[DAWN] At least 43 Afghan soldiers were killed in a Taliban ...Arabic for students... -claimed suicide kaboom on a military base in Kandahar on Thursday, officials said, the third assault on a security installation this week.
Officials said the Taliban carried out two suicide boom-mobileings at the camp, setting off several hours of fighting that began late Wednesday.
Afghanistan's ToloNews cited security officials saying that 60 soldiers were deployed to the base in the Chashmo area of Maiwand district.
Just two soldiers are known to have survived unscathed after the attack on the base, the defence ministry said in a statement, adding that nine soldiers were maimed and six unaccounted for.
Defence ministry front man Dawlat Waziri told AFP the attackers detonated at least one explosive-packed Humvee vehicle and razed the compound in the early morning assault.
"We think the forces of Evil used an explosive-packed Humvee vehicle to detonate the gate of the base and we are looking to see if there was more than one," Waziri said.
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[DAWN] At least four suspected holy warriors were killed in a dronezap in Afghanistan's Paktia province near the Pak-Afghan border on Thursday.
Security sources told DawnNews that a suspected United States (US) drone fired two missiles targeting alleged murderous Moslem hideouts in the area, killing four 'militants'.
This is the second dronezap in Paktia this week. At least six suspected Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain holy warriors were killed in an earlier strike, with Jamaat-ul-Ahrar chief Umar Khalid Khorasani reportedly injured in the assault. Khorasani was evacuated following the strike and unconfirmed reports claim he is dead.
The recent unprecedented increase dronezaps in the Pak-Afghan border region appears to be reflective of a change in policy in Washington, with at least 70 strikes ─ both drone and ground ─ conducted in Afghanistan in the past three weeks, and over 30 people killed in strikes near the border in the last few days.
The Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif and ISPR, the army's media wing, had both claimed that the strikes had been carried out in Afghan territory and Pakistain's airspace had not been violated, amid speculation that the strikes had targeted holy warriors inside Pak territory.
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[Libya Herald] The water supply 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... and the sounding area has one again stopped after a pro-Qadaffy militia in the south of the country carried out its threat to turn off the valves the Man-Made River valves if its leader were not released by the Rada ("Deterrence") forces of Abdul Raouf Kara.
Al-Mabrouk Ahnish, a member of the Magarha tribe from Brak al-Shatti, was captured at the beginning of the week in the Wirshefana area along with several Sudanese fighters and handed over to Rada. He is being held at Mitiga. Three days ago, Mabrouk’s brother, Khalifa Ahnish, threatened to stop the Man-Made River water supply to Tripoli if al-Mabrouk were not released within 72 hours. The deadline has now expired.
In a separate video, forces of Evil threatened to blow up the gas pipeline in the south heading to the Mellitah oil and gas complex and from there feeding into the Greenstream pipeline to Italia if Mabrouk Ahnish were not freed.
"They’re quite capable of doing it," said one member of the tribe. "Ahnish is quite crazy and doesn’t care about anyone in authority," he added, warning that the situation could escalate even further if there were not immediate negotiations. But he doubted whether Kara would free him.
Khalifa Ahnish has appeared in yet another video claiming that he and his fellows were not mercenaries unlike, he said, those supporting Khalifa Hafter and other forces in the country. He was with Ali Kani, he said. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... Kani, the pro-Qadaffy Tuareg commander based in Obari, is now reported to be denying that the Ahnish brothers have anything to do with him.
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No water? Send beer!
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[The odious and despicable CNN] Washington - How four US service members were killed in Niger -- and President Donald Trump's response to the attack -- has left the federal government searching for answers.
The Defense Department has opened an investigation to explain how about 50 ISIS-affiliated fighters were able to ambush a 12-man Green Beret-led team and why the team lacked sufficient support to ward off the attack.
The swirling story culminated in a remarkable moment for the Trump administration on Thursday: Chief of staff John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general whose son was killed in Afghanistan in 2010, stepped into the White House press briefing room to defend his boss' handling of deaths in Niger.
Kelly described what happens to fallen soldiers and explained how the President came to tell a widow that her husband knew what he got into when he signed up to serve.
Kelly's remarks were the crescendo in an ongoing saga over the deaths in Niger. But it was the dozen days of silence from the President that has led to questions about the White House's attempts to handle the incident.
Trump first weighed in on the attack 12 days after the soldiers were ambushed, letting his spokespeople and the Defense Department take the lead.
The President, a very prolific Twitter user, never tweeted about the attack -- the deadliest US military exchange of his presidency. In the meantime, Trump used his preferred social media platform to lambast fellow Republicans, the NFL and the media.
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SOF (Special Opns Forces) fighting terrorism are stretched thin in that LOC (location) and elsewhere in Africa. Not enough drone/intelligence coverage, not enough dedicated CAS (Close Air Support, not enough QRF (Quick Reaction Force). SOF MTT's (Mobile Training Teams) have been deploying to that VIC (vicinity) for decades with numerically few incidents.
I had read that the Niger patrol was 'no different than the past 25-30 patrols in the same VIC.
No intent to 'arm chair QB' but it was likely an 'Extortion 17' type of ambush event. The old definition of insanity.... "do the same thing over and over again and expect different results" does not apply. You could very easily get more.... 'different results' than you can handle. Not to be overly simplistic or callous, but it's a very dangerous business in a very dangerous environment. Tribal meeting went on longer than anticipated? Bad juju.
Now 40 years ago (as of 4 May 2018), one of the most successful counter-terr, vertical insertion operations in history was launched. The Battle of Cassinga. Modeled after the Son Tay and Entebbe raids, this is how it is done correctly. But there will very likely be friendly casualties. Drone zapping "eaches" won't get it! You need forces on the ground to engage and kill the enemy in large numbers.
The leftest media hype is just more political rubbish and kak slinging. More Americans were killed on the south side of Chicago last month than in all of Africa this year. As with Cassinga, win or lose, the liberal, disgusting press (read that CNN) will still find fault. Just my penny farthings worth.
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Shooting didn't start until the team went to their vehicles to depart the meeting. Locals in one location, team in another. That should tell everyone something.
At least three soldiers were killed when Boko Haram fighters ambushed a military convoy in northeast Nigeria, security and civilian sources told AFP on Thursday.
The attack, which happened on Wednesday near the town of Damboa, on the edge of Boko Haram’s Sambisa Forest enclave in Borno state, is the second against the military within a week.
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[An Nahar] Suspected bandidosturbans have kidnapped four British nationals in southern Nigeria, police and community leaders said on Wednesday.
The four had been providing "free medical care and religious activities" in the Burutu area of Delta state, said Chief Theo Fakama, from the local Enukorowa community.
Fakama said locals were "saddened" by the kidnapping as the victims had "brought succour to residents of the community for the past three years".
The front man for Delta state police, Andrew Aniamaka, confirmed the kidnapping, which happened on October 13.
"The victims are of British nationality, two of whom are a couple, and have been rendering humanitarian services in the area for a while.
"But unfortunately, they didn't let the authorities know of their presence in the area all this while.
"There is a bully boy group that has been operating in the area and we believe they are the ones behind the abduction.
"Immediately the bandidosturbans struck, they whisked the victims to the interior regions of the creek where we believe they are being held for the past five days."
It was unclear whether any contact had been made with the kidnappers or the motive for the seizure, he added.
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Aden – Yemeni Deputy Premier and Minister of Civil Service Abdulaziz Jubari and his accompanying delegation survived an armed ambush in Tur al-Bahah district of Lahij governorate on their way back from Taiz where they spent two weeks.
A few days ago, Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Dagher’s convoy was ambushed as well in the same area. Al-Sabiha tribes residing in the area denounced this act and apologized to the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, legitimate government consolidated its presence in several liberated and semi-liberated areas, especially in providing services, salaries and solving other issues.
Observers believed that these incidents may be linked to the insurgents who are trying to create chaos in the liberated districts.
Yemeni political observer Baleegh al-Mekhlafi told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that recent measures taken by the governmental envoy in Taiz had inconvenienced these forces and people of personal agendas and that is why there had been several attempts against Jubari.
In latest field developments, a number of Saleh and Houthi militants were killed during army military operations backed by the popular resistance in al-Baydaa district in the center of Yemen.
Tribal sources informed Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that intense clashes erupted between the army backed by the resistance and militias in az-Zahir district, following a failed infiltrating attempt.
Army commander, Sheikh Ali Taher stated that the military operations of the resistance resulted in the death and injury of several militants.
Taher explained to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the army and popular resistance are rearranging and reorganizing troops in areas within their control. He added that the areas witnessed several clashes between the army and the militias who are trying to advance and infiltrate into Al Hmyqan sites, however, they are met with fierce resistance.
Taher also stated that every now and then, Houthis raid on residential areas and civilians.
In Hajjah district, on border with Saudi Arabia, Saudi-led coalition intensified its air raids on militias sites and clusters in Harad.
Local residents told Asharq Al-Awsat that the coalition launched about 15 air raids over several areas in Bani Haddad, al-Mazrak, and center of Harad.
Sources reported that the national army thwarted militias infiltrations towards several areas in Midi city and forced the attackers to retreat after several militants were killed and injured.
Also, National Army forces raided on several militia clusters in al-Akda area of Usaylan district in Shabwah governorate, south Yemen.
Military sources reported that the raids came few hours after a fire exchange between both sides in al-Khaydar area.
[DAWN] Thirty-five people were maimed in two grenade attacks in Mastung and Gwadar in 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... on Thursday evening.
Men on a cycle of violence hurled a grenade near a mobile market at Safar Khan Chowk in Mastung, injuring 15 people, police inspector Abdul Quddus told DawnNews. The injured have been shifted to District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital Mastung.
Police have cordoned off the area and are conducting a search operation, DawnNews reported.
Chief Minister Balochistan Sanaullah Zehri has condemned the incident and asked the authorities to submit a report on the blast.
20 injured in Gwadar
Later in the evening, 20 people were maimed when miscreants lobbed a grenade at al-Zubair hotel on airport road, Gwadar.
Most of the injured were labourers from Sindh who were having their dinner when the attack took place. The assailants sped away on their cycle of violences, police sources said.
The injured have been shifted to DHQ Gwadar.
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[DAWN] The chief of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), an offshoot of the Pak Taliban ...Arabic for students... , has been killed in a US dronezap, a front man for the group confirmed to AFP on Thursday.
"Chief of our Jamaat-ul-Ahrar Umar Khalid Khorasani, who sustained serious injuries in a recent US dronezap in Afghanistan's Paktia province, departed this vale of tears Wednesday evening," JuA front man Asad Mansoor told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location.
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"Americans would also like to thank Mr. Asad Afridi for providing the coordinates for the dronezap location. His order of temporary curly-toed slippers should arrive from Amazon soon"
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[Institute for the Study of War] Key Takeaway: A collapse of the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga under joint pressure from Iraq and Iran shortly after the Kurdish independence referendum on September 25, 2017 empowers Iran and could destabilize northern Iraq rather than unify the county.
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces withdrew from disputed areas across northern Iraq on October 16th and 17th, 2017. A combined force of Iraqi Security Forces and Iranian proxies gathered south of Kirkuk starting on October 13th in order to compel Iraqi Kurdistan to relinquish control of the oil-rich city. The combined ISF-proxy force moved in to secure the city as well as nearby military bases and oil fields on October 16th after the Peshmerga abandoned their positions. Peshmerga forces also withdrew from areas in Ninewa, Salah al Din, and Diyala Provinces. The Iraqi Government and Iran likely signaled their intent to use military force to compel the Peshmerga withdrawals in those provinces, if necessary.
The Kurdish retreat is a win for both the central Iraqi government and Iran, whose proxies have seized new key terrain and consolidated control over previously contested cities. Iran has downplayed the role of its proxies in order to legitimize them as instruments of the Iraqi state. Western media coverage and statements from US officials have assisted Iran with this deception by denying the role of Iran's proxies in Kirkuk.
Kurdish populations now under the control of the Iraqi government and Iran's proxies may drive an insurgency, however. Civil unrest against Iraqi forces and Iran's proxies began in Kirkuk and Khanaqin on October 18th. Prime minister Abadi reportedly ordered a handover of security in Kirkuk to local police, and early reports indicate Iraqi forces and Iran's proxies may have drawn back from Khanaqin in northern Diyala. It is unclear whether these withdrawals will pacify the Kurdish population.
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They need to start working on the mine/IED-cum-ambush attacks that have been employed by just about every guerrilla force since gunpowder was invented.
Kirkuk (iraqiNews.com) A retired flying officer, with a rank of colonel, has been killed by gunmen in south of Kirkuk, a security source from the province said on Thursday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today, the source said, “unknown gunmen opened fire in the evening against retired colonel Yassin abu Nour in the celebrations area, south of Kirkuk, which caused his immediate death.”
“Security troops cordoned off the accident spot and conducted investigations, while ambulance took the victim to forensic medicine department,” the source added.
Iraqi troops, backed by Popular Mobilization Forces, took over Kirkuk province from Kurdish Peshmerga fighters on Tuesday, fulfilling instructions made earlier by Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi to retake areas where sovereignty is disputed with Kurdistan Region’s Government.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) At least ten Islamic State militants were killed in airstrikes launched by army near borders with Syria, the military media said.
“Iraqi fighter jets launched airstrikes that destroyed three vehicles in north of Akashat region, west of Anbar,” the Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell reported on Thursday.
“The shelling left more than 10 IS militants killed,” it added.
In late September, Iraqi army announced the total recapture of Annah. Troops also liberated Akashat region, between Rutba town, on borders with Jordan, and Qaim, on borders with Syria. Iraqi troops were able to return life back to normal in the biggest cities of Anbar including Fallujah, Ramadi and others after recapturing them in 2015 and 2016. Anbar’s western towns of Qaim and Rawa have been held by the extremist group since 2014, when it occupied one third of Iraq to proclaim a self-styled Islamic “Caliphate”.
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State suicide attacker was killed by security troops in Salahuddin province, a security source said on Thursday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, “one of the personnel of Samarra Operations Command at a checkpoint opened fire in the evening against a suicide attacker who tried to approach Dijla weapon stash, northwest of Samarra, which caused his immediate death.”
“Security troops took precautionary measures fearing similar attacks,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
Federal Police announced, late September, liberation of eastern Shirqat, the group’s holdout in north of the province. 225 militants had been killed since the launch of operations in Shirqat.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The Kurdish Peshmerga troops have killed army and paramilitary personnel in western Nineveh, commander said.
“Peshmerga troops intersected a convoy of Iraqi army and al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Forces] near Rabei’a village, northwest of Nineveh,” Masrour Barzani, commander of the Peshmerga’s Zervani troops, told the Kurdish network Rudaw on Thursday.
The troops, according to Barzani, hampered the convoy “while on way to a border exit, destroying five military machines and killing several army and paramilitary personnel.”
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Twenty-four protesters were killed and injured in Khanaqin during shootout by security troops, as members of Kurdistan Democratic Party were attempting to break into Federal Police station, an informed source said on Thursday.
“Several members of the KDP gathered in Khanaqin in a protest outside a police station to voice demands of handing over security to Peshmerga,” the source told Alghad Press on Thursday. “The shooting started as the members attempted breaking into police station.”
“Number of wounded protesters has reached up to 23 wounded, in addition to a victim killed during the confrontations,” the source added.
On Tuesday, Iraqi government forces recaptured Khanaqin within wide-scale operations to regain areas disputed with Kurdistan Region.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two people were killed on Thursday when a bomb hidden beneath a civilian car exploded south of Baghdad, according to sources at the capital’s police.
Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that the bomb exploded at al-Maalef when the vehicle was passing by at the area, killing two people on board.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Four civilians were wounded in a bomb blast in north of Baghdad, a security source said on Thursday.
“A bomb planted in the industrial district in al-Taji region, north of Baghdad, exploded on Thursday, leaving four civilians wounded,” the source told SNG news website.
“Security troops cordoned off the blast spot and transferred the wounded to hospital,” the source added.
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State Sunni extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
[An Nahar] Israel responded with tank fire into Syria on Thursday after a Syrian mortar shell landed in the Israeli-occupied part of the Golan Heights, the army said.
"In response to the projectile that hit Israel earlier today, the Israel Defense Forces targeted the sources of fire in the Syrian Golan Heights," it said in an English-language statement.
It did not identify the sources of the Syrian fire nor say whether it considered it to be a deliberate attack or unintentional spillover from the Syrian civil war, as in several previous incidents.
It said the mortar shell fell on open ground and caused no injuries.
On Monday, Israel carried out an air strike on an anti-aircraft battery in Syria after it fired at its planes on surveillance flights over neighboring Leb.
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[An Nahar] A Syrian general accused over the 2012 deaths of prominent U.S. journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik has been killed by an kaboom in the east of the war-torn country.
Issam Zahreddine's death in the city of Deir Ezzor, where Russian-backed regime forces are battling 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, was reported by pro-regime media in Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said he was killed Wednesday when an bomb went off in Deir Ezzor city, most of which is now under the control of regime forces.
With his handlebar mustache and bushy gray beard, the 56-year-old general was a recognizable figure in Syria and had a cult following among diehard supporters of the regime.
Involved in the early days of the repression of a 2011 revolt against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... , he led the battle that expelled rebels from Syria's third city of Homs five years ago.
In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. in 2016, Colvin's family alleged that her death was the result of shelling of the media center where she and Ochlik were, in a plan "formulated at the highest levels of the Syrian government."
"The plan was executed by Syrian military forces under the command of Major General Issam Zahreddine of the Syrian Elite Republican Guard," it alleged.
Zahreddine had recently commanded the 7,000 forces that were besieged by IS in Deir Ezzor until more government troops were sent in and broke the jihadists' stranglehold on the city.
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Zahreddine had recently commanded the 7,000 forces that were besieged by [100] IS in Deir Ezzor
[BREITBART] The Times of Israel reports: Overjoyed at the city’s liberation from the Islamic State, a woman ripped off the black outer garment she had been forced to wear by the extremist group, as US-backed forces took control of Syria’s Raqqa.
In a video posted by the People’s Defense Units (YPG) on Saturday, the woman welcomes her Kurdish rescuers, hugging them and thanking them, as well as offering prayers along with her family. All women living under the reign of IS were forced to wear the loose black outer garment, known as an abaya, as part of the terror group’s strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.
The fighters battled hundreds of Islamic State group jihadists holed up in the last pockets of Raqqa, as the former extremist stronghold stood on the verge of capture.
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Basra (IraqiNews.com) Two children were killed as a landmine left over by Islamic State militants exploded in Basra, a security source said on Thursday.
Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, “a war leftover landmine exploded in Basra, killing two brothers.”
According to the source, the children were born in 2013 and 2014. “They were transferred to hospital, where they succumbed to death due to the profound wounds.”
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State Sunni extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Civilians were killed and injured in an attack launched by Islamic State militants against a village for Kakai people, south of Kirkuk, a security source said.
Speaking to Baghdad Today on Wednesday, the source said, “an attack launched by IS against Sayed Walid Qalhani village, left one civilian killed.”
“The village, which targeted the village, located in Daquq, left people wounded as well,” the source said, adding that “confrontations against the militants are still ongoing.”
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAWN] At least 43 Afghan soldiers were killed in a 
At least three soldiers were killed when Boko Haram fighters ambushed a military convoy in northeast Nigeria, security and civilian sources told AFP on Thursday.
Aden – Yemeni Deputy Premier and Minister of Civil Service Abdulaziz Jubari and his accompanying delegation survived an armed ambush in Tur al-Bahah district of Lahij governorate on their way back from Taiz where they spent two weeks.
[DAWN] The chief of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), an offshoot of the Pak 
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) At least ten Islamic State militants were killed in airstrikes launched by army near borders with Syria, the military media said.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The Kurdish Peshmerga troops have killed army and paramilitary personnel in western Nineveh, commander said.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
