of flour and sugar. The Houthi militias have prevented the two ships from unloading their cargo.
The vessels in Hodeidah include Sincero, which arrived on September 26, carrying 15,025 tons of diesel, the Carpe Diem-2, which arrived on September 30 with 19,350 tons of diesel, and the vessel called PVT Eagle, which arrived on October 3, carrying 7,022 tons of diesel and 1,4793 oil, as well as six other oil and commercial vessels, which have been held for varying periods over the past three months.
The Minister of Local Administration pointed out that this deliberate action by the Houthi militias, along with imposition of higher levies up to 60 percent on the oil products, have resulted in a supply crisis in oil derivatives and strengthened the black market that benefits pro-militia traders.
All these actions by the Houthis have resulted in burdening the population in those areas and led to increasing the humanitarian crisis in those provinces.
Fatah pointed out that these measures are part of the daily activities of the Houthi militias, from the detention and obstruction of oil and commercial vessels in the port, in an attempt to starve the people and multiply the crises of the citizens in those provinces.
The Yemeni Minister stressed that the humanitarian situation has attained catastrophic proportion due to the actions of Houthi militias.
The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, Lise Grande, called for swift intervention and pressure on militias to release those ships and unload their cargo, and allow for safe passage and movement for oil, relief and commercial vessels in the port.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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 ... Lions of Islam in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... on Saturday closed down the University of Sanaa, and deployed tanks and armored vehicles around the building to intimidate the students, according to an Al Arabiya correspondent.
The militia also used military displays to separate protestors who stood at the main entrance of the university, as well as kidnapping around 55 students.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat...... local sources in Sanaa revealed that the Houthi militias tightened security measures and launched search campaigns to prevent citizens from walking towards Tahrir Square in the city’s center.
According to the sources, Houthi militias deployed their army on the streets and neighborhoods near Tahrir Square, along with military vehicles to patrol the capital.
The militia also placed security checkpoints to stop and search citizens, and tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... those who refused to cooperate.
The sources added that the militias directed its men to launch search campaigns on hotels and rest-stops in the capital, which resulted in the arrest of several young people who were not carrying their personal identifications.
The Houthi militias are fearful of activists’ ongoing protests on social media against the currency collapse and the drastic rise in prices.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants killed three Iraqi civilians in an attack in the group’s former capital, Mosul, security sources were quoted saying in Saturday.
Shafaq News website quoted the source saying that militants sneaked into Asaadiya, a village north of Hatra, south of Mosul, killed three civilians, and fled through al-Jazirah desert.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Interior Ministry has announced arresting nine Islamic State members in west of Mosul city.
In a statement by the ministry’s Security Media Center on Saturday, Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, spokesperson for the center, said “information collected by the intelligence enabled Nineveh police to arrest nine militants in regions of Sumar, Adan, al-Zahraa and al-Arbjiya, west of Mosul.”
The militants, according to the statement, “included fighters in the so-called Soldiers Department, who took part in battles against security personnel. Two others worked for the group’s so-called Hisbah (vigilantism) while the group was in control of the city.”
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(IraqiNews.com) The dead bodies of 54 people killed 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.... turbans were found in a region of Iraqi Kurdistan, a security official was quoted saying on Saturday.
Mawazin News quoted Colonel Faez al-Hajjaji, chief of Taakhi precinct police, saying that police ran into a mass grave containing the corpses of 54 people killed by Islamic State turbans during battles by Iraqi security against IS members to recapture Ouja and Tikrit in the nearby Salahuddin region.
According to Hajjaji, most of the corpses bore signs of gunshots, some beheaded, and belonged to both Iraqis and foreigners.
Iraqi authorities uncovered dozens of mass graves of civilians and security members killed by IS as they gradually regained control over territories occupied by the turbans since 2014.
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) One civilian was killed and a few others were maimed on Saturday when blasts rocked two areas in Iraq’s Salahuddin and Anbar provinces, according to Iraqi security and press media.
The Iraqi Security Media Center said five people, including two police members, were maimed when a booby-trapped vehicle went kaboom! at Nazzal district, Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... Anbar.
In a separate incident, All Iraq News quoted a security source saying that one employee was killed and others were maimed when a roadside kaboom hit their car in Baiji, Salahuddin. The victims were workers at the Siniya oil refinery, said the source.
[IsraelNationalNews] 2 people were murdered and another person wounded Sunday morning in a terror attack in the Barkan Industrial Park in Samaria.
Initial details found that the shooter, apparently a 23 year old PA resident of the village of Shuweika near Tulkarem who worked at a factory at the park, entered the factory with a rifle, ascended to one of the upper floors and began shooting. A man and woman in their 30s were murdered, while a 54 year old woman was seriously wounded and evacuated to Beilinson hospital in Petah Tikvah by Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency medical responders.
The hospital later announced that the condition of the evacuated woman, who suffered from a stomach wound, was classified as moderate and that her life was not in danger. She was hospitalized for further treatment.
The shooter has escaped. Security forces are searching the area for the suspect. Peace, a gift that keeps giving
JPost - they've identified him
This is the first terror attack in the park — which employs both Israelis and Palestinians — and is considered to be an oasis of coexistence where members of both groups can come together.
The Palestinian suspect, identified in Israeli media as 23-year-old Ashraf Abu Shaham from the village of Shweika near the West Bank city of Tulkarem, had no previous security-related history. Abu Shaham had a permit to work at the Barkan park, where he was employed at a factory for the past seven months as an electrician,though he had not shown up work for the past few weeks.
The shooter entered a factory building and shot at two women and one man before fleeing. He can be seen in security footage running away from the scene with a rifle in his hand.
According to Walla! News, Abu Shaham bound the victims before shooting them at close range.
[IsraelTimes] Teams working to save the greenhouses at Moshav Ein Habesor; front man for rescue services says 7 blazes caused by incendiary balloons launched from the coastal enclave
Firefighters and security services fought to control a huge blaze at Moshav Ein Habesor in southern Israel Saturday evening, thought to have been ignited by an incendiary device launched from the Gazoo Strip.
Farmers, firefighters, and security officers worked together to try to stop the flames from reaching nearby greenhouses, the Ynet news site reported.
"A local resident saw a Molotov cocktail landing and within minutes the fire broke out, and we rushed to the site and tried to control the fire. But since this is a very dry area, the fire simply spread. Many people rushed to help, but it’s very dangerous," a witness told Ynet.
A front man for the Fire and Rescue Services said since the morning, firefighters worked to extinguish seven blazes near Israeli towns along the border caused by incendiary balloons launched from Gazoo.
[IsraelTimes] Two suspects have been taken for questioning and the unmanned aerial vehicle impounded; security services said to be investigating terror link to incident
Police announced Saturday that they prevented an attempt to smuggle cell phones into a security prison in the south of the country.
In a statement, they said that it was part of a planned operation when they spotted the drone in the skies above the facility.
A 56-year-old man was placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! after a police chase on foot, during which he was said to have tossed a number of phones he planned to fly into the prison. A 30-year-old woman was also arrested.
The two suspects, both residents of the central Israel town of Lod, were taken for questioning and the drone, phones and cash were impounded.
Channel 10 news reported that "written evidence with intelligence value" was also seized.
The network also says the incident took place at the Nafha Prison and that police were examining whether bandidosholy warriors were involved in the attempt.
Last year guards caught a 5-year-old boy smuggling cellphones and SIM cards to security prisoners at the Ketziot Prison in southern Israel, Hebrew media reported.
Last January police caught a man "red-handed" as he tried to smuggle cellphones and money to a prisoner serving a life sentence for national security crimes.
Basel Ghattas, a former MK, was nabbed Book 'im, Mahmoud! for smuggling cellphones to security prisoners while he was serving as a politician for the Joint (Arab) List party. Footage from a Prisons Service surveillance camera showed the Arab politician passing envelopes to prisoners at the Ketziot Prison in the south.
The Beersheba Magistrate’s Court accepted a plea bargain reached between state prosecutors and Ghattas, who was convicted of exploiting his position to sneak cellphones and notes to convicted Paleostinian terrorists.
[AlMasdar] The largest rebel group has begun withdrawing their heavy weapons from the Idlib buffer zone, local activists reported this evening.
According to the reports from the area, the the Ottoman Turkish-backed National Liberation Front (NLF) began removing their weapons from the front-lines in Idlib, as they observe the Idlib buffer zone agreement.
With the withdrawal of the National Liberation Front from the Idlib buffer zone, all that remains in the area are the hardline jihadists and some rogue rebel groups.
The jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and the Hurras al-Deen group have already refused to leave, so there will likely be a Ottoman Turkish military operation to forcibly remove them from the Idlib buffer zone.
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[AlMasdar] (12:00 A.M.) Minutes ago, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) unleashed a flurry of missiles and artillery shells towards the jihadist-held Rashiddeen 4 and 5 areas of southwest Aleppo after the latter attacked several neighborhoods in west Aleppo.
According to a military source in Aleppo city, the Syrian Army struck several jihadist sites near the Turkish military’s observation post in the southwestern countryside of the province.
The source added that the Syrian Army is still striking the Rashiddeen 4 and 5 area in retaliation for their attack on the Al-Hamdaniyah and New Aleppo districts.
The jihadist attack on the neighborhoods of west Aleppo tonight wounded at least a half dozen civilians, who are now seeking treatment for their injuries at a nearby hospital.
[AlMasdar] (7:00 P.M.) – The jihadist rebels in west Aleppo are engaged in an all out war after Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham carried out a powerful attack against their former allies from Harakat Nouriddeen al-Zinki.
In a sudden move, HTS stormed Zinki’s positions inside the west Aleppo town of Mirznaz, resulting in the complete expulsion of their former ally from the area.
During the clashes, the military commander of the Atareb Martyrs Brigade, ‘Abdullah Ramah, was reportedly killed by Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham before they took over the entire town.
Furthermore, HTS activists reported that more than ten Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) and Harakat Nouriddeen Al-Zinki fighters killed and one of their armored vehicles was captured.
There are reports from west Aleppo now that indicate Harakat Nouriddeen Al-Zinki has sent reinforcements to the area in order to storm Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham’s positions.
[PRESSTV] At least five people were killed and 27 were injured after a blast rocked the northwestern town of Azaz
...about 20 miles NNW of Aleppo city, Azaz hosts the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army, which is keeping a wary eye out for YPG intrusions...
on Saturday.
Fire and large plumes of smoke could be seen engulfing a car park after an explosive device reportedly detonated near a structure containing fuel, causing a fire, as shown in footage filmed on Saturday.
The explosion occurred amid renewed clashes between militant groups near a planned demilitarization zone.
[AnNahar] Fighting erupted on Friday between Turkey-backed rebels and jihadist hardliners in northwest Syria, a monitor and a resident said, near a planned demilitarisation zone.
The buffer zone, agreed last month between rebel backer Ankara and government ally Moscow, is meant to separate regime fighters from the myriad rebel and jihadist forces of the Idlib region.
On Friday, just days away from the deadline to establish the zone, clashes erupted between rival rebels and jihadists.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighting first began between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led by former Al-Qaeda fighters, and Nour al-Din Al-Zinki in the town of Kafr Halab.
HTS had reportedly been trying to arrest a local commander present in the town on the western edge of Aleppo province, near the administrative border with Idlib province.
"Zinki sent reinforcements to the area, and the clashes expanded to several areas and the National Liberation Front joined in," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
The NLF is the main Turkey-backed rebel alliance in the Idlib region, but jihadist heavyweight HTS holds most of the province.
"The clashes are near where the buffer zone is supposed to be established and are the biggest since the deal was announced last month," said Abdel Rahman.
The Britain-based Observatory said HTS had taken two towns, including Kafr Halab. At least three civilians, one HTS member, and two NLF fighters were killed, the monitor said.
"We woke up at 4:00am to the sound of gunfire from an HTS convoy," a resident of Kafr Halab told AFP.
"They started hitting civilian homes, and a child was killed," said the resident, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Russia and Turkey agreed last month to set up a U-shaped demilitarisation zone ringing Idlib that would be free of both heavy weapons and jihadists.
The NLF has cautiously welcomed the deal but HTS has yet to endorse it. Many of the agreement's details, including where exactly the zone would fall, remain murky.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A large number of Russian special forces personnel were deployed to the eastern countryside of the Deir Ezzor Governorate this week, the Furat Post reported.
According to the publication, the Russian special forces were specifically deployed to the Albukamal and Sayyal areas of the province.
The publication said the Russian special forces were equipped with armored vehicles, anti-tank guided missiles, and sniper rifles, as they prepare to aid the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in their upcoming offensive in the province.
Currently, the so-called "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.... " (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) maintains a large presence near the strategic city of al-Mayadeen, which was also once their de facto capital after they lost Raqqa city to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
With their operations wrapping up around the al-Safa region, the Syrian Arab Army has begun concentrating their troops to the Deir Ezzor front, as they prepare to launch this new offensive.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and 
...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...
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[IsraelNationalNews] 2 people were murdered and another person wounded Sunday morning in a terror attack in the Barkan Industrial Park in Samaria.
