[FrontPage] On Saturday, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted: "Martyr Soleimani is an eternal reality that will live on forever. His assassins — including Trump & the like — will go down in history’s garbage bin, but of course after receiving retribution in this world for the crime they committed." This is a clear threat, but Twitter has not banned or suspended Khamenei’s account. After all, he was threatening Donald Trump, and as far as Twitter is concerned, what could be wrong with that?
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[FoxNews] 163 service members committed suicide in Q3 2021.
According to data released by the Pentagon, 163 service members committed suicide in Q3 of 2021 which broke down into 70 active service members, 56 reserve members, and 37 members of the National Guard.
Suicides among active members of the military dropped from Q2 to Q3 but suicides rose among reserve and National Guard members.
Nearly twice as many members of the U.S. military died of suicide from July to September than have died from the coronavirus during the entire pandemic.
As of January 8, 86 members of the military have died from the coronavirus.
In September, the total number of coronavirus deaths in the military was 43 and the doubling of deaths from September to January is partially due to the Delta variant spike, the Pentagon says.
A total of 476 members of the U.S. military committed suicide in 2021 through three quarters. In 2020, Pentagon data shows that 701 service members committed suicide.
In December, the military began taking disciplinary action against U.S. service members who had not complied with the federal government's vaccine mandate. More than 200 Marines have been booted from the United States military for refusing the vaccine.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News.
This summer, a research paper concluded that a staggering 30,177 American active military personnel and veterans involved in post-9/11 wars are estimated to have died by suicide – a figure at least four times greater than the 7,057 service members who were killed in combat during that time.
[Garowe] A few days after calling for national reconciliation, Æthiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has ordered the release of his fierce critics, most of them from his Oromia backyard, who questioned the liquidation of popular musician Hachalu Hundesa.
The members of the Oromo Federalist Congress [OFC] were arrested after staging protests over Hundesa's liquidation. Protests locked Addis Ababa, the capital of Æthiopia, leading to the crackdown.
Some of those arrested included media entrepreneur Jawar Mohammad, Bekele Gerba, Dejene Tafa, Hamza Borana, and many others who were arrested from the premises of Oromia Cultural Center in Addis Abeba on June 30, 2020, a day after the killing of Hachalu Hundessa.
Although some were released eventually, a total of 35 people, including the children of Bekele Gerba were arrested on that day. The government has remained mum over the arrest until Friday when the government opted to release them.
Before their release, they were subjected to a pre-trial hearing as the prosecutor established charges against 20 defendants in Jawar Mohammed’s file in September 2020. The charges include ten counts in violation of Proclamation No. 1176 /2012 on Terrorism Prevention and Control; Telecom Fraud Proclamation No. 761/2004 and the Arms Management and Control Proclamation No. 1177/2012, The Addis Ababa Standard reports.
The trial of the defendants on Jawar Mohammed’s file was one of the most highly anticipated hearings featuring symbolic resistances by supporters, arrests, and attacks on families, massive social media campaigns, refusal to appear by the defendants.
In February last year, protests broke out in different parts of Oromia regional state. Protestors who erupted into the streets in Ambo and other places raised several demands, including the release of Oromo politicians, a resident of the city told Addis standard then.
Many students were arrested and beaten by police according to eyewitnesses. In January 2020 the defendants refused to proceed with the hearing protesting with hunger strike the arrest of about 80 of their supporters from the premises of Federal High Court, Lideta branch.
On February 05, Æthiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Chief Commissioner Daniel Bekele said that "very close supervision is required to prevent any grave threat to their health and life and that reasonably justified demands of the prisoners must be addressed."
He added that "during visits to prisons or attending court hearings visitors must be treated properly." Samantha Power, USAID administrator, and representative Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... also voiced their concerns over the deteriorating health conditions of the prisoners, who were on hunger strike and their treatment by the government.
The release of the defendants on Jawar Mohammed’s file comes at the heels of the release of Eskinder Nega, founder of the opposition Balderas for Genuine Democracy, and the defendants on his file who were facing terrorism charges, and Five out of 20 senior TDF leaders who were accused of organizing an illegal group to overthrow the constitutional order.
In his Christmas [Gena] message, Abiy Ahmed insisted on national reconciliation as the country battles with a series of internal crises. The Tigray conflict has eroded confidence in the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
"It will enable us to maintain our unity, it’s a given that Æthiopia will benefit from reconciliation," the PM’s message read. In a separate message, the Prime Minister said that pledged to bring about transitional justice to hold those who committed crimes accountable.
So they’ve said repeatedly. But it keeps on not happening.
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Friday, a Ottoman Turkish security delegation visited Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and Misrata, informing officials of the transfer of a new batch of Syrian mercenaries outside the country early next week, according to al-Arabiya news.The Ottoman Turkish delegation met with Libya’s 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) in Tripoli, and held a tripartite meeting with an "Italian security delegation in order to coordinate security and logistical efforts."
Al-Arabiya mentioned that the Ottoman Turkish delegation also met Presidential candidate and former Interior Minister, Fathi Bashagha in Misrata. It noted that Ankara wants to appoint another envoy with, "wider powers" than its Ambassador in Libya.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... sent thousands of Syrian mercenaries to support the previous Government of National Accord (GNA), to fight the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... Last week, JMC member, Emarji al-Amami said that the Libyan National Army (LNA) deported 300 Sudanese fighters last week.
Al-Amami told Fawasel Media that the deportation of the fighters came in accordance with the "goodwill initiative of the LNA, and are now waiting for a similar action from the other side in western Libya."
"The Military Commission is in a permanent meeting, in constant communication, and is working to accomplish its assigned tasks," he noted
"We hope that the politicians will reach an agreement that will bring the country out of its current situation," he added.
Al-Amami indicated that the JMC is awaiting the exit mechanisms of the Ottoman Turkish and Russian forces. Russia and Turkey will put these mechanisms under the supervision of the international community. "International observers will monitor the withdrawal of the foreign forces," he concluded.
Notably, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) stated on 10 October, that a new batch of 100 Syrian mercenaries had been repatriated to Syria. This coincided with the back-and-forth transfer operations of mercenaries. The batch also contained fighters who were transported to Libya in 2019, the SOHR said.
Libyan Foreign Minister, Najla al-Mangoush told Rooters in October, that some imported muscle have left the country. This comes as the government seeks to mobilize international support to withdraw the remaining forces.
"The reports are correct. There is a very modest start," al-Mangoush said at a news conference in Kuwait. "We are still seeking a larger and comprehensive organization for the exit of mercenaries," she added.
The ceasefire agreement between Libya’s warring parties called for all foreign mercenaries to be withdrawn within three months of its signing in October 2020.
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I keep reading that Turkey is going to withdraw or leave or some such repeatedly, did they actually leave, seem not so.
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They could save on logistics and return airfare by just stopping payment to their mercenaries, letting them quit and then classifying them as 'no longer employed'.
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The Moslem Rights Concern has urged the Nigerian Government to declare the first of Muharram Hijrah, which is the first day in the Islamic calendar, as a public holiday to favour Moslems.
MURIC Director, Prof Ishaq Akintola, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday.
According to Akintola, the New Year celebrations according to the Gregorian calendar was "unfair, unjust and undemocratic" to Moslems in Nigeria.
He stated that if the Nigerian Government failed to properly recognise the first day of the Moslem calendar as it has recognised the Christian calendar, it should stop declaring New Year holidays.
Akintola said, "As usual, the Federal Government declared January 1, 2022, a public holiday in recognition of the first day of the Christian Gregorian calendar but because the day fell on a Saturday, FG created an alternative by declaring the following Monday a public holiday.
"This is an aberration and a gross injustice because Nigerian Moslems have been demanding the declaration of the first day of the Islamic calendar as a holiday for more than 20 years to no avail.
"It simply means that FG under President Muhammadu Buhari is also supporting the Christianisation of Nigeria. It considers the first day of the Christian calendar as sacred while the first day of the Islamic calendar is regarded as unimportant.
"MURIC frowns at this lopsided arrangement. It is unfair, unjust and undemocratic. We demand an immediate review of FG’s holiday policy.
"We demand the declaration of the first day of the Islamic calendar as a holiday to justify the 1st January holiday that is declared annually by FG. January 1 holiday is a Christian colonial creation designed to dignify and rubber-cushion the pomp and pageantry of Christmas. In the interest of peace, FG should review this Christian colonial heritage.
"Nigeria became independent 62 years ago and 62 years is long enough to right wrongs perpetrated by the British slavemasters. Democracy is fraudulent without equal participation, equal rights and justice.
"We demand parity now and only the recognition of the first day of the Islamic new year can balance the equilibrium and ensure parity, justice and fair play.
"Holidays are part of the dividends of democracy. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the dividends must not be dished out in a selective manner."
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Sweden and La Belle France have launched a joint team to investigate crimes against humanity and war crimes carried out by imported muscle from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group against the Yazidi minority.
The two countries' ongoing investigations are coordinated by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust). The new task force aims to streamline their efforts and enable information and evidence to be shared more swiftly.
"The main aim of the JIT will be to identify FTFs [foreign terrorist fighters] who were involved in core international crimes, such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, primarily perpetrated against members of the Yazidi minority during the armed conflict in Syria and Iraq," read a statement released by Eurojust on Friday.
The new team will reduce the need for multiple interviews of the same victims who have experienced traumatic events at the hands of IS.
The Yazidis are an ethnic group whose ancestral homeland stretches through northern Iraq and parts of Syria.
The minority group were specifically targeted and oppressed by IS when the gang invaded Iraq's Sinjar region.
Girls were forced into slavery and human trafficking rings, boys were forced to fight for the group, while men were executed if they didn't convert to Islam - or often executed in any case.
In May 2021 a UN investigations team ruled, "there is clear and convincing evidence that the crimes" perpetrated by IS "against the Yazidi people clearly constituted genocide".
The plight of the Yazidis has garnered international attention, but nearly seven years after IS launched its assault on the Sinjar Valley they continue to face difficulties in the region. Up to 200,000 Yazidis are still displaced with a majority living in camps for internally displaced persons in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
Eurojust said the establishment of a joint French and Swedish team would be of "added value" to other EU member states or third countries, "who want to end the impunity of FTFs involved in core international crimes such as slavery or sexual violence against members of the Yazidi community".
In a Germany, a landmark case was held in November in which an Iraqi man was sentenced to life in prison - becoming the first member of IS to be convicted of genocide against the Yazidis.
[OneIndia] The investigation in the 'Bulli Bai' application case has so far suggested that the intention of the criminal mastermind was to get publicity and make an identity of his own, the Delhi Police said on Friday. The probe has so far not revealed anyone else's involvement in motivating Niraj Bishnoi (21) into doing such activities and his action can be attributed to the type of social media content he consumed, it said.
Police officials said there is a possibility about his alleged involvement in the earlier 'Sulli Deals' case and that they are investigating the matter. "There is a possibility that his network is linked to Sulli Deals. The devices used by him are being scanned. Through him, we might also reach the culprits of Sulli Deals," they said. Interestingly, in a case registered in southwest district where a woman journalist had registered a complaint, Bishnoi had allegedly posed as a media person and tried to mislead the investigation by the cyber cell unit, police said.
"During the Sulli Deal probe, he tried to mislead our team by calling them on WhatsApp by impersonating himself as a media person. He also tried to extract information about the developments in the probe. We found this through his phone records," the police official said. Bishnoi, the creator of the Bulli Bai application, had earlier also created an account on Twitter making lewd remarks on the picture of a complainant and even tweeted about the auction of the person, police said on Friday. One of such accounts came into light when the Sulli Deals case was under investigation. Through this handle, he had tried to plant some information regarding the possible propagator/originator of the Sulli Deals app, they said. With the arrest of the engineering student, the Delhi Police had said it has solved the case related to hundreds of Moslem women being listed for "auction" on the Bulli Bai app on the Github platform. During interrogation, it was found that Bishnoi had earlier created various Twitter handles with the initial name of "giyu" which is a gaming character.
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[NATION.PK] The Anti-Corruption Circle of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday arrested three key officials of the Pakistain Metrological Department (PMD) over corruption charges.
According to details, the FIA Islamabad zone conducted a raid and arrested three bigwigs of the weather department involved in the misappropriation of funds.
The accused reportedly had caused a loss of Rs7 million to national kitty through wrongdoings, said FIA spokesperson.
The officials include former director-general Pakistain Metrological Department (PMD), Director Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRMC) Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... Mushtaq Hussain and Director C-Tech Sohail Sati.
On Dec 31, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had busted a gang allegedly involved in defrauding people in the name of the Ehsaas program in Naushahro Feroze district of the Sindh province.
The FIA claimed that it had arrested three people for their role in the entire scam after it was pointed out by a beneficiary of the Ehsaas program.
Fake SIMs, fingerprints, and mobile phones were found from their possession besides also recovering laptops and 1500 copies of national identity cards (NICs).
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[SHAFAQ] Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah warned against "splitting" the Shiite ranks, confirming that the new government should be only "Iraqi."
A security official of the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah group in Iraq, Abu Ali al-Askari, said on Twitter, "We affirm that the next government must be Iraqi, neither eastern nor western, nor British, nor American, nor Emirati."
Concerning the support of Sunni blocs to a Shiite component (The Sadrist), al-Askari stressed, "the intervention of the Sunni forces (Azm and Takadum) or the Kurdish parties in favor of one party of the largest component (Shiites) will contribute to the instability of the country."
"If they got gains, they would be temporary, and everyone will lose."
Al-Askari concluded, "the attempt to dominate and exclude the majority, which represents 90% of the largest component, will lead to splitting the ranks, and this is what the enemies of the Iraqi people want."
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[Rudaw] Iraq has received 50 nationals suspected of being Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) members from Syria, Iraq's Security Media Cell said on Saturday.
The cell says the handover took place at the Rabia border crossing in coordination with Iraq's Joint Operations Command.
The SDF arrested thousands of ISIS fighters and their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019.
Most are being kept at al-Hol camp in north-eastern Syria, which officials have referred to as a ticking time bomb. It is populated by more than 60,000 people - mostly women and kiddies of different nationalities.
ISIS sleeper cells are active in the camp and multiple deaths have been reported over the past months. Many Iraqi nationals have also been returned to Iraq from the camp, despite Iraq being one of the world’s top executioners, according to Amnesia Amnesty International.
Since the rise of ISIS in 2014, thousands of people have been detained across Iraq for suspected links to terrorist groups, including ISIS, while hundreds have been executed. At least 17 people sentenced to death for terror charge were executed in 2020, reported AFP while Amnesty recorded 100 executions in Iraq in 2019, a number that dropped to 45 in the following year.
The SDF arrested thousands of ISIS fighters and their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019.
Most are being kept at al-Hol camp in north-eastern Syria, which officials have referred to as a ticking time bomb. It is populated by more than 60,000 people - mostly women and kiddies of different nationalities.
ISIS sleeper cells are active in the camp and multiple deaths have been reported over the past months. Many Iraqi nationals have also been returned to Iraq from the camp, despite Iraq being one of the world’s top executioners, according to Amnesia Amnesty International.
Since the rise of ISIS in 2014, thousands of people have been detained across Iraq for suspected links to terrorist groups, including ISIS, while hundreds have been executed. At least 17 people sentenced to death for terror charge were executed in 2020, reported AFP while Amnesty recorded 100 executions in Iraq in 2019, a number that dropped to 45 in the following year.
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[WIRE] Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani, commander of of Iran’s elite Quds Force, threatened this week that the revenge Iran will seek for the death of Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force, will happen "within" the United States.
Ghaani said, "We will prepare ground for the hard revenge against the US from within their homes, as we do not need to be present as supervisors everywhere, wherever is necessary we take revenge against Americans by the help of people on their side and within their own homes without our presence."
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....I wish we had the stones to just very quietly send a message to the Iranians saying that we will therefore hold them responsible for any act of terror in the US, and just start erasing military bases and units.
Mike
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Iran must have a death wish, with any normal president. Iran, if they pulled something, would end as a functioning nation.
but I'm reminded we have a democrat in the office and as such we probably would end up giving Iran a couple or three pallets of cash.
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this is crazy/stupid. Iran declared war on the US in 1979 by invading and occupying our territory (US embassy). Why haven't we retaliated? Oh! I know.
#12
#6 To all the retarded cuntservatives cowards in this crappy rag, that can’t even fight a military dictatorship in their own fucking shitty country after the bastards faggots in the CIA FBI PENTAGON steal the elections and kill their own citizen (9/11) in order to implement a citizens control
Iran should be the less of the worries you are just a bunch of imbeciles fuck you all !
Morons cowards conservatives free your shitty country then worry about the rest of the world LOL….
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ISOY,
Man, don't hold back like that; you'll kill yourself with the blood pressure. Please, tell us what you really think.
Mike
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ref #6 above...any chance the author is an 1811 or a contractor of the alphabet soup club? Anyone, Buhler?
[An Nahar] Contacts are still ongoing between Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... head Jebran Bassil and Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... secretary-general’s aide Hussein Khalil as well as between ex-minister Ali Hassan Khalil and PM Najib Miqati in a bid to reach a solution for the government paralysis crisis, ad-Diyar newspaper reported on Saturday.Ministerial sources told the daily that a consensual "format" is being mulled behind the scenes.
The so-called format would not be depicted as a defeat for the Shiite Duo nor it would prevent the state budget’s approval, the sources added.
This exit calls for holding a Cabinet session to pass the draft state budget with Finance Minister Youssef Khalil as the only representative of the Shiite Duo, the sources said, noting that the session would exclusively tackle the state budget.
Al-Joumhouria newspaper meanwhile reported that the past few days witnessed intensive contacts aimed at reaching a so-called governmental-judicial solution for the crisis.
"Top judicial officials promised senior governmental officials that the Court of Cassation’s general commission would approve separating the jurisdiction of the investigative judge (into the port blast case Tarek Bitar) from that of the Higher Council for the Trial of Presidents and Ministers, based on a similar precedent in this regard related to the Bourj Hammoud waste incinerator," the daily said.
Optimism, however, "totally faded after the governmental officials noticed an evasion of the made promises and a deliberate attempt to block this exit," al-Joumhouria said, noting that the top judicial officials started coming up with excuses related to Covid-19 infections.
Sources close to Prime Minister Najib Miqati meanwhile stressed that that "the atmosphere is positive" as to holding a Cabinet session aimed at passing the state budget, revealing that the call for the session is expected to be made in the beginning of next week.
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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
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[FrontPage] On Saturday, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted: "Martyr Soleimani is an eternal reality that will live on forever. His assassins — including Trump & the like — will go down in history’s garbage bin, but of course after receiving retribution in this world for the crime they committed." This is a clear threat, but Twitter has not banned or suspended Khamenei’s account. After all, he was threatening Donald Trump, and as far as Twitter is concerned, what could be wrong with that?
[FoxNews] 163 service members committed suicide in Q3 2021.
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...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
Hezbollah
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
Najib Miqati
