[BBC] A suicide bomb attack at a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed at least 52 people, officials say.
The dead include 21 women and five children, killed when the blast hit the queue outside. A further 112 119 people were injured.
The Islamic State group (IS) said it had carried out the attack.
Voter registration began this month for legislative elections which are due to take place in October.
IS's mouthpiece said a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt had targeted the centre, which is in the Dashte Barchi area of western Kabul.
There have already been at least four attacks on such centres since voter registration got under way a week ago.
The legislative elections later this year will be followed by a presidential poll in 2019.
BBC research earlier this year found that the Afghan government had full control over just 30% of the country, with the rest of the country under significant threat from the Taliban, and, to a lesser extent, IS.
Afghanistan's interior minister told the BBC earlier this year that both IS and the Taliban were targeting civilians to provoke people against the government and create chaos.
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What percentage of these splodey dopes are Mohammad loving jihadis vs. ones who are being threatened with the death of family members if they don't?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least six Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... murderous Moslems including a local leader of the group Qari Amrullah were killed duringa clash with the Afghan forces in Faryab province in North of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said Friday that the clash between the armed forces and the Taliban murderous Moslems took place in the vicinity of Ghormach district.
The source further added that at least four Taliban murderous Moslems and an Afghan soldier were also maimed during the clash.
According to the Shaheen Corps of the Afghan military, the ordinary civilians and local residents have not suffered any casualty.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least six murderous Moslems were killed in an infighting in northeastern Kapisa province of Afghanistan, the defense authorities said Saturday.
The incident took place in the vicinity of Alasai district after two groups of murderous Moslems exchanged fire, apparently due to an internal rift.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East confirmed the incident and said at least six murderous Moslems were killed and another one was maimed during the clash.
The source further added that the incident has taken place due to an internal rift among the murderous Moslems but no further details are available.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Kabul police forces thwarted a bomb kaboom in Kabul city as the anti-government armed holy warriors are attempting to carry out attacks in the key cities and provinces of the country.
A source in Kabul Police Commandment said a magnetic bomb was discovered and defused in the vicinity of the 5th police district of the city before the holy warriors manage to detonate it.
The source further added that the bomb was planted in Qala-e-Wazir area of the city but the possible target has not been ascertained so far.
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[AlAhram] Fifteen turbans have been killed in an anti-jihadist operation in central Mali, the Malian army said on Saturday, adding that one soldier died and two others were maimed.
The "terrorists" were "neutralised, their weapons recovered and their cycle of violences destroyed" during Friday's mission in the Tina forest in the Mopti region, the army said in a statement.
The army "suffered one death and two injuries".
Mali has seen a resurgence of violence in recent weeks. Last Sunday a UN base in the historic city of Timbuktu was attacked by rocket fire and boom-mobiles, killing one UN peacekeeper and wounding seven others.
Last month the UN Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) expressed "deep concern" over an increase in "serious violations and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. abuses against civilians, including cases of summary execution" in the centre of the country, where jihadist groups are particularly active.
MINUSMA, which has 12,000 peacekeepers in Mali, said it had recorded at least 85 major violent incidents and armed confrontations that resulted in at least 180 civilian victims since the beginning of the year.
The unrest in the former French colony stems from a 2012 Tuareg separatist uprising against the state, which was exploited by jihadists in order to take over key cities in the north.
Although French forces succeeded in removing al-Qaeda-linked groups from places such as Timbuktu, the groups have morphed into more nimble formations operating in rural areas, sometimes winning over local populations by providing basic services and protection from bandidos.
The insurgency has gradually spread to the country's centre, where local grievances are sometimes exploited by radical Islamists in a region awash with guns.
In June 2015, Mali's government signed a peace agreement with some gangs, but other jihadists remain active, and large tracts of the country remain lawless.
Nomadic Fulani people and farmers from the Dogon ethnic group have also engaged in tit-for-tat violence, resulting in deaths.
[Libya Observer] The Libyan Coast Guard said on Friday that its members managed to rescue 111 illegal migrants colonists whose boat crashed north of the city of Zuwara in western Libya.
The head of the General Directorate of Coast Security, Colonel Tariq Shanbour, said that the migrants colonists were of different African nationalities, including four children and two women.
The migrants colonists were handed over to the Immigration Office in Zuwara, and the International Organization for Migration was informed of the rescue operation, he added.
The Coast Guard announced on Wednesday that they had saved 2017 migrants colonists who were on board rubber boats near the coast of Qarabulli, eastern Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... .
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So if the Libyans have it under control we can let the Italians stand down.
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[Libya Observer] 11 civilians were maimed, including three women, as festivities in Libya's southern city Sabha renewed on Saturday, the city's medical center said.
The Medical center's media office indicated that the injuries were not so serious.
Sources, meanwhile, said the injuries were mostly caused by a mortar shell.
Sabha, which saw uneasy calm over the last weeks, was plunged into an intermittent fighting on Friday.
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[Libya Observer] A Dignity Operation fighter jet carried out an Arclight airstrike on a camp in al-Saddadah district, some 105km southwest of Misrata, on Saturday.
No casualties were reported.
The camp is under the control of the Central Military Zone of Presidential Council and is used by its troops fighting ISIS runaways around Bani Walid valleys.
Dignity Operation claimed the camp is being used by "terrorist groups."
The Presidential Council has not commented on the airstrike so far.
Earlier this month, the Presidential Council announced a new military operation named "Nation’s Storm" to target ISIS runaways in the central region.
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[Reuters] Saudi Arabian security forces said they had shot down a recreational drone in the capital on Saturday after online videos showing gunfire in a neighborhood where royal palaces are located sparked fears of possible political unrest.
The Riyadh police spokesman, quoted by the official Saudi News Agency (SPA), said a security screening point noticed the flying of a small unauthorized recreational drone at 7:50 p.m. local time (1650 GMT), leading security forces to deal with it according to their orders and instructions.
There were no casualties, and King Salman was not at his palace at the time, a senior Saudi official told Reuters.
“The king was at his farm in Diriya,” the official said, naming another area of the capital.
Amateur footage circulating earlier on social media showed loud gunfire that lasted for at least 30 seconds, leading to speculation online about a possible coup attempt in the world’s top oil exporter and questions about the whereabouts of the king and crown prince.
One video showed two police cars parked in the middle of a dark street. Reuters was unable to independently verify the videos’ authenticity.
Asked about the footage, the official said the drone had been shot down, and added that the government would introduce regulations for the use of recreational drones.
newc gave us the Twitter thread, giving us the real time responses for those interested. See here.
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I kind of jumped the gun with that posting - but it sure gave me a start. Thanks for fixing it
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I don’t think you jumped the gun, newc dear. It’s clear from the posts there that the original concern was a revolt against the young crown prince, a concern that has been mentioned here from time to time. There has to be resentment among the old guard, not only for his ascension but for the humilities he imposed on them by demanding huge payments for their so-called corruption — ransoms, really — his demand that they give up power and responsibilities, and his loosening of social restrictions with even more planned.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... (FSB) released footage of the aftermath of a raid for a member of the self-proclaimed 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, formerly ISIS/ISIS) in Stavropol on Saturday.
The hard boy was allegedly plotting to carry out attacks on the city.
The hard boy was fatally maimed during the raid.
The FSB agents reportedly seized firearms, ammunition, an IS flag and a written oath to the IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... The plans of the Stavropol Administration building were also reportedly found during the search of the premises.
According to an FSB blurb, the hard boy had planned to commit high-profile attacks on the Stavropol Region Administration building and on one of the regional security units.
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[DAWN] La Belle France on Friday deported an influential Islamic preacher whose mosque in the southern city of Marseille was shut down last year over accusations of hate speech.
The expulsion of Algeria-born El Hadi Doudi back to his home country came after his appeal with the European Court of Human Rights was rejected earlier this week.
The expulsion of Algeria-born El Hadi Doudi back to his home country came after his appeal with the European Court of Human Rights was rejected earlier this week.
Doudi, 63, had long been on the radar of Marseille police, who considered him an "authority" on Salafist interpretations of Islam, a Sunni branch which demands a strict conservative lifestyle.
While a majority of Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... disdain violence, some followers embrace the use of force to promote their beliefs.
La Belle France has been wrestling with how to counter the influence of faceless myrmidons after a string of deadly jihadist attacks by people later found to have moved in Salafist circles.
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"Hey, Kids! What time is it?"
"Time for you to get the f*ck out!"
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I’m sorry for saying those things, it was bad judgment on my part and a mistake which I regret.
[There, is that enough meaningless groveling to let me stay in France? It seems to work in the Great Satan US. ]
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...nah, doesn't work for groveling conservatives on universities or in the media.
[DAWN] Security forces neutralised five suspected gunnies 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 Dera Bugti district on Saturday, security officials told DawnNewsTV.
In an operation conducted in the Bambore area, 10 suspected gunnies were also jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! and a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank mines and other weapons was recovered.
"The dead gunnies were involved in a series of terrorist activities in Dera Bugti and other parts of Balochistan," revealed an official who declined to be named since he was not authorised to speak to the media.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Three people were killed and injured in a kaboom, southwest of Kirkuk province, a security source was quoted saying on Saturday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today website, the source said, "a bomb, went off at al-Humeira crossroads in al-Rashad town, southwest of Kirkuk. Two people were killed, while the third was maimed."
"Security troops rushed to the accident spot," the source who preferred anonymity added. "The maimed were taken to nearby hospital for treatment, while the victim was transferred to forensic medicine department."
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two Iraqi civilians were maimed on Saturday when a kaboom hit an area west of the capital, according to a security source.
Alghad Press quoted the source saying that the blast occurred near a popular market in al-Zeidan, Abu Gharib, west of Baghdad, leaving two civilians injured.
The Israeli Air Force has decided to scale back its participation in the Red Flag exercise in Alaska amid increasing tensions on Israel's northern border.
"In light of the situational assessment by the Air Force it was decided to adjust the planes' participation in the exercise," read a statement by the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, stressing that nonetheless, "Israel's first participation in the Red Flag exercise in Alaska will take place as planned."
According to a statement by Air Force public affairs officer Kitsana Dounglomchan, Israel's Air Force decided not to send F-15 fighter jets to the two-week-long drill, which will run between April 26 - May 11, out of Eielson Air Force base in Fairbanks and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.
"Despite this change, we are looking forward to hosting the Israeli contingent that will be partaking in Red Flag-Alaska 18-1," Dounglomchan was quoted by local media as saying.
The Red Flag exercises take place several times a year bringing together US and international forces for drills on realistic simulated combat situations. A statement released by Pacific Air Forces, the Alaskan Command's higher headquarters which directs the exercise, said that over 60 aircraft "from more than a dozen units" will be taking part in the drill.
Israel regularly participates in US Air Force's main Red Flag exercises at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada and the drill in Alaska is meant to offer pilots the opportunity to fly in combat scenarios which involve winter conditions such as snow and ice that Israeli pilots rarely get to drill on in the Middle East
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FEXIT - fast exit is set before you deploy "Prime Movers" to any other country. They can leapfrog Airports in the US or even fly over the North Pole and have ground rights. Probably nestled at Home by now.
[Ynet] IDF says will thoroughly investigate death of teenager during Friday's border protests, accuses Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, of intentionally endangering youth; teenager Mohammed Ayoub's mother says he slipped out of home to protests despite her pleas: ’He told his aunt to tell me he would be back in an hour.’
Fourteen-year-old Mohammad Ayoub ignored his mother's objections and slipped away to join this week's protest along the Gazoo-Israel border, just hours after Israel's military dropped leaflets in his Gazoo village warning residents to stay away.
A few hours later, the teenager was killed by an Israeli bullet to the head, Paleostinian health officials said.
"He asked his aunt to tell me he would be back in an hour," said his mother, Raeda, who instead buried her son late on Friday.
His death brought to 35 the number of Paleostinians killed since border festivities.
The IDF is working on an ongoing basis to learn operational lessons and to reduce the number of casualties in the security barrier area," the IDF statement said. "Unfortunately, Hamas deliberately and calculatingly endangers civilians. Every week it places young children, teenagers and women, at the forefront of the riots to serve as human shields for the Hamas agenda."
"The IDF has repeatedly warned citizens against approaching the fence and against taking part in violent activities and terrorist attacks. The IDF will continue to act professionally and decisively to protect Israeli citizens and security infrastructures," the statement concluded.
The methods used to carry out terrorist activities and damage infrastructure under the guise of smoke and demonstrations were clearly on display in a photograph disseminated by the army.
Photo can be seen at the link, with circles and arrows pointing out items of interest.
One squad consists of youths igniting security infrastructures, and another squad waits and pulls the damaged object by rope until it is uprooted. They can then proceed to infiltrate Israeli territory in order to carry out attacks in Israel.
Matthias Schmale, the Gazoo director of operations of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides aid to over half of Gazoo's population, said Ayoub was the third student of UN-run schools to be killed in recent weeks.
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A mother sobs, down by the border,
Whose baby ignored her last order:
"Throwing stones isn't cool!
Go to mosque, or to school...
And let loose with a big honkin' mortar."
[IsraelTimes] No injuries reported in incident, which is part of new tactic by Paleostinian protesters aimed at setting fields across border on fire
A warehouse in Israel’s south was set aflame Saturday after a kite equipped with a flaming rag that had been intentionally released by Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip landed there.
Firefighters managed to put out the fire, according to Ynet.
No casualties were reported, but heavy damage was caused to the warehouse.
Some 3,000 Paleostinians protested along the Gazoo border with Israel on Friday,
Only 3,000? It seems there was a recount after the original claim of 5,000. How amusing...
burning tires and flying flaming kites across the frontier to set Israeli fields ablaze, witnesses and the army said. Soldiers responded with tear gas and live fire, killing four Paleostinians, including a 15-year-old, according to the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", run-health ministry.
[IsraelTimes] Hizbut Tahrir says Paleostinian Authority acting on orders of 'infidels, occupiers and colonists'
The group accused the PA of acting on the orders of "infidels, occupiers and colonists."
*snicker*
Hizbut Tahrir ...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate... is a pan-Islamist political organization which seeks to re-establish the Islamic Caliphate to resume the Islamic way of life under Sharia law.
I’m shocked. I had no idea the organizational landscape was quite so complex in the West Bank.
In a statement, Hizbut Tahrir said that since the early hours of Saturday morning, PA security forces set up checkpoints at the entrances to Ramallah and al-Bireh and other West Bank cities to stop Hizbut Tahrir supporters from participating in the annual rally to commemorate the anniversary of the destruction of the Islamic Caliphate in 1924.
PA security forces stopped vehicles and searched for people who were on their way to the rally, the group complained.
The Caliphate refers to the political-religious state of the Moslem community in the centuries following the death of Prophet Mohammed. The last Caliphate lasted between 1517 and 1924 under the Ottoman dynasty of the Ottoman Empire.
Hmm.... One would think they’d be getting support for neo-Ottoman Turkey...
The Islamist group, which has only a few thousand supporters in the West Bank, accused the PA of "trampling its own laws" by blocking the rally which, it added, was being held in accordance with Paleostinian law.
In the Palestinian Territories those things called laws are actually mere suggestions. But suggestions are made to be broken, donchaknow.
The PA, it charged, was determined to pursue its "blind bias and war against calls for re-establishing the Caliphate."
Last week, PA security forces used force to break up similar rallies organized by Hizbut Tahrir in Hebron and Jenin.
Huh. I don’t recall reading about that.
The group also accused the PA of suppressing "any voice that calls on the Islamic armies to take action to liberate Paleostine."
Noting that the PA was currently sponsoring the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival, an annual event, Hizbut Tahrir said the PA were like the "people of Lot" who rejected chastity and purity in favor of infidelity and evil. It was a reference to Lot who, according to Islamic tradition, was bestowed as a prophet to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to stop his people from their lustful and violent acts. When the inhabitants refused to listen to him, their cities were destroyed.
"We warn the Paleostinian Authority against its misdeeds, the Islamist group said. "It is living under an illusion if it thinks that it would be able to silence the voice of truth by obeying the orders of the infidels, occupiers and colonists."
[ALMASDARNEWS] Following the complete capitulation of rebel forces in Syria’s eastern Qalamoun region, the Syrian Army has come into possession of an entire brigade worth of main battle tanks and other armored vehicles.
Virtually all of the captured armor comes from the Brigade 559 base which was taken over by Lion of Islam groups in 2014.
Unfortunately for the rebels, they simply did not have enough men and technical specialists to maintain anymore than a fraction of the entire mechanized loot in frontline service at any one period in time.
Much of the armor was hidden in caves and makeshift storage sights within the mountains of eastern Qalamoun.
In line with the surrender deal for eastern Qalamoun, over fifty armored vehicles ‐ mostly T-55, T-62 and T-72 main battle tanks but also including support vehicles like Shilkas ‐ have now been returned to Syrian government forces; even more amazingly, this includes plenty of spare parts and ammunition, which was also preserved.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A leading military commander of the Ahmad Abdo Martyrs Brigade (Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... affiliate) has defected to government forces following the rebel group’s surrender in eastern Qalamoun.
The commander in question is Ali al-Sheikh. His defection has been mimicked by dozens of other fighters and NCO-rank field leaders belonging to the Ahmad Abdo Martyrs Brigade.
According to sources, Ali al-Sheikh and fellow defectors represent Qalamoun-based rebels who have refused to be evacuated to northwestern Syria, instead choosing to settle their situation with the Syrian government and fight alongside the Syrian Army against 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.... forces.
It is expected that many other myrmidon commanders and fighters from eastern Qalamoun will also follow this same example for the exact same reason in the days to come.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A huge massacre burial site containing many hundreds of bodies of fallen Syrian Army soldiers and civilians has been unearthed inside Syria’s northern city of Raqqa.
The discovery, made by Raqqa’s local council, is located at the Ar-Rasheed Football Stadium in the city center.
According to preliminary reports, the remains of at least 500 soldiers and civilians have been excavated so far by recovery teams ‐ more may yet be found.
According to sources, most of the many hundreds of bodies are those of Syrian Army troops who were captured and later executed by 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.... forces with the fall of the Division 17 base (north of Raqqa city) in 2014.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Army’s elite Tiger Forces Division has officially concluded its operation in Syria’s eastern Qalamoun region and is now relocating towards a new and rather pressed front.
According to al-Masdar News sources, the seasoned division is being redeployed to southern Damascus to lead other Syrian Army formations ‐ including 4th Mechanized Division and the Elite Republican Guard ‐ in fighting 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.... forces there.
More specifically, it appears that the Tiger Forces Division will strike ISIS bully boyz from the Yarmouk Camp axis.
Past and current reports all indicate that Islamic State defenses in southern Damascus are at their densest around the district of Yarmouk Camp ‐ thus it appears to be the case that the Tiger Forces Division intends to break ISIS at its strongest point.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] 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.... forces operating in southern Damascus have suffered massive losses since the Syrian Army commenced its ground offensive two days ago.
According to sources, the terrorist group has lost at least 100 fighters killed in action ‐ among them two emirs and five field commanders ‐ over the last 48 hours. No one is yet quite sure just how many have been maimed.
Apparently most of the losses are due to very intense non-stop artillery (including rocket forces) bombardment the Syrian Army and Arclight airstrikes by Russian and Syrian warplanes.
Furthermore, the Syrian Army ‐ supported by allied Paleostinian forces ‐ has managed to advance in southern Damascus, so far capturing the Imam Ali Mosque and all building blocks to its west between the Tadamon and Sidi Maqdad districts as well as the al-Mudjahadeen Mosque in Hajjar al-Aswad district.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continued its offensive against turbans of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS; formerly ISIS, ISIL) in southern Damascus, Friday, according to media reports.
Footage shows government forces launching shell and rocket fire against hard boy targets in and around Yarmouk.
The fighting has taken place around the Yarmouk Camp and al-Hajar al-Aswad, an area two miles (3.21 km) from central Damascus, as part of efforts to clear the remaining pockets of IS turbans south of the capital.
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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.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least six 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least six 
[Libya Observer] The Libyan Coast Guard said on Friday that its members managed to rescue 111 illegal 
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
[ALMASDARNEWS] A huge massacre burial site containing many hundreds of bodies of fallen Syrian Army soldiers and civilians has been unearthed inside Syria’s northern city of Raqqa.
