[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and Special Forces’ operations killed 9 Talibs in three provinces in the past 24 hours.
The military officials said Thursday the Afghan Special Forces ...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... killed 2 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons in Nad Ali district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 3 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons during a similar raid in Balkh district of northern Balkh province.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... an airstrike killed 3 Talibs in Bermal district of Paktiya province, the officials said.
The officials also added that a similar airstrike killed one Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... bully boy in Nahri Shahi district of Balkh.
Libya’s Government of National Accord agrees to activate the memorandum of understanding on security and military cooperation it agreed with Turkey last month, it says in a statement.https://t.co/luDtn9M2Y5
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desperation time for the GNA
put up or shove up time for Turkey
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I wonder who the sultan will appoint as bey?
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The Egyptians might have to shift forces from the east to the west. This might be a East Pakistan moment for Cairo (when India intervened to end the butchery of the Pak Army).
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Military Information Division of the Libyan National Army announced on Wednesday that their forces are steadily progressing towards the plateau region in central 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... , indicating their control over several new sites.
The Military Information Division said on its official Twitter that "the Libyan Arab Armed Forces’ units are progressing steadily towards the plateau and control several new sites after the withdrawal of gangs affiliated with the al-Wefaq government."
They continued: "The Libyan National Army’s forces require the people of the Hadaba region to take the highest levels of precaution and stay away from the locations, gatherings and headquarters of armed militia groups, as they will all be targeted by air force fighters after monitoring and reconnaissance."
The Military Information Division emphasized that, "these sites are points of concentration for our armed forces. This progress comes with aerial support and coverage by air force fighters, which perform their duties and implement all plans to the fullest."
The Libyan National Army has been on the offensive in the Tripoli District for nearly a week now, as they look to take control of the capital for the first time ever.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) attempted to break through the defenses of the Haftar-led Libyan National Army (LNA) in the city of 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... this week after the latter scored several advances around the capital.
In a short video that was released this morning, the GNA forces can be seen attempting to break through the LNA’s lines after losing several areas around Tripoli.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the attack was eventually repelled by the LNA after the latter heavily targeted the GNA’s vehicle during the brief exchange. AVehicle?
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A man arrested for stabbing three performers at a live show in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s capital Riyadh last month was operating under orders from al-Qaeda in 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... , state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
channel Ekhbariya said on Thursday.
The trial of the suspected assailant, previously identified only as a 33-year-old Yemeni resident, had begun, the broadcaster added.
The Nov. 11 attack occurred at King Abdullah Park, one of several venues hosting a months-long entertainment festival as part of government efforts to open up Saudi society and diversify its economy away from oil.
It sparked fears of a potentially violent backlash in the country against social reforms implemented by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists... , including ending bans on women driving, gender segregation and public entertainment.
The victims of the attack, two men and a woman, sustained "superficial wounds" and were stabilized after receiving medical care, state media reported at the time.
Twitter users in Saudi Arabia condemned the stabbing of three actors and voiced their support for the recent arrival of public entertainment events in the Kingdom.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia’s FSB security service said it has "neutralized" a gunman who opened fire in central Moscow and confirmed an unspecified number of casualties, in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.
"An unknown individual opened fire near building number 12 on Bolshaya Lubyanka street, there are casualties. The identity of the criminal is being established. The criminal has been neutralized," agencies quoted the FSB as saying, without giving further details.
Three people were killed in the shooting in central Moscow on Thursday evening near the headquarters of Russia’s FSB security service headquarters, the Izvestia newspaper reported, citing a source.
Earlier on Thursday, a witness told Rooters she had heard gun shots fired in the same area and a video shared on social media showed several people resembling coppers holding assault rifles running down a nearby street.
Possibly this is not related to the War on Terror, but in case it isn’t, now we know.
[IsraelTimes] Cyprus police have arrested three employees of a high-tech surveillance equipment company owned by an Israeli former intelligence officer amid a probe of the firm’s business activities.
Police said the two men and one woman, ages 30, 35 and 41, were under investigation for suspected breaches of private communication and personal data laws.
They face 13 possible charges, including conspiracy to commit a criminal act and obtaining registration under false pretenses, Cyprus police say.
All three are due to appear in court on Friday for a custody hearing.
Police launched a probe of the company, Cyprus-registered WiSpear, following reports that alleged a van supposedly crammed with sophisticated surveillance technology was used to spy on people on the east Mediterranean island nation.
WiSpear has denied any wrongdoing, saying it neither sold nor rented "intelligence systems" to Cypriot authorities and doesn’t provide "intelligence services" for clients.
WiSpear was incorporated in 2013 and began operating four years later. It is run by Tal Dillian, an Israeli who an earlier Forbes video showed boasting about the vehicle’s surveillance capabilities.
[Ynet] Prosecutors in Portugal said Wednesday they were bringing terror charges against eight Portuguese men suspected of fighting for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Syria.
Prosecutors said in a statement the men were suspected of involvement in the 2012 kidnapping by the group of British war correspondent John Cantlie
...captured by ISIS in July 2012 along with Jeroen Oerlemens, they were freed by the Free Syrian Army a week later, then Mr. Cantlie was captured again by ISIS in November 2012 with American newsie John Foley. He was last seen in an ISIS video in 2016. There were rumours he had been spotted in Hajin, Syria at the beginning of 2019...
and Dutch photographer Jeroen Oerlemens.
...after his release by the original FSA, which dissolved shortly thereafter, he continued his war correspondent career until he was shot dead by an ISIS sniper in Sirte, Libya in 2016...
The case was opened in 2013 after Portuguese authorities received information about the kidnappings from British authorities.
Over the past six years Sherlocks have traced the radicalization and movements of the men, the statement said.
They converted to Islam and joined Islamic State group, the statement said, and traveled to Syria with their wives and children.
They are accused of joining, supporting and recruiting on behalf of a terror organization.
Two of them are in Portugal and have been interrogated, the statement said. The whereabouts of the other six wasn't known.
[DAWN] A jacket wallahwent kaboom! in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Lakki Marwat district on Thursday morning, police officials confirmed to DawnNewsTV. There was no loss to life or property, they added.
District Police Officer Qasim Ali Khan said that there was a rally protesting the death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... given to former military ruler retired Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ...former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date... for high treason as well as a polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... team in the vicinity, adding that it was unclear who or what the bomber wished to target.
He said that investigations to ascertain the motives of the attacker have begun.
On the other hand, Lakki Marwat Deputy Commissioner Jehangir Azam Wazir said the polio team was at a distance of three kilometres from the blast. Though Wazir insisted that the attack did not target the anti-polio campaign, he added that it has been momentarily suspended and will be resumed once a security clearance is issued.
On Wednesday, two coppers, deployed on a security detail for polio teams, were martyred after person or persons unknownshot up them in Lower Dir. No officials from the polio vaccination team were hurt as they were at a distance from the firing, police said.
[ARYNEWS.TV] At least two civilians were martyred and three Mighty Pak Army soldiers were maimed when Indian troops targeted civilian population across the Line of Control (LoC), Inter-Services Public Relations said in a statement on Thursday.
According to the military’s public affairs wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), "Indian troops resorted to unprovoked fire in Laswa village of Neelum Valley across Line of Control( LOC), targeting the civilian population. Two civilians embraced Shahadat, while two other people including a woman were maimed."
Pakistain army troops responded effectively targeting Indian post which initiated fire, the statement added.
Those who were martyred have been identified as 14-year-old Shehryar and 29-year-old Naveed resident of Laswa village.
India has continuously been breaching a ceasefire along the LoC.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi Armed Forces launched a massive operation to eliminate the remnants of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) terrorist organization along the western border of the country.
According to the Iraqi security forces, their troops targeted the Islamic State hideouts in the southern part of the al-Qa’im District, Wadi Houran, and al-Husseiniyat.
This operation was coordinated with the Popular Mobilization Units’ (Hashd al-Sha’abi) al-Anbar forces, who have been carrying out daily search-and-destroy missions against the Islamic State.
The Iraqi security forces noted that the operation is also being conducted in coordination with the Iraqi Air Force, U.S.-led Coalition, and army.
In the past few days, the Iraqi security forces and Islamic State have clashed in several areas in northwestern Iraq, including the djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... District.
These festivities between the two forces have been intense; however, the Iraqi troops have managed to eliminate several Islamic State hideouts, while also arresting several terrorists.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF soldiers have arrested three Paleostinian suspects as they crossed the border from 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... into Israel, the military says.
The troops found two knives in the their possession, the IDF says.
The three suspects have been handed over to the Shin Bet for questioning.
I tagged this as Hamas, because they’re responsible for the Gaza Strip, but I suspect it was actually Islamic Jihad who shot off the rocket — on Iran’s orders
[IsraelTimes] No reports of injuries or damages as shell strikes open field; projectile was the second to be launched at Israel on Thursday.
A projectile was fired Thursday from the 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 toward southern Israel, prompting retaliatory strikes by the Israeli military against Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, positions in the coastal enclave.
The projectile ‐ apparently a mortar shell ‐ struck an open field in the Sha’ar Hanegev region, a local government spokesperson said. There were no injuries or damage caused the attack.
Incoming rocket sirens were set off in Kfar Azza, a kibbutz near the Gaza border, the army said.
Hours later, the Israel Defense Forces launched a series of strikes on Hamas targets in the Strip.
News outlets in Gaza reported that the strikes targeted Hamas posts throughout the enclave, from the area around Rafah in the south to near Beit Lahia in the north.
"A short while ago, IDF aircraft attacked underground infrastructure and a naval target belonging to the Hamas terror group in the southern Gaza Strip, as well as a military installation belonging to the terror group in the north of the Strip," the military confirmed in a statement, noting that the attack was in retaliation for the rocket strike earlier in the evening.
There were no immediate reports of Paleostinian injuries.
The projectile fired from Gaza on Thursday evening was the second to be launched at Israel by Paleostinian bandidoshard boyz that day, after a rocket was fired in the predawn hours of the morning.
The Israel Defense Forces said the earlier rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system, with no reports of injury or damage. In response, Israeli aircraft struck a Hamas weapons production facility in northern Gaza, the army said, noting it holds the terror group, which rules Gaza, responsible for all violence emanating from it.
Israel later announced it had restricted the permitted fishing zone off the coast of the Gaza Strip to 10 nautical miles in response to the rocket fire.
According to Palestinian media in the coastal enclave the strikes were said to have targeted Hamas sites in Khan Yunis and Rafiah in the south as well as targets in Beit Lahia in the northern part of the Strip.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A boom-mobile killed five people including three children in the Ottoman Turkish-controlled region of northern Syria on Thursday, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... 's defense ministry said.
The attack took place in Tal Halaf southwest of Ras al-Ain, which was taken by the Ottoman Turkish military during its offensive against Kurdish Death Eaters in October.
It blamed the attack on the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which has ties to the Death Eater Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) inside Turkey.
"The PKK/YPG terror group continues its treacherous attacks targeting innocent civilians. The child murderers this time detonated a boom-mobile in a residential area in Tal Halaf southwest of Ras al-Ain, killed five innocent civilians including three children," the ministry tweeted.
Britannia-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the attack but gave a lower toll of two, adding that several people were maimed.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... plans to establish a "safe zone" in areas seized during the October offensive, and use it to repatriate some of the 3.6 million refugees currently in Turkey.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb’s newly-named prime minister Hassan Diab vowed on Thursday to form a government quickly that works to pull the country out of economic crisis and reassures people who have protested against the political class for two months.Diab, a little-known academic and former education minister, was designated premier on Thursday with backing from Lebanese Hezbollah and its allies. Support from the Iran-backed group guarantees a thorny path for any candidate, potentially inviting push back from Western and Gulf nations that had supported the outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... .
"All our efforts must now focus on stopping the collapse and restoring confidence," he said from the presidential palace, after meeting with President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , who summoned him for the appointment.
Diab, 60, faces the daunting task of forming a government to tackle the crippling financial crisis in one of the most indebted countries of the world. While gaining the majority of the votes, he failed to get the support of the country's major Sunni leaders, including Hariri, which will make it difficult for him to form a new government.
Diab, who served as education minister in 2011, gained attention after caretaker prime minister Hariri withdrew his name from consideration following weeks of haggling and deep divisions between the various factions over naming him again. Hariri resigned Oct. 29 in response to unprecedented mass protests against the entire political class while an already dire economic crisis was quickly deteriorating.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The U.S. military has returned to six bases they previously abandoned in northern Syria, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... ’s Anatolia News Agency reported on Wednesday.
The agency announced that the U.S. military is strengthening its presence in northeastern Syria, near the borders with Turkey and Iraq, and in areas of oil fields.
They reported that the U.S. military is spreading to five bases and posts in the Hasakah Governorate of northeastern Syria. In addition, the Americans are constructing two other barriers in the town of al-Qahtaniyah and in a residential area in Qamishli.
The agency said that the United States plans to enhance security its security at the Hasakah oil fields and to strengthen its presence near the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border.
Furthermore, the U.S. military is currently deployed to 11 bases and posts in Syria. Five are in Hasakah, four are in Deir Ezzor and two are in Raqqa. In the Deir Ezzor Governorate, the U.S. military is building two more checkpoints.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Lebanese Minister of Parliament Mohammad Raad announced on behalf of the Loyalty to the Resistance® bloc, that the latter named Hassan Diab to head the next government.
"We hope he will succeed in his national duties, should the majority of parliament members choose to nominate him," Raad said in his statement.
Diab’s nomination comes just hours after the ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... announced that he was not going to form another government, adding that he was removing his name from the premiership candidacy.
MP Farid Haikal al-Khazen said, on behalf of the National Bloc, "Our opinion was essential that the government be headed by Saad Hariri or whoever he calls for national considerations."
He added, "After Hariri’s withdrawal, we are convinced that the country cannot continue without a government in this difficult circumstance, and that is why we decided to choose a clean, technocratic figure who is Hassan Diab."
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has kicked off the second phase of their Idlib offensive this evening after reports of their troops getting in position for the attack.
Led by the 25th Special Mission Forces (formerly Tiger Forces), the Syrian Arab Army began the attack by the storming the jihadist defenses at the Umm al-Jalil axis in southeastern Idlib.
Thus far, no gains have been reported by the Syrian Arab Army; however, heavy festivities are ongoing between the Syrian Army and jihadist rebels.
Earlier this week, the Syrian Arab Army sent a large number of reinforcements from the 7th Division and 25th Special Mission Forces to southeastern Idlib.
These reinforcements, coupled with the increased Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s from the Syrian and Russian air forces, further confirmed the reports that the military was preparing to kickoff this long-awaited operation.
According to a military source near the front-lines, the primary objective of this operation is to capture the remaining towns and villages south of Ma’arat al-Nu’man.
By doing so, the Syrian Army will control a large part of the strategic Hama-Idlib Highway and an important part of the Jabal al-Zawiya region.
It should be noted that the jihadist rebels themselves have been aware of this operation, as they have sent reinforcements from Latakia and other parts of northwestern Syria to this front.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date...
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too....
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