President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has said that government is determined to arrest kidnappers of 31 civilians in southern Zabul province.
In a meeting with the released hostages in Presidential Palace “ARG” on Wednesday, President Ghani said that terrorists showed their horror when they abducted civilians in Zabul, adding that they would be arrested and dragged to judiciary.
In the meeting where vice presidents, Abdul Rashid Dostum and Mohammad Sarwar Danish, were also present the President instructed related officials to deliver assistance to the released hostages and families of those killed.
The 31 passengers were abducted reportedly by Uzbek militants, who have pledged allegiance to Daesh, from Shah Joy District of Zabul province in February.
25 to 26 of them were released, including some freed nearly nine months after, and at least five of them were killed.
19 of them were released in exchange for some prisoners.
Ghazni-Police HQA bomb explosion has claimed the lives of two brothers in southern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
The incident took place in Rabat area of Deh Yak District around 07:00 am this morning.
According to the district’s governor Karimullah Ameeri , the victims had loaded apples to a “Flying Coach” vehicle and were driving towards Ghazni city when their vehicle ran over a Taliban-planted roadside landmine.
Meanwhile, the province’s Police Chief Brigadier General Aminullah Amarkhil says that the victims belong to Rabat village.
Reports suggest that Taliban have a strong presence in Deh Yak District especially around its Rabat village.
The militant group had earlier urged Rabat villagers to remove the Afghan Local Police (ALP) security post from their area if not then ready for consequences.
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Germany will send 130 more soldiers to Afghanistan, the government said on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting to discuss support for Afghan forces struggling to tackle an Islamist insurgency.
The Taliban's surprise seizure of the northern city of Kunduz in September, the first time the militants had taken a provincial capital in 14 years, has prompted the U.S.-led military coalition to revise its strategy in Afghanistan.
Although NATO has withdrawn almost all of its combat troops, it still has soldiers stationed there to train local forces. Up to about 850 German troops are in Afghanistan on this mission.
That number will now go up to 980, the government said. German forces are stationed in the north of the country.
German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said after the fall of Kunduz that she was open to delaying the withdrawal of German soldiers from Afghanistan beyond next year.
President Barack Obama announced last month that some 9,800 U.S soldiers would remain in Afghanistan through most of 2016, reversing a decision to withdraw all but a small U.S.-Embassy based force in Kabul before he leaves office in January 2017.
The decision was based on an assessment that Afghan forces were not yet as strong as they needed to be.
Kabul police on Wednesday reported they had seized a large amount of arms and explosives in operations in Kabul over the past three months.
Police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi said at a press conference that police had seized the weapons and explosives - of which were intended to be used by insurgents in the capital.
He said the deputy head of an insurgent group was also arrested in the city.
Rahimi said: "If we had not seized these arms and explosives imagine what would have happened to innocent people in Kabul."
He went on to say police investigations are underway to arrest insurgent groups earmarked to have used these arms.
According to him, the weapons and explosives had been well hidden in cars and in homes when found.
In addition to the weapons and explosives seized, ammonium nitrate was also found. This is used to make explosives.
Rahimi said the insurgent leader Qari Khairullah who was arrested is from Paktia province and was responsible for making mines and IEDs.
In addition he said they have arrested two people for the recent theft of three million Afs from the owner of a private company. The two accused had also allegedly threatened to kill the company owner.
Rahimi said: "These two men attacked the owner of a private company when he was leaving a bank. They stole his money and tried to kidnap him.
Unknown gunmen on Wednesday killed a man and a woman in Kabul in two separate shooting incidents, police confirmed.
In the first incident, in Karte-Naw, two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a 62-year-old woman, whose sister was killed in a similar incident in the same area last year.
Jamila Halif was a teacher at a kindergarten and was killed outside the school. However, the motive is not yet clear, said police.
Her family has condemned the incident and accused the government of negligence over the sister's death last year, as they say the perpetrators of that shooting were never brought to justice.
The deceased's brother, Rohullah Halif, said: "I want my sister's killers to be identified otherwise I promise to set myself alight in front of everyone."
An eyewitness said there had been the sound of gunshots. "When I went to look I saw the dead woman lying there."
Kabul police said they are investigating the matter and are trying to find out what the motive was.
Abdul Rahman Rahimi said: "So far what we can say is our investigations are underway but we assure you we will find these criminals and bring them to justice."
This incident happened just hours before the second incident which saw a man being gunned down in Khair Khana area in Kabul.
Unknown gunmen allegedly opened fired on Shah Mohammad near the Sayed Al-Nasiri High School.
The gunmen fled the scene after killing Mohammad.
His family members have also criticized government for not ensuring the safety of its citizens.
[PJ Media] Just days after a string of attacks across Paris left 132 dead, the Islamic State published a new issue of its magazine featuring press photos of the carnage in France and an exclusive photo of the alleged bomb used to take down a Russian plane.
They claim that the Metrojet, which crashed over the Sinai on Halloween, was taken down by an improvised explosive device constructed in a soda can (screenshot above).
"The blessed attacks against the Russians and the French were successfully executed despite the international intelligence war against the Islamic State. Both crusader nations had undoubtedly destroyed their homes with their own hands through their hostilities towards Islam, the Muslims, and the Muslim body of the KhilÄfah," the magazine stated.
They also claimed that a plane from Russia wasn't their first target at the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, a favorite holiday spot for Brits.
"After having discovered a way to compromise the security at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport and resolving to bring down a plane belonging to a nation in the American-led Western coalition against the Islamic State, the target was changed to a Russian plane," the article continues. "A bomb was smuggled onto the airplane."
A hunt is apparently on for gunmen who last night beat up deputy foreign minister Hassan Elsaghir in his Beida office.
The government has condemned the attack, in which some some of Elsaghir’s staff and security detail were also reportedly injured. It described it as a “barbaric and cowardly assault”.
Details are still unclear but that several armed men burst into the foreign ministry yesterday evening. Some sources have suggested that the attackers were employees angry at the cutback in foreign diplomatic staff and the loss of opportunities to serve abroad.
Beida has seen little lawlessness since the government relocated there from Tripoli. However, Elsaghir was also involved in one of the earlier outbreaks. In January, he was briefly kidnapped from his hotel room in an incident that was linked to his refusal to issue diplomatic passports to individuals not entitled to them.
At the time, the government promised an investigation. However no arrests were made in connection with his abduction.
Tensions continue to rise in Tripoli following a mass seizure of Misratans in the city by local militias yesterday and a statement by them effectively ordering Misratan forces out of the capital. Leaders of a number of the city’s revolutionaries and militias, including Haitham Tajuri and Abdul Ghani Kikli (more ususlly known as Ghnaiwa), last night held a “council of war” in Tripoli’s Corinthia hotel, reportedly agreeing to unite their forces if it came to a fight with those from Misrata.
In a clear reference to Misratan forces but not mentioning them by name, the statement said that some militias which had joined Libya Dawn operation had appointed themselves as the police in Tripoli. Accusing them of kidnapping, robbery and other crimes in parts of the capital, the signatories to the statement said that they would not allow this to continue.
“We will not allow any infringement upon our city”, read the statement, signed by 11 Tripoli militia leaders including Tajouri and Ghnaiwa.
Friction between Tripoli revolutionaries and Misrata has been rising ever since Misratan brigades signed peace deals over the summer with the Wershefana and other groups west of Tripoli and pulled out of the area.
As a result of the split within the Libya Dawn alliance, there has been a growing number of sproadic clashes between Misratans and the Tripoli revolutionaries. Last month saw fighting between Misratans forces and gunmen loyal to Tajouri near the Wadi Rabie barracks, east of Tripoli International Airport. This month Tajouri’s forces again clashed with Misratans, attacking the Prime Ministry building in Tripoli, which the latter were guarding.
The current crisis is said to have followed a warning to Ghneiwa that he had to release prisoners held by him, including some Misratans. When he failed to respond, Misratan forces on Monday attacked a villa in Tripoli’s Hadba district which was reportedly being used as a prison, and freed a number of captives. These have been named as Salah Mamas, Abduljalil Al-Ghraibi Al-Rujbani, Mahmud Al-Muzafer, Abdulqader Al-Hashmi, Jibril Ben Mousa and Sayd Uglu, the latter a Turkish businessmen. It is alleged that all had been kidnapped for ransom.
Rujbani, the head of Tripoli Central Hospital, was abducted in May.
It was initially reported that in Monday’s raid, Ghneiwa himself had been captured. In the event, it was one of his senior commanders who was taken.
In response, Ghneiwa gunmen yesterday set up checkpoints across Tripoli, even on the main highway. Eye witnesses reported that anyone from Misrata was arrested. Dozens were said to have been seized, with some reports putting the figure at 100.
Ghneiwa allegedly wants to use those arrested in exchange for those of this men being held by the Misratans; he is also said to want those being held at the Hadba villa to be handed back to him.
Last night in a bid to calm measures, elders from Tripoli’s Abu Sleem district, Ghneiwa’s power base, held talks with Misratan counterparts.
The capital now awaits the result of talks between representatuves of Ghneiwa and the Misratan militias. The situation is “potentially very dangerous,” one official said,
[AlAhram] Two youngjacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bombers, including one thought to be aged just 11, killed 15 people at a busy mobile phone market in Kano, northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , police said on Wednesday.
"A minibus carrying some women came to the Farm Centre GSM market and dropped off one girl aged about 11 and another aged about 18, both wore the hijab," said Kano police front man Musa Magaji Majia.
"One went inside the market, the other stayed outside then they went kaboom!, killing themselves and others nearby," he told AFP.
"The victims were taken to hospital and it was later confirmed that 15 people died, not including the suicide bombers."
Five of those who died were among 58 people taken for treatment. Most of the remaining 53 have been treated and released, said Majia.
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... has previously used maidens of tender years as human bombs in its six-year insurgency to create a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria.
In July 2014, Kano was hit four times in the space of a week by a spate of youngexploding trollop female suicide bombers wearing the head and shoulder covering used by many Muslim women in the region.
Police in Kano, northern Nigeria's commercial hub, have blocked entries and exits to the city as part of a manhunt for the VW Sharan minibus that dropped the two girls at the market, Majia said.
It was said to have four other women in it.
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JEDDAH: Two Saudi policemen were shot dead on Wednesday when they came under fire in the kingdom’s east, where most of the minority Shiite community live, the Interior Ministry said.
The pre-dawn attack happened near a farm in the Saihat area of Qatif, on the Gulf coast.
A ministry spokesman said the suspect or suspects had not immediately been identified.
Bahrain has sent troops to Aden to join a Saudi-dominated Arab coalition and national allies in ensuring security in the liberated city following the return of Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, the coalition spokesman has said.
“A Bahraini force has arrived in Aden…it will participate along with the other coalition forces in supporting security and stability in the city,” Brigadier Ahmed Asiri told the Saudi news network Alarabiya.
He did not mention the size of the Bahrain force deployed in Aden, here the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Sudan have troops. The other coalition members are taking part in naval patrols or air raids against the Iranian-backed coup rebels in Yemen.
President Hadi returned to Aden from his temporary residence in Riyadh on Tuesday and officials said his return is final. They said he would oversee military operations launched by the coalition and national army and resistance to quell the coup and liberate all areas in the conflict-battered Arab country.
The Charlie Hebdo attackers were Muslim
The murderer of Theodoor "Theo" van Gogh was a Muslim
The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
The underwear Bomber was a Muslim
The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims
The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims
The Bafi Nightclub Bombers were Muslims
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims
The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims
The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Musiims
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims
The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims
The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims
The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims
The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims'
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Fire up the cluster analysis algorithm, Smedley! Methinks I see a pattern.
A charitable explanation for Hollande's statement is that le France already has so many disaffected Muslims living in the housing projects around their major cities that a delta of a few hundred thousand is just noise.
Oh, brother! Must Muslims be othered?
By whom are the Muslims all mothered?
They fume, soon as fathered,
In tombs, hot and bothered.
Why doom them? They're already smothered.
[HNGN] France is facing a threat of chemical and biological attack on its soil by extremists linked with last week's Paris attack, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warns.
"The macabre imagination of these commanders has no limits: assault rifles, decapitation, suicide bombings, knife attacks. I say this with the utmost care - but we know there may be a risk of the possibility chemical and biological weapons," Valls said during a session of lower house of national Parliament on Thursday, according to The Local. The French lawmakers are debating on a bill extending the state of emergency for another three months.
"More than ever, it's time for Europe to adopt the text... to guarantee the traceability of movements, including within the union. It's a condition of our collective security," he stated, according AFP.
Valls remarks in Parliament follow the carnage in the French capital on Friday that killed 129 people. Shortly after the Paris terror attack, President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency in the country.
Officials at interior ministry are still working on verifying the fact that the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was among those killed in a police raid. Three suspected terrorists were killed and five arrested in a raid in an apartment in a suburb in Paris on Wednesday, as HNGN reported previously.
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Nice pic of him in the article: "Before driving off, a grinning Abaaoud tells the camera: "Before we towed jet skis, motorcycles, quad bikes, big trailers filled with gifts for vacation in Morocco. Now, thank God, following God's path, we're towing [the dead bodies of] apostates, infidels who are fighting us."
[AlAhram] Ten bandidossnuffies from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been killed in festivities with security forces in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , as well as two civilians, authorities said.
Security forces launched operations in the town of Nusaybin on the Syrian border last week, killing 10 PKK fighters, the Mardin governor's office said in a statement on Wednesday. Two non-combatants were killed and 13 injured.
The statement did not offer any details of how the casualties were caused.
A two-year ceasefire and peace talks between the Turkish state and the PKK lie in tatters after a 31-year war was reignited in July, following the ruling AK Party's loss of its majority in a June election.
Kurdish politicians accuse the AKP of fomenting the unrest to garner support in a re-run election, a charge the party denies. Fighting has gripped parts of the mainly Kurdish southeast.
The AKP regained its parliamentary majority in the Nov. 1 vote.
Authorities placed Nusaybin under a round-the-clock curfew on Nov. 13, and that remains in place as security forces continue to clear trenches and barricades from the streets, the statement said.
Separately, police in the city of Diyarbakir detained Leyla Imret, the mayor of the town of Cizre, which saw heavy fighting in September, her lawyer said. He said he did not know why she were tossed into the calaboose and that there had been no arrest warrant.
The Interior Ministry suspended Imret, elected Cizre's mayor in 2014, in September while the town was under curfew amid fighting between the PKK and police.
The Diyarbakir prosecutor's office said it had launched an investigation of Figen Yuksekdag, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, for allegedly "insulting soldiers" last week when she tried to enter Silvan, a district of the city under curfew.
[Hurriyet] One suspected bully boy 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) was killed while 21 people were detained along The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's border with Syria, the Turkish Armed Forces has said.
An official statement released on the website of Turkey's Chief of Staff stated that an ISIL bully boy was killed trying to cross into the Turkish border town of Kilis from Syria.
It was also reported that 21 people were detained, including nine children, while crossing the Turkish border through illegal means.
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Turkish official sources yesterday confirmed that the Turkish army and international coalition forces consider that the military operation that ISIS is preparing for aims to invade areas that the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian Turkmen Army opposition groups are active in. The sources mentioned to “Asharq Al-Awsat” that Ankara has concrete evidence and videos of the mobilisation operations carried out by the extremist organisations, indicating that Turkey has prepared essential plans to address the matter and that its response will be violent and unprecedented.
Turkish and American statements reported the presence of a joint movement for military action near the Syrian border which aims to close the border to ISIS, a matter which opens the doors to many possibilities including the existence of an organisation which uses the Jarabulus area bordering Turkey as a strategic centre to smuggle fighters and other supplies.
The US Secretary of State John Kerry made a statement yesterday which reinforced the Turkish-American initiative in the areas with borders when he said in an interview with “CNN”, an American news network, that “75% of all borders in the north of Syria have been closed, and we will begin an operation with the Turks to close the remaining area which has a length of 98 kilometres”.
On his part, the President of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces Khaled Khoja said in an interview with “Asharq Al-Awsat” that the opposition will not depart from the “Geneva 1” resolutions and that it will not accept deals being prepared at its expense. He said that he has obtained assurances from the US Secretary of State John Kerry on this matter during the last telephone call between them. Khoja added that the Russians and the regime have yet to make any progress on the ground despite the Free Army and opposition’s lack of power. Khoja also stated that the Syrian opposition may meet in the Saudi capital during the next two months to determine its negotiating delegation.
UTHAL: Awaran Bar Association (ABA) President advocate Dad Shah was gunned down by unidentified armed men in Awaran Town, Balochistan on Wednesday.
According to police sources, armed assailants opened fire at him and fled from the scene killing him on the spot. The body of the deceased was handed over to the heirs after legal formalities. Police has registered a case and started investigation.
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency arrested over 40 ‘human smugglers’ from various areas of Punjab on Wednesday.
Sixty-one raids were carried out, mostly in Punjab, in a crackdown launched across the country on the instructions of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
The arrested people include owners of fake visa consultancy firms in Punjab, most wanted human smugglers and proclaimed offenders.
“We have arrested 43 agents and fake visa consultancy firms’ owners during raids in Lahore, Gujrat, Faisalabad and Multan. Some 300 passports, fake visa stamps and bank statements have been seized from them,” Lahore FIA Director Dr Usman Anwar told Dawn. He said it was illegal for the consultancy firms to keep the passports of clients.
The FIA director said the crackdown had been intensified to stop Pakistanis from illegally entering European and other countries. “The Pakistanis facing deportation in Europe for being illegal immigrants are earning a bad name for the country,” he said.
The FIA laid hands on the human smugglers and fake visa consultancy firms after the minister asked it to adopt a strategy of prevention, protection of victims, prosecution of criminals, pursuing proclaimed offenders and absconders and partnership at the local and international levels.
He ordered the FIA to freeze bank accounts, cancel passports and block the computerised national identity cards of 300 identified human smugglers.
“We have placed the names of 150 human smugglers and their agents in Punjab on the Passport Control List,” Dr Anwar said.
The interior ministry fears that the country may be downgraded to ‘Tier 3’ from Tier 2 on the US Human Trafficking Watch List.
The ministry has also reportedly warned the local and foreign airlines not to bring deported persons to the country without its prior permission.
[Rudaw] Peshmerga forces reportedly defeated two consecutive assaults 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.... (ISIS) near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on Wednesday, killing several snuffies whose bodies were left behind.
"At 8 pm sharp, several ISIS forces of Evil launched an assault to capture stockades of the Peshmerga at the heights of Aski Mosul on the western Dijla front," Captain Nawzad Barwari, a Peshmerga offical on the front, told Rudaw by phone.
"The Peshmerga fiercely repulsed the assault, killing several hard boys," he said.
After the first assault was defeated, the forces of Evil re-launched a fresh attack to get back the dead bodies behind, but "the Peshmerga defeated them again, killing some other hard boys," Barwari claimed.
According to information received by Rudaw, US-led coalition warplanes have bombed ISIS positions on the western Dijla and Khazir fronts, reportedly destroying facilities.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – The governor of Dhi Qar Yahia Nasseri announced on Wednesday the arrest of a cell belonging to “Baath Party,” indicating that the cell includes 13 “terrorists.”
Nasseri said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “A cell belonging to Baath party, including 13 wanted terrorists, has been arrested in accordance with Article IV of the anti-terrorism law,” noting that, “The arrest was made in different parts of the province of Dhi Qar and based on intelligence information by the security services.”
Nasseri added that, “The judiciary has already issued memorandums against the detainees,” expressing hope that “Dhi Qar maintain its security and stability.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The leadership of al-Bdiya and al-Jazeera Operations in Anbar province announced on Tuesday the killing of 11 members of the ISIS in airstrikes that targeted ISIS gatherings in the western areas of the province.
The commander of al-Bdiya and al-Jazeera Operations Major General Ali Ibrahim Dbon said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The intelligence information enabled the air force to launch an air strike that targeted ISIS gatherings in the areas of al-Rabii and al-Dolab in Heet District in western Anbar, killing 11 members of the organization.”
Dbon added, “The air strike destroyed four ISIS vehicles and a large store of weapons and rockets in al-Dolab area in western Anbar.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A source in Anbar Operations Command announced on Wednesday, that the security forces have destroyed five booby-trapped vehicles belonging to the ISIS, in addition to killing 40 elements of the organization north of Ramadi.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A force belonging to Anbar Operations Command had managed, today, to destroy five ISIS vehicles, while trying to target the army forces in the areas of Albu Dyab and Abu Faraj north of Ramadi.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “Ground forces were able to repel another ISIS attack, killing 40 elements of the organization and causing considerable material losses.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – The leader within al-Hashed al-Sha’bi Jabbar al-Mamouri anounced the killing of six ISIS elements, including two suicide bombers, in northern Salahuddin.
Mamouri said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Six members of the ISIS had been killed in clashes following an attack by the organization on the first defensive line in the areas surrounding Makhoul Mountains in northern Salahuddin, adding that, “Two suicide bombers, one of which holds a Saudi nationality, were among the dead.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The leadership of al-Jazeera and al-Badiya Operations in Anbar province announced on Wednesday the killing of five ISIS senior leaders in an artillery bombing that targeted their gathering west of Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad).
The commander of al-Bdiya and al-Jazeera Operations Major General Ali Ibrahim Dbon said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The security forces, based on intelligence, was able to target a gathering of ISIS elements in Alkasirat area in the area of Haditha District (170 km west of Ramadi),” noting that, “The gathering was bombed by artillery shelling that resulted in killing five ISIS senior leaders.”
Dbon announced the death of the terrorist Walid Hashim Najm, among the five leaders, who were killed by the artillery shelling, as well as the destruction of a vehicle carrying weapons and missiles.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday, that eight people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast near shops northeast of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded, this evening, near commercial markets in Shaab District northeast of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding seven others.”
The source, who asked to remain anonymous, added: “A security force rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the body of the dead man to the forensic medicine department, while opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident and the party that stands behind it.”
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh province announced on Wednesday, that 25 ISIS elements including a European explosives expert had been killed in an airstrike by the international coalition in central Mosul.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com: “the international coalition aircraft bombed, today, an ISIS gathering in central Mosul,” adding that, “the strike resulted in the killing of 25 ISIS militants, including an explosives expert that holds a European nationality, in addition to destroying six vehicles belonging to the organization.”
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[Manila Bulletin] Two members of the communist New People's Army were reportedly killed while an Army soldier was injured in a series of gun battles on Sunday at a hinterland area in Kitcharao town, Agusan del Norte. An initial report said the slain militants were members of Front Committee 16-A and Front Committee 21-A, both of the CPP/NPA Northeastern Mindanao Regional Committee.
The initial engagement occurred at 6:40 a.m. on Sunday where an Army soldier was injured after an almost 30-minute gun battle. The next fierce firefight took place at 8:30 a.m. where the two militants were killed while an undetermined number of other insurgents were injured. About two hours later, elements of the same battalion were involved in a clash nearby.
[The Nation] Pattani's provincial court has handed out a death for to a man for gunning down five people at a tea shop in Panare district on February 3, 2011. The verdict stated that Asamal Jehba was guilty of conspiring to launch the drive-by attack at the tea shop, which also resulted in four injuries. Another defendant, Aliyasa Samoh, was acquitted.
In June, Asamal was sentenced to 38 years in jail in a separate national security case and the court is scheduled to read the verdict in yet another national security case on November 30. Aliyasa had been given life sentences for two other cases - both of which he appealed - and was acquitted in five cases, including this attack.
[Ynet] Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium has increased in the past three months even though Tehran is supposed to reduce it significantly under a deal with major powers, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday in a confidential report seen by Rooters.
Iran had also moved centrifuges, machines that enrich uranium, at its Natanz and Fordow sites, the report by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said. Under the deal with major powers reached in July, Iran is supposed to reduce the number of centrifuges it has in operation.
[AlAhram] Leb's security forces had been monitoring communications in the area of the warehouse since last week
Lebanese security forces raided a warehouse of explosives and suicide belts belonging to 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.... in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Lebanese city of Tripoli
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[AlAhram] French and Russian air strikes in northern Syria have killed at least 33 jihadists with 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 in the last 72 hours, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.
Dozens of IS fighters were also maimed in the raids on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday focused on the jihadists' de facto Syrian capital of Raqa, said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, after strikes intensified following last week's attacks in Gay Paree.
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[Rudaw] Russia announced Wednesday that its warplanes had destroyed 500 fuel trucks 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.... (ISIS) in Syria, carrying crude oil and petroleum to its territories in Iraq.
"I would like to point out that a decision has been made to let Russian planes fly sorties to search for tanker trucks carrying petroleum products belonging to gunnies in areas controlled by the organization calling itself the Islamic State," Russian operations chief Col. Gen. General Andrei Kartapolov said.
He added that Russian warplanes destroyed about 500 fuel tank trucks that were illegally transporting oil from Syria to Iraq.
"Over the past years, the Islamic State and other Death Eater groupings have streamlined the operations of the so-called 'pipeline on the road' in the areas under their control," Kartapolov said.
He noted that these Arclight airstrikes have considerably sabotaged the group's oil smuggling between Iraq and Syria "In the first several days alone, our warplanes destroyed about 500 fuel tank trucks."
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... on Monday said that he had told his G20 colleagues that 40 countries including G20 nations are financially helping ISIS.
"As we have established, financing comes from 40 countries, including some countries members of G20," Putin told news hounds.
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Why the fuck were they still there after US was supposed to cripple ISIS. Makes me wonder how effective we've been in the air war during Afghanistan and during the Iraq war insurgency.
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I bet the Russians didn't drop leaflets before attacking.
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OK, another question for you ex-military guys: shooting up 500 oil trucks that are lined up that way, why would you try to pick them off one-at-a-time the way the Russkies seem to in the video? (Also, the Russians' accuracy didn't seem to be pin-point. Any thoughts on that?) Wouldn't you either run down the line with an A-10, spewing depleted uranium shells, or cluster-bomb the lot, rendering them useless if not completely destroying them?
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Why ... after US was supposed to cripple ISIS. Your main mistake was in supposing that was (or is) the purpose of US air actions.
Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front said it had downed two Russian reconnaissance drones over a military airport it controls in northwest Syria.
If confirmed, the incident would be the first time that the armed opposition down a Russian aircraft since Moscow launched strikes in Syria on September 30. Al-Nusra, in a post late Tuesday on one of its official Syrian Twitter accounts, claimed the "downing of two Russian reconnaissance drones over Abu Duhur military airport" in Idlib province.
The group posted a picture of wreckage in a large plain as well as two others of a small plane on fire with larger military aircraft parked in the background. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group also said Al-Nusra Front had downed two drones over Abu Duhur, but could not specify if they were Russian.
Al-Nusra and its allies in the powerful Army of Conquest alliance seized Abu Duhur on September 9, consolidating its control of Idlib province.
Syria's army began using Russian-provided unmanned drones in the north and east of the war-torn country on September 23, just a week before Moscow began its own air war in Syria.
The country's conflict erupted in 2011 with anti-government protests that spiralled into a fractured civil war increasingly dominated by militant groups.
Rough justice
MANBIJ – A Syrian young man killed a judge from the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) along with two of his escorts in the city of Manbij in Aleppo province, north Syria, local sources reported on Wednesday.
After killing the ISIS judge in Manbij, the man has committed suicide by shooting himself.
“The young man has shot dead a Tunisian national, who served as a judge at the ISIS-linked Sharia Court in Manbij,” an eyewitness told ARA News on the condition of anonymity.
The incident took place on Tuesday, after the Sharia Court beheaded several family members of the Syrian young man.
“The same judge had order the beheading of at least three family members of the man, including his brother,” the source reported. “He took revenge and killed himself afterwards to avoid falling in the hands of Daesh (ISIS).”
In the meantime, dozens of people took to the street in Manbij to protest against ISIS atrocities. However, the group opened fire on the protesters, killing at least two and wounding several others. The rest of the protesters were arrested, activists told ARA News in Manbij.
This is the third protest organized by the people of Manbij in two months, calling for the departure of the terror group from their city and denouncing its violations against civilians. The terror group has captured the city of Manbij more than a year and a half ago, after battles with the Syrian opposition forces.
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It is allah's will.
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DEIR EZ-ZOR – The radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) pounded residential buildings in the regime-held districts of Deir ez-Zor city in eastern Syria, with several mortar shells, causing injuries among civilians, local sources reported on Wednesday.
Speaking to ARA News in Deir ez-Zor, eyewitnesses said that three shells dropped on the public street in the Jura district, while another shell landed near the Sinaa school. The shelling claimed the life of a civilian and caused the injury of several others.
“The injured were transferred to a nearby clinic in the area,” a local source told ARA News on the condition of anonymity.
Also on Wednesday, the pro-regime warplanes conducted six airstrikes on ISIS-held neighborhoods in Deir ez-Zor, causing civilian casualties, according to local activists. ARA News could not verify the number of casualties.
“Pro-Assad warplanes launched at least six airstrikes on neighborhoods held by Daesh (ISIS) in central Deir ez-Zor,” a media activist and eyewitnesses reported. “Scores of civilians were hardly injured in the strikes.”
Last August, Syrian regime forces cut the bread material from people besieged by ISIS in the regime-held districts in the city of Deir ez-Zor, locals reported.
In July, ISIS militant fighters opened fire on a number of civilians in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zo, who were trying to access relief aid to the besieged neighborhoods of the city, local activists reported at the time. The sources pointed out that the volunteers were carrying food supplies in an attempt to reach western neighborhoods via the Euphrates River from Mahimidiyah village.
Islamic State extremists have been imposing blockade on the regime-held districts of Jura and al-Qusour since January of 2015. Inhabitants suffer miserable living conditions as a result of the siege imposed by ISIS, according to local relief groups.
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Excerpt: 'The official said previously the fuel trucks were off limits to U.S. military strike aircraft. WTF?!
When asked if the Paris attacks would bring about a change in the U.S. military's rules of engagement, the official said that the truck drivers were warned first before the bombs fell.
'We dropped leaflets, warning the drivers to scatter,' See above.
said an official who had been briefed on the strike. 'Next we strafed the area [with 30mm cannons] before the dropping bombs' from the warthogs."
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'The official said previously the fuel trucks were off limits to U.S. military strike aircraft.
WTF?!
One possible explanation; if your bombing campaign has primarily targeted ISIS High Value Targets (HVT) traveling about in vehicles, Toyota's, captured MRAPS, etc, the continued mobility of these vehicles is essential.
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I guess Putin showed G-20 all the trucks carrying illegal fuel to fund ISIS crossing over Turkey, warning them he was going to take them out. RoE prohibited our pilots from taking them out because the drivers were considered civilians....also warning fellow G-20 members were actively aiding ISIS. The photo of Putin and O was very telling--look at Putin's tense jaw--but Pooty deserves a little respect for calling it like it is.
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How about remove most, but not all, fuel from the rat line. Only the most "mission critical" vehicles will be allowed fuel, to include troop transports, and other HVT's.
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More than a year ago there was the claim that ISIS made $1 million a day selling oil to Turkey and Iraq. There were articles that disputed that claim because it would take hundreds of trucks to achieve that amount. I for one certainly didn't realize that the Pentagon had placed the trucks off limits. IOW, the Pentagon kept silent as ISIS continued to fund itself through the ilicit movement of oil that could have been stopped. Don't tell me that the Pentagon is not a 'go along and get along' operation.
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Tank truck drivers are part of the military logistics effort of ISIS. Therefore they are also legitimate targets. Get rid of the truck drivers and it will be harder to get recruits for other trucks. Just like the driver of a hit squad. They may only drive but they are part of the operation.
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Warren said the leaflets, which were dropped about 45 minutes before the airstrikes began, said, "Get out of your trucks now, and run away from them."
Because the truck drivers were assumed to be civilians, Warren said the military created the leaflets to "shoo people away without harming them."
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I bet all those family survivors of French railroad workers caught in the allied bombing of '44 wished grandpa got some warning leaflets too just before the iron arrived.
It's sort of like war, but not quite war as you thought it was.
[RFE/RL] Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said it has destroyed a terrorist cell in the western province of Kermanshah. In a statement on November 18, the IRGC said the operation was carried out in "recent days."
It said, "A terrorist team in Kermanshah Province near the border was identified in recent days and its members were arrested in an operation," adding that "some military equipment" was confiscated.
A day earlier, the IRGC commander in Kermanshah was quoted as saying the IRGC and the Intelligence Ministry had arrested groups in the province trying to recruit fighters for Daesh.
Intelligence Minister Mahmud Alavi said on November 15 that the recent terrorists attacks in Beirut and Paris should be regarded with "serious alarm" when it comes to Iran's security.
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[Ynet] The US-led coalition fighting 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.... conducted 16 air strikes in Iraq and 13 in Syria on Tuesday, the US military said.
The Combined Joint Task Force said the Syria strikes hit near Abu Kamal, Hasaka, al-Hawl and included four strikes near Raqqa, where they destroyed three murderous Moslem headquarters and a bivouac. The coalition has targeted the Islamic State stronghold with intensified attacks since the deadly bombings in Gay Paree last week.
The air strikes in Iraq were concentrated around Kisik, Ramadi and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the task force said in a statement on Wednesday. The others hit near Sinjar and Sultan Abdallah.
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Ghazni-Police HQA bomb explosion has claimed the lives of two brothers in southern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
Kabul police on Wednesday reported they had seized a large amount of arms and explosives in operations in Kabul over the past three months.
By Libya Herald reporter,
JEDDAH: Two Saudi policemen were shot dead on Wednesday when they came under fire in the kingdom’s east, where most of the minority Shiite community live, the Interior Ministry said.
UTHAL: Awaran Bar Association (ABA) President advocate Dad Shah was gunned down by unidentified armed men in Awaran Town, Balochistan on Wednesday. 
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency arrested over 40 ‘human smugglers’ from various areas of Punjab on Wednesday.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The leadership of al-Bdiya and al-Jazeera Operations in Anbar province announced on Tuesday the killing of 11 members of the ISIS in airstrikes that targeted ISIS gatherings in the western areas of the province.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A source in Anbar Operations Command announced on Wednesday, that the security forces have destroyed five booby-trapped vehicles belonging to the ISIS, in addition to killing 40 elements of the organization north of Ramadi.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The leadership of al-Jazeera and al-Badiya Operations in Anbar province announced on Wednesday the killing of five ISIS senior leaders in an artillery bombing that targeted their gathering west of Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad).
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh province announced on Wednesday, that 25 ISIS elements including a European explosives expert had been killed in an airstrike by the international coalition in central Mosul.
[Manila Bulletin] Two members of the communist New People's Army were reportedly killed while an Army soldier was injured in a series of gun battles on Sunday at a hinterland area in Kitcharao town, Agusan del Norte. An initial report said the slain militants were members of Front Committee 16-A and Front Committee 21-A, both of the CPP/NPA Northeastern Mindanao Regional Committee.
[The Nation] Pattani's provincial court has handed out a death for to a man for gunning down five people at a tea shop in Panare district on February 3, 2011. The verdict stated that Asamal Jehba was guilty of conspiring to launch the drive-by attack at the tea shop, which also resulted in four injuries. Another defendant, Aliyasa Samoh, was acquitted.
[Ynet] Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium has increased in the past three months even though Tehran is supposed to reduce it significantly under a deal with major powers, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday in a confidential report seen by 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
DEIR EZ-ZOR – The radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) pounded residential buildings in the regime-held districts of Deir ez-Zor city in eastern Syria, with several mortar shells, causing injuries among civilians, local sources reported on Wednesday.
