[KhaamaPress] A group of 172 Talibs surrendered to Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... and Ghor provinces.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said in a statement, 160 of the Lions of Islam surrendered in Shahrak district of Ghor.
The statement further added that three commanders of the group ‐ Abdullah, Mohammad Yousuf and Mullah Sarwar also surrendered to Afghan forces. The Lions of Islam surrendered in Jam, Sher Bacha and Astora Villages of the district.
The Defense Ministry also added that 12 other Talibs led by Nasruddin surrendered to Afghan forces in Takht Valley of Chest-e Sharif district of Herat.
The Lions of Islam also handed over some heavy and light weapons to the Afghan forces, the Defense Ministry of added.
According to Ministry of Defense, at least 582 Talibs have surrendered in the two provinces in past one month.
The Defense Ministry said the Lions of Islam surrendered to Afghan forces due to growing military pressures.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group has not commented in this regard so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces killed 3 Talibs and arrested 4 others during the operations in the past 24 hours.
The military officials said Tuesday, the Special Forces killed 3 Talibs during a raid in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan.
The officials further added that the Special Forces also destroyed a small cache of weapons during the same operation.
The Special Forces arrested 3 Talibs during a separate operation in Deh Bala 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.. , the officials said.
The officials also added that the Special Forces arrested a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... bad boy during a separate raid in Kabul province.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... the officials said an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed 5 Talibs in Sang district of southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
The anti-government armed holy warriors have not commented regarding the operations so far.
[ToloNews] At least four military personnel and two non-combatants were killed in a suicide kaboom in Kabul on Tuesday morning, the Ministry of Defense confirmed in a statement.
The attack happened around 7:00am local time close to the Marshal Fahim military academy in PD5 of Kabul city. A jacket wallah detonated his explosive, Rahimi said.
Eyewitnesses said that the attack happened while employees and cadets were entering the academy.
Khalid Nikzad, TOLOnews news hound, said that a bus station is also close to the scene, and said that ambulances were observed going to the attack area.
In the meantime, the Ministry of Defense in a statement also confirmed the attack and said that four military personnel and one civilian were killed, and five other military personnel and a civilian were maimed.
No group including the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... has grabbed credit for the blast yet.
[al-Emarah] Over 16 innocent civilians mostly children and women have been martyred and 6 more were maimed in the waves of terror by the U.S aggressors and their puppets in the past 20 days in some of the districts of Balkh province.
This also included the flattening the civilians’ houses, looting and abduction of the innocent villagers.
On Sunday, 4 innocent civilians including 2 women were mercilessly martyred when the enemy opened fire on the crowd in main bazaar in Dasht-e-Qala district of northern Takhar province.
In reports from Kabul province, the joint enemy barged in on the civilians in the middle of the night in Qarabagh district of Kabul province last night, harassing and terrorizing the troubled civilians as well as ransacking and looting several houses. The enemy also kidnapped an agriculture employee from this his house.
[al-Emarah] Mujahideen carried out attacks on a hireling check post in Khoshak Abi area of capital Lashkargah late last night, amid ongoing Al Fath operations.
Details say, firefight of heavy and light arms, resulting in the post was overrun completely after killing 6 puppets and seizing a PKM machine gun, 1 RPG launcher along with other equipment.
A top Sudanese official says the country’s transitional authorities and rebel groups have agreed to hand over former autocratic President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court for war crimes, including mass killings in Darfur.https://t.co/TajH17Egf1
[RADIOSHABELLE] The authorities in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... regional state today executed two men who were convicted of the rape and murder of Aisha Adan Ilyas in February 2019.
Abdifatah Abdirahman Warsame and Abdishakur Mohammed Dige were executed by a firing squad in a public square in the northern Somalia town of Bosaso on Tuesday morning.
The execution of a third convict, Abdisalam Abdirahman Warsame was delayed for 10 days at the request of Aisha’s father, Adan Ilyas.
On 12th May, the Nugal Region’s Court of First Instance sentenced the three men to death by a firing squad over the rape, torture and murder of 13-year old Aisha Adan Ilyas.
Puntland’s Court of Appeal supported the verdict on 30th June 2019 while the Puntland Supreme Court also supported their verdict on 25th August 2019.
The rape and brutal murder of Aisha in the central town of Galkayo on 24th February 2019 shocked the country.
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[AlAhram] Egyptian security forces killed 17 Lions of Islam during a raid on their hideout in the North Sinai capital of Arish, the interior ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
The raid came after security forces received information that a group of gunnies were using the hideout in the Obeidat district to launch violent attacks targeting police and army personnel, the ministry said.
The Lions of Islam exchanged fire with security forces, leading to the death of 11 terrorists. Others fled to an abandoned house in the Hous district and were followed by security forces, resulting in the death of six others.
The Lions of Islam were found in possession of machine guns, three improvised bombs and two suicide belts.
Earlier this week, the military said it had killed ten gunnies as it thwarted a terrorist attack on a security checkpoint in North Sinai.
Egypt is fighting an Islamist militancy based in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula that has gained pace since 2013.
Hundreds of security-forces personnel have been killed in attacks claimed by bad boys, while the military has killed hundreds of Lions of Islam as part of an extensive campaign to crush the militancy in the border region.
[Jpost] 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.... said on Tuesday that it was behind Sunday's attack on an Algerian military barracks near the country's border with Mali that killed one soldier.
The Death Eater group sent the bomber in a vehicle rigged with explosives, but a sentry stopped him before he could enter the compound and the blast killed both men, according to a Defence Ministry statement. The group's Algerian leader is a 47-year-old Death Eater known as Abu Walid el-Sahrawi."The martyred brother Omar al-Ansari ... entered the base and went kaboom! his car against them," the group said in a statement.
Algeria, in common with other countries in the Sahel and Sahara regions, is growing increasingly concerned about the risk of Death Eater groups taking advantage of the escalating conflict in Libya and chaos in Mali to expand their presence.
In Mali, the government has said it is ready to talk with jihadist groups in the hope of ending an insurgency that has made swathes of the country ungovernable and stoked ethnic violence.
In Libya, chaos in parts of the country since the 2011 revolution has created space for Islamic State, which launched a cross-border attack against a Tunisian town in 2016, but which is now mostly active in Libya's south.
"We need to focus on both Libya and Mali," a former Algerian counter-terrorism officer told Rooters. "This attack could be a preparation for what might come if we don't contain the threats."
Algiers has been discussing how to stem the rising Death Eater threat in the Sahel with Mali in recent days, and has offered it some humanitarian assistance. It shares more than 1,500km of mostly remote, desert border with Mali and Libya.
Sunday's attack was the first in Algeria for several years. In 2013, an Islamist Death Eater group linked to al Qaeda staged an attack on the Tiguentourine gas processing facility in southern Algeria that killed dozens of people, including foreigners.
That was the deadliest spasm of Death Eater violence in Algeria since a 1990s civil war between Islamist groups and the state in which more than 200,000 people died.
Algeria is already wrestling with a major political crisis after a year of mass protests that helped oust the veteran president and have continued, with demonstrators now demanding the ruling elite be fully replaced.
The country also faces economic problems, with declining energy sales contributing to a fall in state revenue and planned cuts in public spending this year.
[Jpost] Two Iranians were arrested in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito after attempting to travel to Spain with fake Israeli passports, according to Ynet.
A man and a woman in their 20s were attempting to travel to Madrid when they were discovered with the forged travel documents. They reportedly arrived in Ecuador with the fake passports at the end of January and attempted to travel once more. They also had Iranian passports.
It is unclear why they had the fake passports or if they were affiliated with Iran's intelligence services. Israeli passport holders do not require an entry visa to visit Ecuador, so the forgeries may have been used for that purpose.
In March, two Iranians were arrested in Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... with forged Israeli passports that contained multiple spelling mistakes in Hebrew.
That’d be this story of a couple arrested as Iranian or Hezbollah spies who had arrived in Buenos Aires from Turkey via Spain. Could we be seeing ratlines going in both directions, used by both Shiite spies and Muslim colonists?
Department of Military Intelligence of Iraq issued a statement to confirm the arrest of the jihadist who previously served as the commander of Islamic State’s air defense division.
According to the statement, the IS commander was captured at a security checkpoint near Mosul after days of monitoring his movements.
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Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr announces he is dissolving the “blue caps,” an organized unit of his supporters accused of deadly attacks on anti-government protests in recent days.https://t.co/x605QcAux6
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He's trying to play both sides. Sentiment and anger are turning into action on the ground I bet, so he's "side-promoting" the blue caps. Bet the replacement is called Green Caps!
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[IsraelTimes] Overturning a previous sentence of community service, the Supreme Court sends Mohammed Milhem to prison for a year for providing assistance to Nashat Milhem, 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.... -inspired terrorist who killed three people in a shooting in Tel Aviv on New Year’s Day, 2016.
The Haifa District Court had sentenced Mohammed Milhem to 300 hours of community service for purchasing a cellphone for Milhem while he was on the run from security forces, despite the fact that the latter admitted to him that he had carried out the shooting.
Nashat Milhem killed two people in a shooting attack outside the Simta Bar on Tel Aviv’s busy Dizengoff Street. Shift manager Alon Bakal, 26, and patron Shimon Ruimi, 30, were killed in a hail of bullets as the gunman opened fire with a submachine gun. Seven people were also maimed.
Milhem later rubbed out taxi driver Ayman Shaaban as he expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. He abandoned the taxi on a road in northern Tel Aviv, before taking a bus to Ar’ara. He was eventually tracked down by security forces a week later after a massive manhunt and rubbed out after he opened fire.
Update: Around 300 Lebanese were wounded in clashes between protesters and security forces in Beirut, 40 of whom were hospitalized, according to the Lebanese Red Cross. https://t.co/Txy2zDw7w0
Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces strike back against Russian-supported government forces making gains in their campaign to eradicate the last opposition strongholds in northwest Syria.https://t.co/J53RXbmFBG
[Jpost] Turkey said on Tuesday 51 Syrian soldiers were killed in northwest Syria as Turkish-backed rebels struck back against Russian-supported government forces who had made gains in their campaign to eliminate the last insurgent bastion in the country.
The Turkish Defense Ministry cited sources on the ground for the information, adding that two Syrian tanks and one ammunition store were destroyed as well.
Hours before, a war monitor reported that Syrian government forces seized control of the main Aleppo-to-Damascus highway running through the embattled northwest province of Idlib for the first time since the early days of the civil war in 2012.
But Syrian state media made no mention of this and rebel sources later said fighting was continuing in some northern areas near the M-5 highway, which links Aleppo with the capital Damascus and ultimately Deraa in the far south.
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Yip-yip vs. Pooty-Poot... I'm soooo conflicted....snigger
Lebanon’s parliament backs the government line-up and program of incoming Prime Minister Hassan Diab in a confidence vote held despite attempts by protesters to block it.https://t.co/yRrv3P5C8kpic.twitter.com/3QhebQQgKI
[IsraelTimes] A Syrian military helicopter has been downed by Ottoman Turkish in Syria’s war-torn province of Idlib, killing both pilots, a war monitor group says.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the aircraft crashed near the village of Qaminas, southeast of Idlib city, after being hit by a rocket fired by Ottoman Turkish forces.
Ankara, which supports Syrian gangs in the rebel enclave in northwestern Syria, acknowledged the attack but did not claim responsibility.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s defense ministry said it had obtained information that "a helicopter belonging to the regime has crashed" without specifying who was responsible.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[KhaamaPress] A group of 172 Talibs surrendered to Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The authorities in 
[AlAhram] Egyptian security forces killed 17 
...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 
...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 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
