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Afghanistan
Kabul: Five Civilians Killed In Afghan Forces Operation In Surobi
[ToloNews] At least five civilians, including four women and one child, bit the dust in an operation by Afghan forces supported by foreign troops in Surobi district in Kabul on Monday, the Resolute Support confirmed on Tuesday.

"Last night, Afghan cops and a small contingent of US advisors conducted a raid in Surobi district, Kabul province," the Resolute Support front man Debra Richardson said.

"During the operation, Arclight airstrikes were used after Taliban
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Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban militants suffer heavy casualties in Special Forces operations in past 24 hours
[KhaamaPress] The Talibs suffered heavy casualties during the operations of Afghan Special Force which were conducted in four different provinces in past 24 hours.

According to informed military sources, an Afghan Special Forces raid in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan province killed 7 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
fighters and maimed another bully boy.

The sources further added that the Special Forces conducted similar operations in in Nahr-e-Saraj and Sangin districts, leaving 9 gunnies dead while 2 suspects were detained and a fighting position of Taliban was destroyed.

In the meantime, the sources said the ANA 205th Corps artillery fire left 5 Taliban fighters dead and 2 fighting positions of the group were destroyed in Kandahar province.

The Afghan Special Forces conducted raid to disrupt Taliban safe havens in Sherzad district of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province which left 6 Taliban fighters dead while 5 others were detained.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


2 senior Taliban commanders arrested, 2 others killed in the outskirts of Kunduz city
[KhaamaPress] Two senior Taliban
...Arabic for students...
commanders were tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
and two others were killed during separate operations which were conducted in the outskirts of Kunduz city.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said two senior Taliban commanders identified as Saif Ur Rehman alias Gul Ur Rehman who is a senior commander of Malang Jan Group was arrested together with Syed Khan, the shadow military chief of the group for Aliabad district.

According to a statement released by 209th Shaheen, the two senior commanders were arrested at around 10:40am local time on Monday in a checkpoint located in Kata Khel area in the 9th police district of Kunduz city.

The statement further added that the two Taliban commanders were involved in planning and conducting terrorist attacks in Aliabad district of Kunduz.

In the meantime, another Taliban commander identified as Qari Faizullah who was member of Qari Bilal Group was killed along with the brohter of Qari Bilal in an Arclight airstrike which was conducted at around 11:10am on Monday in Buz Kandahari area located in the 6th police district of the city.

The anti-government armed bandidos snuffies including Taliban have not commented in this regard so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


87 ISIS Khurasan militants killed in Nangarhar province: sources
[KhaamaPress] At least 87 faceless myrmidons affiliated with the offshoot of 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....
of Iraq and Syria, ISIS Khurasan, have been killed during the operations of Afghan Special Forces in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province.

According to informed military sources, the faceless myrmidons were killed in the restive Achin district of Nangarhar province.

In the meantime, the Afghan Military in the East has announced that three other ISIS Khurasan faceless myrmidons were killed in a dronezap in Haska Mina district.

The 201st Silab Corps in a statement said the coalition forces carried out Arclight airstrikes in Haska Mina district on Monday leaving at least 3 faceless myrmidons of ISIS Khurasan dead.

The statement further added that some weapons and munitions belonging to ISIS Khurasan were also destroyed in the airstrikes.

The anti-government armed faceless myrmidons including ISIS sympathizers have not commented regarding the operations and airstrikes so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Betting Barry is in deep morning.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/27/2019 8:14 Comments || Top||


Europe
Austria Arrests Iraqi Man Suspected Of Attacks On German ICE Trains
[DW] A 42-year-old Iraqi father allegedly attempted two attacks on Germany's high-speed train lines. Police were reportedly able to track him down through vital clues he left at the scene.

Austrian police arrested a man suspected of carrying out two attempted attacks on high-speed trains in Germany.

The man, believed to be an "Islamic State" supporter, is suspected of having committed attacks on the high-speed rail line between Nuremberg and Munich in October and in Berlin in December, Bavarian State Criminal Police Office said Wednesday.

Austria's Kronen Zeitung reported that elite police raided the 42-year-old's apartment in Vienna on Monday.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 03/27/2019 07:50 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  The public prosecutor's office in Vienna identified the suspect as an Iraqi father of five, who was granted refugee status about 20 years ago.

Twenty years? There’s gratitude for you! Check the family to see if Pops radicalized the kiddos, too. If yes, send them home now — he can follow after his jail sentence is served. Good find, Elmerert Hupens2660.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 12:09 Comments || Top||

#2  According to this report (in German) the suspect is a pro-Saddam fanatic who has received military an technical training.

He's been employed by a security company, guarding soccer stadiums and supermarkets.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 03/27/2019 13:51 Comments || Top||

#3  If refugee Muslims get pissed off
And, seething with rage, achieve lift-off,
No racism, please,
For each good German sees
Such as these could be "Johann" or "Christoph!"
Posted by: Phimp Thud9972 || 03/27/2019 14:38 Comments || Top||

#4  the suspect is a pro-Saddam fanatic who has received military an technical training.

What set him off now, after twenty years?
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 18:53 Comments || Top||

#5  What set him off now, after twenty years?

Trump™
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2019 19:21 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
4 suspected terrorists blow themselves up in Loralai raid
[DAWN] At least four suspected jacket wallahs blew themselves up during a raid conducted by security forces in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
's Loralai area on Tuesday.

The Counter-Terrorism Department and other security agencies conducted the raid in Nasirabad, Loralai, on the basis of intelligence reports, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Attau Rehman said.

At least four security personnel were maimed during the raid and taken to Loralai hospital, he added.

According to the Inter-Services Public Relations, the suspected Lions of Islam were responsible for recent terrorist activities in Balochistan and martyrdom of six Levis personnel on March 20 at Sanjwai, Ziarat.

The area surrounding the compound was sealed off as a combing operation went underway in the area following the raid.

An intelligence officer who declined to be named told DawnNewsTV that a criminal mastermind of attacks on levies personnel was also among the suspects who blew themselves up.

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Islamic State sniper guns down Iraqi soldier in Diyala province
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An 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....
sniper has rubbed out an Iraqi soldier in the province of Diyala, a security source said as the country still seeks to recover from destruction caused by the holy warrior group.

"An army soldier was killed after an Islamic State sniper shot up him while on duty on the outskirts of Qarah Tapah district in Baqubah," the source told al-IKH News on Tuesday.

A manhunt was launched for the sniper, who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after the shooting incident, the source added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraqi forces triumph over ISIS terrorists in Salaheddine
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi Armed Forces scored another major victory against 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....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) this week, as their troops eliminated a group of hard boyz that launched a big attack in the Salaheddine.

According to a military communique from Baghdad, the Iraqi Armed Forces came under a heavy attack from an Islamic State group at the Alas Oilfield on Sunday evening.

The Iraqi Armed Forces engaged in fierce combat for a number of hours with the terrorist combatants at the Alas Oilfield before they were able to eliminate many of the Islamic State fighters.

"They retreated to an unknown place taking back the maimed with them," the North Oil Police forces said in a statement on Monday.

The attack by the Islamic State reportedly came from one of their sleeper cells that is currently active inside the Salaheddine Governorate.

In 2017, the Iraqi Armed Forces declared that the Salaheddine Governorate was liberated after a long battle with the Islamic State hard boyz near the Baiji Refinery.

However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
these Islamic State sleeper cells have since emerged in the Salaheddine Governorate after their defeat at the hands of the Iraqi Armed Forces.

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel-Hamas cross-border fighting renews after lull
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel on Tuesday, drawing retaliatory air strikes and breaking a day-long lull in cross-border fighting between Israel and Hamas that could impact an Israeli election two weeks away.

The biggest Israeli-Palestinian escalation in months, which began on Monday with the longest-range Palestinian rocket attack to cause casualties in Israel in five years, had eased after Egyptian mediation.

But even if the crisis subsides, it could shadow the impending Israeli election on April 9 in which right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has campaigned on a tough security platform.

In the wake of Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli air strikes, Israel said it reserved the right to strike again and kept its troops and tanks massed at the Gaza frontier.

The border was mostly quiet on Tuesday and the military lifted its security restrictions in the area. But after darkness fell, at least two rockets launched from Gaza triggered sirens on the Israeli side of the border, the military said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/27/2019 03:52 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  another day, another Egyptian mediation effort

de facto cease fire in effect for about the past 90 minutes or so
Posted by: lord garth || 03/27/2019 7:39 Comments || Top||


Palestinians riot along Gaza border
[Ynet] Violent disturbances have broken out along the Gazoo border with Paleostinians rioters hurling stones and the sound of kabooms heard in several locations.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 00:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  This is not a repeat from last week, or the week before that, or...
Posted by: Raj || 03/27/2019 10:21 Comments || Top||

#2  This is not a repeat

Only in the philosophical sense, where it’s an F-2, Raj.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 11:03 Comments || Top||


Israeli forces arrest 3 at West Bank campus
[Ynet] Officials at a Paleostinian university in the West Bank say undercover Israeli forces have raided the campus and tossed in the calaboose
Please don't kill me!
three students.

Lubna Abdelhadi, a spokeswoman for the Bir Zeit University, says the armed commandos, disguised as locals, entered the campus early on Tuesday and grabbed the students, believed to be Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, activists, while they were sleeping.
Al Ahram adds:
The students were apparently hiding on campus to try and avoid arrest.

Israeli forces had previously raided the university in 2017 and ransacked the student council, confiscating materials used by political groups.

The Israeli military said it tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
nine Paleostinian suspects in routine overnight West Bank raids, but would not specify further.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 00:36 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Israeli air raids resume, Gaza rockets fired at Ashkelon as calm disintegrates
As of midnight Israel Time. Photos of the aftermath can be enjoyed here.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", sites around Khan Younis bombed; alarms triggered twice in Ashkelon industrial zone; fresh exchange comes day after major flareup as both sides threaten to escalate attacks.

Israel Defense Forces said its strikes were in response not only to the rocket fired at the Eshkol region, but also to the launching of several airborne incendiary devices earlier in the day and a cross-border arson attack in which several Paleostinian breached the Gazoo security fence and set fire to an abandoned Israeli sniper’s nest.
The Israeli Air Force launched renewed strikes in the Gazoo Strip on Tuesday night and early Wednesday in response to rocket attacks, amid growing concerns of war in the coastal enclave.

Shortly after the start of the Israeli bombing raids, a rocket was fired from Gazoo at an industrial park south of the city of Ashkelon, the army said. A spokesperson for the city said the rocket had been intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system west of Ashkelon. No injuries or damage were reported.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 00:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 
Waiting
Posted by: 3dc || 03/27/2019 12:56 Comments || Top||

#2  now 3 brigades with the 84 Infantry moving south
Posted by: 3dc || 03/27/2019 12:59 Comments || Top||

#3  some Merkavas massing
Posted by: 3dc || 03/27/2019 13:03 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: 3dc || 03/27/2019 13:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Video
Posted by: 3dc || 03/27/2019 13:21 Comments || Top||


IDF 35th Airborne Regiment now also ordered to deploy
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Gaza factions are evacuating all HQs , bases, outposts and other security installations
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  "Run awaaayyy"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2019 13:22 Comments || Top||

#2  A nice opportunity to tidy up some infrastructure without messy 'civilian' casualties. Also, a lot of scurrying to take note of, destinations and whatnot. Like traffic analysis, but with real traffic!
Posted by: SteveS || 03/27/2019 13:27 Comments || Top||

#3  For Frank. To true.

Posted by: Woodrow || 03/27/2019 14:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Heh. I read it in their vices
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2019 15:02 Comments || Top||


IAF is striking Khan Younis port
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Attacks on Qassam's Abu Hamisha site
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Hamas site that manufactured long-range rockets was destroyed
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  that site didn't really manufacture so much as assemble

but anyway a good job by the IDF
Posted by: lord garth || 03/27/2019 7:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Was thinking the same thing. Iran makes most of the rockets?
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/27/2019 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Iran makes most of the rockets?

No, Iran makes 'Medical Supplies', 'Farm Equipment' and 'Kitchen Appliances' that the crafty Gazooks assemble into rockets.

That the item marked 'Toaster Oven' looks like a Shahab 1 rocket motor is only a coincidence.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/27/2019 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  So did they bomb a school or a mosque?
Posted by: gorb || 03/27/2019 10:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Baby Milk Factory is the standard target.
Posted by: Vespasian Unairt7733 || 03/27/2019 12:16 Comments || Top||

#6  One of these days the IDF’s engineers will penetrate the tunnels under Gaza City’s main hospital without having to come in through the top, and that’ll put an end to a great many little projects.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 13:08 Comments || Top||

#7  the IDF’s engineers will penetrate the tunnels under Gaza City’s main hospital

Like with a autonomous spider-bot using the underground location and mapping tech from article the the other day? Cute lil' thing creeps along, finding it's way, when it's happy with it's location, it self-destructs with an Earth-shattering KABOOM! Like that?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/27/2019 13:32 Comments || Top||

#8  I agree that getting explosives into the Hamas tunnels would be a game changer. Hamas keeps both troops and missiles in its tunnels as well as other military equipment.

Apparently, the technical difficulty is considerable or the IDF would have done it by now.

on a lighter note, Ismail Haniyah came out of his tunnel shelter near the remnants of his former office and proclaimed victory
Posted by: lord garth || 03/27/2019 17:13 Comments || Top||

#9  on a lighter note, Ismail Haniyah came out of his tunnel shelter near the remnants of his former office and proclaimed victory

Shit, so two more weeks of Winter then.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/27/2019 17:18 Comments || Top||

#10  or rubble
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2019 19:12 Comments || Top||


IAF just struck several Hamas terror targets in Gaza.
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Rocket interception over Ashkelon
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Video of rocket launch from #Gaza into Ashkelon
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


IDF howitzers (part of the artillery battalion mobilised and ordered to Gaza
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel just hit near Aleppo Syria
[Twitter]



[Another Tweet] To be clear
An ammo depot for the Iranian Forces in Aleppo exploded
Posted by: 3dc || 03/27/2019 17:47 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  An ammo depot for the Iranian Forces in Aleppo exploded

It could have been anybody. Ruritanians, Swiss Guards. Underpants Gnomes. But they immediately blame Israel...
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2019 19:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Too accurate for Underpants Gnomes must have been Ruritanians.
Posted by: jpal || 03/27/2019 19:32 Comments || Top||

#3  probly right
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2019 20:35 Comments || Top||

#4  What are the odds How close to 100% are the odds that Syria does absolutely nothing about this?
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 20:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Set as today’s headline.

Message to Iran and Hizb’allah to back off?
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 20:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Twitter link
#Israel Air Force carried-out an airstrike against a rocket manufacturing workshop at Sheikh Najar industrial zone, near the #Aleppo International Airport. It is reported that #IRGC was producing Fajr-5C precision guided rockets for #Syria Arab Army there.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/27/2019 21:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Rocket that caused this latest spat with Gaza was a...
a... Fajr-5C!
Posted by: 3dc || 03/27/2019 21:17 Comments || Top||

#8  It is known that #Israel Air Force has used both F-16D/Is and F-15Is in this airstrike and the F-16Is have used anti-radiation Delilah missiles to neutralize the SAM systems of #Syria Arab Air Defense Force in #Aleppo Intl Airport prior attacking the weapon workshops!
Posted by: 3dc || 03/27/2019 21:20 Comments || Top||

#9  Joint French Navy-#Israel Air Force/Navy exercise will start tomorrow in which various fighter squadrons will practice A2A & A2G missions in E. #MediterraneanSea. Also #IAF F-16D/I aircrews will practice #SEAD operation preparing for incoming Operation against #IRGC.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/27/2019 21:22 Comments || Top||

#10  Crickets from the s-300/s-400 batteries.
And it looks like Israel didn't have to use their F-35s either.

This is very bad "Juju" for Russian foreign sales.

Posted by: The peanut gallery || 03/27/2019 21:33 Comments || Top||


Aleppo: Seven Manbij Military Council fighters killed in ‘terror attack’
[Rudaw] Seven fighters of the Manbij Military Council were killed in a midnight "terror attack" on a checkpoint in the city, the force announced Tuesday morning.

"A terrorist attack was staged on one of the checkpoints inside the city of Manbij at midnight and as a result seven fighters on guard duty were martyred," the Manbij Military Council said in a statement.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described it as a "bloody attack" staged by a suspected 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....
(ISIS) sleeper cell.

Later on Tuesday, ISIS grabbed credit for the attack, AFP reported.

The target was a checkpoint of the self-defence forces on the Manbij-Aleppo road, the Observatory stated.

A number of other fighters were also injured, some critically, so the corpse count may rise.

Manbij is in a state of alert while forces look for the perpetrators of the attack, according to the Observatory, noting the attack came a few days after the arrests of more than 100 people suspected of belonging to ISIS or associated with Ottoman Turkish-backed forces.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared the end of the so-called ISIS caliphate in a ceremony in eastern Deir ez-Zor province on March 23. At the ceremony, co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), Ilham Ahmed, said the next stage of the fight against ISIS is to eliminate sleeper cells and then combat the group’s ideology.

Manbij, located at a crossroads in northern Syria, was once an ISIS hub. It was liberated from the group in August 2016 by the SDF, led by the local Manbij Military Council and backed by the global coalition against ISIS.

The multi-ethnic city has remained a flashpoint, however, with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the most dubious NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
ally....

repeatedly threatening a military operation to remove Kurdish forces from the city. The United States reached a deal with Turkey that has seen their two militaries conduct joint patrols in the Manbij area.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


U.S.-backed SDF captures 22 Islamic State terrorists in Syria’s Baghuz
(IraqiNews.com) ‐ The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) placed in durance vile
Please don't kill me!
on Tuesday 22 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....
turbans, including three Iraqis, in the Syrian town of Baghuz, an Iraqi security source said.

Speaking to Baghdad Today news website, the source said that the Kurdish-led forces raided several Islamic State tunnels in al-Mozarea region in al-Baghuz after receiving information on the presence of a number of hard boyz there.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added that the forces managed to arrest 22 IS hard boyz during the operation, including three Iraqis.

The SDF alliance on Saturday announced the defeat of the Islamic State group in Syria and raised victory flags in Baghuz, the last stronghold of the jihadist group.

The White House released a statement, in which U.S. President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
described IS’s loss of territory as "evidence of its false narrative", adding: "They have lost all prestige and power."
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Turkish military moves to front-lines with Kurdish forces in northern Aleppo
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces moved their troops to the front-lines with the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Aleppo on Monday, a local source near the town of Tal Rifa’at told al-Masdar.

According to the source, the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) and their allies were replaced by the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces, who later took up positions near the YPG’s lines.

The source said this move comes as the Ottoman Turkish and Russian armed forces prepare to reopen the Aleppo-Gaziantep Highway.

This highway is a major roadway in northern Syria that was once the most important trade route between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
and the Aleppo Governorate.

The Russian and Ottoman Turkish armed forces will be present along this highway in order to maintain the security of all travelers.

Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  The Islamic State of Turdkey appears to be ready to launch?
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/27/2019 8:12 Comments || Top||


Syrian Army eliminates ISIS sleeper cell during cave operation
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) conducted a sweeping operation against 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....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) in the eastern countryside of the al-Sweida Governorate this week.

According to a military report from al-Sweida, the Syrian Arab Army identified and stormed an Islamic State hideout near the town of Kara in the Badiya al-Sham region of southeast Syria.

The report said the Syrian Arab Army engaged the Islamic State in a brief battle at a cave near Kara before killing one fighter and arresting two others that were present in the area on Monday.

Video footage showing the aftermath of the operation was released by the Syrian Ministry of Defense on Monday:

Many Islamic State turbans are still believed to be hiding in the caves of the Badiya al-Sham region; this has prompted the Syrian Arab Army and their allies to step up their operations inside this area.

Previously, a captured Islamic State member told the Syrian Army that there is an estimated 200 turbans still hiding out in the al-Sweida countryside.

A source from the Syrian military said that the captured Islamic State fighter’s testimony was likely accurate given their previous attacks against the government forces in the al-Sweida Governorate.
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