[ToloNews] Unknown button men attacked an army vehicle in Kabul and one ANA member was killed and another was maimed, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Sunday.
The incident happened in Dawa Khan roundabout in PD12 of Kabul city on Sunday morning. Unknown button men started shooting at a Ford-brand vehicle belonging to the army, according to the MoI.
The police are investigating the incident, the MoI said.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... no group, including the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , has grabbed credit for the attack.
According to Tariq Arian, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior (MoI), the security forces are investigating the incident and as a result five people who were riding cycle of violences have been arrested so far.
[RADIOSHABELLE] A suicide kaboom has killed a governor 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... state on Sunday, the second top official assassinated in the northeastern Federal State since March.
Ahmed Muse Nur and several security guards were reported to have been killed in a huge blast targeted his vehicle while travelling in northern Galkayo city.
Some reports suggest that the attack occurred outside the governor’s office.
Last March, al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom that killed Nugal governor and former regional police boss in Garowe city.
The governor of Mudug, a region in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland, was killed with three of his bodyguards in a suicide car bombing on Sunday that was claimed by Islamist group al Shabaab, police said.
#Algeria- #MDN photos from militants' hideout discovered in Constantine, including a Beretta 950 and a whole bunch of IEDs, grenades & other equipment pic.twitter.com/pfVPJIzGBk
Very early today morning, a Turkish frigate from/near to Mellitah Complex Oil and Gas , fired 2-4 missiles toward Al-Watyah airbase (a distance of ~30km), this is a short video and a pictur showing one of the missiles in the sky.
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The Genesis: Malik Traina & Ramy Allahoum
12 May 2020 Forces aligned with the Government of National Accord (GNA)repelled Khalifa Haftar's advance after a year-long offensive to capture the capital, Tripoli. Tripoli, Libya - In late December, just weeks after signing a military cooperation agreement with Libya's GNA, Turkish President Erdogan paid an unexpected visit to Tunisia. Analysts suspect the trip was aimed at giving credence to Erdogan's pledge to deploy troops to the war-wracked country in support of the embattled, United Nations-brokered GNA, with Tunisia being the closest "friendly" country from which to feed the military effort.
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APRIL 2020:
Turkish Industrial Output Falls Unexpectedly;
Turkish Current Account Deficit Larger than Expected; Turkish Jobless Rate Falls to 13.6% in February; Turkish Factory Activity Shrinks the Most since 2008; Turkey Producer Inflation Rate Eases to 6.71% in April; Turkey Inflation Rate Slows to 5-Month Low of 10.94%; Turkey Foreign Tourist Arrivals Slump in March; Turkish Tourism Revenues Drop 11.4% YoY in Q1;Turkish Trade Gap Widens Sharply in March.
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[Libya Observer] The Joint Operations Room of the Government of National Accord has reported that the Libyan Air Force targeted al-Watiya base with direct strikes, during which Two Russian air defense systems were totally destroyed.
The two Pantsir anti-aircraft systems were supplied by the United Arab Emirates to warlord Haftar’s militia groups to protect them from dronezaps.
The second Russian-made Pantsir anti-aircraft system, supplied by the UAE to warlord Haftar’s gangs in Watiya airbase was destroyed, the Joint Operations Room of GNA confirms, just a few hours after destroying the first one in a big blow to Haftar’s groups.
The front man for the Libyan Army, Colonel Mohammed Ganunu, said the first Pantsir was destroyed on Saturday after three direct dronezaps. Early on Sunday, the second Pantsir was also hit in another strike.
In a press briefing on Saturday, Ganunu added that the dronezaps also targeted three armored cars, along with an ammunition-laden vehicle, stressing that any target, which poses a threat, whether moving or still, is a legitimate target and will be destroyed without hesitation.
Ganunu reiterated that "there are no red lines" and any movements seen to be hostile to Government forces, anywhere in Libya, will be targeted.
The moment when the missiles was intercepted by the ( assumed destroyed pantsir s1 )south of Aljimail north of Alwitya airbase pic.twitter.com/HWe1ANBYrS
[SYRIAHR] The number of Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries who have been killed in Libya while fighting in the side of the "Government of National Accord" against the "Libyan National Army" continues to rise. SOHR activists have documented the killing of 11 Ottoman Turkish-backed mercenaries, including a child under the age of eighteen, on several frontlines in Libya, bringing the total corpse count of Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian proxies killed in military operations in Libya to 298, including 17 children under the age of eighteen.
The fatalities are of the factions "al-Mu’tasim Division, Sultan Murad, Suqur al-Shamal Brigade, al-Hamzat and Suleiman Shah". According to very reliable SOHR sources, the fatalities were killed in festivities on frontlines of Salah al-Din in the south of 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... , al-Ramlah near Tripoli Airport, al-Hadabah Project area, Misrata and other areas in Libya.
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[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces have launched a new operation targeting 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) sleeper cells in the deserted areas between djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Anbar, and Saladin.
The areas have seen a recent uptick in bad boy activity, including bombings, ambushes, kidnapping, extortion, and arson.
The operation, named "Lions of al-Jazeera" was announced by Iraq’s Security Media Cell on Sunday morning.
"We announce the start of the Lions of al-Jazeera military operation this morning on May 17, 2020 to defeat ISIS sleeper cells in the areas of western Saladin, southern Mosul, and northern Anbar as well as areas on [the] Iraqi-Syrian border," read the statement.
The multi-day operation will be conducted by Iraqi army units, large units of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) and Sunni tribal fighters known as Hashd al-Ahsairi, and be accompanied by Iraqi warplanes.
Security forces seized four caves and a tunnel used as hiding places by turbans in western Saladin, the Media Cell announced later on Sunday.
Although the Iraqi government announced the territorial defeat of ISIS in December 2017, remnants of the group have since returned to their earlier insurgency tactics, ambushing security forces, kidnapping and executing suspected informants, and extorting money from vulnerable rural populations.
Having lost all of its urban strongholds, the group is now most active in Iraq’s remote deserts and mountains, and in the disputed territories contested by the federal government and the autonomous Kurdish region, where a wide security vacuum has opened up.
ISIS has been held responsible for a spate of attacks on the Iraqi Security Forces and PMF units.
Late on Friday, the PMF said four of its fighters were killed and six injured in an ISIS attack in northern Diyala.
In a statement on Thursday evening, the PMF said its units had come under attack in Khanaqin, Jurf al-Nasr (formally known as Jurf al-Sakhir) and on the Syrian-Iraqi border in the Akashat area of western Anbar.
On Friday the Iraqi defense ministry said two soldiers were killed and four others maimed when their convoy hit an IED in northern Baghdad province. ISIS later grabbed credit for the blast.
On Thursday, ISIS weekly propaganda al-Naba newspaper claimed its turbans had carried out 42 attacks in Iraq between May 7 and 13 alone — almost half of them in Diyala.
#Hezbollah media reporting that the man was a Syrian shepherd and was shot by IDF troops as while his animals were grazing. A senior IDF officer responsible for that area told me a few days ago that many shepherds in the area are known to collect intel on troop movement
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...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...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 
