[Dawn] The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of meters below lies what is believed to be the world’s largest deposit of copper.
Mes Aynak valley believed to have the world’s largest deposit of copper.
Afghanistan’s Taliban ...Arabic for students... rulers are pinning their hopes on Beijing to turn that rich vein into revenue to salvage the cash-starved country amid crippling international sanctions.
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LOL. There goes the Biden administration, helping Iran and Russia again. Now tell us that this dope and his family aren't compromised
"The Taliban’s spectacular reversal illustrates the powerful allure of Afghanistan’s untapped mining sector. Successive authorities have seen the country’s mineral riches, estimated to be worth $1 trillion, as the key to a prosperous future, but none have been able to develop them amid the continual war and violence. Now, multiple countries, including Iran and Russia, are looking to invest
[DW] The BBC announced on Sunday that bulletins in Pashto, Persian and Uzbek had been removed. Voice of America was also reported to have been ordered to halt broadcasts.
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Hope is not a strategy unless you are dumb. Oh, I see.
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"But what if you cut off their tits and sew mutilated flesh over their privvies? Kind of like The Tent of Xerxes in 300, and that was a fun scene, right?"
[Garowe] al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... murderous Moslems in Somalia are getting "bolder" in their attacks and have increased using jacket wallahs wearing homemade explosives in what security experts call a "change in tactics."
But now as security at government key installations and military basis beefed up, they use more bombers wearing suicide-vests with huge magnitude and impact," Guled said.
The Islamist bad boy group mounted one of its deadliest attacks Wednesday, targeting elections at the regional presidential palace in Beledweyne town around 300 km north of Mogadishu. Forty-eight people were killed, and more than 100 others were maimed.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The head of the National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs announced a new prisoner swap deal that included 16 Saudi prisoners through the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... .In a brief statement on Sunday evening, Abdulqadir al-Murtadha explained that on March 21, a new prisoner swap deal was agreed through the United Nations, involving 1,400 prisoners of the army and popular committees in exchange for the release of 823 troops from the Saudi-led coalition’s side.
The swap including 16 Saudi soldiers and three Sudanese mercenaries. Amongst the people planned to be released by 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... are Nasser Mansour Hadi, brother of the Saudi-backed puppet president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, and formeer Minister of Defence Mahmoud al-Subaihi, whom both have been held as prisoners by the revolutionary government of Yemen since 2015.
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Wars in the world will continue to happen, until there’d be a war on the US soil. The Americans need to understand/feel a war, during a war, after a war, until such a war would happen on its soil. The US cannot be trusted as a friend in the outside world. After the 9/11, I was sorry for the US, but now, I think a war should come to the US and on its own soil. Only then, the Americans will feel the pain of those countries, suffered.
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Bluntly, Caligula, we organize things so that opponents who want to fight wars on our soil find themselves fighting us on their soil instead. The wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere demonstrate how we respond to attacks on our soil such as 9/11. No this is not fair, as the rest of the world counts fairness, but we don’t care — anyone who attacks us has chosen to inflict our overreaction on everyone in their vicinity.
[Rudaw] Iraq is building a concrete wall along its border with Syria, a security official confirmed to AFP on Sunday as the hundreds of kilometers long border is mired by security threats due to attempted 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) infiltrations.
A wall around "a dozen kilometers long and 3.5 meters high" was built in Shingal in western Nineveh province in the "first stage" of construction, the bigwig told AFP on the condition of anonymity.
The step aims to "put a stop to the infiltration" of ISIS into the Iraqi territory, the official added.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, with a ground network in Syria on Sunday said "Iraqi forces have begun building a concrete wall along the entire border."
Iraq announced its intention to build a concrete wall and a military barrier along its border with Syria earlier in March.
"There is an intention to build a wall on the border, but the existing fortifications provide the necessary security," the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army for Operations Qais al-Mohammedawi said at the time.
Iraq shares an extensive border with Syria, one which spans over 600-kilometers.
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Diyala has ramped up security along its 300 kilometers frontier with Saladin to curb the movement of 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.... sleeper cells, a security source revealed on Sunday.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that the Diyala Operations Command has implemented 90% of its plans to secure the border villages of al-Udhaim district; a frequent target for the remnants of bully boy groups sheltering at the outskirts of Saladin.
"The plan provides more robust protection for a 30-kilometer-long frontier and 25 villages," the source said, "watchtowers, barbed wires, and trenches were installed... Four to fifteen troops were deployed in each patrol to cut the supply routes of the terrorist groups and curb their attacks."
"ISIS gunnies continued to use Saladin borders as shelters," the source continued, "Saladin and Samarra Operations Commands did not offer any solutions to fortify or clear the loose areas."
On January 22, Gunmen from the ISIS bully boy group attacked an army barrack in a mountainous area al-Udhaim, killing 11 soldiers as they slept.
Members of the group still conduct operations, often targeting security forces, power stations and other infrastructure.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The head of the National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs announced a new prisoner swap deal that included 16 Saudi prisoners through the 
...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 
...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 
