[ToloNews] The Ministry of Interior Affairs said Friday that Khost's police chief Sayed Ahmad Babazai was killed in a roadside mine explosion on late Thursday night.
According to the ministry, the blast occurred around 11pm.
Babazai was on his way to a clearing operation in Zinikhil area of Nadir Shah Kot district.
Two of his bodyguard’s were also killed in the blast, the ministry said.
The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... grabbed credit for the blast.
[ToloNews] Security officials said eight suspects have been arrested on charges of damaging power pylons with explosives over the last 10 days, cutting off electricity to parts of the city, which, along with inconveniencing residents, also has cut off power to hospitals aiding COVID-19 patients.
One pylon was damaged by a kaboom on Thursday evening in Kabul’s Ahmad Shah Baba Mina area in which three coppers were maimed and the pylon was partly damaged, according to the Ministry of Interior Affairs.
So far, five power pylons have been attacked in the last 10 days, causing major electricity power outages, demonstrating how dependent the city is on imported electricity, which mostly comes from Central Asian countries.
"We arrested eight people and our (search) operations are underway. This group has links with Death Eaters," said Tariq Aryan, a front man for the Ministry of Interior Affairs.
In the past two weeks, it has become common for Kabul residents to expect that a pylon has been blown up when they see the power in their houses gone.
Enayatullah, an employee of Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, or DABS, the country’s only power company, said they started work on repairing the pylon in Kabul, and that damaging or destroying power pylons is national treason.
"As you see, a group of us are working here to fix the foundation of the pylon and it will be finished soon," he said.
The pylon, according to Enayatullah, transmits power generated at Naghlo Dam in the east of Kabul — one of the few domestic resources for electricity in Afghanistan.
"The only goal of (the attackers) is to cut Kabul’s power. Previously, the attacks against pylons were done in the north of Kabul and now they have started in the east of the city," said Ismail Khedmatgar, a Kabul resident, who says the earth-shattering kaboom happened near his house.
DABS officials have said that every year they spend millions on repairing power pylons that are either destroyed by Death Eaters or other gunnies.
More than 15 militants were killed in drone strikes conducted by Libyan Air Force under GNA today, military sources confirmed pic.twitter.com/3QNo78xfRg
TFSA says Turkish forces in Libya sent Abu al-Zahra, one of the Syrians in this video, back to Syria after this video spread. (Which, honestly, lucky him.) https://t.co/wRYlQYVkSU
At least 13 Syrians #GNA mercenaries killed by the #LNA in #Libya today. TFSA says several are being sent back to Syria for identification. “They aren’t keeping track of who among us dies. They don’t care.” https://t.co/bF690Am1uC
The General Command of the Libyan National Army (#LNA) issued a statement categorically denying targeting embassies and diplomatic headquarters in #Tripoli—and said such attacks contravene international conventions, laws, and customs. #Libya
[Jpost] The attack was the fifth case of vandalism or intimidation against that restaurant in 2 ½ years.
A Syrian asylum-seeker who in 2017 broke into a kosher restaurant in the Dutch capital was again arrested for smashing its windows while holding a lighter.
Officers on Friday morning used pepper spray to subdue the 31-year-old man, Saleh Ali,
...the self-described non-Jew-hating pro-Palestinian activist who fought against ISIS in Syria before making his way to Amsterdam to apply for asylum and attack innocent Jewish restaurants for reasons that are never made clear...
outside HaCarmel restaurant, the Het Parool daily reported. He had used a metal pipe to smash the restaurant’s windows and was holding a lighter in the other hand.
He refused to let go of the objects, when police subdued him, police said in a statement. It called Ali’s actions "vandalism."
Was he shouting “Allahu akhbar!” again this time while the Amsterdam police once again politely waited until he had finished his self-assigned task?
According to Hidde van Koningsveld, policy officer at the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, which monitors antisemitic incidents in the Netherlands, the attack was the fifth case of vandalism or intimidation in 2½ years.
One shudders to think what their insurance bill must be...
In January, unidentified perpetrators placed a box resembling a homemade bomb on the restaurant’s doorstep.
In 2017, Ali smashed the windows of HaCarmel with a wooden club while waving a Paleostinian flag. He stole an Israeli flag hanging there. Police officers stood by as he vandalized the place but arrested him when he came out.
He was convicted of vandalism after 52 days in jail while awaiting his trial but was released with no additional penalty. Dutch Jews criticized the ruling because it did not contain a reference identifying his actions as a hate crime.
...or, you know, anything that looked or felt like a meaningful punishment.
Commenting on Friday’s incident, van Koningsveld wrote on Twitter: "If the suspect is back on the streets in no time, and charged only with ’vandalism," then [Justice Minister] Ferd Grapperhaus will have some explaining to do." "Hey, they're just Jooos. Who among us hasn't...umm. Is this mic on?"
In a tweet, the ISPR said the security personnel were returning from patrolling in Buleda — 14 kilometres from the Pakistan-Iran border — to "check possible routes used by terrorists in the mountainous terrain of Makran".https://t.co/abCdnDGJPL
[Rudaw] 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.... (ISIS) turbans in Iraq have once again begun claiming responsibility for the arson of agricultural land as another hot and dry summer season approaches.
The group's turbans torched crop fields in al-Bou Khiyal, a village in al-Athim area of Diyala province, according to its weekly al-Nabaa newspaper published on messaging app Telegram on Thursday.
Incidences of crop arson across Iraq have been reported by local media outlets in the past week. State media reported the burning of crops in Najaf province on Tuesday, but said it was the result of an electrical fault.
Iraq's government is stepping up plans to protect the country's agricultural land as summer begins, Muhammed Amin Faris, a member of parliament's Agricultural and Water Resources committee told Rudaw on Tuesday.
"This is something that happens every year during summer," Faris said. "The agricultural and water resources committee in Iraqi parliament has already sent a letter to the ministries of interior and defense, as well as to the provinces, urging them to protect the agricultural fields and crops from burning,"
Responsibility for the defense of vulnerable territory ultimately lies with Baghdad, Faris added.
"The defense and interior ministries are responsible for protecting agricultural land in Iraq from ISIS Death Eaters, who are behind the burning of fields."
It is feared that recent incidences of arson could mark the replication of last year's attacks that saw hundreds of thousands of donums of agricultural land catch fire across Iraq over the summer.
In its most deadly attack since its territorial defeat, the group carried out a five-pronged offensive on Iraqi security forces that killed ten members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Saladin on Saturday.
On the same day, turbans killed three federal coppers and maimed two others in an attack on Zaghniya cop shoppe, Diyala province.
The attacks were just two of 64 carried out in Iraq between April 30 and May 6 for which the group grabbed credit via al-Nabaa on Thursday. More than half were conducted in the province of Diyala alone.
In mid-April, then-Iraqi Defense Minister Najah al-Shammari vowed the government would "ramp up" anti-ISIS efforts to prevent the group from capitalizing on Baghdad's prioritization of its efforts on the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... crisis.
Parliament approved the appointment of new prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and his cabinet on Wednesday night, and the premier placed tackling ISIS high on his list of priorities.
More military equipment and weapons are to provided to security forces "in order to face the increased ISIS activities in liberated provinces [once under the group's territorial control], read Kadhimi's agenda published Wednesday.
Newly-appointed Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has invited NATO’s Secretary-General to visit Baghdad “as soon as possible” to discuss ways of increasing collaboration with the NATO mission in Iraq. https://t.co/E0uwWIxf0f
[Rudaw] The Global Coalition and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) carried out an airborne operation against 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.... (ISIS) suspects in Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria early on Thursday, according to local sources.
One of the suspects, believed to be an Iraqi national, was arrested in the operation while two others blew themselves up, according to Deir ez Zor 24.
The SDF blocked access to Azzir village and warned locals not to leave their homes ahead of the operation, the news agency added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) also reported on the raid.
According to the war monitor, the SDF raid targeted two houses in the village, adding that they were not owned by anyone affiliated with the terror group. SDF members seized money, gold and phones from the scene before storming a mobile phone shop and confiscating its contents, according to a report.
Rudaw English emailed the coalition for a comment but is yet to receive a reply.
Deir ez-Zor is the focal point of ISIS attacks in north and east Syria, with 73% of March attacks taking place in the province, according to Rojava Information Centre.
The province is home to Baghouz- the last ISIS stronghold, which was liberated in March 2019.
Unknown button men have recently extorted locals in the rural provincial town of al-Busayrah, according to SOHR.
ISIS, which seized control of swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014, was declared defeated in late 2017 and early 2019 in Iraq and Syria respectively. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... remnants of the group have returned to their earlier insurgency tactics, ambushing security forces, kidnapping and executing suspected informants, and extorting money from vulnerable rural populations.
ISIS has also taken advantage of recent instability caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to increase holy warrior activities in both Iraq and Syria.
Iraqi and Kurdish security forces in Iraq’s Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Saladin and Diyala provinces have been targeted in a spate of attacks in recent weeks.
In neighbouring Syria, ISIS prisoners have held riots in detention facilities - described by the Kurdish-led forces as "ticking bomb."
A Hasaka riot only came to an end after the US-led coalition and SDF "negotiated" with inmates at Geweran prison last week, according to the SDF.
[Rudaw] A group of button men ambushed a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in western Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on Tuesday, killing him and two of his guards. The brazen attack was carried out in broad daylight in Divandareh, in the heart of Kurdistan province — one of the most heavily militarized areas in the country.
In recent years the IRGC has taken increasingly proactive measures to smother clandestine Kurdish opposition groups by making thousands of kilometers of new dirt roads atop mountain peaks overlooking Kurdish areas, installing thousands of additional troops to seal off its porous western border with Iraq.
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...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[ToloNews] Security officials said eight suspects have been arrested on charges of damaging power pylons with explosives over the last 10 days, cutting off electricity to parts of the city, which, along with inconveniencing residents, also has cut off power to hospitals aiding COVID-19 patients.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...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 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
