[KhaamaPress] Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s supreme court has announced that at least six people allegedly accused of abducting a woman and raping on Wednesday were publically flogged in a football stadium in Kandahar province.
Taliban’s high court for the country’s Southwestern zone on Wednesday in a statement said the sentence was implemented based on the guidance of the deputy judicial officer of southern Kandahar province.
As per the announcement, the alleged criminals were accused of kidnapping a woman and a rape case, who confessed to their crimes during the investigation.
It is reported that flogging took place in front of a huge crowd at Ahamad Shahi football stadium in southern Kandahar province.
Prior to this, the supreme court of the Islamic Emirate had reported that a woman in Parwan province was flogged for committing adultery.
Taliban’s Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada had previously ordered judges to implement "Sharia limits and retribution" throughout Afghanistan.
The implementation of lashing faced widespread condemnations in Afghanistan and overseas while some human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... advocacy organizations described it against human values and also described it as "hateful".
Despite the immense pressure from the international community on flogging, public execution, respecting human rights, the rights of Afghan women and girls as well as religious minorities and ethnic groups, the Taliban group has its own policies and priorities regarding Afghanistan’s internal issues.
[AnNahar] Oil-rich but war-scarred Libya has for years been ruled by two rival governments, but now some analysts see faint signs of progress toward reconciliation between them.
They point to discord within one of the camps, based in the east and backed by military strongman 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... , where the parliament last week suspended its former premier Fathi Bashagha.
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[Independent] Afghan Colonel who fought with British in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province facing deportation from the UK.
An Afghan colonel who fought alongside British troops and fled to the UK on a small boat has been threatened with deportation to Rwanda, in a new betrayal of heroic soldiers who supported coalition forces.
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[REGNUM] Once under external control, Ukraine has become one of the key "hubs" of Asian-European drug trafficking - a route for the delivery of opiates from Afghanistan to the EU countries. Now one of the main narcotic highways passes through it - the Balkan branch of this route. This was pointed out by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Vladimir Kolokoltsev . Ironically, but almost simultaneously, albeit in a slightly different context, the Turkish press called Ukraine "European Afghanistan." Continued on Page 49
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[REGNUM] The cynical provocation of the Ukrainian special services and their Western patrons in the form of burning the Koran causes deep indignation among Muslims around the world and testifies to the moral degradation of the customers and executors of this and similar provocations, the Coordinating Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus (KCMSC)
...what in the former Soviet Union is known as a super-Muslim spiritual directorate, which suggests a description of an ulema, a formal group of Moslem scholars that issues rulings. It is perhaps interesting that the father of Chechnya’s President Ramzan Kadyrov, who was mufti of the Chechnyan separatists, was a founding member of the thing, and that Chechnyans only regained control in 2017 after a long Dagestani interregnum. Thus the deep indignation by a proxy for Russia’s partner in the attempted reconquest of Ukraine...
said on May 24.
"What these Satanists pass off as a manifestation of freedom of speech and freedom of religion is in fact nothing more than a barbaric violation of the spiritual values of mankind, which causes protest not only among Muslims, but also among believers of other faiths," the center’s leaders noted .
In Russia, the feelings of all believers are respected, and the state supports believers of all faiths, the coordination center said in a statement. Perhaps the goal of the provocateurs was the interethnic and interfaith split in Russia, but the effect turned out to be the opposite, the KCMSC noted.
"These provocations only unite the peoples of Russia. Today we are more than ever united and determined by joint efforts to continue to destroy all kinds of Nazi-Satanists,"said the leaders of the center.
Such provocations once again prove the correctness of the decision to launch a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, this struggle is a holy jihad for Muslims, the KCMSC added.
Was he acquitted because he is a Moslem colonist, because he’s an important public intellectual and academic, or because he really is innocent? Perhaps one day we’ll learn what “everybody knows.”
[AlAhram] A Swiss court on Wednesday acquitted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on charges of rape and sexual coercion, finding no evidence against the former Oxford University professor.
The academic was also awarded around 151,000 Swiss francs ($167,000) in compensation from the Swiss canton of Geneva over the case.
After the verdict was read in the Geneva Criminal Court, the 60-year-old Swiss preacher smiled and was hugged by one of his daughters.
Ramadan's 57-year-old accuser, identified under the assumed name of "Brigitte", left the courtroom before the end of the verdict.
Her lawyers immediately vowed to appeal the ruling.
Prosecutors had last week called for a three-year sentence against Ramadan. The case was the first time he has been tried for rape, although he risks facing a trial in La Belle France on similar charges.
The Swiss trial presented two diametrically opposed versions of what happened in a Geneva hotel room in October 2008.
The lawyer representing Brigitte, a convert to Islam, said she was repeatedly raped and subjected to "torture and barbarism".
Ramadan, a charismatic yet controversial figure in European Islam, rejected the charges, insisting there was no sexual activity between him and Brigitte, and saying he was the victim of a "trap".
Brigitte was in her forties at the time of the alleged assault in 2008. She filed a complaint 10 years later, telling the court she felt emboldened to come forward following similar complaints filed in La Belle France.
Both parties agreed that Ramadan and Brigitte spent the night together in the hotel room, which she left early the following morning.
Ramadan insisted that Brigitte invited herself up to his room, before quickly ending the encounter.
The indictment accused Ramadan of sexual coercion and of committing rape three times during the night.
During the trial, the defence insisted on Ramadan's innocence and stressed there was no scientific evidence in the case.
His lawyers also accused Brigitte and the women who have brought charges against him in La Belle France of forging links to bring down the Islamic scholar, citing "Ramadanphobia".
During his final statements in court last week, Ramadan asked not to be tried on his "real or supposed ideology" and urged the judges not to be "influenced by the media and political noise".
"Forget I'm Tariq Ramadan!" he said.
Controversial among secularists who see him as a supporter of political Islam, Ramadan obtained a doctorate from the University of Geneva, with a thesis focused on his grandfather, who founded Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund movement.
He was a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford until November 2017 and held visiting roles at universities in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Morocco.
He was forced to take a leave of absence when rape allegations surfaced in La Belle France at the height of the "Me Too" movement, over suspected attacks between 2009 and 2016.
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To set the record straight, Tariq Ramadan's grandfather did not found the Muslim Brotherhood.
Born at Shibin El Kom, some seventy kilometers north of Cairo, at age fourteen Grandfather Ramadan met Hassan al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood founder, at a conference held at Tanta in the Nile Delta. Later, in 1946, he received a law degree at University of Cairo, after which he became Banna's personal secretary and edited Al Shihab, the Ikhwan's weekly journal. He then married Wafa, daughter of Hassan Al-Banna.
[JPost] This POS "Good morning to every one but Roger Waters," tweeted the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
Roger Waters dressed up as an SS officer and compared Anne Frank to Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during a concert at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin last week.
ein abend mit roger waters in der mercedes-benz-arena. kein gegenprotest, nur vereinzelte BDS-unterstutzer. drinnen uber die anlage eine ansage von herrn waters: "the show will start in 10 minutes. and a court in frankfurt has ruled that i am not an antisemite". die arena jubelt. pic.twitter.com/TkVjtzDAhw
At the beginning of the show, an announcement was displayed on a screen reading "on a matter of public interest: a court in Frankfurt has ruled that I am not an antisemite," sparking applause from the crowd. "Just to be clear, I condemn antisemitism unreservedly," continued the announcement.
That’s nice. How does the gentleman define the thing he so thoroughly condemns? Because he clearly does not define it as hating Jews.
Waters, the former bassist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd, has repeatedly come under fire for anti-Zionist and antisemitic statements and actions, with his former bandmates rejecting his actions. Waters also has expressed support for Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine.
Shortly after the show began, a graphic displayed on a crucifix-shaped screen hanging above the stage showed speech bubbles reading "They must think we're f*%$ing stupid!" and "Who do you mean by they?"
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Roger, loved your music (although the story themes seem to indicate serious mommy issues).
But at this point you're just being stupid.
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Ugly man. Ugly fans.
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...Waters' next album is tenatively titled, 'Dark Side Of The Loon'.
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Looking at his music, the song 'When the Tigers Broke Free' in particular. He seems to have issues with his father dying during WW2. Since the holocaust is often given as a reason WW2 was a good war and necessary I've always thought that was the root of his anti-semitism.
That and most lefties generally lean towards loving the underdog despite facts. They loved Israel initially, then Israel kept winning against incredible odds and the Arabs cut the Pals free. After that the liberals started to love the Pals no matter what horrific crap they pulled.
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#4 Yep - that is the long n short of it. His dad was killed near Anzio. The Who did a rock opera concerning a certain someone whose dad was killed at Anzio.
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[NYPOST] After sending Afghanistan $8 billion since the chaotic 2021 US withdrawal from Kabul, the Biden administration is obstructing an internal investigation into how much of that money may have ended up in the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s hands, the House Oversight Committee said in a Tuesday letter obtained by The Post.
The State Department and US Agency for International Development (USAID) have explicitly barred their employees from sitting for interviews with Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko and, along with the Treasury, have failed to deliver multiple requests for documents, according to the letter.
"This lack of cooperation is unacceptable," the committee said in its letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and USAID Administrator Samantha Power. "The administration will neither avoid SIGAR’s important oversight work nor flout accountability to the American people for its catastrophic failures in Afghanistan."
Created by Congress in 2008 to audit US reconstruction projects and activities in the war-torn country, SIGAR aims to "promote efficiency and effectiveness" of such programs and "detect and prevent waste, fraud, and abuse," according to the office’s website.
Nearly two years after the last American troops left Kabul, SIGAR continues to be a "critical partner in helping the committee assess issues related to security, humanitarian, economic and governance assistance to the Afghan people," the politicians wrote.
"The administration’s refusal to cooperate with SIGAR has inhibited SIGAR’s ability to conduct independent, robust and meaningful oversight," the committee wrote in its letter. "As US taxpayer dollars continue to assist the people of Afghanistan, it is imperative SIGAR’s mission remain unobstructed."
The committee, which is investigating the disastrous pullout and its aftermath, sent the letter after Sopko told them last month the agencies’ uncooperative actions blocked his office’s ability "to protect US taxpayer dollars from benefiting the Taliban and other terrorist organizations."
"Due to the refusal of State or USAID to fully cooperate with SIGAR, I cannot report to this Committee or the American people on the extent to which our government may be funding the Taliban and other nefarious groups with US taxpayer dollars," he added.
Not only would the administration not comply with requests for information on US-sent aid, Sopko said, the State Department "shockingly" told his office "that it didn’t know" how much revenue the Taliban has collected from the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... , NGOs or other groups delivering international aid.
Despite the Biden administration’s lack of cooperation, Sopko testified that his office learned the Taliban has generated income by imposing customs charges on aid shipments, taxing NGOs and "simply diverting funds away from groups the Taliban considers hostile and toward groups they favor."
"Since the Taliban takeover, the US government has sought to continue supporting the Afghan people without providing benefits for the Taliban regime," he told the committee April 19. "However, a woman is only as old as she admits... it is clear from our work that the Taliban is using various methods to divert US aid dollars."
But without compliance from the State Department and USAID, it is unclear how much of the $8 billion in US-provided funds the radical Islamist government has sopped up.
"We simply do not know since the Department of State, USAID, the UN and other agencies are refusing to give us basic information that we or any other oversight body would need to ensure safe stewardship of tax dollars," he said.
The committee in its Tuesday letter urged officials to comply with Sopko’s prior and future requests, adding that it is "not confident the Biden Administration can guarantee that funding will make it to its intended recipients and not the Taliban or other sources of terrorism."
"As US taxpayer dollars continue to assist the people of Afghanistan, it is imperative SIGAR’s mission remain unobstructed," the committee wrote, adding that "it is Congress’s authority alone to determine SIGAR’s jurisdiction and scope of mission."
[Shafaq News] On Wednesday, Lieutenant General Qais Khalaf al-Muhammadawi, the Deputy Commander of the Iraqi Joint Operations, reaffirmed the unchanged nature of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... mission in Iraq, which focuses on training Iraqi forces and providing advice.
During the handover ceremony of the NATO command in Iraq, where Lieutenant General Giovanni Maria Lannucci from the Italian Army handed over power to Lieutenant General José Antonio Aguero Martínez from the Spanish Army, al-Muhammadawi stated that while there is an annual tradition of changing the mission leadership in Iraq, the core responsibilities of NATO remain constant. He emphasized that the mission exists at the request of the Iraqi government and aims to offer advice, training, and support to military units.
Although Iraq is progressing towards self-reliance by leveraging foreign expertise and conducting joint exercises, al-Muhammadawi highlighted the ongoing need for training, military advice, and participation in external courses.
He underscored the significance of the NATO mission, particularly for the Ministry of Defense, and praised its achievements in fulfilling 15 significant goals over the past two years.
Al-Muhammadawi proposed expanding the scope of the NATO mission to include training the forces of the Ministry of Interior, specifically the Federal Police, in maintaining internal security. He noted that progress is being made in attaining the common objectives set by the mission and highlighted the significant developments that have taken place throughout the year.
In the ceremony, the former NATO mission commander, commander Lannucci, expressed his sadness at leaving behind many Iraqi friends, including the Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Army.
He also acknowledged the Iraqi Army as one of the oldest armies, established in 1921, and one of the strongest in the region. Iannotti praised the Iraqi Army's culture, traditions, and capability to maintain Iraq's security.
In turn, Gen. Martínez, the incoming NATO mission commander, emphasized that all alliance members share common values, and NATO was born to counter external threats.
He further stated that although Iraq is not in Europe, they can learn from the European experience, emphasizing that in today's world, risks cannot be confined to specific regions.
Notably, NATO Mission Iraq (NMI) is a non-combat advisory and capacity-building mission. It was launched at the NATO Summit in Brussels in July 2018, following a request from the government of Iraq, and established in October 2018.
The mission currently involves several hundred personnel from Allied and partner countries.
NMI cooperates with partners like the Global Coalition Against ISIS, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , and the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... .
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[Shafaq News] The Iraqi Fund for Recovery announced the successful retrieval of more than $20 million from Iraqi funds held in Kuwait.
Judge Haider Hanoun, the Chairman of the Fund's Board of Directors, stated in a statement today that within the framework of the Fund's efforts to monitor Iraqi funds abroad and work towards their retrieval through diplomatic and legal channels, they have managed to recover an amount of $20,437,157 from funds deposited in the Kuwaiti National Bank under the custody of the Iraqi Embassy in Kuwait. The account was reactivated, and the balances were funded.
He explained that these funds had been frozen since 1990 and were subject to seizure and account closure. After their verification and return, they were deposited as "trust funds" into the account of the Iraqi Embassy in Kuwait. He commended the role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in making efforts and cooperating to retrieve the funds. He further stated that the Central Bank of Iraq confirmed the deposit of the amount into the "Iraq2" account at the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States.
It is worth mentioning that the Iraqi Fund for Recovery previously announced in mid-May the retrieval of a settlement amount from a company and the ongoing settlement of $80 million in Credit Suisse bank.
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Such an important story that I found nothing on it in The Times of Israel, Ynet, or the Jerusalem Post. Could it be that the Al Ahram reporter is pandering to the Jew-hatred of Egyptian readers?
[AlAhram] Dozens of Death Eater Israeli settlers Wednesday morning stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem, under heavy protection from Israeli police, said the Islamic Waqf, responsible for administering the site.
The Waqf said that settlers, divided into groups, raided the holy Islamic Mosque from al-Maghariba gate and took provocative tours in its compounds, according to Paleostinian News Agency WAFA.
The Death Eater settlers performed rituals in the eastern part of the Mosque, the agency reported.
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[IsraelTimes] State Department says human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organizations ’should have space to raise resources’ worldwide; NIF bashes ’government of murderous Moslems’ as coalition weighs bill to impose 65% tax
The Biden administration came out on Wednesday against a coalition bill that would significantly limit Israeli civil society groups’ ability to accept donations from foreign governments. The legislation was drafted by Likud MK Ariel Kallner and is slated to be brought before the Knesset’s high-level Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday. The bill states that any nonprofit group that engages in public advocacy two years before or after receiving a donation from a foreign government will lose its status as a public institution and will no longer be eligible for tax exemptions. In addition, those non-profits will be hit with a 65 percent income tax.
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A New Israel Fund financed protest against the Israeli government. Jan. 7, 2023
(JNS) The U.S.-based New Israel Fund, which provides financial support to progressive and anti-Israel groups, on Monday posted to its Hebrew website a list of its donations to groups involved in the protests against judicial reform.
Demonstrations, sometimes turning violent, have roiled Israel for the past three months and, at least temporarily, derailed the government’s legislative plans.
The total amount spent, spread across 26 groups, comes to about 2 million shekels, or $660,000. Indeed, NIF money helped to ignite the protests, funding the first major demonstration on Jan. 7 in Tel Aviv.
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specially those working to defend the rights of the most marginalized in Israel and under Israel’s control: women, the LGBTQ+ community, Paleostinians living under occupation, and Arab citizens of Israel
[IsraelTimes] A Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,-affiliated student bloc wins elections at a top West Bank university — while the Paleostinians have not held a general election since 2006.
The annual vote for the student council at Birzeit University outside Ramallah has been dominated by politics, which experts say reflects the lack of political horizon for young Paleostinians.
Hamas will have 25 representatives on the Birzeit student council, according to results announced by its Student Affairs Department. The Hamas-affiliated bloc is down three seats in today’s vote compared with last year, losing its majority on the student body.
Interesting.
The Fatah movement wins 20 seats — up two from last year — while the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine gains one seat, with six in this year’s poll.
[IsraelTimes] Lawmakers speed through hundreds of objections to pass fiscal roadmap decried as ’reckless’ by critics opposed to earmarks for ultra-Orthodox
Knesset politicians okayed state budgets for 2023 and 2024 in the early hours of Wednesday morning, ending months of coalition bickering over funding priorities that had threatened to upend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
After slogging through a seemingly unending roster of objections leveled by the opposition in hopes of delaying proceedings, MKs finally voted to approve the final parts of the two-year budget just after 6 a.m. Wednesday, capping a boisterous all-nighter in the plenum.
Lawmakers voted 64-55 along coalition lines in the final two readings for the 2023 budget, the 2024 budget, and a bill setting funding policy.
With a May 29 deadline to pass a budget or call new elections looming, Netanyahu scrambled in recent weeks to meet his coalition partners’ demands, clinching some deals Monday to pave the way for the vote, which began late Tuesday.
The passage buys Netanyahu and his government another 18 months until the Knesset must approve another budget and puts to rest the coalition’s largest internal point of contention.
As the Knesset began voting on the budget, thousands of protesters gathered in Jerusalem, waving Israeli flags and chanting against the government "looting" the state coffers.
Demonstrators similarly criticized the budget for billions in grants to the ultra-Orthodox community, while allowing men in that community to avoid employment and military service.
[AlAhram] al-Azhar condemned recent statements by a French official who linked Sunni Islam to terrorism and claimed it posed the greatest risk to La Belle France and Europe, describing them as "irresponsible and ignorant."
[BenarNews] After waiting six years, Jaslia Abbas is among residents of Marawi who expect to finally be compensated soon for their homes destroyed during fighting between government troops and Moslemsnuffies in this southern Philippine city.
The mother of six said she hoped to get cash needed to rebuild the home she had to abandon when the pro-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.... snuffies seized Marawi in May 2017 and provoked a fierce urban battle, which lasted five months before Philippine forces retook the city.
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[NPASyria] The Directorate General of European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) warned, on Tuesday, of a "serious risk" of the ongoing closure of Semalka-Faysh Khabour border crossing on people in northeast Syria.
ECHO said, in a blurb, "A continued closure of the crossing point constitutes a serious risk for more than 2 million people in northeast Syria dependent on humanitarian assistance."
On May 11, the management of the Faysh Khabour crossing sent a notice to the NGOs informing them that the crossing was closed until further notice. The management did not reveal the reasons for the closure.
300 international humanitarian staff had been evacuated from the region due to the closure decision, according to ECHO.
"Donors are engaged with authorities in Iraq and other stakeholders advocating for a humanitarian exemption on this vital supply route, allowing humanitarian supplies and staff to cross into northeast Syria," according to the NGO.
The Semalka—Faysh Khabur is one of the most crucial border crossings for the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), especially after the closure of al-Ya’rubiyah (Tel Kocher) border crossing in 2020 due to Russian-Chinese vetoes.
Residents of northeastern Syria are calling for not politicizing the crossing, since it is a vital humanitarian lifeline, as well as, it is a commercial outlet through which various goods enter the region.
[NPASyria] An official of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)
...the government of Syrian Kurdistan...
said on Wednesday that seven families of Syrian refugees in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... had reached AANES-held areas and settled in a camp north of Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria.
In 2022, Lebanon announced a plan to return 15,000 Syrian refugees to Syria. They deported the first batch in the Autumn of that same year and included over 100 families through three border crossings with Syria in Homs and Damascus.
Late in April, the AANES expressed its readiness to receive Syrian refugees in Lebanon after Lebanese authorities increasingly deported refugees.
Sheikhmos Ahmad, co-chair of the IDPs and Refugees Affairs Office affiliated with the AANES, said that seven families of Syrian refugees in Lebanon reached AANES-held areas and settled in al-Hakomiya makeshift camp in north Raqqa.
The official added that the Camps and Humanitarian Affairs Office, affiliated with Raqqa’s Civil Council, will provide the needed support for refugees according to available resources. In case their numbers increase, the AANES will have to establish a specific camp for refugees returning from Lebanon.
The families that returned are originally from Tel Abyad, which is under the control of Ottoman Turkish forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), he noted.
Earlier, the AANES called on the UN to provide assistance and guarantees and to assume its responsibilities in opening a humanitarian corridor between Lebanon and AANES-held areas to facilitate the safe return of refugees.
[NPASyria] After being threatened frequently by a non-Syrian commander of an Iranian-backed militia and for fear of being arrested, al-Abd was forced to leave his house in Deir ez-Zor, east Syria, and move to areas under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Muhammad al-Abd, a pseudonym for a resident of the town of Abu Kamal in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, relocated to the city of Hajin, said, "An Iraqi commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forced me to leave my house after accusing me of giving information about their headquarters, which is located near my house."
Iranian-backed militias continue committing human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... violations against civilians in areas under their control in Deir ez-Zor. They commit appropriation of property by confiscating civilian houses under false pretenses, then turning them to either military headquarters or houses to settle families of their foreign or Arab turbans.
Al-Abd told North Press, "The IRGC warned me multiple times to evacuate my house because it was close to one of their headquarters in the town of al-Sukariya west of Abu Kamal."
He refused several times, but the IRGC’s Iraqi officers threatened him that in case their headquarters was attacked, he would be the first suspect.
"The next day, the murderous Moslems shot randomly towards my house under the pretext of being under attack, which prompted me to leave the house," he added.
He later found out that the Iraqi commander settled his family in the house after al-Abd and his family left.
The Iranian-backed militias forcefully turn the houses of civilians in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, particularly in al-Mayadin and Abu Kamal, to security headquarters, taking advantage of the absence of their owners or the involvement of some in other military groups, in addition seizing the houses by force.
They justify their practices by several charges, accusing owners of either joining the Ottoman Turkish-backed opposition factions, also known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), the SDF, or 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.... (ISIS).
During the early days of Syria’s civil war, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... teamed up to support Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... against the opposition and sent military consultants, through which it increased the size of its military presence in different Syrian regions.
According to activists in Abu Kamal, the Iranian-backed Liwa Fatemiyoun, Hashemiyoun, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba militias "seized over 200 houses in Abu Kamal and its countryside since the beginning of 2023, particularly in al-Sukariya, and villages of al-Salihiyah and al-Hamdan."
Ragheb al-Salem, 50, from the Tamo neighborhood on the southern part of al-Mayadin, 40 km east of Deir ez-Zor, said, "Most of the people in the neighborhood are foreign murderous Moslems of the IRGC, especially Afghans."
He stressed that the original inhabitants live in rented houses in other neighborhoods "because they were accused of several charges to force them out of their houses."
Al-Salem owns a shop for selling dessert in his neighborhood with four apartments, belonging to him and his three brothers in Gulf States, above it. He was forced to evacuate the building and the shop after an IRGC patrol notified him to do so. He had no choice but to comply.
He said, "The next day, they brought workers and equipment and removed walls to make the apartments one in order to access easily from one to another. Then they brought weapons and logistics to the building and raised the Syrian flag above, forcing me to close my shop and move out of the town."
The IRGC militias confiscate the civilians houses that are distant from their posts to be used as hideouts in case their posts are bombed, according to locals.
The town of al-Mayadin has almost become a military "colony" for the IRGC. The original people are located in few neighborhoods scattered on the outskirts of the town, especially after the region has become a destination for "Shiite pilgrims" since it contains their largest shrine, the Ain Ali shrine.
Al-Mayadin connects Deir ez-Zor and Abu Kamal, making most of the IRGC murderous Moslems prefer to live there with their families.
Earlier, the IRGC seized five buildings in the al-Jumiyat neighborhood in the center of Abu Kamal and turned them into military posts. Later, unidentified aircrafts bombed and destroyed the buildings.
IRGC was created after Iran’s 1979 revolution to protect the new Islamic regime, the IRGC has become one of the most powerful paramilitary organizations in the Middle East. It has provided assistance to turban groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , the Paleostinian territories, Syria, 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... . Its control over large sectors of the Iranian economy helps it fund its activities.
The Syrian Desert covers nearly half of the area of Syria, and is distributed over the governorates of Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Rif Dimashq, Suwayda and Palmyra.
Iranian-backed militias and the government forces control large areas of the Syrian Desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, which constitutes a source of concern as it witnesses intensive operations by the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) sleeper cells.
[Rudaw] The US State Department on Tuesday rejected any ties to two journalists imprisoned in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... for breaking the news of the death of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini which sparked months of protests.
Niloufar Hamedi of Shargh Daily and Elaheh Mohammadi from Sazandegi paper were arrested separately in September last year for publicizing the death of Amini while in the custody of Iran’s morality police. Months of antigovernment protests, met with a bloody crackdown, ensued after the death of the young Kurdish-Iranian woman.
One of the charges brought against Hamedi and Mohammadi includes collaboration with the US. Protesters have been accused of collaborating with the US, Israel, and other western countries; all considered as foreign enemies by Tehran.
"We reject those charges. They are obviously not true. And I will note that over the course of the protests," said Matthew Miller, a US State Department spokesperson over the collaboration charges.
"Iranian authorities have repeatedly violated Iranians’ human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... , punished them for executing their essential freedoms," Miller added while calling on Tehran to stop end "arbitrary detentions" and "sham trials."
Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and the intelligence of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - leveled charges of espionage against Hamedi and Mohammadi.
Hamedi is set for trial on May 30, while Mohammadi is scheduled for May 29.
Rights groups have also accused Iran of carrying out "sham trials" of those detained.
The pending trial comes as the number of executions carried out has increased. On Friday Iran executed three men over participation in the demonstrations over Amini’s death.
In a recent Amnesia Amnesty International report, executions in Iran increased compared to previous years, which sees Iran’s recorded executions increasing from 314 in 2021 to 576 in 2022.
Earlier this month, both Hamedi and Mohammadi along with Iranian human rights activist Nargez Mohammadi, received the 2023 UNSECO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize in absentia , for their reporting of the protests.
According to the 2023 World Press Freedom Index issued by the Gay Paree-based Reporters without Borders, a non-profit organization aiming to safeguard freedom of information, Iran is listed as 177 out of 180 in the world, making it one of the worst countries in the world for press freedom, followed only by Vietnam, China and North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
[IsraelTimes] The head of Iran’s nuclear program insists that his government will cooperate with international inspectors on any "new activities."
His statement follows an exclusive News Agency that Dare Not be Named report about Tehran’s new underground tunnel system near a nuclear enrichment facility.
Speaking to journalists after a cabinet meeting today, Mohammad Eslami of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... seeks to describe the interest in the site as a case of Israel feeling pressured.
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran is working under the IAEA safeguards, and whenever [it] wants to start new activities, it will coordinate with the IAEA, and acts accordingly," Eslami says, using an acronym for the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency.
The IAEA does not respond to questions from the AP about the construction at Natanz, about 225 kilometers (140 miles) south of Tehran. Natanz has been a point of international concern since its existence became known two decades ago.
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For various levels and definitions of "cooperation"
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The US recently made a public showing of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb. I wonder why?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...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...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
[BenarNews] After waiting six years, Jaslia Abbas is among residents of 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
