[Tolo News] At least 14 Taliban murderous Moslems were killed and 13 others injured in an Afghan cops operation in north-eastern Badakhshan province on Saturday night, local officials said.
The operation was launched in Jurm district of the province last night to clear the area of murderous Moslems and two Pak Taliban were also among the dead, said Ahmad Nawid Frotan, provincial governor front man.
The Taliban shadow governor for Jurm was also injured during the raids, he said.
There were no Afghan forces and civilian casualties during the operation, he added.
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[Tolo News] Following 12 consecutive days of festivities in Alasay district of northeast Kapisa province, Taliban turbans have taken control of Askin valley of Alasay district of Kapisa, local officials said.
The Taliban turbans gained control of the valley at around 3 a.m. local time. Local residents and police forces have fled the area in search of safety to eastern Laghman province, said Shukraullah, police chief of Alasay.
He said Alasay is a key district of Kapisa in which the Taliban can threaten several other districts.
Alasay district borders with Laghman province where turbans frequently target the Afghan police force outpost.
The local residents of the valley have fought against the Taliban turbans several times, according to the district police chief.
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[Al Ahram] Combat between two Arab tribes in Sudan's Darfur region has killed 18 people, a resident said Sunday, adding to a growing toll as various groups battle for resources and Dire Revenge™.
The latest incident occurred outside Ed Daein, the capital of East Darfur, said the resident who is a member of the local Rezeigat tribe.
"Yesterday the clash began when a Maaliya killed a Rezeigat. The Rezeigat gathered themselves for Dire Revenge™ but the Maaliya surrounded them and killed 18," he said, declining to be identified for security reasons.
A member of the rival Maaliya tribe said a rocket-propelled grenade destroyed a Rezeigat pickup truck used as a troop-carrying vehicle.
"I saw the Rezeigat taking away their bodies," from the vehicle, he said.
Hundreds of Rezeigat were gathering for retaliation and "a big battle might happen today or tomorrow," another resident said.
Battles between the Rezeigat and Maaliya in East Darfur last August killed 190 people, the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... said at the time.
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Gunmen killed at least 29 people in raids on two coastal areas of Kenya, the latest in a series of attacks claimed by Somali militants who have vowed to drive Kenyan forces out of Somalia, although a police officer cast doubt on their role.
The Interior Ministry said one attack killed nine in the trading town of Hindi in Lamu County, the same district where about 65 people were killed by gunmen last month. Another was further south in the Gamba area, where 20 died.
“They went around shooting at people and villages indiscriminately,” said Abdallah Shahasi, a senior official for the Hindi area, which lies near the old trading port of Lamu and Mpeketoni town, where gunmen launched raids in mid-June.
Sheikh Abdiasis abu Musab, spokesman for Al Shabaab’s military operations, said in Mogadishu that the Somalia-based group was behind both attacks on Saturday night. It had also said it was responsible for the June raids in Lamu County, around Mpeketoni.
But President Uhuru Kenyatta dismissed Al Shabaab’s claim last month and blamed local politicians, stoking an already fierce row with the opposition, which denied any role.
Regardless of who is blamed this time, Saturday’s raids will hammer an already beleaguered tourist industry that has been hit by a wave of militant attacks and will deepen public frustrations about poor security in Kenya a day before a big opposition rally is planned for the capital.
In a news conference on initial findings, police deputy inspector-general Grace Kaindi said a blackboard, ripped out of a school, was found at a junction near Hindi with scrawling that could implicate the coastal separatist group, the Mombasa Republic Movement (MRC). She said investigations were ongoing.
“At first we thought it was Al Shabaab, but now it is turning out that it is MRC as they have put it there clearly,” she said, adding that other slogans appeared to back opposition leader Raila Odinga.
She said scribbled phrases included “MRC - You are sleeping,” “Muslims your land is being grabbed”, “Raila is adequate” and “Uhuru down”.
The MRC swiftly denied any role. “The government should stop using us as a scapegoat,” Randu Nzai Ruwa, the MRC Secretary General, told Reuters by telephone.
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BELEDHAWO, Somalia -- At least two persons have been reported killed in bombing at a restaurant in Gedo regional district of Beled Hawo of southwestern Somalia on Saturday, Garowe Online reports.
Local reports say, the bomb in the restaurant went off shortly after crowds gathered for lunch as Somalis are observing the dawn-to-dusk fasting month of Ramadan. More than five people were wounded in the blast, witnesses said. Most of the fatalities from the explosion were those who broke their fast with broad day light food.
As has been the case, Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group boosts rampage and deadly attacks during the Ramadan. The militant group has not so far claimed credit for the latest attack. Al Shabaab lost a string of strategic towns in central and southern Somalia to allied forces.
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SOMEWHERE in heavily-armed Somalia -- Twelve people were killed during separate overnight attacks on Saturday in Hindi and in Tana Delta.
The heavily armed attackers invaded Gamba police station, in Garsen, Tana Delta county, killing nine people on the spot including a police officer on duty and inmates. The attackers also released a suspected ringleader of the recent Mpeketoni attacks who was being held in the police station.
According to AFP, a spokesman for Somalia's Al-Shabaab group issued a statement claiming that their fighters had carried out another attack in the area.
"The attackers came back home safely to their base," Al-Shabaab military spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab said, claiming that 10 people had been killed in the attack.
Confirming the incident, the Deputy County Commissioner Mr Mike Kimoko said the attackers killed the policeman on duty, before pulling out five people held in police cells and shooting them to death. They further pulled out other three civilians in a lorry which had just arrived at the police station and killed them before disappearing into the bush.
"Gunmen with strong power attacked the cell at around 11 o'clock and killed a policeman, five prisoners and three other civilians who had just arrived at the police station," confirmed Mr Kimoko.
He explained that the policeman who was taking charge of the cell was killed during the exchange of fire between the security officers and the attackers before they broke into the cell. He said the attackers took advantage of the darkness in the police station, which is not connected to electricity, and it was hard to tell the total number of the attackers No suspect has been arrested yet.
Gamba is located on the Lamu — Malindi highway towards Witu.
A separate intense gunfire was also reported at Hindi trading centre on Saturday night by unknown attackers that left three people dead and two others injured. Hindi trading centre is located between Mpeketoni and Mokowe and is around 100 km from Gamba
Area chief Abdalla Shahasi has confirmed the attack. Mr Shahisi said that his office and that of the area District Officer were among the first to be attacked.
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Three Europeans working for an Italian construction company in Libya have likely been kidnapped, a government official said on Sunday, Alarabiya reported.
The vehicle of the Italian, Macedonian and Bosnian engineers was found abandoned in the town of Zuwara, west of the capital Tripoli, an official in the local town council told Reuters.
"They are missing, and we suspect they have been kidnapped," the official said. No further details were immediately available.
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[FRANCE24] More than 60 women and girls kidnapped last month by suspected 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... bully boyz northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday.
Local vigilante Abbas Gava said he had "received an alert from my colleagues ... that about 63 of the kidnapped women and girls had made it back home". A high-level security source in Borno state capital Maiduguri, who requested anonymity, confirmed the escape.
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[Iran Press TV] Uganda's army soldiers have killed 41 gunnies in a battle with tribal gunnies near the country's border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC).
Army front man Paddy Ankunda said on Sunday that the battle erupted in the western district of Bundibuguyo a day earlier after tribal gunnies attacked army barracks.
"We repulsed them, killing so far 41 of the attackers. The operation is ongoing," Ankunda said, adding, "We lost nine rifles to the attackers."
He did not disclose whether there were any army casualties from the battle.
Local media, however, reported that a soldier and his three children were killed in the attack.
The country's police front man, Fred Enanga, said that unknown gunnies attacked a police checkpoint in the neighboring district of Kasese earlier on Saturday, killing one officer.
The attacks came hours after the Ugandan army said it had killed a person for being involved in an attack at a church in the border region last week that left one woman dead.
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[Iraq Sun] Yemen's air force bombed Shiite Mohammedan fighters north of the capital city of Sanaa Saturday in fighting that caused "a large number of casualties," local officials said, after a recent truce between the Lions of Islam and government forces collapsed.
The fighting in northern Yemen, which has taken on a sectarian tone, is further destabilizing a country struggling to overcome many problems, including a secessionist movement in its restive south and the nationwide spread of al-Qaeda insurgency.
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" ... Shiite fighters, officially known as Ansarullah, blamed army units linked to the rival Sunni-Mohammedan Islah party for breaking the June 23 cease-fire on Friday when government troops advanced on an area in al-Jouf province.
A Yemeni government official said the army's advance on the town of al-Safra in the province north east of Sanaa was prompted by the failure of Houthi fighters to vacate positions in the area in compliance with the cease-fire.
Tribal sources in al-Jouf province, which is partly controlled by the Shi'ite Houthi rebels, said at least 18 people - 10 Houthis, five rustics and three soldiers - were killed in festivities Friday.
The fighting later expanded to the adjacent Omran province, where the Yemeni air force flew sorties and bombed Houthi positions around the scenic provincial capital early on Saturday.
Local government officials gave no precise casualty figures from the fighting, which included Arclight airstrikes. Instead, one cited "a large number of casualties."
In southeastern Yemen, state news agency Saba reported that one soldier had been killed and four maimed on Saturday in a "terrorist'' attack on a security compound in the Hajar area of Hadramout ...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis is estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard... province. The agency gave no further details.
The cease-fire had largely held, with few reports of violations.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Police caught a Chhatra Shibir leader early yesterday, after a 20-minute shootout with him and his cronies at Satkania, Chittagong.
Kamal Uddin alias Dari Kamal, 30, an accused in 12 cases including four murder cases lodged with Satkania cop shoppe, was an acolyte of the local Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leader Shahjahan Chowdhury and was involved in violence perpetrated by Jamaat and Shibir in the upazila in the recent past, said Khaled Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Satkania cop shoppe.
He was admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital since he was hit by bullet in his right leg during the shootout, Khaled said, adding that a gun and six rounds of bullets were recovered from Kamal's possession.
The OC said police arrived at the upazila's Switch Gate area around 2am, having received a tip-off that Kamal and 10-12 of his men were preparing to commit a robbery. "Sensing our presence, they fired at us. When we started firing back in self defence, they fled, leaving injured Kamal behind," he said.
The Shibir leader was shown tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in a case filed in connection with a robbery that had happened a few days ago.
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[DailyMail] o The new directive by the TSA affects flights out of Africa, the Middle East and Europe
o The TSA has announced that devices that won't power up will not be allowed on planes
o Owners may have to undergo additional screening at security checkpoints
o American officials are concerned that al-Qaeda has produced new bombs
o iPhones and Galaxy phones are to be singled out for extra attention
Airports facing chaos over busy holiday period as school's finish
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Only if ya need a cell or computer 24/7 is it a problem!
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Got to create panic to justify one's existence. Just like MMGW. Take a smidgen of info, extrapolate, and exploit. "You need us" - TSA
He who defends everything, defends nothing. So much for the 'kinder gentler' war that only continues without end rather than ruthlessly obliterate its nesting place.
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I guess I should be lucky I'm not traveling. My one working laptop's battery is more or less permanently dead, and I can't afford to replace it. I can't afford airline travel either, so I guess it balances out.
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Things like this come from actionable intelligence gathered by other agencies.
Just guessing, but based off past experience terrorists are replacing the batteries with explosive and claiming the phones don't work and the airport security just x-rays them and sends them through. Works since the battery usually shows up as just a grey blob anyway.
The question really is, "How many terrorists will the TSA catch from this?"
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Back in '82 I had to prove my portable CD player worked before I was allowed on a plane at Logan in Boston. Big Deal.
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Makes sense, if there's no power, the likely of going BOOM,is much greater.
I'd say around 70% higher.
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It shouldn't take a genius to figure out how to make a replacement battery that has just enough juice to power up the laptop, with the rest filled with explosives.
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The key to preventing such terrorism is early detection. After detection, the computer and owner need to be taken to a safe place and detonated in a safe manner.
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Heck - when you consider that a raspberry pi is about the size of a deck of cards and can drive a display, keyboard, etc... Much much smaller than the mainboard of even a small laptop. And much smaller power requirements...
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In Europe now; coming back Saturday and will provide an update of what we see if anything other than run it through the x ray.
although the Amsterdam to Hamburg connection today we did have to pull the power cords out of the bags and run them through in a tray; that was a first.
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Would you travel with a phone but without a charger? Hardly.
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If you walk across the soutrhern border you do not have to turn on you iPhone or computer to show it works. In fact, you don't have to take off your shoes or belt or even walk through a metal detector.
Hell, you don't even need a passport or visa.
Flying is so overrated.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Two office-bearers of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ) were killed on Sunday in a targeted attack near Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's old Sabzi Mandi area, DawnNews reported.
Supporters of ASWJ held sit-ins on the road at the site of the incident, with protestants burning tyres and blocked University Road due to which the flow of traffic was suspended.
Following the attack, police conducted a search operation as a probe into the incident went underway.
Karachi East SSP Syed Pir Mohammed Shah suspended SHO of PIB Colony on the murder of the two ASWJ members.
Previously, a 27-year-old ASWJ activist was killed in Malir City in a murder. Also, two more ASWJ members were killed in a targeted attack near the Ojri Camp in Shamsabad on May 23.
Both members of the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization were on their way to Saddar after attending a religious seminar when they were attacked by two unidentified cycle of violence riders.
Karachi, the largest metropolitan city of Pakistain, is riddled with assassinations, gang wars, kidnappings for ransom, extortion and terrorism.
Targeted operations led by Rangers' forces with the support of police are ongoing in the city under a directive issued by the federal government against criminals already identified by federal, military and civilian agencies.
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[DAWN] Air force planes bombed murderous Moslem hideouts in North Wazoo on Saturday, killing several suspected murderous Moslems, including Uzbek nationals.
According to ISPR, the military's public relations department, air support was called in after fire and resistance from inside Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... town and Boya village.
Planes bombed positions and five hideouts were destroyed.
The ISPR said that most of those killed in the strikes were Uzbeks.
Unconfirmed reports said at least 30 people were killed in the bombing.
The claims could not be confirmed from independent sources.
The blurb said hideouts, caves and a large cache of arms and ammunition had been destroyed.
According to sources, some places in Dattakhel, Deggan and Momadkhel areas were also pounded.
They said troops had begun demolishing suspected hideouts in Dandy Derpakhel, Derpakhel, Miranshah Bazaar and Chashma village.
Militants had concentration in these areas and they had rented houses from locals.
The sources said houses of Hakeemullah Mehsud, leader of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) who was killed in a drone attack last year, had also been destroyed near Miranshah.
Dandy Derpakhel, near Miranshah, was also a hub of Afghan and local Taliban and murderous Moslem leader Jalaluddin Haqqani's family was also residing there.
A soldier was killed when an improvised bombwent kaboom! during a clearance operation in Kaka Ziarat area, near Miranshah.
Security personnel are using sniffer dogs to clear IEDs which are posing a serious threat for infantry men in the area.
An official said the forces had sophisticated equipment to detect and defuse IEDs. Officials said 19 makeshift factories of IEDs had been destroyed.
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[DAWN] HYDERABAD: Three coppers were killed on late Sunday night after the vehicle they were in was fired upon by unknown gunnies in Hyderabad, DawnNews.
One other policeman was also injured in the incident.
Sources suggest that the police mobile the four officers were in was fired upon in the suburbs of Latifabad.
They were later rushed to the hospital where three of the coppers were pronounced dead.
The fourth policeman is said to be in a serious condition.
Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has condemned the incident and has called for the immediate arrest of the men responsible for the attack.
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[Al Ahram] A jacket wallah detonated explosives inside a cafe in a predominantly-Shia neighbourhood in west Baghdad on Sunday evening, killing at least four people, security and medical officials said.
The evening attack struck inside the cafe in the Washash neighbourhood, a police officer and a medical source said, leaving at least 12 others maimed.
The blast was a rare bombing in recent days in the Iraqi capital, which has endured a tense calm as security forces and murderous Moslems have focused their resources north and west of Baghdad, with a jihadist-led offensive having overrun swathes of five provinces.
Iraqi forces initially wilted when faced with the myrmidon onslaught, which began late on June 9, but have since performed more capably, albeit with few gains in offensive operations.
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[Aswat al-Iraq] Police sources reported here today that three cops and one Peshmarga personnel were maimed in two kabooms inside Kirkuk city.
The sources told Aswat al-Iraq that the first bomb went kaboom! targeting a civilian vehicle before a benzene station that led to wounding its Peshmarga driver.
The second bomb went kaboom! 200 meters near the first one, targeting a police vehicle that led to wounding three cops
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[Ynet] Bedouins throw Molotov cocktails at southern Jewish community, rioters in Shfaram set fire to trash bins, while police outpost in northern Arab village burned by protestors.
Arab protesters rioted Sunday in East Jerusalem and a number of neighborhoods in the capital after a tense day which saw security forces tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! six men for the murder of the Paleostinian teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir. Some 15 silent protests took place in Arab communites across Israel without incident.
A number of right-wing Jews demanding Dire Revenge™ for the death of the three Israeli teens also rioted in the capital.
In the Shuafat neighborhood, from which Abu Khdeir originated and was scene to the kidnapping itself, over 100 Arab youths, some who were wearing masks, pelted police forces with stones. Similar scenes were reported from the Abu Tur neighborhood. Police forces were present at both areas.
In Tel Sheva, a Bedouin town bordering Beersheba, masked protestors threw Molotov cocktails and hurled stones at cars at the entrance of the southern Jewish community of Omer. Damage was caused to several vehicles.
In the Israeli Arab city of Shfaram, about 50 rioters threw stones and attempted to set fire to trash bins. Police forces at the scene are attempting to disperse the crowd.
In Iksal, an Arab local council near Nazareth, rioters burned parts of a police outpost, while protestors in Nazareth threw stones at a fire station.
In another incident, rioters burned tires in Arraba in the Lower Galilee, after which the main road was closed to traffic.
In Jerusalem's Bar Ilan Junction some 40 rightwing Jews were blocking the traffic. Earlier in the day a rightist was arrested after attempting to harass a protest calling for calm and for an end to racism, in Jerusalem's IDF Square.
In the Paleostinian village of Hizma, in East Jerusalem, a number of masked Paleostinians threw Molotov cocktails and stones at the police. Police blocked the protesters and attempted to quell the uprising.
After a relatively quiet morning, hundreds of protestors are clashing with police in Tamra in the Lower Galilee, with some throwing stones at officers, who managed to hold them at bay and fired stun grenades at them. The officers also prevented the protestors from blocking Highway 70.
In Nazareth, youths threw stones at a police car. Officers chased the rioters and arrested 12 suspects.
As of now, heavy traffic is reported on Highway 70, a main traffic route in the north. Special Patrol Unit and Israel Border Police officers are on the scene and are preparing for a continuation of the riots in several other locations later Sunday, including in Umm al-Fahm junction on Route 65, where a large demonstration is expected to take place tonight.
After breaking the fast as part of Ramadan observances, protests will be launched from Taibe, Tira, Qalansawe, Kafr Qara, Sakhnin and other locations.
The Mayor of Qalansawe, Abed Salameh, spoke to Ynet in an exclusive interview Sunday concerning the recent riots in the town. "In my name and in the name of all residents of the city, I'm sorry for all those who caused her damage," he said.
"I would call the situation in Qalansawe a crash landing. This is the first time in history that I've met with something like this. I guess the anger and the rage (that's been building up) for years has went kaboom! now."
Violent riots continued overnight Saturday in Jerusalem, with hundreds rioting in the capital and its environs. A bus driver and two passengers were lightly maimed near the Mount Scopus tunnel in Jerusalem, when a stone was thrown at a 174 bus between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim.
#1
Mebbee they would feel more at home in Jordan. multicultual demography Israel's may lead to her demise. This cannot be allowed to happen. Arab 'citizens' or the Trojan Horse'?
[Al Ahram] Two Palestinian fighters were killed and another wounded Sunday by an Israeli drone strike in the Gaza Strip, emergency services said. The victims were among a group of armed men who targeted by the Israeli drone east of Al-Bureij refugee camp, near central Gaza's border with the Jewish state, witnesses said.
Two Paleostinians were reported killed in an Israeli strike on the Gazoo Strip late Sunday night, capping a day of near-constant rocket fire on Israeli towns near the Paleostinian enclave.
Israeli planes struck the refugee camp of al Bureij in the central strip just before midnight Sunday, targeting a rocket launching crew.
So it was a little more than the well-known Israeli grudge against armed Arabs wandering the landscape...
The army said in a statement in prevented a rocket attack "by targeting terrorists." It said a hit was confirmed.
The Paleostinian Ma'an news agency said two members of Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... 's armed wing were killed.
Some 25 rockets were fired at Israel over the course of Sunday, most of which landed in open areas.
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[Ynet] Hussam Dufash was picked up in Hebron by IDF for abduction of Eyal, Gil-Ad, and Naftali, two weeks after two prime suspects named in investigation.
An additional suspect was incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for alleged involvement in the murder of Gil-Ad Shaer, Naftali Frenkel, Eyal Yifrach, according to Paleostinian sources, who said Hussam Dufash was arrested Saturday night in Hebron by the IDF.
Unlike the other two kidnappers, Dufash was not away from his home in the days after the kidnapping. At the same time the third suspect was arrested, Israel announced relief from the harsh restrictions faced by residents of Hebron since the abduction.
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories announced that as of Sunday morning Paleostinian workers from Hebron were authorized to enter Israel. Additionally, Paleostinians from the region would be allowed to enter Jerusalem during the month of Ramadan.
After the abduction of the three teens, Paleostinians from Hebron were barred from entering Israeli territory.
[Ynet] Police tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... 22 residents of Nazareth and Nazareth Elite overnight including 12 teenagers on charges of disturbing the peace. Several of them are expected to be brought to court on Sunday where the police said that they will ask for an extension on their remand.
Two local residents were admitted to an Afula hospital where they received medical care and were later released.
Four Philippine soldiers were injured in fresh fighting with Abu Sayyaf militants in Sulu province where security forces are pursuing the rebel group holding several kidnapped foreigners and Filipinos. The clashes broke out Friday in Patikul, a day after the military announced the capture of an Abu Sayyaf base in the town's hinterlands.
The injured soldiers were airlifted to Zamboanga City as troops continue to pursue the rebels in Patikul, a known Abu Sayyaf stronghold.
Earlier this week, two marines were injured in clashes with rebels in the town where troops recovered a huge cache of improvised explosives from the captured Abu Sayyaf base believed used by Radulan Sahiron, a senior leader of the group.
Brigadier General Martin Pinto described the Abu Sayyaf camp as fortified with connecting trenches and well—established firing positions and littered with hundreds of improvised explosives. There was no indication that Sahiron was among the dead or injured in the fighting, but there were reports that the Abu Sayyaf had fled with some of their hostages.
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[Al Ahram] The opposition Syrian National Coalition said Sunday that regime forces are preparing to launch a major assault on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo.
The group's leadership, meanwhile, was meeting in Istanbul to elect a successor to SNC chief Ahmad Jarba.
"The military situation is very difficult, the siege of Aleppo has become a reality," coalition front man Luay Safi said on the group's website.
"Syrian troops are preparing to invade Aleppo," he said.
Aleppo, once Syria's commercial hub, has been divided since a July 2012 rebel offensive. Government aircraft have been targeting opposition-held areas there as well as nearby towns and villages.
The assault began in mid-December and intensified in January, with helicopters raining down barrels bombs, causing a massive exodus.
Regime troops have made advances since last week, taking control of most of the industrial district in northeastern Aleppo and threatening to cut off rebel supply lines.
On Sunday, pro-government daily Al-Watan said loyalist troops were on the verge of "another breakthrough" by routing rebels from a military academy in the city's northeast.
Rebels fighting to topple Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... control eastern parts of Aleppo and some districts in the north.
Loyalist forces are mostly in control of southern districts of Aleppo as well as some western areas.
Opposition coalition front man Safi charged that government forces around Aleppo were acting in collaboration with the jihadist Islamic State.
He condemned the West's failure to support the rebel Syrian Free Army, which is fighting both Assad's forces and IS.
"To this day the United States is preventing the dispatch of sophisticated weapons to the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... to fight Assad's terrorism and radical organizations," he said.
IS has seized large swathes of territory in Syria and neighbouring Iraq, declaring the land it holds to be an Islamic "caliphate", and its leader the ruler of all Moslems.
With government forces also on the offensive, SNC official Bahiya Mardini told AFP that the opposition at their meeting in Istanbul would elect a new president on Monday.
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[An Nahar] Syrian jets fired shells at the eastern Bekaa region of Arsal on Sunday, reported the National News Agency.
It said that they targeted Syrian gunnies in Wadi al-Khail in Arsal.
Four shells struck the region.
The Lebanese army confirmed air strikes in "border areas" but made no mention of their target.
Earlier, NNA said that the jets fired rockets at al-Rahwa region on the outskirts of the border town.
On Friday, two Syrians were killed and five other people maimed in five air raids staged by the Syrian regime on the outskirts of Arsal.
Media reports said that the raid targeted Lions of Islam in Wadi al-Zumrani, Wadi Ata and Wadi al-Ajram.
Arsal, near the border with Syria, is a Sunni town where residents support the rebels fighting Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's forces. The town also hosts tens of thousands of Syrian refugees.
Ever since the Syrian revolt erupted in March 2011, Arsal has become a key conduit for refugees and maimed people fleeing strife-torn Syria.
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[Tolo News] At least 14 Taliban 
[Al Ahram] Combat between two Arab tribes in Sudan's Darfur region has killed 18 people, a resident said Sunday, adding to a growing toll as various groups battle for resources and 
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[FRANCE24] More than 60 women and girls 
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In Jerusalem's Bar Ilan Junction some 40 rightwing Jews were blocking the traffic. Earlier in the day a rightist was arrested after attempting to harass a protest calling for calm and for an end to racism, in Jerusalem's IDF Square.
[Al Ahram] Two Palestinian fighters were killed and another wounded Sunday by an Israeli drone strike in the Gaza Strip, emergency services said. The victims were among a group of armed men who targeted by the Israeli drone east of Al-Bureij refugee camp, near central Gaza's border with the Jewish state, witnesses said.
[Ynet] Hussam Dufash was picked up in Hebron by IDF for abduction of Eyal, Gil-Ad, and Naftali, two weeks after two prime suspects named in investigation.
[Ynet] Police 
Four Philippine soldiers were injured in fresh fighting with Abu Sayyaf militants in Sulu province where security forces are pursuing the rebel group holding several kidnapped foreigners and Filipinos. The clashes broke out Friday in Patikul, a day after the military announced the capture of an Abu Sayyaf base in the town's hinterlands. 
[Al Ahram] The opposition Syrian National Coalition said Sunday that regime forces are preparing to launch a major assault on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo. 
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[An Nahar] Syrian jets fired shells at the eastern Bekaa region of Arsal on Sunday, reported the National News Agency.
