[ToloNews] At least five security force members were killed in a Taliban ...Arabic for students... attack on the Kunduz-Baghlan highway early Sunday morning, a source said.
The attack took place around 4:30 am (local time) after the Taliban attacked security checkpoints in the Kisa Toop area of the highway, the source said.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... local security officials have not yet commented on the attack.
The Taliban has recently increased their attacks on security checkpoints in Baghlan and Kunduz provinces, causing dozens of to be killed and maimed among Afghan cops.
[BBC] As many as 20 civilians have been killed in an overnight attack in north-western Burkina Faso.
Unidentified heavily armed men on motorbikes carried out the attack in Lamdamol village in Seno province, north of the capital Ouagadougou, on Saturday night, AFP news agency says.
The attack comes a week after 39 people were killed when militants attacked a market in the province of Soum.
The Sahel region has seen an increase in jihadist violence in recent months.
News of Saturday's attack came as France announced it would send a further 600 soldiers to the Sahel region, bringing the total number of French troops to more than 5,000.
Last year saw the highest death toll due to armed conflict in the region since 2012, with more than 4,000 people killed.
The Islamic State group says it blew up a gas pipeline in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, claiming it was connected to Israel.
Security sources earlier said the pipeline hit was a domestic one that connects to a power station in El-Arish, powering homes and factories in central Sinai. No casualties were reported.
In a statement posted on its Telegram chat groups, IS says “caliphate soldiers targeted… the natural gas line linking the Jews and the apostate Egyptian government.”
Israeli officials have said gas flow is continuing, and they are not aware of any damage to the Israeli-Egyptian pipeline.
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[EN.ANNAHAR] A large Ottoman Turkish military convoy rumbled into rebel-held areas of northwest Syria on Sunday, witnesses on the ground and activists said.
Separately, Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on a rebel-held village in Syria’s northwest killed at least seven people, opposition activists said. Elsewhere, rebel shelling killed a woman and maimed at least three journalists, Syrian state TV reported.
The violence and troop movements came amid a Syrian government offensive into the country’s last rebel stronghold, located in Idlib province and parts of the nearby Aleppo region. Ottoman Turkish troops are deployed in some of those rebel-held areas to monitor a cease-fire that has since collapsed.
Relations between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and Syria have deteriorated sharply since Syria’s civil war began in 2011. Syria accuses Turkey of undermining its security by allowing thousands of imported muscle to come battle the Syrian army. Idlib province is currently dominated by al-Qaeda-linked bully boys.
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Populist Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr urges his followers to help security forces clear roads blocked during months of sit-in protests, calling for "day-to-day life" to resume following the appointment of a new prime minister.https://t.co/AOSKnC658A
[Arutz 7] - Four Turkish soldiers were killed and nine injured after the Syrian government forces attacked Turkish posts in Idlib in northern Syria.
In a statement Turkey's Defense Ministry said the attacked soldiers were sent as reinforcements to prevent further conflict in Idlib, and had coordinated their locations with the Syrian government.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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