[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A suicide kaboom rocked Kandahar province in South of Afghanistan amid reports several people were killed or maimed in the attack.
The local officials are saying that a jacket wallah rammed a Humvee type vehicle packed with explosives into the police commandment of Maiwand district earlier today.
According to the local officials citing preliminary reports, at least three people bit the dust and four others were maimed in the attack.
The Maiwand district police chief Sultan Mohammad confirmed that six coppersbit the dust and five others were maimed in the attack. Another security official had earlier said that around seven people were killed and at least nine others were maimed in the attack.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... faceless myrmidons were kiled in US drones strikes in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan, the provincial government said Friday.
According to an official statement, the latest Arclight airstrikes were carried out late on Thursday evening in the vicinity of Ghani Khel district.
The statement further added that the airstrikes left three Taliban faceless myrmidons dead whiel their weapons, ammunition, and explosives were also destroyed.
According to the provicial government, the dead body of a ISIS krazed killer was also found during a separate operation in Khogyani district and some military kits including a communication set were also confiscated.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Kenyan police raided an Islamic school on Tuesday, arresting two teachers and taking around 100 children into protective custody in what police described as a counter-terrorism operation involving foreign law-enforcement agencies.
Police described the school in Likoni, south of the port city of Mombasa, as a centre for indoctrinating young men and children with Death Eater ideology.
"The place has been monitored for a long time," said a police source who asked not to be named. The police front man was unavailable for comment.
Kenya is mostly Christian but has a large Islamic population. It is relatively free from religious tension, although it has suffered repeated deadly attacks from Somali Islamist Death Eaters.
A local Moslem leader confirmed the operation but said there was no evidence of any illegal activity.
"A group of local and foreign coppers raided the madrasa (Islamic school) where the pupils were sleeping and took them with their teachers," Sheikh Hassan Omar, a bigwig in the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK), an umbrella body for Kenya’s religious leaders, told journalists in Mombasa.
"There are nearly 100 pupils and four madrasa teachers who have been tossed in the calaboose I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! and detained at police headquarters and nobody is telling us what crime they have committed."
It was not immediately clear why the police and CIPK gave different totals for the number of teachers arrested.
Omar said the officers asked for identification documents, including birth certificates from the children, and their teachers before they took them.
Another police source told Rooters the operation was sparked by intelligence information that both foreign and local children were being indoctrinated in the school.
"We have been assisted by some friends from outside with information and monitoring of this madrasa. That is normal with such cross-border criminal issues," said another senior police officer, who also asked not to be named. He did say which foreign country was involved in the raid.
"They (the children) will be released one by one after we interrogate and clear them," he said.
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[All Africa] At least five children have been killed in an kaboom in Banisa, Mandera County, officials, witnesses say.
Banisa Sub-County Deputy County Commissioner Mathias Chisambo said the schoolchildren were playing with a grenade they had found in a grazing field.
"They picked up the device on Wednesday and played with it until it went kaboom! on Thursday evening," Mr Chisambo said.
Kiliweheri MCA Bashir Ibrahim Alio said it could be a colonial bomb left by the British.
The pupils who died are aged between 12 and 16 years.
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They were old enough to know better. Unless they were trying to build a bomb, in which case their teacher was not very good. I'd suggest this was a Darwin case but they were also old enough to have already reproduced.
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Kiliweheri MCA Bashir Ibrahim Alio said it could be a colonial bomb left by the British.
"Give us money"
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Colonial bomb from the British?
That Kenyan's correct to be skittish.
No shell from ol' Tojo
Played hell with our mojo
Like Albion's African fetish!
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sources of Al Arabiya and Al Hadeth channels reported the killing of 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 ... leader Yusuf al-Madani.
Al-Madani is one of the most prominent military leaders of the Houthi militias.
Madani was killed on the West Coast Front in Yemen.
On Friday evening, Yemeni activists shared videos of al-Madani who is reportedly killed in the West Coast Front, where he was leading the Houthi militia, after he was appointed commander of the fifth military zone (Hodeidah, Hajjah, Mahweet and Rima).
The Houthi militias have been quick to deny the reports of al-Madani’s death as they did with covering up the news that his brother Taha was also killed for more than a year to keep the morale of its fighters high.
Born in 1977 in the directorate of Muhatta in Hajjah province, he was in the middle of his 10 brothers, and the most aspiring to power and leadership.
He entered public schools in the mid-1980s but failed to study. His father sent him with his brother Taha to Saada to receive religious teachings by Houthi holy man Majdeldin al-Moeyadi.
A few months later, he left al-Moeyadi school to join Hussain al-Houthi religious youth battalions in the Maran Mountains.
Yusuf soon became the spoiled boy the Houthis’ leader, so he sent him in 2002 to Iran through Syria where he received extensive training in the Revolutionary Guards camps.
He stayed there for nearly a year, and after his return the Houthi leader offered him his daughter’s hand in marriage a few months before the outbreak of the first war, according to information published by Yemeni researcher Dr. Riyad al-Ghaili.
His uncle Hussein al-Houthi participated in the first war in 2004. He was at the top of the wanted list of the state at the time.
When the leader of the hard boy group was trapped, Yusuf al-Madani managed to escape, while the Houthi leader got killed.
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[SKYNews] Officers investigating a suspected Christmas terror plot in Derby have carried out a controlled explosion.
An army bomb disposal unit attended and disposed of material found at the property at a nearby safe location. A cordon remains in place.
Four men from Sheffield and Chesterfield were arrested after police raided the property, and they were granted more time to question them on Wednesday.
Detectives have until 4pm on Christmas Day to either charge, release or apply for a further extension to custody.
The arrests on Tuesday come after a mosque and community centre in Burngreave, Sheffield, was sealed off, with residents reportedly being woken up at 6am by loud bangs and armed officers wearing camouflage.
Detectives feared a gang had already assembled an explosive device.
Residents should expect a higher level of police presence around Christmas.
They’re being awfully cagey about this. Usually the Daily Mail, et all are all over this kind of thing.
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"Our top dicks are on this. Yes, top dicks!
It's Muslim... or possibly Coptic.
Since all our assailants
Are under surveillance,
We'll manage to plan the panoptics."
[PJ] Multiple law enforcement agencies are investigating a shooting spree in Pennsylvania's state capital of Harrisburg earlier today.
According to the area district attorney, it appears there were three sites where 51-year-old Ahmed Amin El-Mofty intentionally engaged police. One Pennsylvania State Trooper was injured.
The suspect was eventually shot and killed by police. Possible explosives were found on his body, which a bomb squad had to render inert.
El-Mofty has been identified as a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Turkey.
He had reportedly recently taken a trip to the Middle East.
Perhaps related, ISIS supporter Jalil Aziz
...who is in our archives as Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz. A photo of the America-born miscreant can be seen here. He was arrested for tweeting out a list of U.S. military personnel for ISIS targetting using 57 Twitter accounts.
was sentenced to 12 years in prison today in Harrisburg.
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Likely an Egyptian with Muslim Brotherhood ties who moved to Turkey and on to la la land in the Northeast US (who just recently traveled to the ME). Absolutely has AQ or ISIS intent... But, but we (liberal media and PA State Police) don't have a clue about his intent. All of this is so stupid...and they wonder how Trump got elected.
[ABC7NEWS] Officials have stopped a man who reportedly stated that "Christmas was the perfect day" for a terror attack in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... and "did not need an escape plan because he was ready to die."
We've learned the FBI has tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a man by the name of Everitt Aaron Jameson from Modesto. According to a handwritten letter obtained by the FBI, Jameson also referred to himself as Abdallah adu Everitt ibn Gordon.
That one clearly is not the sharpest knife in the block.
According to FBI documents, Jameson picked the Pier 39 location because he "had been there before and knew it was a heavily crowded area." He added that it would be easy to "funnel" people into an area where he could inflict casualties.
Jameson reportedly said he was inspired by the New York terror attack on Oct. 31, when a man drove into a crowd and killed eight people, and the deadly 2015 shooting in San Bernardino.
The documents also say Jameson was posting and liking pro-ISIS and pro-terrorism content on Facebook.
And according to the documents, the suspect was discharged from the Marine Corps. He had prior military experience with a "sharpshooter" rifle qualification and expertise with rifle marksmanship.
The FBI said Friday that it found a martyrdom letter and several guns in the home of a former Marine who may have been planning a Christmas Day attack on a popular the Socialist paradise of San Francisco tourist destination.
Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, a Modesto tow-truck driver, was charged Friday with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. It was not clear if he had an attorney.
Pier 39, packed with restaurants, bars and souvenir shops, is one of San Francisco’s most popular tourist spots. Home to the city’s aquarium, the pier offers free live music and street performances and offers a good spot to photograph sea lions that gather in the marina below.
Agents raided his home Wednesday, finding a martyr’s letter signed with an Islamic variation of his name, along with his last will and testament updated in November. They also found fireworks, two rifles and a 9mm handgun.
Jameson, who was set for an afternoon court appearance in federal court in Fresno, had attended Marine basic recruit training in 2009 and earned a sharpshooter rifle qualification.
He was discharged for failing to disclose a history of asthma, the affidavit said. He referred to his military service in comments to undercover agents.
Jameson appeared in a federal court in Fresno Friday afternoon. His public defender, Eric Kersten, denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! but did not enter a plea. Jameson was described as stoic and mostly silent during Friday’s proceedings, only occasionally speaking privately with Kersten.
According to the criminal complaint unsealed Friday, Jameson "has espoused radical jihadi beliefs, including authoring social media posts that are supportive of terrorism, communicating with people he believes share his jihadi views and offering to provide services to such people ..."
Jameson allegedly detailed his plans for the terror attack with an undercover FBI agent whom he believed was associated with the big shotship of ISIS. The alleged plot involved setting off explosives remotely in one area of Pier 39 and then mowing people down with automatic rifle fire as they fled.
The plot seemed to unravel earlier this week. Jameson told the agent that he had second thoughts about carrying out his plan, but agents had enough evidence to search his Modesto home, according to the complaint.
Agents said a suicide note written by Jameson was also found at the home, which took credit for what was to be the Pier 39 attack. The note read, "You all have brought this upon yourselves," and denounced this week’s announcement by 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... that the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The Islamic Center of Merced told KPIX 5 he attended their facility and was a recent convert to Islam.
If convicted, he faces a maximum 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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[DAWN] The Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) on Friday conducted a sanitisation operation 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... 's Sibbi area, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a blurb.
The operation was conducted to cleanse the mountainous region of the presence of terrorists.
According to the ISPR, two faceless myrmidons who were involved in threatening locals, were killed in an exchange of fire during the operation.
In a different sanitisation operation, carried out in Gandimgozi Kaur, FC troops killed two faceless myrmidons in a hide out and recovered arms and ammunition from their den, the ISPR said.
The operations come days after a suicide kaboom on Quetta's Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in which nine people were killed and 30 others injured.
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[DAWN] At least two members of the Hazara community were killed and two others injured after they were targeted in Nakhailabad area of Quetta near Western Bypass on Friday, police said.
According to Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Abdul Razzaq Cheema, 12 people were travelling from Quetta to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... in a large van when unknown assailants shot up their vehicle, injuring four passengers.
The injured were shifted to a combined military hospital in Quetta cantonment where two of them, including a child, later gave up the ghost.
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... has been experiencing incidents of violence and assassinations since more than a decade. More than 1,400 incidents targeting the minority Shia and Hazara community have taken place in the province during the past 15 years.
While sectarian terrorism in Balochistan has disproportionately targeted the Hazara community, easily identifiable because of their distinctive physical appearance, other Shias ‐ especially pilgrims travelling to and from Iran ‐ have not been spared either.
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[DAWN] Three Frontiers Corps personnel were martyred when suspected holy warriors opened fire on their team from across the Pak-Afghan border in Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. and Kunar... on Friday, an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said.
The troops were targeted when they busy in the construction of a new border post at Shunkrai area of Mohmand tribal region near the border with Afghanistan.
A protection party that was accompanying the troops responded to the attack, killing five suspected holy warriors and leaving as many injured, the ISPR said.
The martyred soldiers were identified as Havaldar Muneer Khan, Sepoy Haq Nawaz Khan and Lance Naik Irshad Hussain.
The fleeing holy warriors could be seen carrying with them the bodies of killed snuffies and those injured in retaliatory fire, the ISPR claimed.
The military's media wing alleged that through such attacks, Pakistain is "paying [the] price" of Afghan cops' lack of "capacity" and ungoverned spaces on Afghan side of the border.
The incident comes less than a fortnight after two Pakistain Army soldiers were martyred when armed snuffies opened fire on their vehicle in North Wazoo.
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[Rudaw] DUHOK, Kurdistan Region ‐ Two Yezidi children who were held captive by ISIS snuffies in Iraq and Syria for over three years have been rescued and reunited with their family in the Kurdistan Region.
The Kurdish authorities working through a smuggler were able to conduct a successful rescue operation that took a month of planning.
A girl, aged 16, and a boy aged 9, were both held by ISIS snuffies in Syria when they were rescued.
"ISIS were dirty. They were beating and abusing us. They also separates us from our relatives, among other things," Inas, the Yezidi girl told Rudaw after she reunited with her relatives.
The fate of her parents, and two of her sisters is still unknown.
Her uncle was among the relatives who received her back in Duhok province where many of the Yezidi people who have been displaced as the result of the Yezidi genocide have taken refuge.
He said the family have been in contact with the rescuers for a month.
Walid, the 9-year old Yezidi boy, was received by his parents. His mother said he does not speak either Arabic or Kurdish, two languages widely used by the Yezidi community. The family is from the Yezidi town of Tal Qasab, near Shingal west of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... that was the focus of the ISIS onslaught in August 2014, displacing hundreds of thousands of the Yezidi population to the Kurdistan Region and elsewhere.
"We are very glad that our son has returned," his mother said. "We hope that the remaining missing ones will return and head home."
3,226 Yezidis have been rescued, according to the KRG office that is tasked with rescuing those who suffered at the hands of the ISIS group. There are still 3,191 people in ISIS captivity or their fate are unknown.
Khalil Asaf, the smuggler who helped rescue the two children, said that the boy was held by an Iraqi ISIS turban.
Kurdish authorities have spent millions of dollars to locate and rescue the Yezidis held by the ISIS snuffies in Iraq and Syria.
Note: names of the two Yezidi children have been changed to protect their identity.
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Hawija (IraqiNews.com) An official from Kirkuk province has said none of the displaced families has returned to Hawija town, southwest of the province, as the combing operations are still ongoing.
"We did not record return of any family to Hawija as the operations to purge the town from explosives are still ongoing by the security troops," Ahmed Khorshid, member of the town’s municipal council, told AlSumaria News on Friday.
"The huge amount of explosives, planted by 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.... in Hawija, delayed the combing in Hawija," he said. ’Defense teams as well as security troops managed to remove more than 5,000 bombs."
The myrmidon group, according to Khorshid, "still owns rest houses with five-star services. These rest houses are in Wadi Zgheitoun, Wadi abul Khanager between al-Riyad and al-Rashad. They are still used by the group. They have all kinds of food commodities and electricity generators."
In November, Khorshid described Hawija as the city of ghosts for being empty of its residents, saying that IS gunnies are still hiding at rest houses in the desert regions.
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Should be quite easy to detect sites lit up by electricity in a sea of darkness.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Over twenty 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.... bully boyz with fake identities were tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in west of Nineveh, a security source was quoted saying.
"Joint security troops carried out a security campaign in three districts in southeast of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... including Sumar, al-Salam and al-Sahiroun," Lt. Gen. Iyad Hussein al-Assali, from the local police, told Dijlah TV website on Friday.
"The districts were besieged and targeted. Twenty-five IS members were arrested," he added.
Information from the residents, according to Assali, helped in arresting the suspects, "who were revealed to have been with fake identities."
Security measures was imposed in Mosul on Thursday after two coppers were killed and three Islamic State bully boyz infiltrated into southeast of the city.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Several 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.... members were killed as Iraqi troops attacked a rest house in Anbar province, a military intelligence department said on Friday.
In a statement, the department said troops carried out a campaign as gathering information about locating a rest house with depth of six meters underground, where Lions of Islam are hiding at in Hit city in Anbar.
One of the military personnel hurled hand grenades against the myrmidons, killing many of them
Instructions, according to the statement, ordered destroying the tunnel through an Arclight airstrike, which killed the myrmidons. "After the tunnel was destroyed, eight IS bodies were found, along with 43 bombs."
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State senior leader, who is known to be the main funder of the so-called South Baghdad State, was arrested in the capital, the military intelligence said.
In a statement, the department said troops, in collaboration with intelligence of the Interior Ministry, managed to arrest one of the main IS members in al-Aadhamiya region in Baghdad.
“The terrorist is known as Abu Dalia. He is the main funder of the so-called South Baghdad State. He was possessing fake identities to mislead security services,” the statement said.
“The militant is the brother of three terrorists who were previously arrested,” it added.
[MAIL] Fresh violence has seen 'thousands' of Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces ‐ including an amputee demonstrator. Please refrain from climbing or tampering with communication or electrical towers. This is your last warning.
The disabled demonstrator was rolled along by comrades to the Israeli border in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City.
The unnamed man used a sling to hurl projectiles towards the security forces amid fresh clashes over President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital.
It comes after a Israeli troops shot dead a wheelchair-bound man with no legs in Gaza on December.
Disabled Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh, 29, was taken to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City after being shot by troops but was later pronounced dead.
Abu Thurayeh, who had previously lost both his legs, was shot along the border east of Gaza City in the north of the Palestinian enclave, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
It’s Friday, and Palestinian boys will be Palestinian boys — though less enthusiastically each week.
[IsraelTimes] Decrease seen in numbers of demonstrators despite Paleostinian groups' calls to sustain violent opposition to Trump's Jerusalem recognition.
Two Paleostinian protesters were reported killed during violent demonstrations along the Gazoo Strip’s security fence on Friday, as thousands more took part in riots in the coastal enclave and across the West Bank for the third straight week 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 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
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[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ After being labelled a "terrorist organization" by the regime in Damascus, Kurdish anti-ISIS forces were shelled in Deir ez-Zor by forces loyal to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... , while in Afrin the Kurdish forces have also taken fire from Ottoman Turkish positions.
The mostly-Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) comprise the backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which has been the partnered ground force for the US-led international coalition against ISIS.
"Amid fierce battles against [ISIS] in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, the regime and its militias tried to block the progress of the fighters by shelling," read an SDF Press statement regarding the events on Thursday.
The reported "heavy weapons" shelling occured on the east bank of the Euphrates in the Deir ez-Zor suburb of al-Basira, according the SDF, was liberated a few days ago. The area is in east central Syria.
The Arab publication Asharq al-Awsat reported Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad labeled the SDF "a terrorist organization" during an interview on Iranian television.
"Tehran continues its pressure on the Syrian regime in Damascus to go into a military confrontation with the Washington-backed Syrian Democratic Forces," Kurdish sources told Asharq al-Awsat.
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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
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