[KhaamaPress] Afghan Security Forces freed at least 62 armies from a Taliban custody in Bala Murghab district of Badghis province, MOD said in a statement.
A statement published by the Ministry of Defence said Afghan commandos in an operation broke a Taliban prison in Bala Murghab district of Badghis as a result of which they freed at least 62 prisoners who were members of Afghan Security Forces.
The statement further added that 55 National Army members, 4 commando soldiers, 2 border forces and 1 policeman were imprisoned by the Taliban in Badghis.
“5 Taliban militants were detained and many others were injured as a result of this operation”, the statement added.
According to the statement, Assadullah Khalid, the Acting Defense Minister has congratulated this achievement to the people of Afghanistan and to the National Security Forces.
The security forces members freed from the Taliban prison assured to rejoin the army and fight the insurgency and enemies, the statement said.
[KhaamaPress] Pakistan closed the Torkham border on Wednesday morning, an official said.
Attaullah Khogyani, a provincial spokesperson for the eastern Nangarhar province confirmed the border closure by the Pakistan army.
Earlier in the day, Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Aisha Farooqui said the border gates had been closed for security reasons after two mortar shells fell near the crossing overnight.
The border remained closed for 10 hours before the Pakistan border police reopened it
Torkham is an important border for Afghanistan business transits that come through Karachi port.
[ToloNews] The Pentagon on Wednesday released the names of two Air Force officers killed in the crash of their Bombardier E-11A electronic surveillance plane in Afghanistan.
They were identified as Lt. Col. Paul K. Voss, 46, of Yigo, Guam, and Capt. Ryan S. Phaneuf, 30, of Hudson, New Hampshire. Voss was assigned to Air Combat Command headquarters at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia. Phaneuf was assigned to the 37th Bomb Squadron at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota.
The cause of Monday's crash is under investigation, but officials have said there is no indication the plane was downed by hostile action.
"I’m pretty confident there was no enemy action involved. Aircraft mishaps happen," Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, told news hounds Wednesday at Prince Sultan Air Base in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... The remains of the two airmen were recovered from the crash site in Ghazni province by American forces on Tuesday.
McKenzie said that as far as he knows, the U.S. troops did not meet any resistance going to the site.
"The main resistance was from the weather, which was really significant back there," he said, adding that "appropriate precautions" were taken in moving the recovery team to the site "because the last thing you want to do is have another mishap or have other people lose their lives in attempt to get up there."
[ToloNews] At least two security forces were killed in a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... attack on Wednesday night in northern Baghlan province, local officials said on Thursday.
The attack took place in Nahrain district at a security checkpoint, said Bismillah Atash, a member of the provincial council.
"The festivities continued until morning and no reinforcements were sent to the area to support the troops," Atash said, adding that " the district police headquarters was only a few kilometers from the area."
The Taliban stole the security forces' equipment after the attack, according to a local security source.
[ToloNews] At least 15 security force members were killed in a Taliban ...Arabic for students... attack on a base in northern Kunduz province on Tuesday night, a security source said on Wednesday.
The attack took place on Tuesday night at a joint security forces base in Dasht-e-Archi district, according to the source.
"14 soldiers and a policeman were killed in the attack, and eight soldiers, two police, and three local police were maimed," the source said.
"The Taliban have taken four other soldiers captive," the source added.
The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack, and Afghan cops have not commented.
This follows a Taliban attack in Baghlan province on Monday night during which at least nine police were killed, according to a security source.
The attack occurred at a police base in Khawja Alwan in Pul-e-Khumri, the center of Baghlan, according to the source.
There were other reports that 16 coppers were killed in the attack, including commanders, but the Baghlan police have not yet confirmed the casualties.
[AmGreatness] The Mexican government announced it has so far deported more than 2,000 members of the latest migrant caravan, demonstrating how serious they are about fighting illegal immigration, according to The Daily Caller.
Mexico deported roughly 2,303 Honduran migrants colonists between Jan. 18 and Jan. 27. The INM and the Mexican National Guard commissioned 34 buses and eight chartered airplanes to expedite the removal of the apprehended migrants colonists. Some 1,064 Hondurans were returned by ground transportation, and another 1,239 by aircraft, the department in Mexico that manages immigration reported Monday. The Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, D.C.,-based immigration think tank, translated and flagged the recent numbers.
The deportations pertained to the most recent U.S.-bound migrant caravan, dubbed the ’2020 caravan’.
The large removal numbers illustrate Mexico’s newly aggressive approach to U.S.-bound illegal aliens who are attempting to pass through its territory, and illegally enter the U.S.
A caravan was formed near San Pedro Sula, Honduras, earlier in January and began its journey to the U.S. southern border. Due to travel agreements between Central American governments, most of the members of the caravan were able to pass through Guatemala and continue north.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... it reached a wall, and were met by hundreds of Mexico’s national guardsmen in a line with riot gear and tear gas, preventing the migrants colonists from crossing into Mexico clandestinely. This led to violent festivities between the two sides, with migrants colonists at one point throwing rocks at them in an effort to pass.
The migrants colonists who have made it into Mexican territory are given the choice of applying for asylum there, where the government has promised them employment, or they can be transported back to their home country. For the migrants colonists who are determined to still reach the U.S., most have remained stationed at the Suchiate River, which marks the border between Mexico and Guatemala, The Daily Caller writes.
Mexico has made it clear that its territory won’t be used as transit for illegal aliens to reach the U.S. Trump has made border security a top priority. U.S. border officials were overwhelmed in 2018 when thousands of migrants colonists formed caravans to enter the U.S illegally. In an effort to enlist help to stop illegal immigration from other countries, particularly Mexico, the Trump administration threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican imports.
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^ yes. Such a foolish policy. So many own goals, stretching back at least to that idiotic Amnesty Bill of 1986, the signing of which Reagan later rued as "the stupidest thing I ever did in politics."
Just imagine how much stronger, freer, more prosperous and secure our people would be today had our idiot-elites not opened the floodgates to 22 million shit-wage illiterate campesinos living here outside the law -- and simultaneously destroyed our manufacturing base by joining us at the hip to ChiComs, all the while helping them rapidly ascend from near-harmless third world shithole to global superpower hell-bent on nullifying our naval and air superiority with advanced weaponry and technology they stole from us.
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Should declare that any state produce migrants is a failed state and claim UN trusteeship terroritory over the place and leadership will be treated as pirates. You would see a few nations stop exporting their problems pretty damned quickly.
[Rooters] The United States has begun sending Brazilian migrants colonists crossing the border from Mexico back there to await their U.S. court hearings, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Wednesday.
More than 57,000 non-Mexican migrants colonists have been returned to Mexico under that effort since it launched a year ago.
Brazilians will be sent to Mexico under a program known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). More than 57,000 non-Mexican migrants colonists have been returned to Mexico under that effort since it launched a year ago, according to the DHS.
The program is one of several moves by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... to limit access to asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump faces re-election in November and has made immigration a focus of his 2020 campaign.
The DHS cited a rising number of Brazilians arrested at the border in its announcement on Wednesday.
U.S. Border Patrol caught roughly 17,900 Brazilians at the southwest border in the last fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, 2018. The figure was a sharp increase from 1,500 arrests a year earlier.
U.S. Border Patrol caught roughly 17,900 Brazilians at the southwest border in the last fiscal year, a sharp increase from 1,500 arrests a year earlier.
Rooters first reported earlier this month that the Trump administration had weighed the inclusion of Brazilians in the MPP program.
The program previously had covered Spanish-speaking migrants colonists. But the addition of people from Brazil, where Portuguese is the official language, expands its reach further.
Rogelio Pinal, the head of the human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... office in Juarez, Mexico, said that Brazilians who cross the border in El Paso, Texas, and are sent to wait in Juarez will be taken to a federally run migrant shelter and provided with an interpreter.
The DHS said in its announcement that U.S. federal law did not limit the scope of the program to any one nationality or language.
France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier spots a Turkish frigate escorting a cargo ship delivering armored vehicles to the Libyan capital Tripoli in defiance of a UN embargo, according to a French military source.https://t.co/TtwRAWV27a
[Aljazeera] At least three fighters were killed and a policeman sustained injuries during a gunfight between rebels and security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said on Friday.
"So far three terrorists have been gunned down," a police spokesperson told Al Jazeera. "One policeman was also injured in the gunfight."
Police said the gun battle started at around 5am on Friday (23.30 GMT on Thursday) after police intercepted a Srinagar-bound goods truck near a toll plaza in Nagrota on the outskirts of the southern city of Jammu.
The rebels travelling in the truck fired on police leading to an encounter, police said.
A senior police officer said, "As of now the gunfight has stopped but we have cordoned the area and search operation is going on."
"We are searching the area to check if there might be a fourth terrorist as well," said Mukesh Singh, the inspector general of police, Jammu.
Authorities have suspended traffic on the main road in the wake of the firing.
Local media reported that, as a precautionary measure, authorities also ordered the closure of schools in Nagrota.
[IsraelTimes] After small multi-rotor device operated by army fell inside Strip, terror group apparently recovered and fixed it, used it to drop explosive on tank, causing no damage.
The Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, terror group last year recovered a fallen Israel Defense Forces drone and used it to attack an Israeli tank, according to a report on Monday.
The IDF has used small multi-rotor drones during the March of the Return protests on the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... border, which began as weekly demonstrations in March 2018. The army has used small drones to drop tear gas on Gaza protesters and has experimented with using them to counter arson balloons and kites flown from the Strip.
The Ynet news site reported Monday that the incident involved a DJI Matrice 600 drone that was used by the IDF and had fallen in the Strip sometime before the attack incident. The small multi-rotor drone should not be confused with the larger, fixed wing drones the IDF and other armies use for long-range operations.
Hamas personnel recovered the drone, repaired the damage and managed to operate it, the report said.
They attached an explosive from a rocket-propelled grenade launcher to the drone and flew it from an agricultural area in the Strip toward Israel, looking for targets. After several minutes in the air, the aircraft approached the border and the operators saw a tank stationed in Israeli territory.
The drone’s remote pilot flew it over the tank and brought it down to an elevation of about 100 meters (330 feet), then released the missile, which hit the tank’s closed turret but did not explode, causing no significant damage.
The tank’s crew was apparently unaware of the drone, but a nearby infantry force saw the explosive’s release, opened fire on the aircraft and shot it down.
The DJI Matrice 600 is available to US consumers for around $5,600. It can reach an altitude of 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) above sea level, can fly three miles (5 kilometers) from its operator and reach a speed of 65 kmh (40 mph).
The attack marked the first time Hamas used a drone in an offensive operation against Israel, and the IDF estimated that the aircraft and RPG could have caused significantly more damage, Ynet said.
Gaza drones are still a minor threat to troops, the report said. A larger concern is terror groups deploying small drones against the IDF during wartime, to both observe and attack troops in Gaza and in staging areas near the Strip.
[Jpost] The IDF attacked Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", targets in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip on Thursday night in response to a barrage of rockets sent into Israel a few hours prior.
IDF airplanes and fighter jets attacked a long line of terrorist targets belonging to Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip. Among other targets, the IDF struck an underground cell belonging to the terrorist organization.
The attack, according to the IDF, significantly deterred Hamas's ability to build upwards.
A few hours earlier, three rockets entered Israel from the Gaza Strip, two of which were intercepted by the Iron Dome system and one which landed in an open field near Sapir College in Sderot.
A mother and her baby were maimed in the panic that ensued from the sirens.In addition, the day was plagued with numerous incendiary balloons entering Israel from the Gaza Strip.
"The terror organization Hamas is responsible for what happens in the Gaza Strip and outside of it and will have consequences for its actions against the citizens of Israel," the IDF said in a statement.
Earlier in the day, the IDF attacked numerous key terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip with aircrafts and tanks. This previous attack was, according to the IDF spokesperson, in response to the numerous incendiary balloons sent into Israel throughout the day.
IDF fighter planes attacked in the Gaza Strip the previous night, as well.Tensions have significantly risen in the region ever since US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... announced his "Deal of the Century," a peace plan for the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict which was not highly approved of by Paleostinians.
[Jpost] The Israeli military struck several Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, targets in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip on Thursday in response to the launches of multiple explosive balloons towards southern Israel and sniper fire against an IDF observation post earlier in the day.
It was the second day in a row of violence following the release of US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s "Deal of the Century" peace plan.
According to Paleostinian WAFA news agency reported that an Israeli drone launched two missiles in the neighborhood of Nahda in Rafiah in the southern Gaza Strip as well as near the Gaza International Airport as well as near the Kerem Shalom crossing.
No Paleostinian was reported to have been injured.
Multiple explosive balloons were spotted throughout southern Israel, including in the city of Dimona, located over 70km from the Gaza Strip, as well as Kiryat Gat. At least two explosive balloons went kaboom! in the air near a town in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council as well as in the college town of Sderot earlier in the day.
Incendiary balloons, similar to those launched from the Gaza Strip, were launched from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiya for the first time on Wednesday, according to Paleostinian media.
Police sappers dismantled all the explosive objects with no injuries or damage.
On Thursday afternoon incoming rocket sirens were heard in the community of Yad Mordechai in southern Israel, but the IDF later announced that the sirens were not triggered by rocket fire. It is believed to have been anti-aircraft fire towards Israeli aircraft.
On Wednesday a suspicious object wrapped in gift wrap tied to several balloons landed in Sdot HaNegev Regional Council near the Gaza Strip.
A 15 year-old Paleostinian was severely maimed in the head during festivities in the town of Kafr Qaddum and several Paleostinians were reported by the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy to have been injured in festivities with IDF forces throughout the West Bank on Thursday in response to Trump’s "Deal of the Century, including in Ramallah, al-Bireh, Jericho, Qalqilya and Nablus.
Israeli soldiers were also reported by Paleostinian media of having fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse protests by students near Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
According to Paleostinian media, several other Paleostinians were maimed in Jerusalem on Wednesday in festivities with Israeli troops who fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the protests.
WAFA reported that at least 30 Paleostinians have been arrested by Israeli troops since Wednesday during protests against Trump’s plan.
[IsraelTimes] A member of the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group’s military wing dies in a "work accident" while working in one of its underground tunnels in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
The Hamas affiliated website al-Resalah names the Izz Ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades member as Ibrahim al-Shantaf of Sheikh Radwan in northern Gaza.
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When you look at these penny ante losses, the several hundred plane bomber armadas of WWII are pretty striking. Every air raid killed hundreds at a minimum. In the last week of July 1943, almost 40,000 Germans were killed in Hamburg, driving 2/3 of the population out of the city.
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[ToloNews] The Pentagon on Wednesday released the names of two Air Force officers killed in the crash of their Bombardier E-11A electronic surveillance plane in Afghanistan.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[AmGreatness] The Mexican government announced it has so far deported more than 2,000 members of the latest migrant caravan, demonstrating how serious they are about fighting illegal immigration, according to The Daily Caller.
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
[Aljazeera] At least three fighters were killed and a policeman sustained injuries during a gunfight between rebels and security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said on Friday.
[Jpost] The IDF attacked 
[IsraelTimes] A member of the 
