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Afghanistan
14 militants blown up by own explosives in Faryab province
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least fourteen Lions of Islam were killed or maimed in an kaboom triggered by own explosives in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said the incident took place in the vicinity of Pashtun Kot district in Sar Hawz area.

The source further added that the kaboom left at least ten Lions of Islam dead while four others sustained injuries.

The anti-government armed krazed killer and terrorist groups including Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
bandidos murderous Moslems have not commented regarding the report so far.

Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Always love a story with a happy ending!
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 03/25/2018 23:43 Comments || Top||


Explosion leaves 1 dead, 9 wounded in Kabul city
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least one person was killed and nine others were maimed in an kaboom in Kabul earlier this evening, the security officials said.

The incident took place in the vicinity of the 8th police district of the city in Chaman Hazoori area o the city.

Deputy front man for the Ministry of Interior Nusrat Rahimi said the target of the kaboom was a group of the protesters and as a result at least three people were maimed.

He said the kaboom was triggered by a magnetic improvised bomb as a number of people had participated in a sit-in protest.

However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
another security official said at least one person was killed and nine others were maimed in the kaboom.

Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


'French' woman fighting for IS caught in Afghanistan
[DAWN] A French woman fighting for the hard boy Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in Afghanistan has been detained, Afghan officials said on Friday, amid fears that IS gunnies fleeing Syria and Iraq are finding their way to the country.

The woman was captured during a military operation in the northern province of Jowzjan ‐ an IS stronghold ‐ on Thursday night, several officials said.

It has been reported that French and Algerian fighters, some arriving from Syria, had joined the group’s Afghan franchise in the restive province.

"In a joint operation between NDS and Afghan special forces, five Afghan men and a French woman fighting for IS were locked away
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
in Darzab district of Jowzjan," the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS), Afghanistan’s spy agency, said in a statement.

The Defence Ministry confirmed that a "French holy warrior woman was among those detained". Six IS fighters were also killed, it said.

Afghan officials did not clarify how they identified the woman’s nationality. One official described her as "French speaking". They provided no further details about the woman or where she had come from.

Provincial police chief Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani said that US forces were also involved in Thursday’s operation.

"Four ISIS fighters were killed and one French woman... was also detained," Jawzjani said, using the Arabic acronym for IS.

He added that two other French IS fighters were killed in the province recently.

Jawzjani said Afghan and US forces took the woman into custody ‐ which was confirmed by the provincial governor’s front man Reza Ghafoori. Ghafoori said two Uzbek fighters had also been detained.Afghan and US special forces have ramped up air strikes and ground offensives against IS fighters in Jowzjan in recent months, which the Americans say have "disrupted" the group’s capacity to use imported muscle.

In January, Afghan forces caught the group’s "head controller of foreign forces". Two months later, his two successors were killed in a US air strike, a Resolute Support statement on Thursday said.

US and Afghan forces conducted a "nighttime raid" on Thursday in Mughul village in Darzab, the statement added. It made no mention of a French female fighter.

Most of the fighters in Jowzjan were "Pak Pashtun", General John Nicholson, commander of US and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
forces in Afghanistan, said in the statement.

Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Subsaharan
Chad soldier, 20 Boko Haram fighters killed in clash: Army source
[AlAhram] A Chadian soldier and 20 Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
members were killed in a clash in the restive Lake Chad region near Nigeria, a Chadian military officer told AFP Saturday.

The incident occurred on Friday on an islet named Tchoukou Hadje, the officer said, adding that five soldiers were maimed.

"Twenty Boko Haram members were killed and a large amount of weapons was recovered," he said. "The Chadian army lost one member."

Two Chadian soldiers including a captain were killed in an ambush in the area a month ago in the first attack by the Nigerian jihadist group on Chadian soil since May last year in which nine soldiers died.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1  Man for man Chad's Tubu soldiers are among the best in the world. They should be, they've been fighting for nearly four decades.
Posted by: Clurong Peacock9529 || 03/25/2018 9:23 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia says IS-linked militant killed by police in Dagestan
[Ynet] Russia says a Lion of Islam affiliated with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group has been killed in a battle with police in the country's southern republic of Dagestan
...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca...
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the man in a house was surrounded by officers Saturday and ordered to surrender, but refused and was killed by police. The committee said a sniper rifle, ammunition and a grenade were found in the house, according to Russian news agencies.

Dagestan is a predominantly Moslem region between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea. An Islamist insurgency connected to two separatist wars in Chechnya has spread to Dagestan.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Europe
French officer who swapped himself for hostage dies
[DAWN] A French police officer who offered himself up to a gunman in exchange for a hostage died of his injuries, raising the corpse count in the attack to four. The officer was honored on Saturday as a national hero of "exceptional courage and selflessness".

Col Arnaud Beltrame was among the first officers to respond to the attack on the supermarket in the south of La Belle France on Friday.

Beltrame, who first took his place among the elite police special forces in 2003 and served in Iraq in 2005, had organised a training session in the Aude region in December for just such a hostage situation. At the time, he armed his officers with paintball guns, according to Depeche du Midi, the local newspaper.

"We want to be as close to real conditions as possible," he said then.

But when he went inside the supermarket on Friday, he had given up his own weapon and volunteered himself in exchange for a female hostage.

Unbeknownst to the Morocco-born captor, he left his cellphone on so police outside could hear what was happening in the store. They stormed the building when they heard gunshots, officials said. Beltrame was fatally maimed.

His death raises the toll to four. The gunman was also killed, and 15 people were maimed in the attack.

"Arnaud Beltrame died in the service of the nation to which he had already given so much," President Emmanuel Macron said in a statement. "In giving his life to end the deadly plan of a terrorist, he fell as a hero."

Hero French police officer, 45, who was shot after he swapped himself for ISIS fanatic's female hostage, married his partner in hospital just hours before he died of his wounds

[DailyMail]
  • Arnaud Beltrame died in hospital after swapping places with a female hostage

  • Soldier planned to marry his partner of two years in a church wedding in June

  • He was among first to arrive at Super U store in southern town of Trebes, France

  • The hero lieutenant-colonel had been knighted the Legion of Honor in May 2012
Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  RIP, better if he'd killed the terrorist f*ck.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/25/2018 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  You're a better man than me Gunga Din.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 03/25/2018 15:42 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
‘AQIS militant, kidnapper’ among others held in Karachi
[DAWN] The Pakistain Rangers Sindh on Friday claimed to have tossed in the clink
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
a suspected bully boy among others.

These arrests were made after raids in different parts of the metropolis, the spokesperson for the paramilitary force said. The paramilitary force apprehended Inayatullah Brohi, alias Aini, in New Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
"The held suspect was affiliated with banned al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)," claimed the Rangers official, adding that he was involved in several acts of terror.

Separately, the paramilitary force arrested two alleged drug peddlers, Fidaullah and Mohammed Ali in Clifton and Docks localities, respectively.
Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent


Iraq
Federal Police mourns 8 personnel killed by IS between Kirkuk, Baghdad
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Federal Police Command has mourned several personnel who were killed by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
members after being kidnapped on the road between Baghdad and Kirkuk.

In a statement, Lt. Gen. Shaker Jawdat, said, "the coward snuffies killed our captivated personnel who were kidnapped while being disarmed."

Moreover, Jawdat urged the armed forces "to follow the remaining remnants and destroy their cells and havens."

Earlier today, the pro-government al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) announced that eight federal police personnel were killed by Islamic State members.

In remarks, Ali al-Husseini, spokesperson for the PMFs in the northern axis, said, "IS members killed eight Federal Police personnel who were kidnapped few days ago in a region between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces."

"The video posted by the Death Eaters and circulated in media channels, today, has been verified," he added.

Islamic State posted, previously today, photos claiming they were for federal police personnel who were kidnapped on Baghdad-Kirkuk road. Some photos showed handicapped people, while others were for Death Eaters shooting people.

Husseini added that "the attack will be the last one to be launched in that region," after he announced drawing a plan, along with the Counter-Terrorism Service, Federal Police and Rapid Response troops to deploy security elements along the road between Kirkuk and Baghdad.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Citizen killed, two others wounded in bomb blast, north of Baghdad
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three people were killed and injured in a kaboom, north of Baghdad, a security source said on Saturday.

Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, "a bomb went kaboom!, today, near a market in al-Mushahada region in Tarmiyah district, leaving a citizen killed and two others maimed."

"Security troops cordoned off the accident scene and conducted investigations. The maimed were taken to nearby hospital for treatment."
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Turkish army says killed 91 Kurdish militants in northern Iraq
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Ottoman Turkish strikes in northern Iraq have killed 91 Kurdish holy warriors in the last week, the armed forces staff declared on Saturday as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
continues to target fighters it designates as terrorists.

The Ottoman Turkish armed forces staff said in a tweet that "In the anti-terrorism operation, between the dates of 17-23 March 2018, one of the leading cadres of 91 Death Eaters have been neutralized, various types of 34 weapons have been seized, 29 handmade explosives were identified and destroyed".

Iraq on Thursday denounced Ottoman Turkish Arclight airstrikes on anti-Ankara, Kurdish fighters’ locations in the north of the country that left a number of civilians dead.

In a statement, the foreign ministry spokesperson, Ahmed Mahgoub, said "The Iraqi foreign ministry denounces the continuation of aggressions and transgressions upon Iraqi borders by the Ottoman Turkish forces, the latest of which was the strike that targeted the villages of Mawan, Qassan and Sarkinan in Soran, Erbil, which led to the martyrdom of a number of unarmed civilians".

The statement said those "violations...do not serve the development of relations between both neighbor countries". It added it "reaffirms its stance of rejecting the presence of any forces on Iraqi soil or any attempt to carry out military operations by any neighboring country".

Earlier on Thursday, Kurdish media reported the death of four civilians in Ottoman Turkish strikes on the borders with Iraq.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Diyala Dead Guys Documented: small mass grave, family killed, 4 tribals blown up


Mass grave found in Iraq’s Diyala, remains of 5 unearthed

Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security forces have found a mass grave near a river in Diyala province, a municipal official was quoted saying on Saturday.

Adnan al-Tamimi, head of Maqdadiah council, told Alsumaria News that a security force found a mass grave near al-Zur Basin (15 Km to the north of Maqdadiah).

He revealed that only the remains of five people have been found so far, adding that they were transferred to medical examiners to identify them

Family killed in armed attack against security checkpoint in Diyala: Military

Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A family has been killed as security troops foiled a terrorist attacks against a security checkpoint in Diyala, the Security Media Center said on Saturday.

In a statement, the center said, “security forces foiled an attack against a security checkpoint in al-Asakera region in al-Saadiya town, Diyala province.”

“The attack left a family, composed of four people, who were passing by at the same time, killed.

Security troops, according to the statement, “carried out an operation to search for the perpetrators.”

Four tribal fighters killed, injured in bomb blast, northeast of Diyala

Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Four security personnel were killed and injured in a bomb blast, northeast of Diyala, a local source from the province said on Wednesday.

“Joint security troops carried out an operation to follow Islamic State members in Sherwin region, at the outskirts of al-Mansouria, northeast of Diyala,” Ragheb al-Ankabi, head of Mansouriya municipal council, told Alghad Press.

“A bomb went off in the gardens during the operation, leaving a tribal mobilization personnel killed and three others injured,” Ankabi added. “The victim’s body was taken to forensic medicine department, while the wounded were transferred to hospital for treatment.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli jets strike Gaza after Palestinians breach fence
[IsraelTimes] Four Gazooks reportedly tried to set fire to IDF equipment being used to construct an anti-tunnel barrier, fled when troops arrived

Israeli planes carried out Arclight airstrikes in the southern Gazoo Strip on Saturday night, the army said, hours after a group of Paleostinians entered Israeli territory from the enclave and attempted to destroy military equipment.

The raids targeted a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, site in Rafah, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

The reported strikes came after a group of Paleostinians from Gazoo infiltrated into Israel and tried to damage machinery being used to construct a new anti-tunnel barrier around the coastal enclave on Saturday night.

The four Paleostinians expeditiously departed at a goodly pace as Israeli troops arrived, according to the Israel Defense Forces. The infiltration occurred early Saturday evening along the southern Gazoo border.

The IDF spokesperson would not elaborate on how the men tried to damage the equipment being used to construct an above- and below-ground barrier around the Strip.

The men tried to set fire to some of the machinery, according to footage.

Video footage filmed by al-Jazeera showed the group of four men, with help from a fifth, cutting the security fence. The masked Paleostinian men run up and over an earth berm, into the area where the engineering equipment was sitting unattended.

After a few moments, smoke is then been seen coming out of the area

Since last year, the Israeli military has been working full-steam to complete the security barrier, which is specifically designed to counter the border-crossing attack tunnels that have been used by terrorist groups against IDF troops and which threaten the Israeli communities surrounding the Strip. It will replace the short chain-link fence that currently surrounds Gazoo.

The construction of this barrier, which includes both a thick underground concrete wall and a tall metal fence, is mostly being done by civilian contractors, who are supposed to wear helmets and protective vests out of concerns that terrorist groups might target them with sniper fire.

The barrier is meant to be completed by the end of 2019.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I assume another "breach" won't be happening?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/25/2018 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  That's Palestinians, Frank - short memory.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/25/2018 1:28 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Malaysia arrests seven men with Islamic State links over attacks plot
[Ynet] Malaysian police have nabbed
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
seven men with links to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
bully boy group who were planning attacks on non-Moslem places of worship and other targets, authorities said on Saturday.

Six Malaysians were arrested in Johor state, north of Singapore, while a seventh, a Filipino member of the ISIS-linked Abu Sayyaf
...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
group, was detained in the eastern state of Sabah, in multiple operations between Feb. 27 and Mar. 15, Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun said in a statement.

He said the six detained in Johor were members of an ISIS cell and included a 37-year-old technician who recruited new bandidos murderous Moslems and was believed to be the criminal mastermind of planned attacks on non-Moslem places of worship in the state's capital.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey takes full control of Syria's Afrin: Military source
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
's military and its Syrian rebel allies have taken full control of northwest Syria's Afrin region, a Ottoman Turkish army source said on Saturday, as aid workers distributed food to people in the area.

Ottoman Turkish forces and the Syrian fighters swept into the main Afrin town last Sunday after an eight-week campaign to drive out the Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara regards as a terrorist group.

A military source told Rooters the last remaining villages had been seized and control established overnight.

"Control has been completely achieved in the Afrin region and search operations are continuing so that local people can return safely to their houses," the source said.

State-run Anadolu news agency carried a similar report.

In Afrin, people queued to receive hot food which was being distributed by the Ottoman Turkish Red Islamic Thingy while Ottoman Turkish soldiers kept security and armoured vehicles moved along the streets.

"We are trying to bring back life to normal in the short and medium term here." the aid group's president Kerem Kinik told Rooters. "Our mobile kitchens are here, and our crews are in the villages."

"We want everything to be alright. We want our women and kiddies to come back. They could not come back to their homeland," said Afrin resident Abdurrahman Nahsen Suleymanoglu.

Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan rejected criticism of the Afrin campaign in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, according to a Ottoman Turkish presidential source.

Among Turkey's Western allies, La Belle France has been one of the biggest critics of the Ottoman Turkish military operation, with its foreign minister saying concerns for its border security did not justify the incursion.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  I think Tom Kratman was the first to point out that Kurds' military reputation is way overblown.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/25/2018 2:01 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't think it's about being overblown, they do fine for the most part. I just think Turkey hit them with enough air-power to collapse the front. It's the one area the YPG appear lacking a counter in. For the moment anyway.
Posted by: Charles || 03/25/2018 7:04 Comments || Top||

#3  the Kurdish fighters somehow could not buy much in the way of surface to air missiles and consequently the Turkish AF did a number on both them and the civilian population
Posted by: lord garth || 03/25/2018 22:01 Comments || Top||


Syria forces close to gaining full control of Eastern Ghouta
[Al Jazeera] Syrian government forces are close to taking full control of Eastern Ghouta, the last rebel-held area near the capital, Damascus.

Two out of three rebel groups that had been controlling the enclave have already surrendered, with thousands of fighters and their relatives departing for opposition-held areas in the north of the country.

The third rebel group, Jaish al-Islam
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
, which controls the city of Douma, has so far refused to give in.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
it is understood that Jaish al-Islam is also close to reaching an evacuation deal following negotiations with the Russian army, an ally of Syrian forces.

Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from Beirut, Leb, said on Saturday that talks between Jaish al-Islam and the Russian military had earlier collapsed due to the group's refusal to be evacuated to Idlib, a northwestern province still largely under rebel control.

"Jaish al-Islam does not have good relations with the rebel groups which dominate Idlib province," said Khodr.

"What we understand is that they may be sent to an eastern region ... close to Leb's border," she added.

Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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