[Khaama (Afghanistan)] 16 holy warriors have been killed in internal festivities in eastern and southern parts of the country.
Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal, front man for the provincial police headquarters of 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 says that 11 bully boyz were killed and 24 others maimed in a clash erupted between two holy warrior groups in Gorgore area of Haska Mina District yesterday.
Another report from southern Zabul province suggests that five holy warriors have been killed in festivities between the fighters of Taliban and Daesh in Sardara area of Arghandab District.
Colonel Ghulam Jailani Khan Farahi, the deputy police chief of Zabul says that three of those killed belong to Taliban and two others are from Daesh group.
Haji Atta Jan Haqbayan, head of the provincial council of Zabul province says that due to sporadic festivities between the two groups, civilians have been fleeing their homes.
He said some of these people have arrived in Qalat, the quiet provincial capital, and others in nearby districts where they face problems such as lack of shelter and financial assistance.
Haqbayan urged government to take strict actions against the situation.
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MOGADISHU -- Al Shabaab assailants in car shot and killed Federal Member of Parliament in volatile Mogadishu’s Wadajir district on Saturday afternoon, Garowe Online reports.
“The killing has been carried out by our fighters in Mogadishu, we will continue targeting all Somali MPs because they spread un-Islamic laws,” a spokesman for Al Shabaab said.
MP Abdullahi Hussein Mohamud was targeted in drive-by shooting according to witnesses. The attackers sped-off in a car right away and security officials couldn’t be reached for comments on the murder of late Mohamud.
The targeted MP replaced his father, Hussein Bantu who died of natural complications months ago.
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MOGADISHU -- A suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with a ton of explosives outside Jazeera hotel in Somalia’s capital Sunday, setting off a blazing blast that shattered large parts of the luxury hotel, and killed at least 8 people and wounded many others, officials said Sunday.
The heavily guarded hotel frequented by government officials and foreigners houses Chinese and Egyptian diplomats. Police officials said the bomber has rammed his explosives-laden vehicle on the wall of the hotel, and the attack is one of the largest terrorist attacks in the horn of Africa nation.
Evidently it wasn't guarded heavily enough...
It's Somalia. "Heavily guarded" means a half-dozen half-trained youths sharing an AK-47.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack; however, officials blamed the al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabab group which often carries out attacks in Somalia.
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[DAILYNEWSEGYPT] A bomb targeting a bus carrying soldiers went kaboom! and injured 18 conscripts on Sunday morning in the North Sinai town of Al-Arish, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement.
Security forces secured the blast site and combed the area in search of further bombs.
The ministry stated that the maimed only suffered minor injuries from the blast, claiming they all were in a stable condition and were transferred to hospital for further treatment.
"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.... " affiliated group "State of Sinai" grabbed credit for the bombing later the same day. The military spokesperson has yet to release a statement about the attack.
Another kaboom on Saturday in a village near the town of Sheikh Zuweid, also in North Sinai, injured a nine-year-old child, who was taken to hospital with a thigh injury, the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported. Whether the kaboom was caused by a bomb or by accident remains unclear. Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system... a second civilian was checked into hospital with a gunshot wound in Rafah.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb announced the extension of the state of emergency in North Sinai to be implemented starting Sunday. The state of emergency has been extended for a further three months, as has the night time curfew.
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[NEWS.YAHOO] A 12-year-old girl jacket wallah killed 20 people in an attack on a bar in Maroua in Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , while in a crowded market in neighbouring Nigeria a "mentally handicapped" female attacker killed 14.
The child bomber blew herself up among Saturday night revellers in the popular bar, injuring at least 79 others, Cameroonian state TV reported on Sunday.
Early Sunday in the northeastern Nigerian town of Damaturu, a woman described by locals as "mentally unstable" detonated herself at the entrance of a market, trader Garba Abdullahi told AFP.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either bombing, but Nigeria and increasingly Cameroon have suffered repeated attacks by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Lion of Islams, including a recent string of suicide kabooms by women and girls.
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"mentally handicapped" and "mentally unstable" = "very Islamic"
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One's the definition of the other.
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[FOXNEWS] Officials in northern Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... have ordered the closure of mosques and Islamic schools following a series of suicide kaboom attacks that have left dozens dead.
Governor Midjiyawa Bakari said Sunday that he has ordered all street children to leave public places because all the jacket wallahs so far have been under 18.
While there have been no claims of responsibility, authorities have blamed the Islamic murderous Moslem group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , which has pledged its allegiance to the 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.... group.
The group's leader has vowed to attack Cameroon because the Central African nation has aided neighboring Nigeria in its fight against the murderous Moslems.
In the latest attack inside Cameroon, at least 20 people were killed Saturday evening in the northern town of Maroua. The bombing came just days after another attack.
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[FOXNEWS] Saudi-backed Yemeni troops and their allies clashed with Shiite 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 ... rebels in a strategic town north of the port city of Aden Sunday, security and military officials from both sides of the conflict said.
The pro-government fighters had withdrawn from the town of Sabr earlier in the day after fierce battles with Shiite Houthi rebels. They returned hours later following the arrival of military reinforcements and wrested control of a large portion of the town, security officials said.
The officials said five pro-government fighters were killed and 15 maimed in the battle. Local medical officials said eight rebels were killed and 20 maimed.
The running battles in Sabr, which is on a key supply route, have lasted for more than a day after troops stormed it in their push north from Aden toward the strategic military base of Al-Anad, which is held by the rebels.
The fighting came hours before the start of a five-day humanitarian pause announced by the Saudi-led coalition.
"If the Houthis and their allies do not stop fighting, we will continue to fight," said an official allied with the Saudi coalition.
The rebels, known as Houthis, have expressed doubt over the truce, which is set to begin Sunday just before midnight. One Houthi official said it will likely mark "the beginning of a new war."
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[RUDAW.NET] Two Turkish soldiers were killed and four injured when a boom-mobile hit their convoy in Lice near Diyarbakir Saturday night.
The military convoy headed to Diyarbakir-Bingol crossroad to clear a reported traffic block when an explosive-loaded vehicle hit their convoy. The injured soldiers were transferred to Diyarbakir Hospital, reported the Anadolu news agency.
According to a statement made by the Diyarbakir governorship, the kaboom took place at 11 pm.
A cop shoppe in Baglar in Diyarbakir was also targeted by long-range guns. The city police department said that the security forces responded to the hostile fire and the perpetrators fled. No injuries were reported in that incident and Turkish forces launched an operation to pursue the shooters.
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[RUDAW.NET] A member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) military council has been killed in a Turkish Arclight airstrike, the group said Saturday.
The PKK said in a statement that a member of its military council known by the nickname Varto was killed while three other guerrillas were maimed.
The Kurdish group said that in the same Arclight airstrike three civilians including a child were maimed.
Rudaw correspondent in the area said the Gali Balindan road has since been closed as a result of the Turkish Arclight airstrikes and many villagers have suffered damages to their homes and livestock.
Turkish jets targeted PKK bases in the mountains of Kurdistan Region Friday night after a ceasefire that lasted two years.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A worker of the United States Embassy has been bumped off by unidentified gunnies in Pakistain's capital Islamabad.
According to police Iqbal Baig who was working with US Drug Enforcement Agency was bumped off at his residence earlier on Sunday morning.
Khalid Awan, a police officer who confirmed Baig's killing said that security officials from the US embassy visited the site of the incident. But by the time this report was filed, there were no worlds from the embassy regarding the killing.
Iqbal Baig a local worker of the US embassy belonged to the Shia Ismaili minority that has been constantly attacked by gunnies in Pakistain.
At least people, including children and women, belonging to Islmaili community were killed in a single attack in Pakistain's business hub of 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 May.
According to reports, the attack was carried out by more than a dozen gunnies near Safoora Chowrangi area of the city on May 13.
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[RUDAW.NET] Iraqi government forces recaptured Anbar University from the 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.... bad boy group Sunday after hours of fierce festivities, provincial officials said, as part of its push to reclaim territory across the embattled province.
The university, located 5 kilometers (3 miles) south of Anbar's quiet provincial capital, the bad boy-held city of Ramadi, was under the full control of government forces, which had entered the complex early Sunday amid intense combat with the bad boy group.
Athal al-Fahdawi, a provincial councilman said a number of buildings in and around the university complex have been badly damaged or destroyed, but that the Death Eaters retreated. Another Anbar councilman, Faleh al-Issawi, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that about two dozen Islamic State fighters were killed in the festivities. He declined to provide more details.
The Iraqi military launched a large-scale operation this month to retake Anbar province, in which most of the biggest cities are held by the Islamic State group. The loss of Ramadi in mid-May recalled the collapse of Iraqi security forces last summer in the face of the Islamic State group's blitz into Iraq that saw it capture a third of the country, where it has declared an Islamic caliphate.
A US-led coalition has launched more than 3,000 Arclight airstrikes in Iraq, many of them in Anbar province. The fall of Ramadi was the latest defeat on the ground calling into question the B.O. regime's hopes of relying solely on Arclight airstrikes to support the Iraqi forces in expelling the myrmidons.
Government-backed forces, which include the Iraqi military, Shiite militias and Sunni tribes, are also currently assembling around the bad boy-held city of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... which was the first major city in Iraq to fall to the bad boy group in early 2014.
Troubles first began for Anbar University in June 2014 when Death Eaters stormed the campus, briefly taking students hostage before withdrawing from the school amid gunfire. Ramadi was long under the protection of the local tribes and government-backed forces, which managed to hold on to the city longer than most others in the province.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Medical and police officials in Iraq say over a dozen people have been killed and tens of others injured when two bombers struck a crowded swimming pool in the country's northern province of Salahuddin.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said a bomber detonated his boom vest at the pool in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, situated 175 kilometers (110 miles) north of Baghdad, as dozens of men and children had gathered to cool out amid sizzling summer days.
Shortly afterwards, another bomber set off explosives attached to a cycle of violence parked at the entrance of the swimming pool whilst police and rescue teams were evacuating the casualties.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... Iraqi officials usually blame such assaults on the Takfiri ...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... ISIL terrorists.
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Allah doesn't want people to cool off from the desert heat?
[Ynet] Police force their way into al-Aqsa Mosque, where Arab youths equipped with stones and fireworks barricaded themselves overnight; coppersmaimed; riot dispersed.
Police forced their way into al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Sunday morning, with several officers maimed after Arab Arab youths threw stones and launched fireworks at them.
Jerusalem District Police received information that some youths had barricaded themselves inside the mosque overnight and collected stones, planks, and Molotov cocktails with the purpose of altercating with police and disturbing the visits of Jews arriving at the Temple Mount complex for Tisha B'Av prayers.
There's a long tradition of Muslims gleefully hurling missiles from the Al Aqsa platform onto the heads of Jews praying at the Western Wall below. One simply can't understand the insistance of Israeli authorities on interfering.
Tisha B'Av is an annual fast day commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. Paleostinians were angered by what they considered intrusions by Jews. Visits are allowed, but Jewish prayer at the site is prohibited.
The youths, some of whom wore face masks, created barricades to prevent the door into the mosque from being closed using shoe racks, iron rods, and ropes.
When a police team approached the mosque, the youths started throwing stones and launching fireworks at them. Police and paramilitary Border Police forces entered the complex as the rioters escaped into the mosque and threw dozens of stones and concrete blocks.
Police began to remove the barricades placed at the entrance to the mosque. They went a few meters into the mosque to shut the doors in a bid to restore calm and lock in rioters who were inside.
About 300 security personnel had entered the compound when the festivities began with a couple of hundred Paleostinians, an AFP photographer reported.
The police said that after their brief foray into the mosque, they withdrew and the area was quiet. Access to the site was later restricted. Police said the Temple Mount complex was closed on time and that during the day it was visited by some 1,200 visitors.
At least three Paleostinians throwing stones were placed in durance vile Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and four coppers were slightly maimed.
The Jordanian government condemned the police's response. Jordan's communications minister and government front man, Mohammad al-Momani, criticized "Israel's provocation against Arabs and Moslems by breaking into the al-Aqsa complex." According to al-Moman, the police activity hurt the feelings of all Arabs and Moslems and could lead to more hatred. He demanded that the Israeli government take responsibility as the "occupying power".
Protests broke out in the lanes and alleyways of the Old City around the mosque, with demonstrators confronting police and chanting "Allahu Akbar" and police firing stun grenades. Some vowed to protect Al-Aqsa, with one man saying the holy site "is in our blood."
"We are ready to die," Khaled Tuffaha, a 46-year-old Paleostinian shop owner. "Everybody is ready to die."
Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel of Bayit Yehudi visited the Temple Mount on Sunday for the sacred day, a step that was coordinated with the Internal Security Ministry and the police.
The Jordanian government condemned the fact Jewish worshipers were allowed onto the Temple Mount, including Ariel (Bayit Yehudi). The Paleostinian foreign ministry also condemned Israeli authorities for allowing what they described as "provocative" visits by hardline Jews.
Police had increased their presence in and around the Temple Mount overnight Saturday after a video of a Jewish woman insulting the Prophet Muhammad went viral over the weekend.
A group of Jews visiting the Temple Mount Thursday were being escorted out of the site into the alleys of the Old City when they were heckled by the Murabitun, self-proclaimed guardians of site -- holy to both Jews and Moslems -- who are funded by the Islamic Movement.
A woman from the Jewish group decided to respond, looking into the camera of a person assumed to be a member of the organization, and saying in Hebrew: "Muhammad is a pig."
The statement enraged the Moslem women in the organization, who then shouted insults and threats of violence at the Jewish woman. Border Police officers escorting the Jewish group had to place themselves between the two groups to prevent violence.
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A woman from the Jewish group decided to respond, looking into the camera of a person assumed to be a member of the organization, and saying in Hebrew: "Muhammad is a pig."
[Ynet] Rioters throw fireworks at Israeli security forces during festivities, use gunpower for makeshift pipe bomb; store had NIS 150,000 worth of products.
Police exposed a toy store in the Paleostinian village of Barta'a on Sunday morning, which allegedly sold fireworks used by Arab rioters against IDF soldiers and Border Police officers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Police jugged Please don't kill me! three Paleostinians suspected of selling hundreds of boxes of fireworks to rioters. They also confiscated 150 boxes worth over NIS 150,000.
"It turned into a makeshift weapon against security forces on the Temple Mount, in East Jerusalem and across the West Bank," said a detective from the Judea and Samaria District Police.
Investigators said that the gunpowder found inside the fireworks was used in the past as an explosive in makeshift pipe bombs.
"At first we only saw these fireworks in weddings, but over the past year it turned into a weapon against soldiers and coppers," a police official said. "We received orders to enforce the ban (against the fireworks). And indeed, following a tip, we found a main supplier working in the village of Barta'a."
The police source said that "inside the store there were only a few boxes with fireworks, but those who asked for commercial amounts were asked to wait and got massive amounts from the storeroom. Each box like this costs NIS 1,000 and customers, most of them Paleostinians, bought 20 boxes and more."
Detectives from the police's Central Unit made several staged purchases, following which special Border Police forces, Central Unit detectives and IDF troops raided the store in the village.
Security forces also seized guns that are used to fire iron bullets.
"The firing of fireworks at security forces during rioting, specifically in Jerusalem and villages in Judea and Samaria, poses a lethal threat to the coppers and soldiers dealing with the rioters," said police investigator Shai Kovnator, the head of the Central Unit.
[Tempo] New People's Army militants gunned down a former member of the Philippine military who was walking alone yesterday morning in Oas, Albay. Victim Ramil Oray was a former member of the 9th Infantry Division, based in Barangay Tula-Tula Grande, Ligao City.
An initial investigation showed the incident happened at about 7 a.m. while Oray was on his way home. The armed militants blocked his way and then shot and killed him. The suspects fled into the hills.
Police said the militants suspected the former soldier to be providing information to the military about their activities.
Meanwhile, another group of militants gunned down a farm hand whom they suspected to be a military informant Friday night in Lagonoy, Camarines Sur. A police report said that the victim working at the farm when the suspects arrived, poked guns at him, tied his hands, and shot him. The insurgents casually walked away after the execution.
The police said the NPA suspected him of being a military asset, and giving information about their activities in the area, which his relatives have vehemently denied.
[Ynet] The United States and its allies made 20 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq on Saturday, with targets near Ramadi bearing the brunt of the attacks, the military said on Sunday.
Five strikes near Ramadi hit tacitcal units, tanks and an armored personnel carrier for the militant group while also destroying an Islamic State road block, building, two structures, a mortar position and another armored personnel carrier, according to the Combined Joint Task Force. Four strikes hit Islamic State staging areas near Tuz as well.
The coalition also launched 13 air strikes in Syria, with five near Kobani hitting Islamic State tactical units and destroying fighting positions, the statement said.
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"aggressively increased from the usual 19 air strikes"
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MOGADISHU -- Al Shabaab assailants in car shot and killed Federal Member of Parliament in volatile Mogadishu’s Wadajir district on Saturday afternoon, Garowe Online reports.
MOGADISHU -- A suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with a ton of explosives outside Jazeera hotel in Somalia’s capital Sunday, setting off a blazing blast that shattered large parts of the luxury hotel, and killed at least 8 people and wounded many others, officials said Sunday.
bomb targeting a bus carrying soldiers 
[NEWS.YAHOO] A 12-year-old girl 
[FOXNEWS] Officials in northern 
[FOXNEWS] Saudi-backed Yemeni troops and their allies clashed with Shiite 
[RUDAW.NET] Two Turkish soldiers were killed and four injured when a 
[Ynet] Police force their way into al-Aqsa Mosque, where Arab youths equipped with stones and fireworks barricaded themselves overnight; 
[Ynet] Rioters throw fireworks at Israeli security forces during 
[Tempo] New People's Army militants gunned down a former member of the Philippine military who was walking alone yesterday morning in Oas, Albay. Victim Ramil Oray was a former member of the 9th Infantry Division, based in Barangay Tula-Tula Grande, Ligao City.
