[AnNahar] Self-proclaimed fighters 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.... group have for the first time launched coordinated attacks on police checkpoints in an eastern Afghan province, officials said Sunday.
The raids on eight to 10 police posts began early Sunday, Haji Ghalib, governor of Achin district 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.. province, told AFP, giving no casualty figures.
"This is the first time that Daesh fighters have launched coordinated attacks on police checkpoints in Nangarhar," he said.
Daesh is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State (IS) group, which controls wide swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
The attacks in Achin were confirmed by the border police commander in eastern Afghanistan, Mohammad Ayoub Hussainkhail.
They came a day after a U.N. report warned that IS was making inroads in Afghanistan, winning over a growing number of sympathizers and recruiting followers in 25 of the country's 34 provinces.
Afghan cops told U.N. sanctions monitors that about 10 percent of the Taliban insurgency are IS sympathizers, according to the report by the U.N.'s Al-Qaeda monitoring team.
The jihadist group has been trying to establish itself in Afghanistan and challenging the Taliban on their own turf.
Some Taliban bully boys, particularly in the restive eastern provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar, have adopted the IS flag to rebrand themselves as a more lethal force as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... combat troops depart after 14 years of war.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 85 loyalists of 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in military operations 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 Afghan Intelligence -- National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said the forces of Evil were killed in two separate Arclight airstrikes.
A statement by NDS said at least 60 of the forces of Evil were killed in Abdul Khel area while 25 others were killed in Shadal area of Achin district.
A senior ISIS commander identified as Jalil Warakzai was also among those killed, NDS said, adding that the ISIS commander was leading a group of at least 100 forces of Evil in this province.
According to NDS the forces of Evil were killed after they launched a coordinated attack on police check posts in Achin district earlier this morning.
NDS also added that the forces of Evil were hailing from Pakistain and belonged to Hafiz Syed.
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The attrition rate seems to be ticking up a tad.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs have launched coordinated attacks in the central city of northern Kunduz province with heavy festivities still continue between assailants and the Afghan cops.
The Talibs have reportedly launched their attacks overnight from the western, northeastern and southern parts of the city.
There are no reports regarding the casualties with the local officials yet to comment regarding the attack.
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[AlAhram] At least nine non-combatants were killed and 33 maimed in a kaboom Sunday at a volleyball match in Afghanistan's Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province, a volatile region bordering Pakistain, officials said.
"At around 6:20 pm this evening an kaboom happened in a volleyball field in Khairkot district of Paktika province. Initial information shows nine people, all of them civilians, have been killed," interior ministry front man Sediq Sediqqi told AFP.
The police chief of Paktika province, Zarawar Zahid, put the corpse count at 10, with 33 injuring including children.
"The enemy had placed explosives on a cycle of violence and detonated it on the edge of the volleyball playground and as a volleyball match was ongoing," he said.
A witness, Aref, told AFP: "It is like a bloodbath here, many people are lying dead or maimed."
In November last year, 57 people were killed when a suicide kaboomdestroyed a crowd watching a volleyball game in the same eastern province.
Volleyball, like many other sports, was banned by the Taliban when they ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.
Paktika is considered a stronghold of the Haqqani network, a hardline bully boy group aligned with the Taliban.
The Haqqani network, which was designated a terrorist organization by the US in 2012, has been blamed for large-scale attacks on government and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... targets across Afghanistan as well as for many kidnappings and murders.
The latest incident, which follows a lull in attacks during the Moslem festival of Eid, underlines the challenges facing President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. , who came to power one year ago and who has accused Pakistain of links to deadly attacks that hit Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... last summer.
[Libya Herald] Misratan units are said to have reinforced positions south west of the capital amid fears that its military rapprochement with Zintan and the Warshafana has broken down.
Social media showed photos of armoured vehicles supposedly from Zintan approaching Zahra bridge, still guarded by Misratan forces, while military sources in Misrata said they feared an imminent attack on 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... .
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... Janzur Municipal Council has announced on its social media site that the arrival of Zintani forces in nearby Azziziya posed no threat and that they were there as part of an agreement to protect the new national unity government and to set up security positions around the capital.
For the past few weeks, there have been persistent reports from reliable Libyan and diplomatic sources that, in preparation for the new UN-brokered government, the Zintanis and Misratans had agreed and planned a joint force to secure Tripoli.
Over the same period, Misrata has pulled its forces out of the area west of the city, doing peace deals with Warshefana and others in the area, much to the anger of hardliners in Tripoli (as well as in Misrata itself) who want no agreement with their enemies.
In a reciprocal move by Zintan, it pulled back it forces, insisting that it would not launch any attacks.
Despite the latest moves around Zahra Bridge, sources in Zintan have told the Libya Herald that there has been no mobilisation or any change in its strategy.
However in Misrata itself over the weekend, there have been efforts spearheaded by the head of the Tripoli "government", Khalifa Ghwell, to draw the city back to the cause of Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... and opposition to any deal, including one with the House of Representatives.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Seven jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group and three soldiers of Libya’s recognised government died in weekend clashes in the eastern city of Benghazi, military and medical sources said Sunday.
A source at the city’s Al-Jalaa hospital, quoted by Libya’s government-run news agency, said three soldiers were killed and 21 colleagues wounded during the Saturday-Sunday clashes in the Saberi district of central Benghazi.
Seven members of Libyan branches of ISIS were killed and seven others captured, according to the army’s central command.
Controversial army chief Khalifa Haftar announced a military offensive on September 19 against anti-government forces in Benghazi, 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) east of the capital Tripoli.
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[AnNahar] A Saudi general has been killed in the south of the country near the border with Yemen, where he had been "defending the country", the army announced Sunday.
Brigadier General Ibrahim Hamzi, deputy commander of the 8th brigade in Jazan, died from his injuries after being taken to hospital, 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 official news agency said, without giving the date or exact circumstances of the incident.
He is the second high-ranking Saudi military official to have been announced killed on the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... border this weekend.
A colonel and another border guard were killed late Friday in a shootout after a landmine blast along the frontier with Yemen, according to the interior ministry.
Several other Saudi soldiers have also been killed since March when the kingdom formed an Arab coalition to fight Shiite Houthis in Yemen.
In June, a Saudi lieutenant colonel died in a landmine blast in Jazan, while another general was killed in cross-border fire in August.
[Ynet] Saudi-led Arclight airstrikes across Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... killed 38 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 on Sunday, local officials said, as Riyadh announced the death of another high-ranking army officer killed by cross-border fire.
Airstrikes targeting weapons facilities in the Hagga, Marib, Hodeida and Bayda provinces killed a total of 38 Houthis, according to Yemeni security officials who are neutral in the conflict, which has splintered the armed forces. Houthi officials said 22 non-combatants were killed and 13 were maimed in Hagga and the central Ibb province.
Airstrikes also struck a spa near the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, where the Houthis were secretly storing weapons, the security officials said. A similar strike last week targeted a hotel where they were hiding weapons, the officials said, suggesting improved Saudi intelligence.
[IsraelTimes] Some 70 firefighters battled a massive blaze that damaged the administration buildings at one of Europe's largest mosques
British police have enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! two teenagers on suspicion of arson after a fire damaged one of Europe's biggest mosques.
London's Metropolitan Police said a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old were detained Sunday.
Yobs or jihadi wannabes?
London Fire Brigade said 70 firefighters battled for several hours on Saturday to extinguish the fire at the Baitul Futuh mosque, which damaged administration buildings but not the main worship areas.
The mosque and the community center in south London's Morden neighborhood were evacuated safely.
An Nahar adds the following, which may be of interest to our resident volunteer fireman:
The fire affected around half of the ground floor, part of the first floor and a section of the roof.
London Fire Brigade said the blaze had hit administration buildings and the "mosque itself is thankfully unaffected."
[AlAhram] Two girls were killed and four people maimed on Sunday when Kurdish rebels fired rockets at police in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's southeast and missed, hitting a house instead.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) holy warriors launched rockets at a passing armoured police vehicle in the Bismil district of the Kurdish majority Diyarbakir province, the sources told AFP. But the rockets missed their intended target and hit a three-story house, killing the girls, aged nine and 12.
The Turkish government has been waging an offensive against PKK strongholds in the southeast and in neighbouring northern Iraq. In response the group -- blacklisted as a terrorist organization by Turkey and much of the international community -- has launched bloody attacks on security forces.
The army announced on Sunday that its warplanes pounded PKK bases in the Metina region of northern Iraq.
[Rudaw] DIYARBAKIR, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -- The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) says 75 Turkish soldiers have been killed in the past two days as intense festivities continue in the Sirnak area some 250 kilometers southwest of Diyarbakir.
A statement on Saturday by the PKK's military wing, the HPG, said 14 guerrillas were also among the dead after Turkish Arclight airstrikes targeted PKK bases near the Iraqi border. Four civilians were also killed, according to the statement.
The Turkish army announced on Saturday the total number of casualties since festivities began in July, and put the corpse count for the PKK at 1,337. It said 129 Turkish soldiers and coppers had also been killed in the fighting. According to the statement, 30 civilians, including one Iranian, were also killed.
A two-year ceasefire was effectively broken in July this year after PKK guerrillas assassinated two coppers in Diyarbakir, who they saw as the criminal masterminds behind a bombing in Suruc earlier that killed 32 pro-Kurdish activists.
Clashes continue as the country prepares to hold general elections in November following an inconclusive poll in June, after which the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) failed to muster the seats to form a new government in 45 days.
The front man for the armed wing of the PKK Bakhtiar Dogan said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "The PKK carried out during the last few hours several operations against the Turkish army and police positions in Chernakh area near the Iraqi border, which resulted in the of killing 75 Turkish soldiers and coppers."
Dugan added that " Popular Defense Forces seized many types of weapons and ammunition."
[DAWN] TIMERGARA: The Khall police foiled a terror attempt and defused a remote-controlled bomb, planted at a local graveyard in Rabat on Eid day.
District Police Officer Qasim Ali Khan told local journalists that the eight-kilogram bomb was fitted in a pressure cooker. He said that bomb disposal squad timely defused the bomb and saved the area from destruction. The DPO said that police searched the graveyard after receiving intelligence reports about presence of the bomb in the area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face... three persons were killed while another was injured in different incidents in Lower Dir during the past 24 hours.
Police said that in the first incident a taxicab collided with a cycle of violence on Ali Sher Bridge in the limits of Samarbagh cop shoppe. Usman was killed and Hameedullah received injuries in the accident.
In the second incident, a passer-by was killed when an attacker opened firing on his rival in Tithar village in Samarbagh.
Sources said that Abid and Saeedur Rehman clashed over a petty issue. They said that Abid opened firing on Saeed but the bullet hit a passer-by identified as Bahadar. He was shifted to a hospital in Samarbagh where he died.
In another incident, Hasan Gul, was rubbed out in Azizabad Chapraqa allegedly by his rivals. Samarbagh police registered the cases and started investigations.
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[DAWN] BATKHELA: A man was killed and his son suffered injuries in a hand grenade kaboom in Baz Darra area of Malakand Agency on Sunday.
Baz Darra Levies post moharrar Sultan told news hounds that the bomb went kaboom! in the house of Said Alam Khan, killing him on the spot. His son Hazeb was maimed in the blast. He was referred to 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. in precarious condition.
Security personnel reached the spot soon after receiving information about the blast and started investigation.
Mr Sultan said that Levies personnel recorded statement of the injured boy, who told them that he had found the grenade in the nearby mountain. The boy said that he had taken it for a toy and brought it home. He said that the grenade went kaboom! when he removed its pin.
Deputy Commissioner Ali Abbas Khan, when contacted, said that it was an kaboom of a hand grenade. He said that the injured boy was taken into custody. He said that Sherlocks would determine as to how the hand grenade reached the house.
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[Iran Press TV] About 40 members of the Daesh 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... terrorist group have been killed in an Arclight airstrike carried out by the Iraqi army in the restive province of Anbar.
The Death Eaters were slain late on Saturday while at a factory in Kabisa, a city located in the Hit district of the western province, Iraqis News reported on Sunday, citing an unnamed security source, adding that the strike also destroyed vehicles of the Takfiri group.
Elsewhere in the province, Iraqi Federal Police targeted various Daesh military posts by artillery fire, killing at least eight terrorists, including a big shot.
In Albu Shajel area, north of the western 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... seven rocket launchers belonging to Daesh were destroyed in similar strikes.
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[IraqiNews] Police director of Haditha District Col. Farouk Aljughaifi announced on Saturday dropping a reconnaissance aircraft belonging to ISIS west of Ramadi.
Aljughaifi said in a brief statement received by IraqiNews.com "A force from Haditha police was able to drop a reconnaissance plane belonging to ISIS," without giving further details.
Noteworthy the president of Khalidiya Council in Anbar province, Ali Dawood, announced the liberation of the cop shoppe from the control of the organization north of the city of Ramadi.
[IraqiNews.com) Defense Ministry announced on Friday, that Anbar Operations Command was able to cleanse a number of areas in the province, indicating to the death of more than 350 "terrorists" and the bombing of more than 30 boom-mobiles.
The ministry said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, " Anbar Operations Command, backed by Iraqi Army Air Force, managed to achieve a great victory through cleansing areas extended from Thar Lake to al-Jaraychi area to the Euphrates River from the northern side. "
The statement added that "Anbar Operations Command has killed more than 350 gunnies and detonated more than 30 booby-trapped vehicles carrying weapons, as well as dismantling 700 bombs and a number of booby-trapped houses," noting that "the operations are still continuing. "
[IraqiNews] On Saturday the president of Khalidiya Council in Anbar province, Ali Dawood, announced the liberation of a cop shoppe from the control of ISIS north of the city of Ramadi, pointing out that the security forces have gained full control over the cop shoppe.
Dawood said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "A force from Anbar operations led by operations commander Maj. Gen. Qassim Mohammadi was able to liberate al-Walaa cop shoppe in Albo Dyab area north of the city of Ramadi."
Dawood added, "The security forces have progressed in the liberation of city of Ramadi," pointing out that "the security forces have full control over the cop shoppe and had made security fortifications around it."
[IraqiNews] A security source in Anbar said on Saturday, that the international coalition and the Iraqi artillery had bombarded ISIS targets east of Ramadi.
The source told IraqiNews.com, "Warplanes of the international coalition, along with the Iraqi Army Aviation and the army's 8th artillery brigade, bombarded targets belonging to ISIS in Khalediya Island east of Ramadi, inflicting material and human losses upon the organization."
The source, who requested anonymity, added, "The bombing was based on intelligence according to information received from sources inside the ISIS-controlled areas."
[IraqiNews] A security source in Anbar declared Sunday the death of nearly 40 leaders in the ISIS organization in an aerial bombing that targeted a site for them in the province.
The source informed IraqiNews.com, "In the late hours of yesterday, Iraqi Army Aviation conducted an air strike against Kabisa plant in Anbar province, killing about 40 leaders of the organization," adding also that, "The bombing led to the destruction of tens of vehicles for ISIS.
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[IraqiNews.com] Media War Cell announced on Sunday killing and wounding dozens of ISIS elements in air strikes and ground operations against ISIS sites in Anbar and Salahuddin.
The cell said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com "Army units continue its activities to cleanse Anbar province from terrorism, where the federal police artillery had bombed ISIS sites, resulting in the death of 8 terrorists, including a big shot in the organization, as well as the destruction of 8 vehicles," indicating that "The police also killed eight gunnies in Tel Sheikh Masood area."
The statement added that "the international coalition warplanes destroyed seven rocket launchers and killed a terrorist group in albu Shajel."
[IraqiNews] A local source in Kirkuk province announced on Sunday, that eight non-combatants were killed in a bombardment by an "unknown" aircraft that targeted two houses south of the province.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "An anonymous aircraft bombed, today, two houses in the village of Yorgan in Daquq district (35 km south of Kirkuk), resulting in the death of eight civilians."
The source, who asked anonymity, added: "the bombing led to the destruction of a number of the houses," adding that "the village is still under ISIS control."
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Now I can't stop seeing Bozo at the tail of the bomb.
[IraqiNews] Baghdad – A police source announced on Saturday, that a soldier in Salah al-Din Operations was killed in an armed attack in eastern Sadr City in Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "this evening, unidentified gunnies driving yellow car opened fire from their weapons targeting a soldier belonging to Salah al-Din Operations in al-Dakhil area in Sadr City, resulting in his death."
The source, who asked anonymity, added: "the security forces cordoned off the scene and transported the body to the forensic medicine, while opened an investigation into the incident and its circumstances."
[IsraelTimes] Photographs obtained by police show stockpiles of rocks inside al-Aqsa Mosque following Sunday morning violence
Keeping themselves busy in the traditional Palestinian way.
Paleostinian protesters are planning for more violence on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Monday, stockpiling rocks inside the al-Aqsa Mosque at the site after a morning of festivities, new images indicated Sunday.
The photographs, which Channel 2 television said Sunday night were released by Paleostinians and obtained by Jerusalem district police, show lines and heaps of masonry inside the mosque, hours after rioters clashed with police as Moslems marked the end of Eid al-Fitr and Jews prepared to celebrate the festival of Sukkot.
According to Channel 2, the stones were prepared in advance of Monday's return of Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, after they were banned from entering Sunday in an effort to maintain the recent calm after days of riots. Some religious Jews traditionally ascend to the site, considered the holiest in Judaism, during the week-long Sukkot holiday that began Sunday evening.
The discovery of the images led Jerusalem police chief Moshe Edri on Sunday evening to impose an indefinite ban on male Moslem worshipers under the age of 50 from entering the site, the TV report said.
The Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site and the third holiest site in Islam, has seen altercations between Israeli police and Paleostinians in recent weeks, sparking widespread unrest in and around the capital.
Police had restricted access to some Moslem worshipers following the days of violence, but later eased the order due to the ensuing calm. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon had instructed police to allow Israeli Moslem worshipers unfettered access on Sunday, while West Bank Paleostinian men under 35 remained banned.
But dozens of masked Paleostinians hurled rocks and firecrackers at Israeli police at the site on Sunday morning. There were no reports of injuries, and officers used riot dispersal means to break up the riot.
Jerusalem police on Sunday afternoon accused Arab Israeli politicians of failing to calm tensions at the site. In a statement on the violence, the police urged the Knesset members to act responsibly and work to restore the calm.
[IsraelTimes] Military says no injuries or damage from projectiles that fell in open territory; Ya'alon: This is a violation of Israeli illusory sovereignty
IDF launched artillery strikes on two Syrian military targets across Israel's border on the Golan Heights on Sunday night, in response to errant rocket fire launched from Syria that has landed in Israel in the past two days.
Two mortar shells have fallen in open territory in the northern Golan Heights since Saturday night, as a result of stray fire from the ongoing civil war in the neighboring country. Neither incident caused injuries or damage. Activists have reported intense fighting between Syrian troops and forces of Evil in the Quneitra area in recent days.
At least two Syrian soldiers were killed in the IDF shelling, according to an unconfirmed report by the Israel Hayom website.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed the strikes on Twitter, saying it sees the "Syrian army responsible for what is happening in its territory and will tolerate no attempt to harm Israel's illusory sovereignty or the security of its citizens."
IDF front man Peter Lerner also responded via Twitter, warning that "Israel will not tolerate violation of its illusory sovereignty." The Syrian military, he said, "is responsible & accountable for any aggression emanating from Syria."
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon also confirmed that the army had hit Syrian targets Sunday night, the Hebrew-language Maariv website reported. He called the rockets that fell inside Israel "a violation of illusory sovereignty [that] crosses a red line."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday night that the IDF shelling targeted army positions in a town in southwest Quneitra province, on the Golan.
At least three or four Israeli strikes hit a regime military position inside Saryeh, near the regime's administrative capital of Baath City, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
They were fired from inside the Golan, he said, but did not have details on any casualties.
Since the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011, the Golan has been tense, with a growing number of mostly stray rockets and mortar rounds hitting the Israeli side, prompting the occasional armed response.
[Business Insider] A well-known Russian soldier implicated in war crimes in eastern Ukraine has now been spotted in Syria.
Photos allegedly taken in Syria show Arseny Pavlov, better known by his nom de guerre Motorla, fighting in the country. One photo has Motorola holding a gun while wearing a uniform emblazoned with the Syrian regime flag and the likeness of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
This isn't the first sighting of Motorola in Syria. A photo of Motorola that emerged in mid-September, The Daily Beast reports, featured the soldier and a friend posing next to a portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, likely within Syria. DOB: 02 Feb 1983, POB: Ukhta, Komi USSR, former Soviet Union, approx height 1.69m, approx weight 77kg, 34mm diagonal scar across frontal hairline, pronounced dental gap Maxillary #8 and #9. Red beard, blue eyes, possible burn scaring on hands and upper torso.
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Boris Rozhin pointed out weeks before this "news" article that Pavlov was in Donetsk September 25th. Either Pavlov has a helluva travel booking agent or the writers at Business Insider, once again, have beclowned themselves by publishing just one side of the story.
[AnNahar] Two severely maimedSalafist tough guys were rushed out of a flashpoint rebel bastion in Syria to Leb on Sunday as part of a truce in flashpoint areas, a monitor said.
"The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... transferred two Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... fighters at death's door from Zabadani to Leb," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Warring parties in Syria, including Leb's Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , agreed Thursday to the six-month truce in Zabadani, the last rebel stronghold along Syria's border with Leb, as well as the Shiite Moslem villages of Fuaa and Kafraya in the northwestern province of Idlib.
The ceasefire is to include the evacuation of civilians and rebel fighters out of Zabadani in exchange for the safe passage of civilians from Fuaa and Kafraya.
But there were delays when protesters in rebel-held territory in Idlib province blocked roads, preventing the planned evacuation by the Red Islamic Thingy from getting under way.
A member of Zabadani's local council told AFP the "two maimed people were evacuated as an exception because of their critical condition."
He said they were being taken to Beirut.
According to Abdel Rahman, the full evacuations are expected to begin on Monday.
Here's hoping more than today's two actually get out.
[AnNahar] Syrian army fired a missile into the last rebel-held neighborhood of the central city of Homs killing 17 people, most of them civilians, a monitoring group said on Sunday.
Four children and four women were among the dead in Saturday's strike, the Syrian Observatory for Human Right said.
Nearly all of Homs has been under government control since rebel fighters pulled out of the historic heart of the city in May last year under a U.N.-brokered deal to end a devastating two-year siege.
There have been repeated efforts to organize a similar deal for the Waer neighborhood where more than 100,000 civilians live under rebel control surrounded by government forces.
A number of temporary ceasefires have been arranged to allow in aid but a lasting truce has proved elusive, with each side accusing the other of hobbling the negotiations.
Syria's third largest city, Homs was one of the first places where rebels took up arms against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... 's rule in 2011.
But after years of fighting which killed tens of thousands of people and caused widespread destruction, the suburb of Waer is the last redoubt of the rebels.
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[ALMANAR.LB] At least 14 rockets were fired by bully boyz from the so-called "Jaish al-Fateh" (Army of Conquest) on al-Foua and Kefraya towns in the northeastern countryside of Idleb province on Saturday evening.
An online statement attributed to the hard boy alliance claimed that the bully boyz "shelled Shiite village al-Foua in retaliation for government attacks on areas nearby and in the city of Homs farther south."
The murderous Moslems held the Syrian government responsible for their violation of the ceasefire deal agreed upon. But hard boy media said the shelling of AL-Foua doesn't mean annulling the deal but comes as retaliation for the Syrian Arclight airstrikes on Taftanaz in Idlib countryside.
No casualties have been recorded yet.
Field sources from the two towns told SANA by phone that the rocket shells were fired by bully boyz positioned in the neighboring Taoum town and smashed into the citizens' houses.
The sources said the attack caused huge material damage to the houses and other properties.
Under the ceasefire deal, warring sides have agreed to stop attacks in Al-Foua and Kefraya on one hand, and Zabadani near the Lebanese border for up to six months.
Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... said Friday that Hezbollah fighters and the Syrian army could have finished the battle for Zabadani in a couple of weeks but held off to free the two besieged villages.
"We could have taken control of Zabadani a long time ago, 16 or 17 days after the battle began, but we saw it as a chance to achieve some goals, including the liberation of Foua and Kefraya," Sayyed Nasrallah said in an interview with Al-Manar TV.
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[IsraelTimes] Six French jet fighters targeted and destroyed an 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.... training camp in eastern Syria, President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... said Sunday, making good on a promise to go after the group that the president has said is planning attacks against several countries, including La Belle France.
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[Iran Press TV] About 40 members of the Daesh 
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[ALMANAR.LB] At least 14 rockets were fired by 
