EXPLOSION IN BAGH-E-BALA NEIGHBORHOOD – Yesterday evening at approximately 1800hrs local, an explosion was reported in the area. No details were yet available and it is not clear if any casualties resulted from the blast. Taliban security forces established a perimeter around the area to keep locals out. No further information was available.
TTP COMMANDER REPORTEDLY ASSASSINATED IN AFGHANISTAN – A TTP Commander known as Zakerin was said to have been killed by unknown gunmen in Paktia Province. The circumstances behind the killing are unknown and this information has not been verified yet.
MOSCOW REGIONAL SUMMIT CONCLUDES – The regional summit on Afghanistan closed in Moscow yesterday. Delegates made several of the same calls for security, stability, inclusiveness, and economic development. The exclusion of Taliban representatives at the summit has rankled the senior leadership in Afghanistan but the snub has been smoothed over in light of Afghanistan’s precarious fiscal situation.
CHINA REITERATES SUPPORT FOR IEA – China’s Ambassador to Kabul, Wang Yu, passed along messages of support to the Foreign Minister in a meeting on Wednesday. The Ambassador announced intentions to provide a shipment of aid to help prepare for the coming Winter.
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER IN DUBAI FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT SPURS RUMORS – Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was flown to Dubai for an unspecified medical condition. Rumors immediately began to circulate on social media that he had been the victim of poisoning. It is thought that Baradar and Haqqani have a rivalry and are often said to be at odds over the direction the IEA should take. At this point, we do not believe Baradar was poisoned and all signs point to a legitimate health condition that prompted his trip.
NOTED CLERIC AND 2 FOLLOWERS KILLED IN KABUL – A group of unidentified gunmen reportedly shot and killed Qari Najibullah Azizi and 2 unidentified worshipers at the Abu Bakr Siddiq Mosque early Thursday morning. The incident occurred during Fajir and the motive for the attack is not clear. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the killings and no further information was available.
CONFLICT TRACKER Nangarhar: Taliban forces launched a raid on an NRF base in Umaraz. The fighting continued into the early morning, when the raid was reportedly repulsed. An unknown number of casualties have been reported. Panjshir: NRF fighters targeted a home in the Hesseh Awal district that was being used by the Taliban as a command post. The NRF deployed several BM1 rockets and then hit the facility with heavy and light machine guns. Hostilities began around midnight local time, and lasted for several hours. There has been no word on casualties incurred from the military action on either side.
NEXT 24 HOURS
JOINT AFGHAN/PAKISTAN COMMITTEE FORMED TO INVESTIGATE CROSS BORDER INCIDENT AT CHAMAN – Yesterday’s announcement about the formation of a bi-lateral committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding the clashes at Spin Boldak-Chaman gate is seen as a positive sign. Clearly, the tensions along the border merit a de-escalation effort by both countries before things get out of hand. While no announcement has been made to reopen the crossing site, we assess an announcement will be made soon.
[ShabelleMedia] Somali government forces retook a key area from al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... during an operation near Runir-Good town in the Middle Shabelle region, local residents said.
The troops entered Ad-adey village without facing resistance from al-Shabaab bully boyz who fled their bases to nearby areas. It is the latest gain against the group in the region.
General Ahmed Mohammed Taredisho, a senior Somali military officer confirmed the seizure of the area to the local media on Thursday. He said the situation is now calm.
Middle Shabelle region is witnessing an intensified military operations against al-Shabaab as local residents along with the national army try to liberate the whole province.
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How Fulani Herdsmen In Army Uniforms Shot Me, Kidnapped My Family Members, One Teacher At Military Checkpoint In Enugu – Hospitalised Victim | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/KQTYZx5AVTpic.twitter.com/9CM8tnxzch
[IsraelTimes] Western and Israeli security sources say Shahed-136 ’suicide drone’ was fired at Pacific Zircon from Iranian territory; Israeli source: ’Iranians no longer hiding behind proxies’
An Iranian explosive-laden drone that struck an oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire off the coast of Oman this week was launched from an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base in Iran, officials said Thursday.
The Liberian-flagged oil tanker Pacific Zircon was struck by a Shahed-136 on Tuesday night, causing damage but no injuries. Pacific Zircon is operated by Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping, which is a company ultimately owned by Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer.
According to a BBC report, a Western official said the drone was launched from the IRGC’s Air Force regional command in the southeastern city of Chabahar.
An Israeli defense source separately told Army Radio that the drone was launched from Iranian territory, saying, "The Iranians are no longer hiding behind their proxies. They have made a mistake and will not be able to evade [blame] for the action."
Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, the head of United States Central Command, said in a statement that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... was behind the attack.
"This unmanned aerial vehicle attack against a civilian vessel in this critical maritime strait demonstrates, once again, the destabilizing nature of Iranian malign activity in the region," Kurilla said.
Israeli officials, speaking anonymously to news hounds, said Iran carried out the attack with a Shahed-136 loitering munition, also known as a suicide drone.
Iran has supplied the same model of drones to Russia, which has been using them to target infrastructure and civilian targets in Ukraine.
CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... on its Arabic-language site on Thursday published an image showing damage caused to the vessel by the strike, and another showing debris from the Shahed-136 drone.
The report said the images were provided to CNN by a Western defense official, but it added that the network could not independently verify their authenticity.
CNN publishes images of the damage caused to the Israeli-owned Pacific Zircon oil tanker that was struck by an Iranian Shahed-136 drone off the coast of Oman on Tuesday night. pic.twitter.com/JS7aMlQccw
[Shafaq News] On Thursday, Iraq's CounterTerrorism Service (CTS) forces killed the ISIS leader, Hussein Muhammad Jassim al-Issawi, nicknamed "Abu Issa," while he was trying to blow himself up in western Iraq. The spokesperson for the commander in chief of the Armed Forces, Maj. Gen. Yahya Rasool announced.
He said that the terrorist works as an official for booby-trapping in the Ramadi sector of so-called Wilayat al-Anbar (in ISIS terms).
In 2017, Iraq declared victory over ISIS after Iraqi forces drove its last remnants from the country; the war has had a devastating impact on the areas previously controlled by the turbans. About 3.2 million people remain displaced.
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[IsraelTimes] Police say Abdullah Loubani, detained in village near Jenin, was in contact with members of Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip-based terror group, PIJ
Undercover Border Police officers arrested a wanted Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... (PIJ) terror operative in a village near the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, a police front man said.
The front man said the suspect, Abdullah Loubani, was in contact with members of the PIJ in the Gaza Strip and was involved in planning terror attacks in Israel on behalf of the terror group.
There were no festivities during the daytime raid in the village of Bir al-Basha, some 15 kilometers southwest of Jenin.
Loubani was transferred to the Shin Bet security agency for further questioning, the front man added.
On Saturday, troops arrested another PIJ member in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, during a daytime raid.
Officials said Muhammad Abu Zina had been conducting "significant terror activity," which included work to finance and arm PIJ operatives in the northern West Bank.
The Defense Ministry said that shots were fired at the Jalamah checkpoint in the northern West Bank on Thursday, without causing any damage or injuries. "The crossing has been closed and security forces are conducting scans in the area," the ministry said.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says no soldiers hurt in early morning operations in West Bank; Border Police officers seize over a dozen weapon parts and $15,000 in cash allegedly intended for terror
Israeli troops came under gunfire in the early hours of Thursday morning during an arrest raid in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, the military said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, troops operated extensively throughout the West Bank overnight, arresting 13 wanted Paleostinians, including one in Nablus.
"IDF forces operated in the city of Nablus and arrested a wanted man suspected of involvement in terror activity. During the operation, shots were fired at the forces," the army said, adding that no soldiers were hurt in the incident.
Also overnight, the military said Border Police officers seized over a dozen M-16 assault rifle parts and NIS 52,000 ($15,000) in cash intended for terror purposes, found in suspicious vehicles stopped by troops near the town of al-Auja in the Jordan Valley. Five desperados in the cars were among the 13 detained suspects.
The suspects were taken to be questioned by the Shin Bet security agency.
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For lack of a better word, Al Auja is a dump of maybe 5,000 inhabitants scattered within the Jericho region and adjacent to the Jordan River. USAID has been working there for years. Viz: Anera [recently] implemented a project with $1.1 million USAID funding through the Emergency Water and Sanitation and Other Infrastructure (EWAS II), which aims at providing rapid emergency relief in the water and sanitation sectors and addressing basic infrastructure needs.
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providing rapid emergency relief in the water and sanitation sectors
They gave ‘em a water filtration plant? Or a free-standing settling pond? Gaza needs one, too, to replace their ever-growing —and occasionally collapsing — poo pond. In case they’re looking for a new project...
I had no idea about Al Auja — I don’t recall ever hearing the name before.
[Dawn] Hundreds of mourners poured onto the streets of an Iranian city on Thursday, defying a lethal crackdown on protests over Mahsa Amini’s death that shows signs of turning even bloodier. Iran’s foreign minister and media raised the spectre of civil war.
This week’s protests coincide with the third anniversary of "Bloody Aban" — or Bloody November — when hundreds were killed in a crackdown on street violence that erupted over a shock overnight decision to hike fuel prices.
Security forces on Thursday killed one protester in Bukan and two in Sanandaj, where mourners were paying tribute to "four victims of the popular resistance" 40 days after they were slain, the Oslo-based Hengaw rights group said.
The state news agency IRNA later confirmed that police colonel Hassan Youssefi was killed after being stabbed repeatedly in Sanandaj, about 200 kilometres west of the capital Tehran. People had thronged the streets even as the sound of gunfire was heard in a video published by Hengaw.
IRNA said "rioters" had damaged and burned public property in Bukan, including setting fire to the municipality building. It added that police later dispersed them.
MASHHAD RIOTS
Separately, two Basij members were stabbed to death and three others injured as they sought to intervene to prevent "rioters" from threatening shopkeepers in the northeastern city of Mashhad, the news agency said.
"Death to the dictator," protesters chanted in another online video as they marched down a street in Sanandaj filled with bonfires, directing their fury at Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... The tradition in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... of holding a "chehelom" mourning ceremony 40 days after a death has fuelled the demonstrations that have become the regime’s biggest challenge from the street in decades.
Elsewhere, Hengaw accused the security forces of killing at least 10 people within a 24-hour period up until late Wednesday at protests in several cities.
ISFAHAN KILLINGS
In a separate attack hours later in Iran’s third city Isfahan, two assailants on a cycle of violencerubbed out two members of the Basij paramilitary force and maimed another two, Fars news agency said.
IRNA later reported a police colonel who was injured Wednesday in Isfahan died of his wounds on Thursday in hospital.
Another police colonel was stabbed to death in Sanandaj, IRNA said.
In the southwestern city of Izeh, "a terrorist group took advantage of a gathering of protesters" to shoot dead seven people — including a 45-year-old woman, two children aged nine and 13, IRNA said. Three coppers and two Basij members were maimed, a security official told state TV.
But a family member of the nine-year-old boy killed on Wednesday, identified as Kian Pirfalak, accused security forces of carrying out the attack. The accusation came in a tweet shared by US-funded Radio Farda.
’CIVIL WAR’
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abollahian accused Israel and its allies of plotting a "civil war in" the Islamic republic.
But, he tweeted, they "must know that Iran is not Libya or Sudan" and that the "wisdom of our people has thwarted their plan".
Fars news agency, which is close to the authorities, said the attacks show "that those who want to dismantle the country have entered into the armed action phase".
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[REGNUM] Explosions thundered at an American military base in the province of Deir ez-Zor (Syria), the Syria TV channel reports on November 17.
It is noted that the fire began after explosions that thundered at a military facility near the Omar oil field.
The US military is now looking for the attackers, using aircraft. The TV channel did not give any information about the victims.
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...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
