[PRESSTV] At least a dozen people have bit the dust in a fresh Saudi Arclight airstrike against a civilian target in Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta’izz as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its devastating aerial campaign against its crisis-stricken southern neighbor.
Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , told Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that the Saudi military aircraft on Thursday struck a bridge linking the al-Barh area of Maqbanah district to Hees town, killing four people.
Eight more bit the dust when Saudi jets targeted a civilian car in another part of the province, situated 260 kilometers south of the capital Sana'a.
Earlier in the day, Saudi warplanes bombarded residential neighborhoods in the Ghamar district of Yemen’s mountainous northwestern province of Sa’ada, killing eight people. Two women, a child and three paramedics were among those killed.
Three civilians were also killed when Saudi fighter jets carried out three aerial attacks against al-Ghad area in the Razih district of the same Yemeni province.
Separately, Saudi warplanes conducted four aerial assaults against the Sawar al-Afsal area of Razih district, though no reports of casualties were immediately available.
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What about the puppies and kittens? And baby milk factories? No mention?
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs Dr Anwar Gargash announced that the Yemeni Islah party has severed ties with the Moslem Brüderbund in a tweet on Friday morning.
Dr Gargash said that the Islah party announced "its severance of ties with the Moslem Brüderbund terrorist organization".
"We now have an opportunity to test their intentions in the interest of 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... and the Arab region. We work with flexibly and our goal is the security and stability of the region".
The statement was made after a meeting was held on Wednesday between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi met in Riyadh on Wednesday with the Chairman of the Yemen Islah party, Colonel Mohammed Abdullah al-Yidoumi, and Secretary-General Abdulwahab Ahmad al-Anisi.
Gargash sadded in another tweet that Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed’s meeting with the leaders of Yemen's Islah Party was to unite efforts to defeat Iran and its 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 ... militias.
During the meeting, SPA reported, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed reviewed with Col Yidoumi and al-Anisi the developments in Yemen and the efforts exerted in accordance with the principles of achieving security and stability for the Yemeni people.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Yemeni army, with the support of Arab coalition air forces, has achieved a strategic breakthrough on Wednesday by reaching the district of al-Jawf, north of Sanaa.
They were able to reach the district through the Saada governorate, the main stronghold of 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 ... militia which is far north of 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... bordering 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... .
According to a statement by the Media Center of the Yemeni armed forces, the commander of the Saada axis, Brigadier Obaid al-Athla said, "The National Army forces were able to reach the first directorates of al-Jawf from the governorate of Saada."
Al-Athla confirmed that Yemeni forces reached the beginnings of the al-Khab and al-Shaaf districts in al-Jawf, after liberating vast desert areas from the Houthi militia in the al-Ajasher area in Saada.
He also noted that the militia is collapsing day by day, and are suffering great loss in soldiers and weaponry.
Al-Athla promised of several more hits to come on the militia, but did not elaborate on any details.
A source currently based in Saada said that the Houthis buried more than 30 of their soldiers on Wednesday who died in the battlefronts.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A 14-year-old Saudi boy in al-Arda governorate in Jazan was killed by the shrapnel of an explosive that Houthis fired from Yemen, the Civil Defense Forces said on Thursday
The boy was identified as Hamed Jathmi, an intermediate student. He was maimed and killed when the shrapnel fell near his home.
The civil defense forces in Jazan reported the fall of shrapnel from explosive projectile launched by Houthis from Yemeni territory and the death of the young man.
Others were also injured by the shrapnel.
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[PJ] An explosive report has revealed that close associates of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and officials of his AKP Party are funding and arming criminal gangs in Germany. This information reportedly was leaked by German intelligence to several media outlets, which subsequently published the allegations.
German-language outlet ZDF reported that German intelligence wiretaps revealed AKP Party officials transferring money to leaders of the "Osmanen Germania" (Ottoman Germany) biker gang. The money was for purchasing weapons and directing attacks on critics of Erdogan's increasingly tyrannical regime in Turkey among Germany's sizable Turkish population.
Two AKP officials figure prominently in the reports.
Surveillance records are said to show Metin Kulunk, a close friend of Erdogan, giving money to "Osmanen Germania" for the purposes of buying weapons in June 2016. Police officials observed Kulunk handing envelopes of money to a senior leader of the gang -- who has since been arrested. At the same time, the gang was being directed to cause disturbances as the German Parliament considered a resolution condemning the early-20th century Armenian Genocide by Turkey. The resolution passed.
The second AKP official implicated, Ilkay Arin, is the German representative of the Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD) -- the lobbying arm of the AKP in Europe. UETD hires "Osmanen Germania" to handle security for their events.
During one surveilled discussion, Kulunk directed Arin to organize an attack on German comedian Jan Bohmermann for reading a poem critical of Erdogan. Erdogan subsequently demanded that Bohmermann be prosecuted for insulting him, and German authorities did indeed open a case. The investigation was later dropped.
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I thought we had access to bases in other countries that made those in Turkey unnecessary.
I wonder why the CIA has developed an aversion to wet work when it comes to Islamic tyrants. I mean we used to do it willy nilly back in the day but don't seem to have the stomach for it anymore.
AND with these really neat sniper rifles you can do it at a mile and not have to con some asset into doing it with poison at a state dinner.
[DailyCaller] At least two people were killed and several were injured in a stabbing incident Thursday night in the Dutch city of Maastricht.
Newspaper De Telegraaf reports authorities have arrested two people, while 10 people are treated in the hospital. Police said the investigation into the motive behind the attack is “ongoing,” but that terrorism was unlikely.
The suspects were arrested by a nearby mosque, where one of the victims were found, according to De Telegraaf. One of them was allegedly bloody and possessed a knife at the time of the arrest. A witness told the newspaper that the man was seen at the mosque prior to the attack.
The stabbings occurred at two separate locations within a few hundred yards of each other. Locals reported loud shouting in the residential neighborhood where the stabbings took place. Maastricht is located close to the borders to Germany and Belgium
Several similar attacks have taken place around Europe this year, often with a jihadi motive.
[PRESSTV] German police have carried out raids in connection with four young people suspected of having links to the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group.
Prosecutors and police said in a statement on Thursday that the raids in the capital Berlin and the eastern state of Saxony Anhalt on Thursday came as part of an investigation into planned attacks by four suspects who are accused of being members of ISIS.
"The General Prosecutor’s Office in Berlin is investigating four suspects aged between 18 and 21 who are suspected of membership in a terrorist organization (ISIS) as well as of preparing a serious crime against the state," said the statement, adding that some 130 officers, including special forces, contributed to the raids. It did not elaborate whether any arrests were made, but said electronic devices were confiscated.
Two of the three traveled from Berlin via Istanbul to ISIS-held territory in Syria in November 2016 while the third suspect is accused of receiving military training in the Arab country. The fourth suspect is believed to have helped the other three travel to Syria to join ISIS.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... local media said police had detained a number of people over links to Anis Amri, a Tunisian who drove a truck into crowds at a Berlin Christmas market on December 19, 2016, killing 12 people. The failed asylum seeker was rubbed out by Italian police in Milan a week later.
Intelligence officials Germany have come under criticism over their failure in surveillance of would-be-terrorists, especially those fleeing the country to joint terrorist groups in the Middle East.
German authorities, like many others in Europe, now face a daunting task of ensuring security in cities and towns as thousands of nationals who have fought along the ranks of ISIS and other groups over the past years have begun returning home in droves following the purge of Iraq and Syria from militancy.
These people may have links to Anis Amri, the man who ploughed a hijacked truck into Breitscheidplatz Christmas market in Berlin last year, reported Bild. 12 people were killed in the attack and dozens more were maimed.
According to Berliner Zeitung, the raids are mainly being conducted in the Neukölln district of the capital.
Armed coppers have searched apartments in a high-rise building in Neukölln, reported the German Press Agency (DPA). Several emergency vehicles were also parked in a nearby parking lot.
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[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... launched Arclight airstrikes and artillery fire at sites within northern Erbil province on Thursday evening, officials confirmed.
"Ottoman Turkish artillery units started intensely shelling the border areas of the Kurdistan Region near Sidakan town in Soran district," Ihsan Chalabi, Sidakan mayor, told Rudaw. "Ottoman Turkish warplanes simultaneously bombed Khuakurk."
Chalabi said the bombings did not cause casualties.
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is believed to have bases in the area.
Due to frequent attacks by Turkey in the area, Chalabi said, civilians had already left.
Turkey frequently carries out airstrikes on alleged PKK locations in the Kurdistan Region's mountains where the PKK has its headquarters.
Last month, Ottoman Turkish warplanes carried out several aerial attacks on Mount Asos in Sulaimani province, resulting in casualties and material damage.
The PKK, named a terrorist organization by Turkey, the EU, and the United States, has an estimated 5,000 guerrilla fighters stationed mostly in remote border areas of the Kurdistan Region.
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[Ynet] Iraq hanged 38 Sunni Moslemforces of Evil on Thursday after they were sentenced to death on terrorism charges, the justice ministry said in a statement.
The mass executions were carried out at a prison in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya, the statement said quoting the Justice Minister.
The justice ministry said all the convicted were members of 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.... . Officials have said all the appeal options available to the condemned had been exhausted, according to the statement.
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[PRESSTV] At least 17 Palestinians have been injured during clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces at the entrance to the town of Naqurah, ten kilometers northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
The clashes erupted when Israeli forces fired rubber bullets and deployed teargas grenades in response to apparent stone-throwing by Palestinian protesters.
This marked the eighth day of unrest as protesters continue to rally against US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel's capital.
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Three days of rage were mandated in Gaza, but here's eight days (so far) in the West Bank.
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Fairbanks, "Palestinians" only have two states: rage(TM) or shitting themselves and running crying to mamma (EUrope/Amerika) because Israel has responded to their rage.
[IsraelTimes] Army raids al-Quds and Birzeit universities and a Hebron printing press on eve of 30th anniversary of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s founding
The IDF seized what it described as "incitement materials" in a broad operation throughout the West Bank overnight Wednesday-Thursday.
In raids that came on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Hamas terror group’s founding, Israeli forces targeted Al Quds University in the village of Abu Dis, Birzeit University near Ramallah and a printing press in Hebron, the army said in a statement.
"In the framework of the operation, posters, flags, and materials inciting terror were confiscated," the army added.
The IDF did not specify what the materials said.
In separate overnight raids throughout the West Bank, Israeli forces incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! eight Paleostinians suspected of involvement in terror activity.
[IsraelTimes] Cops say 67 detained overall for participation in violent demonstrations against Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital
In a police operation over the past two days, 37 East Jerusalem residents were placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... in their homes on suspicion of rioting over the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Israel Police said in a statement Thursday.
A total of 67 people have been arrested for riot-related crimes during disturbances that flared up following US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s statement last week, police said.
Over the past two days, arrests were carried out in East Jerusalem neighborhoods including A-Tur, Shuafat, Wadi Joz, Ras al-Amud, Issawiya, and the Old City of Jerusalem. The suspects were all taken in for questioning and later brought to court for hearings.
Thirty of the total number of those arrested since last week were detained as they participated in riots, police said.
Police said a combination of fieldwork, intelligence gathering, surveillance and the use of technology, along with determined detective work, led to the arrest of key suspects in the violent demonstrations.
During riots at various locations in the capital, protesters threw stones, glass bottles, Molotov cocktails, and other objects at officers as well as blocking roads, burning garbage cans, and shooting firecrackers at police. Several officers have been injured.
"We located and arrested the core rioters who took an active part in the violent disturbances directed against the security forces," police said.
"The police will take a hard and uncompromising stance against any person and any entity who takes an active part in disturbances in order to incite, inflame, and harm the security forces and civilians, and will act to enforce the full extent of the law," police said.
[Ynet] Dozens of Arab youths congregated near Jerusalem's Damascus Gate and pelted coppers on-site with rocks and bottles. Police tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! six suspects of disturbing the peace and attacking cops.
[Rudaw] The YPG claimed they killed two Ottoman Turkish soldiers and maimed others trying to cross the border near Kobane.
The Syrian Kurdish force said the Ottoman Turkish forces tried to "transgress" the border near the village of Ashme, west of Kobane, in the early hours on Wednesday.
The YPG and the female YPJ responded in force that resulted in blowing up a military vehicle "full of ammunition that caused the death of two Ottoman Turkish soldiers" and maimed an unspecified number of other soldiers, a YPG statement read.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has not immediately confirmed the incident or the casualties.
Ottoman Turkish drones flew overhead during three hours of festivities, according to ANHA media. The YPG-affiliated outlet reported that Ottoman Turkish forces want to invade and "annex" Kurdish territories on the Syrian side of the border in order to build a wall.
Ottoman Turkish forces made a similar attempt to cross the border on Tuesday, sparking a brief confrontation, the YPG stated.
Turkey has constructed a wall along its border with Rojava, Syrian Kurdistan mainly to prevent movements of the YPG forces across the border.
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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.
...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...
[PJ] An explosive report has revealed that close associates of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and officials of his AKP Party are funding and arming criminal gangs in Germany. This information reportedly was leaked by German intelligence to several media outlets, which subsequently published the allegations.
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
