[KhaamaPress] After nearly two decades, the Dutch military involvement in Afghanistan will come to an end this month. According to a media source, the Ministry of Defense has presented two Dutch mission flags to the National Military Museum in Soesterberg to mark the occasion.
In a speech, interim Defense Minister Anke Bijleveld said, "We are leaving with mixed feelings. We see the images of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... progressing." "The security situation is worrying, and some of the progress may be lost," Bijleveld expressed concern.
The flag ceremony gathered dozens of people, but 25 seats were left vacant to honor the 25 Dutch troops who died in Afghanistan. According to Bijleveld, there was also a moment of silence for the "many Afghans who have died, the soldiers and colleagues."
After twenty years, all 10,000 foreign troops, including the 160 Dutch soldiers who remained on the ground, are leaving the country. At a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... summit in April, US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... stated that US combat forces would depart Afghanistan by September of this year.
Sigrid Kaag, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, highlighted that the Netherlands and Afghanistan have a long-term connection. "We have entered into a long-term relationship with the Afghan people. A relationship that we do not want to break 20 years later," she further added.
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How accurate is the list? I have seen claims of Predators shot down while photos make it obvious they are Chinese CH-3s that the Saudis bought. They don't fly as high and are more vulnerable.
[AlAhram] A record-low turnout of 33% in the first round of voting on June 20 proved particularly damaging for the National Rally and Le Pen's hopes of securing a regional breakthrough.
Mainstream candidates delivered a stinging setback to La Belle France's far right in regional elections on Sunday, thwarting its hopes of winning control of a region for the first time and slowing its momentum ahead of the presidential contest next year.
The Ifop polling agency estimated that the far right National Rally accrued no more than 20% of votes nationally, trailing both the mainstream right and the combined showing of green and leftist candidates.
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Follow up to yesterday’s exciting little attack which, we are informed, wouldn’t have been nearly so exciting had the airport director bothered to notice two years of warnings.
[OneIndia] An FIR was registered Sunday under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act after two explosives-laden drones crashed into the IAF station at Jammu airport, officials said, while indicating that the case is likely to be taken over by the terror probe agency NIA.
The drones crashed into the IAF station at Jammu airport in the early hours of Sunday, perhaps the first time that suspected Pakistain-based Lions of Islam have used unmanned aerial vehicles in an attack, officials said.
"The NIA is all likely to take over the case. They are already supervising the investigation at the scene of the blast after joining the probe," one of the officials said.
An FIR was registered under relevant sections of the Explosive Substances Act, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Satwari cop shoppe on the application of a junior warrant officer of the IAF, the official said.
Two Indian Air Force personnel were maimed in the earth-shattering kabooms that took place around 1.40 am within six minutes of each other. The first blast ripped off the roof of a single-storey building at the high security technical area of the airport manned by the IAF in Satwari area of the city. The second one was on the ground, the officials said.
Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... police chief Dilbag Singh has termed the incident a "terror attack".
India's air force tweeted that the attack caused minor damage to a building on the base, located in the southern city of Jammu in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, while the second blast hit an open area. It said no military equipment was damaged.
The incident, if proven to have been carried out by anti-India rebels, would mark a major shift in strategy against New Delhi. Rebels have primarily used classic guerrilla tactics such as ambushes, hit-and-run attacks, remote-controlled explosions and boom-mobileings.
Both countries claim to have shot down spy drones in the parts of Kashmir under their respective control.
The air base in Jammu is also used as a civilian airport, and the Press Trust of India news agency quoted the airport's director, Pravat Ranjan Beuria, as saying there was no disruption to civilian flights.
Indian authorities said forensic Sherlocks were surveying the area, and were later joined by the country's premier anti-terrorism agency, the National Investigating Agency.
Last week, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a crucial meeting with pro-India politicians from Kashmir for the first time since New Delhi stripped the region's semi-autonomy and imposed a slew of administrative changes, which many likened to the beginning of settler colonialism.
Indian authorities in the past few years have raised a possibility of attacks by rebels using drones in the region, especially after they repeatedly accused Pakistain of using China-made drones along the frontier to drop weapons packages for the use of holy warrior groups since last year.
Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict.
Everybody seems busily meeting, all of a sudden — are they just confirming long-distance arrangements made during the Covid shutdown, or has something changed that requies new urgency?
[IsraelTimes] The visit to Baghdad by Sissi — hailed for brokering Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ceasefire — marks the first time an Egyptian head of state has entered Iraq in three decades.
Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq agreed to bolster security and economic cooperation at a tripartite summit on Sunday that saw an Egyptian head of state visit Iraq for the first time in three decades.
The visits by Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II came as Iraq seeks to move closer to Arab allies of the United States in the Middle East.
Iraq is also seeking to establish itself as a mediator between Arab countries and Iran, after reportedly hosting talks in April between Tehran and Riyadh.
Sissi and Abdullah met Iraqi President Barham Saleh and Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi, with Saleh saying the encounter was "an eloquent message amid enormous regional challenges."
"Iraq’s recovery paves the way to an integrated system for our region built on the fight against extremism, respect for illusory sovereignty and economic partnership," Saleh said on Twitter.
The summit held between Kadhemi and his guests broached regional issues, as well as ways of bolstering cooperation between Iraq, Jordan and Egypt in the fields of security, energy and trade, according to a joint statement released at the end of the meeting.
The leaders discussed a "political solution" to Syria’s 10-year civil war based on UN resolutions "that would preserve its security and stability and provide adequate conditions for the return of refugees."
The Syria conflict has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions, with refugees flooding the borders of neighboring countries including Jordan, which lacks in resources and faces economic hardships.
The leaders welcomed efforts underway to restore stability in Libya and 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... , and called for the departure of foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya.
They called for renewed efforts to reach a "just and comprehensive peace" between Israel and the Paleostinians, and for the creation of an independent Paleostinian state.
They also hailed Egypt’s role in negotiating an end to deadly hostilities between Israel and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, in Gaza in May, and Cairo’s pledge to help rebuild the coastal enclave.
Kadhemi set the tone at the start of the summit, saying the three countries would "try to shape a common vision... through cooperation and coordination" regarding Syria, Libya, Yemen, and Paleostine.
Sissi is the first Egyptian president to visit Baghdad since Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s troops invaded Kuwait in 1990.
Relations between Baghdad and Cairo have improved in recent years, and officials from the two countries have conducted visits.
The Jordanian king visited in early 2019 for the first time in 10 years.
Media reports revealed that Iranian and Saudi officials met in Baghdad in April, their first high-level meeting since Riyadh cut diplomatic ties with Tehran in 2016.
Iraqi analyst Ihsan al-Shamari said that Sunday’s summit was “a message for the United States that Iraq will not only have relations with Iran at the expense of Arab countries.”
Analysts have long said that Iraq is a battleground for influence between arch-foes Washington and Tehran, with whom it maintains good relations.
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[IsraelTimes] Malaysian hacking group calling itself DragonForce distributes information on Telegram app, including names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.
Pro-Paleostinian hackers have stolen the personal information of hundreds of thousands of Israeli students and have begun leaking it online, including names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and home addresses.
The cyberattack was announced by a group calling itself DragonForce Malaysia in a post to its website. In a message posted to a forum on the site, the group called on hackers, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... organizations, and activists to campaign against Israel, which it repeatedly referred to as "Israhell."
Student details were at first shared on Malaysian groups using the Telegram app.
The hackers tied the leak to Israel’s recent 11 days of fighting with terror groups in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
Malaysian hackers behind the data breach apparently scooped information from the website of AcadeMe, one of the largest recruitment networks in the country for students and graduates seeking work. AcadeMe works with leading higher education institutes including Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University, the Open University, Bar-Ilan University, the Technion, and the University of Haifa as well as many colleges.
Cybersecurity expert May Brooks-Kempler, who administers the Think Cyber Safe group on Facebook, is investigating the extent of the hack. Details of some 280,000 students from 2014 to the present were leaked along with some 100,000 email addresses, Brooks-Kempler found.
She warned that the details could be used in cyberattacks focused on those who signed up to AcadeMe and advised users to change passwords and be alert to any suspicious emails, text messages or phone calls they may receive.
In December last year a hacking group calling itself Black Shadow broke into the Shirbit insurance firm stealing client details and demanding a ransom or it would publish the data to the internet. The company refused to pay and the hackers later said they had sold the information on the dark web.
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Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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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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[KhaamaPress] After nearly two decades, the Dutch military involvement in Afghanistan will come to an end this month. According to a media source, the Ministry of Defense has presented two Dutch mission flags to the National Military Museum in Soesterberg to mark the occasion.
...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
[AlAhram] A record-low turnout of 33% in the first round of voting on June 20 proved particularly damaging for the National Rally and Le Pen's hopes of securing a regional breakthrough.
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India's air force tweeted that the attack caused minor damage to a building on the base, located in the southern city of Jammu in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, while the second blast hit an open area. It said no military equipment was damaged.
