[ToloNews] The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has raised deep concerns over a surge in the number of civilian casualties in the country and has urged the Afghan warring factions to end hostilities and engage in intra-Afghan talks.
The UN envoy called on the Afghan warring sides to respect international laws and protect the civilians.
Seriously?? Even I’m not that naive.
"Rising numbers of civilian casualties in Afghanistan, with a disregard for international law aimed at protecting civilians from harm, underscore the urgent need for parties to halt the fighting and to re-focus on starting intra-Afghan peace negotiations," UNAMA said in a report on Tuesday amid escalating violence in multiple frons across the nation.
"UNAMA’s latest preliminary figures indicate a trend of escalating civilian casualties in April from operations conducted by both the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). There is also grave concern about levels of violence in the first half of May, including recent attacks claimed by 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.... -Khorasan Province (ISKP)," the report said.
According to the report, the Taliban were responsible for 208 civilian casualties in April which shows an increase of 25 percent in comparison to April 2019 and at similar levels to March 2020.
Based on the report, civilian casualties attributed to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) for April 2020 numbered 172 civilians, an increase of 38 percent compared to April 2019, and 37 percent higher than March 2020.
The report states that since April 1, in addition to the unclaimed attack on a hospital in Kabul last week, UNAMA has documented the abduction of 15 healthcare workers by the Taliban as well as a threat to healthcare workers and the confiscation of medical supplies by the ANSF.
[ToloNews] On Tuesday, Afghanistan’s security chiefs briefed politicians in the Afghan Parliament where they said that the recent terrorist attacks in Kabul and other provinces indicated Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... involvement.
The three security chiefs — the acting head of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... , Ahmad Zia Saraj, the acting minister of interior affairs, Massoud Andarabi, and the army chief of staff, Gen. Bismillah Waziri-- received criticism by MPs for their apparent inability to ensure the safety of the people and prevent deadly attacks, such as the ones at the Kabul hospital and the 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.. funeral that claimed dozens of civilian lives.
"Pakistain is under pressure for harboring Taliban leadership. The Taliban is trying to capture two to three provinces so they can transfer their leadership here in order to ease pressure on Pakistain," the acting head of the National Directorate of Security, Ahmad Zia Saraj, said. "This place blows"
A week ago, President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... , in response to recent attacks in different parts of the country that killed dozens of civilians and security force members, ordered the Afghan forces to switch from "active defensive" mode to "offensive" mode, and to resume attacks on the Taliban.
Also on Monday night, Ghani in a meeting with members of the special forces of the Afghan National Police (ANP) said his administration cannot remain "indifferent" to those killing children.
Ghani was apparently referring to last week’s attack on a maternity hospital in Kabul where button men massacred at least 24 people, including women and newborn babies.
Earlier in the day, the UN mission in Afghanistan called on the warring factions to stop violence and protect civilians under international law.
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Afghan security chiefs: Taliban trying to capture 3 provinces so can move out of Pakistan
Which tells you where the real problem is. Unless you are willing to make Pakistan into a parking lot for India, you won't solve the 'problem'. Get out.
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[KhaamaPress] The U.S. President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... has said the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group is making a fortune out of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, claiming that the leadership of the group is mixed about even wanting the U.S. out of Afghanistan.
"Could someone please explain to them that we have been there for 19 years," Trump wrote. "The Taliban is mixed about even wanting us out. They make a fortune $$$ out of having us stay, and except at the beginning, we never really fought to win," Trump was quoted as saying in a report by Washington Post.
Trump further added "We are more of a police force than the mighty military that we are, especially now as rebuilt. No, I am not acting impulsively!"
This comes as the U.S. and Taliban signed a peace deal late in February this year with an aim to pave the way for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan as well as the launch of intra-Afghan talks in a bid to end the conflict in the country.
Counter-terrorism assurances, reduction in violence or ceasefire, intra-Afghan talks and troops withdrawal were among the key issues the U.S. and Taliban representatives held extensive talks ahead of signing the peace deal.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... the Afghan officials blame the Taliban group for expanding its ties with the terrorist groups, specifically Al Qaeda and ISIS group following the signing of the peace deal with Washington.
The Afghan officials also blamed Taliban for coordinating with Al Qaeda and ISIS to conduct the recently deadly attacks, including the raid on maternity ward in Kabul city.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group confirmed its stance regarding the position of the group regarding India and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... following speculations on social media which claimed that the group would support Pakistain in Kashmir.
Suhail Shaheen, a spokesperson for the political office of Taliban in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , tweeted late on Monday that the statement attributed to Taliban regarding India, is false.
According to Shaheen, the statement was published on certain media outlets. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... he said the Islamic Emirate has a clear policy that it would not interfere in internal affairs of the other countries.
This comes a day after officials monitoring social media noted a spike in posts around claims that a Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said it was impossible to be friends with India unless the Kashmir dispute is resolved, according to Hindustan Times.
The spokesperson was also claimed to have said that the Taliban would, after capturing power in Kabul, "capture Kashmir from infidels also".
#Libya’s Presidential Council is close to signing a military deal with a new strategic partner similar to #Turkey, #Italy’s La Stampa has reported, citing sources from the United Nations. pic.twitter.com/9GTb66XVue
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Monday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi called on his country’s army to prepare for combat during his meeting with Defense Minister Lieutenant General Mohammed Zaki.
Bassam Rady, the official front man for the Presidency of the Republic in Egypt stated that "the Egyptian President was briefed during the meeting on the overall security situation on all three main strategic directions at the level of the Republic, and the efforts of the armed forces to control the borders and pursue terrorist elements, especially in North Sinai as well as the western region."
He directed the Egyptian President to continue to show the utmost readiness and combat readiness to protect Egypt’s national security, expressing "appreciation for the efforts of the armed forces and their sacrifices made for the homeland and for safeguarding its security, safety, stability and the capabilities of its people."
The Western Military Region is one of the four military regions of the Egyptian Armed Forces and its headquarters are located in Marsa Matruh near the Libyan border, and its military formations conduct an annual training project for the Armed Forces called "Raad maneuvers".
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'Raad Al-Shamal' maneuvers combine forces of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain, Senegal, Sudan, Kuwait, Maldives, Morocco, Pakistan, Chad, Tunisia, Comoros, Djibouti, Oman, Qatar, Malaysia, Egypt, Mauritania and Mauritius as well as the Peninsula Shield forces.
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North Thunder (or in Arabic: رعد الشمال Raʿad aš-Šamāl / Raad al-Shamal) was a joint military exercise held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the participation of 20 Arab and Islamic countries; notably the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain, Sudan, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Kuwait, Morocco, Chad, Maldives, Comoros, Tunisia, Oman, Malaysia and Yemen in February-March 2016. (And periodically thereafter.)
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[APNEWS] A Lebanese man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Minnesota to conspiring to export drone parts and technology from the U.S. to Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... U.S. Attorney Erica H. MacDonald said Monday that Osama Hamade, 55, pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally export goods and technology.
Osama, also known as Usama Darwich Hamade and "Prince Sam" to his friends, is a dual Lebanese-South African citizen...
His brother, Issam Hamade,
...more fully Issam Darwich Hamade, he holds both Lebanese and British passports. A third defendant, Samir Ahmed Berro, is known to his friends as "Tony" for reasons that passeth understanding. He has dual Lebanese and British citizenships, and was missing when last we thought about him...
pleaded guilty in March in federal court in Minnesota.
Prosecutors said the brothers acquired sophisticated technology for drones from 2009 to 2013 and illegally exported them to Hezbollah, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.
The Hamades were arrested in February 2018 in South Africa and were extradited to the U.S. last fall.
According to an indictment, the parts included inertial measurement units, which can be used to track an aircraft’s position, and digital compasses, which can be paired with the inertial measurement units for drone guidance systems. The parts also included a jet engine and 20 piston engines.
[BREITBART] An Iraqi refugee, linked to al-Qaeda and accused of murder, is now seeking release from an Arizona prison claiming he is vulnerable to contracting the Chinese 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... Ali Yousif Ahmed al-Nouri, a 42-year-old Iraqi national, first entered the United States as a refugee in 2009 — three years after Iraqi government officials say al-Nouri participated in the murders of two coppers in Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... Iraq.
After being resettled in the U.S. as a refugee, al-Nouri was approved in 2015 by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to become a naturalized American citizen.
In May 2019, an Iraqi judge issued a warrant for al-Nouri’s arrest, alleging that he had led an al-Qaeda terrorist group that was responsible for the murder of the two Fallujah coppers. Court records allege that al-Nouri led the al-Qaeda group in the premeditated murders in 2006.
Al-Nouri had been running a driving school in Phoenix, Arizona.
U.S. officials arrested al-Nouri in February and locked him up in a Florence, Arizona prison, holding him for extradition to Iraq. Now, al-Nouri is seeking release from prison, claiming he is vulnerable to contracting the coronavirus.
Al-Nouri’s attorney, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, says her client has heart and lung issues which make him particularly vulnerable to contracting coronavirus. Prosecutors have refuted the claims, noting that al-Nouri is in a cell by himself and, if released, would flee the U.S. to avoid extradition.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Morrissey is expected to soon rule on whether al-Nouri will be released from prison.
[Rudaw] A UN investigative team says it has made "significant progress" in collecting new sources of evidence in Iraq 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) murderous Moslems, including over 2 million call records that should strengthen cases against perpetrators of crimes against the Yezidi minority in 2014.
The team also reported progress in its investigations of the mass killings of unarmed cadets and military personnel from the Tikrit
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BREAKING: Palestinian President Abbas says the PA sees itself free of all the agreements and understandings with Israel and the U.S. - including on security matters
[ALMASDARNEWS] The late commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, General Qassem Soleimani , sent a message before his liquidation to Muhammad al-Dhaif, commander of the Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,.
In a special report from Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s al- Mayadeen TV, they revealed that Soleimani had sent a message to the Dhaif, in which he said that "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... will never leave Paleostine alone, no matter how great the pressure will grow, and the siege will be tightened."
Soleimani described Muhammad al-Dhaif as a "living martyr and a brave resister," saying that he "assures everyone that Iran will not leave Paleostine alone." "Endeavor to persevere"
In his message, General Qassem Soleimani addressed Dhaif and wishes peace upon the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , describing him as a "resistance fighter," stressing that defending Paleostine "is an honor for us and we will not abandon this duty in return for any of the pleasures of the world", noting until "friends of Paleostine are our friends and foes are our enemies, this was our previous policy and it will remain."
Soleimani concluded his message to the leader of the al-Qassam Brigades, saying: "I hope that God will help us come to your side, and inform us of our hope of martyrdom in the cause of Paleostine."
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
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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
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...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[BREITBART] An Iraqi refugee, linked to al-Qaeda and accused of murder, is now seeking release from an Arizona prison claiming he is vulnerable to contracting the Chinese 
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