[KhaamaPress] The Afghan and coalition forces have intensified ground operations and Arclight airstrikes against Talibs in two districts of Faryab province, leaving dozens of forces of Evil dead.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North issued a statement saying the Afghan forces carried out operations against Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... hideouts in Almar district with the support of coalition air power, leaving at least 14 forces of Evil dead and others maimed.
The statement further added that the operations were conducted at around 4:15pm local time on Sunday in Jilgeldi, Gholi, and Deewana Khana village.
TWo local commanders of the group identified as Syed Azizullah and Mullah Zainullah were among those killed and a hideout of forces of Evil was destroyed, the 209th Shaheen Corps added.
At least 14 forces of Evil were killed and 2 others were maimed in a separate airstrike conducted in Mirabad Village in Qarghan district of Faryab, the 209th Shaheen Corps said, addingg that a fighting position of the forces of Evil was destroyed in the same airstrike.
[KhaamaPress] A prominent leader of the Red Unit of Taliban has been killed during the operations in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan, the Afghan military said Monday.
According to a statement released by 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North, Mawlavi Habib, a high ranking leader of the Red Unit of Taliban has been killed in Almar district.
The statement further added that Mullah Sarwar, the district shadow chief of the group for Almar district has also been killed during the same operations.
Several weapons and a large quantity of weapons and munitions have also been confiscated during the operations, the 209th Shaheen Corps added in its statement.
The anti-government armed militant groups including Taliban have not commented regarding the report so far.
The Shaheen Military Corps had earlier reported that the Afghan and coalition forces have intensified ground operations and airstrikes against Taliban militants in two districts of Faryab province, leaving dozens of militants dead.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, at least 28 militants were killed during separate operations conducted by the Afghan forces and airstrikes of coalition forces in Almar and Qarghan district in the past 24 hours.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan police forces have thwarted anti-government armed turbans bid to detonate a mosque in 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 of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Monday that the turbans were looking to detonate two improvised bombs inside a mosque in Adraskan district but the National Police forces discovered and defused the explosives with the support of local residents.
According to a statement released by MoI, "The criminal Death Eaters do not even respect holy places as part of their activities against Islam and humanity."
The anti-government armed Death Eater groups including Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... have not commented regarding the bombing plot so far.
Herat is among the relatively calm provinces in West of Afghanistan but the anti-government armed elements are active in some of its remote districts where they often attempt to carry out destabilizing acts.
Could be criminals, could be jihadis of one flavour or another, could be a local kingpin, could even be a civilian’s private cache against any or all of the above...
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops have discovered a munitions cache in Kabul city and confiscated dozens of small and heavy firearms.
The Ministry of Interior in a statement said the cache was discovered during an operation which was conducted based on an intelligence tip off.
The statement further added that the cache included four boxes of PKM machine gun munitions rounds, three boxes of Ak-47 munitions rounds, 3 boxes of RPG rockets, one box of grenades, and an Ak-47 rifle.
The cache was discovered from a residential house located in the the vicinity of the 10th police district of the city, MoI said.
No suspect has been tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... so far but the police forces have launched investigations in this regard, the statement by MoI added.
This comes as the security forces have stepped up efforts to suppress the criminal gangs and anti-government armed elements in capital Kabul during the recent weeks.
[KhaamaPress] At least sixteen bully boyz of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group were killed and an operations center of the group was destroyed in an Arclight airstrike conducted in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan.
According to the informed military sources, a coalition airstrike today killed 16 Taliban fighters and destroyed an operations center.
Earlier, at least 29 Talibs were killed during the airstrike of the coalition forces in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
According to the military sources, the airstrikes were carried out earlier this week in Shahwali Kot district of the province.
The sources further added that a commander of Taliban was also among those killed.
The Afghan forces also conducted a force protection patrol operation in Shahwali Kot district of Kandahar which resulted in the killing of 5 Taliban fighters killed, the sources said, adding that coalition forces conducted an airstrike killing 2 Taliban fighters and destroying one vehicle in Pashtun Kot district of Faryab.
The anti-government armed bully boyz including Taliban have not commented regarding the recent operations and airstrikes so far.
[BBC] Donald Trump's presidency has coincided with a sharp rise in US-led airstrikes in Somalia and the trend is set to continue in 2019.
In a speech in December outlining the US' Africa policy, President Trump's National Security Adviser John Bolton said "terrorists operating in Africa have... repeatedly targeted US citizens and interests".
He gave the impression that there would be no let up in the struggle against militant Islamist groups, such as the Somalia-based al-Shabab, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda.
In March 2017, the Pentagon received White House approval to expand its fight against the militants in the Horn of Africa nation.
Commanders now no longer require high-level vetting to approve strikes on al-Shabab in "areas of active hostilities" in Somalia.
"It allows [us] to prosecute targets in a more rapid fashion," said General Thomas Walhauser of US Africa Command (Africom).
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali security forces have conducted a covert operation in al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... -controlled village in southern Somalia on 5th January of this new year.
The National Intelligence and Security Agency [NISA] said in a statement posted on its Twitter account that its personnel destroyed a base belonging to al-Shabaab in Dugulle.
NISA added that the special forces seized several snuffies during the night-time operation on their camp. There was no independent verification of the spy agency claims.
"The security forces have carried out on 5th January of this year an operation targeting al-Shabaab bastion in Dugulle area and destroyed it," said NISA in its statement.
NISA troops have in the past months stepped up operations, against al-Shabaab bases in the Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia.
Last week, US military said it killed snuffies in the latest Arclight airstrikes in the region.
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[AFRICANEWS] Hundreds of protesters who marched in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Sunday were dispersed by security forces with tear gas and stun grenades, as they attempted to reach the presidential palace.
Tear gas was fired towards crowds of men and women who chanted "Freedom" and "Peace"
Witnesses said security forces blocked Khartoum University professors and lecturers from coming out to join the protest, arresting at least eight.
The rest were forced to return into the faculty club house, where security forces surrounded the building trapping about 100 professors and lecturers inside for nearly three hours.
Although Sunday’s gathering drew smaller crowds, anti-government protests which began last month have overall posed the most serious challenge to President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. ’s rule.
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[AFRICANEWS] Authorities in Somalia have executed two assassins associated with holy warrior group, al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... . The duo were convicted by a military court of murdering a traditional chief.
Hassan Ali Hassan, 25, and Abdirahman Isse Ali, 22, were executed in the capital Mogadishu, the military confirmed on Monday.
They were captured by the police in early November 2016 when they tried fleeing the scene of the murder of the traditional chief, Hilowle Heefow Hussein.
The latest execution comes two weeks after a military court executed via firing squad a serial al-Shabaab bomber, Abdul Kadir Shaa’ir. The 41-year-old had been convicted of a series of bombings in 2017.
Somalia remains one of a handful of African countries that still apply the death penalty despite a hard fightback by activists.
Most African countries have the measure on their law books but they are hardly enforced. Most death penalties are commuted to life imprisonment.
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[AnNahar] Nigerian security forces on Sunday jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! two journalists over their coverage of the jihadist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , sources at the newspaper told AFP.
A combined team of secret police, soldiers and civil defence paramilitary stormed the office of the Daily Trust in the northern city of Maiduguri and whisked away its northeast regional editor Uthman Abubakar and news hound Ibrahim Sawab.
The team seized the journalists' laptops and mobile phones, the sources at the newspaper's headquarters in the capital Abuja said.
"The raid was in response to our cover story today on the military preparation to retake the town of Baga which was captured by Boko Haram last week," one source at the paper said.
"They came looking for our news hound Hamza Idris, who anchored the story, but arrested the two news hounds when they didn't find him," another source said.
Armed police have sealed the office, according to the sources and Maiduguri residents.
More than two dozen armed soldiers also raided the Daily Trust head office in Abuja on Sunday evening, sources at the newspaper added.
"Armed soldiers raided our head office this evening.
"It is a continuation of the crackdown that started in our Maiduguri office earlier today
"They stormed into the newsroom on the third floor and seized computers and laptops before ordering everyone to vacate the building.
"They have sealed the building. This means we will not be on the newstands tomorrow for the first time in 20 years," a source at the paper said.
According to the same sources, similar operations took place at the Lagos Daily Trust office at the same time.
The Daily Trust reported on December 31 that Boko Haram Death Eaters captured six localities in northern Borno state including Baga, disputing military claims that the jihadists were not in control of any territory in the region.
This followed a series of Boko Haram raids on military bases in the area.
Following the report the military issued a statement threatening to take action against "unscrupulous elements" and "inaccurate news reports by some sections of the media."
Soldiers carried out a similar raid on the same office in 2013 in a failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! to arrest Idris over another report the military deemed critical.
In November the Nigerian military threatened legal action for "fake news" after media reports stated much higher military casualties than the official toll from a Boko Haram raid on a military base in Metele village.
In June 2014 soldiers seized newspapers and delivery vans of the Daily Trust and three other newspapers over reports that "portrayed the Nigerian military in a bad light," accusing the vans of ferrying illegal arms.
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[SG.NEWS.YAHOO] Gunmen opened fire in a crowded bar in the Mexican resort city of Playa del Carmen, killing seven people, authorities and media reports said Monday, in the latest violence to rock the country's tourist-magnet beaches.
"Six people bit the dust at the scene, and a seventh subsequently died while being taken to the hospital," the public security minister for the state of Quintana Roo, Alberto Capella, told TV network Televisa after the Sunday night attack.
Local media reports said the bar was about 10 minutes from the center of the main tourist zone, and was packed with revelers at the end of the Epiphany holiday weekend.
Playa del Carmen and nearby Cancun are the top tourist destinations in Mexico, famous for their turquoise waters and white-sand Caribbean beaches.
But they have been increasingly hit by violence as Mexico's powerful narco mobs fight for control of the area.
[TheLocal.se] The trial of six Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals accused of financing terrorism got under way in Stockholm on Monday, with three of them also charged with planning a terror attack.
"If the terrorist crime had been carried out, it could have seriously hurt Sweden," the prosecution said in its charge sheet.
The first day of the trial focused on the prosecution's claim that the six men sent funds to ISIS to finance its terrorism operations.
The prosecution argued that one of them men, 34-year-old Akromion Ergashev of Uzbekistan, sent almost 18,000 kronor ($2,000) to a middleman in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , who in turn sent it to two ISIS supporters in Syria. The prosecution presented chats on encrypted mobile phone apps and account statements as evidence.
The other five suspects were identified in court documents as Uzbek nationals Bakhtior Umarov, 30, Gulom Tadjiyev, 39, Shoahmad Mahmudov, 24, and David Idrisson, 46, and 39-year-old Kyrgyz national Atabek Abdullayev.
Abdullayev, Idrisson and Umarov are also accused of planning a terror attack in Sweden. The prosecution believes they acquired large amounts of chemicals to make explosives, as well as gas masks, walkie-talkies and other military materials as part of their plot.
Photographs of crowded locations in Stockholm were found in some of the suspects' phones, suggesting they may have been possible targets, according to the prosecution.
During a police raid in Strömsund, 600 kilometres north of Stockholm, in late April, neighbours told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper they saw police removing about 15 large plastic chemical containers from a shed on an empty property.
One of the suspects is also believed to have been in contact with Rakhmat Akilov, a radicalized Uzbek asylum seeker who mowed down pedestrians in Stockholm with a stolen truck in April 2017, killing five people. Akilov was sentenced to life in prison in June 2018.
All six reject all of the charges against them.
The trial is taking place at a special high-security Stockholm courtroom, with the defendants sitting behind a bulletproof glass wall.
[TheLocal.se] A man has been sentenced to six years in prison and deportation from Sweden for raping a nine-year-old girl in a shed outside an apartment building.
The 30-year-old approached the girl as she was cycling home from her school in Malmö, then lured her into the shed, locked the door, pushed her to the floor and raped her. He then held the girl by the throat, and threatened to beat her if she didn’t stop screaming, according to a report in the Aftonbladet newspaper,
The girl told police that she had never seen her attacker before, leaving police struggling to find a lead. But the man turned himself in five days later, confessing fully to what he had done.
According to the court's judgement, the man, who is himself father to a 9-year-old, told police that he had been in the area where the attack took place because he wanted “to find a girl to rape”. It didn't matter to him, he added, if the girl was a child.
“The crime should be considered aggravated with regard to the defendant’s low age and that NN [the perpetrator] used both violence and the threat of criminal action,” the court said.
The judge and three lay jurors disagreed over the sentence, however, with one arguing that the man's punishment should be reduced because he had contacted police himself.
The man was also found guilty of two sexual offences committed when he was living in Skellefteå, northern Sweden, earlier in the autumn: sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl; and exposing himself to and groping a third woman.
He was also found guilty of robbery, knife crime, and petty drugs offences.
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[SG.NEWS.YAHOO] A Ottoman Turkish court on Monday ordered the detention of a former opposition politician hours after a lower court freed him on bail while he is being tried on terrorism-related charges, state-owned Anadolu news agency said.
Eren Erdem, who lost his seat in the mid-2018 election that granted President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers, has been nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! since June and accused of publishing illegal wiretaps while editor of an opposition newspaper in 2014.
He denies charges of assisting followers of U.S.-based holy manFethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , who is accused of orchestrating a failed 2016 putsch.
Prosecutors sought a sentence of up to 19 years for Erdem over "membership of an armed organization" and aiding terrorists, Anadolu said. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the court ruled on Monday that he should be released on bail.
Hours later, a higher court overturned the release ruling, following an appeal by the Istanbul prosecutor's office on grounds that Erdem may flee.
He is the second politician from the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP) to be detained in a sweeping security crackdown since the attempted military coup that has sparked outrage from rights groups and some of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... 's Western allies.
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[DAWN] The Foreign Office (FO) on Monday summoned the Indian Deputy High Commissioner J P Singh to protest the latest "unprovoked ceasefire violations" by Indian border forces along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Bagsar sector which resulted in the death of a civilian, Radio Pakistain reported.
According to a blurb issued by FO Director General (South Asia and Saarc) Dr Muhammad Faisal, who also serves as the foreign ministry spokesperson, the firing at the LoC left civilian Azeem dead and caused injuries to a woman.
"The Indian forces along the Line of Control and the Working boundary are continuously targeting civilian populated areas with heavy weapons," the statement read, adding that this "unprecedented escalation" in ceasefire violations by India has been ongoing since 2017, a year during which they committed 1,970 such violations.
The statement termed the "deliberate targeting" of an area populated by civilians as "deplorable and contrary to human dignity, international human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... and humanitarian laws".
It added that India's ceasefire violations were a threat to both regional peace and security, and "may lead to a strategic miscalculation".
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi security forces on Monday seized an Islamic State arms depot at an under-construction building in the eastern province of Diyala.
“Troops of the Diyala Operations Command found during a military operation in Diyala an under-construction building that was used by Islamic State militants as an arms depot,” Alghad Press news website quoted the Security Media Center as saying in a statement,
The troops found two firearms and ammunition in the building, added the statement.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) – Three Islamic State militants were arrested Monday in Mosul city, the Iraqi army announced as the country still hunts for dormant cells of the extremist group nationwide.
“Troops of the Military Intelligence Directorate launched a wide-scale security operation in Hamam Al-Alil district in the western side of Mosul, managing to arrest three Islamic State terrorists,” Almaalomah news website quoted the directorate as saying in a statement.
According to the statement, the trio took part in the armed attacks that targeted security forces during Islamic State’s capture of Mosul city in 2014-2017.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi security forces killed on Sunday a senior Islamic State leader and arrested 17 others during a security campaign in Nineveh province.
“Troops of the Nineveh Operations Command launched a wide-scale security campaign in Badush district, northeast of Mosul, managing to kill a senior Islamic State leader,” Major Azad Fouad told Dijlah TV channel.
“The troops also arrested 17 IS militants,” Fouad said, adding that a huge amount of ammunition and firearms were seized in their possession.
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[IsraelTimes] Border Police officers shot a Paleostinian woman in the leg after she ignored calls to stop as she walked toward them, in an apparent attempt to be killed in "suicide by cop" at a northern West Bank junction on Monday, police said.
The border guards were stationed at the Tapuah Junction, a location frequented by both Israelis and Paleostinians.
The officers "spotted the suspect approaching them. Despite the officers’ calls [for her to stop], she continued approaching," police said in a statement.
"The border guards had gun sex, but she was not deterred and continue approaching them suspiciously. Finally, the officers shot her in the lower body and subdued her," police said.
Police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said the woman, who was approximately 40 years old from the Paleostinian city of Tulkarem, was searched after she was shot and was found to be unarmed.
"During an initial interrogation, she said she had come to die, apparently because of a family situation," police said in a statement.
The woman sustained moderate injuries and received first aid at the scene before being taken to Petah Tikva’s Beilinson Hospital for treatment.
Israeli security officials have noted that they believe many Paleostinian assailants commit attacks with the goal of being killed, as being rubbed out by Israeli soldiers and coppers is considered a more acceptable way to die in Paleostinian society than suicide.
[Ynet] The main U.S.-backed Syrian faction fighting 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 says members of the murderous Moslem group have attacked one of its positions, killing a civilian and wounding several other fighters in the northern city of Raqqa.
The Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement that during Monday's attack, an IS fighter went kaboom! near an SDF checkpoint.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, said the suicide kaboomer first shot up an SDF force outside a local department before going inside and blowing himself up killing five, including four civilians, and wounding eight.
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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
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.
[BBC] Donald Trump's presidency has coincided with a sharp rise in US-led airstrikes in Somalia and the trend is set to continue in 2019.
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
[SG.NEWS.YAHOO] Gunmen opened fire in a crowded bar in the Mexican resort city of Playa del Carmen, killing seven people, authorities and media reports said Monday, in the latest violence to rock the country's tourist-magnet beaches.
[TheLocal.se] The trial of six Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals accused of financing terrorism got under way in Stockholm on Monday, with three of them also charged with planning a terror attack.
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
