[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The UN special envoy for Afghanistan Nicholas Haysom called on the neighboring countries of Afghanistan to assist the Afghan government in fight against terrorism while noting that citizens of Afghanistan's neighboring countries are involved in the ongoing war in the country.
During a meeting with the local officials in northern Faryab province, Haysom said the neighboring countries of Afghanistan have the responsibility to support the Afghan government.
He said majority of the snuffies from the regional countries are fighting in Afghanistan and the regional countries must assist Afghanistan since the ongoing war is a regional issue.
Haysom also added that he held talks with local officials in northern Faryab province regarding the growing security issues in this province.
This comes as the security situation in Faryab province has been continuously deteriorating during the recent months.
At least 19 people were killed and several others were maimed in the latest incident in Almar district after a jacket wallah detonated his explosives in a busy market.
The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemned the deadly attack and called it an appalling disregard for human.
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Does he qualify as a finalist for "Captain Obvious of the Year" or are UN envoys excluded from the contest?
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The U.S. is shifting to a more direct role in the near decade-old fight against Al Qaeda-affiliated Shabab militants, launching as many as six drone strikes in southern Somalia over the last week to support African forces battling the group, American officials said.
The strikes, which preceded President Obama’s arrival in neighboring Kenya on Friday, were near Baraawe, a port city where troops from Kenya and other African countries, along with the fledgling Somali army, have been battling Shabab militants for weeks.
The U.S. cast the initial airstrike a week ago as a defensive maneuver to stop Shabab fighters who were moving to attack a military base being used by pro-government soldiers. Kenyan forces followed up the U.S. attacks with an artillery barrage that killed more than 50 fighters.
But the drone attacks have continued, officials said, a rare instance in which American firepower has been used to directly support ground skirmishes against the militants responsible for a wave of bombings and suicide attacks in East Africa.
The U.S. has provided intelligence, training and other logistical support to the Somali army and to African Union troops based there for years. Until now, however, the U.S. confined its role to targeted drone strikes and special operations raids against Shabab leadership.
It’s a change in how we’re providing support,” said a U.S. military official who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. “Up until now, we’ve focused strikes on high-value targets. These strikes were launched to defend forces on the ground.”
The decision to go on the offensive was a stroke of tactical luck, U.S. military officers said, after surveillance drones spotted fighters gathering in large numbers near Baraawe, which was once a Shabab stronghold.
“They’re massing,” said a senior U.S. official, referring to Shabab, “and massing provides targets, and targets get struck.” He spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive operations.
The U.S. military’s Africa Command, which oversees operations on the continent, confirmed the airstrikes, but said the timing was not related to Obama’s visit to Kenya and Ethiopia.
“Over the past week, U.S. forces conducted a series of strikes against Al Shabab in defense of AMISOM forces under imminent threat of attack,” Patrick Barnes, a spokesman for the command, said in a statement. “The strikes prevented attacks by militants, which posed a significant threat to friendly forces.”
AMISOM is the African Union Mission in Somalia, a rotating force of about 22,000 troops from Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Ethiopia and Djibouti.
Since deploying to Somalia in 2007, the troops have retaken the capital, Mogadishu, and driven militants from many towns in the south. Though weakened, the rebels have carried out frequent shootings, bombings and suicide attacks, and still control many rural areas.
The fight has been especially fierce for Baraawe, about 130 miles southwest of Mogadishu. Somali and African troops first claimed to have retaken the city in October, but they have been unable to stop attacks by the militants.
AMISOM officials have contended that they needed greater air support from the U.S. and its allies.
However, the U.S. was reluctant to become directly involved in the ground war, saying that the threat from Shabab could largely be countered without putting large numbers of American troops on the ground.
That reluctance stemmed in part from memories of a 1993 battle in Mogadishu in where 18 U.S. soldiers on a peacekeeping mission died after two helicopters were shot down by the forces of a local clan leader.
In October 2014, U.S. Navy SEALs stormed a coastal compound in southern Somalia hoping to capture a Shabab operative believed to have played a role in the group’s deadly 2013 attack on a shopping mall in Kenya, but the commandos withdrew after a firefight without capturing him.
In the last year, though, the American military presence in Mogadishu has grown from fewer than 10 soldiers to several dozen, charged with assisting African troops. More U.S. drones have also been shifted to Somalia, the senior U.S. officer said.
In recent months, Shabab has lost several top commanders to U.S. drone strikes. Ahmed Abdi Godane, Shabab’s shadowy commander, was killed in September, as was his predecessor, Aden Hashi Ayro, in 2008. Two other top Shabab officials, Yusuf Dheeq and Adan Garar, were killed this year.
Last week, Shabab claimed responsibility for an attack in northeastern Kenya in which militants opened fire on laborers and quarry workers, killing at least 14 and wounding 11.
Shabab has been forced into remote villages where they are under a reduced threat of an AMISOM attack and pay off local government, said Stig Jarle Hansen, author of a book about the militant group.
“They will melt into the countryside to fight a guerrilla war, and they might be able to exist there for years,” he said. “The drone strikes coordinated with AMISOM are probably the most efficient, as it will cater [to] the forces’ tactical needs and enhance their efforts on the ground.”
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[Libya Herald] A former fisherman, who has been a people-smuggler for the last five years has told the Libya Herald that he sees his trade as legitimate. “There’s no difference between me and the airlines. I carry passengers, just like them . . ."
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[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] Too many people in Germany are openly espousing fascist views about the half million refugees expected to arrive this year and more need to stand up and oppose racism, the country's leading filmmaker said in an interview with Rooters.
Til Schweiger, an actor, director and producer who is best known internationally for his role in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds", became a lightning rod for racist comments on social media this week after he endorsed a charity drive for refugees.
"It was a shock for me to see that there are obviously more people in Germany with fascist opinions than I thought there would be," he said.
Schweiger said politicians, law enforcement officials and celebrities were not doing enough to thwart racism as the country of 82 million struggles to cope with the record influx of people fleeing conflict and famine. Some 150 newly erected shelters have been attacked, damaged or destroyed this year - often by arsonists trying to keep refugees from being sheltered in their towns.
Schweiger, who made the country's top film in 2014, "Honig im Kopf", which sold 7 million tickets, generated considerable public discussion across Germany this week after a bitter online exchange about refugees.
"Oh, man, I was afraid that would happen," Schweiger wrote on a social media page after some followers called the incomers "parasites" and "vampires". "You people make me want to vomit. Get away from my page, you pitiless pack. You make me sick."
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Germany's government is trying to flood the country with third world aliens, and suddenly it's fascism. He doesn't even know what fascism is, to him it just means someone who disagrees with his radical left-wing opinions.
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Do not confuse tribalism with other 'isms that bandwagon on it. I do recall the Germans celebrating the expulsion of another ethnic group. Latin if I remember correctly.
[NYTIMES] Last month, the first edition of the 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.... group's Turkish-language magazine contained not a word of criticism of the Turkish government. This week, the second edition calls Istanbul occupied territory and blasts President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... as a tyrant.
The difference? The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has started to crack down on the group under Western pressure and Islamic State now sees Turkey as the enemy, raising the stakes in the struggle against the murderous Moslem network. And Turkey's decisive response on Friday -- Arclight airstrikes on Islamic State targets and 290 arrests nationwide -- show how seriously the nation is now taking a threat it had long downplayed.
The abrupt shift in Islamic State's Turkish propaganda magazine shows just how quickly a tacit truce has come apart.
But the underlying changes have not happened overnight. Islamic State -- also known by acronyms ISIS and ISIL -- has spent years building its network inside Turkey, even as Turkish security services monitored the group to glean valuable intelligence.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has pledged to take all measures against threats targeting the country's borders, including those from groups like the so-called '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.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group.
"All precautions will surely be taken without further order if any terrorist organization or others approach the borders of the Turkish Republic in a threatening way," he told news hounds after a visit to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Council of State on Friday in the capital, Ankara.
His remarks followed early-morning Arclight airstrikes by Turkish F-16 fighter jets on ISIL targets in Syria.
The operation comes a day after a firefight with ISIL fighters across the Syrian border, in which one Turkish soldier was killed and two others were maimed.
Davutoglu stressed that ISIL positions were destroyed in Friday's operation, saying Thursday's cross-border shootout gave Turkey the right to exercise self-defense.
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[DAWN] Security forces on Thursday closed the regional office of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) situated in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Hayatabad area after intercepting calls between suspected terrorists.
The data of 30,000 invalid Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) is also present at the Nadra branch. Moreover, law enforcement agencies utilise the office's services for identification of tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! suspects and individuals involved in terror activities.
According to security officials, calls were intercepted of suspected bully boyz pointing towards a possible attack at the Nadra office.
A Nadra official, on the condition of anonymity told DawnNews that security forces sealed the office and asked the staffers to leave until further orders.
According to a security official, who asked to remain anonymous, suspected jacket wallahs have entered Khyber tribal agency and Peshawar and may target government and security installations.
Due to the intelligence received regarding suspected terror activities, Friday prayers were held an hour earlier under heavy security in Khyber Agency.
Security has been beefed up in Khyber Agency and security forces have started active patrolling in the region to counter any threats.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A joint team of Pakistain Rangers Sindh and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday night conducted a raid on Civic Centre to seize record of official lands, estimated to be hundreds of acres, allegedly allotted to private persons through fraudulent means, it was learnt by Dawn.
While spokesperson of the paramilitary force neither confirmed nor denied the raid, a source in the FIA told Dawn that it was related to the land issue.
Elaborating, the FIA source revealed that around 700-800 acres of land belonging to Federal Government institutions has been given to private persons through questionable means. This land was located in Surjani Town and Northern Bypass.
An inquiry into this land scam has been initiated. The land record to this effect has been seized during the raid.
The FIA source said initially, the inquiry has focused on alleged usurpation of the lands belonging to federal government but there was also a move to initiate the same probe about the lands belonging to Sindh government.
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[DAWN] Former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has termed the judicial commission's report, formed to probe alleged rigging during the 2013 general elections, as an important milestone in the country's history.
“All those who alleged that rigging was done during the elections have been proven wrong and all conspiracies have now come to an end,” said the former chief justice.
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[DAWN] Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday suspended the non-bailable arrest warrant issued against former president retired General Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... , in the murder case of Lal Masjid ...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been... holy man Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Good idea. That means that five or ten years from now arrest warrants for Nawaz might be suspended. It's just good political manners.
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[ALMANAR.LB] An Iraqi tribal leader announced that in the ongoing fight against the so-called '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.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group, the volunteer forces do not accept assistance from the US.
"The US only speaks and it has not helped Al-Anbar tribes (in their fight against the ISIL)," Sheikh Naeem al-Kaod, leader of Iraq's Bu Nimr tribe, told Al-Alam News Network on Friday.
He pointed to the US officials' remarks on arming al-Anbar province's tribes, and said, "It is for two years now that we hear such news, but no action has been taken in this regard thus far."
Sheikh al-Kaod reiterated that if al-Anbar's tribes had been armed they could have resisted the ISIL's attacks, but unfortunately they have not been helped so far.
The US and western media have repeatedly stated that it has cooperation with Iraqi volunteer forces, a claim that has been strongly rejected by the popular troops.
In late June, a Bloomberg View column, citing two unidentified American administration officials, claimed that Popular Mobilization forces are sharing use of a military base with US troops.
In response, the Iraqi volunteer forces (dubbed in Arabic 'Hashd al-Shaabi') categorically rejected the Bloomberg report.
"There is no cooperation and coordination with the Americans to win back the regions controlled by the ISIL," Spokesman of Iraqi Volunteer Forces Karim al-Nouri said in reaction to news reports on Hashd al-Shaabi's cooperation with US forces.
Also in June, Secretary-General of the powerful Badr Organization Hadi al-Ameri underlined that the Iraqi forces have no need to the US assistance in their fight against the ISIL terrorist group.
Al-Ameri said that sending more American troops will damage the plan to free Iraqi cities and towns from ISIL control.
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Now we have camel jockeys and sheep herders saying that the US ME policy is all talk. Geez, we have guys who haven't seen a television or a flush toilet in months saying our ME policy is toxic.
I wonder how long it will take our propogandists at NBC, CBS, and ABC to say that?
I wonder how long after he's out of office it will be before the MSM begins to criticize the decisions of this administration? Or will it be holy writ or the "sayings of Chairman JFK?"
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[Iran Press TV] The powerful Israel lobby has "hijacked" the US Congress, especially the Republican Party, through the neoconservative movement and may attempt to kill the Iran nuclear accord with a false flag operation, a former US Senate candidate says.
Pro-Israel groups in the US have gained significant influence within the GOP through wealthy political donors such as Sheldon Adelson, a Zionist Jew with strong ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Mark Dankof, who is also a broadcaster and pastor in San Antonio, Texas.
Adelson "has openly talked about using nuclear weapons against Iran on a preemptive basis; this is how evil this man is," Dankof told Press TV on Friday.
"It is particularly frightening to me the number of Republicans that are listening to this kind of nonsense and whose actions in the Congress and in the presidential primaries in this coming year will be dictated by such a man as Sheldon Adelson who is nothing more than an agent for Israel," he added.
Dankof's remarks come after Congress began its review of the nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 on Thursday.
"So let's hope that at least in the House and the Senate that these Republican warmongers and their counterparts among the pro-Israel warmongers in the Democratic Party will not have the ability to muster a two-thirds vote against this deal," he said.
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Did he take off his tin hat before he sat down and regurgitated this drivel?
How much did the Dems pay this guy to say this on the record.
Yep, Joe Goebbels picture is an appropriate graphic for this article.
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...I believe the term he's looking for here is 'transference'....
Mike
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Ed in Texas is right. This is just sewing the seeds of doubt for useful idiots to glom onto after an Iranian operation. Combined with some kind of attempt to intimidate.
[NYTIMES] Prosecutors in Thailand indicted 72 people on Friday, accusing them of involvement in a multinational human trafficking syndicate. The indictments were filed three days before the expected release of an annual State Department report on human trafficking in countries around the world, including Thailand.
The situation in Southeast Asia in particular has drawn global attention in recent months to the plight of some of the world's most persecuted and vulnerable people.
The indicted suspects, who were already in jug, include a Thai Army general, Lt. Gen. Manas Kongpaen, as well as other military officials, senior coppers, local officials and local politicians.
Thailand has been conducting a sweeping investigation into human trafficking within its borders, after graves containing more than 30 bodies were found in southern Thailand in May. An additional 139 shallow graves, also believed to hold the bodies of migrants, were found in camps across the border in Malaysia.
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[VOA News] Just days before the United States is to release its annual global report on human trafficking, Thai authorities announced 72 trafficking suspects already in jug are to be indicted on related charges while warrants have been issued for the arrests of 45 additional people.
"We will indict all 72 people who have been locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! ," Wanchai Roujanavong, a front man for the attorney general's office, told news hounds in Bangkok.
"For those people still on the run overseas we will work with national police to send them back, according to extradition treaties," Wanchai said.
No bail will be granted to any of those indicted, according to authorities.
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[PIA] A month after surrendering to Philippine authorities, two former New People's Army militants took their vows as husband and wife in a "traditional tribal wedding ceremony" inside a military camp. Fulong Rafael Lantingan, the Indigenous People's representative in Malapatan solemnized the wedding on the morning of July 18.
The newlyweds were Shirley Katot and Federico Bacali, both formerly serving in Platoon 1, Guerilla Front 71 operating in Malapatan. They began their relationship while in the movement and were even married by their leaders under "party rules." But based on Philippine law, the wedding is not binding which was one of the reasons the pair decided to renew their vows.
The wedding was witnessed by Sarangani Governor Steve Chiongbian Solon, 1002nd Brigade Commander Col. Ronald Villanueva, 73rd Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Ronnie Babac, DILG-Sarangani Provincial Director Flor Limpin and town's mayor who all served as godparents to the pair.
Lt. Col. Babac said, "The wedding of the NPA couple in a tribal wedding ceremony only shows the government's sincerity in helping the former rebels to return to the mainstream society."
"It is but appropriate for the government to take an extra mile in showing to the victims of NPAs' deception that there is a government that is willing to help them,” Babac added, saying “this is aside from the livelihood assistance that they can get under the Comprehensive Local Integration Program."
[Iran Press TV] An agreement reached between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and the United States on what they call cooperation against the ISIL terrorist group also includes establishing a no-fly zone over the Arab country, a Turkish newspaper says.
Turkey's leaders had on Friday confirmed that a deal had been reached, and said it would enable the US to use the key Turkish Incirlik Air Base, which is located near Syria.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... Turkish newspaper Hurriyet said that the agreement also outlines a 90-kilometer (56 mile) no-fly zone between the Syrian towns of Marea and Jarabulus.
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TURKEY, along wid other Govts-Nations elsewhere in the ME, is also repor planning to set up a new buffer zone on the ground to deter incursions from Syria from either the Hard Boyz [ISIS] + Refugees.
[ALMANAR.LB] US Undersecretary of the Treasury for Counter-terrorism Daniel Glaser said that the so-called '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.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group receives a monthly amount of $40 billion from oil-related sales after extraction from areas under its control.
During his speech in the security forum in Colorado state, Glaser made it clear that a real "treasure" of special information about fundraising of ISIL were obtained following the murder of ISIL leader responsible for oil and gas trade in north Syria last May, Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... .
Noting that ISIL murderous Moslems receive a monthly salary of $1000, the American official said that the terrorist group had seized a cash flow between $500 million to a billion dollars, following the seizure of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... province in Iraq.
Previous statements by US officials revealed that following ISIL control over Mosul, the group seized bank assets estimated by $430 million.
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Is the Iraqi government in Baghdad still paying the salaries of its officials in IS-occupied Mosul?
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A decade ago Treasury provided the world most of the superior intel on terrorist funding. Today, their bozo reports crap and in doing so indicates just how low the Department has sunk.
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Sorry, should have ran the numbers earlier, but $40b per month, w/ WTI at $48.14 / barrel, ISIL is moving 27.696 million barrels of oil every day? Are the Saudis moving that much oil a day? Not even close. Obvious bullshit now.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The UN special envoy for Afghanistan Nicholas Haysom called on the neighboring countries of Afghanistan to assist the Afghan government in fight against terrorism while noting that citizens of Afghanistan's neighboring countries are involved in the ongoing war in the country.
[DAWN] Former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has termed the judicial commission's report, formed to probe alleged rigging during the 2013 general elections, as an important milestone in the country's history.
Pervez 
[Iran Press TV] The powerful Israel lobby has "hijacked" the US Congress, especially the Republican Party, through the neoconservative movement and may attempt to kill the Iran nuclear accord with a false flag operation, a former US Senate candidate says.
[PIA] A month after surrendering to Philippine authorities, two former New People's Army militants took their vows as husband and wife in a "traditional tribal wedding ceremony" inside a military camp. Fulong Rafael Lantingan, the Indigenous People's representative in Malapatan solemnized the wedding on the morning of July 18.
