[Tolo News] Security forces launched a long-awaited house-to-house search operation of residential homes in Kunduz city in a bid to flush out bad boys, officials reported.
TOLOnews correspondent Sharif Amiry -- who is embedded with the security forces -- reported that scores of houses in different areas have been cleared of forces of Evil -- who seized the city last Monday.
Several government facilities that were over run by Taliban assailants have also been retaken, Amiry reported. However he said landmines placed by the Taliban in these facilities are still a big threat.
"We have launched our search operation and the enemies are fleeing the area because they cannot confront us," a Kunduz police officer said, noting that about 80 percent of Police District (PD) four of the city has been cleared.
So far 13 armed Taliban holy warriors have been jugged You have the right to remain silent... during the search operation, he continued.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... residents voiced their concerns about the ongoing battle in their city.
They called on the government to accelerate their operations and clear the area of holy warriors as soon as possible.
"See our house is totally destroyed. We have no food and no water. Everywhere you look are bullets," a resident of Kunduz said. He also said he has lost one of his family members in the ongoing battle.
The city has however not been completely cleared of bad boys, reports Amiry. The battle is still ongoing in some areas.
Insurgents have been reportedly pushed back to the outskirts of the city and Chawk-e-Kunduz, the main traffic circle, is under control of government forces.
The center of the city's is back to normal, with many shops open.
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[Tolo News] 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.... police chief on Friday night confirmed that two jacket wallahs who wanted to target Kolbah Solh Restaurant in the western part of Kabul were killed by security forces. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the attackers managed to shoot dead a security guard and a restaurant patron before being bumped off, said the police chief.
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I said no MSG!
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) -- Afghanistan's intelligence agency has foiled a terrorist attack on the Ministry of Defense.
A statement released by NDS on Thursday states that a group of five murderous Moslems had planned to carry out a coordinated attack on the ministry, but their plan was thwarted.
The statement further states that two of the five murderous Moslems have been placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... who are members of the Haqqani Terrorist Network.
The detained murderous Moslems are identified as Shah Mahmood alias Shafiq and Shir Agh alias Noor Mohammad.
According to the statement, murderous Moslems had planned to detonate a 'Townace' model vehicle laden with explosives in front of the Ministry of Defense and after security forces arrive at the blast site a jacket wallah carries out kaboom among security forces.
The plan also included other murderous Moslems to go inside the ministry to engage in shootout with security forces.
The arrested murderous Moslems have confessed to their intentions of targeting the Defense Ministry by the instructions from Haqqani Terrorist Network.
The murderous Moslems also confessed receiving military training in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... area of Pakistain.
NDS had reported foiling a plan of Haqqani Network yesterday. The agency said in a statement that two members of the network were arrested in Sarai Hirati area before detonating a vehicle laden with explosives.
Two members of the group were killed in an encounter with NDS officials in 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.... earlier this month.
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[Al Ahram] The Egyptian armed forces announced on Wednesday the commencement of the second phase of the army's latest operation "Martyr's Right" in North Sinai in the cities of Sheikh Zuweid, Rafah, and Arish.
"Martyr's Right" is the largest and most comprehensive operation aimed at rooting out and killing holy warriors in North Sinai since the group affiliated with ISIS mounted their largest attack in months on Egypt's security forces in July.
According to Al-Ahram Arabic news website, the second stage, which deliberately coincides with the 42nd anniversary of Egypt's victory in the 6 October War,
...they really do believe that. There's a 6 October street, 6 October businesses of all sorts, 6 October City in what used to be 6 October governate, probably sons lovingly called to dinner with "6 October, you get your tail in here now!"
includes the commencement of numerous development projects and planned execution of reconstructions in North Sinai in the cities of Sheikh Zuweid, Arish, and Rafah, among others.
The armed forces also announced the dispatch of a convoy loaded with medical supplies and construction materials, as well as food for the people of Sinai.
Forces are preparing for the construction of the new town of Rafah, which will include 1200 housing units as well as a number of hospitals and schools.
The second stage of "Martyr's Right" includes plans to build 27 water desalination plants as well as water tanks and new roads.
North Sinai, which borders Israel and the Paleostinian Gazoo Strip, is a stronghold of Islamist Death Eater group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, which pledged its allegiance to ISIS in 2014.
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You have the right to die. Sounds self explanatory to me.
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Remember the 6th of October!
We pissed on the sand and crossed over.
Each man did his duty
To beat the yahudi,
And that's why we're rolling in clover.
[ALMANAR.LB] At least 13 Yemenis were killed and 38 others maimed when a Saudi-led Arclight airstrike targeted a wedding in a town south of the capital, Sanaa.
The strike targeted home of the tribal leader in Sanban, in Dhamar province, some 100 kilometers south of Sanaa, AFP quoted medics and witnesses as saying on Thursday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... the Guardian put the corpse count at 15, but noted that 25 people were maimed.
There was no immediate coalition comment. Last week it denied bombing another wedding party and killing more than 130 in the deadliest single event of Yemen's civil war.
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Wedding celebrations just shouldn't include crowds of people waving guns and firing them into the air, especially when warplanes are nearby.
[ALMANAR.LB] Yemeni army backed by popular committees launched a missile attack against a Saudi warship and managed to destroy it.
Yemen's Saba news agency reported that the warship was wrecked off the southwestern coast of 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... on Wednesday in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
The agency added that other Saudi battleships fled the area following the attack.
According to the report, the sunken ship had repeatedly fired rockets on residential areas in the southwestern province of Taiz, inflicting casualties and destruction there.
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File this one under fiction.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Bulgarian authorities said Oct. 8 that three Dutch people wanted on "terrorism" charges were tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! allegedly trying to cross the border into The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .
The two men, 18 and 22, and a woman, 17, are wanted on European Arrest Warrants issued by their home country for "participation in a terrorist organization," Bulgarian prosecutors said.
European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... member Bulgaria is a major crossing point for Europeans heading to join jihadists 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 the Levant (ISIL) organization fighting in Syria and Iraq.
The trio, who were not named, were arrested on Oct. 5 in the morning while trying to cross Bulgaria's main Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint with Turkey.
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[IraqiNews] A source in the province of Kirkuk said on Thursday, that the security intelligence director of Kirkuk has been killed in an armed attack carried out by unknown faceless myrmidons in the center of Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad).
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "Unidentified gunniesshot up noon today against the vehicle of the Security Intelligence Director of Kirkuk Aydan Hussein Rifat, while passying in the commercial street in the center of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... resulting in his death on the spot. "
The source, who asked anonymity, added: "the security forces rushed to the scene and transported the victim to the forensic medicine department and opened an investigation to know who stands behind it.”
[IraqiNews] According to a local source in Kirkuk province, the ISIS organization kidnapped 200 people southwest of the province on charges of cooperation with the security forces.
The source told IraqiNews.com, "Elements of the ISIS organization kidnapped, today, 200 people in the villages of the al-Halawat belonging to the district al-Zab southwest of Kirkuk."
The source, who asked anonymity, added: "The abduction process of those people was carried out on charges of passing information on the whereabouts of ISIS leaders to the Peshmerga, al-Hashed al-Sha'bi and the security authorities."
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[IraqiNews] A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Thursday, that eight people were maimed in the kaboom of an IED placed inside a bus in central Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "A bomb that was emplaced inside a Kia bus went kaboom!, this afternoon, near al-Nahda garage in the the center of Baghdad, resulting in the injury of eight passengers and causing material damage to the bus."
The source, who asked anonymity, added: "the security force rushed to the scene and transported the maimed to a nearby hospital for treatment, while opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident and the party that stands behind it.
[IraqiNews] A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Thursday, that eight people had been either killed or maimed in a kaboom southwest of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "a bomb went kaboom!, today, near the shops in Sweep area southwest of Baghdad, resulting in the death of two people and wounding six others."
The source, who asked anonymity, added: "the security force rushed to the scene and transported the maimed to a nearby hospital for treatment and the bodies of the dead to the forensic medicine departments."
[IraqiNews] The chairman of the national coalition, Iyad Allawi ... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived assassination attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't... , announced on Wednesday the "disappearance" of 76 armored vehicles sent by Gulf countries to Iraq at his request.
Allawi said during his speech for the TV program "unexpected," aired on Alsumaria TV: "I asked one of the Gulf states to supply Iraq with weapons to confront ISIS," noting that "This county sent 76 armored vehicles via aircraft and not the sea. "
Allawi added that "after a period of the arrival of the armored vehicles, the defence minister Khaled al-Obeidi told me that his ministry had not received them," noting that "when asked the government, it told me that the armored vehicles were useless."
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Translation: "I sold them on the black market. They should stop sending Toyota's."
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When are the rubes going to wise up and install Lowjack before sending anything to Iraq?
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[IraqiNews] Federal Police Captain Raed Shakir Jawdat announced on Thursday the killing of nine ISIS members in a rocket attack east of the city of Ramadi.
Jawdat said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com: "A force from the brigade stationed in Madyaq area (9 km east of Ramadi) fired three rockets towards an ISIS vehicle, killing nine members of the organization and destroying the vehicle. "
Jawdet added, "The rapid intervention force managed to kill four ISIS elements in the eastern axis of the city of Ramadi, " adding that "the force destroyed five headquarters of the organization."
A source in the Anbar Operations Command said Thursday morning, that a security force has destroyed four hideouts belonging to ISIS north of the city of Ramadi.
[IraqiNews] Sulaymaniyah -- On Thursday the Peshmerga forces in the province of Sulaymaniyah announced, that five members of ISIS surrendered to the Peshmerga forces in the axis of Alkwyr, south of Irbil (360 km north of Baghdad).
The deputy commander of the Peshmerga forces in the province of Sulaymaniyah, Major General Mohammed Ramadan, said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com "Five members of the organization surrendered, at six o'clock in the morning, to the Peshmerga forces in the village of Saqi in Alkwyr axis."
Ramadan added that "all the snuffies were Iraqis," indicating "they are between the ages of 25 to 35 years.”
[IraqiNews] Nineveh -- Sources in Nineveh province said on Thursday, that ISIS has executed two young men from the residents of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... by throwing them from the surface of a high building (405 km north of Baghdad).
A source told IraqiNews.com, "ISIS elements executed, today, two young men from the people of djinn-infested Mosul by throwing them from the surface of a high building in Bab al-Tob area in the city center, after being accused of the practice of homosexuality. "
"Elements of the organization closed the roads and gathered the passengers to watch the execution," the source added.
[IraqiNews] Diwaniyah – The Interior Ministry announced on Thursday, that the former commander of the emergency regiments of Diwaniyah has been killed in the kaboom of a bomb that was emplaced in his car in the province.
The ministry front man Brigadier General Saad Maan said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com "A bomb that was emplaced in the car of the former emergency regiments, Brigadier General Ghassan Mohammed, went kaboom! this evening in the province, resulting in his death."
[IraqiNews] The Mayor of Baqubah District, Abdullah al-Hayali, alannounced on thursday, that at least 15 people have been injured in a mortar shell fall at four neighborhoods in the district of Baqubah.
Hayali said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "Several mortar shells had fallen on the areas of Katon al-Rahma (7 km west of Baqubah), al-Mafraq (5 km west of Baqubah), al-Hadid (10 km northwest of Baqubah) and Jurf al-Malh (7 km east of Baqubah), resulting in the injury of 15 civilians in an initial outcome."
He added, "The security authorities began precautionary procedures, while worked to find out the sources of the mortars."
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[ARA] Officials in Iraqi Kurdistan confirmed the use of mustard agent by ISIS hard boyz in attacks against the Peshmerga forces in August.
The Peshmerga Ministry in the Kurdistan Region said in a statement on Thursday that blood tests have shown the use of the chemical agent by hard boyz 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.... against the Kurdish forces.
"The results of the tests on blood samples from 35 Kurdish fighters reveal traces of mustard gas," the ministry said.
"During the attack on Gweyr and Makhmur, Daesh (ISIS) launched around 50 mortar rounds, 37 of them released white dust and black liquid when they went kaboom!," it said in reference to an attack that took place on Aug. 11.
The Peshmerga Ministry said that 35 Peshmerga soldiers have been exposed to the mustard agent, adding that some of the injured soldiers have been taken abroad for treatment.
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*Somebody* ought to draw a red line!
When will the rest of the world say, "Enough"?
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Sorry - wrong demographics. And they never provided monetary incentive.
[Jpost] Four Arab men were wounded Friday morning in Dimona in a stabbing attack carried out by a Jewish terrorist for nationalist reasons.
The attacks began at about 9 am, when police reported finding a Bedouin man stabbed on a street in the city, in moderate condition. The victim managed to give police a description of the attacker, and shortly thereafter police arrested a local Jewish man, who was taken into custody without incident and is currently being questioned.
Within the hour, Negev police reported a separate stabbing, with three additional victims, two of which managed to make it to the local police station to seek help. What goes around... Not that I don't expect almost everybody---including some, otherwise, sane Israelis---not to be shocked & ashamed
[Ynet] Massive security planned for Friday after string of terror attacks wounding seven in Tel Aviv, Afula, Jerusalem, and Kiryat Arba.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat urged residents licensed to carry weapons to carry them, as violence spiked in the city over the past few weeks.
IDF's Judea and Samaria Division has been preparing unprecedented security for Friday out of concern that noon prayers will result in rioting of thousands of Paleostinians in the West Bank. Thousands of troops will be placed along roads and flashpoints, while IDF officers and Paleostinian security apparatuses coordinate their response.
Paleostinians have designated Friday a "Day of Rage" amid ongoing violence. Just on Thursday, seven Israelis were maimed by attacks, while police clashed with Paleostinian protesters, resulting in injuries on both sides.
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Israel needs to quit trying to get people to like them and go Genghis Khan on the "paleostainians". "You want to live here, you behave. Otherwise we'll ship your ass air express to Syria. Without landing, without a parachute."
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we'll ship your ass air express to Syria.
I was thinking more in terms of providing them with Syrian passports---indistinguishable from real---and transportation to Europe.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israeli security forces rubbed out a Paleostinian during festivities in east Jerusalem Thursday on their way to the home of a man accused of an earlier stabbing attack, medics said.
Just like that? How awful!
The Paleostinian was shot in the chest and fatally maimed at the Shuafat refugee camp in annexed east Jerusalem, according to the Red Islamic Thingy and hospital sources.
The incident followed days of unrest, including rioting in east Jerusalem and the West Bank as well as a spate of stabbing attacks targeting Israelis.
Over the last week, four Israelis and seven Paleostinians have been killed in the violence.
Four of the Paleostinians were killed after they allegedly attacked Israelis. Three others were killed during festivities with Israeli security forces, including a 13-year-old near Bethlehem.
Waitaminit -- they deserved it?
The unrest and violence have sparked fears of a broader Paleostinian uprising and warnings of a third intifada.
The suspect from Shuafat, Subhi Abu Khalifah, 19, was accused of stabbing a 25-year-old Jewish man in Jerusalem, leaving him at death's door.
Oh. Never mind. Al Arabiya buried the lede again.
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Don't clash with Israeli forces.
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A new and disturbing danger has apparently arisen in the Middle East, and the Russian military is on it. It appears that cows have begun aligning themselves with terrorist organizations, and Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces are taking the steps necessary to shut down this bovine threat before things get any worse.
How else to translate the events of the past several days?
Shortly after Russian warships in the Caspian Sea launched a reported 26 cruise missiles toward Syria on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu appeared on television to celebrate the success of the attack.
Shoigu announced that all 26 of the missiles struck within three meters of their intended targets, and he claimed that no civilian buildings were damaged.
In televised comments, Putin added, "The fact that we have launched precision-guided weapons from the Caspian at a range of around 1,500 km and hit all the targets indicates the good status of defense industry and the good skills of the personnel."
However, reports began to trickle out on Thursday that perhaps not all of the Russian missiles had actually made it into Syria. A report from the town of Takab, which is directly under the flight path of the Russian missiles as revealed by maps released by the Kremlin, detailed how a massive explosion at around 6 a.m. rocked the rural area on Wednesday.
The "unidentified flying object" exploded several hundred meters outside Takab, close enough to shake buildings and frighten residents.
It also killed "several head of cattle," according to the report.
On Thursday, U.S. intelligence officials told reporters that as many as four of the Russian missiles had crash landed in rural Iran. However, there was immediate pushback from both Russia and from Iran, which has joined the Kremlin in backing Assad with troops and weapons.
Iranian General Musa Kamali told the Kremlin-run News site Sputnik that reports of Russian missiles going off-target were "blatant lies" and part of a Western propaganda campaign.
The Kremlin stuck to its claim that all 26-missile attacks were successful.
"No matter how unpleasant and unexpected for our colleagues in the Pentagon and Langley was yesterday's high-precision strike on Islamic State infrastructure in Syria, the fact remains that all missiles launched from our ships have found their targets," said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov. "Quick! Me must retask several high-quality satellites to prove the Russians are lying! We need to show the world pictures of innocent cow-guts splattered all over the place! Get PETA on the horn now!"
So if Russia is indeed only targeting terrorists, as it has said, and if no missiles went off target, that can lead to only one conclusion: the cows were terrorists.
The U.S. and its allies haven't many kind words for Vladimir Putin these days, but he should at least be thanked for identifying this new threat and taking prompt and decisive action to neutralize it.
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Wonder how easily Russia's cruise missiles could be spooked, and by what. Also wonder what platform launched them. There is one old destroyer and two even older frigates in the Caspian, so ship-launch is problematic. There's always the "Caspian Sea Monster", which was designed to launch cruise missiles, but which hasn't been in the water in ten years or more. If they were indeed launched from the Caspian, they were launched from ground or air launch platforms.
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15% failure rate is nothing to sneeze at.
Go get 'em!!!
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At least putin will make a go at bombing rather than bullshitting like obama
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Islamic State group fighters advanced Friday to the outskirts of Syria's second city Aleppo, despite 10 days of Russian air strikes that Moscow says are aimed at routing the jihadists.
Moscow announced on Friday that its raids had killed several hundred IS fighters and hit more than 60 "terrorist targets" in Syria over the past 24 hours.
Deputy head of the Russian General Staff Lieutenant General Igor Makushev told reporters that "Su-34M and SU-24SM warplanes hit 60 terrorist targets".
He said Russia had bombed a command post in IS stronghold Raqa, killing two senior field commanders and some 200 fighters, according to intercepted radio communications.
Strikes on Aleppo killed "some 100 militants", and other raids struck command posts and training camps in Latakia, Hama and Idlib.
Western governments say the vast majority of Russian strikes have targeted rebel groups other than IS in an attempt to defend President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
And despite the Russian raids, IS militants have reached their closest position yet to Aleppo in northern Syria, a monitoring group reported.
"Dozens of combatants were killed on both sides" as IS drove out rebels from nearby localities as well as a military base, said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The jihadists are now just over 10 kilometres (six miles) from the northern edges of Aleppo city and three kilometres (two miles) from pro-regime forces positioned at the Sheikh Najjar industrial zone.
"IS has never been so close to the city of Aleppo, and this is its biggest advance towards" the country's pre-war commercial capital, Abdel Rahman said.
- Iranian general killed -
Control of Aleppo is divided between rebel groups in the east and government forces, bolstered by pro-regime militias, in the west.
IS has not had a presence in the city, but the jihadist group on Friday boasted it had "reached the gates of Aleppo".
"IS announced several times that it would launch an offensive on Aleppo without doing it. They were waiting for the right moment and took advance of Russian strikes on other rebels to advance," said jihadism analyst Romain Caillet.
Thomas Pierret, an expert on Islam in Syria, said the US-led coalition bombing IS in Syria was "not very active" in Aleppo, and that Russia's strikes there had hit mostly rebels, allowing IS to push forward.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced one of its senior commanders was killed by IS in the Aleppo area on Thursday, without giving the exact circumstances.
A Guards statement said General Hossein Hamedani had played an "important role... reinforcing the front of Islamic resistance against the terrorists" but was killed "during an advisory mission".
The Observatory said Hamedani was the highest-ranking Iranian casualty of the Syrian conflict.
It said he was killed near Kweyris, a military airport in Aleppo province under siege by IS.
Shiite-dominated Iran is a staunch ally of Assad, sending Guards forces and military advisers to aid him against Sunni rebels seeking his overthrow.
Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah has done much of the fighting to prop up Assad's army, though the commander of the Revolutionary Guards foreign wing, Qassem Soleimani, is said to be heavily involved in strategic planning.
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French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Friday that "80 to 90 percent" of Russian strikes in Syria were aimed at propping up Assad.
He was speaking after French warplanes carried out new strikes overnight on IS targets in Syria, where Paris launched its first raids on September 27.
According to the Observatory, 16 IS jihadists including three child soldiers were killed in the raids which hit "a training camp" on the southern edges of Raqa city.
The Russian air war has provided cover for Assad's ground troops, who have lost swathes of the country to jihadists and rebel groups since 2011.
The campaign has been critical for the regime's fight in Sahl al-Ghab, a strategic plain in Hama province bordering both the regime's coastal bastion of Latakia and the rebel stronghold of Idlib province.
Syria's army announced a "vast offensive" on Thursday, advancing near Sahl al-Ghab from both the Hama and Latakia fronts with Russian air support.
Moscow denied a US claim that four Syria-bound Russian cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea had crashed in Iran on Wednesday.
"Any professional knows that during these operations we always fix the target before and after impact. All our cruise missiles hit their target," spokesman General Igor Konashenkov said.
Iran declined to confirm the claim by a US official, who did not provide details about where the missiles might have come down or if they caused any damage.
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"IS announced several times that it would launch an offensive on Aleppo without doing it. They were waiting for the right moment and took [advance]advantage of Russian strikes on other rebels to advance," said jihadism analyst Romain Caillet.
So let me get this straight. The Russian's bombed the non-IS jihads to clear the way for ISIS to attack AlpoAleppo? Was that part of the plan?
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Islamic State group jihadists have killed a senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards in Syria, the elite branch of the Iranian military said Friday.
General Hossein Hamedani was killed on Thursday by IS "during an advisory mission" in the northern region of Aleppo, a Guards statement said.
Hamedani had been playing an "important role... reinforcing the front of Islamic resistance against the terrorists", it added.
Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, described Hamedani's death as "a huge loss" in the fight against jihadist groups in Syria.
Quoted by the IRNA news agency, he said the loss would be "avenged" and that this would lead to the "complete destruction" of these groups.
Shiite-dominated Iran is a staunch ally of President Bashar al-Assad, sending Guards forces and military advisers to aid him against Sunni Muslim rebels seeking his overthrow.
Lebanon's Shiite militia Hezbollah has done much of the fighting to prop up the Syrian army, though the commander of the Revolutionary Guards' foreign wing, Qassem Soleimani, is said to be heavily involved in guiding military strategy.
[Rudaw] At least 40 people, including whole families, have beat feet from ISIS over the past two days and reached the Peshmerga frontlines in southern Kurdistan, Aras Haso Mirkhan, deputy commander of the of the Makhmour-Gwer front told Rudaw on Thursday.
"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.... gunnies are suffering due to the lack of weapons and they are forcing citizens to join them in the fight, this made many young men want to escape," Mirkhan said.
At 2am on Thursday, 11 people who had escaped ISIS -held Mishar village on the Makhmour-Gwer frontline submitted themselves to Peshmerga.
Mirkhan said the 11 people are not ISIS murderous Moslems, but people who had escaped out of fear of the organization.
On October 1, US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes destroyed ISIS bases in Makhmour, killing more than 50 murderous Moslems, a military source told Rudaw.
Makhmour, in disputed lands south of Erbil, was captured by Islamic State and occupied for three days earlier this year. The area was recaptured by Kurdish forces backed by coalition Arclight airstrikes.
ISIS positions are less than 21 km away from Makmour, prompting Peshmerga forces to have strengthened their security measures.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The General Security Department announced on Thursday the arrest of a Syrian man suspected of belonging to the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front.
A communique issued by the general-directorate said: "Syrian Aa.B. was apprehended for belonging to al-Nusra Front and participating along with others in purchasing weapons and ammunition."
The suspect has "transported the arms to the outskirts of (the northeastern border town of) Arsal and inside Syrian territories," it said.
He was referred to the judiciary after he was questioned by General Security officers, the communique added.
Later on Thursday, the army placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! Hussein Mohammed al-Hujeiri in Wadi Hmeid-Arsal on suspicion of his affiliation to terrorist groups.
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[RUDAW.NET] Two Zargali villagers whose families were devastated by Turkish Arclight airstrikes in August have been released by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) after two days of interrogations.
Soran Omar, chairman of Kurdistan region's parliamentary Human Rights Committee, delivered the update to Rudaw on Wednesday, but added, "We have received complaints that PKK kidnapped children around the ages of 14 to 15, and they are not letting them see their parents."
Omar condemned the Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq for detaining villagers on allegations of making anti-PKK remarks to the media. Salim Khider and Jegir Jabar were released, said Omar, but the village leader, Ismail Abdulla, remains in detention.
"We are trying our best to rescue him," Omar said of Abdulla.
"We are very disappointed by the PKK's behavior because they do not have the authority to detain citizens in Kurdistan regional territory," Omar said.
"If they have anything on anyone they need to ask the KRG government offices."
Eight non-combatants were killed in Zargali on August 1 in an Arclight airstrike launched by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... that leveled most of the village. Ankara has maintained that the strikes targeted PKK fighters who operate bases near the village.
A scathing Amnesia Amnesty International report pointed to several human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations by Turkey. The investigation concluded that there were no PKK checkpoints inside the village, rendering the Arclight airstrikes unlawful and inhumane.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia's air force hit 27 "terrorist" targets in Syria overnight, the defence ministry said, as Moscow ramped up its campaign in the war-torn country.
"Russian warplanes conducted 22 sorties overnight. The crews of Sukhoi Su-34, Sukhoi Su-24M and Sukhoi Su-25 aircraft struck 27 terrorist targets on Syrian territory," the defence ministry said in a statement.
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I assume that the US is doing its own independent BDA. I wonder how accurate the Russian's are? Or are they dropping more tonnage so that a lack of accuracy is less important? Or are they missing?
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Syrian army, backed by Russian air strikes, fought heavy battles with turbans for control of a hilltop close to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's coastal heartland, a monitor and rebels said on Thursday.
The fighting was centered around Jub al Ahmar, a highland area in Latakia province which if captured would allow the army to more effectively pound rebel positions from the Ghab Plain that it overlooks, said Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Fighting has been intensifying in the vicinity of the strategic Jub al Ahmar heights with some progress by the army but no decisive gains so far," Abdulrahman told Rooters.
The army announced on Thursday it had extended a major offensive to the Plain area whose capture from rebel groups, including al-Qaeda's Nusra Front would help secure Assad's coastal heartlands and could provide a platform to drive the rebels back from other areas.
The rebels thrust into the area in late July after seizing much of the northwestern province of Idlib.
Rebel sources also said the army aided by Russian jets shelled the bully boy held town of Salma, which located northeast of Latakia and is a major frontline between rebels and government forces.
"This area is shelled daily but we have not seen this intensity before with heavy mortars and artillery and Russian bombing of our positions," said Abu Ibrahim al Hifnawi, a rebel from Ahrar al Sham bully boy group.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Lebanese security forces fired tear gas and water canon to break up an anti-government protest in Beirut on Thursday, and the country's fractious leaders postponed talks aimed at resolving a political crisis that is feeding public discontent.
Anger at Leb's government has fuelled repeated protests in recent months. Discontent with widely perceived corruption and incompetence came to a head in July when the government failed to agree a solution to a trash disposal crisis and piles of garbage were left to fester in the streets.
Protesters threw projectiles including rocks at a line of riot police blocking the way to the Lebanese parliament in Beirut's commercial district. Live TV footage showed at least one injured riot policeman on the ground.
Some three dozen people were taken to hospital suffering from suffocation as a result of tear gas, medics said. Six coppers were also maimed, a security official said.
The Lebanese government grouping rival factions has struggled to take even basic decisions since it was formed last year. Leb has also been without a president for more than a year in the absence of a deal on who should take the post.
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to break up an anti-government protest in Beirut
[ARA] The myrmidon group of 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.... (ISIS) executed three Assyrian captives who were kidnapped earlier during attacks on Christian villages near Tel Temir town in Hasakah province, in northeastern Syria, according to a footage published by the group on Wednesday.
The Assyrian Network for Human Rights reported that the three victims, who were dressed in orange during the execution, were identified as Dr. Abdul Massih Noya and Ashour Abraham from the village of Tel Jaseera, and Bassam Michael from the village of Tel Shamiram.
ISIS gunnies shot the three Assyrian abductees in the head.
The Assyrian network condemned the execution of the "innocent Assyrians" by ISIS myrmidons.
"The international community should bear its responsibility towards the Syrian crisis. This country is suffering from unbearable violence and terrorism," it said.
"This terrorist crime is a stigma on the forehead of the international community, which has failed so far to eliminate terrorism and tyranny in this war-torn country."
The AHRN said those purportedly executed were among 187 Assyrians held as hostages by Islamic State.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ISIS has kidnapped dozens of Christians, including 45 women, 19 children and 11 families from the city of Al-Qaryatain in Homs province. The groups said "hundreds of others" were still missing.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Bulgarian authorities said Oct. 8 that three Dutch people wanted on "terrorism" charges were 
Islamic State group fighters advanced Friday to the outskirts of Syria's second city Aleppo, despite 10 days of Russian air strikes that Moscow says are aimed at routing the jihadists.
Islamic State group jihadists have killed a senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards in Syria, the elite branch of the Iranian military said Friday.
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