[KhaamaPress] At least 25 Talibs including a key leader of the group identified as Qazi Qari Abdul Qadir were killed or maimed during the operations in western Farah province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces conducted operations against the terrorist groups in Khak-e-Safid district of the province which resulted into the killings of 7 Talibs.
The statement further added that a key local leader of the group identified as Qazi Qari Abdul Qadir was among those killed and 8 others were locked away You have the right to remain silent... At least 5 Talibs were killed during a separate Arclight airstrike conducted in Posht-e-Koh district of the province, the Ministry of Interior said.
The statement also added that two vehicles and some weapons were also destroyed during the same airstrike.
[KhaamaPress] At least five Lions of Islam affiliated with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS Khurasan were killed during separate Arclight airstrikes of the coalition 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 of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said the coalition forces carried out airstrikes in Khogyani district earlier today.
The statement further added that the airstrikes left 3 Talibs dead.
In another airstrike carried out at around 9am local time in Khogyani district today, 2 ISIS Khurasan Lions of Islam were killed, the 201st Silab Corps added in its statement.
The anti-government armed bad boy groups including Taliban and ISIS-K loyalists have not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan but the anti-government armed elements including Taliban and ISIS-K loyalists are active in some of its remote districts.
[KhaamaPress] At least 10 bandidosholy warriors were killed during Walid-34 operations of the Afghan forces which were conducted in Bargah area of Chemtal district of Balkh province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the operations were conducted to reconnect a gas pipeline which was destroyed by Talibs 15 days ago.
The statement further added that the Afghan forces launched their operations with close air support and artillery fire from Imam Sahib Village of Chemtal and cleared the area where works were done to reconnect the gas pipeline.
In another Arclight airstrike which was conducted in areas of Old Chemtal and Qashqar areas of the district, 2 Talibs were killed, 2 others were maimed and 3 vehicles were destroyed, the 209th Shaheen Corps added.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, the local residents and security personnel have not suffered casualties during the operations.
[KhaamaPress] The local officials in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province are saying that a coalition Arclight airstrike has left at least five Talibs dead, including a local leader of the group Mullah Sher Agha.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the coalition forces carried out an airstrike against the compound of the Talibs in Sangin district at around 11pm local time on Friday.
The statement further added that the airstrike left five Death Eaters including a local leader of the group identiied as Mullah Sher Agha.
Mullah Sher Agha was one of the close relatives of Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi who was killed in a similar airstrike in Nawzad district nearly two months ago.
The anti-government armed Death Eater groups including Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have not commented regarding the airstrike so far.
Helmand is among the volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan where Talibs are active in some of its districts and often attempt to carry out attacks against the government and security institutions.
Lots of bad guy coordination and weapons smuggling from Libya along that border, while the Egyptian army has hunted on both sides of the border with self-proclaimed Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar‘s permission. Lots of possibilities for the identity of this particular lot of dangerous terrorists including, but not limited to groups associated with ISIS, al-Qaeda and Moslem Brüderbund.
[AlAhram] Egypt's military killed eight "extremely dangerous" bandidosbandidos bully boys in the country's Western Desert, according to a Saturday statement by military front man Tamer El-Refai.
"In continuation of the efforts of the armed forces and the civilian police in combating terrorist and criminal elements in all strategic directions...after locating their exact location, the air force targeted the terrorists’ spot," the statement read.
The military spokesperson said that the information was based on reliable intelligence in cooperation with the national security sector.
The terrorist cell was planning to carry hostile acts aimed at destabilising the country, according to the statement.
The operation resulted in the destruction of a 3-wheel-drive truck with quantities of weapons and ammunition.
The armed forces and civilian police continue their efforts in pursuing terrorist and criminal elements to safeguard the security and stability of the country.
The military has been carrying out Operation Sinai 2018, a counter-terrorism campaign since February 2018. It involves land, naval and air forces, as well as the police and border guards.
It targets "terrorist and criminal elements and organizations" and is focused on northern and central Sinai, as well as parts of the Nile Delta and the Western Desert.
[AlAhram] 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... islamists have rubbed out six people in a village in south Niger, near the border with Nigeria, a local official said Saturday.
"Six people were killed Friday night by Boko Haram at Bague Djaradi," a village in Toumour commune, the official told AFP, adding the assailants were on foot.
The attack was the latest in a series ascribed to the jihadist group which began a bloody insurgency in 2009 that has spread to neighbouring countries, prompting a regional military response.
Some 27,000 people have been killed and two million displaced, sparking a dire humanitarian crisis in the region.
Militants have targeted soldiers and civilians alike, and are blamed for abductions of children and employees of foreign companies.
Last Tuesday the group was blamed for the deaths of four people in Bosso, a town not far from Toumour, and for the torching of several vehicles.
The Bosso and Toumour attacks follow on a recent military offensive against the group in the area which saw more than 200 militia killed, according to army sources.
Although Lake Chad forms a natural barrier limiting the group's easy access across the border from Nigeria the presidents of Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... appealed for international support at a November 29 meeting in Chad's capital N'Djamena.
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[NYPOST] A gunman opened fire Saturday outside a Ottoman Turkish cafe in the Belgian city of Antwerp, killing one person and injuring at least two others.
Two people, believed to be a father and his son, were tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! and a gun was seized, the Daily Mail reported.
The motive was not immediately known, but there’s been tension between the Ottoman Turkish and Kurdish residents of the neighborhood, the newspaper said.
Local reports said two of the shooting victims had been targeted; the other victim a bystander.
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[DW] A court in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... has sentenced two Kurdish politicians to lengthy prison terms on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization. The opposition HDP party says the judgment is part of an effort to wipe out democracy.
A Ottoman Turkish court has handed prison sentences to ex-parliamentarians Gultan Kisanak and Sebahat Tuncel (pictured above) for belonging to a terrorist organization and disseminating terrorist propaganda.
Both women have been in jug since late 2016.
Tuncel, a former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), was locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for 15 years, according to the Demiroren News Agency (DHA). She has been on hunger strike for three weeks and did not attend the hearing in court.
Kisanak, who was serving as the joint mayor of Diyarbakir in Turkey's Kurdish southeast at the time of her arrest, was given a sentence of 14 years and three months.
The politicians are accused of making speeches in favor of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and spreading propaganda during rallies and speeches. The PKK is blacklisted as a terror group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
'Eliminating democratic politics'
Kisanak rejected the charges in court, protesting that she had already been in jug for over two years.
"I do what I do because it is true, legal, legitimate, humanitarian," DHA quoted her as saying. "Everything I do is in the frame of democratic politics."
The HDP wrote on Twitter that it considers the trial a political rather than legal process that is aimed at "eliminating democratic politics."
The PKK has waged a decadeslong insurgency against the Ottoman Turkish state, seeking political autonomy and cultural rights for Turkey's Kurdish minority.
The Ottoman Turkish government accuses the HDP of being a political front for the PKK, and President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... has said that ousting elected officials and civil servants with suspected PKK links is crucial to crushing the group's uprising.
Several opposition politicians are currently behind bars, including former HDP co-chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag.
Hunger strikes
In late January, a Ottoman Turkish court released Kurdish politician Leyla Guven from prison. She was locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... last year for criticizing Ankara's military operation in Syria and labeling it "an invasion."
The 55-year-old HDP politician has been on hunger strike for almost three months to protest against the treatment of Kurdish bad boy leader and PKK head Abdullah Ocalan in prison.
More than 200 prisoners across Turkey have since launched their own hunger strikes to show support for her campaign.
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[AnNahar] Troops captured four 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.... (IS) suspects in a Ottoman Turkish town on the Syrian border while they were attempting to cross the frontier illegally, state-run Anadolu news agency reported Saturday.
Border units from the Ottoman Turkish armed forces captured the suspects on Friday in the Akcakale district of Sanliurfa in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Anadolu said.
One of the suspects, identified as Feride Samur, was being sought with a red notice arrest warrant, it added.
IS jihadists are blamed in Turkey for a spate of terror attacks including a 2015 bombing on a peace rally in the capital Ankara's train station that claimed 100 lives.
Turkey has boosted security at its border crossings to prevent any infiltrations and allowed a US-led international coalition to launch air raids on the group's bases in Syria from its soil.
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[DAWN] GWADAR: Five people were killed in a clash between two groups of suspected drug smugglers in the Zamran area of Kech district on Friday.
Official sources said both the groups exchanged fire using automatic weapons. The clash continued for about one hour, resulting in the killing of five people on the spot, the sources added.
They said all the victims belonged to Panjgur district.
Levies and Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... personnel reached the area after the clash and shifted the bodies to Turbat district hospital. Three of the victims were identified as Mohammad Ismail, Shah Dad and Mohammad Nawaz.
"The bloody armed clash took place between two groups of smugglers," Kech Deputy Commissioner retired Major Bashir Ahmed said.
The sources said that a dispute over the looting of drugs of one of the groups had led to the clash.
Earlier, several such festivities had taken place in the area that resulted in the killing of many drug smugglers.
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[DAWN] 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... police on Saturday started the paperwork but haven't done much else against 39 held workers of Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) under terror and other charges for allegedly clashing with law enforcement agencies while holding protest demonstrations a day earlier.
The demonstrations were held against the Supreme Court's recent decision to dismiss a review petition and uphold the acquittal of Aasia Bibi ‐ a Christian woman who spent eight years wrongfully accused on death row in a blasphemy case.
"New Town police have registered a first information report (FIR) against 39 leaders and workers of TLP under Section 7 of the Anti Terrorism Act, 1997," DIG East Amir Farooqi told Dawn.
Activists of the religo-political party were tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! Friday afternoon after they allegedly damaged public and private property, DIG Farooqi added.
Police on Friday had claimed to have made at least 50 arrests. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... DIG Farooqi said that those below 18 years of age were released as per the law, as they could not have been booked under terror charges.
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[Rudaw] Iraqi forces thwarted an apparent planned missile launch targeting al-Asad base, where US forces are stationed.
Forces found and "were able to take control of three Grad type missiles," Yahya Rasoul, spokesperson for the Joint Operations Command, announced Saturday evening.
They were found in the hills of al-Dulab area, north of Ramadi, and were "aimed at Ain al-Asad base," he stated.
The missiles were connected to electronic timers. The forces "managed to stop the timer 15 minutes before the launch," Rasoul said.
US forces are stationed at al-Asad. 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... visited the location during his surprise Christmas trip.
Rasoul did not give information on who is suspected to be behind the missile launch.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Saturday a key 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.... financier in the eastern province of Diyala, a security committee said.
"A joint security force carried out a specific operation in an area located 20km south of Baqubah, managing to arrest a key financier of Islamic State cells," Sadeq al-Husseini, the head of the Security Committee in Diyala Provincial Council, told the Arabic-language Baghdad Today news website.
"The operation was launched upon accurate intelligence reports," Husseini added.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi paramilitary fighters of al-Hashd al-Shaabi killed on Saturday two members 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.... terrorist group in Hawija district of Kirkuk.
"A special force from al-Hashd al-Shaabi managed to kill two members of ISIS (IS group) near Hawija in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... " Ali al-Husseini, the commander of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) in the northern axis, told Almaalomah news website.
"The operation came after receiving accurate intelligence reports about the presence of IS hideouts in Hawija," Husseini said, indicating that another IS hideaway was destroyed near Hamrin Mountains.
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[AlAhram] Philippine troops killed three suspected 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... bully boyz and suffered five fatalities during a firefight on a remote southern island, the military said on Saturday.
The clash with more than 100 members of the Abu Sayyaf group broke out in the town of Patikul in the Sulu province at 11:30 a.m. as troops pursued those behind a church attack on Sunday, Colonel Gerry Besana, front man for the military's Western Mindanao Command said.
The church bombing in Sulu, which killed 22 people and maimed more than 100 including civilians and soldiers, was a suicide kaboom carried out by an Indonesian couple, with help of the Abu Sayyaf group, Interior Minister Eduardo Año said on Friday.
Abu Sayyaf is a bully boy organization notorious for kidnappings and Lion of Islam factions and has pledged allegiance to 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.... . Sulu province, in the country's Mindanao region, is a known stronghold of the group.
The encounter in Patikul lasted nearly two hours, Besana said, with five soldiers and 15 bully boyz also maimed.
Martial law has been in place in Mindanao since domestic and imported muscle dressed in black outfits overran Marawi City in 2017 and clung on through five months of air strikes and street battles reminiscent of scenes in Syria and Iraq.
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[Ynet] Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that a fire in the country's space research center has killed three scientists.
The Sunday report quotes Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi as saying that three researchers have died "because of a fire in one of the buildings of the Space Research Center."
Jahromi did not elaborate in the report.
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"Development of solid fuel formula #67666 can be abandoned now for reasons that are immediately apparent..."
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Oops!
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Joooo Heat-Rays™
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Seems suspicious. A bit unusual for people to die in an office building fire. I wonder what sort of space research hardware they were playing with.
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Iran has a space center? I mean yeah, agency I can buy, but an actual center for space stuff?
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I don’t know about an actual space center, Charles, but Iran has had its eye on space for a decade. Background from a Times of Israel article on the fire published subsequent to g(r)omgoru’s (thank you for getting there first with the important bit, g(r)omgoru!):
Iran plans to launch a satellite into orbit despite US and Israeli criticism that such launches benefit its ballistic missile program, since the rockets used in the two programs depend on very similar technology.
In January, the country launched a satellite, but authorities said it failed to reach the “necessary speed” in the third stage of its launch due to a technical malfunction.
Iran had said that it planned to send two non-military satellites, Payam and Doosti, into orbit. The Payam, which means “message” in Farsi, was an imagery satellite that Iranian officials said would help with farming and other activities.
Iran, which has long said it does not seek nuclear weapons, maintains its satellite launches and rocket tests do not have a military component. Tehran also says it is not violating a United Nations resolution that only “called upon” it not to conduct such tests.
Over the past decade, Iran has sent several short-lived satellites into orbit and in 2013 claimed to have launched a monkey into space.
[Rudaw] Kurdish-led forces have captured another six alleged foreign ISIS fighters in Syria, they announced on Saturday.
The six accused bully boyz from six different countries were captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the People’s Protection Units (YPG) announced.
They are identified as Dmitry Simonov from Russia, Mahmoud Se’id Ateb from Germany, Nicholas Joseph Lee from an unspecified Latin American nation, Emrah Rifat Ozanoglu from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Abrar Mohammad from Sweden, and Hisham al-Arabi from Morocco.
They had "actively participated in terrorist activities of the [ISIS] group for years," the YPG stated.
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[DAWN] A member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards was killed and five maimed in an armed attack in the restive southeast on Saturday, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The attack took place in Sistan-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... province, long a flashpoint, where separatists carry out cross-border raids.
The assailants struck a base of the Basij militia in the town of Nikshahr, some way from the border, IRNA said.
"Morteza Ali-Mohammadi was martyred in the incident and the five critically injured have been transferred to the hospital," Nikshahr's prosecutor Mohsen Golmohammadi told the semi-official YJC news agency.
The krazed killer Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), which is blacklisted as a terrorist group by Iran, grabbed credit for the raid on social media.
State media said only that it was a "terrorist" attack, and held no particular group responsible.
Jaish al-Adl was formed in 2012 as a successor to the Sunni bad boy group Jundallah ..."Soldiers of God," a name used by two separate terror outfits, one active in Iran and the other in Pakistain. Both are Sunni organizations that target Shiites. The Pak version has close relations with al-Qaeda and the Pak Talibs and is probably a false nose and mustache for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (Soldiers of God), which waged a deadly insurgency against Iranian targets over the previous decade.
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[IsraelTimes] Two attackers scaled the wall of a Basij paramilitary base and opened fire Saturday, killing one member of Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and wounding five others in the southeastern town of Nikshahr, Iranian media reported.
Nikshahr prosecutor Mohsen Golmohammadi told the semi-official Mehr news agency the victim was a "member of the Guard" and identified him as Morteza Aliahmadi. He did not elaborate on Aliahmadi’s rank. The Basij is affiliated with the IRGC.
Golmohammadi said both attackers escaped.
The attack happened during the morning flag raising at the base, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Nikshahr is located in Sistan-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... province. Last week, a double-bombing attack injured three coppers in Zahedan, the historic provincial capital. Baluch separatists and narcos have grabbed credit for past attacks.
The province has a large, mainly Sunni Moslem ethnic Baluchi community which straddles the border.
The jihadist Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), which is blacklisted as a terrorist group by Iran, grabbed credit for the raid on social media.
State media said only that it was a "terrorist" attack, and held no particular group responsible.
Jaish al-Adl was formed in 2012 as a successor to the Sunni holy warrior group Jundallah ..."Soldiers of God," a name used by two separate terror outfits, one active in Iran and the other in Pakistain. Both are Sunni organizations that target Shiites. The Pak version has close relations with al-Qaeda and the Pak Talibs and is probably a false nose and mustache for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (Soldiers of God), which waged a deadly insurgency against Iranian targets over the previous decade.
It also grabbed credit for two bombings on Wednesday which maimed several coppers in the historic provincial capital Zahedan.
In December, a suicide boom-mobileer struck a police headquarters in the port city of Chabahar, killing at least two police and wounding 42 others.
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
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... 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...
[NYPOST] A gunman opened fire Saturday outside a 
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
[AnNahar] Troops captured four 
[DAWN] 
[Rudaw] Iraqi forces thwarted an apparent planned missile launch targeting al-Asad base, where US forces are stationed. 
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi paramilitary fighters of al-Hashd al-Shaabi killed on Saturday two members of 
[IsraelTimes] Two attackers scaled the wall of a Basij paramilitary base and opened fire Saturday, killing one member of Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and wounding five others in the southeastern town of Nikshahr, Iranian media reported.
