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The first woman to be brought home from Syria to stand trial in the Netherlands received a three-and-a-half-year prison term on Wednesday for joining the Islamic State group.
The 28-year-old, identified only as Ilham B. was repatriated last year from the Al-Roj detention camp in northeast Syria after she joined the IS and Jabhat al Nusra jihadist groups with her husband in 2013.
Rotterdam District Court said Ilham B. “is sentenced to 42 months in jail of which 12 suspended, for taking part in terrorist organisations and preparing various crimes.”
“The court is satisfied she participated in Syria in the Islamic State and Jabhat al Nusra terrorist organisations,” it said in a statement.
Prosecutors, who demanded an eight year sentence, said Ilham B. also sent out jihadist propaganda on social media and carried guns during her time in Syria.
Ilham B, from the western Dutch city of Gouda, left the Netherlands in September 2013 to travel to Syria via Turkey, court papers said.
Captured by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in 2017, she was eventually found in the sprawling Roj camp where she had a second child.
In June 2021 she was brought back to the Netherlands by Dutch officials through Iraq, and arrested upon arrival at Schiphol airport.
The return of jihadist fighters to stand trial in the Netherlands is a politically sensitive subject and the Dutch NCTV anti-terror agency has warned that returning women may give an “impulse to connecting and supporting jihadist activities”.
In February the government fetched five women from Roj camp to put them on trial in the Netherlands. The move came after a Rotterdam court last year warned it may have to drop charges against the women if they were not brought back within a matter of months.
Some 300 Dutch jihadists travelled to join fighters of the now defunct Islamic Caliphate during the height of the Syrian civil war, according to Dutch government figures. About 120 still remained, many in camps and detention centres in northern Syria, Iraq and Turkey.
The Hawl Camp,
...also called Al-Hol camp...
around 40 kilometers east of Hasakah, is a house for 56.775 individuals, most of them are Iraqis. The number of the wives and children of foreign ISIS fighters and detainees is estimated at thousands, and they live in a special sectors in the camp.
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Sudden Jihad Syndrome? That’s what we’d assume if it happened in Europe...
[OneIndia] At least 8 persons were maimed after a Nigerian man attacked pedestrians with a knife near Churchgate on Wednesday.
Additional Commissioner of Police, South Mumbai, Dilip Sawant said that the incident took place at the Tata Garden near Parsi Well. The 50 year old Nigerian man identified as John was sitting with a woman.
He suddenly got up and started stabbing people with a knife.
Nearly 8 persons were maimed in the incident and one person is reportedly critical. The police reached the spot and arrested the man and also seized the knife. The reason behind the attack is unknown and investigation is underway.
Terrorists rubbed out a bank employee from Rajasthan inside the bank premises in 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.... 's Kulgam district on Thursday, the eighth assassination in the Valley since May 1 and the third of a non-Moslem government employee.
Vijay Kumar, a manager with the Ellaqui Dehati Bank at Areh Mohanpora branch in the south Kashmir district, received grievous gunshot injuries and died on his way to hospital, officials said. The latest killing led to a chorus of condemnation from political parties across the spectrum, including the National Conference and the BJP.
Kumar, a resident of Hanumangarh in Rajasthan, had joined the Kulgam branch only a week ago. He had earlier been working in the Kokernag branch of the bank, co-owned by the Central government, the Jammu and Kashmir administration and the State Bank of India.
Security forces have cordoned off the area and a hunt has been launched to nab the attackers, the officials said.
A labourer was killed and another injured after they were fired upon by bandidosholy warriors in the Chadoora area of central 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.... ’s Budgam district on Thursday, police said.
"Terrorists fired upon 02 outside #labourers working in a Brick Kiln in Chadoora area of #Budgam. The duo was shifted to hospital for treatment where one among them #succumbed," said a police front man.
Reports said the duo was immediately shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... one among the injured, identified as Dilkhush - a labourer from Bihar - succumbed.
Medical Superintendent SMHS hospital Dr. Kanwaljeet Singh confirmed to GNS that one among the non-locals succumbed. The slain was working as a labourer at a brick kiln, it said.
Soon after the attack whole area was cordoned off to nab the attackers.
The attack came hours after the killing of a bank employee from Rajasthan in south Kashmir's Kulgam district.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s National Intelligence Agency (MIT) was behind last month’s drone attack in Sulaimani province’s northwestern subdistrict of Aghjalar, Ottoman Turkish state media reported on Thursday, claiming that a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) commander was killed in the attack.
Two drones targeted a Toyota Hilux vehicle in Aghjalar on May 21, killing five passengers, including at least two members of the PKK, mayor Hemin Bahjat told Rudaw at the time. The attack was condemned by Sulaimani province’s ruling Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu Agency said on Thursday that the attack was carried out by MIT, claiming that Mehmet Dogan, code-named Dilkhwaz Gabar, commander of PKK forces in Kirkuk and Makhmour, was killed. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the PKK has not confirmed his death.
On the same day of the Aghjalar attack, a Ottoman Turkish drone targeted a vehicle in the PKK-held Makhmour camp and killed Mehmet Erdogan, commander of PKK, reported Anadolu Agency two days later.
Aghjalar is part of Chamchamal district and borders Kirkuk province.
Gabar told PKK media on May 23, 2020 that the Ottoman Turkish government was not working towards making peace with the Kurdish group, but rather sought war "to stay in power."
Turkey often targets PKK positions at home and in the Kurdistan Region. It launched a new phase of its Claw operations against the PKK in Duhok province in mid-April.
The PKK is an armed Kurdish group fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. Ankara considers it a terrorist organization and a threat to its national security.
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On Thursday, the Iraqi army arrested an ISIS leader on the outskirts of Baghdad. An official security source told Shafaq News Agency.
The 11th Division of the Army apprehended the so-called Emir Abu Qatar al-Iraqi while trying to reach the Iraqi capital.
The terrorist was handed over to the relevant authorities. The source said.
Earlier this week, the Iraqi Military Intelligence arrested an ISIS member west of Nineveh.
In a statement, the Agency said that the 15th Division, backed by the ground forces, raided the location of a terrorist in the village of Al-Sumoud in Zummar district, west of Nineveh, and arrested him.
The detainee is "an ISIS member working in the so-called Mutah Division – Wilayat Al-Jazira. His brother and son had worked with the terrorist organization, but the first was killed, and his son was arrested earlier.
On Saturday, the Iraqi forces apprehended four "terrorists" in the governorates of Kirkuk, Saladin, Maysan, and Nineveh.
[IsraelTimes] A 17-year-old Paleostinian died after Israeli troops shot up him near the security fence in the central West Bank, according to the Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry.
The Israeli army says it is looking into the reports.
Paleostinian health officials say the teenager, who has yet to be publicly identified, was shot near al-Medya. The small town lies north of the central Israeli city of Modiin.
[IsraelTimes] Army says suspects threw Molotov cocktail at troops; witness claims 17-year-old was shot without cause; is third Paleostinian killed by Israeli forces in 24 hours
Israeli troops shot and killed a 17-year-old Paleostinian near the security barrier in the central West Bank on Thursday afternoon, the Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry said.
In a statement, the Israeli army said "three Paleostinians hurled a Molotov cocktail at Israel Defense Force soldiers." The soldiers responded by shooting at them.
"A hit was identified. There were no injuries to our soldiers," the Israeli military said in a statement.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request for comment as to whether Sadaqa had been the one to throw the Molotov cocktail.
Paleostinian media identified the dead teenager as Odeh Mohammad Sadaqa. Paleostinian health officials said Sadaqa had been shot in the chest before being rushed to Ramallah at death's door.
"Doctors sought to save his life, but he passed away," the PA Health Ministry said in a statement.
Last November, the Israeli military changed the open-fire regulations so as to allow troops to shoot at suspects who hurl Molotov cocktails or rocks, even after the deadly object is no longer in their hands.
Before the change in policy, soldiers had been ordered to refrain from using deadly force once the suspects no longer possessed the threatening object — in other words, when they no longer posed an imminent threat.
A Paleostinian witness disputed the army’s account, claiming that Israeli snipers fired at the group of Paleostinians out of nowhere.
"[Sadaqa] hadn’t reached the area of the wall, or the dangerous area... He was standing by our house when a sniper shot at his heart," the teenager told a cluster of Paleostinian news hounds.
Sadaqa is the third Paleostinian killed in confrontations with the Israeli military over the past 24 hours. Two Paleostinians were killed during West Bank festivities last night — one in Ya’abad, near Jenin, and the other in the Deheishe Refugee Camp near Bethlehem.
Clashes broke out in Ya’abad in the northern West Bank as troops demolished the home of terrorist Diaa Hamarsheh, who killed five people in Bnei Brak in March.
The military said in a statement that "hundreds of rioters threw stones, set fire to tires and threw Molotov cocktails and explosives at the forces."
A fourth Paleostinian, Ghafran Wasarneh, was killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday morning as she sought to commit a stabbing attack near the al-Aroub refugee camp in the West Bank, according to the army.
In addition to the operation in Ya’abad overnight, there were festivities between Paleostinians and Israeli troops in the Dheisheh refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Soldiers entered the refugee camp to arrest a man suspected of throwing an bomb at troops during an operation on Sunday, lightly injuring an undercover Border Police officer.
Clashes broke out during the arrest raid and one Paleostinian was killed. He was identified as Ayman Muhaisen, 29.
"During the operation, suspects hurled explosives and threw stones at the forces, who responded with gunfire. Hits were identified," the Israeli army said.
[IsraelTimes] 1 dead, 2 critically hurt near Jenin as forces demolish residence of Diaa Hamarsheh, who killed 5 in attack; second Paleostinian killed in festivities in Dheisheh refugee camp
Two Paleostinians were killed in separate festivities with Israeli forces operating in the West Bank in the early hours of Thursday.
Clashes broke out in Ya’abad in the northern West Bank as troops demolished the home of terrorist Diaa Hamarsheh, who killed five people in Bnei Brak in March.
Three Paleostinians were critically injured in firefights with the military. One of the three was later pronounced dead and was identified as Bilal Kabha, 24.
The military said in a statement that "hundreds of rioters threw stones, set fire to tires and threw Molotov cocktails and explosives at the forces."
The IDF said troops responded with crowd dispersal methods and that when button men fired at troops, officers responded with gunfire. The military said "a hit was detected" by Israeli forces.
Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, later claimed Kabha as a member.
There were no injuries to Israeli troops.
The military said that Hamarsheh’s father was arrested during the operation and was taken for questioning by security services.
In addition to the operation in Ya’abad, there were festivities between Paleostinians and IDF troops in the Dheisheh refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
The soldiers entered the refugee camp to arrest a man suspected of throwing an bomb at troops during an operation on Sunday, lightly injuring an undercover Border Police officer.
Clashes broke out during the arrest raid and one Paleostinian was killed. He was identified as Ayman Muhaisen, 29.
"During the operation, suspects hurled explosives and threw stones at the forces, who responded with gunfire. Hits were identified," the IDF said.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, troops detained seven Paleostinians over suspected involvement in terror activities, totaling nine arrests overnight. In Azzun, during the arrest of a suspect, troops opened fire toward a Paleostinian who hurled a Molotov cocktail toward them, the IDF said.
Israeli troops and military bulldozers entered Ya’bad on Wednesday evening to raze terrorist Hamarsheh’s home.
Hamarsheh, 27, killed four civilians in the central ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak on March 29 — Avishai Yehezkel, 29, who was protecting his baby from gunfire; Ya’akov Shalom, 36; and Ukrainian nationals Victor Sorokopot, 38, and Dimitri Mitrik, 23.
Hamarsheh was then killed in a shootout with coppers, one of whom — Amir Khoury, 32 — was his fifth victim.
The military initiated the process of razing Hamarsheh’s home the day after the attack and issued the demolition order last month.
The shooting came at the start of a wave of terror attacks in Israeli cities that claimed the lives of 19 people. The military has stepped up its West Bank activities in an attempt to crack down on the spiraling violence.
The ensuing raids sparked festivities that left at least 30 Paleostinians dead since mid-March.
Many were button men involved in firefights with Israeli soldiers or who took part in violent mostly peacefulfestivities. Others were apparently uninvolved bystanders, such as Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The veteran correspondent was killed last month under disputed circumstances in Jenin during a shootout between Israeli soldiers and Paleostinian button men..
The raids have concentrated on the increasingly unstable Jenin area, from where several of the attackers hailed.
[BenarNews] Government troops killed an alleged pro-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.... Death Eater and captured another after a shootout in the southern Philippines, while hunting for suspects linked to a bus bombing last week, military officials said Thursday.
The military identified the suspects as Monir Lintukan and Randy Saro, and said they were members of Daulah Islamiyah, the local name for the Islamic State (IS) group. Lintukan was killed and Saro captured following the 30-minute shootout near M’lang, a town in Cotabato province.
"Due to our intensified intelligence gathering, we immediately tracked down the suspects, resulting in a firefight that killed one of them," army Col. Jovencio Gonzales told BenarNews.
Officials blamed the pair for having roles in the bombing of a bus that injured two people in Koronadal city, in South Cotabato province, on May 26 as well as a second kaboom that occurred at a vacant lot near a bus station in another town minutes later. No one was injured in the second explosion.
Gonzales said troops also recovered weapons and ammunition left behind by other Death Eaters.
The troops were conducting "focused military operations" when they encountered the Death Eaters, he said. The two suspects belonged to a Daulah Islmiyah, a faction within the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State... (BIFF) Death Eater group that professes loyalty to IS.
Many BIFF members are wanted for a string of crimes, including kidnapping for ransom and extortion, according to the military.
Military officials had previously blamed murderous Moslems linked to BIFF for two roadside kaboomings that killed three and injured dozens of people in January 2021.
And this past January, a 5-year-old boy was killed and six others, including his two younger siblings, were maimed in a bus kaboom in Aleosan town. Since then, at least six people were maimed in April when a homemade bomb went kaboom! aboard a passenger bus in Parang town.
"Your army along with other government forces will continue to pursue those suspects responsible for the bombings here in our area," said Brig. Gen. Eduardo Gubat, acting commander of the 6th Infantry Division and the military’s Joint Task Force Central.
The JTF Central and the infantry division "will sustain the military operations until the remnants of the terrorist group operating in South and Southcentral Mindanao will be neutralized and the area will be free from any terror group," he said.
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[IsraelTimes] Col. Ali Esmailzadeh apparently fell from his roof; opposition website claims he was thrown off, over suspicions he leaked information tied to liquidation of colleague
Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... reported the death of another colonel of the elite Quds Force of its Revolutionary Guards on Friday, the second in two weeks from the unit which oversees Iran’s military operations abroad.
Quoting an unknown official, the early morning report by the official IRNA news agency said Col. Ali Esmailzadeh died during an "incident in his residence" days ago in city of Karaj, some 35 kilometers (19 miles) northwest of the capital Tehran.
It did not elaborate but denied reports that the colonel was assassinated. "He jumped. Involuntarily"
“...Twice.”
The Iran International opposition website, quoting unnamed sources, alleged that the Revolutionary Guards had killed Esmailzadeh for suspected espionage,
Other news channels close to the Guard said Esmailzadeh fell from his rooftop or balcony.
In May two unidentified button men on a cycle of violence shot Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei five times in a car in front of his residence in Tehran. Iran blamed his slaying on Israel. Iran often blames Israel for such assassinations, including those on nuclear scientists over the past years.
Iran International claimed that Esmailzadeh was killed over suspicions he provided information to Iran’s enemies that was used in Khodaei’s liquidation.
The report said he was close to Khodaei, who was shot full of holes in Tehran on May 22. Both he and Esmailzadeh were members of the IRGC’s so-called Unit 840, a shadowy division within the IRGC’s expeditionary Quds Force that carries out kidnappings and liquidations outside of Iran.
The report said that after Khodaei’s killing, the IRGC began hunting for security leaks and became suspicious of Esmailzadeh. He was then thrown from his roof, but the IRGC told his family he died by suicide because he was distraught over his separation from his wife, Iran International said, citing "sources in Iran."
The Persian-language outlet is identified with Iran’s political opposition. It was launched in 2017, is based in London and reaches millions of Iranians in Iran and around the world. It is reportedly funded by Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... , Iran’s regional foe.
Khodaei was shot five times in his car by two unidentified button men on motorbikes in the middle of Tehran. He reportedly was involved in killings and abductions outside of Iran, including attempts to target Israelis.
[AlAhram] Militants attacked a civilian bus in eastern Syria on Thursday, killing three people and wounding 21, Syrian state TV reported.
The TV said the bus was attacked near a village in a desert area of the province of Deir el-Zour, which borders Iraq. It did not say whether the bus was attacked with machinegun fire, a missile or a roadside kaboom.
The report gave no further details and there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Large parts of Deir el-Zour were once controlled by the krazed killerIslamic 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.... group, which in 2014 proclaimed a so-called ``caliphate`` in a third of both Iraq and Syria.
In the past, Syrian authorities have blamed such attacks on IS and its sleeper cells, which have been active in eastern and central Syria, despite IS holy warriors losing areas they once controlled in 2019.
[Dawn] Iranian authorities handed over 107 illegal Pak immigrants colonists to Levies Force on Tuesday via Rahdari Gate in Taftan, a border town in Chagai district.
According to official sources, these people had been arrested in different parts of Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... for illegally crossing into that country and not having valid travel documents.
Most of the illegal immigrants colonists were aiming to travel to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and European countries via Iran in search of jobs, sources said.
A Levies official told Dawn all the detained people, including nine women and 12 children, were handed over to the Federal Investigation Agency for investigation and prosecution.
He said the illegal immigrants colonists included 74 people from Punjab, 24 from Sindh, four from 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... , four from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and one from Azad Jammu 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.... .j
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
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[IsraelTimes] Army says suspects threw Molotov cocktail at troops; witness claims 17-year-old was shot without cause; is third Paleostinian killed by Israeli forces in 24 hours
...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 
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
...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 
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
