[Tolo News] The Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoIA) announced on Monday that 29 gunnies were killed, 11 were maimed and 3 other were locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! during a series of operations coordinated by Afghan forces in the past 24 hours.
In a statement released by the MoIA, "the Afghan National Police (ANP), Afghan National Army (ANA) and the National Directorate of Security (NDS), conducted several anti-terrorism joint operations in Smangan, Faryab, Zabul, Pashtun-infested Logar and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces."
The statement said the operations were launched in the provinces to clear the bad boys.
The MoIA did not provide details about Afghan forces' casualties during the raids. And self-identified Taliban spokespeople have not yet commented on the operations.
The statement read: "During these operations, ANP discovered and confiscated light and heavy rounds of ammunition and IEDs in Kunar, Baghlan, Faryab, Kandahar, Wardak, Khost and Paktika." ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
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KISMAYO -- Former warlord Col. Barre Adan Shire (Barre Hiiraale) has refused to lay down his arms in the fight against Jubaland administration, Garowe Online reports.
As a result of mediation efforts by clan elders who come from the same clan as Col. Barre Hiiraale, former warlord and once Federal Government of Somalia's widely speculated proxy said he is not ready to disarm his militia in Goob Weyn town which lies a few kilometers from Lower Jubba regional capital of Kismayo.
"Among the points of the discussion were Barre Hiiraale to take part in Jubaland peace process, to hand over his arms and militia to African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and to renounce armed violence," independent sources in the southern port city of Kismayo tell GO.
However, Col. Barre Hiraale rebuffed to abide by a key point that might lead to comprehensive agreement between the two sides and refused to lay down arms. The mediators Sunday returned to Kismayo to deliver the outcome of their talks with Col. Barre.
Federal Government of Somalia's Prime Minister Abdiweli Shiekh Ahmed Mohamed who had been on visit to Kismayo for seven days dispatched the clan elders mainly drawn from his clan to Goob Weyn to hold discussions on the consolidation of Jubaland Peace Process with Col. Barre Hiiraale.
Former warlord's militia engaged in a deadly battle with local forces loyal to the President of Jubaland administration Shiekh Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Madobe) in Kismayo and subsequently fled to unknown vicinities in the outskirts of Kismayo following the seizure of Kismayo by Jubaland forces in June 2013.
Meanwhile in Kismayo's Shaqalaha neighborhood, unidentified assailants on Monday morning gunned down a prominent clan elder Amir Abdirahman Abdi Dhuh, eyewitnesses reported. The attackers escaped from the spot.
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[Iran Press TV] A Somali politician has been killed and another severely injured after a bomb destroyed their car in the capital Mogadishu, security sources say.
Parliamentarian Isaak Mohammed Rinoco was killed when the bomb stuck to his vehicle went kaboom! in Hamar Weyne district on Monday. Several passersby were also hurt in the fatal blast.
No group has yet grabbed credit.
The blast comes as the government is holding the second day of a security conference aimed at tackling continued assaults by l-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... fighters'>al-Shaboobs.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud called the killing of politician a "cowardly attack" which would not derail peace efforts.
Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed also said those behind the "cowardly" attack would be brought to justice
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[Egypt Independent] A security source in North Sinai said 10 Death Eaters were locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Friday and a bomb was defused in Sheikh Zuwaied.
One of the arrested smuggled weapons between Sinai and Gazoo, the source added.
The bomb was defused south of Sheikh Zuwaied after citizens reported a strange object on the roadside, he said.
The security source mentioned that the bomb targeted security forces who were supposed to comb the road in a crackdown Friday.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Armed festivities broke out Sunday (April 20th) in Sirte, leaving one Libyan security officer dead and seven injured.
The victims were members of the central region shield forces, who were manning a security checkpoint. They were attacked by unknown groups.
"Certain people want to sow sedition in this country," said Abdelfattah al-Siwi, 35, the head of Sirte local council.
"They are still not known to the security agencies in town," the council chief told Magharebia.
Moussa al-Swisi, commander of Libya Revolutionary Operations Room (LROR) in Sirte, said, "There are malicious people who want to ruin and corrupt the revolution that took place in Libya, but we're on the lookout for them. We're working on a plan to secure Sirte against outlaws and corruptors."
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[MAGHAREBIA] At least 11 ANP soldiers were killed and five injured in a terrorist ambush on Saturday (April 19th) in blood-stained Tizi Ouzou, APS reported. The Algerian defence ministry said the soldiers were returning from providing security for the presidential elections when their bus was attacked near Iboudrarene.
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[Egypt Independent] Prosecutors in Dokki, Cairo ordered the arrest on early Monday of bellydancer Sama al-Masry for four days pending investigation over charges of running an unlicensed satellite channel.
Police stormed Feloul channel in Dokki on Sunday, arresting al-Masry and leaving five other workers at the channel.
Prosecutors also ordered the confiscation of the broadcast devices.
A supporter of former defense minister and presidential hopeful Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Masry had launched her channel aimed at challenging the supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsy and Islamist groups through dancing clips accompanied with critical lyrics.
Feloul is Arabic for the term used since the 2011 revolution to refer to remnants of the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
She has recently made fun of withdrawn presidency candidate Mortada Mansour who vented anger at the dancer and threatened to close the channel during a TV interview.
In a phone call with al-Hayat channel late Sunday, Masry claimed the people who invaded the channel were affiliated with Mansour, and said they told her the raid came after a complaint filed by Mansour at the prosecution.
She vowed to continue her criticism of Mansour and said the channel would not be closed.
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[Xinhua] The corpse count of multiple U.S. drone strikes launched on Sunday against training camps of al- Qaeda turbans in Yemen's southern provinces of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... and Shabwa has risen to 55, the Yemeni Interior Ministry said on Monday.
Three local leaders were among the 55 dead turbans, the ministry said in a brief statement on its website.
It said that its security services are working to identify the nationalities of imported muscle who were killed among al-Qaeda turbans in the Arclight airstrikes.
The ministry described the air strikes as the strongest assault launched against the turbans since 2012, when the army retook several cities of Abyan after months-long deadly battles with al- Qaeda gunnies.
In a reaction to the air raids, the turbans assassinated Monday three senior intelligence officials in two separated attacks in central Sanaa, a day after four U.S. drone strikes killed the 55 suspected turbans.
Security officials said the terrorist attacks were an angry reaction to the Sunday air raids on the turban hideouts in Abyan and Shabwa.
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Seems like a good way to take care of a growing terrorist problem in Yemen. We don't need another Afghanistan and 911. However, I do not want to see our government decide that the ranchers in Nevada are terrorists (as per Harry Reid's latest blitherings) and turn the drones loose on them.
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Drones and Hellfire Missiles are an effective tool. But as we have seen in PAK and AFG, they simply do not close the deal. It takes brave infantrymen, ruthlessly tracking the terrorists down, killing them, burning and destroying their sanctuaries.
We're not talking some newly found military factum or a revelation of great strategic surprise. One cannot selectively weed a garden and hope for the best. People must be dealt with and removed from the land. And as in the Ukraine, [and California], new and more malleable subjects moved in to replace them.
Armed drones will not be used against Cliven Bundy. Lawfare accomplished the moving off of Bundy's 52 fellow ranchers. Lawfare will likely be used to move Bundy.
[Bangla Daily Star] At least 20 people, including five cops, were maimed as Jamaat-Shibir men clashed with police in Natore district town yesterday morning.
As part of their previously announced programme, Jamaat-Shibir yesterday brought out processions in different districts, protesting the government's "conspiracy" to hang Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami ...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them... and its Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... on charges of crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
Nahid Hossain, superintendent of NATOre police, said Jamaat-Shibir activists brought out a procession in Harishpur bypass area around 8:30am and tried to enter the district town.
Chased by police in front of Sher-e-Bangla High School, they hurled brick chips at the law enforcers and a clash ensued.
Police fired bullets and teargas shells to bring the situation under control.
Four Jamaat-Shibir men were picked up from the spot, Nahid said.
The injured coppers took first aid.
Contacted, Atiqul Islam Russel, NATOre town unit Jamaat ameer, claimed police had swooped on the procession without any provocation. Police action left at least 18 activists injured, he added.
Meanwhile in the capital, law enforcers detained three Jamaat-Shibir men from Mohakhali. The detainees had been trying to bring out a procession.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Suspected bully boyz kidnapped three relatives of a slain leader of Awami National Party (ANP) from Mashokhel, a suburban area of provincial metropolis, early on Sunday, sources said.
Mian Mushtaq Ahmed, the ANP leader, was rubbed out along with his driver and a party worker on January 12 when he was going to Hayatabad from his native village Mashokhel.
Sources said that three cousins of the slain ANP leader were asleep in their hujra when a group of bully boyz armed with sophisticated weapons attacked them. All the three persons identified as Mian Shabeer, Mian Fahad and Mian Shakeel were kidnapped and the hujra was blown up with explosives and hand grenades, they added.
An official of Badhber cop shoppe, when contacted, said that incident took place at about 2am. He said that actual number of the attackers could not be ascertained so far. Certainly that they had already besieged the hujra and kidnapped the people without facing any resistance, he added.
Following the kabooms, the official said, the residents of the area and police reached the spot but the attackers had already escaped.
He said that the attackers seemed to have crossed into Khyber Agency as Lashkar-e-Islam, a banned krazed killer outfit, was active in there.
The official said that no one had so far grabbed credit for kidnapping the three persons. He said that a case was registered against unidentified terrorists.
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[DAWN] Three people, including two women, were maimed on Monday in a blast in Chaman, the southwestern Pak town sharing the border with Afghanistan, police said.
Unknown gunnies had planted a bomb in a cycle of violence parked close to the office of the Deputy Commissioner in Chaman.
A police officer in Chaman, Ashraf Kakar, told Dawn that the target of the blast was the deputy commissioner's office and other nearby offices of law enforcement agencies.
"Two women were also injured when the bomb went off," he said.
The injured were soon rushed to Civil Hospital Chaman for medical treatment.
A doctor at the hospital who requested anonymity told Dawn that the condition of the women was out of danger.
The blast also smashed the glasses of nearby buildings and homes. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
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[DAWN] Two Pak employees of the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Children's Fund (Unicef) who were kidnapped in 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... four days ago were recovered on Monday, officials said.
Officers raided a house in the east of the city in the early hours of the morning after tracing mobile phone signals, senior police official Sultan Khawaja, told AFP, and found the UNICEF staff.
But there was no sign of the people suspected of kidnapping the pair, who went missing in the city on Thursday evening, said Khawaja.
"UNICEF is pleased to confirm that two of its national staff who were kidnapped on Thursday evening in Karachi are now safe and well," the UN agency said in a statement.
"The police led the investigation, in close contact with UNICEF and the staff members' families."
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[DAWN] Five people including four coppers, among them an ASI, were killed as unidentified faceless myrmidons attacked a police convoy on Kohat Road near Zangali Checkpost wounding four coppers also some 20 kilometers from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. on Monday.
The Station House Officer (SHO) of Badbher cop shoppe, Garanullah Khan told Dawn.com that the faceless myrmidons attacked two coppers near Zangli checkpost injuring them seriously.
He said the maimedcoppers were being evacuated when the faceless myrmidons attacked the rescue party killing five including an Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI), three constables and a driver of the ambulance which was evacuating the injured.
Khan said two more constables injured in the ambush, adding that the maimedcoppers have been shifted to Lady Reading Hospital for treatment.
No hard boy group has so far grabbed credit for the attack, which follows a recent surge in the Pak Taliban violence after its decision to not extend the ceasefire with the Pak government.
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[Iran Press TV] At least 33 people, including security forces, have been killed and dozens more injured in separate terrorist attacks across Iraq, security and medical officials say.
Monday's deadliest attack took place in the town of Suwayrah, south of south of the capital Storied Baghdad, where a bomber rammed a boom-mobile into a police checkpoint, killing 12 people -- five coppers and seven civilians, The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
At least 19 people were maimed in the attack.
Another boom-mobilekaboom hit an army checkpoint in the nearby town of Madain, about 20 kilometers (14 miles) southeast of Storied Baghdad, leaving three soldiers and two civilians dead. Twelve other people were maimed in the attack.
An Iraqi soldier was killed and three were maimed when a roadside kaboom struck their patrol in the northern town of Mishahda, 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Storied Baghdad.
Elsewhere, gunniesrubbed out one civilian and injured two others in Latifiyah, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Storied Baghdad.
Monday evening, four more bombs struck various parts of Storied Baghdad, killing at least 14 people and wounding 40.
The deadly assaults occurred a day after 18 people were killed and nearly 50 injured in violence across Iraq.
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[An Nahar] Tension surged in the Ein el-Hellhole Paleostinian refugee camp near the southern city of Sidon on Monday after unknown assailants rubbed out the bodyguard of Jund al-Sham official Oussama al-Shahabi.
Gunmen deployed heavily in al-Sefsaf neighborhood after Ali Khalil, who is also the nephew of al-Shahabi, succumbed to his wounds.
Al-Shahabi is an official in the Jund al-Sham murderous Moslem group who is wanted by the Lebanese judiciary on charges of forming a terrorist group, carrying out terrorist acts and the possession of arms and explosives.
Sobhi Abou Arab, the head of the Paleostinian National Security Forces in Leb, told Voice of Leb radio (93.3) that Khalil was admitted to the hospital after an overnight dispute.
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[Iran Press TV] The Syrian army has started an operation to break foreign-backed Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... turbans' siege on the northern city of Aleppo.
According to reports on Monday, the army regained control over an area extending from what used to be Syria's economic capital to the town of Khanasir in the Aleppo province.
A convoy of trucks carrying food supplies and fuel arrived in the city through the road crossing Khanasir.
Foreign-sponsored turbans attacked the road several times in the past to hamper the aid efforts. They, however, were repelled by government forces.
Efforts aimed at breaking the siege of Aleppo came as the army has made major gains across the country.
On Sunday, the Syrian forces also foiled an infiltration attempt by the turbans in al-Lairamon and al-Zahraa areas in Aleppo.
On April 15, Syrian forces drove out turbans from the towns of Assal al-Ward, Housh Arab and Jab'adin, one day after government forces retook full control of the towns of Ma'loula and al-Sarkha.
Last week, Syrian troops recaptured eastern heights overlooking Rankous plain, cutting off the turbans' supply routes between the area and the Lebanese side of 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.
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