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Nora Courier, better known as "Red Nora." On March 31, 1901, Omaha police arrested Nora for stealing a horse. According to police court records, she was 22 years old and stood 5 feet, 3 inches tall. She had slate blue eyes and a scar on the center of her forehead.
At least 4 people have been killed, several others hurt in a blast in Mogadishu on Tuesday, latest in string of attacks in the seaside capital, reports said.
The explosion occurred at a busy teashop in Mogadishu’s Bakaro market, targeting local police officers, according to a witness who spoke to Radio Shabelle. A mother and her daughter were among the dead. No information on weather soldiers were killed or wounded in the attack at the teashop in Bakaro market.
On Monday night, a bomb at similar teashop at Towfiq junction has wounded three people. No group has claimed credit for both bombings in Mogadishu.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces, backed by the Yemeni Republican Guard, seized a number of sites in Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s Jizan Region after a violent confrontation with the Arab Coalition on Tuesday.
According to al-Masdar’s Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... War correspondent Tony Toh, the Houthi forces and their allies captured the villages of al-Qarn and al-Safina in the al-Khabuah area of the Jizan.
In addition to seizing the aforementioned villages in the Jizan Region, the Houthi forces and Yemeni Republican Guard also captured the al-Dafiniyah site that is located in the contested al-Khabuah area.
With their recent setbacks in the Jizan Region, the Saudi-led Coalition has been forced to increase the number of armed personnel they have in the southern part of their country.
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Saudi Arabia spends 25% of its national budget on the military. (Nearly $100 billion annually). Its army totals about 300,000 men, but its fighting ability is very limited. In its war in Yemen it depends on artillery and aircraft to do its fighting,, and while the airforce can destroy the Houthi homeland it seems powerless to staunch the Houthi invasions of Jizan.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Yemeni Army’s Rocket Battalion landed a direct hit on the ’Ayn al-Harrah Military Camp in the Jizan Region tonight, killing over 30 Saudi soldiers after a ballistic missile hit this military installation.
According to the Yemeni Republican Guard’s media wing, the Rocket Battalion fired a Qahir-1 Tochka Ballistic Missile into the Jizan Region of Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... tonight, causing severe damage to the Saudi Army camp.
This missile strike tonight was conducted by the Yemeni Army’s Rocket Battalion in response to the Saudi Air Force’s merciless Arclight airstrikes over the Houthi-controlled Hajja, Saada, and Saana governorates that killed several civilians.
The fighting in the Jizan Region of Saudi Arabia has recently intensified, as the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces and Yemeni Republican Guard continue to advance north amid weak resistance from the Saudi Army.
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I note the article says the rocket was fired "in response to", the implication being that if one side quits the other side will, too.
Maybe they're shooting at each other as fast as they can, considering target acquisition and supply of ordnance?
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Saudi Air Force carried out 45+ Arclight airstrikes in a short period of time over the Yemeni capital on Tuesday, killing and wounding a large number of civilians.
The Saudi Arclight airstrikes targeted the densely populated residential neighborhoods of Sanaa, along with crowded markets and government buildings.
Locals in Sanaa posted exclusive footage of the destruction caused by the Saudi Arclight airstrikes
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At least 20 Yemeni soldiers loyal to exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s government were killed in a bomb blast east of the capital Sanaa on Monday, officials said.
Two officials said the bomb went off at the entrance of a Yemeni army camp in central Marib province, which is mainly under the control of Hadi’s government. Several other soldiers were wounded in the blast, the officials said, adding that the number of casualties could rise as some of those injured were in serious condition.
It was not immediately clear if the bomb blast was a result of a deliberate attack or if it was an accident.
Are accidental bomb blasts a problem in Yemen?
Hadi’s government, backed by a Saudi-led Arab coalition, has been waging an offensive against Iran-allied Houthi fighters and supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh since March last year. The Houthis hold the capital.
On Sunday, residents reported that a drone believed to be operated by the United States attacked a house in the Wadi Obeida tribal area in Marib province, killing six suspected al Qaeda militants. Washington has kept up a campaign of drone strikes against militants who have exploited the 18-month-old civil war.
The United States has for years launched drone strikes against al Qaeda’s powerful Yemen branch, which planned several foiled bombing attempts on Western-bound airliners and claimed responsibility for the 2015 attack at the Charlie Hebdo magazine’s offices in Paris.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has grabbed territory in the south and east of Yemen, but an offensive by government and Emirati forces beginning in April pushed them out of many towns they had seized back into rural and mountainous areas.
The lead continues to fly in Yemen
ADEN: At least 26 fighters were killed in clashes on Monday between pro-government troops and rebels over control of an oil-rich region east of the Yemeni capital, military sources said.
“Pro-government forces launched a military operation today to retake Sarwah,” a loyalist military source said of the only part of Marib province still held by the rebels.
Clashes and air raids by the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen’s internationally recognized government “killed 16 rebels and left dozens wounded,” the source said.
Ten pro-government soldiers were killed and 12 wounded in the fighting, he added.
Loyalist forces recaptured hills overlooking Sarwah, military sources said.
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From a 2013 report:
Yemen is a minor oil and gas producer whose reserves are in decline, and will remain so unless
major new discoveries are made. Until recently the hydrocarbon sector and the revenues
it has generated have been used to extend the personal power of President Salih and have
not led to tangible economic development.
[Ynet] Moldovan prosecutors have incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! two foreign nationals on suspicion of spreading online propaganda for international terror organizations.
The Moldovan Intelligence Service said in a statement Tuesday that organized crime prosecutors had identified and detained the men, aged 18 and 46, as part of Moldova's anti-terrorism measures.
Prosecutors found propaganda material and other documents in the place they were living in Chisinau. The men, who were not identified, had been under surveillance for some time. The statement said they admitted wrongdoing. It did not say when they were arrested.
[Ynet] Tajikistan's security services are investigating unspecified threats of action this month purportedly made by a former commander of the Central Asian nation's elite police force who has defected to ISIS, security sources said on Tuesday.
Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov,
...about whom we have a more complete report today here...
who has gone through special forces training in Russia and the United States, joined the turban group last May.
Last week, Washington offered a reward of up to $3 million for information leading to the location, arrest, and conviction of Khalimov, describing him as "a key leader" of the Syria- and Iraq-based group.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A suicide kaboom on the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital last week was ordered by Uighur terrorist groups active in Syria and carried out by a member of the East Turkestan Islamic movement, Kyrgyzstan’s state security service said on Tuesday.
The jacket wallah, whose car rammed the gates of the embassy on Aug. 30, was an ethnic Uighur who held a Tajik passport in the name of Zoir Khalilov, the security service said in a statement.
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[RFE/RL] Russia's National Anti-terrorist Committee (NAK) said two militants who were involved in a series of terrorist attacks have been killed in Dagestan. According to the NAK, one security officer was also killed in the special operation held in Dagestan's southern district of Magaramkent on September 5. Another security officer was injured during the operation.
going on a loooong trip and don't wanna stop for gas? Wearing diapers? Former Astronut Lisa Nowak? So many questions
PARIS (AyeePeee) ‐ Two people were in custody Wednesday after a car parked near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was found with seven gas canisters inside, and its license plates removed.
An employee of a nearby bar flagged the car discovered Sunday morning along the Seine River with its hazard lights on, according to two French officials. No one was inside, but police found six canisters filled with gas in the trunk and an empty canister in the car.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation, said the car's owner and another person were taken into custody. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said it still was not clear why the car was abandoned.
BLUF: Car's owner, now in custody, is on watchlist of suspected religious radicals, disappeared with her boyfriend, caught heading to Spain. Test run? No explosives or detonator. Arabic documents found in the car. Police raids picked up several others, but only the car owner and her boyfriend arrested.
It being The Daily Mail, there will no doubt be updates as new information comes in, so check the source later.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Italian police said on Tuesday they had broken up a criminal network that smuggled mostly Syrian refugees across the Balkans to Western Europe.
International police forces nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 21 people in Austria, Germany and Italia on suspicion of people smuggling, a police statement said. The arrests followed an investigation conducted by prosecutors in the northern Italian city of Como.
Most of those arrested were Syrian, while others were Algerian, Egyptian, Lebanese and Tunisian and were officially resident in the area around Como, Italia.
The criminal group organized transport for more than 200 migrants colonists from 2014 to 2016, charging at least 500 euros ($560) each, according to prosecutors, who worked together with the EU's judicial cooperation unit, Eurojust.
The probe began in September last year after an Italian was arrested in Hungary "while driving in a vehicle with several illegal migrants colonists," Eurojust said in a separate statement.
Italian police said the smuggling ring picked up migrants colonists who had reached Hungary, and from there they were moved on towards Germany, Austria, and more rarely to La Belle France and Italia.
The so-called "Balkans route," used by hundreds of thousands of migrants colonists last year, has been less popular since the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... agreed to stop boat crossings from Turkey to Greece earlier this year.
But boat crossings from Libya to Italia continue at about the same rate as before, with some 100,000 arrivals so far this year.
Moslem colonists Migrants have flooded into Europe over the past three years from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, fleeing violence and poverty at home.
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[Libya Herald] Over 2,600 migrants colonists in 22 rescue missions were saved while attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Libya yesterday, the Italian Coast Guard reported.
The multiple rescue operations were carried out by the Italian Coast Guard, the Italian Navy, the EU’s Sophia Operation and NGO’s including MOAS and the Italian Red Thingy.
The Malta-based Migrant Offshore Aid Station NGO reported that during its operations it had rescued 354 migrants colonists and recovered seven dead bodies ‐ five women and two men. They were believed to have died from inhaling toxic fumes from an overloaded rubber boat.
MSF believe many of the rubber boats are of poor quality exported to Libya from China. Yesterday no less than eight young children aged from 1 to 11 were amongst those rescued ‐ including a two-year old.
The rescued included many youth and children with MSF reporting that over 18,000 unaccompanied children had already crossed the Mediterranean in 2016.
The tide of migrants colonists launched from the Libyan coast across the Mediterranean has failed to subside despite the EU’s Operation Sophia designed to stem the flow. The continued migrant crossings have also continued unabated despite the installation of the pro--EU Faiez Serraj-led Presidency Council/Government of National Accord in 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... since 30th March.
In its latest figures released today, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says that 288,005 migrants colonists and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2016 up to 4 September. This total does not include the hundreds still on their way to Italian ports after being rescued Sunday and Monday in the Channel of Sicily.
In 2016 almost all migrant and refugee landings in the Mediterranean were to Greece and Italia, where 116,861 migrants colonists and refugees have been recorded through Sunday.
Confirmed Mediterranean fatalities among migrants colonists and refugees, the IOM reports, stands at 3,176 ‐ a figure that does not include 15 bodies reportedly recovered Monday. These Mediterranean deaths are almost 500 more than those recorded up to 6 September 2015.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Despite their alleged commitment to fighting turbans in Syria and Iraq, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... continues to transport and treat jihadist fighters in their field hospitals.
Photos from Turkish field hospitals were leaked on Tuesday, showing prominent jihadist fighters in northern Hama being treated in Turkey.
Northern Hama is by no means close to the Turkish border, so the transportation of these maimed jihadists would have to be coordinated and approved by the Turkish government.
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QUETTA: Three policemen, including a station house officer (SHO) and a constable, were killed during an altercation near Quetta's Eastern Bypass area on Tuesday.
According to initial police reports, SHO Noor Bux Mengal and a constable exchanged hot words.
The constable opened fire on the SHO, whose guards engaged in retaliatory firing, Superintendent Police Sariyab Abdullah Jan Afridi said.
The SHO, constable, and one other cop were killed on the spot and their bodies shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta for post-mortem.
Police reached the spot and an investigation into the matter is underway.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani troops and Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) exchanged fire across the Line of Control (LoC) on Defence Day, Inter-Services Public Relations said.
ISPR said Indian troops resorted to "unprovoked firing" in the Nezapir sector around midnight on Monday. Firing continued until 10am Tuesday morning, the statement said.
No casualties have been reported so far on either side of the working boundary.
Pakistani troops issued a 'befitting response' to the BSF's 'unprovoked firing', the ISPR said.
Despite a 2003 border ceasefire agreement signed by both countries, cross-border firing along the working boundary is intermittent with both parties frequently accusing the other of breaching it.
A ceasefire violation was also reported on Aug 14 as troops exchanged fire on Pakistan's Independence Day.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Wife of a head in charge of ISIS prisons of the hard boy group in Iraq was found dead in a town north of Salah al-Din province amid reports saying that she escaped with her lover the day before, local media said Tuesday.
"Wife of ISIS prisons’ head in al-Shirqat known as Abu Mansour was found dead. Her body was dumped on the side of a country road outside [Al-Shirqat] the town a day after her escape," the source, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, told the Arabic-language website al-Sumaria satellite station.
The source added that "bullets were found in the corpse."
Al-Shirqat, located southeast of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... city, is under ISIS occupation.
The source said that "there are semi-confirmed information that the slain woman has escaped with her lover the day before her killing," describing the lover "as the younger brother of Abu Mansour whose whereabouts are still unknown."
Another local news agency, Buratha News said a "scandal has rocked ISIS circles and drove the ISIS head of prisons to avoid the public," citing another anonymous source.
"There are speculations that Abu Mansour has run after the two to seek Dire Revenge," the source added.
Iraq’s Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said on Tuesday that the reason behind the delay to liberate al-Shiqat was to allow more civilians to flee the town. Getting rid of ISIS in al-Shirqat is a prelude to the Mosul offensive, which will see Iraqi forces backed by the US-led Coalition forces attempting to defeat the hard boy group which seized the country’s second largest city in June 2014.
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I'm thinking she'd have preferred the "I divorce thee, I divorce thee, I divorce thee" text instead...
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh province informed on Tuesday, that 25 ISIS militants were either killed or wounded in an international coalition bombing north of the province.
Sharing more details the source revealed, “The international coalition aviation managed, this afternoon, to bomb ISIS headquarters in Ghabat area in northern Nineveh, killing 18 ISIS members and wounding seven others.”
The source added, “The strike also destroyed 12 vehicles belonging to the organization.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A security source in Anbar province informed on Tuesday, that the ISIS has bombed the headquarters of the Border Guard Command in Anbar, without causing any casualties.
Sharing more details with Iraqi News the source revealed, “The terrorist organization bombed the the headquarters of Anbar Border Guard Command in Rutba city, with Katyusha rockets.”
“The rockets landed in the courtyard of the headquarters, causing no damage or injuries,” the source added.
It is worth to mention that the border guard forces are exercising great efforts to repel the attacks launched by ISIS on the Command’s headquarters from time to time.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Anbar Operations Command announced that four rocket launchers belonging to ISIS were destroyed by coalition airstrike north of the city of Ramadi.
An informed source in Anbar Operations Command revealed, “The international coalition aviation, in coordination with a force from the army, was able to bombard four rocket launchers belonging to ISIS in Albu Ali Jassim area in Ramadi Island, north of the city of Ramadi.”
The source added, “The bombing destroyed the launchers and killed all the ISIS terrorists of the detachment.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A military source in Anbar province informed on Tuesday, that ten ISIS members, including a senior commander, were killed by an artillery shelling west of Ramadi.
Sharing more details with Iraqi News, the source revealed, “The artillery of the Iraqi army shelled a number of ISIS hideouts in al-Botaiban area west of Ramadi, destructing the hideouts completely.”
The source added, “The shelling also killed 10 ISIS terrorists, including the field commander Abu Omar Ziadi, as well as wounding other six terrorists.”
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[IsraelTimes] Separately, soldiers arrest 6 Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, operatives in the West Bank, seize a weapons cache containing explosives
Paleostinian in northern Gazoo fired across the border at Israeli soldiers overnight Monday, the army said, in the latest in a series of cross-border skirmishes.
In response, tanks fired at two Hamas posts in Gazoo, the IDF said in a statement. Paleostinian media sources reported the targets were buildings belonging to the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing.
No injuries were reported on either side.
In a separate operation, IDF troops tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! six alleged Hamas operatives throughout the West Bank and seized a weapons cache containing explosives in the village of Surif, north of Hebron.
The shots fired from Gazoo are the latest in a series of minor festivities between Gazoo based groups and the IDF. Two days ago a similar incident occurred at the same site.
ISIS has outlawed the burka at their security centres in a northern Iraqi city, despite previously brutally enforcing a law requiring them to be worn.
The terror group have banned women entering the buildings in Mosul while wearing the full-face covering after a number of commanders were killed by veiled women.
Previously women in Syria and Iraq have been beaten or even killed by ISIS's 'morality police' for not wearing a veil to conceal their body and eyes.
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well now the left can say that this proves they are not really islamic
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Apparently ISIS thinks they could be used to infiltrate or conceal weapons. Imagine that.
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The terror group have banned women entering the buildings in Mosul while wearing the full-face covering after a number of commanders were killed by veiled women.
[Anadolu] The Philippine military sats it has inflicted an undetermined number of casualties on the Abu Sayyaf as battles erupted again on the island province of Sulu. These were the first confrontations between the military and the Abu Sayyaf in its southern Sulu lair since clashes on August 29 left 15 troops and more than 30 Abu Sayyaf dead. As of last week, around 7,000 troops have been deployed to Sulu to fight the rebels.
Military spokesman Filemon Tan Jr. said soldiers engaged in a gun battle with Abu Sayyaf militants in Patikul town. He said, "While intensifying military offensives in Sulu, troops engaged in an armed confrontation with the group of sub-leader Jamiri Jaong Jawhari.
On Monday, the military said a group led by Radullan Sahiron, a one-armed top leader of the Abu Sayyaf, had been confined to an area of Sulu in an intensified offensive. The U.S. has placed a bounty of $1 million on Sahiron's head for his involvement in the murder of foreign nationals.
Tan said that specific battalions involved in the offensive are targeting each subgroup, including that of Sahiron and another leader, Alhabsi Misaya.
On Tuesday, during a trip to Laos to attend the ASEAN summits, Duterte is reported to have told members of Vientiane's Filipino community that he needed only a little more time to make the Abu Sayyaf pay for their crimes. He said, "If I have to face them, you know I can eat humans. I will really open up your body. Just give me vinegar and salt, and I will eat you.
"Go ahead. Set off bombs... How many did they kill, 15? Well, give me time. When the time comes, I will pulverize you. You watch me. You’ve seen how I operate… Just give me a little time."
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I think Duterte's gonna run his mouth one too many times in the near future. It'll be fun watching him get there.
[Bangkok Post] A bomb blast killed a man and his 5-year-old daughter as they arrived at her school, and injured eight other people in Narathiwat province on Tuesday morning. In Pattani province, a bomb concealed at a resting place used by security teams blew up, injuring a volunteer ranger on teacher proection duty.
Security officials said the Narathiwat bomb was detonated when parents were delivering their children to school in Tak Bai district. Ten people - four policemen, teachers and parents - were injured.
Military spokesman Pramote Phrom-in condemned the attack at a school as inhumane. He also criticized non-government organizations who were accusing the government of violating suspects' rights, but not taking a stand to protect victims of the violence.
Authorities in Narathiwat said later the bomb was placed on a motorcycle parked in front of a shop across from the primary school. The motorcycle was stolen when the owner was murdered on June 19.
Cdr Krisana Yuansa-ard, commander of a special unit in Narathiwat, blamed an militant group led by Romli Jehyi for the attack. Security officials had monitored its movements but did not expect it to attack the school while pupils were arriving there.
In Pattani, a ranger volunteer on teacher security detail was injured by a bomb blast at a roadside shelter in Panare district on Tuesday morning. The shelter, on the edge of a field beside the road, is often used as a rest stop by security teams. The bomb exploded when a teacher escort team arrived there.
[Ynet] Two Turkish soldiers were killed and five others were maimed when ISIS launched a rocket attack on two Turkish tanks near the village of al-Waqf in northern Syria, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's military said on Tuesday.
Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters seized two villages, the military said, as part of an operation called Euphrates Shield, which started on Aug. 24 with Turkey-backed rebels fighting under the loose banner of the FSA taking the border town of Jarablus.
Two FSA fighters were also killed, while two others were maimed, the Turkish military said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A suspected chlorine gas attack on an opposition-held neighborhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo caused dozens of cases of suffocation on Tuesday, rescue workers and a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Civil Defense, a rescue workers’ organization that operates in rebel-held areas, said government helicopters had dropped barrel bombs containing chlorine on the Sukari neighborhood in eastern Aleppo.
The Syrian government has denied previous accusations it used chemical weapons during the five-year-old civil war. The Syrian army could not be immediately reached for comment on the latest allegations.
The Civil Defense said on its Facebook page that 80 people had suffocated. It reported no deaths. It posted a video showing wheezing children doused in water using oxygen masks to breathe.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syrian violence using sources on the ground, said medical sources had reported 70 cases of suffocation.
A United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons inquiry seen by Rooters last month found that Syrian government forces were responsible for two toxic gas attacks in 2014 and 2015 involving chlorine.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has finally won the upper hand in southern Aleppo as Islamist defenses have gradually fallen apart, resulting in over 200 krazed killer casualties.
Next up, the SAA hopes to retake Aleppo’s Ramouseh district and outskirt towns such as Khan Touman. If these fall into government hands, the SAA will gradually tighten the noose around rebel-held districts in eastern Aleppo, ultimately leading to the liberation of Syria’s largest city.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] After several failed assaults on Ma’an and the neighboring Karah village, jihadists from the Jund al-Aqsa terrorist group and their allied Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... renewed their assault on the aforementioned villages.
Unfortunately for them, the local NDF and Syrian Army units were well-prepared for the assault. Three Lion of Islam tanks and four armored vehicles were destroyed in the failed assault. Moreover, over 30 jihadists were killed while dozens more were maimed.
Adding insult to injury, Syrian Army units managed to recapture Batish and the western neighborhood of Ma’ardasmnorth of Mt. Arbaeen. So far, this offensive has begun to prove real costly for the jihadists who are currently attempting to fortify the towns they seized almost a week ago.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] ISIS terrorist group has announced the death in Syria of an Australian ’jihadist’ convicted over a 2005 plot to bomb the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in a new English-language magazine.
Ezzit Raad, who travelled to the Middle East after serving time in jail, died fighting for ISIS in Manbij near the battleground city of Aleppo in northern Syria, according to the online propaganda magazine Rumiyah released on Monday.
The first edition also featured calls for lone-wolf attacks in the West, singling out targets in Australia in a biography of the Australian ’jihadist’ of Lebanese origin, also known as Abu Mansur al-Muhajir.
The 38-page magazine was released simultaneously in seven languages, including English, French, German, Russian and Turkish.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said last week that more than 60 Australians have so far been killed in Iraq and Syria, while around 200 people back home had been investigated for supporting Lion of Islam groups.
Ten attacks have been foiled in Australia since the country raised its alert level to high in 2014, he said, but three have taken place, including the murder of a police employee in Sydney in October.
Officials announced last week that Australia would start targeting ’jihadist’ support and logistics resources in Iraq and Syria, as it broadens the scope of its air war on IS as part of a US-led multinational coalition.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army’s 5th Armored Division destroyed a building complex that housed jihadist fighters near the reconciled town of ’Ibta in the Dara’a Governorate on Tuesday.
According to a military source, the Syrian Arab Army’s 5th Division planted bombs at this building outside of ’Ibta and then subsequently detonated their explosives at nightfall, when the jihadist rebels were least expecting an attack.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Lebanese and Syrian armies simultaneously targeted 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.... of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in the Qalamoun Mountains on Tuesday, killing a large number of their terrorist combatants that were attempting to illegally cross the border.
The Lebanese Army began shelling the Islamic State forces of Evil inside Wadi al-Hawa, while the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) monitored the terrorist group’s movements along the Jaroud Jarajeer border-crossing.
Not long after the Lebanese Army began their attack, the Syrian Arab Army launched their own assault from Jarajeer, hitting Islamic State target within Leb’s Beqa’a Governorate.
The Syrian Arab Army has since ceased their assault after the Islamic State forces of Evil pulled away from the border-crossing; however, the Lebanese Army is engaged in heavy combat with the terrorist forces.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... (Army of Islam) launched a wide-scale offensive in the East Ghouta region of rural Damascus on Tuesday, targeting the key town of al-Bahariyah, which is currently under the Syrian Arab Army’s control.
The Islamist rebel group began their assault by storming the Syrian Arab Army’s defenses at al-Bahariyah’s northern flank; this resulted in a series of intense festivities that last for most of the day.
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... despite their best efforts at al-Bahariyah, Jaish al-Islam was unable to penetrate the Syrian Arab Army’s defenses at this East Ghouta town.
According to a military source in Damascus, Jaish al-Islam lost over 10 combatants during their failed assault on al-Bahariyah; meanwhile, the Syrian Armed Forces only reported 2 casualties.
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HASAKAH – Warplanes of the US-led international coalition launched a new wave of airstrikes in Syria, targeting oil resources of the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group, officials and local sources reported on Tuesday.
In Raqqa, the ISIS de facto capital in Syria, the coalition’s fighter jets launched two airstrikes, bombing two ISIS oil pumpjacks and an oil tank, according to coalition officials.
Another airstrike hit an ISIS security headquarters in Raqqa suburb.
“The building was destroyed completely, and at least 13 ISIS security guards were killed in the attack,” media activist Omar Rihawi told ARA News in Raqqa. “Other airstrikes targeted ISIS oil facilities, causing huge explosions and a state of alert among ISIS ranks.”
Also on Tuesday, the coalition’s fighter jets hit an ISIS supply route near Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, and destroyed at least 13 oil tankers that the group was trying to move to Iraq.
“Three strikes destroyed 13 ISIL oil tanker trucks and a tractor trailer [in Deir ez-Zor],” the US-led coalition said in a statement on Tuesday, using another acronym for ISIS.
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(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – Kata’ib al-Imam brigade announced discovering three mass graves containing the remains of Speicher camp’s martyrs in central Tikrit.
The spokesperson for Kata’ib al-Imam brigade Hussein al-Asadi said, “Today, detachments of Kata’ib al-Imam brigade discovered three mass graves containing the remains of Speicher camp’s victims inside the presidential palaces in central Tikrit.”
“These graves contained the bodies of more than 30 victims,” Asadi added.
ISIS finance center burns in Mosul Just like everything else these fellas touch
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh province reported on Tuesday, that the main building of ISIS financial directorate was devoured by a huge fire in downtown Mosul.
Sharing further details the source informed, “Fire broke out in the main building of ISIS finance directorate in central Mosul,” noting that, “The fire was accompanied by explosions inside the building due to the extension of the fire to a warehouse containing munitions and ammunition.”
“Detachments of ISIS wearing black uniforms arrested the financial official and five of his associates over the incident. The building was dedicated to the management of ISIS salaries file,” the source added.
DEIR EZZOR – Militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) radical group stoned a young man to death after accusing him of committing adultery, activists in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province reported on Wednesday.
The ISIS-led Islamic Police [al-Hisba] detained the 22-year-old man Ali al-Alian al-Shiwesh in the city of al-Bukamal in southern Deir ez-Zor earlier on Tuesday.
The Sharia Court on Wednesday decided to publicly stone him to death on charges of committing adultery.
“Dozens of people gathered in al-Bukamal’s central square to witness the execution of al-Shiwesh,” media activist Hazim al-Agidi told ARA News.
Eyewitnesses reported that ISIS militants have also forced a number of civilians to participate in stoning the young man.
“Islamic State members demanded the people to participate in executing the victim, stressing that the people should show commitment to Allah’s Sharia and that the man deserved death for committing adultery,” an eyewitness told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Iraq has put out fires at six more oil wells in the Qayyara region, which Iraqi forces recaptured from ISIS late last month, but at least three fires are still blazing, the oil ministry said on Tuesday.
The militants sabotaged much of Qayyara’s oil infrastructure before fleeing ahead of the government advance, sending black smoke into the sky for days and oil pouring into main thoroughfares.
The authorities said last week they had already put out fires from four wells, but a Reuters correspondent visiting the city afterwards saw around a dozen separate plumes of smoke and a military officer in the area said on Sunday the fires were still raging.
“The firefighting consisted of removing explosives from these wells, putting out the fires and preventing crude oil from leaking into the river to prevent pollution,” ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said.
Responders also built dirt walls and trenches to prevent oil from reaching residential neighborhoods, he added.
Jihad said three wells that remain outside the control of the security forces would be extinguished as soon as they were recaptured.
The Qayyara region produces heavy sour crude and has a small refinery to process some of the oil.
The oil ministry has said it does not expect to resume production from the Qayyara region before security forces recapture Mosul, Islamic State’s de facto capital in Iraq. The two main fields, Qayyara and Najma, used to produce 30,000 barrels per day of heavy crude before the takeover by Islamic State.
[FreeBeacon] Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton turned away a high-ranking Chinese defector who sought political asylum after the communist police chief sought refuge in a U.S. consulate in southwestern China four years ago.
Critics say Clinton's handling of the defection of Wang Lijun, a close aide to a regional Communist Party leader, was a blunder and lost opportunity for U.S. intelligence to gain secrets about the leaders of America's emerging Asian adversary.
Instead of sheltering Wang and granting him political asylum, Clinton agreed to turn him over to Chinese authorities in Beijing, and claimed he was not qualified for American sanctuary because of his past role as a police chief accused of corruption.
However, the defector’s case highlights Clinton's policy of seeking to preserve U.S. ties with China's communist leadership instead of pursuing much-needed intelligence gathering on China at a time when Beijing is emerging as an increasingly threatening power.
Clinton defended the betrayal of Wang in her 2014 memoir, Hard Choices. The former secretary and current Democratic presidential nominee revealed in the book that the U.S. government agreed to keep secret all details of Wang’s sensational defection attempt in order to help Beijing's Communist rulers avoid public embarrassment over a major internal power struggle and high-level corruption scandal months ahead of then-Chinese leader Hu Jintao's transfer of power to current supreme leader Xi Jinping.
Details of the mishandling of the Wang defection have been kept secret by the Obama administration, and Clinton's version of events were contradicted by U.S. officials and the official Chinese account. Instead of gaining long-term access to a valuable defector with inside knowledge of Chinese strategy and policies, Clinton contacted the Chinese government in Beijing and allowed security officials to take Wang into custody outside the U.S. consulate some 30 hours after he entered the property in a daring bid to flee China for the United States.
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I remember when that happened. That was some serious bullshit. He turned up at the US consulate in Chengdu and they just hung him out to dry. Now I know who did it.
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Clinton contacted the Chinese government in Beijing and allowed security officials to take Wang into custody outside the U.S. consulate some 30 hours after he entered the property in a daring bid to flee China for the United States.
The number of defections at the U.S. Consulate have tapered-off dramatically.
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Instead of sheltering Wang and granting him political asylum, Clinton agreed to turn him over to Chinese authorities in Beijing, and claimed he was not qualified for American sanctuary because of his past role as a police chief accused of corruption.
Since when does a little bit of corruption bother Hildabeest?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Italian police said on Tuesday they had broken up a criminal network that smuggled mostly Syrian refugees across the Balkans to Western Europe.
[Libya Herald] Over 2,600 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Wife of a head in charge of ISIS prisons of the
[Anadolu] The Philippine military sats it has inflicted an undetermined number of casualties on the Abu Sayyaf as battles erupted again on the island province of Sulu. These were the first confrontations between the military and the Abu Sayyaf in its southern Sulu lair since clashes on August 29 left 15 troops and more than 30 Abu Sayyaf dead. As of last week, around 7,000 troops have been deployed to Sulu to fight the rebels.
[Bangkok Post] A bomb blast killed a man and his 5-year-old daughter as they arrived at her school, and injured eight other people in Narathiwat province on Tuesday morning. In Pattani province, a bomb concealed at a resting place used by security teams blew up, injuring a volunteer ranger on teacher proection duty. 
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
HASAKAH – Warplanes of the US-led international coalition launched a new wave of airstrikes in Syria, targeting oil resources of the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group, officials and local sources reported on Tuesday.
[FreeBeacon] Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton turned away a high-ranking Chinese defector who sought political asylum after the communist police chief sought refuge in a U.S. consulate in southwestern China four years ago.
