[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Special Operations forces of the Afghan National Army, Afghan commandos, have been deployed to the strategic Tora Bora, days after the ISIS terrorist group claimed the capture of the area.
The acting Afghan defense minister Tariq Shah Bahrami told news hounds in Kabul on Saturday that the Afghan commandos have been deployed to Tora Bora area.
He said the operations are underway in the area and developments regarding the clearance of the area are expected soon.
This comes as the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group’s offshoot in Afghanistan, ISIS Khurasan, claimed Thursday that the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest... ’s hideout in the remote Tora Bora area in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province has been captured.
The group’s loyalists informed regarding the capture of the mountainous terrain, a claim which was rejected by the Afghan officials.
A local security official in Pacher Agam confirmed that the turbans of the terror group have gotten closer to Tora and heavy festivities are underway between the terror group and Talibs close to the area.
The official further added that the turbans of the terror group reached Tora Bora via Khogyani district but rejected the claims by ISIS that the area has fallen to its fighters control.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A foreign national has been kidnapped by unknown gunnies in capital Kabul earlier today, according to the security sources.
The incident has taken place in the vicinity of the third police district of the city in Karte Char area of the city.
According to reports, the American national was working with the Ministry Agriculture of Afghanistan on a World Bank project.
No group or individual has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
This comes as two foreign nationals working for the American University were kidnapped in a similar attack last year.
Taliban ...Arabic for students... released a 13-minute video earlier this year which purportedly showed the two lecturers making desperate pleas for their lives.
The video was released months after reports emerged that the US forces conducted an operation to release them but achievement was made in the raid.
Officials privy of the developments have said the two professors are being kept by the Haqqani terrorist network, a notorious Lion of Islam group close to the Taliban Death Eaters.
The two lecturers were kidnapped in the month of August last year by gunnies who had disguised themselves in military uniforms.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Two big shots of the Haqqani terrorist network were killed in an Arclight airstrike in southeastern Paktia province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the two top Haqqani network leaders were killed in the vicinity of Orgun district earlier today.
A statement by MoI said the two leaders of the terrorist network identified as Abdul Azizi and Ghalchakai were targeted in Shikhan area of Orgun around 5:30 am local time.
The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan also confirmed that an Arclight airstrike was carried out in Orgun and at least five Haqqani network members were killed.
The anti-government armed bully boy groups including the Haqqani network and Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have not commented regarding the report so far.
The Arclight airstrike was apparently carried out nearly a hour before a group of jacket wallahs launched a coordinated attack on a headquarters of the police forces in this province.
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The Arclight airstrike was apparently carried out nearly a hour before a group of jacket wallahs launched a coordinated attack on a headquarters of the police forces in this province.
"C'mon! Let's 'splode for Abdul Azizi and Ghalchakai!"
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[DAWN] Two diplomats based in the Consulate General of Pakistain in Jalalabad, an eastern Afghan city, went missing June 16 while traveling to Pakistain by road, the Foreign Office (FO) confirmed Sunday.
A blurb from FO Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria's office said Islamabad is in constant contact with Afghan authorities, and the matter of the diplomats' safety and recovery at the earliest has been raised with the relevant officials.
"Pakistain has requested the Afghan government that all efforts may be made to ensure early recovery of our officials and bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice," the FO statement said.
The FO added that Afghanistan is cooperating in the efforts to "probe the incident" and recover the two diplomats.
"Three distinct investigating groups have been constituted to ensure the safe recovery of the officials," the statement added.
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[SHABELLENEWS] At least five people were killed and 12 others maimed in heavy fighting between Somali National Army soldiers and al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... bandidosDeath Eaters in the Bakol region of southwestern Somalia.
Somali army officials confirmed that the bandidosDeath Eaters had attacked a government military base in el-Lahelay village, about 20 kilometers west of Hudur, the lovely provincial capital of the region.
The bandidosDeath Eaters used machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades to assault the base from different directions at midday Saturday, engaging in a fierce gunbattle with Somali troops for about an hour, officials said.
On the condition of anonymity, witnesses said that they saw the bodies of at least five combatants, some from each side. No civilian casualties were reported.
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[SHABELLENEWS] Wreckage of blown up vehicles along the dusty Bargoni-Kiunga road that cuts through the Boni Forest in Lamu attest to a grueling bloody combat between security forces and Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... The road is arguably the most dangerous path in Kenya, according to military and coppers manning three roadblocks along the route.
And we are told the vehicles were destroyed by Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) planted by Al-Shabaab fighters.
Residents describe the section between Milimani and Kiunga as a minefield of IEDs sown by the forces of Evil and have killed several security officers since Operation Linda Boni started.
On May 31, 10 coppers were killed when an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) they were travelling in struck an IED at Baure.
Operation Linda Boni began in late 2015, covering 13 villages northeastern of Lamu and stretching to the southern part of Garissa County, along Kenyan border with Somalia.
A visit by Sunday Standard to Busaba, Milimani, Manga, Mararani and Kiongewe villages in Boni reveals that the operation has restored peace but military sources and villagers say the area is still volatile.
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[SHABELLENEWS] Al shabaab Death Eaters have attacked military bases manned by Somali forces and their allied Djibouti peacekeepers on the outskirts of Bulaburte town in Hiiraan region on Sunday.
The armed Death Eaters raided the army barracks from different directions, before engaging in a fierce shootout with the allied troops, according to a resident, who spoke to Radio Shabelle.
Hassan Nur, the district commissioner of Bulaburte said the soldiers have repulsed the attack, and warded off the attackers from their bases outside the town following the battle.
The Al Qaeda-linked Al shabaab claimed victory over the attack against the Somali soldiers and Djibouti peacekeepers serving with the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
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[AlAhram] An Egyptian policeman was killed and four maimed by a roadside explosive near the Cairo suburb of Maadi on Sunday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
"At around 12:45 a.m. on June 18 as a vehicle belonging to the Central Security Forces transported a group of officers and conscripts an improvised bomb planted on the roadside went off," the ministry said.
"This led to the martyrdom of First Lieutenant Ali Abdelkhaliq and the injury of four others, an officer and three conscripts, who have been taken to hospital for treatment."
The bomb exploded remotely, and an initial examination suggested it exploded using a mobile phone SIM card, a senior Interior Ministry official told state news agency MENA.
A joint task force made up of several police units is questioning tenants of flats overlooking the site of the attack to try to identify and arrest the culprits, the official said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility by any group.
Egypt faces an Islamist insurgency led by ISIS group in North Sinai. Other holy warrior groups, which the government says are linked to the Moslem Brüderbund, are active in Cairo and other cities where they have targeted security forces, judges, and pro-government figures.
Likely it's Lewaa al-Thawra (The Revolution Brigade) or Hasm (Decisiveness, Determination), the two groups established by the Moslem Brotherhood to make life difficult for the new government in Cairo and the Nile delta while Ansar Bayt al Maqdis causes trouble in the Sinai after the Brotherhood was removed from power.
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[Al Jazeera] Forces loyal to renegade Libyan general Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... have been accused of burning more than 6,000 books, including works on religion, politics, poetry and philosophy.
According to a video posted on Facebook by Al Manara, a Libyan media platform, more than 6,000 books - including reported biographies of the Prophet Muhammad - were destroyed by a police force in the eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday.
The video showed a police officer claiming that the seized literature was promoting the ideas of "ISIS" (the Arabic term for 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 Levant or ISIS), as he sat behind a desk covered with books, including classical Islamic works.
The officer said the books "promoted violence" and the "ideas of the Moslem Brüderbund", which has been banned by UAE and Egypt.
In January, more than 100 Libyan writers and intellectuals, including renowned Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho, condemned a seizure of books deemed "erotic" or anti-Islamic by authorities in eastern Libya.
Books by Egyptian Nobel Prize-winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz and Arabic translations of books by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche were allegedly among dozens seized from a truck heading from Tobruk to Benghazi.
A video of the book seizure was posted online where security officials denounced the "cultural invasion," claiming the works promoted sorcery, as well as erotic materials.
In an open letter, more than 100 novelists denounced the confiscation, calling it "intellectual terrorism".
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[BBC] Mali's government has said it suspects jihadists are behind the resort attack
Gunmen have stormed a tourist resort in Mali popular with Westerners and two people are dead, the country's security minister has said.
"It is a jihadist attack. Malian special forces intervened and about 20 hostages have been released," Salif Traore told AFP.
"Unfortunately for the moment there are two dead, including a Franco-Gabonese."
Government troops battled the gunmen at the luxury resort Le Campement Kangaba, east of the capital Bamako.
"Security forces are in place. Campement Kangaba is blocked off and an operation is under way," a security ministry spokesman told Reuters earlier.
Malian special forces intervened, backed by UN soldiers and troops from a French counter-terrorism force.
Witness Boubacar Sangare was just outside the compound as the attack unfolded.
"Westerners were fleeing the encampment while two plainclothes police exchanged fire with the assailants," he said.
"There were four national police vehicles and French soldiers in armoured vehicles on the scene."
He added that a helicopter was circling overhead.
The European Union training mission in Mali, EUTMMALI, tweeted that it was aware of the attack and was supporting Malian security forces and assessing the situation.
Earlier this month, the US embassy in Bamako had warned of "possible future attacks on Western diplomatic missions, other locations in Bamako that Westerners frequent".
BBC correspondent Alex Duval Smith says many expats and wealthy Malians go to Kangaba at weekends, to enjoy the pools, cocktail bar, canoeing facilities, and other activities for children.
Mali has been fighting a jihadist insurgency for several years, with Islamist fighters roaming the country's north and centre.
In November 2015, at least 20 people were killed when gunmen took guests and staff hostage at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako.
Al-Qaeda's North African arm, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), said it was behind that siege.
Mali has been in a state of emergency since the Radisson Blu attack. It was extended for a further six months in April.
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Frozen Al, by the time I saw your article in the hopper at 4:30 yesterday afternoon, the situation had resolved. So I added the update and pushed it back to today.
An al-Qaida-linked Islamic militant group said Monday it staged an attack the previous day on a resort area in Mali popular with foreigners, killing five people, including a Portuguese soldier who had been serving in the European Union mission to stabilize this West African country wracked by mounting extremism.
The recently formed Mali-based Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen extremist group has claimed responsibility for the attack, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi websites.
A Malian soldier and three civilians—a Chinese citizen, a Malian, and a French-Gabonese dual national—also were slain in the worst terror attack to strike Bamako since late 2015.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said the Malian victim worked for the European delegation in Bamako.
The attack struck a resort area that was considered safe enough that it was an approved rest and recreation location for soldiers with the EU mission. It was not immediately clear how the attackers managed to overpower the security staff and shoot at guests.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The head of the Higher Relief Committee Abdul Raqib accused militias of obstructing, detaining and looting more than 63 aid ships from the Gulf Cooperation Council states in the ports of Al-Hudaydah and Al-Salif.
He pointed out in a statement to ‘SABA’ agency that the militias detained and looted 550 more relief convoys at the entrances of the provinces under their control, which contributed to the deterioration of the humanitarian situation.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Kingdom of Bahrain has requested that Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i soldiers leave their territories within 48 hours, a source has confirmed.
According to the source, Bahraini authorities made it clear to the commander in charge of the US base in Bahrain that Qatari soldiers working in there are expected to leave within 48 hours.
Bahrain has an American base where the Central Command of the Naval Forces, including military personnel from countries in the region, carry out war-related missions against extremis organizations in the Middle East.
The news comes just days after Bahrain released audio of phone conversations between a Qatari royal adviser and a designated Bahraini terrorist, both of whom conspired to manipulate unrest in Manama back in 2011.
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[Al Jazeera] At least 25 Yemeni civilians have been killed by Saudi-led coalition air strike on a market in the northern Saada province, according to a local health official.
The director of the Houthi-run health department office in Saada said the aircraft conducted two raids on al-Mashnaq market in Shada district close to the Saudi border on Saturday.
"Rescue teams were unable to reach the area for some time for fear of being hit by artillery shelling of the area," the official, Dr Abdelilah al-Azzi, told Rooters news agency by telephone on Sunday.
Several Yemeni online news outlets carried similar reports of the bombing in Saada, which sits directly along the Saudi border.
Officials from the Saudi-led coalition could not immediately be reached for a comment on the report.
A Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out air strikes in the impoverished country for more than two years against Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels, who control vast swathes of the country.
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The Telegraph is liveblogging this story as it unfolds.
[Telegraph] One person has been enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! after a vehicle struck pedestrians, leaving "a number of casualties" in north London.
Officers were called at 12.20am on Monday to Seven Sisters Road, the Metropolitan Police said.
London Ambulance Service said: "We have sent a number of resources to an incident in Seven Sisters Road."
...long time home pulpit of one-eyed, hook-handed hate preacher Abu Hamza, known to his mother back in Egypt as Mustafa Kamel Mustafa. He now graces the Florence, Colorado supermax prison, and was connected to more planned and executed terror plots around the world over the past several decades than you can shake a stick at, many of them Al Qaeda.
Witnesses reported seeing six people on the ground after the van ploughed into worshippers who had been attending evening prayers at the Muslim Welfare House.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing bystanders wrestle the suspect to the ground and pin him down until officers arrived.
One eyewitness speaking to LBC said the van had hit people on the pavement, but had not collided with a building. "It looked like he had lost control of the van or something," he said.
A man leapt out of a white van and stabbed at least one person near a North London mosque, the Evening Standard newspaper reported on Monday, citing witnesses.
The suspect screamed "I'm going to kill all Muslims" before he was tackled to the floor, according to a witness.
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"Department of Streets? We need marking
For infidel dogs who drive, barking,
Straight onto the pavement,
And rave of enslavement...
Or snark about 'Finsbury Parking!'"
I'm going for retaliation, NoMoreBS, given subsequent revelations. In checking over yesterday's Burg before I go to sleep, I noticed your link is the same as mine. Next time, go ahead and set up an article as well -- if it turns out to be a false alarm, we can always delete it. ;-) Thank you for being on top of this for us.
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Findsbury park Mosque was a hotbed of radicalism and got shut down. Subsequently reopened under new sweetness and light management or so Wikipedia says.
Given the van was rented 200 miles away in rural Wales, I'd say it was specifically targeted.
1) Remove all edged or pointy things from private hands.
2) Assign knife-armed police to butchers, fruit-and-veg vendors, and restaurants. Peelers, like.
3) Replace all drivers with armed police.
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Subsequently reopened under new sweetness and light management or so Wikipedia says.
phil_b's Wikipedia article. Though with a current stated affiliation as Salafi - Ikhwan, I have to wonder how much bitterness and bile is currently going on there behind closed doors.
I was wondering when something like this would happen to be honest.
There's probably a majority of people who look at this country failing needlessly and wondering WTF is happening. Looking at those who died in the recent fire makes it look like it was a fire in pakistan.
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I was told by a British friend that the North Kensington area is relatively affluent, that housing units like the one destroyed by fire are sprinkled about as a method of integration.
It wasn't outside the mosque and it's in a weird one-way system.
I wonder if this a crash with muslims in the road being engineered into something else?
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Meanwhile, at the same time in central London a man screaming "aluha akbar" attacked a police officer. They have decided not to call it a terrorist attack.
Picture of crashed van. Front shows no sign of injury so likely low speed.
Sole Death was from heart attack BEFORE crash!
Heart attack person was sitting in a chair in the middle of the road!
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Darren Osborne, originally from Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, but now living in Cardiff, has been named locally as the suspect behind this morning's terror attack
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If the folks that got plowed into were from the Finsbury mosque, and if it turns out they were making this up, I imagine that it could well blow up in their face. Look for authorities to cover this up in that case.
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So, a "hate crime" manufactured from an incident?
It's starting to look like it. I'd assumed it was directly outside the mosque. As it wasn't, how would the driver even know they were muslims?
Someone from outside London, not familiar with area, comes around a corner to find a crowd in the middle of the road. The rest can be put down to the muslim tendency to lie compulsively.
Can't see any of the MSM backtracking on the terrorism narrative as yet.
Follow the link to the videos and I can see why the eyewitness thought it was just a drill. No urgency and looks consistent with a minor traffic accident with no serious injuries.
Add in police over reaction due to the claim of 'terrorism'. And it looks like the real story is Muslims lying, resulting in a massive waste of police time.
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Shouldn't we be discussing whether this will lead to infidelophobia?
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#35 Just witnessed a Man trying to attack an officer at Paddington Station whilst shouting "Allahu Akbar" and other foreign words #LondonAttack
The Daily Express has two bits of video, which don't make it look like a proper jihad attack, and they report the police say it isn't terror. On Bright Pebble's twitter link people were claiming the man was swearing in Romanian, about which I am not qualified to judge.
[DAWN] The alleged criminal mastermind of several kabooms carried out in Chaman town, near the Pakistain-Afghanistan border ...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons... crossing, has been locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! , police said on Saturday.
Noor Ahmed, who illegally crossed into Pakistain from Afghanistan, was arrested in Chaman a few days ago.
Police claimed that the suspect during interrogation had confessed to his involvement in several kabooms, including the attack near government girls college and railway road.
The suspect, who is an Afghan national, had returned to Afghanistan after the attacks. He re-entered Chaman recently and was captured, said a bigwig.
"I was receiving Rs100,000 per attack from Afghanistan, out of which I paid Rs50,000 to the man who would execute the plan," the official said quoting Ahmed.
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[Iraq News] Iraqi Federal Police forces said Sunday they took over a major facility in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ’s Old City and killed a senior 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.... leader as government troops invaded the group’s last enclave in the region.
The service said on its facebook page that police troops took over the "civil defense building", killing Kanaan Jayad Abdullah, aka Abu Amena, the group’s general checkpoints supervisor, in Bab al-Beed area.
Federal Police chief Shaker Jawdat said his forces continued advances inside al-Shifa neighborhood, north of the Old City. He said hours earlier that troops took over a major "medical complex", a blood bank, the medicine school and a children’s hospital, killing 19 murderous Moslems and moving 100 meters closer to the Tigris River.
The Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said Sunday that government forces began invading the Old City, the medieval, densely populated and narrowly structured area where a few hundred murderous Moslems entrenched in the middle of at least 100.000 civilians believed to be used as human shields.
Khaled al-Jawari, a colonel at the Joint Operations Command, told BasNews that army forces placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 14 IS members, including eight jacket wallahs who tried to target the assaulting forcrces. He added that the army troops invaded ap-Farouq neighborhood in the Old City from Bab Sinjar, and repelled four attacks by the Death Eater group.
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[Iran Press TV] A high-ranking Iraqi security commander says government forces have made territorial gains in the western part of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... as they battle to drive ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... bandidosDeath Eaters out of their last bastion in the country’s second largest city.
Commander of Federal Police Forces Lieutenant General Shaker Jawdat said on Sunday that security personnel had advanced 100 meters in the Death Eater-held Old City of Mosul, only hours after they began their assault to retake the rest of Mosul, Arabic-language Mawazin news agency reported.
Jawdat added that soldiers from the Federal Police have also regained control over the civil defense buildings in the area, and are targeting ISIS defense lines with missiles.
Taking back the Old City of Mosul, a densely populated warren of narrow alleyways on the western side of Mosul, is crucial to recapturing the whole of the former ISIS stronghold in Iraq.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... says around 150,000 civilians are trapped in the neighborhood along with hundreds of ISIS Death Eaters.
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[Iraq News] A militia that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group has executed five fighters in its held areas, west of Daraa.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, members of the Khaled Ibn al-Waleed army, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, slaughtered five fighters on charges of apostasy in the city of al-Shagara, west of Daraa.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... mutual shooting took place between the Syrian government forces and Islamic militias in al-Mansheya neighborhood, in the city of Daraa, while regime forces shelled several areas in eastern Ghariyah City, causing material damage.
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A U.S. Navy fighter jet shot down a Syrian government warplane after it attacked Washington-backed fighters near ISIS' de facto capital of Raqqa, the U.S.-led coalition said Sunday.
In a statement, the coalition headquarters in Iraq said that a F/A-18E Super Hornet shot down a Syrian Su-22 that had dropped bombs near positions held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The statement said coalition aircraft had "conducted a show of force" to turn back an attack by Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's forces on the SDF in the town of Ja'Din, south of Tabqah.
The coalition said the shootdown took place "in accordance with rules of engagement and in collective self-defense of Coalition partnered forces."
The statement said "a number of SDF fighters" were wounded in the regime's attack, but did not specify further. The coalition also said that Russian officers had been contacted on a special "de-confliction" hotline in an effort to halt the assault.
"The Coalition's mission is to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria," its statement said. "The Coalition does not seek to fight Syrian regime, Russian, or pro-regime forces partnered with them, but will not hesitate to defend Coalition or partner forces from any threat." Still think Trump sold out to Putin?
I am glad we are finally defending "allies", but damn, if the Russians send a jet and we shoot it down without knowing it is Russian things could get real hairy.
[Iran Press TV] A Syrian fighter plane engaged in operations against Daesh in Raqqah has been downed by the US-led coalition. The plane crashed and the pilot’s whereabouts were still unknown, the Syrian army said in a Sunday statement.
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Still think Trump sold out to Putin?
Channeling Rachel Madcow: "Obviously a ploy to distract us from the truth!"
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Syrian army on Sunday advanced into the northern province of Raqqa as part of an offensive to reach the neighboring oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor, a monitoring group said.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime troops had reached the edges of Resafa, a town some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Raqqa city, bastion of ISIS.
The goal of the operation is to push further east and reach Deir Ezzor, the Observatory said.
The regime has lost control of many oil and gas fields since the start in 2011 of Syria’s conflict, especially in the provinces of Homs and Deir Ezzor.
Sunday’s advance came after government troops captured several villages in the past few days, said the Observatory.
Troops were also about 50 kilometers from a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance of fighters, which launched a new offensive this month to retake Raqqa city.
The fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces entered the northern city earlier in June, after months of heavy festivities to encircle Raqqa.
Since June 6, they have seized a few neighborhoods, including one in the east and one in the west, and are battling to push into the Old City of Raqqa.
The Observatory says a large number of ISIS murderous Moslems are holed up in the Old City.
ISIS seized Raqqa in 2014, transforming it into the de facto Syrian capital of its self-declared "caliphate."
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[Iran Press TV] Syrian government soldiers, backed by volunteer fighters from popular defense groups, have linked up with Iraqi army troops for the first time in years after they took control of a vast territory in Syria’s semi-arid southeastern region of al-Badiya.
Leb-based Arabic-language al-Manar television network reported on Sunday that the army units in cooperation with allies had managed to liberate 25,000 square kilometers (9,600 square miles) of land during a campaign in the border region in recent weeks.
"This is the sign of the cooperation between the brotherly Iraqi and Syrian military leadership to secure the shared borders," a Syrian army general, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , told privately-owned and pro-government al-Ikhbariya al-Soriyah television news network.
The general said the meeting point for Iraqi and Syrian forces is northeast of Tanf base, where the US military is training anti-government Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Death Eaters.
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[Iran Press TV] Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has managed to kill all members of a Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist outfit and completely dismantle it in a southeastern Iranian town, a senior IRGC commander says.
"A terrorist team, which we had engaged a few days ago in the town of Qasr-e Qand, was completely dismantled today after the killing of five more of its elements," Commander of IRGC’s Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour told Fars news agency on Sunday.
He added that two members of the terrorist group had been killed after the operation launched in Qasr-e Qand town in the province of Sistan-and-Baluchestan on Thursday.
The remaining members had fled to nearby mountains, but were killed during festivities with the intelligence teams of the Qods Headquarters of the IRGC ground forces, he noted.
The senior IRGC commander said the identity of the turbans has not been determined yet, adding, "The turbans were members of the [so-called] Ansar al-Furqan group and their identities are under investigation."
Pakpour emphasized that no IRGC member was killed or injured in the operations.
The IRGC said in a Thursday statement that its Qods Headquarters had dispatched its units to Qasr-e Qand after obtaining information about the presence of a Takfiri terrorist group in the area and engaged the group in mountainous areas.
"During the anti-terror operation, the IRGC's Qods Headquarters fighters destroyed a vehicle laden with 600 kilograms of explosives, and seized five bombs ready to be used in suicide kabooms, 700 kilograms of explosives, tens of thousands of bullets and a number of weapons and ammunition," the statement read.
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[DAWN] The Russian defence ministry said on Saturday it had killed two field commanders of the krazed killerIslamic 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, named as Abu Omar al-Beljiki and Abu Yassin al-Masri, in air strikes near the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, Interfax news agency reported.
The statement came a day after Russia said it may have killed IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... in an air strike last month. Washington said it could not corroborate Baghdadi’s death and Western and Iraqi officials were sceptical.
The Russian defence ministry said on Saturday it killed around 180 bandidosLions of Islam and the two commanders al-Beljiki and al-Masri in air strikes close to Deir al-Zor on June 6 and June 8.
Hisham al-Hashimi, a Baghdad-based expert who advises several Middle East governments on IS affairs, said he was sceptical about Russia’s claim on Saturday.
He said Abu Yasin al-Masri is the same person as Abu al-Haj al-Masri, who the Russians on Friday said they killed near Raqa in May.
Al-Hashimi said the other IS leader, al-Beljiki, was unlikely to have been in Syria at the time of the attack.
"The Russians are trying to improve their record fighting ISIS as it was the Americans who have killed the top commanders of the group so far, like Abu Omar al-Shishani, Abu Moslem al-Turkmani, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani and Abu Ali al-Anbari," he said, using an Arabic acronym of IS.
"If (Russia’s) announcements prove wrong, their credibility will be hurt," al-Hashimi said.
IS fighters are close to defeat in the twin capitals of the group’s territory, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in Iraq and Raqa in Syria, after nearly three years ruling over millions of people in a wide area in both countries.
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[THEDURAN] Iran’s Tasnim News Agency has reported that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have launched a ground-to-ground ballistic missile attack on terrorist targets in the Eastern Syrian Governorate of Deir ez-Zor. The missiles were reportedly launched from the western Iranian provinces of Kermanshah and Kurdistan.
Deir ez-Zor is at this point in time, the most prominent hot-spot of ISIS in Syria, in many ways even more than Raqqa. Recent reports have surfaced of both the US and its Kurdish dominated SFD allies allowing ISIS leaders out of Raqqa. In most cases they are fleeing to Deir ez-Zor.
With the help of Russian Arclight airstrikes, the Syrian Arab Army has been making gains within Deir ez-Zor Governorate and are rapidly advancing on Deir ez-Zor city.
Iran’s strike is of course in full compliance with international law as Iran forms part of Syria’s anti-terrorist coalition whose largest member is Russia.
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Iran’s strike is of course in full compliance with international law as Iran forms part of Syria’s anti-terrorist coalition whose largest member is Russia.
I remember a little sumpthin sumpthin about ballistic missile violations. Or did Obama give that away too?
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Looking at the map, it might've flown 400-500 miles, so probably that short-range stuff was omitted from the Obama Give-Away.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Syrian army on Sunday advanced into the northern province of Raqqa as part of an offensive to reach the neighboring oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor, a monitoring group said.
[Iran Press TV] Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has managed to kill all members of a 
[DAWN] The Russian defence ministry said on Saturday it had killed two field commanders of the
[THEDURAN] Iran’s Tasnim News Agency has reported that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have launched a ground-to-ground ballistic missile attack on terrorist targets in the Eastern Syrian Governorate of Deir ez-Zor. The missiles were reportedly launched from the western Iranian provinces of Kermanshah and Kurdistan.
